Year 9 students have been designing key rings for the Great North Air Ambulance, as a part of a Maths and Technology cross curricular challenge.



During their Design and Technology lessons, Year 9 students were given a design brief and had to design a suitable key ring then draw it up using a CAD programme.

In their Maths classes each group made a range of costings on their designs, so that they could work out what the key ring would cost to make, what the retail price, and what the profit would be. Each class decided on a winning team and those teams presented their prototypes to a Dragons' Den. The Dragons' Den members were Mr Bell (Technology) Mr Wardell (Maths) Mr McCallum (Deputy Principal).

The Dragons found a winner for each band then an over all winner. They were judged on quality of design, quality of presentation, knowledge of costing and knowledge of the charity. This year's winners were Kaleem Majid, Sohail Akhtar and Benjamin Russell.

The key rings will be on sale for 50p and are available at the cashiers on 15th, 16th, 22nd and 23rd June. All proceeds will be presented to GNAA. The GNAA gets no government funding for the 3 helicopters that cover the 550 square miles of the North east region so they rely heavily on charitable donations such as ours.