Past Successes

Today I realised that we have been very successful as a department at nurturing talent and helping students achieve the very best.  Some students have truly excelled.  Here are our winners in the North West's Young Designer of the year Competition.

2008- Rachel Lightfoot (First)
Yasmin Jones (Did not place).

2010- Nicole Rouke (First)
Gemma Kettle (Third).

2011- Patricia Escano (Second)
Hollie Clarke (Did not place).

2008

2010

2011

Well done to all those who have competed.

GCSE Lighthouse prototype.

This pupil is creating a side lamp influenced by a lighthouse.  It will use polypropylene as the main body, this will have an advantage of being able to flat pack.  The pupil has chosen to create a hardwood oak base which will be turned on the lathe.

Complete Clocks

Year 9 have just completed a Design and make project creating clocks.  They were inspired by the Memphis design group.  Pupils created card prototypes and developed them into a acrylic final outcomes.  Pupils developed several hand tool workshop skills and were introduced to some GCSe processes such as routing.

GCSE pupil Achieving

This pupil is creating a lamp based on a cube design. It will be finger jointed together and lasercut to achieve an accurate and high quality finish.  The pupil has been inspired by circuit boards and the movie TRON. The pupil first created a card template to test the finger joints then cut his design out.  He plans to insert a yellow acrylic in the circuit gaps and place the design on a hardwood base.

First Post

Hi, My name is Mr Jones and welcome to the UCAN Product Design Blog. I will be posting photos of students work, inspiring videos and imagery and also asking questions of design.

Please enjoy what you see.  If you have any questions please contact me at
UCAN (University of Chester Academy Northwich). or email me at
rjones@rudheathhs.cheshire.sch.uk