Course Overview
This course will encourage you to take a broad view of Product Design, to develop your capacity to design and make products and to appreciate the complex relations between design, materials, manufacture and marketing. Product design encompasses a wide range of design disciplines but is firmly rooted in the skills required to design and make high quality products. Design studies will focus on the work of past designers, design movements of the 20th Century and contemporary design. The new specification will also draw upon your knowledge of Science and Mathematics
Course Content
At The Priory School you will learn a wide range of design and practical skills focusing around key design concepts and problem solving. You will also gain the theoretical knowledge of material properties, manufacturing processes and industrial techniques.
Projects will be centralised around a client and design need to help students transition smoothly onto creative higher education pathways. Year 12 will be taught through a range of mini projects and exam theory lessons to prepare you for both the non-examined assessment and 2 theory exams to be taken in Year 13.
To achieve success in Product Design, you will complete a portfolio of research and design work along with a working prototype for a client of your choosing. Your 2 exams will cover technical principles and design and making principles including; social, economic and environmental issues.
Course Entry Requirements
5 or above at GCSE
Course Specification
AQA 7552
https://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/design-and-technology/specifications/AQA-7552-SP-2017.PDF
Homework
At A Level, students are expected to complete a minimum of 5 hours of study a week on top of their allocated lesson time.