Construction and mechanical technologies

Students will:

• Develop Y12 practical skills competency : advanced procedures and skills in construction and decorative jewellery techniques and processes.
• Improve competency in using specialist jewellery making tools and equipment.
• Develop understanding of the importance of functional modeling (mock-ups, materials selection, testing, techniques, and sketching……)
• Develop skills in freehand sketching and rendering and use these skills to communicate design ideas.
• Develop mock-ups to demonstrate proficiency and skill.
• Develop skills to an advanced level in jewellery making techniques, for example: measuring, marking, cutting, shaping, joining, texturing, colouring, finishing.
• Research to explore ideas, link to current artists, and of materials and techniques.
• Develop skills in evaluation techniques to enable selection and use of appropriate resources through informed testing, trialing.
• Develop communication skills and the ability to glean valuable information in partnership with stakeholders.
• Undertake a range of self-reflection and planning practices.
• Develop an understanding of ergonomics related to jewellery and apply this to own outcome development.
• Demonstrate how testing has occurred and it’s place in the development of ideas.
• Produce a series of self-constructed final outcomes.
• Carry out a comprehensive evaluation process.

Brief Development

Students will:

• Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the need or opportunity and justify specifications in terms of key stakeholder feedback and wider community consideration

Outcome Development and Evaluation

Students will:

• Critically analyse their own and others' outcomes to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes (conceptual design and prototype).
• Undertake ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, taking account of stakeholder feedback and trialling in the physical and social environments.
• Use the information gained to select, justify, and develop a final outcome.
• Evaluate this outcome's fitness for purpose against the brief and justify the evaluation using feedback from stakeholders

Technological Products

Students will:

• Understand how materials are formed, manipulated, and transformed in different ways, depending on their properties, and understand the role of material evaluation in determining suitability for use in product development.

Characteristics of Technological Outcomes

Students will:

• Understand that some Technological Outcomes can be perceived as both product and system. Understand how these outcomes impact on other outcomes and practices and on people's views of themselves and possible futures.

Visual Communication

Students will:

• Demonstrate understanding of and skills in drawing techniques to communicate complex and detailed visual information

Construct a Textiles Product

Students will:

• Implement advanced procedures to make a textiles product.

Technological Practice

Brief Development

• Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the issue to be resolved and justify specifications in terms of key stakeholder feedback.

Outcome Development and Evaluation

• Critically analyse their own and others’ outcomes and evaluative practices to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes. Undertake a critical
• Evaluation that is informed by ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, stakeholder feedback, and trialling in the physical and social environments. Use the information gained to select, justify, and develop an outcome. Evaluate this outcome’s fitness for purpose against the brief.
• Justify the evaluation using feedback from stakeholders and demonstrating a critical understanding of the issue.

Technological Knowledge

Technological Products

• Understand the concepts and processes employed in materials evaluation and the employed in materials evaluation and the implications of these for design, development, maintenance, and disposal of technological products.

Design in Technology

Knowledge of Design

• Demonstrate understanding of advanced concepts in design.

Construction and Mechanical Technologies

Pattern Making

• Make advanced adaptations to a pattern to change the structural and/or style features of a design.
• Construct a textiles product Implement advanced procedures to make a textiles product (optional)

Technological Practice Component

Brief Development
Level Seven:
Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relationship to the issue to be resolved and justify specifications in terms of key stakeholder’s feedback and wider community considerations.

Planning for Practise
Level Seven:
Critically analyse their own and others' past and current planning and management practices in order to develop and employ project management practices that will ensure the effective development of an outcome to completion.

Outcome Development and Evaluation
Level Seven
Critically analyse their own and others' outcomes and evaluative practices to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes. Undertake a critical evaluation that is informed by ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, stakeholder feedback, and trialling in the physical and social environments. Use the information gained to select, justify, and develop an outcome. Evaluate this outcome's fitness for purpose against the brief. Justify the evaluation using feedback from stakeholders and demonstrating a critical understanding of the issue.

Technological Knowledge Component

Technological Modelling
Level Seven
Understand how the "should" and "could" decisions in technological modelling rely on an understanding of how evidence can change in value across contexts and how different tools are used to ascertain and mitigate risk.

Construction and Mechanical Technologies

Construct a Resistant Materials Product
Level Seven
Implement advanced procedures to make a resistant materials product.