<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpbc57e14eyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Katrina,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">At Ringwood Secondary College, Y7 students take 1 semester in Materials & Technology & Y8 students 1 semester in DigiTech (digital studies)</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Classes are generally 4 x1 hour lessons over 2 weeks, from memory.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">From this, students can stream to Y9-Y12 Product Design & Technology, and also pick up (at middle school level) Y9 C.A.D., Y9 Robotics & Y10 Systems Engineering.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hope this helps.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Regards,</div><div><br></div><div class="ydpbc57e14esignature">Paul Gorman</div><div class="ydpbc57e14esignature" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Product Design & Technology Teacher <div>vizartoz@yahoo.com.au</div></div></div>
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On Tuesday, 23 July 2019, 05:25:12 pm AEST, Katrina Wheaton-Penniall <Katrina.Wheaton-Penniall@genazzano.vic.edu.au> wrote:
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<p class="yiv1724840187MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">Just wanting to gather a bit of information on Design &Tech and Digital technologies taught at Years 7 &8 at your schools.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv1724840187MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">Firstly, do you offer Design & Tech and/or Digital Technologies as a subject at Years 7 and 8.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv1724840187MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">Secondly, what time allocation is given to the subjects (eg. 3 x 45min periods a cycle).</span></p>
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<p class="yiv1724840187MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">We are looking to review our Year 7 and 8 program at my school and I would like to see the Technologies firmly embedded so would appreciate any information.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv1724840187MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">Kind Regards,</span></p>
<p class="yiv1724840187MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">Katrina</span></p>
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