CPD

Transforming Textiles

This one day professional development course is aimed at practitioners in textiles technology wishing to develop skills and knowledge in new materials and processes.

The day will have an emphasis on practical activity and a hands-on approach. A series of mini workshop assignments will look at smart and modern textiles applications as well as ways to integrate wider aspects of CADCAM capability. Colleagues attending the day will take back to school fully worked examples and structured assignments for the new Key Stage 3 as well as teaching notes.

The day will focus on how to transform textiles with some compelling low-cost manufacturing methods, electronics and smart technologies, including:

• CADCAM activities
• SMART materials and processes
• Class based modern manufacture
• Electronics in textiles (soft-switching, conductive textiles)

Great graphic products

An intensive day of professional development focused on skills, ideas and applications to improve graphic product design teaching. Practitioners will work through a series of four practical mapped mini assignments that can drop-in back into existing Key Stage 3 activity and enhance focused task primers for Key Stage 4.

Using a selection of modern materials, CADCAM facilities and some unusual production methods colleagues will develop their own fully worked exemplar materials. Reflecting the new orders at Key Stage 3 the activities provide a balance of personalised learning and practical skills application.

Aimed at refreshing and revitalising schemes of work and broadening techniques. The day will include:

• From CAD to CAM routes to productivity
• MUJI design
• Real card engineering
• Class based modern manufacture
• Integrating electronics into graphic products

Take control of your Systems and Control -

In sharp response to the new national curriculum at Key Stage 3, this one day course is aimed at providing some useful and practical solutions for systems and control. Practitioners will work through a series of graduated assignments aimed at integrating and improving coverage.

Both class base investigative assignments and personalised design and make activity are covered to provide a mix of approaches. Using low-cost resources the day will have an emphasis on practical activity and a hands-on approach. A series of mini assignments includes:

• Low cost infra red control
• Sensing techniques
• Feedback
• Sequential programming
• Positional control

Colleagues attending the day will take back to school fully worked examples and structured assignments for the new Key Stage 3 as well as teaching notes.

Sustainable Daze - 'batteries not included'

A thought provoking day packed with low-cost low impact sustainable technology to add value and breadth to D&T teaching and learning. With an emphasis on practical approaches to integrating designing and making practice that responds to wider environmental and sustainable issues.

Practitioners develop several simple and sustainable activities including:

• Gravity racing
• USB lighting
• Rechargeable projects
• Recycling and remanufacturing techniques

The day will have an emphasis on practical activity and a hands-on approach. Practitioners will take teaching notes and practical exemplars back to school. These activities acknowledge and support wider understanding of environmental issues and help deliver on the sustainable agenda in D&T.

From CAD to CAM - routes to creativity and productivity

Product design and manufacture increasingly demand and can take advantage of CAD and CAM facilities. This one day primer takes practitioners through a range of opportunities to build up confidence in product design and manufacture. Starting off with basic assignments the day provides a progressive route to develop new ideas and capability into Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 teaching.

Based in practical activity colleagues build up expertise and capability in:

• Review existing practice /process routes
• Integrating CAM into coursework - part component
• Working with freeware - jewellery assignment
• Manufacturing in quantity - mould and jig design
• Working in 2D- developing LOM and STL
• Working with solid modelling - animation/ Leonardo
• Introductory assignments for Key Stage 3

Back-to-school examples and teaching material will support implementing new techniques and projects.

Moving and shaking - Exciting CADCAM and Control for Key Stage 2

This CPD day is aimed at both primary practitioners and secondary with a transition role. The emphasis is on developing 2D modelling skills and low-cost production of projects and outcomes for pupils.

Activities during the day will map closely to programmes of study and provide opportunity for colleagues to develop design and make activities that can drop into existing schemes of work as well as revitalising ideas and practice.

Practical work includes:

• Cardboard Robotics
• Fun Containers
• Low-cost CAM
• Lighting
• Fun Fair

Colleagues take a selection of back-to-school exemplars, teaching notes and copies of freeware.

PIC Primer and extender

An exciting and challenging day for practitioners to extend and develop PIC based skills, review new practice and software. During the day colleagues design and construct exemplar PIC assignments.

The day explores differences between software and programming packages. Looking at the new PIC architecture and simplifying the PCB design is part of the day. Assignments relate activities to the new specifications for Electronic products and Systems and Control

Practical desktop activities will include coverage of:

• Lighting and Music
• Advanced motor control
• Feedback and analogue inputs
• Communications

All colleagues will take away exemplar material, teaching aids and teaching support notes.

Introducing Electronic Products at Key Stage 3

This is a compelling approach to developing and making electronic products. The day is aimed at making electronics easy to build-in into products. Assignments explore several low-cost and reliable circuits that lend themselves to attractive and unusual product applications. An important outcome of the session is improved electronics expertise and confidence.

Each activity explores circuits, PCB, software, components and applications and is based in real desktop products. Each of the assignments is practical in nature and includes:

• Electronics in textiles
• Power tool product
• Solar power product
• Audio project
• Remote control product

Practitioners will take teaching notes and practical exemplars back to school.

Developing capability in Electronic Products at Key Stage 4

With product design

• Practical hands on
• Workshop based
• Back to basics
• Class exemplars sustainable
• Teaching notes / powerpoint
• Worked examples
• Built in mapped
• Low cost
• Professional development
• Structured assignments
• Drop in capability
• 3-4-5
• Based on

Outcome

Content

Making good practice-common practice in D&T

Creativity

• Jewellery
• Developing dynamic approaches to diploma
• Enhancing and improving product design and manufacture
• Building on success at Key Stage 3
• Integrating new technologies

Laser based wider access -

• Hub manufacturing / try before you buy / industrial revolution - air engines/ stirling engines/ flywheels / nipkow disc/ music box /
• History/ manufacturing / engineering/ maths/ science/ music
• Transitional activity
• Laser 4K
• Materials 1000
• Training days 2000
• Days in school so no supply required 8 schools / feeders
• Video support - integrating laser- all schools
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