Technologies
The Technologies learning area develop students to individually and collaboratively:
- investigate, design, plan, manage, create and evaluate solutions
- be creative, innovative and enterprising when using traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies, and understand how technologies have developed over time
- make informed and ethical decisions about the role, impact and use of technologies in the economy, environment and society for a sustainable future
- engage confidently with and responsibly select and manipulate appropriate technologies − materials, data, systems, components, tools and equipment − when designing and creating solutions
- critique, analyse and evaluate problems, needs or opportunities to identify and create solutions.
The Technologies learning area comprises of:
- Design and Technologies
- Home Economics
- Digital Technologies
Design and Technologies students learn about technologies in society through different technologies contexts as they create designed solutions.
Year 7 & 8 - Design and Technology (Wood and Metals)
Year 7 & 8 Home Economics (Foods and Textiles)
Year 9 & 10 Foods, Jewellery, Metal, Wood, Textiles
Year 10 Caring for Children, Home Workshop
Year 11 & 12 Building and Construction, Children Family and Community, Food and Technology, Cert II Hospitality. Cert 11 Kitchen Operations, Materials Design and Technology: Wood, Metal, Textiles
Digital Technologies students are provided with practical opportunities to use design thinking and to be innovative developers of digital solutions and knowledge.
Year 7, 8, 9, 10 Digital Technologies
Year 11 & 12 Applied Information Technology