Technology - Option Choice

Technology is a split into two areas at Edgar Wood Academy: Design & Technology and Food Preparation & Nutrition.

Design & Technology is an inspiring, rigorous and practical subject. Using creativity and imagination, you will design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering your own and others’ needs, wants and values. You will gain a broad range of subject knowledge and apply knowledge that you have gained from other subjects such as Mathematics, Science, Engineering, Computing and Art. 

You will learn how to take risks, becoming resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable individuals Through the evaluation of past and present design and technology, you will develop an understanding of its impact on daily life and the wider-world.

Food Preparation & Nutrition will equip you with the knowledge, understanding and skills required to cook and apply the principles of food science, nutrition and healthy eating. It encourages you to cook a range of dishes, and will enable you to make informed decisions about food and nutrition and will allow you to acquire the knowledge and understanding you will need in order to be able to feed yourselves and others affordably and nutritiously, now and later in life.