Woodwork

Product Design and Technology - Woodwork 2021 Sem 1

In a world where Design and Technology dominates every aspect of our lives, students at Kurunjang Secondary College are recognizing the importance and relevance of this learning area. 

Students have observed and acknowledged all that has developed through centuries of Product, Design and Technology, beginning with the necessities of creating shelter, items that keep us warm, to products that we require in our daily lives. They appreciate that all this and more merely started as an idea and has been developed and produced through the fundamental process of “Design and Technology”.

During this learning process, students chose a client to interview where they gained important information based on the need and specifications of the product. They looked at many facets for information, to assist them in meeting the “Constraints and Considerations” of the product required.

Students then went on to undertake an extensive role in “research and development” looking into existing designs to gain valuable information, allowing them to modify and create individualised project designs based on their client’s specific needs and requirements. This information was presented in a visual form including work such as “Collage of ideas” and “Considered features” including “many detailed sketches with supporting annotation”.

From this information, students used their artistic skills in sketching their ideas. Students presented their “design options” to their client from where the client chose their “preferred option” and formally “justified” this choice. Once this stage was clarified, the “planning stage” of production began.

During the planning stage, students used their “numeracy skills” to breakdown all material components of their project design by creating and using a “working drawing” and detailed “cutting and costing list”. Incorporating numeracy skills with literacy and higher order thinking, our students covered a vast range of educational skills.

This being said, students in Design and Technology Woodwork have successfully carried out this process, producing their portfolios and their individual products, with some outstanding work being produced.

Examples of timber products made this semester include a Rocking horse, Dressers, Large Grandfather clocks, Mantle clocks, Assorted tables, Chest of drawers, Dog kennels, Model cars just to name a few….

These projects can be viewed on display by all within the main foyer of the school office block.

Gary Hassan

Woodwork/Technology Faculty Leader