Page 73 - Bellfort Issue 3 2014

Technology & Design T ECHNOLOGY & D ESIGN AT K EY S TAGE 3 The Key Stage 3 award system within Technology and Design was introduced in 2010 to reward those pupils who have particularly excelled throughout the year. A number of ar- eas are analysed and assessed such as, Design folder, Practical work and Examination per- formance. Year 8 Award Winner Year 9 Award Winner Year 10 Award Winner Scott Norris Laura Morrow Paul Alexander Educational Visits over two days allowing 140 pupils to attend. The sixth A visit to Moore Concrete form Technology Students SUMMER 2014 by GCSE Construction and acting as Peer Mentors BTEC Engineering pupils found it to be a valuable took place in November and enjoyable experience . helping them to link the BTEC Engineering and Year theory from the classroom 10 pupils got to visit one of with real life scenarios. Ballymena’s largest em- ployers and most success- ful companies, Wrightbus at Galgorm. The BTEC stu- dents were using the visit as a means to gather re- search in relation to the Health and Safety Work Act. Year 10 pupils used the visit to gather informa- tion on careers to support subject choice for GCSE P6 Robotics P6 pupils experienced an introduction into computer programming with our Ro- botics sessions. In addition to programming, nu- meracy skills were also de- veloped. Due to demand we delivered four sessions 73