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Design and Technology

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

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

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