10th September 2020
The title used for this D&T Practice Magazine editorial is also the title of an excellent book by Guy Claxton. This is a book that I read and re-read as a headteacher as I regularly sought to step...
Written by: Tony Ryan
16th December 2019
I certainly don’t consider myself to be good at writing but the other day I was embarrassed to be complimented on something I’d produced. I responded by saying that’s it’s less than one’s ability to w...
Written by: Andy Mitchell
10th June 2019
If there was ever an example of journalists, fabricating and fanning the flames of an education ‘story’, in pursuit of a salacious report, then this was it. It all started as parent (or someone repres...
Written by: Andy Mitchell
7th June 2019
With the GCSE Non-Examined Assessment (NEA) and written examination now done and dusted, this feels like an opportune time to commit this to paper. It was clear when I took up this post that there w...
Written by: Tony Ryan
3rd June 2019
Andy Mitchell reflects on the publication of the new GCSE Contextual Challenges that comprise 50% of the mark in the recently introduced Design and Technology GCSE. It’s been interesting to read th...
Written by: Andy Mitchell
18th April 2019
Like the next person, I get excited by the potential for the use of future technology and its positive impact on both my own immediate and the wider world. No more so than when I read articles like th...
Written by: Andy Mitchell
22nd August 2016
Although I have spent about 26 years of my career teaching D&T at various educational stages, I’m currently not based in a school or other educational establishment. Nevertheless, this time of ye...
Written by: Andy Mitchell
19th January 2016
Are you happy for creative subjects to be marginalised or removed from the curriculum? What are you thoughts?.. sign our petition
Written by: Debbie Woodbridge