1. Design & Technology Department Port Glasgow High School
Helping Your Child to Pass

2. Design & Manufacture National 4/5 Has two units. Design
Materials and Manufacturing
The two units are completed and passed before learners can progress onto the National 4 AVU or the National 5 Course assessment task.

3. Design & Manufacture National 4 Added Value Unit
The learners will produce a folio to a given design brief and produce a physical model of the item. The AVU is either a pass or fail.

4. Course assessment structure
Design & Manufacture
National 5
Course assessment structure
Component 1: question paper 80 marks
Component 2: assignment design 55 marks
Component 3: assignment practical 45 marks
Total marks marks

5. Component 1 The Question Paper which is externally assessed.
The question paper assesses knowledge and understanding
from the following areas of design and manufacturing:
Design (30 marks)
Workshop-based manufacture (30 marks)
Commercial manufacture (20 marks)

6. Component 2
This assignment has 55 marks out of a total of 180 marks available for the
course assessment. It assesses the application of design skills to develop a
proposal to a set brief. The proposal is then manufactured as evidence for
the assignment — practical.
The assignment — design provides an opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge and understanding for the course. Marks are awarded as follows:
Analysing a brief (8 marks)
Generating ideas (9 marks)
Developing ideas (20 marks)
Using models (6 marks)
Using graphics (6 marks)
Planning for manufacture (6 marks)

7. Component 3
This assignment has 45 marks out of a total of 180 marks available for the course assessment. It assesses the application of practical skills to manufacture the proposal developed in the assignment — design.
The assignment — practical provides an opportunity to demonstrate the practical skills of the candidates. Marks are awarded as follows:
Measuring and marking out (9 marks)
Using hand and machine tools (18 marks)
Assembling components (5 marks)
Finishing (9 marks)
Evaluating (4 marks)

8. Revision Material that is available to Pupil at Port Glasgow High School.
Course notes and material provided during the year.
Revision Books.
Past Papers (Available on the SQA website).
Edmodo (Online revision material created by Mrs L.Greenlees).
The national parent forum of scotland national 5 revision in a nutshell (Website).