Welcome to the DT, Food and Textiles Curriculum Area page.

Design Technology

The Design and Technology department seeks to provide students with opportunities and challenges to develop their creativity, design and manufacturing skills.  In addition to this, we aim to enable students to make an informed choice for their examination course options. 

In Year 9, students opt to study two course modules of work from a selection of:  Product Design, Textiles, Food and Graphics.  The department has four workshops, each is equipped with a full complement of tools and machinery so that students can design and make products from a wide range of materials.  CADCAM is supported with access to a network of computers using industrial standard software applications and the use of CAM-Laser and Milling. 

› Click here to view course details for GCSE Systems and Control
› Click here to view course details for GCSE Graphic Products
› Click here to view course details for GCSE Product Design
› Click here to view course details for A-Level Product Design
› Click here to view course details for A-Level Control Systems

Food

Our department is multifaceted we have two specialist food rooms, one that is a specialist Catering facility, a specialist Textiles room plus a teaching room.

We have eight members of staff, six teachers and two support staff who are totally committed to the importance of the subjects that we teach, demanding high standards from ourselves and our students.  The wide variety of courses that we deliver attracts large numbers of students into the department to study five subjects at GCSE to 260 students in Years 10 and 11, and three subjects to 88 students in Years 12 and 13 at A Level. 

Our Food students visit the Good Food Show at the NEC, attend demonstrations by well known chefs (Jamie Oliver in 2007 and, this year, James Martin), and see the latest innovations in equipment and foods.  Our Food students have recently gone on to do courses in food technology, sports science and exercise, dietetics, product development, food retail and manufacture and teaching.

Each year, some of our students choose to take part in the Rotary Club Young Chef competition for which we host the Bedford final.  We have a gifted and talented day where we get groups of students from our feeder middle schools together with some of our Year 9 students and set them a challenge to solve in a set period of time. This year, our Catering students will be stocking and running a stall at the Bedford Thursday Gourmet market for the first time and we are also planning to set up a Cooking Club for our village lower school.

For further details contact bhasler@sharnbrook.beds.sch.uk

› Click here to view course details for GCSE Catering
› Click here to view course details for GCSE Food and Nutrition
› Click here to view course details for A-Level Food, Nutrition and Health

Textiles

In Textiles each year, the students visit the Knitting and Stitching Exhibition or Clothes Show Live as well as the Victoria and Albert Museum and the London College of Fashion as sources of inspiration for their own creativity.  Our Textiles students leave us to do courses in fashion design, photography, marketing, journalism, fine art and teaching and lecturing.

› Click here to view course details for GCSE Textiles
› Click here to view course details for A-Level Textiles

For further details contact bhasler@sharnbrook.beds.sch.uk