<div dir="ltr">It would appear that your school covers the "requirements", but like most of us it will be unlikely to cover the content!<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#ff6600"><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></b></font></i></div><div><i><b><font size="2" face="garamond, serif">Lisa Walsh</font></b></i></div><div><font face="garamond, serif">Design & Technology</font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif">Avila College</font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><img src="http://teresa.avila.vic.edu.au/signature/Avila_signature.jpg"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><i><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#ff6600"><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></b></font></i></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 June 2017 at 16:59, Aeschlimann, Heather J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Aeschlimann.Heather.j@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">Aeschlimann.Heather.j@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>That is how it is run at my school.</div>
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<div>Students do 1 Semester materials tech and 1 Semester art in year 7</div>
<div>Students do 1 Semester food tech and 1 Semester art in year 8</div>
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<div>It does cover the requirements as food technology is one of the contexts in the design technology curriculum area.</div>
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<div>As the Victorian Curriculum is just out I don't think food tech will disappear soon.</div>
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<div>Could be worse, your school could also do the same with art and pair it with drama and music.</div>
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<div>Heather Aeschlimann</div>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Design and Technology] subject time allocation<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Hi all, advice needed.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">My school has decided to modify the Year 8 Curriculum for 2018 so that all Year 8 classes will have 2 x sessions Art and 2 x sessions of Food tech per year. This means
that they will no longer have the other 2 x sessions of Technology Materials.</span><span lang="EN-AU"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt">They will continue to have 2 x sessions a week of Technology Materials in year 7.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt">They note that they have checked the Victorian Curriculum for design and technologies and note that food specialisations and food production
are two of the four contexts studied. When they considered mapping out Year 7 and 8 Technologies studies for 2018+ they say students will, over the course of two years, study materials and technology specialisations and food specialisations obviously they
are looking at food and materials being one and the same thing (technology)</span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt">Is this enough to cover the victorian curriculum for materials technology? I did hear a rumour that food would be taken out of technologies
in the near future? </span></p>
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