Technology, Enterprise & Creativity (TEC)

KS3 Food & Nutrition

  • Introduction to Food Safety and Hygiene & Nutrition
    • Knife skills, Pasta Salad, Bread Making
  • Writing recipes, and Food Science
    • Pizza, Muffins
  • Wider Food issues: Packaging, Seasonality, Food Choices
    • Goujons
  • Meal Planning Project
    • Scones
  • Hygiene and Nutrition
    • Crudites and Dips
  • Food High in Fats and Sugars
    • Shortbread, Carrot Cake, Cheesecake, Oat Cookies
  • Food Production and Food Science
    • Mini Quiches, Mac & Cheese
  • Nutrition, Hygiene and Functional Properties
    • Irish Soda Bread, Decorative Focaccia
  • NEA 1 Practice
    • Gluten Investigation
  • Wider Food Issues (Religious Diets and Food Provenance)
    • Curry and Flatbread, Fajitas, Spaghetti Bolognese
  • Special Dietary Requirements
    • Scones Investigation

KS3 Design & Technology

Rotations (6 week blocks):

  • CAD
  • Drawing / Designing
  • Practical

Rotations (6 week blocks)

  • CAD
  • Drawing/Designing
  • Practical

Rotations (6 week blocks)

  • CAD
  • Drawing/Designing
  • Practical

KS3 Art

  • Still Life – Look Think Draw (line)
  • Still Life – Look Think Draw (Tone)
  • Colour Theory
  • Abstract Painting
  • Mixed Media Illustration
  • Aboriginal Art – Printing
  • African Textiles – Printing
  • Chinese Painting
  • African Masks (3D)
  • Animation (3D)
  • Hartlepool Past and Present (3D)
  • Extended Project based on Portraits.

Students will work on a range of drawings of faces and features, study other artists’ portrait work, and develop their own work culminating in a clay sculpture

GCSE Photography

  • Advertisement Photography.

Students will look at food and product photography and how companies use images in their advertising to encourage people to buy their products.

  • Favourite Things
  • Portrait
  • Movement
  • Identity & Sense of Place
  • Weird and Wonderful
  • Forecast Exam and Externally Set Assignment
    • Forecast Exam Preparation begins September. Students will be working around a personal theme. They will produce a range of work reinforcing exam process.
    • Further development of Photoshop skills.
    • Further development of analysis Skills
    • Forecast Exam in November
    • November – December coursework completion.
    • January Preparation for Externally Set Assignment begins (“Final Exam”)
    • Students will be working around a personal theme developed from the examination paper. They will produce a project of work around this theme with a Practical Exam at the end.

GCSE Art

  • Start of Extended Project for Unit 1
  • Drawing around a Theme (Natural and Man Made Forms / Me and My World)
  • Experimenting with a range of processes and techniques including digital and photography
  • Studying the Work of Other Artists
  • Clay Hand Building Techniques
  • Exam Preparation for end of Y10
  • Final 3D Piece
  • Forecast Exam Preparation begins September.
  • Students will be working around a personal theme and will produce a range of work in sketchbooks around this theme using a wide range of materials and media relevant to their own work. This will culminate into a Final Piece of Artwork produced during a forecast exam in November, using their chosen media.
  • November – December Unit 1- completion of Extended Project
  • January Preparation for Unit 2 begins (“Final Exam”)
  • Students will be working around a personal theme developed from the examination paper. They will produce a range of work in sketchbooks around this theme using a wide range of materials and media relevant to their own work.
  • This will culminate into a Final Piece of Artwork produced during a practical exam in March, using their chosen media.

GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition

  • Practical skills: intermediate to higher cookery skills with little reliance on standard components.
  • Students will cover a range of meals and desserts with a focus on presentation including doughs, sponges, pastries, sauces, cook chill meals
  • Understanding food science and nutrients in depth
  • Investigation into a food science task. This focuses on report writing and conducting an investigation
  • A wide range of social, moral, cultural and environmental issues
  • NEA 1 – Investigative Report (15%)
  • NEA 2 – A portfolio of work including a final 3 course meal (35%)
  • Final Exam (50%)

Cambridge Nationals Creative iMedia

Pre-Production Skills

  • Purpose and Content
  • Planning
  • Production
  • Review

Digital Graphics

  • Purpose and Properties
  • Planning
  • Create
  • Review

Pre-Production Skills

  • Purpose and Content
  • Planning
  • Production
  • Review

Digital Interactive Products

  • Purpose and Properties
  • Planning
  • Create
  • Review

BTEC Construction and The Built Environment

Unit 3: Construction & Design. Learning Aims:

  • A understand the work of the construction industry
  • B understand a client’s needs to develop a design brief for a low-rise building
  • C produce a range of initial sketch ideas to meet the requirements of a client brief for a low-rise building

Unit 9: Exploring Electrical Principles and Techniques: Learning Aims:

  • A understand tools, materials and equipment used for electrical engineering operations
  • B develop practical skills using safe techniques to undertake electrical operations
  • Unit 1: Construction Technology. Learning Aims:
    • A understand the structural performance required for low-rise construction
    • B explore how sub-structures are constructed
    • C explore how superstructures are constructed.

    Unit 2: Scientific and Mathematical Applications for Construction. Learning Aims:

    • A understand the effects of forces and temperature changes on materials used in construction
    • B use mathematical techniques to solve construction problems.

BTEC Technical Award in Health and Social Care

  • Life events
  • Life circumstances
  • Impact of life events and circumstances, and how people adapt to these
  • Formal and informal support available to manage life events
  • Life stages and growth
  • Physical growth and development
  • Factors that impact physical, intellectual, emotional and social development across the life stages
  • Social and health care service, including primary, secondary and tertiary care
  • Barriers to accessing care
  • The importance of health and social care
  • Factors affecting health and well being
  • Interpreting health indicators
  • Physiological indicators of health and well being
  • Person centred health and social care
  • Health and well-being improvement plans
  • Obstacles to implementing health and well-being improvement plans
  • Demonstrating care values
  • Reviewing application of care values
  • Promoting independence

Cambridge Nationals Engineering Design

R040 – Evaluating Designs and Modelling Coursework.

  • Analysis of a product
  • CAD
  • Modelling

R038 – Principles of Engineering Design

  • Designing processes
  •  Designing requirements
  •  Communicating design outcomes
  •  Evaluating design ideas

R039 – Communicating Designs

  • Freehand sketching
  • Engineering Drawing
  • CAD (Computer Aided Design)

R038 – Principles of Engineering Design

  • Designing Processes
  •  Designing Requirements
  •  Communicating Design Outcomes
  •  Evaluating Design Idea

Please contact Mrs Kimberley King for more information on the Technology and Enterprise curriculum: kking@hightunstall.hartlepool.sch.uk.