Rethink the workshop class

UNDER the new Primary School Standard Curriculum (KSSR), upper primary school children will be learning the revamped Living Skills subject as Design and Technology.

This subject is meant to teach children the processes involved in identifying, conceptualizing and designing a project until it is executed in the form of a hand-crafted object. I am surprised because children at such a young age will be required to use hand tools such as Warrington hammers and small saws to complete the project. Is this really necessary? Will the children even appreciate the core need of the subject, which is to produce youths who can systematically find a practical solution to a problem?