Core topics to revise

• design and technology and our world

• smart materials

• electronic systems and programmable components

• mechanical components and devices

• materials- timber & manufactured boards, metals, polymers, paper & boards, fabrics and fibres

In depth topics to revise (depending on your group)

Paper & Board- Miss Whitelock's group

Timbers & Manufactured board- Miss Coghlans group and Miss Feasey/Mrs Whitelock's group

Timbers and Manufactured boards

• Sources and origins

• Physical and working properties

• Ecological and social footprint

• Selecting timbers and manufactured boards for use

• How forces and stress affect

• Stock forms

• Scales of production

• Specialist techniques and processes

• Surface finishes

Paper and Boards In-Depth Knowledge

• Physical and working properties

• Sources and origins

• Processes used to create paper and board

• Ecological, social and ethical issues around processing paper and board

• Life cycle of paper and board

• Reinforcing paper and boards to withstand stress