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Year 7 Project - Textiles Project 2 - Food Technology
Key Topic: Felt Crisp Packets  Eat well guide – overview of the key nutrients
New Knowledge:

Pupils will make their own felt crisp packets in the style of Holly Levell and Lucy Sparrow. 

  • Designing a product 

  • Creating Templates 

  • Pattern Cutting 
  • Learning to use equipment

Basic skills:

  • Bridge hold
  • Grip hold
  • Slicing, batons, and dicing
  • Rubbing in
  • Creaming
  • Coating
  • Rolling
Previous Knowledge Required
  • Some experience and understanding of hand stitching gained at school. 

  • Basic healthy eating knowledge of the 5 key food groups.

  • Basic personal hygiene and safety skills.
New Skills:
  • Basic hand stitching 
  • Hand to eye coordination 
  • Use of sewing equipment 
  • Applique Technique 
  • Creating a final product 

 
  • Greater understanding about each nutrient group.
  • Confidence in knife skills.
  • Practise using the basic food preparation skills of bridge hold, grip hold, slicing, dicing batons.
  • Practical lessons to use rubbing in technique
  • Practical lessons to use creaming method
  • Practical lessons to use coating technique Practical lessons to use rolling
  • Practical lessons to introduce knife skills and cutting skill
Links to the School Curriculum:

Art – Pop Art 

  • Dt – Measuring and Marking accurately 

 
  • Science – bacteria, change in properties.
Independent Activities:
  • Homeworks
  • Creating new dishes
  • Practising skills.
  • Adapting recipe to suit own flavour preferences.
Web Links: https://lostmythologies.blogspot.com/2013/02/artist-of-day-supermarket-stich-holly.htmlhttps://www.mrxstitch.com/holly-levell/https://corridorcontemporary.com/artist/lucy-sparrow/https://www.sewyoursoul.co.uk/inside-felt-hq/ https://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/11-14-years/healthy-eating-11-14-years/eat-well-11-14-years/https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-guidelines-and-food-labels/the-eatwell-guide/
Year 8 Project - Textiles Project 2 - Food Technology
Key Topic: Felt Crisp Packets  Food Technology
New Knowledge:

  • Pupils will make their own felt crisp packets in the style of Holly Levell and Lucy Sparrow. 

  • Designing a product 

  • Creating Templates 

  • Pattern Cutting 

Practical Skills:

  • More complex Rubbing In technique
  • More complex bread dough
  • Detailed knowledge of Fibre
  • Detailed knowledge Protein
  • Overview of Seasonal Foods
  • Detailed knowledge of packaging and relating back to healthy eating.
Previous Knowledge Required
  • Some experience and understanding of hand stitching gained at school. 
  • Eat Well Guide & 5 Key Nutrients
  • Use of knives.
  • Recall of basic food preparation skills of bridge hold, grip hold, slicing, dicing batons.
  • Excellent kitchen and food hygiene and safety.
  • Pastry making skills
New Skills:
  • Basic hand stitching 
  • Hand to eye coordination 
  • Use of sewing equipment 
  • Applique Technique 
  • Creating a final product 

Theory element of lessons

  • Importance of fibre and hydration.

Practical lessons

  • Presentational skills
  • More complex rubbing in with high fat content.
  • Making all components of a dish
Links to the School Curriculum:

  • Art – Pop Art 

  • Dt – Measuring and Marking accurately 
  • Science – Bacteria, change properties
Independent Activities:
  • Homeworks
  • Workshop practicals
  • Creating new dishes and adapting to suite flavour needs, practicing key skills.
Web Links: https://lostmythologies.blogspot.com/2013/02/artist-of-day-supermarket-stich-holly.htmlhttps://www.mrxstitch.com/holly-levell/https://corridorcontemporary.com/artist/lucy-sparrow/https://www.sewyoursoul.co.uk/inside-felt-hq/ https://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/11-14-years/where-food-comes-from-11-14-years/food-availability-11-14-years/https://www.nutrition.org.uk/nutritional-information/fibre/?level=Consumer
Year 10 Project 1  Project 2
Key Topic: USB Game Box
New Knowledge:
  • Writing and working to a brief
  • Creating design work related to a brief
  • Annotating and analysing designs to develop and make progress.
  • Design skills, render marker skills
  • CAD,
  • 2D design skills, how to apply to the project
  • Using the Laser Cutter as an essential tool.
  • The vac forming process
  • Materials: acrylic, MDF, card, HIPS
  • Graphic Design approaches
  • Health and safety
  • Safe workshop practices
  • Working with a client
  • Creating design work related to a brief
  • Annotating and analysing designs to develop and make progress.
  • Paper card engineering
  • Complex Wood joints
  • Timber finishing techniques
  • Design skills, render marker skills
  • CAD,
  • 2D design skills, how to apply to the project
  • Previous Knowledge Required

 

  • Practical workshop experiences
  • All knowledge gained in KS3 

 

  • All knowledge gained in KS3 and 4
  • Practical workshop experiences
New Skills:
  • Designing Blister Packs
  •  Using 2D Design
  • Using the Vac Former
  • Modelling with HIPs, Acrylic, MDF
  • Paper and boards
  • Learning to use Graphics, layout, typography
  • Creating Nets
  • Using a Die Cutter
  • Design on and with Paper and boards/timbers
  • Understanding GSM
  • Creating Flaps and Tabs
  • Paper engineering
  • Graphics
  • Layout, Typography,
  • Pictograms
Links to the School Curriculum:
  • GEOGRAPHY
  • BUSINESS
  • ETHICS
  • IT
  • GEOGRAPHY
  • BUSINESS
  • ETHICS
  • IT
Independent Activities:
  • Homeworks
  • Workshop practicals
  • Homeworks
  • Workshop practicals
Web Links: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zktmtv4/revision/1https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zfd9dxs/revision/1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zbqdqhv/revision/1https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zrx7xfr/revision/1
Year 11 Project 1  Project 2
Key Topic: Theory  NEA
New Knowledge:
  • Usability
  • Existing Solutions
  • New Tech
  • Sources of Energy
  • Winder influences of Tech
  • Viability
  • Graphic Techniques
  • Approaches to design
  • Properties of materials
  • Material Selection
  • Paper and boards
  • Timber, metals, polymers, textiles
  • Standard components
  • Finishing materials
  • Structural integrity
  • Motion and levers
  • Mechanical devices
  • Electronic systems/programmable comp
  • Modelling processes
  • Wastage
  • Additive manufacture
  • Deforming and reforming
  • Ensuring accuracy
  • Digital design tool
  • Scales of manufacture
  • Large scale paper, metals, timbers, polymers and fabrics.
  • Design Brief/PU Info
  • Stakeholder/PU Needs
  • Product Analysis
  • Materials Investigation
  • Environment/ sustainability
  • Moral, Ethics
  • Design Specification
  • Next Step planning
  • Initial Ideas
  • Development of ideas
  • Mock Ups(photos)
  • Final Idea with dimensions
  • Technical Spec
  • Plan for making/timeline
  • Making Final Product
  • Workshop
  • Personal Evaluation
  • Evaluation against Spec
  • PU Feedback Evaluation
  • Product Viability
  • Previous Knowledge Required

 

  • Theory learnt through KS3

 

  • USB
  • Blister Pack
  • 2D Design
  • Vac Former
  • Former
  • HIPS
  • Acrylic, MDF
  • Paper and boards
  • Graphics, layout, typography
  • Euro slot
New Skills:
  • Exam style questions in their rev guides
  • Full exam papers in their revision guides
  • Quick Quiz questions
  • Key word question/recall
  • Mock exam
  • Mock exam style questions
  • Quick starter questions
  • Longer starter questions
  • Q and A in lessons
  • Peer assessment
  • Builds on NEA knowledge gained through the two projects in Year 10
Links to the School Curriculum:
  • Business
  • Ethics
  • Art
  • English
  • Geography
  • History
  • Business
  • Ethics
  • Art
  • English
  • Geography
  • History
Independent Activities:
  • Homeworks
  • Workshop practicals
  • Homeworks
  • Workshop practicals
Web Links: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/examspecs/zdvb2sg https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/examspecs/zdvb2sg
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