Gazette January 2020
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Year 12 HSC Industrial Arts Showcase The 2019 Showcase was a celebration of the incredible works produced by the young men of The King’s School studying in the field of Industrial Arts and Technology.
This year, the Industrial Arts Department offered students two different courses with a major project component. Industrial Technology has three strands: Metal, Timber and Design and Technology. Students were encouraged to create a project that will be of valuable use to them after King’s, while enabling them to display a wide variety of skills. Twenty-nine students designed, created and constructed projects from their chosen material medium beginning at the start of Term 4, 2018. From this day they had just over 10 months to complete their major work and accompanying 80 page project documentation folio. These works ranged from a log splitter, boat, steam bent bench, elderly assistance mobility device, a variety of trailers and much more. All works required an immense amount of time to design, plan, construct and finish, with many boys spending all of their study periods, Clubs time and of course class time working to see fruition.
Whilst work on these projects could not commence prior to HSC course work beginning in Term 4 2018, the planning process and journey for many of these boys began a number of years prior, with the majority honing their skills since they arrived at King’s in Year 7 in 2014. Studying mandatory Technology in Years 7 and 8 introduced the boys to basic hand and machinery skills, as well as design skills in CAD drawing, in both 2 and 3 dimensions. These boys then progressed on to a variety of Industrial and Design electives in Years 9 and 10. Areas of Technology study for these students included Graphics, Industrial Technology, Design and Engineering. Peter McLeod is a prime example of a student whose planning process began years before the start of his HSC course. Peter, who built a boat, turned his personal hobby into a HSC project to then an inspired future career path. Although the process was extremely rigorous and time consuming, even sometimes having
