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Welcome to Design and Technology

Curriculum Intent
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9

Curriculum Intent

At Ark Evelyn Grace Academy we aim to inspire students to design, make, evaluate and test products to solve real world problems that occur in our daily lives. Design and Technlogy brings together a number of different disciplines and is therefore taught across a range of subjects. Across these multiple disciplinary areas in lessons and specialist sessions students will develp technical skills and nutrional knowledge and plan, investigate, develop and evaluate ideas so that they are well equipped to be the voice of their future.

Vice Principal: Teaching and Learning, Curriculum and Assessment

Ms Kathryn Shaw

Year 7

Design, Make and Evaluate

  • Computer Science: Programming Essentials Using the Microbit for Primary to Secondary Transition
  • Art: Portraits, Print Making and Carving Superheroes Graphics
  • Dropdown Day: Community Centre Design for Client
  • Dropdown Day: Robotics
  • Dropdown Day: Cooking

Technical Knowledge

  • Art - Pumpkin. 3D Making using Mudrock 
  • Computer Science - Using the Microbit for primary to secondary transition 
  • Science - alloys, ceramics, polymers, composites 
  • Science - Magnetism, making and using electromagnets. 
  • Science -Making electricty using renewable resources. 
  • Science -Making electricty using renewable resources.  
  • Dropdown Day: Robotics 
  • Dropdown Day: Cooking 

Cooking and Nutrition

  • PE - Healthy Eating  
  • Dropdown Day: Cooking

All Year 7 subjects Next Year 7 Subject - Business Studies

Year 8

Design, Make and Evaluate 

  • Art: Expressionism - print making and carving  
  • Art: Branding Graphics Project 
  • Computer Science: Media Vector Graphics 
  • Computer Science: Developing for the Web Computer 
  • Computer Science: Introduction to Python Programming
  • Science: Mobile App Development  
  • Dropdown Day: Restaurant Design for Client 
  • Dropdown Day: Robotics
  • Dropdown Day: Cooking

Technical Knowledge

  • Science: Magnetism, making and using electromagnets 
  • Science: Resistence in applicances and how it can be controlled  
  • Dropdown Day: Robotics 
  • Dropdown Day: Cooking 

Cooking and Nutrition 

  • Science - Nutrition - food groups, energy in food and diets  
  • Dropdown Day: Cooking

All Year 8 subjects Next Year 8 Subject - Business Studies

Year 9

Design, Make and Evaluate 

  • Computer Science - Representations… Going Audiovisual 
  • Computer Science - Creative Media Animations
  • Computer Science - Applying Programming Skills with Physical Computing
  • Computer Science - Cyber Security 
  • Computer Science - Python Programming with sequences of data
  • Art - Festivals Graphics Project: design and make 
  • Art - Bodies. 3D Making and moulding using Mudrock
  • Dropdown Day: Light and Heat Design a House 
  • Dropdown Day: Robotics
  • Dropdown Day: Cooking

Technical Knowledge

  • Science -Polymers and alloys Science - Magnetism, making and using electromagnets. 
  • Science - Home electricty - plugs, power sockets, products for the home
  • Art - Bodies. 3D Making and moulding using Mudrock
  • Dropdown Day: Robotics Dropdown Day: Cooking

Cooking and Nutrition

  • Science - Diet and nutrition as a risk factor to developing cancer 
  • PSHE - Healthy Lifestyles
  • Dropdown Day: Cooking

All Year 9 subjects Next Year 9 Subject - Business Studies

  • Computer Science
  • Drama
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