Hard Materials Technology

Year 7, 8 and 9

Year 7, 8 and 9 Hard materials takes place once per week for a double period. Below is some project work the students have been involved with recently:

Yr 7 and 8 Clear glazed pottery ornaments
Yr 7+8 students enjoy making pewter cast jewellery. (pewter cast jewellery)
Yr 7+8 make kaleidoscopes with some of these materials, including 3 long mirrors taped together. kaleidoscopes
A completed kaleidoscope, with vacuum formed end caps
Students are tuning up a simple electric motor they have just made.
Here we used the vacuum former to create a plastic mould over our project. This mould then enabled us to replicate project in either concrete or casting plaster. Some great paint jobs were made too.
Yr 9 Students make a wooden jewellery box over their two terms in the hardmaterials option.
Yr 7 and 8 Whirleygigs See a short movie clip