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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

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National Curriculum in Action

Tooth Brush Timer - click for full size image

Pupils' work online

"This is one of the most useful resources I've come across to support the national curriculum. Seeing actual pupils' work alongside commentaries helps me see how all of the advice and guidance translates into practice." - Head of Technology, North Yorkshire

Link to National Curriculum in Action

This website uses pupils' work and case study materials to show what the National Curriculum in D&T looks like in practice.
The examples given show:

the standard of pupils' work at different ages and key stages
how the programmes of study translate into real activities
effective use of ICT across the curriculum

The importance of design and technology

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

Original NAAIDT web site

Access to the original NAAIDT web site remains available at http://archive.naaidt.org.uk or by clicking on the banner image below.

National Strategies for Design and Technology

Links to resources supporting the development of the national curriculum for design and technology

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Design and Technology

Dyson cleaner - click for full size image

The importance of Design and Technology

Link to the National Curriculum for Design and Technology

Link to the new National Curriculum for Design and Technology at Key Stage 3

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

Link to the QCA schemes of work for Design and Technology at Key Stage 3

Link to the National Curriculum in Action site for Design and Technology

NAAIDT Annual Conference 2010

Marriott Hotel - click for full size image

Integrating Hearts, Heads and Hands

Marriott Hotel & National STEM Centre, York 15 â€“ 17 April 2010

See NAAIDT Shop for details of conferences and training events

New Primary Curriculum for September 2011

Following the launch of the new National curriculum website by Schools Minister Diana Johnson at the end of January, QCDA has sent new primary curriculum handbooks and guidance publications to all primary schools. The handbook contains the curriculum to be taught in all primary schools from September 2011. QCDA's team of network advisers will work with local authorities and clusters of schools on the new curriculum's implementation.

NAAIDT Members letter to MPs in support of D&T in the curriculum

This is a draft letter for members to use to contact their local MPs to lobby support for the future of design and technology in the curriculum in England.

Members are advised to make contact with their local MP and arrange a face to face meeting to put forward the case for design and technology in the curriculum and question the Coalition government?s long term strategy for reform of the education system.

A briefing paper has been added to this website for members to use outlining some of the key issues in relation to the Tickel Report on Early Years, the Wolf Report on Vocational Education, The Schools White Paper 2010the National Curriculum Review and the E-Bacc.