December 8th 2017
Inventive Cross-Curricular Projects
The Year 7 boys have been busy this week presenting their Dragon’s Den projects to a panel of scary Dragons! Challenged last term with inventing and marketing a new product, the boys’ presentations were the culmination of a lot of hard work and effort. The brief was for the product to be a completely new concept: a game or craze, or a redesign or improvement of an existing idea or invention.
As part of our aim to tie in subjects across the curriculum, the work was carried out in their ICT, Design Technology and Art lessons and in each discipline a different aspect of the project was pursued.
• In Art they created a short promotional video. In some instances they have written their own music as a backing track.
• In Design Technology a ‘design board’, promotional gifts or in some instances a prototype of their invention.
• In ICT they carried out Market Research and created a website to market their product. They have also handled the finances of their company using spreadsheets.
The boys have worked incredibly hard throughout the process and they all confidently pitched to the panel of 'Dragons' who threw some tough questioning their way! There were many investments made, and some concepts that boys are considering pursuing in real life.
