Progress photos taken on 30 April 2010 by Kennedy Adamson.

You’ll notice from the photos that the rocking toy incorporates a wide range of materials and processes.  This helps reduce bottlenecks during manufacturing, as there are only two wood lathes and two metal lathes in the room.  Pupils have access to casting, forging and brazing facilities in an adjacent room, which has a large window to allow supervision.  Usually therefore, pupils have a choice of tasks to progress.  This does make lessons rather busy for the teacher though, with so many machines and processes running at once.

It may not be evident from the photos that S6 Prefect Andrew Goudie does a lot of work advising and supervising.  The S3 pupils call him ‘Chief’.  This session he has enabled workshop lessons to proceed particularly smoothly.