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Paul McKnight, Head of Operations (Europe), VEX Robotics

Head of Operations (Europe), VEX Robotics, Paul McKnight, Paul has been responsible for the VEX Robotics brand since its UK launch in 2012. The launch of the VEX IQ platform in 2015, aimed at Key Stages 2 and 3, has seen awareness and adoption of the platform grow further with VEX embedded in education from Year 3 right through to University. VEX Robotics, the worlds leading educational robotics company, is committed to developing free STEM curriculum to allow teachers to engage students through robotics. Overseeing the development of partnerships with organisations and companies such as...

Teaching National Curriculum D&T 2015 with Creativity and Confidence

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 of...

Latest Issue of DATE Journal Now Available!

Latest Issue of DATE Journal Now Available!, The Design & Technology Association is thrilled to announce the release of Volume 29, Number 3 (2024) of Design and Technology Education: An International Journal. This renowned publication continues to provide cutting-edge research and insights into the ever-evolving field of design and technology education. Access to a Wealth of Knowledge Research materials, including decades of published papers, are available through the Liverpool John Moores University Open Access Data Repository. This repository contains an extensive archive of papers, dating back to the 1960s, and includes: ...

The Excellence Award for Outstanding Departmental Team

This award sponsored by Cenata is given to schools across the country, demonstrating a consistently strong and cohesive design and technology departmental team. Leadership and support will be strong, resulting in a clear vision for the subject within the school, resulting in design and technology being attributed high status across a school and amongst the senior team and community. Teachers and leaders will be highly motivated and ambitious for both the subject and their pupils' achievement. In primary schools, the Subject Leader will have ensured that design and technology is...

Barry Coggan

Barry Coggan, My initial teaching qualification was achieved at Loughborough College of Education where great emphasis was placed on excellent hand skills and a thorough knowledge of the materials being worked, both traditional (all aspects of woodworking and metalworking) and modern (‘new’ materials including plastics and electronics). Having taught in all types of schools across the broad ‘handicraft’ curriculum since 1971, along with experience as a local authority specialist adviser, considerable involvement with examination boards along with RDTHSC status and a period in the industrial commercial side of education, I can offer a wealth of...

Jim Stewart

Jim Stewart, Jim studied and practiced as a designer and craftsman before training as a teacher, where he retired from leading the Technology Faculty in a secondary school in 2022, having just successfully lead the curriculum area through the new Ofsted framework. In his time within secondary, further and university education, Jim has had varied experiences. These include leading on skills transfers within Knowledge Transfer Partnerships between education and industry, writing on design history, to having taught craft and manufacture to featured leading designers now appearing in Designing. He has spent many years...

In Conversation with Debbie Inman

Talent partner at Bulletproof , Debbie Inman, This is the second of three in our short mini-series on Teachers in Residence, the initiative within the Design and Technology Association that places teachers in business and industry placements, within which they gain a detailed perspective of the company, learn more about the sector that the business works within, thus allowing them to return to school empowered with this experience and with a knowledge base that enables them to answer that question "Miss/Sir, what's it like to work in..." Listen here This episode...

Projects on a Page: Late Key Stage 2 Pack of Ten Planners

Projects on a Page: Late Key Stage 2 Pack of Ten Planners, Two new planners for 2023 Year 3-6 The Key Practitioners- 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 your 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...

SCITT: Enhancing Visual Communication Skills

SCITT: Enhancing Visual Communication Skills, Our Design and Technology focused School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) programme is underway. Trainees at The Pioneers Partnership gain QTS on completion of the one-year school-centred programme. Despite the focus being on secondary education, trainees will also be looking at primary and post-16 education to give them a holistic view of the D&T landscape. Curriculum Consultant Paul Woodward recently delivered a comprehensive, face-to-face SCITT session. This is just one of the great intensive sessions we do as part of a wider offering of specialist training for delegates. The focus...

Skills Gap Resources – Industrial flowline production

Skills Gap Resources – Industrial flowline production, Skills Gap Resources – Industrial flowline production Ages: 11-14 yearsFirst published 2015 This is an industrial-referenced project enabling students to understand how to apply a flowline production process in manufacturing. These teaching resources were created from the pilot project delivered to Y10 BTEC Engineering students at Ysgol Clywedog and supported by Airbus but are readily adaptable to suit KS3 and other year groups. This project focuses upon production processes used in industry and particularly the Airbus flowline production. It provides the students with a...

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