Yr 9 Lamp Project -designer of the week!
Well done to Shaun Tan in yr 9 for being the first to complete his acrylic lamp. Shaun has developed many skills in this project, such as creative design, CAD/CAM (laser cutter), vacuum forming, hand tools and electronics. All in all, a great job and a great final product!
HE Fare Catering
Big thank-you and well done to the Y10 GCSE Food Tech students and Y12 IB Food students who prepared all the food for the presenters after the Higher education Fare.
The Y10 students were in charge of sandwiches and they initially all designed their own, using different types of bread filling and we decided on the best 5. We then turned this into a production line activity to show how to mass produce. There were 5 groups and each group had to make 80 sandwiches. One group even made their own dough and flat breads.
Sandwich menu
Mexican Chicken and Guacamole Wrap
Phili Cheese Steak cocktail bun
Bacon Club sandwich
Tuna Mayo sandwich
Roast Vegetable flatbread
The Y12 students came up with lots of ideas for sweet and savoury snacks/canapes and then we discussed the feasibility of each on before deciding the 9 which made up a nice balanced menu which was challenging, but manageable.
Savoury Snacks
Deviled Eggs Puffs
Vegetable Samosa’s
Smoked Salmon Mini Quiche
Cheese Straws and dips
Chicken and Mushroom pies
Hoi Sin Duck Spoons
Sweet Snacks
Scones with jam and cream
Mini Cupcakes
Macarons
Everything turned out fantastic and the pupils who stayed to help serve received lots of compliments
Mr Roper’s Designer of the Week
In the last week of the Christmas term my designer of the week is Darren. Darren has really thought through aspects of his design work for his lamp and independently produced several drawings done on Illustrator to try and communicate his thinking. He is always focused and has demonstrated a real desire to progress his ideas well done Darren!!
Mr Roper’s Designer of the Week
This week my designer of the week is Wing. Wing’s communication threw drawing and sketching is usually strong but more importantly she has a really strong sense of what she is looking for in her designs. She has worked through the mechanics of her design proposal and started manufacture. Her lamp promises to be an interesting piece of modern design.
Designer of the week
My designer of the week this week is Isabella. Isabella really has a keen interest and aptitude for design and enjoys the creative challenge of D&T. Here she is working on a model for her light. She has come up with a number of really exciting ideas and is now trying to work through the tricky process of working out how to bring her ideas to life!!
Year 9 Entrance – Experimenting With Creativity in the Design Process
The term the Technology Faculty is putting a spot light on Creativity and really trying to address how we not only provide creative opportunities to students but also teach them explicitly how they can be more creative. One creative strategy that can be employed is called, “Change the Process”. Linked to this is another technique called, “Look at the tools”. The purpose of these provocations is to get us to consider what we habitually do when faced with design problems and the tools we tend to use to solve them. These year 9 experimented with a technique called scaffiti to develop random organic forms and then selected sone of these forms to cut out of paper. Through folding and cutting the students could further explore and develop forms related to their lighting project.
They have also tried to develop from this exercise and from research through their pintrest accounts some sketch work. Again we tried to make small changes by using coloured paper and pencil rather than plain white. This not only presented ideas more interestingly visually but also prevents rubbing out!
GCSE TEXTILES
Final coursework is finished and students are proud to show their end products. You can see the actual garments being worn in the fashion slot at the cultural spring fair on the 4th!
Entrance-Textiles Board Shorts in production
Students are starting to cut out their pattern pieces and print .
