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Design and Technology: Product Design

at St Angela'S Ursuline School, London · school or sixth form

Level 3A levelsGCE AS level200 hoursFull timeFree

What the college says

Introduction: It’s a Product Design World Think about the objects that you love. Your mobile phone with its’ delicious curves was designed on a computer screen. The car you yearn for started life as a reduced size clay model. A building that you admire sprang from the drawing board of an architect. It’s not a new phenomenon. Our fascination with Product Design goes back to flint arrow heads and earthenware pots. As a Product Designer you are at the crossroads of a number of skills. Of course you need creativity, in order to imagine the shape and function of the object. You will also need to know about manufacturing processes, materials and marketing. BRINGING IDEAS TO LIFE Product Design is an enormously satisfying career. You have an idea and with the use of tools like wood, metal, plastic, clay, DAD / CAM - it comes to life. Imagine how satisfying it must be for the person who designed the iPhone or Samsung Galaxy to hold the finished product in their hand. YOUR KEY LEARNING TOPICS Your AS and A Level studies cover four main topics, and you will study two of these in the AS year and four in A Level years. In ‘Materials, components and application’ - you’ll look at materials, production processes and the impact of cost and design. In ‘Learning through designing and making’ you will produce some coursework using your own design with a range of materials and media. In the second year you’ll get to grips with ‘Design and manufacture’ - helping you to appreciate the relationship

What you need to get on

Students will need to have studied one of the following GCSEs Technology, Product Design, Resistant Materials, Graphic Products, Systems & Controls, Engineering / Manufacturing and gained an overall grade 6 for entry onto the course.

How you are assessed

Academic subjects, mostly exams, three or four at once. The traditional route to university.

What this level means

The A-level-equivalent step, and what universities and employers ask for.

Is it open to 16 to 18 year olds?

Approved for 16 to 18 study on the government's Section 96 list.

Where it runs

  • St Angela's Ursuline School

    St. Georges Road, London, E7 8HU

    DaytimeClassroom based
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Start dates

  • 1 September 2026 · London

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