TECHNOLOGY

Progress is continuing in the design based Technology area of the school, as students work towards completing and refining their projects. What they create is varied across all subjects, design briefs and limited only by their imagination.  

Year 7 food studies are designing muffin recipes that they will be creating over the next few weeks as a solution to the challenge they were issued with and it is a great way to research and show off the skills they have been learning all year. 

Year 7 Woodwork have been creating the tan gram (tic tac toe) board that they have designed as a solution to the design brief. They are concreting the skills with basic wood work tools such as saws, bench hooks, marking gauges and rulers to do this.  
 
Year 8 Textiles are finishing the last stages of their design assessment where they must repair, alter or improve a piece of existing clothing, that will then be a wearable piece.  
 
Year 8 Digital Technology had a great excursion to the Yarra Ranges Technology School where they experimented with ‘little bits circuitry’ and are working towards completing a design based around the coding they have learned in Minecraft. 
 

Students in Year 9 Robotics are moving into the final stages of building their stomper robots, and are exploring ethics and robotics in a field of their choice.

Year 9 Game Development students have started planning out their final project, which will be a game of their own design. Most students are using Python with the PyGame Zero library, though others are exploring Inform 7 and MakeCode: Arcade. 

Year 9 food studies are working on their design brief, where they need to design a healthy burger for a hypothetical hamburger restaurant that needs to meet the constraints and considerations of the specific restaurant’s needs. 

Year  9 Special occasion foods are creating inspiration boards and researching how they will create and design a birthday cake that will meet a clients needs and exhibit the skills that they have been learning and practicing this Semester.  

Year 9 storage solutions are working towards completing a piece of furniture that is a solution for a storage design brief that they have been given, they have also been finishing up their research assignments that are based on comparing the different characteristic of wood.  
 
Year 10 students in Jewellery have been working towards making their final jewellery pieces, and producing final pieces from a design brief written in consultation with a client. 
 
Year 10 metal work have been working on research assignments where they compare the characteristics of different metals and are designing a prototype of a solution to their design brief.  
 
As you can see a lot is happening and we look forward to seeing the students’ final results and accomplishments in solving these real world problems.  

Perie Edmonds

TECHNOLOGY KEY LEARNING HEAD