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Cultural Cushions, Cultural Cushions Year 8This resource has been kindly provided by Emma Gregory of Manningtree High School, in association with her article in D&T Practice 2.2015. It includes a scheme of work and two PowerPoint presentations. It comprises 12-16 one-hour lessons to design and make a culturally inspired cushion suitable to be mass produced.
In the Press, Our CEO, Tony Ryan, recently penned an article in the Observer that highlights a critical issue facing our education system: the potential disappearance of design and technology from the national curriculum within the next four years. This alarming trend is driven by a steep decline in both student and teacher numbers, with about 20% of schools in England and Wales no longer offering the subject. The forthcoming report, produced in collaboration with the Design Council reveals a 68% drop in students taking D&T at the GCSE level over the past decade. Furthermore, the number...
Secondary Core Level Health & Safety (SCHS) - Initial Course Training (JG), This course will familiarise you with the D&T Association CORE Level Training Standards covering risk assessment and enable you to complete an individual D&T H&S portfolio for accreditation through completion of 10 areas. The course is suitable for both teachers and technicians, working in all material areas of the subject. The course will extend and update your knowledge and understanding of health and safety and will have a range of activities covering: Core standards Environmental issues Risk Assessment Legal...
Secondary Core Level Health & Safety (SCHSR) Refresher Training (RS), This course is suitable for all colleagues who have completed the Core Level Training Standards and the personal Health and Safety portfolio and whose Design and Technology Association accreditation is now due for renewal. The course will extend and update your knowledge and understanding of health and safety and will have a range of activities, including: •Checking knowledge and understanding of H&S •Extending knowledge and understanding of H&S •Ensuring that Risk and COSHH assessments are ‘suitable and sufficient’ •Exploring environmental issues, incl. lighting, heating, dust, noise and...
Secondary Core Level Health & Safety (SCHSR) Refresher Training Course (RS), This course is suitable for all colleagues who have completed the Core Level Training Standards and the personal Health and Safety portfolio and whose Design and Technology Association accreditation is now due for renewal. The course will extend and update your knowledge and understanding of health and safety and will have a range of activities, including: •Checking knowledge and understanding of H&S •Extending knowledge and understanding of H&S •Ensuring that Risk and COSHH assessments are ‘suitable and sufficient’ •Exploring environmental issues, incl. lighting, heating, dust, noise...
Online Zoom Course -Secondary Core Level Health & Safety (SCHS) Initial Training (PA), The course will familiarise you with the D&T Association CORE Level Training Standards covering risk assessment and enable you to complete an individual D&T H&S portfolio for accreditation through completion of 10 areas. The course is suitable for both teachers and technicians, working in all material areas of the subject. The course will extend and update your knowledge and understanding of health and safety and will have a range of activities covering: · Core standards · Environmental issues · Risk...
Just how safe are borax based fluxes used in soldering and brazing?, ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE for the use of BORAX BASED FLUXES in Schools and Colleges. Many of you will have picked up on the changes to the WeldabilitySIF COSHH Material Safety Data Sheet for their Borax based fluxes and for most of us via the 2016 SIFBronze flux data sheet. This rang alarm bells for many in schools as if we applied this on the basis of the work exposure hazard headlines, we would be thinking seriously whether young women or girls should...
Consultants, Our D&T consultants offer a broad range of services on an independent, commercial basis. We also work alongside consultants employed by, and confined to working within, a local authority. Consultant members can also support design and technology practitioners and often work with the D&T Association on a variety of related projects. Why our D&T consultants are so important. Find out more about the consultants in your area in our Consultants directory. Our consultants play an incredibly valuable role in the D&T Association. We work closely together to provide our members with CPD, ongoing support,...
Founder and Creative Director, Paul Jenkins, Imagine taking two of your passions in life and turning them into a successful business. This is what Triple Double Studio Founder and Creative Designer, Paul Jenkins has achieved in many ways. Take a listen to the Podcast Paul has always set his own path. A careers interview towards the end of his GCSEs did not go well. He went in with a plan and was bluntly informed that he would fail if he didn't drop this and take a more conventional route through A Levels. His response "I stopped listening before the...
Curriculum Consultant, Paul Woodward, Paul has been teaching D&T for almost 30 years with most of those years as a Head of Creative Arts Faculties or as Head of D&T. Following a degree in 3D design, Paul initially trained for the Post 16 sector, so he has extensive experience of teaching A Level D&T, but he has taught the subject from KS2 onwards in a wide variety of schools ranging from Pupil Referral Units to prestigious International Boarding schools. Paul’s MA is in Education specialising in Professional Development in Teaching and Learning which naturally led to an interest...
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