Having gained top 10 places every year for the past four years, the Design and Technology department can safely say that it is one of the country’s leading school departments.
We offer a wide range of specialisms, which allow all pupils enormous scope for their imagination and insight. With success in national design and engineering competitions, all pupils are encouraged to set themselves high standards.
Our facilities are growing continually. We keep a close eye on industrial developments relevant to our curriculum areas and invest in new technology whenever possible to access modern techniques. This has led to computers not only being used as for presentation work, but also 2D and 3D design work and control manufacturing tools.
All Third Form pupils complete projects in the areas of Resistant Materials, Systems and Control, Textiles and Graphics, two of which can be taken at GCSE. Advanced level courses can also be taken in Resistant Material and Textiles and continue to develop to match the needs of any promising young designer or engineer.
Outside of the department, groups have completed courses at the Design Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum and The Science Museum, as well as having professional designers visit us. Links with industry are also important and a number of trips have taken place to see first hand how products are designed and manufactured for mass markets.
Graham Cutts, Head of Design and Technology