D&T

As an educator, ensuring that nutrition and healthy eating are key topics of discussion in schools is vital. Throughout my career, I have…

We’re now well into 2017 and over the past few years the nation has witnessed its worst global recession since the 2nd World War, despite…

To be fully effective, every school department has to take a regular, long, hard look at itself and ask some tough, searching questions. In…

Last week my vacuum cleaner broke. I have three small children – all boys – so this was clearly a problem that needed solving, quickly.…

Let’s deal with the Government rhetoric first: 1. Every child should study an Ebacc curriculum because it will improve their life chances.…

In September 2014 a revised national curriculum for Design and Technology (D&T) came into effect for 5 to 14 year olds. Its development…

For a long time, some of us have been saying to colleagues: ‘if I were still working in school, I would no longer have time to teach…

There has been a huge amount of interest in 3D printing over the last couple of years. Many industries are already starting to reap the…

During this lesson on biomimetics and design, students will learn how to look closely at nature and extrapolate from the properties of…

Curricula worldwide tend to place emphasis on mathematics, languages, and science, at the expense of design and technology. The new Design…

Leading up to 1999 and since the introduction of D&T in the school curriculum, the predominant experience pupils have had of the…