Design and Technology
Key Stage 3
Design and Technology is delivered in a carousel and is split into the following areas:
- Design Technology
- Food Technology
In years 7, 8 and 9 students will cover these areas, this will provide them with the relevant skills and experience to continue at KS4.
Year 7
Students will be introduced to woods and will develop fundamental skills that they need. Students will work in workshops and will learn about health and safety requirements. Lessons will involve both theory and practical tasks to build up skills and understanding.
Design Technology – Wood
Students will develop the key skills needed to develop good products in design technology. They will learn about design and how to communicate their ideas, whilst also learning about safe and correct use of workshop tools. Students will create an idea and follow it through to a finished product.
Students will learn about:
- The properties and characteristics of different types of wood
- How to accurately mark out and create wood joints
- Practical expectations and health and safety
- Sustainability – Life Cycle Analysis – Raw materials to end of life.
- Scales of production – One off, Batch, Mass and Continuous
Year 8
Year 8 students study design technology as part of the whole academy ‘Drop down days’ where they send the entirely focused on one of two design technology topics.
Wood
Students will develop the key skills needed to develop good products in design technology. They will learn about design and how to communicate their ideas, whilst also learning about safe and correct use of workshop tools. Students will create an idea and follow it through to a finished product.
Students will learn about:
- The properties and characteristics of different types of wood
- How to accurately mark out and create wood joints
- Practical expectations and health and safety
- Creation of a wooden mobile phone holder
Healthy eating
Students will study the aspects of a healthy diet and develop practical skills in the kitchen.
Students will learn about:
- Eat well food plate
- Nutrients and minerals
- Carbohydrates, fats and proteins
- Chopping and dicing skills
- Cooking a vegetable stir-fry.
Key Stage 4
Design and Technology – Eduqas GCSE (9-1)
During Year 10 students will conduct multiple mini projects to hone skills and learn the operation of tools an equipment whilst engaging in a full programme of study into technological theory, analysis and evaluation skills in the wider issues of design and technology.
Students will learn how to
- How to use key design and technology terminology including those related to: designing, innovation and communication; materials and technologies; making, manufacture and production; critiquing, values and ethics
- How to demonstrate their understanding that all design and technological activity takes place within contexts that influence the outcomes of design practice
- Use imagination, experimentation and combine ideas when designing
- Develop the skills to critique and refine their own ideas whilst designing and making
- Implement technical principles of a range of practices and processes of materials
- Demonstrate safe working practices in design and technology
- Analyse and evaluate design decisions and wider issues in design and technology.
During y11 students will undertake a sustained design and make task, based on a contextual challenge set by Eduqas. Students will develop realistic design proposals as a result of the exploration of design opportunities and users’ needs, wants and values.
Students will learn how to
- Develop a broad knowledge of materials, components and technologies and practical skills to develop high quality, imaginative and functional prototypes
- Identify, investigate and outline design possibilities
- Be ambitious and open to explore and take design risks in order to stretch the development of design proposals, avoiding clichéd or stereotypical responses
- Develop decision making skills, including the planning and organization of time and resources when managing their own project work
- Design and make prototypes
- Further prepare themselves for the examination.