Year 7 – Year 7 study the characteristics of different materials, their sustainability and uses.  Pupils design and make a product from each of the resistant materials; wood, metal and plastic.

Year 8 - Year 8 builds on the previous year to include the use of structures, computer-aided design and manufacture (CAD/CAM) and electricity.  Pupils design and make towers, bridges, clocks and lamps.

Year 9 - Year 9 builds on the previous two years to include mechanisms.  The course extends the pupils’ knowledge and experience gained in Year 7 and Year 8.  A mechanism module allows pupils’ to apply new knowledge to a concept design for reducing the volume of waste which is to be recycled and so make easier the transport and storage of the waste. The project also focuses on sustainability, creativity and modelling. Extending work done using CAD/CAM in Year 8, pupils’ now progress to designing a three-dimensional product.  It is designed by the pupils on the computer and then machined by a computer-controlled machine.  This calls for absolute accuracy to ensure that the artefact will assemble and function correctly.  Finally, they revisit a topic first introduced to them in Year 7, Jewellery.  Using all the skills and knowledge about materials and techniques gained over three years pupils design and manufacture an original item of jewellery.