Background
Wellington College is a decile 10 boys' school with a roll of 1,500 students.
Technology is compulsory in Years 9-10, with Technology and Graphics offered as an option in Years 10-11. Technology and/or Graphics can be taken as separate subjects in Years 12-13.
After working as a freelance artist, Matthew Lane taught Graphics at four schools in the UK, three of them as HoD, and also worked as an advanced skills teacher in the subject. He emigrated to New Zealand with his wife and six children in 2002, and taught at Wellington College, where he became Head of Department Graphics and Technology (with a Technology emphasis on resistant materials) in 2005.
In that first year, Matthew's Year 12 class pioneered client-based technology at the school, and the use of university students working in-class as mentors. This class was profiled at Year 13 level in the case study BP623 Size is No Object and in the Student Showcases of Edward, Joseph and James.
