Hard Materials

The year has been going well with lots of keen students coming to The Specialist Classes, and in particular Hard Materials.

The Year 7 students have had an introduction to workshop safety, the layout of the workshop and the safe and correct use of tools. Our pupils have also been introduced to the Design Process and have designed their own unique Key Ring.

Students have then laminated plastic and cut out the shape they have designed.

Processes of filing, sanding and using rubbing compound have been practised and our kids have gone home with great smooth and shiny key rings.

Our first group of Year 8 students have revised safety protocols in the Workshop.

The focus has been on how sports have been affected by technology and learning skills working with sheet metal .

Students employed the Design Process to draw up and prototype their sporting Person in Action.

Pupils have learned how to correctly and safely use tin snips, rivet guns and the spot welder.

Some very creative ‘Action People’ have been constructed.

The second group of Year 8 students is getting the opportunity to learn some of the properties of timber, how to measure and set work out accurately including the correct use of a square.

There is a focus on Transport. Using the Design Process, students are designing their own form of transportation to be constructed from timber.

Skills involve the correct and safe use of marking gauges, planes, tenon saws, coping saws and a range of other tools.