Design Technology KS3 Overview

Food

3D Design (Workshop)

Textiles

3D Design (CAD/CAM)

Year 7

(8 week Rotation)

‘Healthy and wholesome’

Practical lessons include:

Fruit salad, bread rolls, savoury scones, chow mein, soup, layered salad, apple crumble.Basic skills which they will use throughout Key Stage 3. These involve:

• Food hygiene and safety in the kitchen.
• Practical cooking skills.
• Knife skills.
• Safe use of the hob and oven.
• Weighing and measuring ingredients.

Lever Lamp

• Introduction to workshop machinery.
• Marking out.
• Hand cutting shaping timber.
• Electronics/soldering.
• Levers - mechanical fixings.

Cushion Project

• Sewing machine skills.
• Transfer printing - basic knowledge and skills.
• Screen printing basic use with stencil.
• Pattern drafting.
• Use of key equipment including dressmaker's shears.
• Construction techniques: hems and seams.

CAD/CAM Project, Ruler, Coaster and Memphis Clock  

• CADCAM Theory.
• CAD skills: drawing for accuracy, free hand drawing, text, CAM colours, vectorising.
• Design style study.
• Shape extraction.
• Card modelling.
• Refinements.
• Annotation of designs/refinements.
• Self evaluation of designs.
• 3D and orthographic drawing skills.

Food

Textiles

Textiles

3D Design

Year 8

 (8 week Rotation)

‘Multicultural/world foods’ Practical lessons include:

Chicken fajitas, carrot cake, puff pastry pigs in blankets, saag aloo, fresh pasta and beef burger.

Pupils continue to build on skills covered in Year 7 with a stronger emphasis on adapting recipes and producing a range of savoury and sweet dishes to a good standard.

The key concepts covered in Year 8 are:

• Diet and nutrition.
• Special diets.
• Adapting an existing recipe. Practical cooking skills.
• Functions of ingredients.

Banner project:

• Independent research using prompts and sentence starters.
• Design development.
• Decoration techniques- transfer dye, marbling, wet in wet, tie dye, applique with bong a web, free machine embroidery.

Hot Water Bottle Project:

• Handing sewing of different stitches, such as running stitch, back stitch, cross stitch and blanket stitch.
• Creating a range of designs.
• Refinement of a design idea.
• Using different techniques to embellish the outcome. With the use of beads, buttons, sequins, ribbons.

Aboriginal Moneybox

• Timber theory.
• Marking out.
• Sample trialling.
• Cutting and assembly of finger joints.
• Workshop machinery & safety.
• Designing in response to style.

Food

3D Design (Workshop)

Textiles

3D Design

Year 9

(8 week Rotation)

‘Family Favourites’

Practical lessons include:

Saag aloo, puff pastry pigs in blankets, pasta tagliatelle, fish cakes, chicken goujons (deboning), burger.

Pupils demonstrate the principles of food hygiene and safety in a range of situations.

Demonstrate confidence and independence in a wide range of food skills and techniques.

Stationery Holder:

• Timber theory.
• Marking out.
• Cutting and assembly of finger and housing joint.
• Workshop machinery and safety.
• Designing in response to a style.
• Creating a wire sculpture.
• Resin casting.

Natural History project 

• Board presentation.
• Using a sewing machine independently to use straight and free machine stitching.
• Adding colour to fabric using transfer, painting.

• Responding to a client brief.
• Mounting and adding samples to presentation boards.
• Evaluations.
• Researching an artist independently.

Design Studies

• Using a mix of mediums.
• Sampling of techniques.
• Presentation of ideas.
• Drawing techniques.
• Own photos.
• Collage.