Design Technology at Key Stage 4

Key Stage 4 is the two year period during which students work on courses leading to national qualifications. In Design and Technology, a range of courses allow students to study an area of technology in depth. The areas offered at Raincliffe are:

• Resistant Materials
• Electronic Products
• Food Technology
• Textile Technology
• Graphic Products

These can be taken as full or short GCSE courses

Each course will involve the students in producing an individual design and make project. They will also be taught related parts of the programmes of study. They are required to research their own design task, generate and develop a range of relevant ideas, and manufacture a solution which best satisfies the requirements they have identified.

Evaluation of their ideas and research; materials, ingredients and components; production techniques and their own performance is an important and integral part of each project