This Design and technology scheme of work video supports teachers in delivering a successful Year 1 lesson in which the children design a stable pencil pot. It guides teachers through each stage of the design process, helping the children apply their understanding of stable structures to create a pencil pot using a cardboard tube. The lesson focuses on key design criteria, such as a strong base, added weight for balance and user appeal, resulting in purposeful and imaginative products.

This video demonstrates how to model market research and guide the children to evaluate existing pencil pots to inform their own designs. By exploring function, stability and decoration, the children are encouraged to think critically and creatively. Teachers are supported with clear modelling and a structured, curriculum-aligned approach to ensure the children gain confidence in planning and designing.

See more of our KS1 Design and technology scheme of work.

• Design and technology, Key stage 1, Structures, *New* Structures: Stable structures, Lesson 4: Designing a stable pencil pot.
• Design and technology, Key stage 1, Structures, *New* Structures: Stable structures.