Helping Year 11's avoid stress at the end of the year

In 11DVC, the students have 3 externals that they enter drawings into.

1 - Sketching

2 - Orthographic

3 - Isometric

For 1 - Sketching, the students gather their best sketching from over the period of the year and they submit these. This is not a stressful achievement standard, and the kids don't even know they are creating the evidence for this standard.

For 2 - Orthographic, the students must create an Orthographic drawing to scale of one of their designs. This standard (like the others) is worth 3 credits, and the students generally find this standard the hardest. There is the opportunity that this standard maybe missed this year, and we do an Internal instead (the development internal worth 6 credits). We generally do this standard at the end of the year.

For 3 - Isometric, the students create and isometric / or oblique / drawing of one of their designs. These drawings are generally done at the end of the year, and combined with the Orthographic drawing standard, take quite alot of time. Especially, because at least 40% of my 11DVC classes are made up of students that have never done the subject before.

This year, I am getting the students to create their Isometric Drawings straight after their first project is completed. It is going quite well, and we are splitting the lessons up each week (2 for Isometric, 2 for presentation) and this has been working really well. I have enjoyed seeing the students excel in their drawings, and actually finish their work well before it is due.

This change was motivated by the students in previous years and their obvious stress levels in class at the end of the year. It has also been good to change this structure this year as there are lunchtimes that students can come in on to finish their Isometric drawings in.

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