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DOING IT FOR THE GIRLS!, Female School Students Set To Take Global Robotics Stage By Storm Today is all about Girl Power and on International Women’s Day (8th March 2018), one all-girls school in London is celebrating their achievements in STEM learning as students prepare to embark on a journey to be crowned VEX Robotics World Champions. Hampstead based Henrietta Barnett School for Girls has its own robotics club which has been solely credited for increasing the uptake of pupils enrolling on Design &Technology courses at both GCSE and A-Level at the school. The GCSE course alone...
House of Lords Select Committee on Youth Unemployment - Thursday 24th June 2021, Firstly, I am delighted that we were invited to present to this committee. As your professional Association, one would hope that we would be an automatic choice when discussing the subject and wider technical/vocational learning; historically, that has not always been the case. This is the first time that I have attended a select committee, and I must admit that I found the process (all on Zoom) incredibly reassuring. The committee was very well informed, curious, sharp with their questions and appeared to be genuinely...
GCSE Textiles Rescue, In 2012 the D&T Association developed the GCSE Textiles Rescue programme, sponsored by the All Saints Educational Trust. The programme included national and regional workshops and on-line seminars for textiles teachers aiming to improve Textiles Technology GCSE results. Presentations from the six seminars have been fully revised by Julie Messenger and updated in 2014 and are available for download. They include edited recordings from the events. Please note: these resources refer to the previous GCSE specification and not the current D&T GCSE. On-line Seminars Top tips for planning...
Chinese schools get a lesson from Britain, While China has excellent academic results, the British curriculum has the upper hand with design – it's a shame our Government doesn't recognise this, says Richard Green The transformation of China in our lifetime has been nothing short of extraordinary. The speed of China’s resurgence – from the economic and human catastrophe of the Great Leap Forward to today’s superpower economy – has been so swift that it has mesmerised many in the West. Napoleon was right: China was a sleeping giant, but when she awoke she moved the...
Coventry Academy Student Team, crowned F1 in Schools UK Champions, winning a place in the world finals in Malaysia, Coventry Academy Student Team, crowned F1 in Schools UK Champions, winning a place in the world finals in Malaysia A great day was spent at the F1 in Schools Championships at Silverstone where we were privileged to see so many young people passionate about design and technology and applying that knowledge to building F1 cars! Julie Nugent, Chief Executive of the Design & Technology Association commented that “The event was packed out and it was particularly pleasing...
Stuart Dashwood at Prodrive, I have been a Design Technology teacher for a little over 12 years, unlike many design technology teachers, am not an engineer, I am an arts graduate, specifically I trained as a Jewellery designer, I have sometimes felt this leaves me at a disadvantage when I am trying to guide my students, to help them make the best choices for careers and next steps after school. I am constantly fascinated by the huge number of things I discover I don’t know, particularly about entry into engineering and how to answer the question “Sir, what do...
Why has the number of teenagers taking design and technology GCSE dropped?, For some time now, the Association has been expressing concern over the inability of the subject to move forward in response to changes in National Curriculum - and I'm not simply referring to the most recent iteration, and developments in technologies, materials, processes and pedagogy. It has also warned, that in situations where this is not happening, then the very certainty of its continuation is at question. We are now regularly receiving reports of schools either considerably cutting back on provision, or in the worst cases...
Denford Primary STEM Project The Denford Primary STEM Project gives an opportunity to introduce STEM learning at an early age in a fun and exciting way. This innovative, stand-alone classroom resource also gives an ideal introduction to the new F1 in Schools Primary Class – the first step on the F1 in Schools ladder. The project brings real-life applications of STEM to your classroom. Pupils work individually, in pairs, or as a team, to design and make their own miniature racing car. They then go on to test its aerodynamic qualities using...
New report - D&T in schools fallen over last decade and will continue without government intervention, New report finds D&T take up in schools has fallen significantly over the last decade – researchers warn of a continued decline without government intervention Student entries into Design and Technology (D&T) at GCSE have halved over the last decade, new research from the Education Policy Institute (EPI) shows. 44% of students took D&T GCSE in 2009, but this fell to just 22% of students in 2020. Far fewer students are also taking D&T at A level....
Successful STEM, First published 2012 These resources include five projects which aim to inspire D&T and Science teachers to run collaborative projects between the two subjects and ensure that you can successfully deliver a STEM project to enhance the learning of your students. These examples were first taught by D&T teachers, however all rely on knowledge, resources and equipment from Science departments. Each has an introductory page, summaries of the D&T, Science and Maths aspects covered, details of the project and the school’s experience of planning an delivering it. Sound and Vision –...
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