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Years
seven, eight and nine in any secondary school bring students into
contact with specialist teachers of Design and Technology for possibly
the first time in their school careers. They have access to a wider
range of equipment and are shown how to structure their designing by
recording ideas in a design folio. The design folio shows evidence of
the students exploration of ideas, concepts and decision making.
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Throughout key stage three students
are taught techniques for exploring and
developing ideas including - sketching and rendering, annotated
drawings, 3D mock ups and computer simulation. Sometimes the students
work on their own, sometimes in pairs and on occasions as a member of
a team. They will use aspects of mathematics, science and art.
As they
progress through key stage three students continue to develop D&T
capability by combining designing and making skills with knowledge and
understanding. They begin to study existing products to see how others
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In each
of the three years three types of activity are used to develop D&T
capability. These are:
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Focused
practical tasks designed to develop the knowledge, skills and
understanding outlined in the PoS for Technology.
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Design and
Make tasks designed to integrate Designing and Making skills
with the knowledge, skills and understanding outlined above.
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Product
Analysis tasks designed to enable pupils to investigate a range
of familiar products so that they develop an understanding of
real life applications of the knowledge, skills and
understanding learnt in school. |
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Objective
assessment is provided by end of module tests (where applicable) as
well as an end of year exam. These coupled with the formative
assessment of homework assignments; coursework tasks and self
assessment via review sheets form the basis of assessment for each
year group.
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Work in
Years 7 and 8 will consist mainly of focused tasks built into a tightly
constrained design and make tasks intended to introduce students to the
core concepts which underpin the knowledge and understanding outlined
in the programme of study for Design and Technology. In Year 9 the
students are asked to engage in a series of individual design and make
projects which are used as the basis for teacher assessment at the end
of this key stage.
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Each design and make task in years 7and 8 lasts approx 12 weeks and where possible is
presented in a similar format. Typically students design and make
simple electronic devices introducing work in systems and control.
They build and test structures; design and make, wind chimes,
games and moving toys and design and manufacture textiles and food
products.
In year nine the
projects vary in length and complexity but are based on the
non-statutory assignments provided by the D fEE.
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