Welcome to the Design & Technology department @ RST

Here you will explore the world of design and manufacture and learn skills that will enable you to bring your creative ideas to life.

About this website

This site was set up in March 2020 with the sole purpose of supporting the remote phase of learning in Design and Technology for pupils at Rugby School Thailand. When school returned in September 2020 the website was developed to support the teaching of Design & Technology within the classroom and to enhance the digital component of the subject.

This website details and explains every step of each project from Year 3 to Year 8 in a range of different ways such as, step by step photos, photo examples, detailed text, video tutorials and language options for our EAL students

Senior D&T Website

eal Language options

CLICK HERE

D&T understands that international students may speak a wide range of different languages and when English might be a new language to you, it can be challenging to document and evaluate your work.

Our D&T EAL Language page offers supports and examples different techniques on how cross-language comments or translations can be used.

The Design and Technology Learner Profile

Health and Safety

To enable us to work in an amazing workshop space like we have at Rugby School Thailand, it is very important that we take health and safety seriously.

We must have an agreed set of rules that we all adhere to to keep us all safe. During your first experience in the workshop each year, your teacher will go through the rules with you and you must sign to say that you agree to behave appropriately when in the Design and Technology department.

Agreeing to this set of rules helps keep us all safe.

Health and Safety in Design and Technology

Lesson 1. Complete the 4 tasks below (sign in to Google Classroom)

Task 1

Go to Google Classroom and sign the Health and Safety form

Task 2

Set up your Digital Portfolio (website). New students set up a new site, Old students create a new subpage

Task 3

On your new D&T page add your selfie photo

Task 4

Add target or goals of what you would like to work towards this. Mention areas you want to develop and get better at and areas you enjoy. Include clear detail.

Essential equipment

During Design and Technology lessons you will use certain pieces of equipment to present your work. You will need to make sure that you bring this equipment to all lessons

Pencil crayons - good quality
Pencil
Pencil Sharpener
Eraser
Black fiber-tip fine-line pen
Ruler
Plain white paper
Plain white card
Scissors
Charged iPad

How will you work During D&T lessons.

Designing

You will learn many skills during the designing phase of design and technology. Some of it will involve research to learn more about materials or technology and some parts will involve developing your design presentation skills to help you communicate your ideas. You will use a mixture of computer aided design and sketching to present your work.

Making

During every design project you do you will learn different practical skills that will enable you to work with different types of material.

You will work with had tools and machine tools as well as learning different manufacture processes.

Evidencing

Showing evidence of your work is really important to communicate your creative thinking and to show your progress over time.

You will hand in pieces of work to your teacher for marking on the Google Classroom and you will present all of your work on your very own website.

Click Here to view website examples

Setting up your own Website for the first time.

You will keep a log of your work each week on your own website 'digital portfolio'.

You will be expected to keep this up to date during D&T lessons as well as independently using Prep / study lessons.

If you are a returning pupil then you will only need to create a new page for any new project.

If you are a new pupil, you will need to create a website from scratch and make a project page.

*note - please add your teacher as a shared collaborator to your site by pressing the 'Share with others' button.

Page links, Competitions and Events

The Bridge Building Competition 2024

Student sign up link to form House teams

Examples of successful bridge designs

Everything you need to know about simple bridge structures

How to build, how to cut and how to glue

Sketching

Sketching is the main communication tool that creative professionals should practise every day.

Poster Examples

Examples of how posters should be laid out and presented.

Setting up your Digital Portfolio

This page will guide you through how to set up your digital portfolio and give information about why it is important.

Design Thinking project

This links to a design thinking project. In this project, students will follow the process of Design Thinking to reuse an object. It is around 10 hours in total, split into 10 separate activities.

RST radio logo design competition

Design a logo for the new RST radio channel. This is a graphic design activity and one design will be picked as the official logo. the competition will be open to year 6,7 & 8.

Simple Machines Divisional Comp. 2021

Choose from 3 variations of this international transport task.

Advertising Your Product

This page will share advertising ideas and examples with you. Imagine that your product image is replaceable with the product you have designed and made and edit the content.

Set design for school productions

The department is involved in the design and development of set and prop design for a number of productions in the prep school each year. Click here to see some examples of our work