TECHNOLOGY
What a busy and challenging Term 3 we’ve had. I would like to congratulate all our students who have been attending on-line classes demonstrating great resilience. Our Year 7 students have continued with their studies completing their safety and hygiene test online. They have commenced work on their second CAT, the Designer Muffin Challenge, which involve conducting research and watching teacher online demonstrations and recording their observations.
Special Occassion Food students completed their ‘What’s My History’ CAT researching their family food history, producing and recording a product at home and producing a presentation. It was great to see some of our students extend themselves by recording their presentation.
Year 10 Food Studies and Barker’s Bakery students have worked hard completing and submitting their first CAT. Barker’s Bakery students have had the opportunity to watch live teacher demonstrations including recording their observations of deconstructed Lemon Meringue Tarts. They have reviewed food photography and have had a go at making and photographing their own work demonstrating their presentation and plating skills. Some of the cakes they produced were very impressive and students are to be congratulated on their efforts. Year 10 Food Studies students were tasked with the challenge of produce their pasta (without a pasta machine) as well as designing and make their own pasta sauce after watching a live teacher demonstration online.
Year 8 Textiles Product Design students have been continuing to develop their folios. This has included investigating sustainability, fair trade and recycling. They have been able to watch live teacher demonstrations of fabric design techniques including bleach fabric art, marbling using shaving cream, texta and rubbing alcohol design and tie-dying. They were given ideas on how they could achieve these techniques using resources they may have access to at home.
Our Year 9 Textile Design class have been continuing with their Collaboration Design Task and I have been impressed with their willingness to collaborate together online to complete their design work. This has involved researching and developing an inspiration page as well as producing working sketches and instructions ready for them to produce their upcycled products on our return.
Our department would like to wish our Year 12 Food Studies the very best of luck as they complete Unit 4 and begin to prepare for exams next term. It has been great to see their development over the year. They are to be congratulated on their resilience, endeavour, compassion and respect they have demonstrated throughout this year.
We would like to thank all the families who have supported us and their students and have encouraged them to have a go at some of the practical work.
The Year 7 Product Design research CAT required students to research a range of tools. Students had to draw each tool, label all the parts and write a description of what it is used for. This beautiful presentation is by Abbey Heemskerk.
Year 9 and 10 students have been given the opportunity to develop skills in areas that sometimes we don’t get time for in regular classes. These skills involve using software like Sketchup and TinkerCAD to model the ideas that they have created. Here is an example of a task to design a workspace that included somewhere for a laptop and tablet.
Our VCE students have also been completing the work that can be done from home. While this is not the practical work that that they would normally be completing at this time of the year, it is still part of the assessment that needs to submitted and is a part of the normal task.
Andrew Dingey
Technology Key Learning Head