The Department has had another great crop of A Level and GCSE pupils, completing a range of interesting and fun projects.

At A Level, the products have included impressive drinks cabinets, with laminated doors, transformable furniture, and high-quality jewellery storage. We have also had a number of products that enable students or parents to transport a variety of different forms of sporting equipment in their cars. The work is again of an excellent standard and has been further improved by our new CNC router and the students developed understanding of Computer Aided Design and Manufacture.

To help further embed the theory of industrial manufacture we visited the Mini and Morgan plants with the Upper Sixth, seeing the differences between Mini mass producing 1,000 cars per day and Morgan who bespoke build only a few hundred cars per year.

GCSE pupils have worked on their NEA coursework under a range of titles such as ‘promoting religious festivals’ and ‘celebrating STEM activities’. As always there have been some fantastic and innovative products produced. To help the Fifth Form get their creative minds working we took a very successful trip to Think Tank in Birmingham, where the pupils got to use the museum as an inspiration source for their initial ideas. The coming year will see a changing of the guard as Mr David Lait moves to head up The Prep DT and we welcome Mr Henry Franks to lead College DT – Resistant Materials.

Mr David Lait