Design & Technology provides excellent opportunities for pupils to apply judgements of an aesthetic, economic, moral, social and technical nature in their designing and to existing products and their applications.

Pupils use a range of communication skills, including verbal, graphical and modelling skills, to help their thinking and ability to act in the process of designing. Design & Technology also provides opportunities for individual work and teamwork.

The subject has a crucial role in developing industrial partnerships, where work in school can have a realistic focus by active involvement with industry in project work or by illustrating industrial processes or techniques.

Design & Technology involves a distinctive creative process that combines intellectual with practical skills through purposeful practical activities. The creative process in which pupils are engaged is iterative, with the crucial parts being the user or customer of the product and the quality of the product itself.

The nature of Design & Technology is such that it should provide opportunities for pupils to engage in activities that are challenging, relevant and motivating. Giving pupils enjoyment, satisfaction and a sense of purpose and enabling them to feel they can play a constructive role in a technological society. All Design & Technology activities are a learning experience whereby the pupils’ repertoire of knowledge, skills and understanding is extended and applied in increasingly more diverse and sophisticated ways.

We have a purpose-built department with two specialist subject rooms and one central additional study area. The air-conditioned Food Room includes a central study area and 20 fully equipped work stations. The Design Technology Workshop has an open-