Three short videos to share with your pupils, parents and whole school to promote the value of the subject. Get them on your website and in your parent and pupil newsletters #DTassoc #JCB #triumphmotorcycles dmtrk.net/1R3Z-69ZPB-32/…

Work in progress Design Technology Year 7 Munny dolls for their Graphics rotation HYA Technology Department United Learning DT #designtechnology #thehyndburnacademy #munnydolls #arted

This is great news from the Russell Group! Facilitating subjects have impacted the uptake of music and arts at A-Level & GCSE. We look forward to contributing to the beta testing phase of their Informed Choices website. #BaccfortheFuture independent.co.uk/news/education…

The utter joy of watching 50 designers try to reinvent the chair f-st.co/ryLj56K

Dezeen's guide to the best architecture and design podcasts dezeen.com/2019/05/23/arc…

Revealed: The three inconvenient truths about the EBacc - it has emerged this week that the proportion of pupils taking an arts subject actually fell to 44.3 per cent last year, below the 44.7 per cent level seen in 2011 bit.ly/2wlpCOz #ebacc #DTassoc #creativeeducation

Adidas unveils running shoes that never have to be thrown away. The Futurecraft Loop performance running shoes can be returned to Adidas, where they will be ground up to make more shoes, again and again.bit.ly/30QLlvS #adidas #oceanplastic #sustainabledesign #DTassoc

Wool’s complex chemical structure enables it to absorb and lock away odours within the fibre, only releasing them upon washing: bit.ly/2TsgXrr

Reinforcing gender stereotypes, or are we all just showing our ignorance with respect to design and technology education - blog post author, Andy Mitchell bit.ly/2WtUrLA #DTassoc #education

Grade boundaries are set by subject and assessment experts after exams take place and will be up on our website on results day.

Design Ventura is 10! 2019 marks the 10th anniversary of #DesignVentura the Design Museum and we've had our logo revamped by Common Curiosity to celebrate! Registration for this year's competition opens tomorrow via ventura.designmuseum.org #designtechnology test

Calling all design educators, #DesignVentura is hiring! We are looking for new people to join our team of museum educators who deliver our school workshops. Deadline is 28 June, download the job description here: designmuseum.azurewebsites.net/preview/a6ad3d… #design #museumeducator the Design Museum

Find out from the man himself what it was like to dress the Queen for her wedding & six years later, her coronation. Read Silver and Gold, autobiography of dressmaker Sir Norman Hartnell, born #OTD 118 years ago: bit.ly/2F3roIR Photo by Sir Cecil Beaton, 1953

Earlier this week a group of year 8 students enjoyed the ‘Girls into Engineering’ activity at Training 2000. They had hands on experience, learning how to file, drill and use tools to produce a product. Fantastic effort by all the girls! #EducationwithCharacter

Watch this film to find out all about #DesignVentura the national #design and #enterprise challenge for students run by the Design Museum and test with some lovely words from Sebastian Conran Simon Balle School and Heather Corcoran Full video here: vimeo.com/341342256

What a fabulous performance! Bravo to everyone that took part in Carmen at Copper Box Arena - an amazing evening bringing together so many of our schools, staff and students. #UnitedOpera

Fantastic evening celebrating the talent of students across United Learning at the #BestInEveryone awards. Accrington Academy scooped two awards, Dance Award-Jordan Year 12 and Music Award-Thomas Year 11. Well done! #dreambig #EducationWithCharacter Mrs Kissock @AAMusic_LCL @AA6th

National Design & Technology Survey about the teaching of D&T in secondary schools - Have your say surveymonkey.co.uk/r/7ZS2LJD #HaveYourSay #RAEngNews #DTassoc

Today, Year 10 GCSE Resistant Materials students took part in challenges & learnt new skills at the Accrington & Rossendale College taster today. Students really enjoyed themselves & had the opportunity to discuss courses, apprenticeships & careers opportunities. #EducationwithCharacter

Fantastic work from the Year 6 students from Longridge house today in their Graphics taster lesson with Mrs Havoc. These corner book marks were made with just paper, markers and a lot of imagination! #thehyndburnacademy #year6transition #cornerbookmark #designtechnology