Year 6 Taster Day

Groups of year 6 pupils had a taste of senior school today. Two groups came down to DT where they made monstrous picture holders!

Design Challenge - locker organiser

Could you help this poor student?
His locker is in chaos. Even if he tidies it, within days it's back to this.

If you have some design ideas, pass them to Mr Rowe and you can have a biscuit!

DT COOL WALL is LIVE!!

If you've watched Top Gear then you've seen their Cool Wall. Its where Clarkson, Hammond and May post up pictures of cars and decide if they are Seriously uncool, uncool, cool or Sub Zero!

Well, we are launching a DT Cool Wall. If you think a product is cool (or not) then we want to know!

Entry sheets can be found in a clear pocket next to the cool wall outside the DT department or you can download the powerpoint entry sheet from our DROPBOX

Electronic entries can be emailed to us at silcoatesdt@gmail.com

Year 9 Clothes Hangers

9B were busy designing a better clothes hanger today. They sat in groups to discuss their ideas then went back to developing/modelling their idea.

Year 9 Graphics

Year 9 practising their lino printing!

Back to school - back to Maltesers!

We have been back a week and it's business as usual in the DT department.

9A gut stuck in to their first lesson by tackling a Halloween themed Malteser challenge. They had to design and make a promotional container for a sample of Maltesers.

15 minutes to design and 25 minutes to make!

Activities Week - Focus on Poverty

Year 8 pupils spent Tuesday focusing on issues of world poverty. Groups were rotated through five different activities and down in the DT department we talked to them about the slums in India. Mr Mistry showed the pupils some photos of slums he had visited in Goa and they also watched a short channel 4 documentary.

Below are some pictures of what went on.