GCSE
DESIGN TECHNOLOGY |
ASSESSMENT UNITS |
Written Papers | Paper1 | 1 hour | 20% |
Written Papers | Paper2 | 1 1/4 hours | 20% |
2 Controlled Assessments - 60%
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3 Material Area Choices
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GCSE Food Technology |
GCSE Graphic Products |
GCSE Resistant Materials |
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Key Stage 5
Home Economics is offered in KS5
- This department provides practical opportunities for girls to develop skills in different material areas.
- We try to make the subject fun whilst developing team work and problem solving techniques.
- We are a busy department and girls frequently spend extra time developing their skills
Accommodation
We have a purpose built Technology Block opened by Miss Betty Boothroyd in December 1993.
The block consists of four large rooms:
T1 - Resistant materials.  | We have facilities for Wood, Metal, Plastics and Electronics. We have pneumatic equipment and CAD/CAM equipment including a CNC micro router and micromill along with interactive white board and video conferencing equipment through "Advantage West Midlands" Funding and a cluster of 3 networked computers. There is a well stocked and organized storeroom. We also have the use of 6 laptops. |
T2 - Art.
This subject is taught in T2 which is adjacent to T1. The art room tables were made to specification; and it has a store room and separate kiln room. The art room has ICT facilities which comprise two Apple Mac computers, colour A3 and A4 inkjet printers and an A4 Scanner.
T3 - .ICT.
This is the school's main computer room which houses a suite of 27 networked computer work stations and a fully interactive digital white board, along with digital cameras and scanners.
T4 - ICT , and Graphic Products.
This is a very large and well furnished room, completely refurbished over the 2006 summer break. It now houses 29 networked computer stations including an interactive tablet station for teaching and a graphics station with a large cutter/plotter attached.
T5 - Food Technology & Textiles
This room is situated in the main school. It is a well equipped kitchen having been completely refurbished in the summer of 2005 with 8 free standing cookers and 6 microwave ovens, 2 fridges and a freezer. There is an upper floor area with a small ICT suite of 8 networked PCs and a colour and mono printer providing good ICT access at all KS levels. A digital video projector is provided in the main food room to assist interactive teaching. The room can also be used for Textiles. There are many electric sewing machines; including an electronic machine. There are facilities for making and printing the girls' own design T-shirts. Juggling shapes are made in year 8 based on a theme.
A Year 9 Maze Game and Moisture Indicator 
| A Year 8 Juggling Ball project 
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Food Technology Lessons in progress
What the girls think about Design Technology
- "You have new experiences trying things you've never done before, like us planning and making something to eat." 
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"When you've finished your work
you get to take it home." |
- "I enjoy all the new experiences, using the sewing machine and the pedestal drill and learning about how things work." - "My fluffy animal was great and so was my key label." - "I love Design Technology - it's really good fun!" |
Please click here to view Technology gallery with examples of work.
