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Technology

Key Stage 3

Term One

Term Two

Term Three

Half Term One
CREATE - Context
Baseline evaluation of students starting points. Responsible design and product lifecycles – Focus mobile phones.

Half Term Three
CREATE - Explore
Workshop passport – recycled mobile phone stand keyring. To gain experience of using three different materials and associated processes

Half Term Five
CREATE – Trial and Evaluate
Students will complete a bridge project looking at existing designs then constructing them using CAD. Then testing them virtually and in classroom models to evaluate their effectiveness. Ending in a range of STEM challenges to practice all their skills across the year collaboratively

Half Term Two
CREATE - Research
Packaging and Nets focus on drawing accurately and graphical design and construction of nets to create an ethical packaging product

Half Term Four
CREATE – Assemble Alessi
Product analysis of existing designs and design movement of post modernism. Students summarise design style and then apply this to their own product and model it in cardboard

Half Term Six
CREATE – Trial and Evaluate
Students will complete a bridge project looking at existing designs then constructing them using CAD. Then testing them virtually and in classroom models to evaluate their effectiveness. Ending in a range of STEM challenges to practice all their skills across the year collaboratively

Key Stage 4

Term One

Term Two

Term Three

Year One Half Term One
Course introduction
Baseline evaluation of students starting points. Sustainable housing project to review full design process from brief, specification, designs, modelling and evaluation. Detailed product analysis

Year Two Half Term One
R106 – Research and product analysis
LO1: Know how commercial production methods, quality, and legislation impact on the design of products and components LO2 research existing products

Year One Half Term Three
R038: Communicating designs
TA3 – Communicating design working drawings
NEA TA2: Task 3 Manual production of engineering drawings
R039: TA2 Production of CAD engineering drawings
NEA TA3: Task 4 Use of CAD to produce a 3D model
R038: TA2 Designing Requirements: Influences on engineering product design

Year Two Half Term Three
R108 3D design realisation set brief given out from OCR
LO1 and LO2 Know how to plan the making of a prototype and safe working practices
R108 3D design realisation set brief given out from OCR
LO3 and 4 Producing a prototype and evaluating its success

Year One Half Term Five
R038: TA2 Designing Requirements: Influences on engineering product design
R039 Final submission for marking standardisation deadline for board submission May 15th

Year Two Half Term Five
R105 Briefs, Specifications, and user needs
LO3 Know about the wider influences on the design of new products
R105 Briefs, Specifications, and user needs – Revise content for LO1 and 2 and 3

Year One Half Term Two
R038 – Principles of engineering design
TA1 – designing processes stages and strategies, cyclic approach
TA3 – Communicating design outcomes
R039: TA1 Sketching and drawing
NEA TA1: Task 1 and 2 Manual production of freehand sketches

Year Two Half Term Two
R106 – Research and product analysis
LO3 Product Disassembly
R107 Developing and presenting engineering designs brief given out by OCR
CAD Virtual modification, draughting, 3D modelling, rendering, assemblies, and animation

Year One Half Term Four
R039: TA3 Using CAD to communicate designs
NEA TA3: Task 4 Use of CAD to produce a 3D model
R038: TA2 Designing Requirements: Influences on engineering product design

Year Two Half Term Four
R105 Briefs, Specifications, and user needs Introduction
Understand the design cycle and the relationship between design briefs and design specifications
R105 Briefs, Specifications, and user needs
Understand the requirements of design specifications for the development of a new product

Year One Half Term Six
R040: TA1 Product analysis and disassembly activity
R040: NEA TA1 Product Evaluation Task 1 product analysis and Task 2 disassembly

Key Stage 5

Term One

Year One Half Term One
Design theory
Design communication

Year Two Half Term One
NEA – Identifying & investigating design possibilities
Design disassembly
Producing a design brief and specification
Digital design and manufacture
Feasibility studies
Design for manufacture and project management

Year One Half Term Two
NEA coursework preparation the iterative design process.
Architecture live project
Design processes
Technical principles
Materials and their applications
Performance characteristics of materials
The use of finishes

Year Two Half Term Two
NEA - Development of design proposal(s)
Design processes
Digital design and manufacture (CAD)
Health and safety Design communication

Term Two

Year One Half Term Three
NEA coursework preparation the iterative design process.
Architecture live project
Design processes
Digital design and manufacture (CAD)
Enhancement of materials
Forming, redistribution and addition processes

Year Two Half Term Three
NEA Section D- Development of design prototype(s)
Critical analysis and evaluation
Selecting appropriate tools equipment and processes
Accuracy in design and manufacture
Materials and their applications
Performance characteristics of materials
The use of finishes

Year One Half Term Four
NEA coursework preparation the iterative design process.
Creative lighting live project
Design processes
Health and safety
Modern industrial and commercial practice
Modern manufacturing systems

Year Two Half Term Four
NEA - Development of design prototype(s)
Requirements for product development
Design methods and processes
Modern industrial and commercial practice
Modern manufacturing systems
Enterprise and marketing in the development of products
Responsible design

Term Three

Year One Half Term Five
NEA practice creative lighting
Requirements for product development
Design methods and processes
Critical analysis and evaluation
Selecting appropriate tools equipment and processes
Accuracy in design and manufacture

Year Two Half Term Five
NEA - Analysing and Evaluating
Critical analysis and evaluation
Retrieval and revision

Year One Half Term Six
Intellectual property
Technology and cultural changes that impact design
Design for manufacture, maintenance repair and disposal
Enterprise and marketing in the development of products
Responsible design

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