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Design and Technology
The Design and Technology department seeks to enable students to acquire and apply knowledge, skills and understanding through:
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analysing and evaluating products and processes
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engaging in focused tasks to develop and demonstrate techniques
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engaging in strategies for developing ideas, planning and producing products
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considering how past and present design and technology, relevant to a designing and making context, affects society
Key Stage 3 (Saltus 8 - 9)
Saltus 8
Safety in a workshop; Introduction of the Design Process; 2 and 3 dimensional drawing skills; Measurement; Basic workshop tool manipulation skills; Types and properties of materials (wood, plastics, and metals); Understanding building and making concepts using resistant materials
Saltus 9
Expansion of Design Process concept; Mechanisms covering cogs, gears, cams, pulleys, levers; Transportation models to demonstrate propulsion and movement: on land, in water, in the air, and using magnetic levitation; Structures covering triangulation, forces, compression, tension, bend & shear; a project to demonstrate understanding of construction concepts and techniques of manufacture.
Key Stage 4 (Saltus 10 and Saltus 11)
Saltus 10
Year one of a two year GCSE course in Resistant Materials or Communications; Students are given a prescribed project which allows for flexibility for creativity and individualism; Students create a design folio covering Research, Analysis, Specifications, and Initial ideas, Development of Design, Planning for Production, Making, and Evaluation.
Saltus 11
Students embark upon a self-directed project based on their choice and interests andthis will be submitted for GCSE external moderation. Students will cover a wide variety of related topics in preparation for two GCSE examinations.
GCSE Design and Technology (Specification)
The Graduate Years
SGY 1
Students will:
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Demonstrate safe and competent use of all workshop tools and machines (certificates will be awarded).
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Demonstrate the safe and competent use of heavy wood preparation machines.
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Complete a project on a chosen piece of machinery to incorporate, types, uses, component breakdown, specification, and maintenance guide and techniques.
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Produce sample models of joint types (dovetail, mortise and tenon, and welding) and a wood turning sample.
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Make a small project of quality to be exhibited at the Bermuda Annual Exhibition.
SGY 2
Students will:
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Design a project of choice producing a folio which shows detailed research of similar products. Produce a working drawing of the major project, a journal of the development of the project showing photographic evidence, and an evaluation of the finished project.
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Complete the major project, which should incorporate a range of skills which have been developed over the SGY course, and be age appropriate.
Further Information
If you would like to read any further information regarding the GCSE or AP curricula outlined within this site please visit either of the following examination board web sites: -
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