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Curiosity Takes the Stage at the D&T Excellence Awards, The Design & Technology Association’s Excellence Awards 2025 celebrated innovation, education, and the transformative power of design, with a thought-provoking keynote speech from inventor and engineer Jude Pullen, whose talk “Incurably Curious” captured the spirit of the evening. The annual awards recognise outstanding contributions to the teaching and advancement of design and technology across the UK. Teachers, industry leaders, and students gathered to celebrate excellence in creativity, problem-solving, and practical innovation, values at the heart of D&T education. Incurably...
Thinking outside the box - Using D&T to solve real-world problems, At St Mary’s College in Crosby, design & technology is about more than making products. Led by Ben Swan, Head of D&T, students develop practical problem-solving skills and innovative thinking to tackle real-world challenges. A striking example was Upper Sixth student Emily Jones, whose bus shelter design for Mersey Travel was recognised with a Design & Technology Association Excellence Award in 2024. Emily’s project went beyond functionality, focusing on community engagement and sustainability. Design with purpose Emily included a...
School Design Prize 2026, School Design Prize 2026 opens within New Furniture Makers Awards, celebrating classroom excellence Focus on A Level, Level 3 and GCSE design outcomes The Furniture Makers' Company has opened entries for the 2026 New Furniture Makers Awards, with a strengthened focus on the School Design Prize, offering teachers a valuable opportunity to showcase outstanding student work in furniture and product design. This year, the School Design Prize is split into two distinct categories: A Level/Level 3 and GCSE, ensuring appropriate recognition of achievement across key stages. For teachers,...
Winners Announced for Seymourpowell Competition: 'The Future of Taking a Break', We would like to extend our congratulations to the winners of this year’s Seymourpowell school competition, ‘The Future of Taking a Break’. The level of creativity and innovation displayed by all participants made the judging process extremely challenging for the team at Seymourpowell but the winners clinched it with their fantastic and creative interpretations of the brief. First Place: Regine Wong, Newstead Wood School Regine Wong’s project stood out for its meticulous and rigorous design process. From initial insight through to ideation...
Autodesk Partners with LA28 Olympic & Paralympic Games and Team USA to Redefine Global Sporting Events, In an exciting move set to transform global sporting events, Autodesk has announced its partnership with the LA28 Olympic & Paralympic Games and Team USA. This collaboration is set to revolutionise how the Games are designed and delivered, with a strong emphasis on sustainability, smart infrastructure, and utilising existing venues—marking a new era for Olympic and Paralympic host cities. Rather than building new permanent venues, the LA28 Games will rely on Autodesk’s cutting-edge technology to retrofit over...
Product Design Mid KS3 Y8 Design and Make - Table centrepiece, Product Design Mid KS3 Year 8 - Design and Make – Table centrepieceStudent design and make 'anything that is used within the context of a table’, ranging from methods of illumination, condiment and menu holders, vases or bud holders, interactive products such as children's games. While making is optional, the open brief allows students to develop a design specification for a particular user and context. Includes scenario and function cards and video designing guides.This updated set of Key Resources for...
Product Design Early KS3 Y7 Mainly Making - Signs, Product Design Early KS3 Year 7 - Mainly Making – SignsIn this, students explore the importance of designing an authentic, real-context product for a client to meet their specific needs, and design and make a scaled down shop sign from acrylic, using a laser cutter. The PowerPoint resource includes video instruction on using 2D Design software and information on typography, designing logos, and producing a design specification and using a laser cutter to guide the process. This updated set of Key Resources for Product Design has...
Initial Response to Curriculum and Assessment Review, Written Wednesday 5th November 2025 Initial Response to Curriculum and Assessment Review Findings and Recommendations Today, the Government's Curriculum and Assessment Review Report, which began in July 2024 and led by Professor Becky Francis, has finally reached its conclusions. The report and its recommendations were finally delivered to my inbox just after 6:00 am this morning. An early morning breakfast meeting in the House of Lords prevented me from delving into it in depth until early this afternoon, but on first...
Challenging All Learners in KS3 D&T, How can D&T teachers ensure that all students, regardless of background or ability, are stretched, stimulated, and inspired in Key Stage 3? This was the central question explored in a recent National Association for Able Children in Education (NACE) webinar, delivered in collaboration with the Design & Technology Association. The session, led by our curriculum consultant and former head of department Lol Conway, focused on inclusive, practical strategies for raising challenge across mixed-ability groups. Drawing on real classroom experience and the latest research into cognitive engagement, the...
Summer time...D&T teachers are chillin’, With the school summer holidays now upon us, this seemed as good a time as any to reflect on the academic year just passed and specifically my almost seven months at the D&T Association. In a year in which the news has been pretty much dominated by Brexit, education appears to have been largely ignored by the press. Yes, we have a new Education Secretary as the previous incumbent was indicating that she was actually developing empathy for the intricacies of the post and therefore had to be...
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