The Technology Curriculum Team

Mr G. Bryant CTL of Technology

Mrs K. Henry Teacher of Technology

Mr T. Mee Teacher of Technology

Mr P. Ruta Teacher of Technology

Mr T. Neal Teacher of Technology

Mr R. Gray Teacher of Technology

Ms N. Douglas Teacher of Technology

Mr A. Spratt Workshop Technician







Technology Matters
At its root Design and Technology is an interventionist and practical activity that is supported by academic knowledge, creative drive and manual skill and is primarily about making things that impact on the wider world and meet human needs.

Students learn to use current technologies and consider the impact of future technological developments.
They learn to think creatively and intervene to improve the quality of life, solving problems as individuals and members of a team.

They respond with ideas, products and systems, challenging expectations where appropriate. They combine practical and intellectual skills with an understanding of aesthetic, technical, cultural, health, social, emotional, economic, industrial and environmental issues.

Through design and technology students develop confidence in using practical skills, to manage their time and become discriminating users of products. They apply their creative thinking and learn to innovate through using skills that are transferable to many other contexts.

What we aim to do
We aim to give students the technological knowledge, creative and manual skills to deal with ideas systems and materials in a confident way. We place a high value on these skills and attitudes, which we believe can be applied in many different contexts throughout life.

Students should develop the ability to work purposefully, to work as members of a team and develop a critical awareness of the made and natural environment.

We teach students to gather, order and assess information to use, interpret and/or produce data where necessary. From this, students generate and record ideas relevant to potential solutions appraise solutions to an identified problem. They will need to demonstrate communication skills necessary to give, in a clear and appropriate form, information about proposed design solutions. They will select and develop novel solutions, considering constraints such as time, cost, skills and resources; plan and select a course of action.

To put this into practise we aim for students to develop high level making skills, both manually and through the use of computer controlled equipment.

To ensure effective solutions, students should compare and evaluate the performance of a design solution against a specification; propose and make modifications to a design solution.

 

Latest News

January
Mr Bryant and Mr Ruta took a sixth form group to Engineering Our Future at Anglia Ruskin University to experience a range of specialist engineering work in sports, disability and the armed services looking at advances in skiing support engineering, surveilance and swimming

March 12th
We host the annual Redbridge Rotary Club Technology Challenge Day organised by Mr Ruta, where 14 teams from local schools will compete for this prestigious annually awarded trophy

April 20th
Mr Halonen will be taking a team of 12 Yr 9 students to compete in the Redbridge G&T Challenge Day at Queen Mary’s University (Mile End Campus) competing against teams from across Redbridge.