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Head of Department |
Mr K Armstrong |
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Staff |
Mr A Dow Miss T Kavanagh |
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Technician |
Mr D Campbell |
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The CDT department introduces pupils to the 3 main areas of thesubject.
Thepurpose built craft area consists of a work area, a plastics bay anddesign bay. Here pupils are taught to develop a design for a projectand then produce a folio for the item, before going on to make thearticle in the relevant material which can be wood, metal or plastic.
Pupils in the Technology area investigate aspects of technologyusing a variety of disciplines such as electronics, structure,mechanisms, computer control and pneumatics. They will go on to solvefurther problems using combinations of the disciplines.
Graphical skills are developed in the graphics area, where the newskills of sketching, rendering and shading are taught in conjunctionwith the traditional technical drawing. This is done on both thedrawing board and on the Power Macintosh computers using a variety ofsoftware packages.
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In S3/4 pupils can choose from Standard Grades in Craft and Designor Graphic communication or Technological Studies or any combinationof 3 areas of study.
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Students in S5/6 can select Higher Grade or from a range ofmodular courses.
The department is fully equipped with the most up to dateequipment including computers. Computer software is the same as thatused by the local college.
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