Year 5 Taster Days in Design and Technology

This week is a busy week of creating mice from a flat nets. Cut out by our laser cutter, these mouse nets are then rendered by the year 5 students. Each student had the challenge of trying to make their mouse look the furriest and then assemble it into a cute 3D mouse. They were very creative making accessories for their mice to make them more individual.

              

AimHigher Engineering trip to Edinburgh University

During the last week of June I joined four Year 10 students on a three day trip to Edinburgh University. The activities included soldering and testing a circuit board for an electronic game, designing chemical rockets and going to a lecture by the man who invented the worlds smallest tv screen.

Left to right: Group photo after the Ghost Tour of Edinburgh, Deanna and Jessie working in their team and Team Moorside.

Soldering circuit boards and Deanna is in control of her team's design for the Pot Noodle Challenge.



I didn't manage to film the best ones  but it here is a not so successful chemical rocket!

 


Rocket testing on the Peffermill Playing fields (sophisticated staff design pictured on the left!)

Year 9 Jewellery Designs

Pewter Casts by Jordan Emmerson, Jordan Wilkinson and Courtney Bewick. Enamelled copper by Anna Eland 

Year 10 Trip to CAV Aerospace, Consett

A group of year 10 students made a visit to CAV Aerospace in Consett in April. CAV manufacture components for aircraft.

Year 8 Paper T-Shirts designed on 2D Design.

Some fabulous T-Shirt designs by year 8 who then cut out the flat designs and  

assembelled them into mini 3D paper models. Label and laundry tags were also added! Photographs by Rebecca Williamson.

First Monster Truck Assembled

Michell Bristow was the first to assemble his monster truck, he has produced some excellent detail in his design.

More moster trucks

More examples of year 7 monster truck designs.

Yr 7 Monster Trucks - the start of construction.

      

      

Year 7 are developing rendering skills in their own monster truck designs. Watch this blog for updates on their progress.

Year 9 Aluminium Bridges

The winning aluminium structure - we ran out of weights it was so strong!

Enamelling Kiln

To work out the correct temperatures needed in the new enamelling kiln we produced colour tests of the enamels on copper today.

Year 8 USB Sticks

Year 8 are designing and making their own original USB sticks -  they are looking very professional!

Year 7 Design and Technolgy IS - Cultural Super Heroes

Year 7 have produced some brilliant IS projects for Graphics this week. Here are a few examples of final design drawings and models.