Open Morning

A big thank you to all the pupils helping us out on open morning.

Year 10 Jewellery Makers

I love this shot of my PD group cleaning up their castings.

Year 9 Robot Designs

After having spent a lesson designing a phone using sketchup, the year 9 homework was to design a robot using www.myrobotnation.com

Here are my favourites.

Ben Watkin

Fiona Cruikshanks

Joe Reid

Pewter Casting with Year 10

How to cheat at sketching

I showed my year 9 groups how to "cheat" at sketching by tracing over photos and colouring them.

These sketches can then be used to show possible improvements.

Year 10 Jewellery Makers

A few shots of one of my year 10 groups hard at work cleaning up their pewter cast jewellery.

Junior School Tech Head helps with year 6

Emily McHale was on hand this week to help with some of our year 6 lessons. Her first assignment as a Tech Head, a new initiative by the DT dept where subject specific prefects or "Tech Heads" are available to help those lower down in the school with DT specific class work.