Key Stage 4
Engineering Design
Exam Board: OCR
Cambridge Nationals in Engineering design is an engaging qualification where you will use what you learn in practical, real-life situations, such as:
Using both 2D and 3D engineering design techniques
Designing new products to meet a design brief
Communicating engineering design ideas.
This will help you to develop independence and confidence in using skills that would be relevant to the engineering design and development sector. The qualification will also help you to develop learning and skills that can be used in other life and work situations, such as:
Completing research to inform engineering design ideas
Solving problems by exploring different engineering design options
Finding imaginative solutions through creative thinking.
This qualification will complement other learning that you’re completing for GCSEs or vocational qualifications at Key Stage 4 and help to prepare you for further study.
Assessment:
40% Exam
Principles of Engineering Design
60% NEA (Non-exam assessment)
30% = Communicating Design Ideas
30% = Design, Evaluation, and Modelling
Constructing the Built Environment
Exam Board: WJEC
WJEC Level 1/2 Awards in Constructing the Built Environment offer a learning experience that focuses learning through applied learning, i.e. acquiring and applying knowledge, skills and understanding through purposeful tasks set in sector or subject contexts that have many of the characteristics of real work. The applied purpose will also enable learners to learn in such a way that they develop:
Skills required for independent learning and development
A range of generic and transferable skills
The ability to solve problems
The skills of project based research, development and presentation
The fundamental ability to work alongside other professionals, in a professional environment
The ability to apply learning in vocational contexts.
The qualifications have been devised around the concept of a ‘plan, do, review’ approach to learning where learners are introduced to a context for learning, review previous learning to plan activities, carry out activities and review outcomes and learning. This approach mirrors many work related activities in constructing the built environment and also provides for learning in a range of contexts thus enabling learners to apply and extend their learning.
Assessment:
40% External Assessment (Exam)
Safety and Security in Construction
60% Internal Assessment
Practical construction skills
Planning construction projects