Design in Middle School

It has been a busy start to the year in the Design learning area. In Year 6 the boys were introduced to Design and hand tools for the first time. They learnt about draughting and completed the semester by making a pencil holder. The Year 7 boys have been proudly racing their CO2 dragster racing cars last week. This project involved the students in the full design process and each student created their own unique CO2 dragster-racing car, from concept, through to design and execution.

In Year 8, the range of courses broadens to include Digital Design, Wood Design, Metal Design, Product Design and Process Engineering Design. In the Digital Design module, the boys are currently creating their own animated advertisement, which they have been designing since the commencement of the school year. The boys focusing on Wood Design are loving their toy truck project, from design to the full carving process. In addition, they have had an opportunity to work on the lathe, creating custom doorstops. Those boys focusing on Metal Design have completed the design stage of their balancing metal man desk feature and are about to start creating their projects using the skills they have learnt constructing their model planes.

In Process Engineering Design the boys have designed machines using Lego and incorporating three types of motions in each project. The Product Design module has seen the boys making their electronic bongo drum which incorporated electronic circuits and foam forming, making up the body of the drum.

Semester 1 has been a creative one filled with excitement, culminating in a number of amazing projects displaying the true talent of our boys.

Mr Brent Van Ingen-Kal & Mr Edward Grant

Middle School Design Teachers