Rupert House School
90-92 Bell Street
Henley-on-Thames
Oxfordshire
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Design Technology


We view Design Technology as an exciting and distinctly creative process that combines intellectual and practical skills through purposeful activities.

It is about making things that people appreciate, that look visually exciting and that work well. It is an inventive process, where solutions need to be found as problems arise. It involves cooperation, awareness of safety issues, learning how to select and handle suitable tools and materials for the task and seeing a project through from the planning stage to completion. Above all, it is fun.

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The girls in Year 3 to Year 6 have one double period of Design Technology each week with a specialist subject teacher. The programme is divided between Textiles for one half of the year and Technology for the other half and is grounded in the National Curriculum programme of studies.

The girls learn to work with traditional hard resistant materials such as wood, metal and plastic, and softer materials such as textiles, card and paper. Each project involves investigating and looking critically at artefacts and then addressing a design brief that draws on what has been learned.

Current topics include:

  • Making boxes
  • Making photograph frames
  • Creating then incorporating a pneumatic system into a model
  • Creating then incorporating a gear system into a model
  • Designing and making musical instruments
  • Designing and making clocks
  • Weaving a piece of fabric on a loom and creating a useful item for it
  • Bead weaving
  • Creating fabric books on the sewing machine
  • Devising money making games for the school annual fair.
We have a long standing knitting club where the items produced are as varied as blankets from knitted squares to teddies.