Year 8 D&T Copper Pendants

As mentioned in this post a few months ago, our KS3 D&T students have been working hard and having fun learning about metals and producing these creative copper pendants! We took advantage of the lovely snowy scenes outside and had a photo shoot showcasing some great designs, check them out below:

Be on the look out for more projects from our students soon and updates on other exciting things happening in the D&T department! Please feel free to leave us any comments, we'd love to hear from you!

Year 7 D&T Wooden Project

Year 7 have been working hard making some creative wooden toys this term! They have been effectively applying a variety of skills and techniques in working with timber to produce really high quality products. Check out some of the excellent examples they've been designing and making so far:

We love how each one is unique and students are challenging themselves with the complexity of their designs! Be on the look out for more projects from our students and updates on other exciting things happening in the D&T department. Please feel free to leave us any comments, we'd love to hear from you!

KS3 D&T Students Working with Metal

Our KS3 curriculum at Beaumont School has had an overhaul this year to ensure our students will be prepared for the new GCSE specification coming into play very soon!

As students will need to know something about all material areas for the new GCSE, we've introduced a fun metal pendant project into the curriculum where students can learn more about copper properties and how to work with metals. The students are thoroughly enjoying it and they've had amazing outcomes so far: we took advantage of the beautiful Autumn weather this week to have a photo shoot outside!

Check out the fantastic work being produced by our students below!

Be on the look out for more projects from our students and updates on other exciting things happening in the D&T department! Please feel free to leave us any comments, we'd love to hear from you!

Year 8 Resistant Materials: Creative Storage

This year in year 8, students have been in the D&T workshop designing and manufacturing creative storage products! All products were built around a box frame and then extended to suit their needs and personal designs!

Check out the great results below:

GCSE Product Design & Resistant Materials Projects

Congratulations to our GCSE Product Design and Resistant Materials students who have finally finished their courses (just one exam to go!). It has been a long 2 year journey, and we are really proud of the amazing work that has been produced by them! Check out some of our year 11's final products below:

We are really proud of their achievements and wish year 11 lots of luck in their upcoming exams!

Year 9 Resistant Materials: Mechanical Object

Students in year 9 have been developing their skills in Resistant Materials to design and manufacture clever mechanical objects. These skills will come in handy for students choosing to study Product Design at GCSE, as one of their projects is going to be Resistant Materials / practical based!

Students designed and manufactured these independently solving complex issues along the way with real determination and resilience! Some even made use of the laser cutter to add that extra touch!
Check them some of the amazing products below:

   

We look forward to seeing what the next rotation of year 9 students come up with very soon!

D&T at Beaumont is on Pinterest!

The D&T department at Beaumont now have a Pinterest board which you can browse and follow here:

http://www.pinterest.com/dtatbeaumont/

You can find a wide variety of images and linked websites related to the projects you are doing, which will help kick start your research and hopefully continue to inspire you!

Enjoy!

£1 Coin Competition Update!

The Beaumont £1 Coin Competition is now closed and we had lots of entries, so thank you to all who took part!

The entries will be reviewed over the Christmas break and the winner and runners up will be announced and rewarded in the new year!

Watch this space...

Celebration of Design & Technology and Art

The Art, Textiles, Food and Resistant Materials Captains will attend the next Governors meeting on November 4th to celebrate their achievements at GCSE level this summer!

 

Well done to all our amazing students. Mrs T

£1 Coin Competition - win £10k!

Here's an exciting opportunity for you all!


The new £1 coin is due for release in 2017 and you have the opportunity to express yourself and design the tail of the coin!

The winner will receive £10k and a chance to visit the Royal Mint to see it being manufactured, not to mention the pride in seeing their design on the back of the new £1 coin!


Visit this website for more information and to enter: http://www.royalmint.com/newonepoundcoin/how-to-enter

You will need to take ownership and submit the entry yourself to the Royal Mint so make sure you download your own personalised entry form from the website. You will also get a copy of the rules with hints and tips as well. Please read these carefully! 

Things to note:

• Check the design rules carefully.
• You can use pencil, ink, paint or computer software to draw it on your personalised entry form downloaded from the website.
• Your entry must be the exact representation of what you want it to look like (no rough copies!)
• Your design must be your own work and not use any third party content or images of people.
• Consider what represents Britain clearly.
• The winner will most likely be mentioned in the media and press! 

All entries must be emailed or posted to the addresses mentioned on the website in order to be considered, by 30th October 2014. See the terms and conditions for more information.

On top of this, there will be an internal Beaumont competition too! So all you have to do is give a photocopy of your entry to any D&T teacher, and a winner will be chosen and awarded a prize! School entries must be in before half term on 24th October 2014!

  

  

 

Welcome to Resistant Materials

Welcome to Resistant Materials at Beaumont School!