Design Technology
In Design Technology, our curriculum allows us to encourage students to be independent, creative problem solvers who can apply these skills to a variety of problems. From measuring and cutting wood, hammering nails and preserving wood to learning how to stitch and sewing on a button, technology not only ignites imaginations to solve common problems, but also important skills needed in the future.
Within our curriculum we are trying to give students the knowledge, confidence and skills to be creative learners, as well as the confidence to apply these skills within the wider world. Students explore how the target market is crucial to ensuring a product is appropriate for its audience. The curriculum allows students to undertake market research to look at how human measurements and requirements are major factors in products and develop an understanding of how product designers create inclusive products. Students learn how design technology provides solutions for problems and how these solutions have helped to transform the modern world.
In Design Technology we look at a range of designers from around the world who have come up with genius ideas; from James Dyson and his revolutionary bagless hoover, Jonathan Ive and the iPhone, to Vera Wang and her wedding gown collection. Knowing how these powerhouses of designers influenced future generations and have filled the world with these amazing products, which all started with a problem or gap in the market that needed solving.
