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New KS3 Context Launch: Celebrating Success with Pentagram

New KS3 Context Launch: Celebrating Success with Pentagram, We are excited to launch a brand new ‘Inspired by Industry’ context to coincide with the start of the Premier League season: ‘Celebrating Success’, created in collaboration with Pentagram, the world’s largest independent design agency and the creative team behind the UEFA Europa Conference League Trophy. This free KS3 resource invites students to reimagine what it means to recognise achievement, drawing inspiration from Pentagram’s own design process for a major sporting trophy. Using the five stages of the design cycle – empathise, define, ideate, prototype, and test – learners...

Materials handling pack – Polymers MSK 601

Materials handling pack – Polymers MSK 601, Materials handling pack – Polymers MSK 601 First released 2017Ages 11-16 This pack of samples helps students get a real feel for polymers and understand their applications in product design. The pack contains 16 different samples and a leaflet summarising the properties and uses of each. Samples: Bakelite Polyester Resin Melamine Formaldehyde Urea Formaldehyde Epoxy Resin Phenol Formaldehyde Acrylic High Impact Polystyrene Expanded Polystyrene High Density Polyethelene Low Density Polyethelene Polyethelene...

Designing 127

Designing 127, Designing 128 Summer 2024 Designing magazine is a showcase for excellence in design across all phases of education, from primary schools to universities, and in commercial and industrial design. Its regular features include interviews with top designers in product design, architecture, engineering, fashion design, food, etc and includes examples of the best work taking place in schools in the UK and across the world. Designing is an inspiration to all budding designers, as well as being informative and challenging in the ideas it includes. Designing is delivered to Design and Technology Association members...

D&T Awards 2023

The award winners are: The Autodesk Excellence Award for Outstanding Secondary Subject Leadership Beverley Maloney, Royal Hospital School, Suffolk The Autodesk Excellence Award for Outstanding Primary Subject Leadership Tracey Hayter, Yateley Manor School, Hampshire The James Dyson Foundation Excellence Award for Outstanding D&T Teacher(s) Stuart Chatterton, Leasowes High School, West Midlands The Nook Pods Excellence Award for Inspirational Support Staff within D&T Vicki Wilkinson, Kingswood Hoe School, Essex The Institution of Engineering and Technology Excellence Award for...

Primary Keywords

Primary Keywords, This resource includes an Excel document listing the key vocabulary for primary Design and Technology. It is organised into designing and evaluating, making and technical knowledge, cooking and nutrition, and tools and equipment as well as identifying words specific to KS1 and KS2. Alongside the Excel document there are a collection of key word mats created in PowerPoint that can be shown on the board, used in a display or downloaded, printed and laminated for use on the pupil’s tables. These are organised into the typical strands of technical knowledge including cooking and nutrition,...

Special measures

Special measures, Andy Mitchell reflects on a week when once again, we are reminded of further changes ahead for schools and particularly the preparation of teachers in the future and the view from Ofsted. Reflecting on my second week at the beginning of what is set to be yet another turbulent year for education, where did it go? A week when we heard once again from the Department for Education that they would like to discuss with us what revised GCSEs for the subject might look like. That’s good. Then Sir Michael Wilshaw...

Inspired by Industry: New Contexts

Inspired by Industry: New Contexts, We are excited to release three more contexts as part of our range of free resources for KS3. Have a look below: Lisi Aerospace Lisi Aerospace are a worldwide manufacturing specialist for assembly solutions as well as engine and structural components used in aircrafts. This context asks you to consider ‘Reducing weight without compromising strength’. JCB JCB are one of the world’s largest construction equipment manufacturers. Their brand is well known in the UK and overseas and can be seen on a wide range of...

Widgit symbols

Teacher Toolkit Tuesday - Widgit symbols to support inclusive D&T teaching, Widgit, a leader in symbol-based communication tools, along with the D&T Association, have developed a comprehensive set of downloadable symbol resources designed to support students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). These visual tools help make learning in design and technology more accessible and meaningful, not only for pupils with SEND, but also for those with English as an Additional Language (EAL) or other learning barriers. Visual support that unlocks learning Symbols offer an effective way to reinforce understanding, particularly when...

Using brand scenarios to generate ideas

Using brand scenarios to generate ideas, Age 11-14 yearsFirst published 2012 In this resource students are encouraged to name the attributes of common brands, identifying their ‘brand personality’ on a Look, Think, Speak diagram. They can then clearly see how the brands’ attributes have been communicated through the brand’s packaging, advertising and promotional events. They are then given scenarios, such as, ‘If Innocent Smoothies were to design a post-office what would it be like?’ The creative ideas that emerge give students more confidence to experiment when starting their own project. By using the same technique, students...

Naomi Hiscock

Naomi Hiscock, I graduated in Mechanical Engineering and worked in industry before training to be a primary teacher. I worked in inner-city London primary schools, before joining a STEM education charity and becoming a local authority education consultant for The Learning Trust in Hackney. I have 20 years’ experience as a local authority and independent education consultant, providing training and consultancy in science and D&T to primary schools who use the National Curriculum in England. In 2011, I set up Primary STEM Education Consultancy which has grown to become one of the most successful specialist primary...

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