Brooke Weston |  |
| Coomb Road, Great Oakley, Corby, Northamptonshire NN18 8LA t 01536 396366 f 01536 396867 |
Brooke Weston | |
| Coomb Road, Great Oakley, Corby, Northamptonshire NN18 8LA t 01536 396366 f 01536 396867 |
The course comprises a manufacturing project where we make items from resistant materials. There's also an exam.
The DT department is currently undergoing an extensive refurbishment to be completed by September 2008. The newly refurbished department will offer: two well-equipped workshops; a specialist electronics room; excellent ICT facilities that will also include CAD/CAM; and a dedicated textiles suite. These new facilities will enable our A Level students to have access to a wide variety of manufacturing processes that will assist them in the manufacture of their coursework projects in Years 12 and 13.
We make things out of wood, metal or plastic. We can make what we want; things like coffee tables and children's furniture.
Open to students who have gained at least a grade B in an art or technology based GCSE. Students who have studied GCSE design and technology would be at an advantage; however this is not a prerequisite for the course.
The course has been designed to encourage candidates to take a broad view of design and technology, to develop their capacity to design and make products and to appreciate the complex relations between design, materials, manufacture and marketing.
This will cover developing an understanding of the physical and mechanical properties in a broad range of materials and components; the broader issues for the designer including the environmental sustainability of products and their manufacture; methods in which materials and components can be manipulated to manufacture products; health and safety issues relevant to working with materials; computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacture (CAM); ergonomics and anthropometrics, inclusive design, and consumer safety; and the life cycle of products including manufacture, use and functional aspects and final disposal.
This is a design and make unit where knowledge of the AS subject content is applied to the design and making of candidates" own projects. Students may choose to submit a single design and make project, two smaller projects and/or a portfolio of work.
This will cover classifying materials and identifying, testing and comparing their application to product manufacture; the implications of Health and Safety as an element of design activity; examination of alternative designs and redesigning existing products; use of natural resources, materials utilisation, conservation, waste disposal/management, pollution, recycling; appreciation and understanding of the use of CAM for industrial production; moral, economic, social and environmental responsibilities of the designer; and planning production procedures and methods.
This is a design and make unit where knowledge of the AS and A2 subject content is applied to the design and manufacture of candidates' own project. Students submit evidence of a single, substantial designing and making activity.
Two units are assessed through coursework and two units are assessed by means of an externally set written examination paper.
Design and technology is a good complement to courses in mathematics, physics, art, business and ICT. It prepares students for a number of career paths in industry and business and gives access to further study at degree or HND level in some of the following areas: engineering/production/manufacturing design; fashion, textiles and 3D design; graphic and advertising design; landscape, environmental and architectural design; product and industrial design.
An A Level in product design opens up many opportunities for a career in various aspects of design and engineering; marketing and project planning.