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Technology and Design

Staff
Head of Department Subject Teacher
Mr Jones Miss Burton

 

Key Stage 3
Year 8 Year 9 Year 10
  • Health and Safety
  • The Design Process
  • Key Fob Project
  • Metacognition Christmas tree decoration
  • Mechanisms
  • LED Light Project
  • Solidworks CAD
  • Sketching and rendering
  • Health and Safety
  • The Design Process
  • Spatula Project
  • Connected Learning Spatula Advert
  • Bookend Project
  • Solidworks CAD
  • Sketching and rendering
  • Health and Safety
  • The Design Process
  • Employability and Careers
  • Mobile Phone Holder Project
  • Employability and Careers
  • Planter
  • Pneumatics
  • Solidworks CAD
  • Sketching and rendering

In the first three years at Nendrum College pupils will receive three periods each week (1 hour 45 minutes). Pupils can then opt to study Technology and Design; and OS Construction at GCSE level.

 

Key Stage 4
Technology and Design
Unit 1: Technology and Design Core Content External written examination 25%
Unit 2: Product Design External written examination 25%
Unit 3: Design and Manufacturing Project Controlled assessment 50%

At KS4 our pupils follow the CCEA GCSE Technology and Design Specification. This specification aims to encourage students to use imagination and develop skills of creativity and critical analysis through making links between existing solutions, technological knowledge and the principles of good design; communicate design ideas and decisions using a range of media and techniques; use a broad range of materials, components and technologies, as well as practical skills, to develop and produce high quality, imaginative and functional prototypes; consider aesthetic, technical, economic, environmental, ethical and social dimensions when engaged in design and making; consider the costs in the making and marketing of products; apply health and safety procedures to ensure safe working practices; analyse and develop existing products and develop practical solutions to needs, wants and opportunities, recognising their impact on quality of life; develop decision-making skills through individual and collaborative working; apply appropriate technology and design terminology; understand that designing and making reflect and influence cultures and societies, and that products have an impact on lifestyle; and combine skills with knowledge and understanding in order to make quality products.

 

OS Construction
Unit 1: Bench Joinery 50%
Unit 2: Carpentry and Joinery 50%

At KS4 our pupils follow the CCEA OS Construction Specification. This unit is designed to provide vocational skills in joinery. This unit includes consideration of health and safety issues with respect to activities in carpentry and joinery consideration of career opportunities related to working with wood in the construction industry an appreciation of environmental issues relating to timber the appropriate use of basic carpentry and joinery hand tools and hand-held power tools construction of a range of carpentry and joinery models relating to site-based activities, incorporating a wide range of joints and jointing methods; and a review and evaluation of performance. This subject is 100% portfolio based.