Design & Technology Faculty
The faculty is made up of three separate departments:
- Construction Technology
- Textiles Technology
- Food Technology
- Graphics Technology
The Importance of Design and Technology
Design and technology prepares students to participate in today's and tomorrow's rapidly changing technological world.
- Through design and technology, all students become critical and informed users of products, designers and innovators.
- Students learn to think and do something creative to improve the quality of life for consumers.
- Design and technology is about students becoming self-motivated, creative problem-solvers and allows them to work both as individuals and as members of a team.
- Students look for needs, wants and opportunities and respond to them by developing a range of design ideas and by making and evaluating products and systems.
- In design and technology students combine practical skills with an understanding of aesthetics, social issues, environmental issues, function, and industrial practices.
Students consider the use and effects of present and past design and technology.
Design and Technology at Ridgeway: a Faculty Policy The aim of the Design and Technology Faculty is to offer equal opportunities to all students. We achieve this by offering a broad, balanced curriculum, which allows students of both sexes to achieve their maximum potential. Programmes of study are translated into differentiated schemes of work to match the ability, attitude and developmental level of individual students.
We strive to stimulate a lasting interest in learning through problem-solving and technological activities. We help students to develop their imaginations, sensitivity and creative responses to a wide range of aesthetic experiences.
Technology has an important part to play in helping all students to acquire the knowledge and skills that will be needed for them to take an active role in future developments.
The study of technology fosters a wide range of desirable qualities. Pupils need to cooperate with one another and have a responsible attitude to health and safety. Students develop lively, enquiring minds, the ability to question and argue rationally and to apply themselves to tasks and physical skills, both on their own and in groups.
As a faculty, we deliver high standards of academic achievement through designing, making and evaluating results. We work together as an enthusiastic team and promote an environment where all students develop personal responsibility and self-motivation but consider the needs and achievements of others.
Central
Through problem-solving and technological activities, the students build up their skills and confidence to enable them to approach a man-made world as active participants in future developments. At the same time, they show care and sensitivity for the environment.
Major
- To give all students of both sexes the opportunity and confidence to tackle and solve problems which are related to the needs of individuals.
- To encourage the students to question the world about them as well as being able to constructively evaluate their own and other people's work.
- To create a learning environment where the attributes of creativity, equality, cooperation and resourcefulness are developed and the students actively participate in project work.
- To build on the different backgrounds of the individuals in a group and relate work to relevant cultural information.
- For the students to develop an understanding of how they can control products and systems and how the products can be developed further to improve them.
To make students aware of the similarities and differences between school and the world of work.
