2007 D&T Excellence Awards

Established in 1999 the awards celebrate those across all areas of D&T who have contributed to the subject and supported learning.

Professor Heinz Wolff, the respected scientist, was the guest of honour and entertaining speaker at the March 2007 presentation ceremony held at the Royal Society in London.

Category 1:
Outstanding Contribution to Design and Technology Education

This is the highest professional award made by the Design and Technology Association. The persons being nominated can come from any part of the subject area, including schools, advisory, lecturing, teaching, research, curriculum development, management and administration to industry and suppliers. To be given this award, a person will need to have given service over a long period of time and made an outstanding contribution, showing commitment and leadership.

(l-r) John Culpin,  John Williams

Category 2:
Subject Teacher Training Design and Technology

This award is for lecturers, advisors, inspectors, consultants or teachers for their service to training teachers. The category covers both in-service and initial teacher training. This award will be for high quality work in this field over a significant period of time that has helped teachers' understanding and given confidence to teachers over a significant period of time.

(l-r): Carolyn Chalkley, University of Sunderland; Suzanne Lawson, University of
Central England, Birmingham; George Preston, Bath Spa University

Category 3:
Subject Leadership Design and Technology

This is award is for subject leadership in school. It covers all phases and awards those who have made a significant contribution over a period of time in developing design and technology in their school and have established high standards of performance from pupils in their care. Those obtaining this award will need to have displayed outstanding management skills and be excellent at promoting the subject in school and the local area.

(l-r): Brian Darwin, Trinity Church of England High School, Manchester; Sharon Lomas, Five Ways Primary, Staffordshire; Fenella Noble, Birkdale School, Sheffield; Janet Wilson, Elms Bank High School, Manchester

Category 4:
Outstanding Teacher Design and Technology

This award is granted to teachers who have displayed outstanding capability in teaching design and technology over a period of time. They may be a Co-ordinator or Head of Department, or those not holding such positions but consistently displaying outstanding practice in teaching design and technology. This will not only include teaching in timetabled lessons, but also those who have displayed high quality extra-curriculum activities.

(l-r): Rachael Bartlett, Stream Woods School, Hertfordshire; David Britton, Broadlands School, Bristol; Debbie Hadley, Bearwood Primary School, West Midlands; Alison Scott, Dyson Perrins School, Worcestershire

Category 4a:
The IED Design and Technology Award for Post-16 Teaching

The Institute of Engineering Designers, the professional body for Engineering and Product Designers, sponsors this new award for 2006. This award is for an outstanding contribution to design and technology education in the Post-16 sector. This award is granted to those with consistently outstanding capability over a period of time. This may include extra-curricular activities as well as timetabled lessons.

(l-r): Joanne Hayes, Ashfield School, Nottinghamshire; Peter
Stokes, Eckington School & Engineering College, Derbyshire

Category 4b:
The BMES Sponsored Design and Technology Award

(l-r): Barbara Monks, Hitchin Girls School, Hertfordshire;
Diane Murphy, Duchess's Community High School, Northumberland

Category 5:
Outstanding Newcomer to Design and Technology

This award is granted to students nearing the completion of their training or to teachers in their first two years of teaching. They will need to have shown outstanding ability in their training and display the capacity to be an outstanding teacher.

(l-r): Jillian Connolly, St Luke's High School, Glasgow; Geraldine George, St Peter's Collegiate High School, Wolverhampton; Joe Rivers, Kensington Avenue Primary School, Croydon, Surrey; Jill Sexton, St. Joseph's RC Primary School, London.

Category 6:
Exceptional Support for Design and Technology

This award is for a classroom assistant, teaching assistant or technician, whose support for the subject has been exceptional. Generally, the support will have been given consistently over a period of time and made a significant impact on pupils' learning, either directly through classroom/workshop support or through support to teaching staff.

(l-r): Glyn Hayter, Cleeve School, Gloucestershire; Anne Parkinson, Ilsinton
CoE Primary School, Devon; Gordon Smith, The Griffith Jones Centre, Carmarthenshire

The Dyson Design and Technology Teacher of the Year
Nathan Jenkins, John Cabot CTC, Bristol

Julia Curry, James Dyson Foundation Manager,
with Nathan Jenkins and his prize, a Dyson appliance