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23/05/23

📢 We're Hiring! (Harlow) have a vacancy for a Librarian📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/uWLun4Fzxn

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19/05/23

📢 We're Hiring! (Harlow) have a vacancy for a Spanish Teacher📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/jp1PMiJXrW

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19/05/23

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02/05/23

Great to visit during their Politics Week to talk with students about their passion for politics! We discussed the role of a MP, how Parliament works, and the importance of education to help everyone climb the ladder of opportunity 📚🏫🗣️🪜 pic.twitter.com/fGQdHCnqpk

21/04/23

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17/04/23

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17/04/23

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17/04/23

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17/04/23

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17/04/23

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17/04/23

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17/04/23

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29/03/23

Fifty mathematicians in Year 9 and 10 took part in the UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge. https://t.co/qEgV94zCTS

22/03/23

Students reflect on their experience of hearing from a Holocaust survivor. We were privileged to welcome Susie Barnett BEM, to speak to Year 9 students about her remarkable life and her family’s desperate escape from persecution. pic.twitter.com/mfCGKpONcQ

17/03/23

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16/03/23

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16/03/23

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16/03/23

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15/03/23

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15/03/23

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Design and Technology Timbers

Exam board: Edexcel
Course code/specification number: 4206
Level of qualification: GCSE

What will students learn about?

Students will learn to design products for a customer, taking into account the needs of the customer.
Students will develop knowledge of a range of materials including wood, metal and plastic. They will develop their drawing skills and use CAD to present their design ideas.

Students will investigate alternative solutions to problems and use model making and computer simulations to test their ideas and then evaluate their ideas using a specification and user group feedback.

Pupils will learn how to use a range of hand and power tools including CAM (laser cutter, 3D printer) to create products. They will also work with a range of metals, plastics and woods to create fully functioning products.

What skills will students develop and demonstrate?

The Edexcel GCSE in Design and Technology: Resistant Materials Technology qualification enables students to:

  • Actively engage in design and technology
  • Make decisions, consider sustainability and combine skills with knowledge and understanding in order to design and make quality products
  • Explore ways in which aesthetic, technical, economic, environmental, ethical and social dimensions interact to shape designing and making
  • Analyse existing products and produce practical solutions to needs, wants and opportunities, recognising their impact on quality of life.
  • Understand that designing and making reflect and influence cultures and societies, and that products have an impact on lifestyle.
  • Develop skills of creativity and critical analysis

How will students learning be assessed?

Component 1:  Written examination (50%) 1 hour 45 mins

Component 2:  Non Examined Assessment (50%)
Students will undertake a project based on a contextual challenge released by Exam Board.

What grades can students access?

1-9

What can students progress on to after completing this course?

AS/A level Resistant Materials Technology
AS/A level Product Design 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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