Key Stage 5
Product Design
Product Design
Exam Board and Specification
OCR A level Design and Technology: Product Design (H406)
Topics/Skills Taught
Year 12
Students will be taught by specialist Product Design teachers who will be experienced across all material areas studied at GCSE. The Product Design course allows students to work withing Resistant Materials, Graphics or Design Engineering and this will be reflected by their project choice for the Non-Examined Assessment (NEA) aspect of the course which takes place at the end of Year 12 and throughout Year 13.
Product Design focuses on the design, development and manufacture of consumer products and all of the wider implications these products have outside of their immediate use. As a result, the Year 12 course covers a wide range of topics which are delivered by a series of projects that prepare students for both the NEA and exams.
These include:
Sketching Skills
CAD Skills (Photoshop and SolidWorks)
Product Styling Projects
Design History
User Centred Design
Iterative Design, Development & Modelling
Small Scale and Industrial Manufacture Methods
Year 13
Iterative Design Project (NEA)
Central to the non-examined assessment is the requirement for students to understand and apply processes of iterative designing in their Design and Technology practice: exploring needs, creating solutions and evaluating how well the needs have been met.
Students identify an engaging and challenging context of their own choice that offers design opportunity or problem to respond to in the development of a design solution. They create a chronological portfolio of evidence in real-time as they design, make and evaluate the project according to the iterative processes of explore, create and evaluate.
The project will be submitted as an e-portfolio which will include pictures and videos of the final prototype being used and evaluated by the target market.
Extra-Curricular Opportunities
Trip to London to look at Product Design at the Design Museum and the V&A
Young Engineers Competition in conjunction with Derby University
