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Design and Technology

With the exception of nature, everything around us has been designed! We aim to equip students with the skills and knowledge to allow them to successfully complete a range of design and making projects within computer aided and traditional workshop environments. We also aim to develop students’ technical understanding of materials, techniques and the social and moral obligations of a designer. Through doing this, students will develop transferable life skills and skills to enter the world of work.

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Year 7

Core Technical Principles Specialist Technical Principles
  • Timber- based Materials - Bird feeder making
    Categories of timber
    Sources and origins
  • Polymers - Mirror – strip heater
    Injection moulding
    Using and working with polymers
Designing and Making Principles

Year 8

Core Technical Principles Specialist Technical Principles Designing and Making Principles

Year 9

Core Technical Principles Specialist Technical Principles Designing and Making Principles

Year 10

Core Technical Principles Specialist Technical Principles
  • Timber- based Materials - Desk tidy base
    Selection of materials, stock forms, standard components, techniques and processes, forces and stresses, material management, tolerances
Designing and Making Principles

Year 11

Core Technical Principles Specialist Technical Principles
  • Timber- based Materials - Non-Examined Assessment – Section E making, selection of materials, stock forms, standard components, techniques and processes, finishes, scales of production, forces and stresses, material management, tolerances
Designing and Making Principles

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Year 7

Core Technical Principles
Specialist Technical Principles
  • Timber- based Materials - Bird feeder making
    Categories of timber
    Sources and origins
  • Polymers - Mirror – strip heater
    Injection moulding
    Using and working with polymers
Designing and Making Principles

Year 8

Core Technical Principles
Specialist Technical Principles
Designing and Making Principles

Year 9

Core Technical Principles
Specialist Technical Principles
Designing and Making Principles

Year 10

Core Technical Principles
Specialist Technical Principles
  • Timber- based Materials - Desk tidy base
    Selection of materials, stock forms, standard components, techniques and processes, forces and stresses, material management, tolerances
Designing and Making Principles

Year 11

Core Technical Principles
Specialist Technical Principles
  • Timber- based Materials - Non-Examined Assessment – Section E making, selection of materials, stock forms, standard components, techniques and processes, finishes, scales of production, forces and stresses, material management, tolerances
Designing and Making Principles
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Amanda is Chair of the Excel Academy Trust Board. Amanda became a parent governor in 2009 and has enjoyed several responsibilities across this time including being Chair of the Achievement and Standards committee, a member of the Excel Academy Audit committee, and most recently has been appointed as a Member of the Excel Academy Partnership. Her career started out with the Halifax Building Society where she worked as a mortgage advisor for 20 years, before entering the political arena. Amanda is a County Councillor for Durham County Council, representing Framwellgate and Newton Hall ward. Amanda was formerly a student at Framwellgate School Durham, where she met her husband and many other friends, as well as taking on the responsibility of being Deputy Head Girl. Amanda is passionate about the school and local area and is actively involved in the school at every opportunity.

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