Castle Manor Academy

Year 7 Design

Welcome to Year 7 Design!

The task of the Design curriculum in a school is to enlighten students to the world around them that is planned, designed and made. We live in a modern world that is made to support our interests, our work and our home life by having items, designed and made to be part of our life.

At Castle Manor Academy we use Design to allow students to explore the human world and how, with a little thought and investigation, these things, that have been made for us by other, work.

DT lessons at Castle Manor promote independence, creativity, confidence and curiosity in the world of Product Design that we use, every day and interact with.

Through both theory and practical lessons students will build and develop skills in how a product is designed together with working on concepts and ideas of new and emerging fields of design

The PROUD values are interwoven through the curriculum and students have many opportunities so showcase these.

Professional – Students will showcase their outcomes across KS3 and build the idea within them that they can produce professional outcomes that matter and have purpose.

Resilient – Practical lessons will test their ability to keep adapting their designs until the kinks and faults have been ironed out.

Optimistic – Every single student is given the opportunity to design at Castle Manor, and build concepts using modern, high quality outcomes using industry standard software and hardwear.

Understanding – Throughout the KS3 curriculum there is, built in, the investigation and questioning that helps build the idea that not everything is perfect first time and, with refinement, the idea can become a reality.

Driven – Students are challenged to produce work both by hand and digitally that will challenge their ability and, through high quality outcomes, produce outstanding design concepts.

Curriculum Intent for Year 7

At KS3, the core knowledge is based on the National Curriculum Programme of Study Design and Technology. The year 7 curriculum focussed on the following aspects of the National Curriculum;

  • To identify and understand users needs
  • To select from and use specialist tools, techniques and processes.
  • Become competent in a designing, annotation and sketching plans together with basic CAD modelling.

Year 7 will begin their learning journey at Castle Manor by looking into the basic principles of drawing and model making. Using these skill both by hand and using Computer Aided Design to work from a 2d idea to a 3d outcome.

Practical lessons focus on CAD work using the PC suite where students will use SketchUp to create digital outcomes and general model making and forming from materials by hand.


Staffing

Mr J Teare – Lead teacher of DT and Photography

Miss McKeown – Lead teacher of Textiles