Design and Technology - Product Design

Course summary

The A-level course focuses on Equipping students with design skills for the future - Students will be able to recognise design needs and develop an understanding of how current global issues, including integrating technology, impacts on today’s world. It Encourages creativity and innovation, and students will build confidence to innovate and produce creative design solutions as they develop their own design brief with a client/end user. Students will learn specific subject knowledge in relation to design and manufacture. They will develop their modelling skills both in the workshop and through 2D and 3D CAD modelling; they will develop presentation skills and graphic communication. They will implement and demonstrate their knowledge and skills by designing and making marketable products.