Design Technology brings learning to life. It is a motivating context for discovering Literacy, Mathematics, Science, Art and ICT.  At RVSSC, Design Technology education involves two important elements - learning about the designed world and how things work, and learning to design and make functional products for particular purposes and users. We aim to provide opportunities for all our students to develop their capabilities in these areas. By combining their design and making skills with technical knowledge and understanding, to create quality products.

Our new Year 8 students experiencing Food Studies are learning about healthy eating. Year 7 Design Technologies students are in the workshop learning about safe workshop practices and working with wood.

Our Design Technology curriculum aims to:

• Develop students critical thinking, enabling them to justify what they like and dislike when designing and making;
• Enable students to investigate and talk about how things work, and to communicate ideas;
• Encourage students to select the most appropriate tools and techniques for making a product, whilst following safe procedures;
• Explore attitudes towards the ‘made’ world and how we live and work within it;
• Develop an understanding of technological processes and products, their manufacture and their contribution to our society;
• Appreciate the work of contemporary and historic designers and their contribution to the world in which we live;
• Foster enjoyment, satisfaction and purpose in designing and making things;
• Develop evaluation skills to critically analyse and improve products and designs;
• Develop the cross-curricular use of Design Technology in other subjects, particularly Computing, Maths and Science.

Through the DT curriculum, children should be inspired by engineers, designers, chefs and architects to enable them to create a range of structures, mechanisms, textiles, electrical systems and food products with a real life purpose.

Our Year 10 Students this term are developing skills with new machinery in the workshop including the CNC router and the bandsaw to make a Tambour Box. This project will require students to focus on joinery and craftsmanship.