Design and Technology (Engineering)

Assessment

The Assessment is made on two components. Firstly, the Major Sustained Project, where you will explore, with guidance, a selected ‘starting point’ and you will work through the development of ideas, experiments and observations to eventually complete a significant piece of art or design work. Secondly, in the January of Year 11, you will be given the ‘Externally Set Assignment’ - a selection of topics provided by the exam board, from which you will choose ONE to work on. For this, you will have approximately ten weeks to plan and prepare followed by a ten hours of ‘supervised time’ to complete your response as a finished piece of work. By the time you reach this point in the course, you will know exactly what you are going to do and how to approach it. The GCSE course culminates in an exhibition where your work will be displayed in college for all to see.