Lord Bill’s technology students ‘amaze’!

STUDENTS at Thame’s Lord Williams’s school’s Design and Technology Faculty recently ‘amazed’ their tutors when they hosted, for the second year running, twelve Year 8 students at a Most Able Student workshop.

The purpose of the off-timetable workshop was to teach the students enhanced Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Manufacturing (CAM) skills. The project was to make a complex, double-sided maze, using a variety of computer controlled equipment, such as a Router and a Laser Cutter.

The students worked with oak and acrylic and used hand finishing skills to complete their maze which tutors and pupils agreed was a resounding success! The students involved were Bobby Sluka, Verity Roberts, Robert Watts, Helena Bernstein, Luke Gerrish, Violet Weston, Thomas Ingell, Katie McRobert, Thomas Foster-Day, Frances Dixon, Rory Pridmore and Josephine Golds.

Julia Bond, Subject Leader for Resistant Materials within the Design & Technology Faculty said: “It had been a busy, but enjoyable day. I think all the students have worked hard and have gained a lot from the experience of spending the day at Upper School, using equipment that is not normally available to students until Year 10.”

The students’ amazing mazes will be available to view at local retailer, FROM, in Cornmarket, Thame, until Friday, July 11.