Design and Technology is a subject that incorporates a range of different elements, including electronics, product design and working with materials, such as metals, timbers and plastics.

Pupils combine practical and technological skills with creative thinking to design and make products, whilst learning how to problem-solve as individuals and work effectively as a team.

Projects focus on research skills, an introduction to tools and machines, graphics and drawing techniques, and working with hard materials.

In Year 7, students complete two design and technology projects. The first is a timber ‘Blox Bot’ and the second a Bauhaus-inspired clock made from plastics.

Topics include:

• Health and safety in the workshop
• How to use a range of hand and bench mounted power tools
• Researching ideas and designing the end-product
• Sketching and drawing skills
• How to use the 2D design computer programme and creating a CAD file
• Cutting wood to shape using hand tools
• Cutting plastics to shape using the laser
• Assembling the parts
• Evaluating the design and manufacture on completion of a project

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Drama at Bridgnorth Endowed School is an exciting introduction into the world of performance that's enjoyed by many of our students.

This popular subject involves a great deal of group work and helps pupils to develop confidence, enhance creative thinking and improve their presentation capabilities.

Throughout the year, they learn a multitude of drama skills and techniques to enable them to create performances and become familiar with how to evaluate theirs and others’ work.

Outside the classroom, the department regularly organises theatre trips to see a range of productions and there's also the chance to take part in the annual show.

The school is fortunate to have its own professional 'black box' drama studio, equipped with a full lighting rig and removable staging, plus a large hall with raked seating for bigger productions.

Topics include:

• The importance of facial expression, body language and gesture
• Key skills, such as freeze frame and thought tracking
• Drama techniques, including narration and devil and angel
• Melodrama
• Key physical and vocal skills for performing in drama
• Scripted performances
• Improvisation

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The key skills that students learn in English are speaking and listening, reading and writing. At BES, we recognise that these areas are interconnected and are taught as part of a complete course, which combines language and literature.

In Year 7, the aim is for all pupils to have a firm grasp of literary analysis and have cultivated a love of reading. They begin to think about the 'meaning' of texts and the skilful craft of writers, but are also encouraged to write creatively themselves.

Students study a range of texts, from Shakespeare to more modern books, such as Holes by Louis Sachar, which tells the story of an unlucky teenage boy who is sent to a juvenile detention centre in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft.

Topics include:

• Understanding different text types
• How to find information and identify characters
• Key grammatical features and terms
• Creative writing skills
• Shakespeare and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
• Writing in different formats
• The spoken language
• Nineteenth-century poetry and literature prose such as Frankenstein

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Download - The Road Not Taken (Poem by Robert Frost)

All students follow the same pathway and over the year they complete a range of Biology, Chemistry and Physics topics.

The course is designed to help students develop a secure understanding of key scientific concepts and lessons have been developed to set science in relevant contexts that they can easily relate to.

Practical sessions have been incorporated where possible to keep students engaged and encourage them find enjoyment in science.

Topics include:

• Cells
• Particles
• Forces
• Body systems such as breathing
• Elements, atoms and compounds
• Sound
• Reproduction
• Chemical reactions
• Light
• Acids and alkalis
• Space

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