Our intention in Design Technology is to develop competent and confident designer makers who have an understanding of the wider impact of design. They will develop the ability to creatively interpret a brief and independently problem solve, creating sustainable and ethical products for the benefit of all.
Key Stage 3
Year 7
Travel Puzzle
- Design and rendering
- Dye print sublimation onto fabric
- Computer Aided Design - drawing puzzle pieces on the programme 2D Design
- Computer Aided Manufacture – laser cutting the puzzle pieces
- Vacuum forming plastics
- Packaging design
Bug Box
- Traditional wood joints
- Finishing woods
- Hand skills
- Isometric drawing
- Woods theory
- Sustainability
Year 8
Biomimicry Jewellery and Automata
- Biomimicry
- Mould making
- Casting pewter
- Cutting and forming metals
- Polishing
- Wooden automata
- Mechanisms
Trinket Box
- Testing wood joints skills
Textiles Organiser
- Sewing skills
- Design movements
- Tie Dye
- Block Printing
- Fabric manufacturing
- Surface embellishment
- Stencil cutting
- Pocket forming
Year 9
Textiles clothing
- Fabrics theory
- High level sewing skills
- Embellishment
- Recycling
Drawing skills
- Isometric
- 1 P perspective
- 2 P perspective
- Rendering pencils
- Rendering pens
Scrollwork
- Designing for a client
- Metal scrollwork
- Cold forming
- Brazing
- Metal finishing
- Hand forging advanced skills
Key stage 4
Year 10
Timber jointing and finishing – jointed box
- All box joints
- Finishing
- Wax/stain/varnish
Metal techniques
- Copper bowl – planishing, soldering and polishing
- Enamelled pendant – piercing and enamelling
- Chain making
Electronics
- Soldering circuits
- Circuit diagrams
- Energy generation and use.
- generation and use.
Year 11
GCSE major project
- Design process
- Brief
- Research
- Specification
- Design
- Develop
- Orthographic
- Plan production
- Make
- Test
- Evaluation
Key stage 5
Year 12
Skills
- Thing’a’me bobs
- Joining skills
- Limited materials
- Designing with constraints
- Mini project
- Drawing skills
- Presentation and drawing skills.
- Major Project
Year 13
A level major project
- Design process
- Brief
- Research
- Specification
- Design
- Develop
- Orthographic
- Plan production
- Make
- Test
- Evaluation