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Technology Programme
What is Technology?
Technology is about inventing practical solutions to problems through imaginative thinking. Learners use a range of tools, materials, skills and techniques to explore, design and make products and systems that meet human needs.
College year 7 to 10
From year 7 to 10, Technology is compulsory at Sunderland College. Students are involved in a variety of stimulating projects in which they engage in a continuous course of personal development, learning to use today's technologies so they can participate in developing tomorrow's. The course incorporates hard materials, product design, electronics, graphics and ICT.
Year 11 IGCSE
At IGCSE students will pursue Graphic Products. Pupils will gain greater technical and design awareness, while developing skills such as initiative, resourcefulness, enquiry and ingenuity. They also develop the communication skills central to design making and evaluation. |