Year 8 Projects

The Mission to Mars project will follow the same content as the year 7 but with two twists - the vehicle must be able to carry and protect 2 astronauts and be suitable for space exploration.

Alternatively, students may also have the opportunity to explore what life-hack inventions could be produced from Lego SPIKE to help a peer get even more out of life! Students will go through the whole design cycle; inquiring and analysing, developing ideas, creating the solution and evaluating. They will be guided to produce their own design brief and specification.

Throughout the project they are given presentations and shown videos which demonstrate the links to industry.

Robotics and Coding curriculum is a new strand and is in development.

The way we are designing a product will determine the level of user satisfaction during its use. Around this statement of inquiry, students will experiment in a real situation the way of modeling specific shapes in order to create a personalised fidget spinner. During this process, students will develop their ideas by sketching prototypes using technical drawing methods on paper first (orthographic and isometric projection).

In this unit we will get to know a new manufacturing process, dip-coating. 3D printing and laser cutting are processes students are starting to become familliar with. We will compare and contrast these three processes by designing three tags for particular clients and purposes.