Chipping Sodbury School
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Chipping Sodbury
Bristol
BS37 6EW

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The Design and Technology Faculty provides a common core course for all students from Year Seven through to the end of Year Eleven.  Students undertake a variety of design based activities, all of which are intended to develop technological understanding and aesthetic awareness.

Boys and girls are encouraged to investigate real life problems, consider possible solutions and to systematically select and develop the best alternative.  Ideas are expressed through a series of design sketches and importance is given to the development of graphic skills.  Within the first two years, through problem solving techniques, all students study a foundation course using a wide range of materials including wood, metal, plastics, textiles and food. From the start of Year Nine students begin to work in a selected specialist area which provides the opportunity to develop deeper technological understanding and enhanced attainment at Key Stage Three and beyond.

All aspects of the work undertaken by the Faculty require students to develop a high degree of craftsmanship.  An understanding of the effects of technology on society will be encouraged and students are required to evaluate both their own work and that of others.  Solutions to problems requiring the use of mechanisms, electronics and pneumatics are encouraged and students have the opportunity to experience computer aided design and manufacture.

At GCSE Level all students follow a course in Design and Technology which meets the requirements of the National Curriculum at Key Stage Four.  The syllabus enables students to specialise in food technology, textiles technology and design, control technology, resistant materials or graphic products.

A2 and AS Level Design and Technology is currently available to students in Years Twelve and Thirteen and has proved very popular.  Students currently specialise in Control & Systems, Product Design and Food Technology.

The facilities available to the Faculty include two specialist and two general purpose workshops, two food technology rooms and a room for textile design.  The design technology studio consists of two rooms with specialist facilities for teaching graphic design, electronics, pneumatics and computer control systems.

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