Technical

Eyemouth High School

The Technical Department at Eyemouth High School comprises two teachers and offers Standard Grade, Intermediate 2 and Higher courses in both Craft and Design and Graphic Communication.

As part of the Standard Grade Graphic Communication course pupils are required to compile a portfolio of work which is internally assessed by the class teacher. The portfolio should contain evidence of work in a range of graphic skills, both manually and computer generated. The evidence for the portfolio should be selected from work done throughout the two year course.

The portfolio contains ten sub elements as shown below. It is possible for one piece of work to cover more than one sub element. For example, a CAG display may be used for evidence for layout and lettering or computer aided draughting. This policy of using a single piece of work to cover more than one sub element is used extensively at Eyemouth High School.

Sub Element	Topic	Evidence
A	2D and 3D Charts	1 manual chart 1 computer chart
B	Use of colour to illustrate a range of drawings/sketches
C	Use of shading, toning and rendering	1 pencil drawing 1 pastel drawing 1 marker pen drawing
D	Layout and lettering
E	Display	1 display (manual or computer)
F	Modelling	1 model
G	Computer Aided Draughting (CAD)	1 orthographic 1 pictorial
H	Use of a CAD library	1 room drawing
I	Computer Aided Graphics Display (CAG Display)	1 rendered pictorial
J	Draughtmanship	Based on work throughout Folio

The following pages shows examples of work which was included in pupils’ portfolios.