Design and Technology prepares students to participate in today’s and tomorrow's rapidly changing technological world. Through Design and Technology, all students can become critical and informed users of products, and become designers and innovators. Students will learn to think and do something creative to improve the quality of life for everything.

Design and Technology is about students becoming self-motivated, creative, problem solvers and allows them to work both as individuals and as members of a team.

Students will look for needs, wants and opportunities and respond to them by developing a range of design ideas and by making and evaluating products and systems.

In Design and Technology students will combine practical skills with an understanding of aesthetics, social issues, environmental issues, function, and industrial practices. Students
will consider the use and effects of present and past Design and Technology.

In Design and Technology students will combine practical skills with an understanding of aesthetics, social issues, environmental issues, function, and industrial practices. Students will consider the use and effects of present and past Design and Technology.

The design and technology dept comprises of a purpose build Graphics studio equipped with projector and CAD/CAM facilities, a dedicated ICT suite with A3 printing and laser printing in both colour and black and white. Two recently refurbished food technology rooms and two textile rooms as well as a general purpose learning area complete with a library, teaching resources and CAD/CAM equipment. Each material area has LCD overhead projectors and has networked with PC’s and A3 colour printing facilities.

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