Some lucky year 8 learners got to prototype and race mini F1 #Racing cars 🏎️🏁🏎️today, with thanks to @EESWSTEMCymru and their lovely team! And some more tomorrow! ⚙️⏱️✂️ #engineeringisfun #prototype #creativeenterprising @CCYD_school

Noisy fun in D&T in our Year 6 open evening last night! We look forward to seeing you all next September! @CCYD_school #welcome #hammers #saws #screwdrivers #miniflatpack Spot Mrs Wellington!

Still loving those turbines! A whole host of different designs coming out across the year group, great to see creativity! Da iawn 8A! @CCYD_school

Happy Half Term! Good luck to year 11 and year 13, last official school day today! Year 8 have been creating turbines in D&T. Well done to those of you who have finished! #sustainable #renewableenergy 🍃 @CCYD_school

Some lucky learners from our y10 Product Design classes took part in @SonyTechUK ‘s amazing #sustainability 🌱seminar today with a tour of the factory, 🦾robotics & some creative problem solving thinking about our climate emergency. Thanks for having us! @CCYD_school @PlanitEco

Today D&T had a fascinating visit from STEM ambassador Ben Lepley who explained where products come from with the help of his pet rocks - a lot of shiny ores and minerals! We all loved it! Thanks Ben! 🪨 💎 🔑🧨 @CCYD_school #minerals #responsiblemining

Our 6th form teams participated in the @ICE_engineers challenge at Swansea Uni today! Congrats to our team winning 2nd place, for holding a weight of 39kg on their structure of playing cards! &thanks for a sneak peek at civil engineering facilities @SwanseaUni @CCYD_school

Check out engineering as a career; the UK needs more engineers! You could be the next big problem solver!

Lovely to meet all our year 6s and others who might be joining us next year! We had a fun and noisy time with sawing and hammering challenges! Da iawn! Can you spot Mrs Stockton, our head of year 7? Croeso to D&T! @CCYD_school and thanks to all our helpers! #designtechnology

Testing how aerodynamic our rocket designs are, with 7B! 🚀 As part of our The Sky is not the Limit challenge in D&T. Didn’t quite hit the moon yet! 🌙 @CCYD_school @CcydYear7 #rocketlaunch #iterations #space #technologies #aerospace

And bye from Mrs D to a fabulous cohort, you’ve been amazing… especially to my lovely form class who endured me for 5 years 🤪 … and so much love to the wonderful Mrs Hewitt, our fabulous head of year! 🥰 #aboveandbeyond #bestever Bye Year 11! #allthebest @CCYD_school

Bye to my amazing y11 engineering class! Love Mrs D 😃 I’ll miss most of you… 😂 #engineering #putthehammerdown #doyourcoursework! @CCYD_school

Sad goodbyes yesterday to some lovely learners! And remembering how you got to where you are now! Fond farewells to our y13s including Leila and Levi pictured below. & a shout out to Isabel for having the highest coursework marks for 3 years running! 🌟 @CCYD_school #farewell

Year 10 learners thinking about anthropometric data and #ergonomic design today with a mini fun task - could they make a mask in 5 minutes that anyone in the class could see through? Gathering measurements & models of 6 teams’ results below! #LearningJourney @CCYD_school

Some lucky members of our Year 11 Engineering classes really enjoyed our trip to @astonmartin Lagonda today! “Best experience of my life!”According to one of our learners! Our thanks to the apprentices and alumni Bethan D for the tour!

Some of our fabulous staff at CCYD supporting Children In Need and filling the school with fun and enthusiasm.

Thanks for having us! @CCYD_school

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Da iawn!

We had a fun learning experience with some rocketry activities at the University and exploring the courses on offer. Ioan S says “it’s great to see what we could do after school, this was really fun, I enjoyed this!” @CCYD_school @UniSouthWales