Course Aims:
The aims of the Course are to enable learners to develop: skills in woodworking techniques skills in measuring and marking out timber sections and sheet materials safe working practices in workshop environments practical creativity and problem-solving skills knowledge of sustainability issues in a practical woodworking context.
Course Structure and Assessment:
1. Units are structured as follows:
Unit One: Practical Woodworking: Flat-frame Construction
This Unit helps learners develop skills in the use of woodworking tools and in the preparation and production of basic flat-frame woodworking joints and assemblies.
Learners will learn to read and follow simple woodworking drawings or diagrams.
Unit Two: Practical Woodworking: Carcase Construction
This Unit helps learners develop skills in the preparation and production of basic woodworking joints and assemblies suitable for use in carcase construction. This may include working with manufactured board or with frames and panels. The Unit includes the use of simple working drawings or diagrams.
Unit Three: Practical Woodworking: Machining and Finishing
This Unit helps learners develop skills in using common machine and power tools. It also helps learners develop skills in a variety of simple woodworking surface preparations and finishing techniques.
In each of the three Units above, learners will develop an appreciation of safe working practices in a workshop environment. They will also gain knowledge and understanding of sustainability issues and good practice in recycling in a practical woodworking context.
Added Value Unit: Making a Finished Product from Wood
This Unit requires learners to draw on and extend their range of practical woodworking experiences and skills in order to produce an effective overall response to the task. The practical activity will be sufficiently open and flexible to allow for personalisation and choice.
2. Course Assessment
Practical Woodworking: Flat-frame Construction
In this Unit, evidence will be required that the learner can produce basic flat-frame joints and assemblies to a given standard. Evidence of knowledge will also be required.
Practical Woodworking: Carcase Construction
In this Unit, evidence will be required that the learner can produce basic carcase constructions to a given standard. Evidence of knowledge will also be required.
Practical Woodworking: Machining and Finishing
In this Unit, evidence will be required that the learner can carry out simple machining and finishing to a given standard. Evidence of knowledge will also be required.
Added Value Unit: Making a Finished Product from Wood
In the National 4 Practical Woodworking Course, the Added Value Unit will focus on:
- Challenge
- application
The learner will draw on, extend and apply the skills and knowledge they have developed during the Course. This will be assessed through a practical activity which involves producing a finished product in wood to a given standard. The task will be sufficiently open and flexible to allow for personalisation and choice and for learners to demonstrate practical creativity.
Courses from National 4 to Advanced Higher include assessment of added value. At National 4, added value will be assessed in an Added Value Unit. The Added Value Unit will address the key purposes and aims of the Course, as defined in the Course rationale. It will do this by addressing one or more of breadth, challenge or application
Course Progression:
♦ National 5 Practical Woodworking Course or relevant Units
♦ National Certificate Group Awards (NCGAs)
♦ A range of other practical technological Courses at National 4
♦ Skills for Work and sector-specific SQA Courses
Possible further study and career routes for students:
- apprenticeships and/or training in practical technology and related fields including:
- Joinery.
- Craft.
- Construction.
- Manufacturing.
- Engineering.
- Theatre. (Stage production)
- Visual arts.
