Design & Technology at Key Stage 4 is an ‘Option Subject’.
 

In Year 10 and 11 students are taught in groups of approximately 15 and are allocated one double period (1 hour 15 minutes) and one single period of 35 minutes on the time-table each week. Students follow, and are entered for, the Edexcel Design and Technology (Resistant Materials Technology) Syllabus 1973. This course involves a Design and Make Project worth 60% , and a stand alone Theory Examination worth the remaining 40%.

 Specifications for the examination can be found on the Edexcel website at http://www.edexcel.org.uk/quals/gcse/dt/gcse/1973/

In Year 10 students carry-out two small Design and Make Projects as grounding for the GCSE Examination Project before embarking on their actual Examination Project. Theory content is taught throughout the two years of the course.

Year 11 is totally devoted to the Coursework Project and preparation for the final written Theory Examination.

Homework is set regularly throughout the course and pupils are expected to meet all deadlines.