Welcome to Design Technology

Design and Technology empowers students to recognize, analyze, and address challenges through innovative thinking, strategic planning, and design implementation using various mediums, materials, and tools. Students acquire technical and design proficiency, fostering skills like initiative, resourcefulness, inquiry, and creativity. Additionally, they enhance their communication abilities essential for design creation and assessment.

We believe that the subjects of art and design technology embody some of the highest forms of human creativity and as such, we seek to engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art and design. We have deliberately planned our art and design technology units to ensure that key foci for each subject are spread over the year, ensuring there are opportunities for children to explore a range of media, materials, tools and concepts over the course of their journey in the primary phase. Additionally, our art curriculum has been designed to incorporate the teaching of key art skills (line, colour, shape, form, pattern, texture) which have been mapped across Key Stage 1 and 2 to ensure these skills are revisited.

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In years 7 and 8, students explore creativity through a variety of projects which explore Art, Design and Technology. Thise gives students a broad experience of different materials, techniques and processes, facilited by the investigation of a wide range of artists, designers and movements. In Year 9 Art and DT and studied individually, with Art continuing to investigate the world informed by practicing artists.

KS4 DT explores 6 material groups. These are: Woods, metals, plastics, electronics, papers and boards and textiles. For all these groups, we will learn about the journey of the material, from where it comes from to how we make products with it and how we dispose of it. We go into further detail with timbers and polymers as they are our specialist materials. For these materials, we learn about industrial machines that we can use with them and what products we can make. There is also a huge amount of practical work which takes place as part of our NEA and also it helps us learn the theory for our exam. Our students learn how to use machinery and tools in our workshop such as saws, sanding machines and a laser cutter. For the NEA, students create their own product from start to finish. They begin researching around an area that intersts them, designing a product and then making it independently.

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All Year 10 subjects Next Year 10 Subject - Business Studies

All Year 11 subjects Next Year 11 Subject - Business Studies

KS5 product design explores materials, industry and designing and making principles. The theory leraning expands on GCSE content and the students explore a range of materials and their journey from extraction through to production, use and then disposal. The materials we learn about are timbers, metals, polymers, papers and boards. There is a lot of in depth information on how products are made in the real world, we learn about manufacturing techniques and equipment and how to use them effectively. In the NEA part of the course, the students create a product of their choice. They spend time researching to discover an area of need to create a product that solves a problem. From their research, they will design and prototype their ideas. They then use our workshop and equipment to build the product they have designed.

All Year 12 subjects Next Year 12 Subject - Business Studies

All Year 13 subjects Next Year 13 Subject - Business Studies