A brief outline of the topics covered in each term:
YEAR 7:
Comprehensive In-House workbooks supplied to every student and available on Intranet with support resources
Michaelmas- Workshop Safety Course/ Construction of Safety Award /Wooden Toy Car Project – The Design Process, Woods as a material, Basic hand tools, Drilling machines, Sketching skills, CAD drawing, Finishing woods, Testing and Evaluating.
Lent - Completion of Wooden Toy car Project / Electronic Door Hanger Project – Basic electronic circuits, soldering, Plastics as a material, Working Thermoplastic Materials, Drilling and finishing Plastics, use of CAD CAM for logo production.
Trinity - Completion of Electronic Door Hanger Project/Egg Holder Design challenge/Review of the year/Visit to the Trent Design Exhibition
YEAR 8:
Comprehensive In-House workbooks supplied to every student and available on Intranet with support resources
Michaelmas - Machine Safety Course/Construction of Safety Award/Copper Dish Project – Metals as a material, Marking out, Cutting, Filing, Annealing, Pickling, Hollowing, Planishing, Drilling and Polishing metals to produce a copper dish. Cutting, Shaping and Finishing, Man-made boards using machinery to produce a base for the dish.
Lent - Graphics Taster Jewellery Project - Intro to Graphic Design, aesthetic research, gridding for freehand sketching, generating designs through CAD, Intro to LASER cutting /
Trinity - Pneumatic Rocket Powered Dragster Competition / Review of the Year / Visit to the Trent Design Exhibition
YEAR 9:
Comprehensive In-House workbooks supplied to every student and available on Intranet with support resources
Michaelmas - Risk Assessment Safety Course/ Construction of Safety Award/ Vacuum formed Clock project – Plastics Theory, Designing with Electronic Portfolios, the Vacuum forming process, gerbil trimming, CAD CAM production, rendering.
Lent - Electronic Moodlight Project – Programming Microcontrollers, Constructing a PCB, Sketch modelling / Personal Branding Project / Graphics for the future course.
Trinity - D&T options at GCSE /Completion of the moodlight project - working compliant materials, constructing a moodlight casing using polypropylene.
YEAR 10:
YEAR 10 D&T EP: AQA GCSE (4540)
Michaelmas - Safety Risk assessments in D&T/Electronic components/ Constructing Circuits practical / The ‘Useless’ Box Project/Electronic System blocks/Calculations
Lent - Executive toy project - Materials and Components/ Processes and manufacture/ Designing/Process selection
Trinity - ICT in design/ CAD/ CAM/Intro to Controlled Assessment
YEAR 10: D&T RM: AQA GCSE (4560)
Michaelmas- Safety Risk assessments in D&T/ Materials and Components
Lent- Balancing toy project - / Processes and manufacture
Trinity- Balancing toy project - ICT in design/CAD/ CAM/Systems and control/Intro to Controlled Assessment
YEAR 10: D&T GP: AQA GCSE (4550)
Michaelmas- TBC
Lent- TBC
Trinity- TBC
YEAR 11:
YEAR 11: AQA D&T Electronic Products / In-House Coursework Guidance booklet / Intranet resources
Michaelmas- Controlled Assessment Criteria 1 & 2
Lent- Controlled Assessment Criteria 3,4,5 / Mock exam
Trinity- Evaluation techniques/market influences/ Social, Moral Cultural, Sustainability and ethical issues in design / Revision topics and past papers/ Preparation for the Pre-release examination material
YEAR 11: AQA D&T Resistant Materials Technology / In-House Coursework Guidance booklet / Intranet resources
Michaelmas - Controlled Assessment Criteria 1 & 2
Lent - Controlled Assessment Criteria 3,4,5 / Mock exam
Trinity - Evaluation techniques/market influences/ Social, Moral Cultural, Sustainability and ethical issues in design / Revision topics and past papers/ Preparation for the Pre-release examination material
YEAR 11: AQA D&T Graphic Products / In-House Coursework Guidance booklet / Intranet resources
Michaelmas - Controlled Assessment Criteria 1 & 2 - TBC
Lent - Controlled Assessment Criteria 3,4,5 / Mock exam - TBC
Trinity - Preparation for the Pre-release examination material - TBC
YEAR 12:
GCE syllabus: Board (Specification)
Michaelmas- Safety Risk assessments in D&T/Focussed Practical tasks for direct supervision machinery/ Chopping Board Project / Controlled assessment Criteria 1 & 2 – Mp3 Amplifier Project / Woods/Polymers/man-made boards/Laminates and Veneers/Ferrous Metals/Non-ferrous metals/Alloys/Elastomers/Composites/Compliant materials/Smart materials/Modern materials
Lent- Controlled assessment Criteria 3, 4, 5 / Submission of Electronic portfolio and CRF/Product Components/Adhesives/Ergonomics/ Fabrication methods/Finishing processes/H&S/Quality Control.
Trinity- Revision topics and past papers unit1 /Mock exam
YEAR 13:
text book/other resource material
Michaelmas- Controlled assessment Criteria 1 & 2 – Major Project / design and Market influences/Safety legislation/2D and 3D techniques/Modelling/Quality Assurance/Copyright/
Lent- Controlled assessment Criteria 3, 4, 5 / Submission of Electronic portfolio and CRF / Past and Present designers/ICT applications/CAA/CAD/CAM/PPC/CIM/Manufacturing systems/Product improvement/systems and control
Trinity- Revision topics and past papers/Mock exam