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Honouring David Bowie, A design icon for the classroom On the 10th January 2026, we marked ten years since the passing of David Bowie, one of the most influential figures in music, fashion, and design. His creativity continues to inspire, offering design and technology teachers a wealth of ideas to bring innovation, individuality, and experimentation into the classroom. Bowie’s career, spanning six decades, was defined by reinvention. From his early days in the 1960s to his final works,...
From ironing boards to classroom innovation: celebrating Sarah Boone this Black History Month, This Black History Month, we turn our attention to Sarah Boone, a trailblazing inventor whose insight still resonates in design & technology classrooms today. In 1892, Boone was granted US Patent for an improved ironing board. She recognised that the existing bulky, flat boards were ill suited to pressing sleeves and fitted garments. Her design featured a narrow, curved board that corresponded to the inside and outside seams of sleeves, plus a movable support to...
City of the future sparks creativity in D&T classrooms, Faye Atkinson-Rowse, a trainee teacher at Finham Park School, has shared her experience using the Maker’s Red Box ‘City of the Future’ resource during her PGCE placement. Drawing on her background in set design, construction, and prop making, Faye found translating industry skills into classroom practice daunting, but this resource helped build both her confidence and her students’ independence. Flexible hands-on design challenges The ‘City of the Future’ resource invites students to collaborate on...
Exploring the "Inspired by Industry" Member-only Resources, Inspired By Industry is a set of free design contexts/challenges designed for Key Stage 3 D&T. Each focuses on a different area and is created with a real company or designer who have also tackled this or a similar problem. Each of these contexts contains a wealth of useful material including videos, worksheets, teachers’ notes. D&T Association members will also access a wealth of supporting units; focused tasks (FTs) and investigative and evaluative activities (IEAs). These editable resources...
Materials handling pack – Polymers MSK 601, Materials handling pack – Polymers MSK 601 First released 2017Ages 11-16 This pack of samples helps students get a real feel for polymers and understand their applications in product design. The pack contains 16 different samples and a leaflet summarising the properties and uses of each. Samples: Bakelite Polyester Resin Melamine Formaldehyde Urea Formaldehyde Epoxy Resin Phenol Formaldehyde Acrylic High Impact Polystyrene Expanded Polystyrene High Density Polyethelene Low Density Polyethelene Polyethelene Terephthalate Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene Thermoplastic Elastomer Polypropylene...
STEM into Action - Spin Art, Spin ArtSTEM into Action with D&TAges 11-14First published 2016A spin art machine allows paint that is dropped on to paper to fly off, creating interesting patterns. The viscosity of the paint and the speed and positioning of the spinner are factors that can change how the patterns appear. This resource contains a PowerPoint presentation and Word document that covers the science and mathematics behind viscosity, centrifuges, centripetal and kinetic forces and how these and image manipulation can help...
Key events and individuals (designers, engineers and chefs in primary D&T), DT: What will you be? Session Content: A talk that will enable you to inspire young people to shape their own futures and change the world. Drawing on real life examples from disciplines such as engineering, architecture, food technology, textile design and computer coding, we meet some of the best thinkers and designers from the past and present. Learning Outcomes: We will also investigate what personal qualities these...
Hertfordshire School’s Robotics Team Triumphs at VEX Robotics World Championship , The robotics team from Haberdashers’ Boys’ School has been awarded the Excellence Award at the 2025 VEX Robotics World Championship in Dallas, Texas, the highest honour in the world’s largest school robotics competition. This prestigious award recognises outstanding achievement across engineering design, coding, collaboration, and innovation. This victory marks a historic moment for UK schools, as Haberdashers’ Boys’ School becomes the first UK team to win the Excellence Award at their programme level, and only...
World Book Day primary D&T competition 2026 – terms and conditions, Please read these terms and conditions carefully before entering. Promoter The promoter of this competition is the Design & Technology Association. Eligibility The competition is open to UK primary teachers only. Entrants must be aged 18 or over. Employees of the Design & Technology Association and their immediate families are not eligible to enter. ...
Member only Tasks and Activities, Focused Tasks FTs are where students are taught specific technical knowledge, designing skills and making skills. This may be a quick whole-class making activity, learning a new CAD programme, exploring polymers, or much more. Investigative Evaluative Activities IEAs are where students learn from a range of existing products and find out about D&T in the wider world. This may be aspects such as product disassembly, reflection and prediction and discussions and explorations regarding sustainability. Curriculum units Click...
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