Design & Technology

This Design and Technology qualification is engaging and inspiring, through the way in which the course is constructed and delivered, allowing the merging of material areas.

Design and Technology enables you to understand and apply iterative design processes through which you explore, create and evaluate a range of outcomes. The qualification enables you to use creativity and imagination to design and make prototypes that solve real and relevant problems, considering your own and others’ needs, wants and values.

Design and Technology builds on Key Stage 3, incorporating knowledge and understanding of different materials and manufacturing processes in order to design and make, with confidence, prototypes in response to issues, needs, problems and opportunities.

You learn how to take creative design risks, helping you to become resourceful, innovative and enterprising citizens. Through the critique of the outcomes of Design and Technology activity, both historic and present day, you will develop an understanding of its impact on daily life and the wider world and understand that high-quality Design and Technology is important to the creativity, culture, sustainability, wealth and wellbeing of the nation and the global community.