Curriculum Relevance

Age 14-16

GCSE Design and Technology NEAB

5 full and short courses, Food Technology, Resistant Materials, Textiles Technology, Electronic Products and Graphic Products

During the above courses, pupils present personal responses linked to their interests to design and make assignments. Pupils engage in projects linked to industrial practices and working with the wider community. Frequently, projects involve enterprise activities where the pupils are involved in establishing a market opportunity, designing something to meet a need, manufacturing the product (single items or in quantity) and evaluating how effective their whole process has been. Pupils use computers to help them with their designing and making, utilising ICT-based information sources for researching and computer-aided designing and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) software. They consider the effects of technology on the development of society, and their own lives, and appreciate the balance of advantage and disadvantage in those developments.

Scotland

Programme 1

Standard Grade: Home Economics.

Higher Still: Home Economics: Health and Food Technology.

Programme 2

Standard Grade: Craft and Design.

Higher Still: Design, Engineering and Technology: Craft and Design: Int 2; Higher; Adv H; Bi-level potential – Describe how materials and manufacturing processes infllence design.

Programme 3

Standard Grade: Home Economics.

Higher Still: Home Economics: Fashion and Textile Technology.

Programme 4

Standard Grade: Craft and Design.

Higher Still: Design, Engineering and Technology: Technological Studies: Int 2; Bi-level potential – Control systems: Identify the main characters of components in a typical control system; Applied Analogue and Digital Electronics – Design a simple electronic system.

Programme 5

Standard Grade: Art and Design.

Higher Still: Art and Design.