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Design and Technology Curriculum Overview
Year 7
Term 1 - September to December
| Half term 1 | Half term 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Sketching Skills | Sketching techniques and crating techniques. | Isometric drawing using set squares and the Isosketch tool. |
| Graphic Design | What is Graphic Design? Colour Theory. Typography. | Imagery Developing their mug design. Sublimation. |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | Food Personal hygiene, health and safety, kitchen equipment, the eatwell guide and healthy lunches. | Food 5 a day, hydration, healthy diets and sensory testing. |
Term 2 - January to April
| Half term 3 | Half term 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Systems and Control Structures | Control systems. Programming and automatic guided vehicles. | Structures. Frame and shell structures. |
| Graphic Design | Logo and symbol design. Graphic components revisit. | Mug design, sublimation printing. |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | Hydration, Introduction to Food miles, seasonal foods, seasonal cooking/dishes. | Organic foods and farming, introduction to special diets and religions. |
Term 3 - April to July
| Half term 5 | Half term 6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Systems and Control Structures | Personal Transport design challenge. (Designing an Eco friendly mode of transport). | Mechanical systems. Motion, simple mechanisms and levers. Linkages, cams and followers. |
| Graphic Design | Mug design and make. Logo development, badge making. | Mechanisms, pop ups. |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition |
Year 8
Term 1 - September to December
| Half term 1 | Half term 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Design | Designing for a client. Designing the living accommodation for a student. | Smart homes - Investigating and developing their own smart products for the home. |
| Graphic Design | Sketching Ideas. Developing a concept. Target Marketing. | Boardgame design. Imagery. |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | Food The Eatwell guide, balanced diets, balanced meals, energy balance and dietary reference values. | Food Functions of protein, micronutrients, sensory testing and an introduction to Food science. |
Term 2 - January to April
| Half term 3 | Half term 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Mechanisms | Mechanical systems. Motion, simple mechanisms and levers. | Mechanical systems. Linkages, cams and followers and gear systems. |
| Graphic Design | Logo and symbols design. Game component design. | Game construction, surface developments. |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | Food miles, carbon footprint, energy balance. | Macronutrients, micronutrients, food commodities. |
Term 3 - April to July
| Half term 5 | Half term 6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Mechanisms | Electronic systems. Prototyping circuits, identifying resistors and timer circuits. | Electronic systems. Electronic calculations, pulsing circuits and counting circuits. |
| Graphic Design | Making board games, designing packaging. | Surface developments, construction of box. |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition |
Year 9
Term 1 - September to December
| Half term 1 | Half term 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Design | Smart living - Designing microflats for large population density areas. | Smart living - design multi-purpose furniture. |
| Graphic Design | Investigating and developing graphical techniques in typography and imagery. | Investigating and developing graphical techniques in tone, line and composition. |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | Food The Eatwell guide recap, food, diet and health, nutritional needs through life stages, special diets and energy balance. | Food Factors affecting food choice, religion and food choice, special diets and energy balance, allergy and intolerance and food provenance. |
Term 2 - January to April
| Half term 3 | Half term 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Electronics | Electronic systems. Prototyping circuits, identifying resistors and timer circuits. | Electronic systems. Electronic calculations, pulsing circuits and counting circuits. |
| Graphic Design | Components revisit. Designer study. | Designer study 2. |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | Veganism (Veganuary), meal planning for special diets, factors affecting food choice, food labelling. | Nutritional analysis, signs of food poisoning, types of food poisoning, bacterial contamination. |
Term 3 - April to July
| Half term 5 | Half term 6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Electronics | Mechanical systems. Motion, simple mechanisms and levers. | Mechanical systems. Linkages, cams and followers and gear systems. |
| Graphic Design | ||
| Food Preparation and Nutrition |
Year 10
Term 1 - September to December
| Half term 1 | Half term 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Electronics | Units 1.1 Electronic systems. Practical activity (Maze game) Unit 1.2 Circuit concepts. | Unit 1.2 Circuit concepts. Unit 1.3 Resistive components. |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | Developing high level practical cooking skills. Develop a thorough understanding of nutrition, food provenance and the working characteristics of food materials. | Continue to develop high level practical cooking skills. Develop a strong understanding of food choice and seasonality. |
| Graphic Design | Unit 1 NEA task - Graphical components. | Unit 1 NEA task - Experiments. |
Term 2 - January to April
| Half term 3 | Half term 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Electronics | Review of units covered in term1. Unit 1.4 - Switching circuits | Unit 1.6 - combinational logic systems. Practice non-examined assessment task |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | Unit 1.2 - Diet and good health: planning meals for specific age ranges and dietary needs, medical diets, sugars, fats and obesity. | Unit 1.2 - Diet and good health: allergies, intolerances and autoimmune diseases. Unit 2.1: introduction to food science. |
| Graphic Design | NEA 2- Designers and disciplines Theory and research. | NEA 2- designer practice. Experiments and final piece. |
Term 3 - April to July
| Half term 5 | Half term 6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Electronics | Unit 2.3 - Sequential circuits and counters. Start Unit 2.5 - Control Systems | Start NEA task. Students will be choosing their own Electronic product to design. They will then be writing their own design specification and starting to develop their own electronic circuit. |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | ||
| Graphic Design | UNIT 2 NEA task- final piece/ review. | Components revisit, skills recap. UNIT 3- research. |
Year 11
Term 1 - September to December
| Half term 1 | Half term 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Electronics | Start NEA task. Revise discovering electronics units 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6. | Continue NEA task. Revise application of electronics units 2.2 and 2.3. |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | Students will be focusing on developing their practical skills in readiness for beginning their NEA 2 project. Examination preparation. | Students will be focusing on developing their practical skills in readiness for beginning their NEA 2 project. Examination preparation. |
| Graphic Design | NEA task 2 Examination preparation. | NEA task 2 Examination preparation. |
Term 2 - January to April
| Half term 3 | Half term 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Electronics | Continue NEA task. Revise discovering electronics units 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6 | Continue NEA task. Revise application of electronics units 2.2 and 2.3 |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | Continued NEA 2 and revision. | Continued NEA 2 and revision. |
| Graphic Design | NEA 4- Graphics design in industry. Research. | Creating a portfolio. |
Term 3 - April to July
| Half term 5 | Half term 6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Electronics | Completing NEA task and preparing for final examinations. | |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | ||
| Graphic Design | Exam preparation. |
Suggested reading material to support subject learning
Food Technology
- Amazon - Food You Can Forage: Edible Plants to Harvest, Cook and Enjoy by Tiffany Francis-Baker
- Amazon - Edible Science: Experiments You Can Eat (Science & Nature) by National Geographic Kids
- Amazon - The Science of Cooking: Every Question Answered to Perfect your Cooking by Dr. Stuart Farrimon
- Amazon - Science You Can Eat: Putting what we Eat Under the Microscope by Stefan Gates
- Amazon - The Food Book by Jenny Ridgwell
- Hungry Healthy Happy
- Recipes from a pantry
- My Fussy Eater
- Serious Eats
To find out more about the curriculum Newhouse Academy delivers please contact Hannah Gregory-Harris on 01706 369436 or email gregory-harrish@newhouseacademy.co.uk
