The Design and Technology curriculum at Hayesfield aims to inspire, engage and enthuse by designing and making products that solve real and relevant problems, allowing students to learn iteratively using up to date technologies and processes, ensuring success for all by raising all students’ aspirations to prepare them for career pathways suited to the 21st century.
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Please Click Here to View the Design and Technology with Enterprise Curriculum Booklet
The Learning Journey
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Key Stage 3 Curriculum Resources
Please click on the links below to find resources that will help your daughter to achieve her personal best
Year 7 | Year 8 | Year 9 |
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Year 7 Design and Technology Booklet 2023 | Year 8 Design and Technology Booklet 2023 | Term 1-3 Year 9 Taster Design and Technology Design Skills 2023 |
Enriching Learning
Activities that we provide to support your daughter’s progress in Design, Technology and Enterprise include:
- Design and Enterprise Weekly Club
- Hayesfield Bake Off (for the Christmas Fair)
- Sewing Bee Weekly Club
You can support your daughter’s progress in Design, Technology and Enterprise by encouraging her to:
- Ensure your daughter completes any homework within the deadline so she does not fall behind and can access the topics/themes studied in class time
- Encourage attendance to the Period 6 LEAP activities we offer in Design & Enterprise
- Watch TV specific programmes such as: The Great British Bake Off, Masterchef, the Great Pottery Throwdown, Salvage Hunters, The Repair Shop (BBC1), Grand Designs (Channel 4), Ugly House to Lovely House (Channel 4), Amazing Spaces (Channel 4) Handmade: Britain’s Best Woodworker (Channel 4) Design for Life (BBC 2), All that Glitters (BBC2), Better by Design (Channel 4) Inside the factory (BBC2), The restorers (Quest) Money for Nothing (BBC iplayer) How Things are Made (youtube)
- Participate in practical activities such as: Upcycle something to make a new product. Repair something to make it last longer. Help an adult build some flat pack furniture, DIY or prepare a meal. Make something new out of single use plastic.. Make use of the 6Rs
Recommended Reading List
Here is a list of books that will engage, excite and/or provide invaluable contextual information that will support your daughter’s learning:
Year 7 to Year 9
Chris Lefteri: Materials for Design
Rebecca Proctor: 1000 New Ecodesigns
DK: The Definitive Visual History of Design
Robert Philips: Future-kind
Simon Wood: Sneaker Freaker
Mary Berry: Complete Cook Book
Joe Wicks: Lean in 15
Waater Isaacson: Steve Jobs
Deborah Meaden: Autobiography
Dominic Wilcox: The Little Inventors Handbook
Don Norman: The Design of Everyday Things
Sean Adams: The Designers Dictionary of Type
Fabric manipulation: 150 creative sewing techniques, Ruth Singer
Homework
Homework will be set to enhance and consolidate learning that happens in the classroom. This could be for consolidation purposes or could be set work in preparation for a forthcoming lesson.
Maximum intended length of homework is in line with the whole school policy and should not exceed 30 minutes.