New Design and Technology specialism
15/12/11
Are you creative? practical? inventive? Do you enjoy problem solving?
From September 2012 Central Foundation Boys' School will be offering two strands of the Design and Technology Product Design AS/A2. In addition to the Graphic Products option (where the materials used are card, modelling foam, thin plastics, foam board etc) the Resistant Materials option using woods, metals and plastics will also be on offer.
The course syllabus for both pathways is very similar, following the same course structure, for both Edexcel A' levels with the difference being the materials focus you choose to study.
Melanie Rivers Head of Technology at Central Foundation Boys’ School says ‘Working with Resistant Materials is practical, fun and challenging. You will have freedom to design and make creative and inventive products which you will be proud to own.’
Asked why students should consider choosing to study Resistant Materials, Melanie Rivers says ‘We have been successfully teaching A’ Level Product Design for a number of years at Central Foundation. We have a fully equipped Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacture Suite as well as the traditional workshop machinery and equipment that would be needed to achieve high grades at A’ Level. We also have a number of industry standard CAD packages that students use to enhance their coursework folders (including the Adobe Design Standard Suite and Solid Works)’
Click here for more information about Design and Technology courses, and download more information about the Resistant Materials option here.
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