Woldgate School and Sixth Form is delighted with its new state of the art design and technology facilities with industry-standard equipment. The specialist CAD (computer aided design) facilities include laser cutting, CNC milling, 3D printing and vinyl cutting. The school’s curriculum is creative and diverse; supporting pupils in learning and developing a broad range of skills as they progress through the school utilising the fantastic facilities.

With new processes and new technologies pupils and students are open to foam concept modelling, using the new hot wire cutters, which allows students to produce quality prototypes to evaluate and refine prior to production. This process is embedded across all key stages, and we have found a wonderful supplier for our foam! The Thermoforming Centre allows pupils to vacuum form, dome blow, as well as general heat forming processes for polymers. Additionally, the centre allows us to teach injection moulding, plastic welding and extrusion processes. We are looking forward to using this in the forthcoming polymer project in Year 9.