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Connecting industry with education to build an inspiring, innovative, diverse and proficient workforce by supporting design and technology, and engineering education in our schools and colleges., Connecting Education and Industry
Membership for Multi Academy Trusts, Are the schools in your Trust deliver D&T with different levels of confidence? Do you want to ensure all your schools are fully equipped to achieve excellent results where it matters? Is your key stages aligned and delivering D&T, aligned to real world challenges, replicating how many organisations design, prototype and test? By joining us, you’ll provide your schools with invaluable resources and support to deliver exceptional and inspiring Design and Technology education to both primary and secondary pupils. Why...
Design and Technology Teacher and STEM Coordinator, Amanda Moffat, Amanda Moffat is a Design & Technology teacher with 20 years’ industry experience as a graphic designer and creative director. After completing a PGCE and MA in ICT, she moved from primary to secondary teaching, transforming her school’s D&T offer into a modern, design-led subject. Her students have won national awards, and she received the 2024 D&TA Award for Excellence in Industry Engagement. She leads STEM initiatives and contributes to regional D&T leadership. Location: Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk D&T Hub School: Alderman Peel...
Curriculum, Different countries have their own specific national curricula. Yet all seek to develop children and young people’s practical designing and making ability, and their creativity in solving real and relevant problems. Studying Design and Technology includes the use of a broad range of knowledge, skills, and understanding, and prompts engagement in a wide variety of activities. Pupils design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts. Through evaluation of past and present Design and Technology, they develop a critical understanding...
Director of Design & Technology and Vocational Education, Drew Wicken, Drew Wicken is Director of Design & Technology and Vocational Education at the Co-op Academies Trust, supporting 40+ schools in curriculum, teaching, and vocational education. A University of Greenwich graduate with an MA in Education, he has taught nationwide and also works with a leading exam board, supporting, developing, and moderating Level 2 qualifications. Location: North Staffordshire D&T Hub School: Co-op Academies Trust
Getting the design community behind a reformed design & technology, As many of you know, everyone at the Design & Technology Association is focused on gaining the backing of all possible industry sectors behind the subject as we seek to place a ‘Reimagined’ design and technology at the core of the English school system. Over the last two years, we have worked closely with the IET as they shaped their ‘Engineering Kids Futures’ report, and over the last fourteen months, we have worked alongside the Design Council to shape a Policy Briefing Paper ‘, The Future...
BS 4163:2021+A1:2022 Health and safety for design and technology in schools and similar establishments – Code of practice, BS 4163:2021+A1:2022 Health and safety for design and technology in schools and similar establishments – Code of practice - Printed Booklet A4 printed booklet. This essential document is the basis for all D&T Health and Safety publications and guidance and provides an explanation of the legal aspects of the British Standard Code of Practice. In any investigation by the Health and Safety Executive it will be the ultimate reference document...
Head of Design and Technology, Scott Tweeddale, Scott Tweedale has been Head of Department at St George’s School, Harpenden for 10 years, leading curriculum development and whole-school improvement in AI, Google for Education and staff CPD. An experienced ITT tutor with the University of Hertfordshire and Education Expert for Alban TSH, he has increased GCSE and A-Level D&T uptake while maintaining exceptional outcomes. Location: St Albans, Hertfordshire
Examination reform, I can’t wait!, Some 25 years on from the moment in history that Richard Kimbell was referring to, I wonder if we are at the brink of another defining moment in the history of the subject. Perhaps lacking quite the same impact and gravitas, nevertheless, with the impending publication of the new Design and Technology GCSE specifications, finally, and after all these years, we may be able to shed the endorsed titles including ‘resistant materials’ and ‘graphic products’ and begin to refer to the subject itself, design and technology. For too long...
Secondary, Secondary Design and Technology builds on the skills and knowledge pupils have already learnt at primary school. It leverages increasingly sophisticated resources, including dedicated teaching environments, manufacturing equipment and specialist teaching. As students progress through this phase, they may be given the opportunity to focus on specific aspects of the subject such as product design, food technology, engineering, systems and control, electronics, textiles and graphics. However, at its core is creativity and imagination. Students learn to design and make products that solve genuine, relevant problems within different contexts whilst considering their own...
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