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Discover the future of design talent at New Designers 2025, A showcase of the UK’s brightest graduate designers Teachers who inspire the next generation of creative minds won’t want to miss New Designers 2025 – the UK’s premier graduate design exhibition, returning this July to London’s Business Design Centre. Bringing together over 2,500 of the very best graduates from across the UK, the event celebrates incredible work across disciplines such as interior design, textiles, graphic design, furniture making, ceramics, and more. Two weeks of design discovery and inspiration New Designers offers two unforgettable weeks of design...
Beads and pendants - using precious metal clay, Age 14-16 yearsFirst published 2012 This resource contains two videos showing how to use precious metal clay in making jewellery. It also has a brief PowerPoint presentation introducing the concept and tasks. The teacher notes that accompany this resource give a basic explanation of PMC, its history and uses, costs and links with GCSE specifications and to other resources. The notes then outline the two video tutorials in some detail. This resource should be used alongside other designing activities in which students design and prototype using modelling clay...
Materials and their properties - Papers and boards, Materials and their properties: Papers and Boards This item cannot be bought with curriculum credits. Age 14-16First published 2017 One of a series of classroom teaching resources for students, addressing the relevant content of all four Awarding organisations' Design and Technology GCSE specifications. The resource will also be useful to students enrolled other technical courses including Engineering. This contains a PowerPoint presentation containing a range of summary information for students to help them understand and apply their...
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...
Designed for Life - Live at Simon Langton Boys School, Kent (Part 2), In this, the second episode of a two-part mini-series, we continue exploring the journey of school design and technology leaders and departments as we visit and speak with staff, students, and parents at Simon Langton Boys' Grammar School in Canterbury, Kent. 🎧 Listen here. Before anyone assumes this is a story of overprivileged students enjoying an experience facilitated by wealth and connections, please be aware that this is not the case. This department has been carefully crafted from the ground up with...
Teacher Toolkit Tuesday: Team Repair – Fix the future, Team Repair is a 12-week hands-on programme for pupils in Years 5–9, where they dismantle and repair real gadgets to explore design, science and sustainability. It’s fully aligned with the design and technology curriculum and is simple for teachers to deliver, with no technical experience required. What is Team Repair? Team Repair gives pupils the opportunity to take apart and fix real-world products, from game consoles to remote-controlled cars. A new product is introduced every three weeks, making it ideal
Protect the Future of Inventing and Innovation: Samsung Electronics UK Calls for Refresh of the School Curriculum, Samsung Electronics UK, the Design & Technology Association, and The Design Council have issued a joint call to review the design and technology curriculum in schools to safeguard the future of innovation and invention in the UK. In a letter to Professor Becky Francis, curriculum review lead, and cc’d to the Secretary of State for Education, the organisations highlighted the urgent need to modernise D&T education to prepare students for technological advancements and diverse career opportunities. New research...
Haberdashers’ Boys’ School team makes history at VEX Robotics World Championship, Students from Haberdashers’ Boys’ School in Elstree have made history by becoming the first UK team at their programme level to win the Excellence Award at the 2025 VEX Robotics World Championship in Dallas, Texas. Their team, Cyber Squad, achieved the top accolade for outstanding performance across engineering design, coding, innovation and teamwork. It’s only the second time in the competition’s 18-year history that a UK team has received this award, a landmark moment for design, technology and STEM education in the UK. ...
Director of Education, Ryan Ball, Ryan graduated from Leeds Metropolitan university with a degree in Design & Technology and English with QTS, specialising in middle-years in 2002, after which time went straight into teaching D&T in Sherburn-in-Elmet, Leeds. Following several years as a teacher and head of department in a variety of schools in the U.K. he moved overseas where he was head of faculty at schools in the Middle East and Malaysia. During this time he gained an M.A. from the University of Hertfordshire. He has taught students from age 7 to 18, with his students winning a variety...
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...
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