Design Technology

KS3  -  KS4  -  KS5

Staff

A C Williams  – Head of Technology , Engineering, & Construction

KS3 Co-ordinator Design & Technology, KS3 Control technology, BTEC Construction, A Level Engineering.

I Sheppard – KS3 Electronics, BTEC Engineering , A Level Engineering, BTEC Construction, KS4 Resistant Materials, KS3 Assessment, SEN Rep.

J Soden – KS 3 Graphics, BTEC Engineering, A Level Engineering,KS3 Control technology, BTEC Construction, AS Level Product Design, Transition

G J Evans – KS3 Resistant Materials, KS4 Resistant Materials, BTEC Construction

I H Major – KS3 Resistant Materials, KS4 Motor Vehicle Technology, A Level Engineering, BTEC Engineering

S J Williams – KS3 Resistant Materials, KS4 Resistant Materials, AS Level Product Design, BTEC Construction

KS3 Food, KS4 Food, KS4 Child Development, CACHE,

J Bradley – Head of Home Economics Food & Child Development         

R Pugh – Head of Textile Technology & CACHE                                                                     

E Major – KS3 Food, KS4 Food & Child Development, CACHE

E Lewis – KS3 Textiles

Technicians

A Brewin        – Food/Textiles  – Part Time

J.Hughes         – Food/Textiles  – Part Time

R Powell         – Design Technology – Full Time

Subject.

At Mountain Ash, Technology is not only concerned with quality design & realisation; but also the teaching and application of transferable skills, empowering students to respond creatively to enhance the quality of life. Students are encouraged to become problem solvers, combining practical skills with an understanding of aesthetics, social and environmental issues, function and industrial practice.

Technology prepares students to participate in todays and tomorrow’s rapidly changing technological world.

•         Through Technology, all students can become critical and informed users of products, and become designers and innovators.
•         Students will learn to think and do something creative to improve the quality of life for everything.
•         Technology is about students becoming self-motivated, creative, problem solvers and allows them to work both as individuals and as members of a team.
•         Students will look for needs, wants and opportunities and respond to them by developing a range of design ideas and by making and evaluating products and systems.
•         In Technology students will combine practical skills with an understanding of aesthetics, social issues, environmental issues, function, and industrial practices.
•         Students will consider the use and effects of present and past Technology.