Design & Technology
@
Norton Canes High School
“The attainment of students reflects good achievement…….
Over the past three years results have been consistently above the national
average…..
Students have good attitudes to the subject and show a willingness to
work….
The quality of teaching is good…..
The teachers know the students well and give very good one-to-one help in
lessons to ensure they all make good progress”
OFSTED 2002
D&T Experiences
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The variety of experiences
encountered by students in D&T
has developed tremendously since
the days of Domestic Science,
Woodwork, Technical Drawing and
other traditional “craft” and
practical based studies…….
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Practical Skills and techniques
Designing
Making
Testing
Computer control
Electronics
Mechanisms
Textiles
Food Technology
Engineering
Graphical Products
CAD-CAM
Robotics
Desk Top Publishing
To name but a few of the
experiences during years 7-11
YEAR 7 METAL SKILLS
Year 7 learn basic
bench skills,
drilling procedures
and joining
techniques by
working on an
ALIENS project.
They design and
make a useful coat
hook using a range
of hand and
machine tools.
Year 7 Metal Skills & Processes
Marking out
Cutting
Shaping
Drilling
Smoothing
Heat treatment of the
metal is required to allow
the students to shape it
into the desired design.
This process is called
annealing….
The students heat the metal
until “cherry red” using a
brazing torch which
involves a gas and air
combination in a
specialised workshop area.
FILING
CUTTING
SPACE INVADERS
Y7 ALIEN DESIGNS
Pupils in Year
7 learn to work
with wood
during a
Focused
Practical Task
They prepare,
cut, shape and
join pine to
create their
very own
plane!
Working with wood
MARKING OUT
CHISELLING
Year 7 Practical Skills in
Wood
YEAR 7CAD
CAM
A short twoweek project
that
introduces
pupils in Y7
to the
principles of
Computer
Aided Design
and
Computer
Aided
manufacture.
Pupils in year 8 are asked to Design & Make
AUTOMATA. This is essentially an interesting
moving display, which utilises Mechanical
Control Systems. During this project pupils
develop the practical skills they learnt in year
7.
Y8
ELECTRONICS
Simple circuits
are built and put
to practical use.
This example
simulates a set of
automated
headlights
Y8 VACUUM
FORMING
Pupils design
and make a
novelty mask
using the
vacuum
forming
process to
shape plastic
Simulated Robotics using Pneumatic Principles
Year 8 students designed and built pneumatic
powered arms to lift, move and lower objects to
specific points….
Y9 WRITING SET
The writing sets above have been created as
part of a Graphics Project during year 9.
Computer Aided Design &
Computer Aided Manufacture…
The key fobs shown
were designed and
made using computer
programmes that
assist in the design
and manufacture of
products. This
enables students to
create high quality
products in quantity.
These TACTILE signs were designed with blind
and partially sighted people in mind. They are
three dimensional and so allow touch as well as
sight to be used for recognition.
A Desk tidy made using two types of plastic and two
manufacturing processes as part of a GCSE task.
Phone holder and candle stick –
designs inspired by addidas and sport
Book Ends based
upon a GLOBE
theme Year 9
CD rack for GCSE
coursework, made
from acrylic
GCSE
PROJECT
WORK
POINT OF
SALE
DISPLAYS
GCSE
CLOCKS
PROJECT
DESIGNS
POINT OF SALE
DISPLAY UNITS
Y11 GRAPHIC
PRODUCTS
Y11 GRAPHIC PRODUCTS
MUSICALS
T SHIRTS
LEAFLETS
DISPLAYS UNITS
Board Game
based on
popular sports
Grade ‘A’ GCSE
Writing Set with
Egyptian theme
Grade ‘A’ GCSE
Resistant Materials GCSE
An innovative design for
displaying photographs….. The
individual sections rotate to
expose alternative images!
Kristal Capewell Y11
PLANNING
THE SHAPE
TESTING
THE
MATERIALS
MAKING
THE
MOULD
MAKING IT
FINAL PRODUCT
Traditional Skills
Without the acquisition
of “traditional” skills
and techniques few
designs get off the paper
and become reality.
This bird box was designed and made as part
of a GCSE task by Rebecca Tonks Y11
Product Quality
Pupils must ensure that whatever
they design and make is a marketable
product and in order to be so it must
be of a high quality
The ship (Richard Price)
and Transporter (Mark
Piper) both meet the
exacting standards
expected at GCSE level.