Product Design

Our Product Design course follows the Resistant Materials AQA course outline. The products tudents design are made out from wood, metals, plastics and more.

Students are encouraged to design and make products with creativity and originality using a range of techniques. Students learn designing skills; analysing products already on the market, looking at the customers needs, and generating design solutions using a range of graphic techniques and ICT like Computer Aided Design.

Pupils are then taught how to realise these designs; learning how to use tools/equipment and processes to produce quality products, using Computer aided manufacture, and working accurately and efficiently in terms of materials, time and components.

Students will become self confident problem solvers, with new found practical skills transferable to many jobs.

At KS5 Students can go on to study Product Design at A-Level. This course allows pupils to build on their skills to analyse and improve on current products, and to design and build their own. Many students then go on to study Product Design or Engineering at university.