Our curriculum emphasises sustainability, environmental issues, and being a critical consumer. Students experience working with wood, metal, plastics and textiles. They learn graphic techniques and CAD to make them creative and independent in their ideas.

Our Design and Technology GCSE allows students to identify and solve real problems through the design process and the production of high-quality, imaginative and functional products that demonstrate creativity and avoid stereotypical responses. They are encouraged to work creatively and, through the course, will develop several core skills, including practical skills, planning and decision making. Students may choose from two material areas to specialise in, Product Design or Textiles. Within both areas, we support students to be ambitious and take creative design risks which stretch the development of design proposals, avoiding clichéd or stereotypical responses. Design technology GCSE is equally suitable as a vocational course and an avenue for transferable, creative and analytical skills.

We also offer the WJEC Level 1/2 Vocational Award in Engineering. This course focuses on acquiring and applying engineering knowledge, skills and understanding through purposeful tasks set in sector or subject contexts that have many characteristics of real work. This qualification appeals to more practical-minded students and is assessed through real-world tasks emphasising materials and engineering drawing skills.

A Level Design Technology requires students to engage in practical and theoretical study. Students investigate historical, social, cultural, environmental, and economic influences on Design and Technology, while enjoying opportunities to put their learning into practice by producing products of their choice. 

The curriculum equips our pupils with the skills to make informed design decisions through an in-depth understanding of the management and development of a design through to a prototype/product. Students engage in learning activities to develop their knowledge and understanding of materials, components, and processes associated with creating products. 

• Component 1: Design and Technology in the 21st Century Written examination: 3 hours 50% of qualification

• Component 2: Design and make project non-exam assessment: approximately 80 hours 50% of qualification