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Year 10 D&T students have been working on their 3D CAD skills this week. Using an online CAD drawing program called TINKERCAD, the students have developed their skills through...
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Year 10 D&T students have been working on their 3D CAD skills this week. Using an online CAD drawing program called TINKERCAD, the students have developed their skills through...
Posted by David Chalkley
To mark this years ‘Children’s Mental Health’ Week I thought I would reflect on the impact of food on your mental health, after all image.png Even though this...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
One might wonder how we could get students to still get a decent practical experience with remote learning in subjects such as Food Technology, but as is shown below, the students...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
Year 11 are fabulous home cooks! Mrs Hanbury’s Year 11 GCSE group have not let learning from home stop them accessing the food skill side of Food Preparation and Nutrition....
Posted by Alison Hanbury
It was a very enjoyable lesson to be in the food tech kitchen on Friday, making vegetable soup with a few year 7s that are currently in school during the latest lockdown. The...
Posted by David Chalkley
Even in this last week of term, staff were sharing best practice in our usual morning Staff Briefings and we were privileged to hear from Mr Chalkley, Head of Design and...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
The Year 9’s were welcomed into D&T Food for the language enrichment day. They had a very sweet day baking Magdalenas and Madeleines. What are Spanish magdalenas? In English,...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
It has certainly been a very different first half term back but despite all that’s going on in the world, it has been fantastic to have my textiles classroom back in action, with...
Posted by Niralee Pattni
The Year 13 food science and nutrition students have had a few decisions to make with regards to the course units because of covid. WJEC said they will disregard Year 12 and base...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
Year 11 GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition group have made an excellent return to practical skills in the kitchen. They had been learning about food hygiene issues when using raw...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
Year 10 D&T students have been working on their 3D CAD skills this week. Using an online CAD drawing program called TINKERCAD, the students have developed their skills through a lightsaber design challenge.
“Lightsabers. The weapon of a Jedi knight. An elegant weapon for a more civilized time. The most efficient limb-removal device in the galaxy!” – put this quote with the photo of luke skywalker
Through this challenge, the students developed many useful skills that will allow them to quickly create design ideas that can be developed into physical models using the new 3D printers in C6 and C9.
Research challenge:
How does a lightsaber work? Submit your answers to Mr Chalkley for reward points!
“Do. Or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda

Over the last couple of weeks, Year 8 and 9 students were invited to come along to the after school Thursday sewing workshop, to learn how to make their own tote bag. Students...
The F1 in Schools design and technology challenge is picking up pace as we get closer to race day in January 2020. The 2 Bushey Meads Teams entering this year are currently;...