Y8 Engineering
Our Year 8 Curriculum Intent
Engineering education makes a unique and valuable contribution to the education and preparation for students’ future lives for work and or leisure. Our Engineering curriculum provides a broad and balanced range of opportunities to work with a wide range of materials, to develop new skills, experience new technologies and gain new knowledge. Open ended projects allow students to use their imaginations, express their feelings and problem solve as they work towards quality outcomes. Our Engineering curriculum will give the students an opportunity:
- To build up creativity, problem solving, planning, practical and evaluation skills to become independent and resourceful;
- To enable students to feel safe and confident in their learning environment to take risks and learn from mistakes;
- To foster a culture of ‘design critique’ to produce quality outcomes via peer and group work, respecting other students’ opinions;
- To develop resilience when understanding the developments in design and technology, its impact and effect of products on individuals, society and the environment, and the responsibilities of designers, engineers and technologists;
- To enjoy learning in a practical manner having experienced the best possible engaging and challenging lessons which foster and promote interests for later life.
Our Year 8 Curriculum Content
The image below explains what our Year 8 students will be learning throughout the year. To view this in more detail, please click the Year 8 Curriculum Content document below. To ensure our curriculum is impactful, all our curriculum content is related to our 6 Key Themes.
Cultural Capital
As part of our curriculum, we ensure that we provide our students the opportunities to broaden their learning through various subject based cultural opportunities. These vary for each subject but provide an array of activities for both students and families to engage with. These are divided into half term learning opportunities and can be found in the documents below.
