The design cycle for a perfume bottle and for its packaging, looking at graphic imagery and commercial Art. 

Packaging and different net designs, signs, symbols and information. Advertising and visual impact. 

We will learn about the design cycle, Sustainability, look at graphic art, learn how to design and assemble nets, and produce logos and imagery to attract customers.  

We will also look at social and moral responsibility in symbols and information for packaging, and design and make this product from the brief. 

Your child will produce packaging from a chosen brief, this will have a design that meets these requirements and will show good design skills. The bottle should show a connection to the brief and the packaging. 

You child will place and understand why, and where information and signs  are shown on the product. The completed project should combine in line with the theme.  

Your child will peer and self asses the work in sections ,as they progress through the booklet. 

Discussion and examples will be shown to compare ideas and develop designs. 

The final product is Teacher and peer assessed as a group against the original brief and theme. 

We will learn how to 

. Show a product in one and two point perspective 

.Be able to reduce or increase the size of a product using measured scale. 

. Show an orthographic view of an object. 

.Draw and explain an idea from different angles and apply this to product briefs

Your child should be able to show a product in different angles and forms in scale.  

Draw in one point and two point perspective. 

Understand an orthographic view, and draw an object in these 3 projections.  

Draw accurately as an isometric on isometric paper. 

Understand projections and how to recognise them. 

We will assess this with teacher feedback on 4 levels of colour coded marking, from Emerging to mastery, these describe current position and how to progress. 

Some peer assessment is also carried out as the project progresses. 

Comprehension of cams and followers, movement and motion.

Design Cycle & Method: Mechanical process and implementation. Annotation focus. Initial ideas and development of concept.

Structure Assembly, comprehension of mechanical placement, Cams and movement, Design adaptation. Evaluation and research. Presentation and finishing.

We will learn how to shade and render objects, how to use crating to create a 3d drawing and manipulate this. 

Your child will comprehend typography, and the design of letters draw and apply them in a graphic image. 

We will use these skills to create a design that follows the brief on a child’s toothbrush. 

Your child will be marked on the ability to create complex or good crating, demonstrate good rendering skills using the technique shown, choose appropriate materials, provide descriptive annotation, and have a creative graphic design.  

This will be marked out of 6 specific bullet points in each area.  

All students will have given in the practical and the folder to be marked , deadline 31st of march.  

Students are revising for the theory written examination 2 hours.  

All areas of the theory using revision booklet and examination hard copies. 

Technique on approaching questions, how to interpret these will be given in lessons. 

Identification of materials properties , sustainability , machinery operation, social and moral focus. Design cycle, manufacturing, CAD,CAM, ETC. all these focus points are in the text book and revision book /cards. Every student has been given these.  

Maths and how these questions are approached will be given as whole class delivery . 

Your child  should focus on All areas  in a crib sheet prepared by me for students, the page numbers for the knowledge on these areas will be provided. 

Technique and focus on all areas is important, look at the exam provided in the back of the revision book, and all the exam questions in that book, this will help you gain the knowledge you need. 

We should be regularly revising and testing, using  exam questions to develop exam approach skills. 

Key words are ,describe, give examples, explain, use diagrams. Making sure you do this will be excellence. 

excellence will be making sure you give the right amount of information the question needs to make sure the examiner knows you know the answer, excellence

Tests: Teacher assessed but peer assessed as well and checking your own answers,  

The final theory 2 hour exam your child will revise for, will be marked by the exam board, 

The mark is combined with the folder and practical model 50/50%,  this is then equated for the final grade 1---9