Review of Kapow Primary
Lis Carver
Year 3 teacher
Harpur Hill Primary School, England
Used Kapow Primary occasionally for 1-2 years
Dec 2023
I find the website very difficult to navigate, trying to click things that move. The planning has way too much to expect to be a lesson. Having 34 children makes most of the DT lessons impossible. They are very stressful and I dread the terms I teach DT.
Reply from Kapow Primary:Thank you for your review Lis. We have passed on your comments to the D&T content team. We acknowledge it is difficult to teach practical D&T lessons with a large class and without support from other adults. The food units have recently been updated and now include new guidance on how to accommodate dietary requirements and tips on how to run the lessons without additional adult support. Hopefully, this will make it much easier for you when teaching these units in future. We would also be interested to find out more about your experiences using the website. Please can you contact us at enquiries@kapowprimary.com so we can discuss this further?
Lis Carver found Kapow Primary:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“The preparation for the content of the lessons, understanding what each lesson entails, resourcing the lessons takes hours and hours.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“It is impossible to do all that is expected in a lesson with 34 children and no other adult support, when for example children are to prepare food - vegetable tarts for example. Also going to buy the ingredients, especially when a child has a severe dairy allergy, meant all children had to have dairy free, because of the risk of a child coming into contact with a dairy product made the teaching very inefficient. Also when sewing and 34 children are expected to complete a cushion in one lesson, makes for very inefficient teaching.”
- Slightly improves teacher knowledge“Not sure of the top of my head. Maybe countries different foods come from, although I can't find proof that strawberries originate from Japan, as Kapow states.”
- Slightly improves attainment“Assessment is clearer, so knowing who has attained the ARE is clear.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Learning Physics in pneumatic toy constructing.”
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