Design and Manufacture N4/N5

Entry Requirements

Completion of the school based S3 Design & Manufacture course is preferable.

Course Content

This course will help develop you into a creative, flexible learner, and build up an ability to apply skills and knowledge in a variety of real life situations. It aims to help pupils produce effective solutions for a variety of design tasks. They will learn how to convey their ideas through design folios and through the construction of prototype models in a variety of materials (metals, woods and plastics).

Course Description

If you enjoy sketching, are imaginative, have an interest in design and like practical workshop activities then this is the course for you. Pupils will have the opportunity to explore the impact of design and technology in everyday life. They will consider the complete life of a product from its initial conception, through design development, the materials and methods of manufacture, the marketing, to its impact on society. Folio work will develop research, drawing, sketching and rendering skills. Pupils will be involved in the manufacture of products using a milling machine linked to a computer and using practical craft / machine skills.

Assessment:

  • National 4 – assessment is dealt with by 2 mandatory units: 1. Design, 2. Materials and Manufacturing as well as an Added Value Unit. All work is internally marked but is externally verified by the SQA
  • National 5 – The coursework assignment is set by the SQA. It is split into two sections: 1. Design worth 55 marks and 2. Practical worth 45 marks. External assessments:- This will consist of a single final examination worth 80 marks.

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