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This Week’s Website Update and Free Resource Downloads
The updated pages on our website this week have a focus on World Space Week and include resources on materials that all have links to space technologies including Gore-tex, titanium and metal foam. They include resources we created for the National STEM Learning Centre that were sponsored by the European Space Education Resource Centre (ESERO).
You can also see the full collection of resources we created on the National STEM Learning Centre website. Although they have an 'inspired by space' theme they cover most of the smart, modern and technical materials mentioned in the D&T GCSE specs.
Some of This Week’s Thinking Points and Photos on Instagram
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See our latest Instagram updates which include thinking points and photos all linked to D&T (account isn’t needed to access the page).
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- Sometimes the simple design ideas are the best - Joseph Joseph's reusable water bottle has a lid that is designed to slot over the bottle to stop you from losing it & which also acts as a handle & hanging loop
- Useful short video on automated prodcution lines - covers pencil, prepacked salad meals and Tesla cars
- Useful mini challenge from Design Ventura for years 7 & 8 with fortnightly winners announced right through to February (and the receive a little prize). Great for a homework, cover work or as a one off lesson.
- World Space Week takes place annually from October 4 – 11 & this year’s theme celebrates ‘Women in Space’. This is a good opportunity to consider some of the high tech innovations developed for space travel that have eventually influenced technology used back on earth.
- If you are in the East Lancashire area October is the British Textile Biennial which is a range of exhibitions and installations across the area telling the story of textiles, fashion and identity.
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Our Product in a Tin Competition is Taking a Break
What a great end to our Product in a Tin competition as Husqvarna Viking and Coles Sewing Centre who sponsor part of the prize have upgraded the sewing machine prize to a Husqvarna Viking Jade 20 worth £600. What fantastic news for this year’s winning school!
The competition is taking a break for now as it takes a lot of organising, something that has become more of challenge due to impact of the pandemic. We have therefore had to make the difficult decision to stop the competition for now to allow us to focus on our other work. We hope the competition will return but in the meantime the resources will remain on the website for schools to use as a module of work or as a competition within their own school. See the 2020/2021 winners of our Product in a Tin Competition
OUR CPD COURSES COMING UP THIS TERM
Look at the face to face, blended learning and distance learning options we offer.
Blended Learning CPD
Our blended learning courses are equivalent to a one day training course with 2 hours live online training plus at least 4 hours of self directed study activities.
Live Face to Face CPD
The continuing challenges of the pandemic means we are currently only able to offer our Introduction to Servicing & Maintaining Sewing Machine course as a face to face one day course (and we’re in the process of organising dates for this).
If you re looking for face to face training and can get together at least 6 participants (e.g. your department or a local group of teachers) along with providing a suitable training room we can run the following one day face to face courses for your group:
- Practical Approaches to D&T Theory
- Planning & Auditing Your D&T Curriculum
- Supporting Textiles Specialists to Deliver D&T GCSE Core Content
- Using the Crumble microcontroller in D&T
Distance Learning CPD Courses
Our distance learning CPD courses can be worked through at your own pace without the need for time out of school and without travel and accommodation costs.
Visit our full course calendar
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