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John Donnelly, John is based in the North West of England and has been a D&T teacher for nearly 25 years and Head of Department for over 20 years. John set up his own D&T consultancy company in 2015, DTResources Limited and can deliver CPD for all aspects of Design and Technology, DATA H&S training and machine inspection and maintenance. John is passionate about CAD (Fusion 360) and 3D Printing, and has helped many schools by delivering training on the use of 3D printing, both for...
Ursuline Academy, Ilford, Rose Russell and Edna Reilly, On International Women in Engineering Day, Designed for Life takes a moment to celebrate the work of two women who have made an amazing positive difference to girls' exposure to STEM opportunities within their school. Listen to the podcast hereRose Russell has been an outstanding Technician/Instructor/ STEM Coordinator at the Ursuline Academy, Ilford (an all girl’s catholic school) for 29 years in both the art and design and design and technology departments. Trained in fashion, Rose is...
Inclusive by Design Webinar, Yesterday we delivered a webinar featuring speakers from our latest issue of Designing magazine. The webinar introduced various products and initiatives designed to inspire attendees about how to integrate inclusivity in D&T classrooms. Key Speakers: Paul Woodward (D&T Association) kicked off the webinar by discussing how design is fundamentally about finding solutions to problems that can enhance people's lives. Paul showcased tools like the Braille Box, which supports students with visual impairments. The session highlighted how such inclusive design...
Special measures, Andy Mitchell reflects on a week when once again, we are reminded of further changes ahead for schools and particularly the preparation of teachers in the future and the view from Ofsted. Reflecting on my second week at the beginning of what is set to be yet another turbulent year for education, where did it go? A week when we heard once again from the Department for Education that they would like to discuss with us what revised GCSEs for the subject might look...
Kevin Rumary, Kevin is a registered Design and Technology Health and Safety Consultant, experienced senior leader and Engineering subject expert. With a Doctorate and Master’s degrees in education, he is an expert in the field of technical and vocational education. He has extensive experience leading Design and Technology departments in middle and secondary provisions in the North and South of the country. He has also been the DT National Subject Lead across a large MAT consisting of 32 secondary schools and six primary schools, providing advice, training...
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’, 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
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?, 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...
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...
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