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Inspired by Industry Bulletproof, Inspired by Industry: Bulletproof This context allows students to explore the impact and improvement of packaging, focusing on sustainability and secondary uses. While prototypes will mainly involve card and paper, students can experiment with alternative materials like mycelium, fabric, timber, or polymers, reinforcing the 6R’s of sustainability. The project encourages design creativity, with potential collaboration with local companies aiming to reduce or repurpose packaging. Outcomes include prototypes demonstrating innovative secondary uses, such as plantable packaging or multifunctional designs. Teachers may limit materials for manageability and encourage group...
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UK Space Agency STEM resources, These STEM resources for KS3 and KS4 are based on the James Webb Space Telescope and Satellite Launch Systems. Pupils will learn all about these fascinating, STEM-related areas, get to launch rockets, build their own telescopes and study the maths, science, engineering and design aspects of getting into space and observing the sky and the Earth. There is a wealth of detail that teachers can adapt and link in to other subject areas as well as encourage an understanding and interest in careers in
This award sponsored by OnePlanet recognises a business’s outstanding contribution to design and technology education through its ongoing relationship and activities with an individual school or group of schools. The successful business needs to demonstrate how their engagement with pupils has enriched the curriculum offer in design and technology for the engaged school(s). Evidence provided by a nominated Industry could include: Positive relationships with a school through schemes like Blueprint 1000, that have resulted in reciprocal relationships, involving pupils and school representatives Because of...
Modelmaking professional and lecturer at Arts University Bournemouth, Claire Holman, In this episode, we are in conversation with Claire Holman, modelmaking professional and lecturer at Arts University Bournemouth. Listen here Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts We follow Claire's journey from a fairly nomadic start as her family moved first to Zambia and then to England, closely followed by Scotland as her father's work dictated their journey. This was followed at age sixteen by Claire leaving school and taking on a YTS course (if you are old enough, you know....
Michael Nelson, 17 years secondary teaching experience, across GCSE AQA RM, Graphics, Electronics, Product Design and Edexcel A Level Product Design. I was a HOD for 8 years within a secondary school, developing it from “unsatisfactory” to “good with outstanding features”, developing curriculum, policies and procedures. Digital D&T Specialist from CAD to Code. North East Event Partner for VEX Robotics and Autodesk specialist for Fusion 360 and Inventor. Primary CAD and control with Robotics too, with working knowledge in quality transition.
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..." ...
Siobhan O'Mahony, I am a registered Public Health Nutritionist, with over 10 years’ experience working with the Health and Wellbeing Service at Leeds City Council. We provide practical and classroom based training specialising in cooking, nutrition and food skills. The training is centrally run and can also be delivered in your school to your full team of staff. The training includes theory, lesson planning, planning schemes of work, assessment, hands-on cookery, knife skills and nutrition. Cooking in the curriculum – full day training sessions Cooking in the...
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...
Celebrate Earth Day with Free Resources to Support Sustainability in D&T, This Earth Day is the perfect opportunity to reflect on the role that design and technology can play in building a more sustainable future — and to inspire students to think critically about the impact of the products they create and use. Whether you're looking to update your own knowledge, refresh your teaching, or spark new conversations in the classroom, there are a range of free, high-quality resources available to support you. Explore the E-Learning...
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