Ashlawn School Newsletter

Graphics
Our graphics students are also constructing
their final products and will soon
be onto evaluating their work. In Key
Stage 3 students are either working on
room design, game design or a new project
involving ear wraps and creating their
own packaging.
Year 8 Options
Evening
Year 8 options
evening was
very successful for the department with
lots of parents and students stopping to
talk to us and ask questions. Please do
feel free to ask any of the DT teachers
about your DT options as we would love
to see you in our year 9 classes next September!
has enough materials to work with and
then press print! The 3D printer then
prints layers of binder (or glue) onto
powder creating their design. When the
students come back later on the machine
has finished and they can remove their
design, harden it and paint it. The whole
process is very quick compared to doing
it by hand. We normally set the machine
to print overnight and arrive at school in
the morning to a completed prototype.
Here are some examples of designs
we have 3D printed.
3D printing
As some of you may know, we have a 3D
printer in the DT department. 3D printing
in the department is typically used to create
intricate items that would be difficult
to product by other methods. In industry
it is often used to create quick prototypes
to allow designers to test ideas and show
models to their clients. The process is the
same in both school and in industry. Students
create their design on a CAD
(Computer Aided Design) package such as
Sketch Up or Pro Desktop. They then convert
their file to a format that the 3D
printer can read, make sure that machine