Portmarnock CS Technology Subjects

Mr Naughtons 2nd Year Graphics students produced some excellent Solidworks parts & associated working drawings in class the past couple of weeks.

Mr Naughton's 1st Year Wood Technology students recently completed their model F1 cars and finished them off with a race 🏎️🪵🌳

👀👀 Watch this space. New Adult Education Woodwork for beginners night course starting January 2023. More details to follow soon....

Mr Naughton's TY DCG group experimenting with SketchUp in class today. Some creative and unique house models completed.

Mr Naughton's first year Wood Technology group recently completed their bird house project, just in time for the nesting season. Shown is a sample of the group, with some excellent craftsmanship on display!

Mr. Naughton’s First year Wood Technology students recently completed their phone/tablet stands, with some nice personal touches included. Mr Naughton leading by example 🟩🟥

Nothing like some competition. Mr. Fox’s first years Applied Technology putting all their skills to the test today, creating a sound activated penalty shout-out game using @microbit_edu. Tense scenes for all involved as the inevitable competition took place @PortmarnockCS

A friendly Good morning from all here at Portmarnock community school technology department. Thanks to the bright minds of our first years who developed a code using @microbit_edu to allow this familiar character to come to life @PortmarnockCS

Mr. Fox’s first year technology putting their knowledge of structures to the test by building bridges which will be put to the test next week

Mr Naughton's 1st Yr Graphics peer assessing each others work. Getting a feel for the success criteria involved in Graphics Q's while incorporating summative and formative assessment methodologies.

Mr. Greens 1st year technology with their transport by sea and land projects #technology #jct #juniorcert

One of our second year Applied technology students finishing up his mechanism project today. Developing new skills on the lathe and threading material #appliedtechnology #engineering

Mr Naughton's 2nd Year Graphics class applying 2D Developments skills to create 3D Models.

No job too big or too small for this tipper lorry completed by one of our students today in class. A simple but effective project to help students develop all the basic skills from marking out to assembly. #appliedtechnology #engineering #manufacturing #JCT #electronics

Our new display cabinet to share projects of past students with the current. Helping to promote enthusiasm and inspiration into younger students and allowing them to see what they will soon be capable of achieving #appliedtechnology #engineering #future #Inspiration #practical

Some of our 3rd years putting in the hard work in the design stage for their applied technology project #appliedtechnology #chickencoop #Engineering #technology #cardboardmodel #design #prototype

@trevormca Project was designed by one of our current 5th year students last year during a TY design module

@PortmarnockCSt4 Really nice design!

Just a small selection of phone holders completed by our first years today in Applied Technology #appliedtechnology #phoneholder #design #practical

Johnny Five is Alive @ettaireland @CastleknockCC @technology_4

Some of our TYs writing code using our new Microbits to create a miniature Tug of war game utilizing the LED as the center point of the virtual rope #appliedtechnology #microbits #coding #TY #technology