1. Product Design Course Calendar and Personal Learning Checklist
The City of Leicester College

2. Product Design (Course Calendar)
Assessment Objectives
AO1 – Technical knowledge & understanding. Function, material properties, structural & mechanical elements, science & maths.
AO2 – Designing. Problem solving for contexts, users & purposes. Generating, developing, modelling & communicating ideas.
AO3 – Making. Planning, safety control, practical skills & techniques with tools/ machinery/ CAD- producing quality outcomes.
AO4 – Evaluating. Investigation, analysis & evaluation of existing products/ key events/ work of other designers. Testing, evaluating & refining ideas.
AUTUMN 1.1
AUTUMN 1.2
SPRING 2.1
SPRING 2.2
SUMMER 3.1
SUMMER 3.2
3 Teacher Days
–Teacher day
Fret saw/ Measuring & Marking H&T joints
– Bank Holiday
– Teacher Day
Blister Packaging Project
Design backboard from mood boards
Progress week
Data entry 2
Refining ideas
Assessment point 5
Cam Pull along Project
Movement & mechanisms
H/W 1- Analyse examples of products using motion
5.6.17
Refine model/ idea
H/W 3-Cutting list/ Gantt chart
Bank Holiday
Students start- Induction week
Subject eve.
Fret saw/ cutting H&T joints
9.1.17
Processes & materials
H/W 1-Research for processes (leaflet)
Bank Holiday
Modelling mechanisms
Manufacture components
5.9.16
Crocodile Toy Project
H&S in the workshop
Fret saw/ finishing all taught processes
H/W 3- Production Log
Designing from gathered information
6.3.17
Student review day
Manufacturing blister
H/W 3- Method of Manufacture plans
Progress week
Design from given criteria
Measuring & Marking
Sanding & Finishing
Assessment point 3
CorelDraw demo
Assessment point 4
H/W 2- Final proposal
Assessment point 6
Assemble & test
Cutting with hand tools-wasting processes
H/W 1- Production Log
Assessment point 2
Printing & assembly
Model idea
3.7.17
Data entry 3
Data entry 1
Assemble components
H/W 4- Finish/ uplevel Production Log
Progress week
H/W 2-Typography- Compare/ contrast
Printing & Assembly
H/W 4- Uplevel all homework
Half term
Activities week?
Progress week
Chiselling & shaping
Evaluation
Half term
3.4.17
Progress week/ Assessment point 1
H/W 2- wood types
Overflow lesson in case of missed lessons/ Intro to blister package
H/W 5 - mood boards
Easter
Half term
Christmas

3. Product Design (PLC)