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D&T Awards 2025

D&T Awards 2025, The Design and Technology Association 25th Excellence Awards Winners Category 1: The AssetTagz Excellence Award for Outstanding Secondary Subject Leadership Chris Davis - Oastlers School, West Yorkshire Category 2: The Royal Ballet & Opera Schools Create & Design Excellence Award for Outstanding Primary Subject Leadership Les Ball - Shropshire Hills Federation, Shropshire Category 3: The James Dyson Foundation Excellence Award Recognising Outstanding D&T Teacher(s) Pat Link -Neston High School, Cheshire Category 4: The Excellence Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research in D&T...

Units not projects - A learning-first approach to D&T (1)

Units not projects - A learning-first approach to D&T, This 'Units not projects' course is aimed at teachers and subject leaders of design & technology to implement an effective curriculum structure that focuses on the learning needs of the students. This learning led approach can be carefully structured through strategically designed units of work rather than squeezing subject theory around a design and make project.The structure of this course has been planned with reflective and thought-provoking questions. We do advise that you complete this course at your own pace with breaks between sections so that you...

In Conversation with Hethersett Academy

Part one of two, Hethersett Academy , In the second of our focus podcasts within a specific school, we are delighted to bring you 'Designed for Life' in conversation with Hethersett Academy in East Anglia. Listen here Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Amazon Music The intention within these podcasts is to provide listeners with a complete 360 journey around the design and technology department in the school, with interviews and thoughts from students, teachers, parents and senior leaders. From these conversations, you can...

D&T Awards 2017

The award winners are: Design and Technology Education and Industry Engagement Award Andrew Kyprianou Karl Thomas Luke Baines International Development and Support of Design and Technology Award Michael Hacker International Development and Support of D&T Award Eric Wan Exceptional Support for Design and Technology Award Stephen Thomas Sarah Catling James Poynter Outstanding Newcomer to Design and Technology Award Danni Leach Sadie Phillips...

Secondary D&T workshop collection

Secondary D&T workshop collection, This is collection of workshops taken from our D&T Autumn School 2020 and is aimed at Secondary teachers. This E-Learning course features 8 workshops and accompanying resources from teachers and industry professionals with additional keynotes from inspirational speakers. Each workshop (approximately 40 minutes) allows you to work through at your own pace. Use the downloadable resources to aid your teaching and implement them in the classroom. Whether you are learning a new skill or would like to refresh an existing skill there is something for all teachers, whether you are a trainee...

London South Bank University (LSBU) Open Evening

London South Bank University (LSBU) Open Evening , The recent LSBU Open Evening brought together teachers in D&T and included key figures from the sector including our CEO Tony Ryan and active participation from the Design & Technology Association team. The evening provided a first-hand look at LSBU's design and technology courses, including BSc (Hons) Engineering Product Design, BSc (Hons) Product Design, and BSc (Hons) Product Design & Developer Engineer Apprenticeship programs. These courses focus on practical skills and knowledge in their respective fields. Attendees explored LSBU's design, technology, and engineering facilities through

Designed for Life - Reset Short Update

Designed for Life - Reset Short Update, We have been offline for a short while whilst we evaluate, reconsider where the podcast is heading and reset. This is the first of what will be a regular series of brief updates between the main podcasts. In these, we aim to tell you what we are up to at the Design & Technology Association, highlight any primary areas of work you might not be aware of, discuss what's going on with the subject, and occasionally bring in guests to help inform the conversation. These pods...

Chloe - Technical Coordinator

Technical Coordinator, Chloe , Watch Chloe's video here Chloe works for the Engineering Technology Group training operatives and apprentices on existing machinery and on new machinery following installations. She spends a lot of time travelling to different sites to coordinate programming and operator training courses and enjoys the variety of work that his offers and the satisfaction of seeing successful end products. Her family included a draftsperson and an engineer, and she gained good grades in her A Level Product Design which gave a good insight into engineering and helped her decide to do an...

Systems and Control Late KS3 Y9 Mainly Designing - Mech-Olympics

Systems and Control Late KS3 Y9 Mainly Designing - Mech-Olympics, Late KS3 Year 9 - Mainly Designing – Mech-OlympicsStudents use their knowledge of electronics to design and build a robot from a number of options that can compete in Olympic events that challenge their skills in programming for control, speed, direction, balance and strength. Includes event sheets and Soccer Bot build instructions. This updated set of Key Resources for Product Design, Systems and Control and Textiles has been fully refreshed and new titles added. They provide teachers of Years 7, 8 and 9 with a basic...

TenX Thinking

TenX Thinking, Design over the years has tended to move in small, comfortable steps. Motor vehicle design for example began by firstly emulating carriages using spoked, wooden wheels and ‘coach-built’ bodies, then gradually moving towards more streamlined and sleeker-looking designs through many stages. True there have been maverick examples too advanced in design for their markets and customers, but we seem to be content with the evolution-not-revolution approach in design. At Google there is a new way of thinking being proposed: TenX. What this means is taking an existing problem or product and, rather than using...

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