 DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
Good design is vital to our world and to our economies. It is important therefore, that we enthuse our Design & Technologystudents with a passion for designing their futures.
All modern designers have to consider sustainable issues when designing new products. A sign of the modern technological age in which we live is that human actions have had a negative impact on our environment. New products should provide solutions to rather than add to the existing problems of extractions and use of natural resources, pollution from manufacturing and disposal of large amounts of waste products.
The three Design & Technology staff members are committed to the promotion of the above.
We teach Edexcel syllabi:
- Resistant Materials Technology and Graphic Products at GCSE level and
- Product Design: Resistant Materials Technology and Product Design: Graphic Products at AS and A Level
Ruari Maclean has a degree in Three Dimensional Design from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, U.K. That was some time ago and was from an institution focussed more on Design than Technology. He taught art for the first ten years of his career before discovering that CDT (as it was called then) was closer to his interest in product design. Since then he has watched Discovery Channel every day trying to learn difficult stuff. He’s getting there.
Paul Leathart worked as a Design Engineer for Rolls-Royce Aerospace for 5 years after graduating from Sheffield Hallam University. He converted his Engineering Degree into a Teaching Degree at Loughborough University in 2003 before joining SAIntS in the same year. He is now the head of Soche House and is responsible for teaching Design and Technology throughout the school years from Year 7-9 Key stage 3, through Year 10-11 GCSE up to Years 12 and 13 A-Level.
Olivia Chifungo has just completed her degree course in Technical Education at the University of Malawi. She enjoys designing and making things in the workshop with the students. She designed and made a solar water heating system for her final year project in University. This has led to an interest in developing low cost design solutions to problems faced by rural Malawian communities e.g. transport and irrigation.
Olivia is also a Boarding Parent.
Useful Downloads
- Keystage 3 Shedule;
- Keystage 4 Shedule.
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