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Design & Technology

Head of Department Mrs A Sargent

At Moorside High School, our Design and Technology Department offers a dynamic, creative, and practical curriculum that equips students with the skills and knowledge needed to become innovative problem solvers and critical thinkers.

D&T is about designing, making, testing, and evaluating real-world solutions. We empower our students to take risks, explore new materials, and develop the confidence to bring their ideas to life.

Our Design & Technology curriculum encompasses Food Preparation, Cooking and Nutrition, D&T including CAD/CAM and practical manufacturing and Graphic Design. Additional subjects that are offered at KS4 include Construction, and Health & Social Care.

In Design & Technology students will explore a range of design and making principles using materials such as timber, plastic, metal, and paper & board. Students will have the opportunity to learn practical workshop skills alongside CAD/CAM and 3D modelling and will learn the importance of user centred design. Pupils are encouraged to consider wider issues such as environmental and ethical issues within design and manufacturing.

Our Food curriculum will equip students with the knowledge, understanding and skills required to cook and apply the principles of food science, nutrition and healthy eating. Food is a vital part of our daily lives and is essential for life. As our students become adults and have busy lives, it is easy to choose food which has been pre-prepared. However, it is more nutritious and often cheaper to cook simple, delicious food. At Moorside High School, students will develop their knowledge and understanding of nutrition, healthy eating, food preparation, hygiene, cooking techniques, and sensory characteristics. Students will develop basic culinary skills as well as a basic understanding of nutrition and healthy eating principles so that they can build confidence when working in the kitchen to design, prepare and make a range of well-balanced food products using basic catering equipment in a safe and hygienic way

At Key Stage 3 each school year is structured in a carousel approach, whereby all students will be taught by specialised teachers who fully understand the requirements of their field and will teach and differentiate in a way that is best suited to each individual learner.

Design and Technology is a subject that we believe is a life skill – relevant to whatever the students do later in life, it opens doors to a wide range of careers, and we are proud to help students develop transferable skills that are valued across many industries.

Curriculum Overview

Year 7

Over the course of the year pupils will rotate across the different areas of Design & Technology to complete the following projects:

Year 8

Over the course of the year pupils will rotate across the different areas of Design & Technology to complete the following projects:

Year 9

Over the course of the year pupils will rotate across the different areas of Design & Technology to complete the following projects:

Year 10

Construction

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  • Autumn Term 1: Understanding different types of construction, sustainable construction practices. Introduction to woodwork - joinery skills.
  • Autumn Term 2: Understand the performance requirements for low-rise construction. Intermediate joinery skills - Mortise and Tenon, Bridle, Corner Bridle
  • Spring Term 1: Performance requirements for low-rise construction, British Standards and National Building Specification. Intermediate joinery skills. Mock Assessment. Start Component 2 Assessment.
  • Spring Term 2: Understanding common structural forms. Component 2 final assessment. Developing joinery skills in line with Pearson Set Assignment
  • Summer Term 1: Explore how sub-structures are constructed and Pre-Construction work. Introduction to Component 3 - Developing technical drawing skills in response to a client brief.
  • Summer Term 2: Explore how super-structures are constructed. Understanding the wider Construction Industry and the Built Environment. Developing technical drawing skills in response to a client brief

Design & Technology

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  • Autumn Term 1: Natural Timber, Joining and fixing wood, Surface treatment and finishes
  • Autumn Term 2: Ferrous & Non-Ferrous Metals, Thermoforming & Thermosetting Polymers and Fibres & Textiles
  • Spring Term 1 & Spring Term 2: Electronic Systems and Programmable Components and Manufactured Timbers & Scales of Production 
  • Summer Term 1: Mechanical Components & Devices, Paper & Board and Modelling 
  • Summer Term 2: Non-Exam Assessment (NEA) identify, investigate and outline design possibilities to address needs and wants.

Graphic Design

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  • Autumn Term 1: (CA1) The Components of Graphic Design
  • Autumn Term 2: (CA1) The Components of Graphic Design, Visual Language and the Principles of Graphic Design
  • Spring Term 1: (CA5) Graphic Design Production & (CA2) Work of Graphic Designers
  • Spring Term 2: (CA2) Work of Graphic Designers & (CA3) Requirements of a Graphic Design Brief
  • Summer Term 1: Mock Non-Exam Assessment (NEA)
  • Summer Term 2: Mock Non-Exam Assessment (NEA)

Health & Social Care

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  • Autumn Term 1: Human lifespan development
  • Autumn Term 2: Human lifespan development
  • Spring Term 1: Human lifespan development (PSA)
  • Spring Term 2: Human lifespan development (PSA)
  • Summer Term 1: Health and social care values and services
  • Summer Term 2: Health and social care values and services

Hospitality & Catering

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  • Autumn Term 1: Know how food can cause ill health
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  • Autumn Term 2: Understand the environment in which hospitality and catering providers operate
  • Spring Term 1: Understand how hospitality and catering provision meets health and safety requirements.
  • Spring Term 2: Understand how hospitality and catering provision operates.
  • Summer Term 1: Be able to propose a hospitality and catering provision to meet specific requirements.
  • Summer Term 2: General revision and Exam Technique

Year 11

Construction

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  • Autumn Term 1: PSA Component 3: Technical drawing and building design in response to a client brief. Revision A1: Low rise construction requirements
  • Autumn Term 2: PSA Component 3: Technical drawing and building design in response to a client brief. Revision A2: Sustainability
  • Spring Term 1: Revision A3: Common structural forms B1: Pre-construction work, B2: Sub-structure groundworks. Career paths in the construction industry.
  • Spring Term 2: Revision C1: Walls, C2: Floors, C3: Roofs D1: The type of work in the construction industry, D2: The built environment. Developing exam techniques.
  • Summer Term 1: Revision of all topics. Developing exam technique.

Design & Technology

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  • Autumn Term 1: Non-Exam Assessment (NEA) identify, investigate and outline design possibilities to address needs and wants.
  • Autumn Term 2: Non-Exam Assessment (NEA) Generating and developing design ideas
  • Spring Term 1: Non-Exam Assessment (NEA) Manufacturing a prototype & Analysing and evaluating design decisions and prototypes
  • Spring Term 2: Exam Revision
  • Summer Term 1: Exam Revision
  • Summer Term 2: Exam Revision

Graphic Design

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  • Autumn Term 1: (CA4) Planning, Development & Experimentation
    Non-Exam Assessment (NEA) Externally set brief
  • Autumn Term 2: Non-Exam Assessment (NEA) Externally set brief
  • Spring Term 1: Non-Exam Assessment (NEA) Externally set brief
  • Spring Term 2: (CA6) Design, Present and Promote Graphic Design Work, Exam Revision
  • Summer Term 1: Exam Revision

Health & Social Care

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  • Autumn Term - Component 3 - Health and Wellbeing
  • Spring Term - Component 2 - Health & Social Care Services & Values

Hospitality & Catering

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  • Autumn Term – Unit 2 - LO1: Understand the importance of nutrition when planning meal, LO2: Understand menu planning
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  • Spring Term – Unit 2 - LO3: Be able to cook dishes
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