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The new NAAIDT website is designed to provide a means through which NAAIDT Members can share information and advice relating to design and technology education

Click on the Help link for guidance on how to add content to this web site. Note that this facility is restricted to NAAIDT members following a successful logon. All contributions will be moderated by NAAIDT before being made public so please allow a short time for this process to be completed. You may use the email link at the foot of this page to contact the website editor in case of problems.

from the new Programme of Study for Key Stage 3

In design and technology pupils combine practical and technological skills with creative thinking to design and make products and systems that meet human needs. They learn to use current technologies and consider the impact of future technological developments. They learn to think creatively and intervene to improve the quality of life, solving problems as individuals and members of a team.

Working in stimulating contexts that provide a range of opportunities and draw on the local ethos, community and wider world,pupils identify needs and opportunities. They respond with ideas, products and systems, challenging expectations where appropriate. They combine practical and intellectual skills with an understanding of aesthetic, technical, cultural, health, social, emotional, economic, industrial and environmental issues. As they do so, they evaluate present and past design and technology, and its uses and effects. Through design and technology pupils develop confidence in using practical skills and become discriminating users of products. They apply their creative thinking and learn to innovate.

Link to The revised PoS for D&T at KS3

The importance of History

History fires pupils' curiosity and imagination, moving and inspiring them with the dilemmas, choices and beliefs of people in the past. It helps pupils develop their own identities through an understanding of history at personal, local, national and international levels. It helps them to ask and answer questions of the present by engaging with the past.

Link to the National Curriculum for History

Link to the new National Curriculum for History at Key Stage 3

Link to the QCA schemes of work for History at Key Stages 1 and 2

Link to the QCA schemes of work for History at Key Stage 3

Link to the National Curriculum in Action site for History

About D&T Milestones

The NAAIDT Database of D&T Milestones comprises a gallery of products or inventions of all types selected by pupils, teachers and NAAIDT members as being significant developments. Each entry comprises a text description and illustration together with an approximate date and details of provenance where known. The gallery will be useful for product analysis activities and to provide a historical perspective to the study of design and technology. Some entries include additional information which may be downloaded using the 'Download' link where this is implemented.

Link to NAAIDT D&T Milestones

About History World

History World is a general-knowledge website, designed for anyone above the age of about twelve with an interest in history.

On the Timesearch timelines you can

• find the events that interest you, by area, theme and date
• search at a click for related information and images

Link to History World