Design Technology students visit the JAG factory!

To support teaching and learning in Design Technology at GCSE and A level, we took twenty-two Year 11 Design Technology students to the Morgan and Jaguar car factories.  This provided an invaluable insight into the industrial and commercial aspects of the Design Technology curriculum, as well as providing a once in a life time opportunity to witness first hand the skilled work that goes into the manufacture of two of the most famous British marques still in production in the United Kingdom today.

We were all well impressed by the efficiency of Jaguar’s ‘lean’ production of the new aluminium bodied Jaguar XK and in contrast were in awe of the traditional skills of the workforce at Morgan Cars in Worcestershire where they have been making the ash framed and aluminium bodied GT3 Roadster for 70 years.

It was a long journey there and back in a day but we all benefited from and were enthused at seeing British industry alive and leading the world in top class engineering.

It was a great day out and I’ll have mine in navy please with an ivory hood!

Written by Miss Louise Cook (Head of Design and Technology)