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What is Design and Technology
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Design and Technology prepares pupils to participate in tomorrow’s rapidly changing technologies. The subject calls for pupils to become autonomous and creative problem solvers, as individuals and members of teams, who must look for needs, wants and opportunities and respond to them by developing a range of ideas and making products and systems. The combination of practical skills and an understanding of aesthetics, social and environmental issues, function and industrial practices allows them to evaluate past and present design and technology, its uses and effects. Through design and technology, all pupils can become innovators as well as discriminating and informed users of products.
Design and technology enables pupils to:
- understand how design and technology affects our lives;
- contribute to the use and development of technology in our society through informed participation;
- relate their personal experiences to the work of commerce and industry
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The Computer Aided Design (CAD) Suite
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The CAD Suite has been upgraded with the latest very high specification computers thanks to a fantastic grant from the prestigious Wolfson Foundation.
A Laser and Router Cutter will be installed in the next few weeks as part of the Wolfson Grant.
The girls use industry-standard AutoCAD 2008 software to design their products prior to manufacture.
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The Workshop
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The purpose built workshop enables the girls to manufacture their projects to a very high standard.
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