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Food Mid KS3 Y8 Mainly Designing - Multicultural meals for mates

Food Mid KS3 Y8 Mainly Designing - Multicultural meals for mates, D&T Key ResourcesFood Mid KS3 – Y8 Mainly DesigningMulticultural meals for mates – 2 hours First published 2015; updated 2016 In this unit students will investigate designing multicultural meals that are suitable for teenagers. They will develop and understanding of different needs and wants and demonstrate an understanding of the need for a healthier ethnic dish using different research methods, then generate possible design solutions including costs. Key learning: Considering individual likes and dislikes to develop a suitable savoury food product...

Food Mid KS3 Y8 Design and Make - Design and make your school lunch

Food Mid KS3 Y8 Design and Make - Design and make your school lunch, D&T Key ResourcesFood Mid KS3 – Design and MakeDesign and make your school lunch – 8 hoursFirst published 2015; updated 2016 Working within national constraints of the School Food Standards students will design an appropriate main meal for school lunches. They will know how to plan, prepare, adapt and cook a suitable meal for a given need, understanding the requirements for it to be nutritious and healthy. Practical sessions include adapting, preparing and evaluating their dishes against set criteria. They will also understand the...

Food Early KS3Y7 Mainly Making - Practical Skills Building

Food Early KS3Y7 Mainly Making - Practical Skills Building, D&T Key ResourcesEarly KS3 – Mainly MakingPractical skills building – 8 hours First published 2015; updated 2016 This covers the introduction to the kitchen environment, food safety and safe working, establishing routines and building basic culinary skills. It considers at food safety through personal hygiene and the 4 Cs, as well as healthy eating principles. Practical lessons have students making baked beans on toast, a fruit salad, ratatouille and bolognaise. Key Learning: Principles of food safety: the 4Cs and basic bacteriology Principles...

Food Early KS3Y7 Mainly Designing - Catering for Needs

Food Early KS3Y7 Mainly Designing - Catering for Needs, D&T Key Resources Early KS3 – Mainly DesigningCatering for needs – 2 hoursFirst published 2015; updated 2016 Generating food products to meet the needs of the consumer. This considers consumer needs and choices and how to plan diets for children, teenagers, the elderly, vegetarians, and medical and religious needs. It considers adapting recipes using alternative ingredients. In the practical session students are asked to adapt a lasagne to meet the needs of a vegetarian consumer. Key Learning: Identifying the needs of the...

Food Early KS3Y7 Design and Make - Design for Health

Food Early KS3Y7 Design and Make - Design for Health, D&T Key ResourcesFood Early KS3 – Design and Make Design for health – 5 hoursFirst published 2015; updated 2016 Producing a healthier meal aimed at teenagers. In this students investigate factors affecting food choices before designing and making a meal suitable for a teenager. They consider factors such as the importance of a balanced diet, cost, availability, cultural and religious practices and health concerns. Practical lessons include making a stir fry, a curry and kofta before working independently on their final choice of meal. Key...

Maximising children’s progress in KS1 and KS2

Maximising children’s progress in KS1 and KS2, If we want children to make great progress in D&T we need to be clear about what progression in the subject actually means and put the necessary building blocks in place to support children’s learning as they move through the school. What does progression in D&T look like? Children make progress in D&T as they develop an increasing capability to design and make good quality products with a range of materials, for a variety of users and purposes. The development of this ‘D&T capability’ is one of the main...

Review your Department

Review your Department: The D&T Association Self Review Framework, Register for the Self Review Framework (SRF) All schools are required to complete an annual self review. This generally requires secondary Subject Leaders to provide information to their Senior Management Team. We understand that the review process can be demanding and time consuming and difficult to undertake. We have produced a product to simplify this process. Our new Self-Review Framework and associated Design & Technology Mark have been designed to address this need. Take a look at this short Self-Review Framework video which...

Bespoke INSET Training

Our Bespoke INSET packages give all primary and secondary schools delivering D&T the opportunity to have training in-school or online. These are for members and non-members and can offer a flexible and cost-effective alternative to scheduled CPD events and training days. These can be delivered in-school or online to effectively meet your school requirements by developing a bespoke package to meet your highly individual needs. Schools have many different requirements: Curriculum training for their team, addressing arising challenges within their department, improving skills and knowledge, helping with assessment of a department, supporting teachers to implement changes and...

Summer time...D&T teachers are chillin’

Summer time...D&T teachers are chillin’, With the school summer holidays now upon us, this seemed as good a time as any to reflect on the academic year just passed and specifically my almost seven months at the D&T Association. In a year in which the news has been pretty much dominated by Brexit, education appears to have been largely ignored by the press. Yes, we have a new Education Secretary as the previous incumbent was indicating that she was actually developing empathy for the intricacies of the post and therefore had to be moved on! Aside from...

Timetabling D&T

Timetabling D&T , Andy Mitchell explores the importance of good timetabling for design and technology Importance and context Recent posts in social media have included requests made by Subject Leaders, asking for examples of timetabling models used in colleagues’ schools. It takes me back to when I engaged in the annual process of timetabling D&T in a large comprehensive school at which I worked. Obviously no two schools are the same and there are many variables to consider, such as number/type of specialist rooms, available specialist teachers, time allocation and distribution, class grouping/division...

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