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PROGRAMME OF STUDY
Knowledge, skills and understanding
Teaching should ensure that knowledge and understanding are applied when developing ideas , planning , producing products and evaluating them.
The general teaching requirement for health and safety applies in this subject. During key stage 4 pupils take part in design and make projects that are linked to their own interests, industrial practice and the community. Projects may involve an enterprise activity, where pupils identify an opportunity, design to meet a need, manufacture products and evaluate the whole design and make process. Pupils use ICT to help with their work, including computeraided design and manufacture (CAD/CAM) software, control programs and ICTbased sources for research. They consider how technology affects society and their own lives, and learn that new technologies have both advantages and disadvantages.
Developing, planning and communicating ideas
1) Pupils should be taught to:
a) develop and use design briefs, detailed specifications and criteria
b)
consider issues that affect their planning [ for example, the needs and values of a range of users; moral, economic, social, cultural and environmental considerations; product maintenance; safety; the degree of accuracy needed in production]
c) design for manufacturing in quantity
d) produce and use detailed working schedules, setting realistic deadlines and identifying critical points
e) match materials and components with tools, equipment and processes, taking account of critical dimensions and tolerances when deciding how to manufacture the product
f) be flexible and adaptable in responding to changing circumstances and new opportunities
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use graphic techniques and ICT, including computeraided design (CAD), to generate, develop, model and communicate design proposals [for example, using CAD software to generate accurate drawings and part drawings to help with manufacturing] .
Working with tools, equipment, materials and components to produce quality products
2) Pupils should be taught to:
a) select and use tools, equipment and processes effectively and safely to make products that match a specification
b) use a range of industrial applications when working with familiar materials and processes
c) manufacture single products and products in quantity, applying quality assurance techniques
d)
use computeraided manufacture (CAM) in single item production and in batch or volume production [for example, using vinyl cutters, embroiderers, knitting machines, engravers, milling machines, lathes]
e) simulate production and assembly lines, including the use of ICT.
Evaluating processes and products
3) Pupils should be taught to:
a) check design proposals against design criteria, and review and modify them if necessary as they develop their product
b) devise and apply tests to check the quality of their work at critical points during development
c)
ensure that their products are of a suitable quality for intended users [for example, how well products meet a range of considerations such as moral, cultural and environmental] and suggest modifications that would improve their performance if necessary
d) recognise the difference between quality of design and quality of manufacture, and use essential criteria to judge the quality of other people's products.
Knowledge and understanding of materials and components
4) Pupils should be taught:
a) how materials are cut, shaped and formed to specified tolerances
b) how materials can be combined and processed to create more useful properties, and how these changed materials are used in industry
c) how materials are prepared for manufacture and how premanufactured standard components are used
d) about a variety of finishing processes, and why they are important for aesthetic and functional reasons
e) that to achieve the optimum use of materials and components, they need to take into account the relationships between material, form and intended manufacturing processes.
Knowledge and understanding of systems and control
5) Pupils should be taught:
a) the concepts of input, process and output, and the importance of feedback in controlling systems, including:
i) how control systems and subsystems can be designed, used and connected to achieve different purposes
ii) how feedback is incorporated into systems
iii) how to analyse the performance of systems.
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Breadth of study
6) During the key stage, pupils should be taught the Knowledge, skills and understanding through:
a) product analysis
b) focused practical tasks that develop a range of techniques, skills, processes and knowledge
c) design and make assignments, which include activities related to industrial practices and the application of systems and control.
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