Year 11 Furniture and Construction (BCITO)

Year 11 Furniture and Construction assessed against BCITO

For 2025  we will be offering a Furniture and Construction course using BCITO standards.

This course will continue to be a practical heavy course with theory work that goes alongside what the students are making. 

This is a course that offers students an opportunity to produce a furniture outcome using construction standards that develop students skills in how to join, manufacture and finish timber. As well as understanding working drawings and how to produce a cutting list.

It is a trade related course designed to introduce students to skills and knowledge required to allow them to go into a career in the construction industry such as Joinery, Building, Construction, Carpentry, Flooring etc.

Students will learns skills in:

Accuracy in marking out timber:

• Working in mm students will learn to follow a working drawing

• Students will learn to use a variety of hand tools for marking out to ensure accuracy in marking out.

Joining timber:

• To create wider sections with a biscuit machine.

• To create intricate wood joints like dovetail joints, mortice and tenon, housing joints, halving joints.

Finishing timber:

• To create a natural finish.

• To create a high quality finish so that the furniture item is ready to be sold or used.

This course prepares students for trade based apprenticeships. We recommend this to be a 2 year course with students continuing the course on into Year 12, building on skills learnt at year 11. See the BCITO link below for more information.

https://bcito.org.nz/

Please speak with Miss Penfold or email [email protected] if you would like to either see what students produce or chat about the course.