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Sir Jim Rose's Independent Review of The Primary Curriculum for England was published on 30th April 2009 and is available for download here.

Link to the Joint NAAIDT and D&TA response to the review

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

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About NAAIDT Project Exchange

Project Exchange provides teachers and others with the opportunity to share ideas for design and technology projects and activities. Each entry comprises a text description to a common format and, if available, a related illustration. Provision is made also for colleagues to share related learning materials using the Downloads button where this is implemented.

Link to NAAIDT Project Exchange

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This leaflet written by Gareth Pimley of The Design and Technology Association answers some of the issues raised by the recently published proposed Primary Curriculum by Sir Jim Rose

Computer-Aided Designing and Making for Primary Schools - a Guide for Teachers

This well illustrated booklet provides a concise and practical introduction to the use of ICT in primary schools to support design and technology. It includes clear step by step guidance on how currently available software can be used to develop and enhance children's learning.

The importance of food technology

"In food technology students are taught to apply their knowledge of nutrition, diet, food hygiene and safety in practical ways, as they would in life. Practical food preparation and handling skills are a key aspect of students' work when designing and making food products, dishes and meals, as is teaching consumer-related issues. Food technology still embraces the basic principles of previous incarnations of food education, but has broadened out beyond teaching simply about the domestic preparation of food." - Food Forum

Link to DT Online food

Link to Food in Schools

Link to Food Forum

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About structures

Almost all things made are structures in the form of frames, carcasses, boxes or shells and in nature too there are many examples from flower stems to birds' wings. A structure is simply an arrangement of materials or components to carry and distribute an applied load.

Link to DT Online structures gallery

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Integrating Hearts, Heads and Hands

Marriott Hotel & National STEM Centre, York 15 – 17 April 2010

See NAAIDT Shop for details of conferences and training events

The new primary curriculum is now live, supported by interactive tools including:
* an interactive tour, taking you through the site's highlights
* a short guide to the new primary curriculum
* a tool to help you design your own curriculum and produce medium-term plans
* an improved "compare" function which allows you to view areas of learning side by side
* new case studies which show how schools have used their curriculum to make real improvements.