Curriculum Outline

Year 7

Material Area

Topic

Outline

Food

Family Meals

You will design and make a range of food products that would appeal to yourself and your family that would be suitable to be served as part of a meal. These food products will reflect the diverse cultures found in our society today.

You will learn about:

• Health and Safety
• Healthy eating
• Using equipment
• Food labelling
• Cultural foods
• Using standard components
• Sensory Analysis

Textiles

Cultural cushion cover

Here we research different cultures and create stencils and transfers using CAD/CAM. These images are developed and adapted by the pupils and used to decorate fabric. After the sewing machine driving test is complete the pupils use the fabric to assemble a cushion cover.

Resistant Materials

Plant Pot Holder

You will design and make a plant pot hold for use outdoors. The plant pot holder will be manufactured using mild steel, and formed using a range of different bending jigs. Once you have formed all the pieces of your plant pot holder, you will join them together brazing equipment. The final stage will be to paint your work in order to give it a quality, waterproof finish.

Resistant Materials

Pencil/Mobile Phone Holder

You will design and model a selection of pencil / phone holders. Once you have modelled a suitable design in card, you will have the opportunity to make it using acrylic plastics. The manufacturing process will include the use of a scroll saw, coping saw, drill and line bending machine.

Year 8

Material Area

Topic

Outline

Food

‘Meal Deal’

Food Technologists come up with new ideas for food products all the time. They either adapt exisiting products or create new ideas. Your challenge is to design and make a new ‘Meal Deal’ product. It must encourage people to eat 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day and be healthier than existing products. You will learn how to:

• Analyse a design brief
• Carry out research
• Set design criteria
• Carry out product analysis
• Plan for production
• Nutritionally analyse food products
• Package products including environmental issues

Textiles

Children’s learning panel

Building on previous knowledge pupil’s use CAD/CAM, sewing machines, hand embroidery and activity components in order to design and assemble a children’s learning panel.

Resistant Materials

Mechanical Toy

You will design and make a mechanical toy using pine. You will gain knowledge of both mechanisms and working with softwoods. Creative thinking will be encouraged as you set about designing your own unique mechanism and theme.

Resistant Materials

Mirror

Year 9

Material Area

Food

Sainsbury’s Active Kids get Cooking

To find out more follow this link:

www.activekidsgetcooking.org.uk

Textiles

Personalised Roomies

Pupils draw on previous experience of software to develop a personalised roomie door hanger. Using CAD/CAM, pupils programme embroidery modules to stitch logos, images and words onto their Roomies.

Resistant Materials

Bug

Resistant Materials

Electronics

Term

Topic

Weeks

Unit 1

Fibres and Fabrics

4

Unit 2

CAD/CAM Andy Warhol

15

Unit 3

Insects

15

Term

Topic

Weeks

Unit 1

Party Snack Food

8

Unit 2

Sweet Baked Products

10

Unit 3

Structural Foods

4

Unit 4

Preservation

4

Multi-Cultural Cook Chill

10

Term

Topic

Weeks

Unit 1

Introduction to Electronic Systems

7

Unit 2

Monostable, Astable and Bistables

7

Unit 3

2D Simulation and Logic

7

Unit 4

CAD/CAM

6

Major Project Introduction

12

Term

Topic

Weeks

Unit 1

Introduction to Electronic Systems

7

Unit 2

2D Simulation & Logic

7

Unit 3

Mechanisms

6

Unit 4

CAD/CAM

6

Major Project Introduction

12

Term

Topic

Weeks

Unit 1

Wood Puzzle/Metal Joining

7

Unit 2

Product Analysis

2

Unit 3

Acrylic Animal CAD/CAM

4

Unit 4

Pro DeskTop Introduction

4

Design & Make Project

12

Term

Topic

Weeks

Unit 1

KS5 Product Design

Unit 2

KS5 Food Technology

Term

Topic

Weeks

Major Project

Design and Make Project

60% of final grade

Examination

40% of final grade

KS5 Food Technology - AQA

AS Examination 5541

Marks

Assessment

Content

Unit 1 Written Paper

30% total AS

15% total A2

1 ½ Hour written paper

Materials and Components including:

• Protein
• Lipids
• Carbohydrates
• Micro Nutrients
• Food Additives

Unit 2 Coursework

40% total AS

20% total A2

40 hour project or combined portfolio of work of your choice – A3/A4

Work will include Design and Market influences:

• Opportunities for food product development
• Role of Research and Development Team
• Product Development
• Study of existing manufactured food products
• Stages of food product development
• Design methods and processes
• Health and Safety
• Designing for clients/customer groups
• Responsibilities of the manufacturer and designer
• Design and Technology in Society

Unit 3 Written Paper

30% total AS

15% total A2

1 ½ Hour design paper based on a theme set by examination board in March

In addition to the above Design and Market influences you will study:

• Industrial and commercial practices
• Micro-organisms and enzymes
• Preservation
• Packaging and labelling
• Quality assurance and control

A2 examination 6541

Unit 4 Coursework

15% total A2

20 hour Product Study of your choice. 2000 words on A4 paper

• You will select an area of study that you are interested in
• Work is school based and you will liaise with professional designers in the food technology industry
• Based on the development and manufacture of an existing single product of groups of products
• You will learn from the work of existing designers and technologists

Unit 5 Coursework

15% total A2

50 hour single, integrated coursework project of your choice. A3

You will present a design folder based on the design and manufacture of a product of your choice including:

• Investigation and clarification of your chosen problem
• Development of a design proposal
• Communication and modelling of ideas
• Making and manufacture
• Evaluating and testing

Unit 6 Written Paper

20% total A2

3 hour written paper

Extension of unit 1 to include:

• Protein – meat, fish, vegetarian alternatives
• Lipids – a deeper understanding of working characteristics and structure
• Carbohydrates – detailed understanding of chemical structure
• Micro nutrients – vitamins A, B, C and D and minerals: calcium, phosphorous and iron
• Colloidal Systems
• Working properties of additives including chemical reactions
• Further understanding of the microbiological and quality control aspects of industrial food production
• Further understanding of trends in new product development
• Copyright protection
• CAD/CAM
• Systems and control
• Marketing