Year 10 Woodwork

Hi to our school community. I’m Patrick. Over the past nine weeks, the year 10 woodwork students have been working hard to make our very own chopping boards. We have had to think of and draw a design and bring that sketch to life. We have all made different and unique chopping boards that look excellent. We have used a wide variety of tools and machines to help us get the best results for our projects.

Mr Kaska (our teacher) helped us a lot along the way. While I was making my board, I made a few mistakes, and I was able to work out ways I could make those mistakes work into the final design of my project. 

Part of our class is learning about life lessons and tips on how to be good employees in the future when we are working full time jobs. After we finish our chopping boards, we’ll be making wooden bowls using a lathe. We have the option to make rolling pins instead.

In woodwork we often make useful things that we can use, like in year 8 we made wooden spoons. We have made a few wooden boxes, and as I said earlier, we are making chopping boards, bowls and rolling pins. 

After we finish the bowls or rolling pins, we are going to be making anything of our choice, Mr Kaska has suggested chairs, stools, bringing in a piece of broken furniture from home and rebuilding/fixing it. I think I am going to make a box in the shape of a 2x4 Lego brick with a pull-out drawer. 

Every lesson we write down in our books everything we have done that lesson and what we need to do next lesson. It has helped us remember what we need to do to our projects in the next lesson and it gives us a chance to reflect on everything we had done during that lesson. 

I love woodwork, it is often the highlight of my school week, and I am seriously considering being some sort of carpenter once I leave school.     

 - Patrick Johnson 10E