Code: NA
Title: Industrial Skills
Pre-requisites: TBA
Outcome levels: NA
Coordinator: Mr Trevor Eason

This is a very practical subject where students will be working in a workshop situation utilising tools and equipment to produce timber based projects.

Topics

Knowledge & understanding

• Technical vocabulary
• Underpinning principles
• Safe work practices (safety rules and safety regulations)
• The effective use of a range of tools, equipment and machines
• Resources – identifying appropriate materials, tool, equipment and processes
• Methods used in the construction of practical projects

Applied processes

• Use available information to produce a practical outcome
• Create a procedure or plan that will enable the satisfactory completion of a project

Practical skill

• Demonstrate ability to: use a range of tools and equipment with due regard to safe and appropriate operation procedures to produce work, solutions and artefacts to a specification

Assessment

The above criteria are used to determine a student’s level of achievement. They are of equal weighting in determining a student’s level of achievement. Assessment instruments include practical artefacts, project planning and evaluation. Students will produce a folio of work that includes images of their individual artefacts, planning documents and evaluations.

Aims

• To provide students with a wide range of industrial skills and practices, project design, planning and evaluation

Assignment guidelines

Please refer to the Assignment Guidelines on how to set out bibliographies and references.  

Resources

TBA

Related Links

TBA