ENGINEERING: Year 10 Engineering students have recently been exploring product design, using industry standard tools and techniques. Amy Norris, Head of DT, said: “Year 10 Engineers were tasked with becoming product designers and were each given a specific client to design for. They used Solidworks, an industry standard software, to create models and engineering drawings. The outcomes are very skilful and show creativity and excellent knowledge of engineering drawings.

“The students had to think about scale, material properties and structural characteristics, while drawing upon their mathematical skills too. It was clear that the students loved this project, with many printing an extra copy of their work to take home and show their parents and carers. Well done, Year 10!”.  

FOOD: Meanwhile, Teacher of Food, Miss Bircumshaw, has used her creativity to produce a ‘good luck’ gift for each of her Year 11 Food students. Taking the form of a crocheted four-leaf clover, the gifts are “a little souvenir to say good luck and all the best for the future."

The GCSE Food exam took place yesterday afternoon, Monday 19^th May. After this week, and the half term break, there will be another two and a half weeks of exams, finishing with the final DT paper on Wednesday, 18^th June.