Design & Technology
Master diverse techniques to innovate and design products that can shape the future.
ExploreCurriculum Intent
In GCSE Resistant Materials, students belong to a creative design studio where they collaborate safely, share workshop tools, and show kindness and integrity toward one another. We foster the belief that through curious exploration of woods, metals, polymers, and modern manufacturing processes, students can engineer real-world solutions to everyday challenges. Taking a scholarly approach to practical craftsmanship, iterative design, and testing, students build high aspirations to become resourceful, confident designers and skilled makers.
Key Stage 3
Taught in one to two 55-minute lessons each week, students study Food and Nutrition and Resistant Materials. They engage with set briefs, applying their skills and knowledge to innovate and create solutions. Reflection and evaluation are integral to the process, fostering a mindset of continuous improvement.
Key Stage 4
Design and Technology is taught in three 55-minute lessons each week in KS4.
We study Resistant Materials GCSE.
