Design and Technology is now taught across 3 years. As students start their GCSE in Year 9, they are able to build and develop core skills at a more relaxed and supportive pace in this first year. This helps them to understand in depth the core elements of the design process and refine their skills within their chosen discipline. Projects start from broad themes that students personalise to suit their own interests and ideas. Sketchbooks are used as vital tools to record personal visual journeys and make up ¾ of their mark. At the end of the course the students’ achievements are celebrated in our Visual Arts Summer exhibition.
Level 1/2 Vocational Award Hospitality and Catering (Technical Award)
Our Hospitality & Catering course equips students with the knowledge, understanding and skills required to plan, prepare and cook nutritious dishes as well as the factors which affect menu planning. Through practical lessons, students will learn about health and safety, the importance of nutrition and how cooking methods can impact on nutritional value. The course encourages students to record and apply technical knowledge to dishes, in addition to developing practical skills, time management, teamwork and food production methods. Students will learn about the hospitality and catering industry, the types of hospitality and catering providers and about working in the industry. The course gives students a basic insight in to the Hospitality industry with a view to further study Professional Culinary Arts at college or an apprenticeship within the Hospitality sector.
GCSE Fashion & Textile Design Syllabus: Edexcel
Our exciting KS4 Fashion & Textiles course offers comprehensive tuition in all key textile areas – fashion, printed and dyed textiles, fine art textiles and constructed textiles. Students learn a wide variety of techniques using both machine and hand embellishment tools. Previous projects have included; a ‘Wonderland’ doll, ‘Nature’s Bounty’ repeat pattern printed fabric and a toddlers theatre costume.
GCSE Graphic Communications Syllabus: Edexcel
Our popular KS4 Graphics course gives guided tuition in the key genres of graphic design – typography, graphic illustration, advertising and packaging, working in a range of traditional hand drawn processes, mixed media and digital techniques.
GCSE 3D Design Syllabus: Edexcel
To offer further artistic creativity at KS4, we offer 3D Design as an option for those students interested in working more three dimensionally and creating products. The course covers modules in Product Design (lighting) and Architecture, occasionally extending into Set design.