Welcome to the Wood Technology and Graphics Department!
Mr L. Phelan
Wood Technology
This is a new subject that has been developed from the traditional Materials Technology Wood Junior Certificate course.
In Wood Technology students will explore the natural and made world through the medium of design, seeking out opportunities to creatively and innovatively apply the material/resource in making and shaping their environment. The sustainable use of and management of this natural resource is important as the world faces the challenges of the 21st century.
Students will get to experience both theory and practical elements of the subject. The experience in the classroom will provide students with practical skills that they can develop to aid them in their future lives and careers.
Graphics
Graphics is a new subject to the school from September 2020. This is a subject that has been developed from the traditional Technical Graphics Junior Certificate course. students develop their creativity, spatial ability, and capacity to reason and communicate ideas through engagement with abstract and applied geometric problem-solving activities.
Students will develop their creativity as they investigate and solve design challenges. Students will work with their peers to refine their ideas from an abstract concept to a final, detailed, drafted design. Abstraction, and spatial reasoning are fundamental to this process; graphics provides multiple and varied opportunities for students to develop these high level cognitive and creative skills in engaging context
