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What are legal implications regarding other teachers, i.e. unqualified teachers, teaching D&T?, The document BS4163:2021 Health and safety for design and technology in educational and similar establishments – Code of Practice’ provides clear guidance on those responsible for supervising students whilst undertaking design and technology activities. As a Code of Practice it provides practical compliance of how to comply with the law. Approved Codes of Practice have a special legal status. If employers are prosecuted for a breach of health and safety law, and it is proved that they have not followed the...
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 designing a futuristic city. They select a sector such as...
Design Legends - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Design Legends: Charles Rennie Mackintosh Ages 14-18 The first in a series of teaching resources consideringinfluential designers identified in the GCSE specifications for D&T that present for students a summary of their lives, influences, examples of their work and the context in which they developed their ideas. This three-minute video and accompanying PowerPoint presentation is planned to inspire students to consider the work of a particular designer and use the information to develop their own design ideas, for example by designing in...
Teaching National Curriculum D&T 2015 with Creativity and Confidence, To book your place on the next available course click here. This one day primary specific course will include a FREE copy of Projects on a Page, the new national scheme of work for KS1 and 2 Aims of the course To identify the challenges and opportunities created by the new National Curriculum for D&T at KS1 and 2 To explore a range of practical strategies to support implementation To introduce the new national scheme
Key Practitioners introductions, The Key Practitioners PoaP focuses on a selection of recommended key individuals from across the design and technology specialisms. This is focused for KS2 but can be delivered at any time across those year groups. The planner gives you ideas for how you can incorporate key individuals into your planning and units of work as well as giving you an overview of each of the recommended individuals so as to help you select the most relevant practitioner for your planning and also to introduce them to your pupils. Accompanying the PoaP resource...
Hand-made switches helpsheet, Making hand-made switches is a good way of helping children understand how they work and which would be appropriate for a particular user and purpose in a product. For example, some lights may need to stay on, others to work only when held.These switches can be put together using: scissors, automatic wire strippers and ruler. Use a card drill or hole punch to make holes in card. Materials can include card, corrugated plastic sheet, card wheels, paper clips, paper fasteners, click rivets, aluminium foil or self-adhesive copper strip. Make the parts from...
Free KS3 Resources, ‘Inspired by Industry’ is a set of design contexts to address the ever-changing needs of the Design and Technology curriculum. Rather than take a ‘project-driven approach to designing and making, they each start with a real-world design context provided by an industry partner of the Design & Technology Association. The contexts are authentic to the companies providing them with opportunities for teachers to use these with students. All follow a common design-thinking approach shown below. The contexts are editable and are a starting point for you to focus...
Design Agency Life, Echo Brand Design, An amazing afternoon with Echo Brand Design offering a fantastic industry experience for a small group of teachers. Take a look at what these teachers experienced and took away to help advise young people about the careers open to them in the creative industry. There is more to a design agency than designers... Echo Blueprint Case Study Echo Brand Design, an independent brand design, innovation, and sustainability agency in London of 20 people, joined Blueprint 1000® in November 2021 with a couple of...
Director of Education at Leith's Education, Maria Dunbar (Leith's Education), In this episode, we turn to Food and Nutrition in the school curriculum and look at the challenges facing this aspect of National Curriculum education. Over the last few weeks, I have been fortunate to be introduced to Leith's Education and walked through their curriculum resources from KS1 to Post 16 (and extracurricular). These come at a cost (see below), but having seen them, I believe these are resources that every school should at least consider. See leiths.com🎧 Listen hereWe also discuss how Leith's has partnered with Roehampton...
Senior Lecturer in Primary Education, Janine Pavlis, In this episode, we focus on primary education, specifically design and technology education in the primary phase. Our guest in this episode is Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at St.Mary's University, Twickenham, Janine Pavlis. 🎧 Listen here. In recent years, we at the Design & Technology Association have seen significant growth in our primary membership categories, as schools (driven by Ofsted requirements) seek to broaden their curriculum offer to include design and technology across Key Stages One and Two. Our research suggests that the average...
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