Year 9 3D design
Last term, the Year 9 Technology groups have been learning and practising 3D design woodworking skills. This involved learning to use woodworking tools safely, as well as using...
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Last term, the Year 9 Technology groups have been learning and practising 3D design woodworking skills. This involved learning to use woodworking tools safely, as well as using...
Posted by Fiona Amao
In a national first, cookery and nutrition year 9 students at Bushey Meads School have been the lucky recipients of wild Alaska pink salmon to use in their classrooms, in a bid to...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
Year 9 and 10 food students had a real culinary treat this week when they had a visit from the Ming-Ai (London) Institute. Two healthy eating Chinese ambassadors, Audria and Emma...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
The many talented students in D&T, who work hard, commit fully to their studies and always strive to produce their best work, are being celebrated in this week’s...
Posted by David Chalkley
Year 10 have been working on their practice NEAs which have been based on Multifunctional living. They have been asked to design and create products that are multifunctional in a...
Posted by Charlotte Hewitt
The Year 11 Food Preparation and Nutrition GCSE group completed their final food assessment before half term This assessment is part of their NEA 2 which is worth 50% of the total...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
Round 2 of the VEX Robotics competition took place at Queen Elizabeth’s School in Barnet on Saturday 29th January. Bushey Meads was represented by two teams; Spectrum and...
Posted by David Chalkley
Year 8 students have been developing and using their resistant materials skills to make money boxes. They investigated existing products and as part of the project, they learned...
Posted by Fiona Amao
Sensory evaluation is a scientific discipline that analyses and measures human responses to the composition of food and drink, e.g. appearance, touch, odour, texture, temperature...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
This week’s STEM club focuses on ‘Girls in Engineering’. We are very lucky to have such talented female students at Bushey Meads School and none more so than;...
Posted by David Chalkley
Last term, the Year 9 Technology groups have been learning and practising 3D design woodworking skills. This involved learning to use woodworking tools safely, as well as using CAD programs as a design tool.
Below is Krisha Ravishanger’s account:
When I first started doing 3D tech,as a class my class had to learn the different types of tools used when making something out of wood.As we went through the basics,it allowed me and the whole class learn some new techniques on how to shape the wood and how to make something more easier and quicker.
We learned how to draw 3D shapes on isometric paper and it was a fun lesson as we tried to draw weird shapes on it and I really enjoyed it. We also used CAD programs to design the boxes.
Before we were able to do the practical work, we had to make a plan on what we were going to do each lesson till the end of 3D design tech so that we would have a guide on what to do next if we were stuck.As part of the practical,we were given two pieces of wood, which we had to measure and cut to size using a tenon saw. Then I had to measure and cut out box joints.
It took some time to make the box because we had to wait for the PVA glue to dry to have a sturdy box and then wait another lesson to apply wood filler.The whole process was really fun and we had a lot of fun learning how to use different tools.
Overall, I would say that 3D technology lessons have made me more interested in the subject as a GCSE option and I learnt a lot of new skills.
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