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CONTENTS... ERO report,..History,.. Curriculum,.Letters to parents, Yr 7 and Yr 8 Staff,..Facilities, Expo for Yr 6's
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The work spaces. Click on the underlined names for more information |
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High quality, cooperatively planned units of work effectively guide the implementation of the MoTEC teaching programmes. Each staff member takes responsibility for a class and teaches that group of students for all strands of the technology curriculum. As a result, teachers know the needs, strengths and interests of the students well. Students are able to be creative in the planning of their projects and take responsibility for their own work using the achievement criteria provided by teachers in the project brief. Students report they enjoy attending technology classes. |
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The Manual Training centre was a part of the old Motueka District High School, which became Parklands School, when the new F3-7 High School was established, in 1955. It offered woodwork for the boys and cooking and sewing for the girls. Probably the longest-serving past member of the staff is the late Mrs Mina Silke, who taught in the centre for many years.
In the 1970's the curriculum was broadened to include both boys and girls, in both activities.
About 1990, with the introduction of Tomorrow's Schools, and the devolving of school control to local Boards of Trustees, the Ministry of Education also devolved the money provided to teach the new Technology curriculum. Schools were able to choose between sending their students to Centres, like Parklands, or using the money to provide their own programmes. For several years, the fate of our centre hung in the balance, with our staff working on yearly contracts, to see what would happen.
It says a great deal for Mr Brian Barton, (now associate principal) and head of the technology department, and his staff, that all the schools in the district continued to send their pupils to Parklands. Indeed, some of the contributing schools, like Mapua could have demanded that their pupils go to Richmond for their technology.
The Ministry, realizing that the Centre was here to stay, gave us a new building, and MoTEC (Motueka Technology Education Centre) was firmly established, in the magnificent facilities we have today, serving 405 students from fourteen different schools.
OPENING DAY, April 2002.
The centre was opened in April, 2002, having cost over $1,000,000. The ribbon was cut by MP for Tasman and the West Coast, Hon Damien O'Connor. A large crowd of guests were treated to afternoon tea in the new Foods and Technology Room.
Tribute must be paid to the political lobbying and hard work by our principal Martin Major, fellow principals especially Christine Sutton of Riwaka, and the present and previous Boards of Trustees.
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Technology is a subject which involves students in design and production. They are presented with a real-life problem or challenge, and taught the skills required to plan and produce their own solution. |
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Over the year we work in the seven technological areas: For details, go to bottom of page
BIOTECHNOLOGY |
MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY |
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| FOOD TECHNOLOGY | PRODUCTION and PROCESS |
| ELECTRONICS AND CONTROL | STRUCTURES AND MECHANISMS |
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The letters following are those sent to parents of students coming to the Centre
YEAR 7
February 2011
Dear Parents/Caregivers of Year 7 Students
Our MoTEC Team is looking forward to working with your child this year and we invite you to attend any lesson with your child’s class.
Technology is a subject that involves students in research, design and production. They are presented with a real-life problem or challenge and taught the skills required, to plan and produce their own solution.
The new curriculum places emphasis on thinking and applying knowledge and encourages learning based programmes over a broad range of contexts. The children are taught new skills and then they learn to apply these in a variety of creative ways.
The Year 7 programme planned for this year is as follows …
The ‘Materials Fee’ for this year is $58.00, to be paid at your School Office. Students will be supplied with a ‘MoTEC Folder’ and writing and drawing equipment, as well as all materials required for the various units’ undertaken. Prompt payment would be appreciated.
While students are at MoTEC, I am responsible for their safety. For this reason, covered footwear must be worn to all lessons. Long or untidy hair must be tied back when working in Foods or Hard Materials. Failure to comply with these safety measures, will result in a pupil being removed from the group and given an alternative task.
From time to time your child may spend a little time in our gardens which supply produce for our Foods Programme we do this to keep student costs to a minimum.
A copy of our Student Management Plan may be viewed at your child’s school. If you wish to discuss any matter, please contact me at 528 8978 between 7.30 am and 4.30 pm, Monday to Friday.
Brian Barton
Associate Principal.
February 2011
Dear Parents/Caregivers of Year 8 Students
Our MoTEC Team is looking forward to working with your child this year and we invite you to attend any lesson with your child’s class.
Technology is a subject that involves students in research, design and production. They are presented with a real-life problem or challenge and taught the skills required, to plan and produce their own solution.
The new curriculum places emphasis on thinking and applying knowledge and encourages learning based programmes over a broad range of contexts. The children are taught new skills and then they learn to apply these in a variety of creative ways.
The Year 8 programme planned for this year is as follows …
The ‘Materials Fee’ for this year is $58.00, to be paid at your School Office. Students will be supplied with a ‘MoTEC Folder’ and writing and drawing equipment, as well as all materials required for the various units’ undertaken. Prompt payment would be appreciated.
While students are at MoTEC, I am responsible for their safety. For this reason, covered footwear must be worn to all lessons. Long or untidy hair must be tied back when working in Foods or Hard Materials. Failure to comply with these safety measures, will result in a pupil being removed from the group and given an alternative task.
From time to time your child may spend a little time in our gardens which supply produce for our Foods Programme we do this to keep student costs to a minimum.
A copy of our Student Management Plan may be viewed at your child’s school. If you wish to discuss any matter, please contact me at 528 8978 between 7.30 am and 4.30 pm, Monday to Friday.
Brian Barton
Associate Principal.
For a fuller description of the areas in the curriculum click here
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The Centre is roomy and well-served with storage and resource spaces, including the hard materials store, the machine room, drying room, fumes room, large pantry area, teacher-resource space, and toilet facilities. The Street (main corridor) has a mezzanine floor on one end, giving huge extra storage capacity .
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The equivalent of the old woodwork room, students work using a variety of hard material, including metal, plastics, wood and concrete. |
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| A student is working on his display board | A senior student studying the mitre saw | Students cleaning up. |
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A learning task in the hard materials programme |
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The equivalent of the old sewing room, the students use all sorts of soft materials. This year some of the projects include bonded fabric cushions and polarfleece personal accessories. |
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| Cushion covers. A senior student lends a hand. | Topic sheet for winter warmers. Polar fleece project. | Some of the warmers. |
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Lovely mittens |
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We also learn this skill. |
Some of our work |
More embroidery |
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Essentially the planning room for projects, and work in graphics and design, this room also houses the computers, used in the Information and Communications Technology area of the curriculum. |
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Here students are seen researching material about the Motueka Veterinarian Clinic, and will create an i-Movie with the results |
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It used to be called the cooking room, but now embraces a far wider range of activities, (see curriculum, also see Year's Programme) ,but students continue to be taught basic skills needed in the home, as well as health and hygiene aspects. |
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Teacher Karyn and the peanut brownies |
Sparkling facilities. |
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One of our 2007 food topics, displayed in the 'Street' |
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In the biotechnology room students engage in topics such as soft cheeses, products from bees, yeast products and fermentation, grafting. They study the application of enzymes in a range of situations such as washing powder. Other topics such as pest control, tissue culture and microbe culture can be carried out in this sterile environment
EXPO DAYS FOR YEAR 6
After the new Centre was opened in 2002 staff were able to teach all components of the Technology Curriculum.
For many years schools in The Moutere Cluster lost many Year Seven and Eight to the Nelson Intermediates. Our Expo Days have helped these schools retain nearly all of their Senior Students and this has also benefited the local high School as well. Once the students left this area they never returned.
Now that we had modern facilities we were able to easily compete with the Nelson Intermediates and so we introduced two Expo Days. Over these two days we host 215 Year Six Students. Each student produce an item during the ninety minutes they are with us. Projects include Beanies, Containers, Torches and Wind Wands.
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MoTEC Challenge for Year 6's on PhotoPeach
Brian Barton Associate Principal
Parklands School
THE SEVEN TECHNOLOGICAL AREAS
Biotechnology
In intermediate schools students engage in topics such as soft cheeses, products from bees, yeast products and fermentation, grafting. They study the application of enzymes in a range of situations such as washing powder. Other topics such as pest control, tissue culture and microbe culture should be carried out in a sterile environment. It would be preferable that these topics are carried out in a room away from food preparation areas that could easily be kept clean and sterile.
Electronics and Control
Often students use electronic kits for problem solving, develop and make printed circuit boards, solder components and test solutions. Students could be making a hand held electronic game, a burglar alarm, programmable logic control with the use of electronic solaids to control mechanisms. Control technology involves computer control, making and using models to test solutions. Pneumatics and hydraulic systems to operate and control mechanisms.
Food Technology
Topics may range from dried food items or catering for groups to develop and trial new food items. Cultural food items such as haggis and food from other countries may be involved. Health and safety issues. The new Health and Physical Education Curriculum Statement will need to be considered in relation to food and nutrition.
Information and Communications Technology
Students could be carrying out activities in a variety of electronic media, e.g. producing videos; editing programmes; producing newspapers; computer graphics software programme; The use of the Internet for projects and research material; communicating with the outside world; school productions, etc.
Materials Technology
Students will work with a number of materials - wood, plastic, cardboard, textiles, weaving, dying fabric, metal, ceramic. They could be making containers for aniten, recycling clothing into new items, making plastic moulds, fabric treatment, weaving leather work, stain glass, fibreglass and composites, bone. Using machinery such as drills, jigsaws, lathes, scroll, saws, heat bending and moulding machines, sanders and shapers, spot welders, sewing machines, overlockers to develop products from materials. The implication of the new Arts Curriculum Statement will need to be considered.
Production and Process
This can link in with any of the technological areas producing a number of the same items to high quality. Production lines within classes where students select components and each student contributing to a different part. From catering for school events to making sophisticated games and toys.
Structures and Mechanism
This can link into other technological areas. Developing structures and mechanical devices for other products or for structures or mechanical devises in their own right. This could range from making model bridge building, 3D games, and pedal cars.
Graphics and Design
Whichever area that is selected design must be included. Students will be starting to learn about the history of design and use ideas from different areas in their work.
