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Junior Certificate Woodwork 2024

Below are the projects submitted by this years woodwork classes for the State Examinations.

Students had to pick one of the following design briefs and submit a project they felt answered the brief.

Select one design brief from below

  1. Handcrafted items of elegant design can enhance our living spaces.
    Design and make a decorative artefact to display household notices and reminders. It should include a facility to hold keys and to store other small items. The artefact should evoke a theme of your choice and be designed for wall-mounting or for placement on a surface. The use of carefully chosen solid woods, complemented by a range of handcraft skills, should enhance your design.
  2. Young people enjoy music as a form of relaxation.
    Design and make a unique and elegant artefact which celebrates the joys of music. Your design should reflect a musical theme, genre, artist, or group of importance to you. Your artefact should be enhanced by the use of contrasting solid woods and should showcase a range of handcraft skills and techniques.
  3. An elegant footstool is a useful item in a home.
    Design and make a compact footstool suitable for use, in an area of your choice, in a home. Your artefact must be designed to be sturdy, safe in use, and should incorporate a useful secondary function. The use of suitable solid woods enhanced by handcrafted joints should be a distinctive feature of your footstool.

Construction Projects 2020

Today was a strange day in school. Taking a trip through the construction room was like scenes more commonly seen in a documentary. It was clear the room was abandoned with the intention to return. Tools, paint brushes and varnishes left on tables ready for the next days work.

On Thursday 12th March like many we were taken by surprise, the schools closed a week earlier then we had guessed. Nobody ever expected that was the last day of school for the class of 2020, we thought we’d back back after Easter or worst case the May bank holiday. Foot and Mouth, SARS, H1N1, Swine flu, all passed through in recent years and we all kept working. Confident we would be back the Construction class left the projects with a few small touches left to do before the final exams.

Every year at this time we post our projects for all to see, and this year will be no different. Keep in mind when you look at the projects, some are finished, some are almost there. The odd coat of varnish is needed, maybe a hinge or a clock, the cushions are mocked up but the sense of where we were going is clear.

Best of luck to the class of 2020, don’t be shy call in and say hello, our door will open again.