Design and technology

Subject Leader

Mr D Bibbington                      D.Bibbington@beverleygrammar.co.uk

Teachers

Mrs K Dunkerley                      K.Dunkerley@beverleygrammar.co.uk

Mrs L Mulligan                         L.Mulligan@beverleygrammar.co.uk

Mr R Oldridge                           R.Oldridge@beverleygrammar.co.uk

 

Subject Content

KS3

Assessment system

D&T KS3 Grade Descriptors 2016 (Y7)

 

Year 7 overview

Design

  • Sketching Skills
  • Focussed practical skills building tasks
  • Introduction to basic workshop tools and practices

Engineering

  • Touch sensitive torch and casing design
  • Introduction to electrical systems and designing circuit boards.

Food

  • Health, nutrition and basic food hygiene
  • A range of savoury and sweet dishes are also cooked to build students practical skills.
Year 8 overview

Design

  • Model Siege weapon
  • Introduction to mechanisms, forces, motions and material properties

Engineering

  • Garden Tool
  • Introduction to metal work and forging

Food

  • More advanced cooking techniques and technical food principles such as sauce making and bakery.
Year 9 overview

Design

  • MP3 speaker and casing design
  • Building upon the pupils prior electronic knowledge into more advanced systems and circuits
  • Introduction to breadboarding.

Engineering

  • Bottle opener
  • CAD drawing
  • Introduction of advanced 3D modelling techniques and producing technical drawings

Food

  • Food Provenance
  • Cultural foods
  • Special dietary requirements
  • A range of challenging recipes are cooking testing and building upon the practical skills already learned by the students in previous years.

KS4

 

 

 

 

 

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