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Fabric Manipulation Skills

Fabric Manipulation Skills, In Partnership with Design & Technology Association, this is a new course from the Textile Skills Centre hosted at D&TA Centre in Banbury and with support from Janome UK In this comprehensive practical course, learn a large variety of textile fabric manipulation techniques including: Folds, Darts, Pleats, Slashing, Tucks, English smocking, American smocking, Shirring, Crashing, Ruffles, Weaving, heat Shibori and more. The course includes downloadable templates, guides and exemplars. Course Review:"The course was great, we covered so much In the day and you couldn’t fail

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

Designed for Life Newstead Wood School

New Designed for Life Episode: Building a Thriving Design & Technology Department at Newstead Wood School, How do you establish a thriving Design & Technology department from scratch with a brand-new team? What curriculum changes at KS3, KS4, and KS5 can truly stretch and challenge high-achieving students? And how can you transform the department’s look and function on a limited budget while improving perceptions of the subject among students and parents? In the latest episode of Designed for Life, we explore these crucial questions as we visit...

What do you think?

What do you think?, You buy our resources, you use them... now tell us about the outcomes. What have your students done? Did everything go according to plan? If you have any comments about the resources on our website, please let us know. Remember too there’s a great opportunity to showcase your students’ work in one of our magazines: Designing, D&T Primary and D&T Practice. If you’ve used one of the resources in school, or if you have delivered great teaching of a different project with your classes, we’d...

Fussy FTs and IEAs

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. CAD Screw threads - this FT will go into how to make a screw thread in CAD and 3D print them. Investigative Evaluative Activities - Coming Soon IEAs are where students learn from a range of existing products and find out about D&T in the...

Rebecca Topps at Bulletproof Design

Rebecca Topps at Bulletproof Design, The night before, the nerves are kicking in along with the realisation that I had not stepped into the design world for over twelve years. Bulletproof is a design agency who help brands grow through powerful sensory brand worlds, intelligent branding and guardianship, inspiring packaging design and more. They have worked with brands all over the world and have offices in four countries. Would they expect me to be amazing at Photoshop? Or be able to sketch twenty different ideas in minutes? All these thoughts...

In Conversation with Brian Oppenheim

HMI lead inspector for D&T, Brian Oppenheim, Podcast brought to you by the Design and Technology Association in partnership with the Edge Foundation. Listen now! Brian Oppenheim one of Her Majesties lead inspectors, a former teacher and head of design and technology and currently an experienced lead inspector with responsibility for the subject. In this conversation, we cover Brian's experience at school and what brought him to train to teach design and technology with the Inner London Education Authority. Brian talks us...

Modelmaking for Industry Degree Apprenticeship Explained

Modelmaking for Industry Degree Apprenticeship Explained, In this webinar, teachers explored the Modelmaking for Industry Degree Apprenticeship delivered by Arts University Bournemouth in partnership with Foster + Partners. Led by lecturers Will Strange and Claire Holman, the session introduced model making as a specialist and highly transferable discipline used across architecture, product design, film and engineering. Teachers gained insight into the processes involved, from CNC machining and digital fabrication to traditional hand-making techniques, and how these skills are applied in industry. The webinar also featured...

In Conversation with Hethersett Academy - Part two

Part two of two , Hethersett Academy , This is part two of a two-part mini-series in which we explore the development of the design and technology curriculum offer at Hethersett Academy in East Anglia. If you have not yet listened to part one, I suggest you go back and listen to this first, as there is something of a sequence. Listen here Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Amazon Music In this episode, we follow on from our...

Nanotechnology – Small really is beautiful

Nanotechnology – Small really is beautiful, Trying to keep up with the latest advances in technologies can be a daunting and never-ending quest, and it is often tempting to take stock and try to understand what we have, rather than chase the latest development or trend. In my house I’m last in line to inherit the hand-me-down phone or tablet and while I constantly urge myself to keep up with what’s next, I sometimes take refuge in what I’ve got and what works for me. ...

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