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Back to Subjects"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - Maya Angelou, author, poet, civil rights activist
The aim of the Design and Technology department is to encourage students to become aware of their own creativity and develop confidence in their abilities to achieve their creative potential and through this a sense of personal balance and wellbeing.
As a subject we do this through investigating design possibilities and developing and making products that can be utilised, working in materials to learn a variety of technical working processes and principles.
Peer to peer learning has a huge impact in Design and Technology and is a fantastic way for students to gain confidence showing or helping others with their skills when they have mastered it themselves.
Feedback ensures progress. Within the department we constantly verbalise this as a student feels their way through the project, throughout each lessons.
Students have the opportunity to develop many important skills when working in Design and Technology including problem solving and creative thinking. They are encouraged to work with self-motivation and to develop sustained concentration and the ability to work independently on practical project tasks.
Our facilities include two workshops, two computer design suites and two kitchens, including a newly refurbished kitchen with all new equipment. Recently we have increased our provision for Textiles, and this is proving popular. In our workshops we have facilities for working in timbers, polymers and metals be that using the laser cutter, vertical router or the 3D printer.
