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British Aerospace Engineer and former President of the Royal Aeronautical Society., Jenny Body CBE, In this episode, we are delighted to be joined in conversation by Jenny Body CBE. Listen here Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Amazon Music This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at Aerospace Bristol on the morning of our annual awards ceremony on the 13th of October this year. The recording was made almost within touching distance of Concorde, an aircraft that Jenny had the privilege...
Les Porter, Les was teacher-trained at Shoreditch Teacher Training College and started his teaching career in 1966 as a CDT teacher at Heathside School in Weybridge. After a number of appointments in Surrey, in 1974 he was appointed as Head of the D&T faculty at Sandhurst School in Berkshire. Over the next 25 years he taught in a number of schools in Surrey and Berkshire. During his time with Berkshire he was seconded as part of the LEA advisory team and also undertook an MA in D&T Education. In 1991 he left main-stream teaching to join the Design and...
Design for Planet Festival 2024: A Hub for Sustainable Innovation, The Design for Planet Festival 2024 is gearing up to be a significant event. This festival aims to unite designers, innovators, and environmental advocates under the theme of "Designing for the Future," focusing on how design can play a crucial role in tackling global challenges such as climate change and social justice. A Platform for Inspiration and Collaboration Attendees can look forward to an engaging line up of workshops, keynote speeches, and panel discussions featuring renowned leaders in sustainable design. The festival's agenda...
Joint Founder of SeymourPowell, Dick Powell, Designed for Life podcast brought to you by The Design and Technology Association in partnership with The Edge Foundation and PTC Onshape. Listen here For many of you tuning in to this episode, Richard Seymour and Dick Powell will need no introduction. For those of you who have not come across their work...you are in for a treat! As you will hear in this podcast, both partners brought (and continue to bring) very different skillsets to the business, advertising designer Richard Seymour and industrial designer Dick Powell were in different cohorts at...
Baysgarth School: An engineering journey (Part 2), This is the second part of a two-part series of podcasts, and the first of its kind recorded live in a school. We are excited to be able to bring you what we plan will be a series of spotlight sessions focused on D&T departments nationally. If you have stumbled across this episode without listening to Part One of the mini-series, I politely suggest you go back, as sequencing is quite essential. You can hear part two here on Spotify or Apple or Amazon.Baysgarth School is a Co-educational secondary...
Risk Assessment Book Rev 2023, This book, prepared in consultation with the Health and Safety Executive, gives guidance on the critical Health and Safety element of assessing risks within teaching environments. It includes up-to-date guidance, revised in 2023, on: Criteria and proformas for carrying out risk assessments Legal requirements Guidance on class sizes, room size and layout The most effective way of tackling class sizes 30 page A4 booklet b&w (N Revised 2023 This resource is ideal for secondary school heads of department and subject leaders.
Using crumble for beginners, Content: 'Crumble' is just one method for delivering the 'control' aspect of the primary D&T curriculum. During this workshop, Joseph Birks (inventor of the crumble micro-controller) runs through the basics of using the crumble and some simple components. A follow-up session will run through slightly more advanced uses. Learning outcomes: Learn how to program the crumble and how this can be incorporated into the D&T curriculum. Start E-Learning Now , Primary Workshop
Designed for Life - Live at Simon Langton Boys School, Kent (Part 1), In this episode, we continue exploring the journey of school design and technology leaders and departments as we visit and talk with staff, students, and parents at the Simon Langton Boys Grammar School in Canterbury, Kent. 🎧 Listen here. Before anyone decides this is a story of overprivileged students enjoying an experience created by money and connections, please know this is not the case. This department has been carefully crafted from the ground up with a limited budget and now has over two hundred...
Head of learning and development at the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) , Jonty Deeley Williamson, Talk about battery power and people's attention automatically turns to electric vehicles, but in reality, this is one sector of a rapidly growing market. With this growth, there is an increasing need for young people to enter the sector and help design and make the power plants of the future. 🎧 Listen hereIn this episode, we talk with Jonty Deely Williamson, who heads up learning and development at the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) Previously a science teacher, he has...
Curriculum Consultant, Lol Conway, Lol Conway was a Design and Technology teacher for 14 years teaching students from years 7 to 13 in comprehensive secondary schools. She was a Head of Department for 7 of those years and was a College/Pastoral Leader for 2. During her time as Head of Department she took a department that was struggling to a thriving and outstanding faculty within the school. Lol trained and worked in Theatre Design before going on to work for The Guardian as part of their Digital Advertising team for 5 years. She came into teaching after realising...
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