This is the second edition of our popular Key Stage 3 Baseline Test Pack for Design and Technology. This edition presents an updated version of the initial two test pack with six new questions and an additional baseline numeracy test to match the increased focus on numeracy in the D&T curriculum. This pack contains two alternative tests for accurate Key Stage 3 baselining in Design and Technology. These tests are designed to provide summative assessment at the end of Key Stage 2. For example, when a pupil is making a transition from primary to secondary school. Each test presents twelve multi-part questions covering every bullet point/topic area of the 2014 Key Stage 2 National Curriculum for Design and Technology. The tests can be used by secondary teachers to evaluate what proportion of the national curriculum requirements have been addressed in primary school by each pupil. This resource includes: Two baseline test papers, each mapped directly to the 2014 KS2 National Curriculum for Design and Technology. Mark schemes for each paper. A pupil mark and feedback sheet. A set of four worksheet based tasks that can be used in cases where schools require a baseline level to be set for each pupil. NEW - A baseline numeracy test for D&T, testing Maths skills directly linked to the subject.

This is a PowerPoint based scheme of learning designed to teach Cooking and Nutrition and/or Catering to year 7 as part of the 2014 national curriculum at key stage 3. It has been written by an experienced Food teacher and has been fully tested in the classroom. The resource is presented as a 36 slide PowerPoint based workbook that can be printed for pupil use and projected onto a whiteboard for teacher explanation/class discussion. It supports pupils in developing the underpinning knowledge for a range of food preparation skills appropriate to year 7. These include food hygiene, knife skills, oven management and the use of the Eatwell guide. It also includes suggested practical food preparation activities to support learning, the ingredients needed for each and self-evaluation sheets for pupils to complete after each activity. The resource is fully editable and so can be customised to meet local requirements. Included in this resource: A 36 slide PowerPoint workbook designed to support pupils in developing their underpinning knowledge of key stage 3 food preparation skills. Suggested practical food preparation activities to support learning and the ingredients needed for each.

This Excel based tool provides star charts that can be used, for example, in Food Technology. The appropriate tab can be copied and edited into other work books as required.

Create outstanding customised starters and plenaries for your Design and Technology lessons in minutes! This resource contains over 70 slides. Its objective is to support literacy in the new GCSE D&T, by focusing on key terms in electronic, programmable and mechanical systems. The slides include electronic symbols, component recognition, cloze questions and anagrams. Simply copy and paste the appropriate slides for your own lessons. This is suitable for use to support teaching of the new GCSE in D&T or at Key Stage 3. It has been written with direct reference to the OCR specification, which has now been approved for first teaching in September 2017.

Create outstanding customised starters and plenaries for your Food Preparation and Nutrition lessons in minutes! This resource contains over 60 slides. Its objective is to support literacy in the new GCSE in Food Preparation and Nutrition, by focusing on key terms in food choice. The slides include picture recognition, cloze questions and anagrams. Simply copy and paste the appropriate slides for your own lessons. This is suitable for use to support teaching of the new GCSE in Food Preparation and Nutrition or at Key Stage 3. It has been written with direct reference to the AQA specification, but due to common content could be easily adapted for courses from other awarding bodies.

Create outstanding customised starters and plenaries for your Design and Technology lessons in minutes! This resource contains over 60 slides. Its objective is to support literacy in the new GCSE D&T, by focusing on key terms in energy generation and storage. The slides include picture recognition, cloze questions and anagrams. Simply copy and paste the appropriate slides for your own lessons. This is suitable for use to support teaching of the new GCSE in D&T or at Key Stage 3. It has been written with direct reference to the OCR specification, which has now been approved for first teaching in September 2017.

Create outstanding customised starters and plenaries for your Design and Technology lessons in minutes! This resource contains over 60 slides. Its objective is to support literacy in the new GCSE D&T, by focusing on key terms in environmental, ecological and social Issues. The slides include picture recognition, cloze questions and anagrams. Simply copy and paste the appropriate slides for your own lessons. This is suitable for use to support teaching of the new GCSE in D&T or at Key Stage 3. It has been written with direct reference to the AQA specification, which has been approved for first teaching in September 2017.

For the new GCSE in Design and Technology - first teaching in September 2017. Written for the AQA specification. There are three keys to success in GCSE exams: subject knowledge, exam technique and confidence. Our GCSE homework packs have been written by former senior examiners and outstanding teachers. They contain at least one separate worksheet for every sub-section of the named GCSE specification, written in the style of exam questions. These are each supported by an associated mark scheme. The questions can be printed and set as homework activities to support the lessons covering each area of subject knowledge, or for revision. They can then be used as a peer assessment activity with students marking each others’ work, or marked by teachers. By using these worksheets, learners can consolidate or develop their subject knowledge. They can also increase their understanding of what the questions are asking for and how to answer them – therefore also helping to increase their confidence. This addresses all three of the keys for success in their GCSE exams! This resource includes: Teachers' notes, suggesting how the resource can be used effectively. A series of over 50 individual worksheets containing exam-style questions (at least one worksheet for each sub-section of the specification). Immediately following each work sheet, a mark scheme for that question. What teachers have said about our homework packs: 'What a fantastic resource... I think it's brilliant!' - Steve Ridley, Middleton Technology College 'The homework packs are absolutely fantastic!' - James Longridge, Head of D&T - Heckmondwike Grammar School 'The homework pack is fab!! So glad you told me about it!' - KD, Staffordshire 'This pack made a huge difference to the performance of my students in the examination component of the course. This made all the difference to their overall results.' - MT, Manchester

This is a PowerPoint explaining the common command words that could be used in exam questions for the subject, alongside a sample question and answer for each type of question. In order to maximise exam performance, it is vital that pupils fully understand the questions that they are being asked so that they are able to answer them effectively. This can make a huge difference to the grades that they achieve. In addition, with the increased emphasis on literacy in schools it is more important than ever that pupils can understand exactly what they are being asked to write and demonstrate a good command of the English language when presenting their answers. This PowerPoint based resource, written by a former senior examiner, is designed to be used by teachers in class to guide pupils through the common command words that could be used in AQA GCSE Design and Technology examination questions. These include which, state, give, describe, explain and discuss. It can also be printed/placed on a VLE for students to use as part of their GCSE revision. In addition to an explanation of each command word, the resource also provides a sample question and answer for each, giving pupils clear examples of how to structure their answers to each type of question.

The new GCSE 9-1 Engineering specification contains maths requirements that were not in the previous GCSE specification. These requirements are specifically tested in the exam, where a percentage of the marks are specifically allocated to them. This resource contains a skill worksheet and a practice worksheet for each of the maths requirements of the specification (two worksheets for each requirement, or 26 in total). These summarise the knowledge needed and provide practice questions in the style of exam questions, along with worked answers. These worksheets have been prepared by former senior examiners in Mathematics, Engineering and Design & Technology. This resource includes: Teachers' notes explaining the purpose and effective use of the resource. 13 skill sheets, each containing an outline of the relevant maths skill covered, a worked example of a question and a small number of questions for students to attempt. 13 practice sheets, each containing a series of practice questions for students of an increasing level of difficulty. Mark schemes/worked through answers for all questions asked in the pack.

Create outstanding customised starters and plenaries for your Design and Technology lessons in minutes! This resource contains over 60 slides. Its objective is to support literacy and numeracy in the new GCSE D&T, by focusing on key terms in materials and material properties. The slides include picture recognition, cloze questions, numeracy problems and anagrams. Simply copy and paste the appropriate slides for your own lessons. This is suitable for use to support teaching of the new GCSE in D&T or at Key Stage 3. It has been written with direct reference to the AQA specification, which has been approved for first teaching in September 2017.

Create outstanding customised starters and plenaries for your Design and Technology lessons in minutes! This resource contains over 60 slides. Its objective is to support literacy in the new GCSE D&T, by focusing on key terms in environmental, ecological, social and ethical issues. The slides include picture recognition, cloze questions and anagrams. Simply copy and paste the appropriate slides for your own lessons. This is suitable for use to support teaching of the new GCSE in D&T or at Key Stage 3. It has been written with direct reference to the OCR specification, which has now been approved for first teaching in September 2017.

There are three keys to success in exams: subject knowledge, exam technique and confidence. The sooner pupils begin to practice these the better they will become at answering exam questions, leading to them building the skills needed for success when they reach GCSE level. Our KS3 D&T homework pack has been written by examiners and outstanding teachers. It contains two separate worksheets for every point of the new KS3 Design and Technology national curriculum programme of study, written in the style of exam questions. These are each supported by an associated mark scheme. The questions can be printed and set as homework activities to support the lessons covering each area of subject knowledge, or for revision of topics covered. They can then be used as a peer assessment activity with students marking each others’ work, or marked by teachers. By using these worksheets, learners can consolidate or develop their subject knowledge. They can also increase their understanding of what exam questions ask for and how to answer them – therefore also helping to increase their confidence. This enables them to build early on the three key areas that they will need for success in their exams when they reach GCSE! This resource includes: Teachers notes, suggesting how the resource can be used effectively. A series of 38 individual worksheets containing exam-style questions. Immediately following each work sheet, a mark scheme for that question. What teachers have said about our homework packs: 'What a fantastic resource... I think it's brilliant!' - Steve Ridley, Middleton Technology College 'The homework packs are absolutely fantastic!' - James Longridge, Head of D&T - Heckmondwike Grammar School 'The homework pack is fab!! So glad you told me about it!' - KD, Staffordshire

This is a guide to using learning walks as a tool for departmental improvement, with a supporting example feedback form. It has been written by an experienced leader who worked in a school that improved its inspection rating by two grades. The resource is appropriate for use across all secondary school subjects. This resource includes: Guidance notes on the importance and implementation of learning walks, how they can be used as a department improvement tool and criteria that can be used when observing lessons. Example feedback form that can be completed during the learning walk, with criteria linked to learning, teaching and progress, marking and assessment and the classroom environment. Fully editable. Example of a completed learning walk feedback form.

Create outstanding customised starters and plenaries for your Food Preparation and Nutrition lessons in minutes! This resource contains over 60 slides. Its objective is to support literacy in the new GCSE in Food Preparation and Nutrition, by focusing on key terms in food, nutrition and health. The slides include picture recognition, cloze questions and anagrams. Simply copy and paste the appropriate slides for your own lessons. This is suitable for use to support teaching of the new GCSE in Food Preparation and Nutrition or at Key Stage 3. It has been written with direct reference to the AQA specification, but due to common content could be easily adapted for courses from other awarding bodies.

Create outstanding customised plenaries for your Engineering class projects in minutes! A key topic in GCSE Engineering courses is working, or orthographic, drawings. However, examiners have frequently found that questions about working drawings are often answered very badly. This starter supports knowledge recall, to support pupils towards raising their exam performance. This resource contains over 70 PowerPoint slides, designed to support literacy in technology. They include image and feature recognition, missing word sentences and anagrams. Simply copy and paste the appropriate slides for your own projects. This is suitable for use at Key Stage 3 or to support GCSE Engineering. It is supplied with an example plenary created using the resource, which has been used in the classroom with great success.

This pack contains two end of Key Stage 3 tests for Design and Technology. These tests are designed to provide summative assessment at the end of the key stage. Each test presents several multi-part questions covering each strand of the 2014 National Curriculum for Design and Technology. This resource includes: Two end of Key Stage 3 test papers, each mapped directly to the 2014 National Curriculum for Design and Technology. Mark schemes for each paper. A pupil mark and feedback sheet.

This pack contains series of five different word search based worksheets mapped directly to each section of the new Design and Technology national curriculum (Design, Make, Evaluate, Technical Knowledge, Cooking and Nutrition). It is designed to support literacy skills within KS3 D&T. Follow up questions are presented for each word search which ask learners to state the meaning of key words, thus getting learners to both spell and understand key words in the new curriculum effectively. Each worksheet comes with its own answer sheet giving the solution to the worksheet and example answers to the follow up questions on each sheet. These worksheets can be printed for use as quick lesson starters or plenaries. They can also be set as homework activities to reinforce key words learnt in lessons. The answer sheets can be used by teachers to mark pupil responses, or used by pupils as a peer assessment activity. Included in this Resource: One worksheet for each of the five diffierent strands in the new D&T national curriculum, each with a word search and follow up questions asking learners to state the definition of the key words. An answer sheet for each work sheet. Introductory notes explaining how to use the resource.

A digital recipe book containing 38 recipes suitable for use in teaching skills required by the 2014 Key Stage 3 National Curriculum for Design and Technology - Cooking and Nutrition. This book has been written for new or non-specialist teachers to allow them to access and teach the curriculum with ease. However it also provides a good, solid set of recipes that any food teacher can make use of at any time. Each recipe can also be printed, laminated and used as a recipe card to hand out to learners during practical lessons. This resource includes: 38 'mainly savoury' recipes suitable for use in key stage 3 cooking and nutrition lessons (25 savoury, 13 sweet). Grids referencing the key practical skills that can be learnt through making each recipe. At least one hint or tip for preparation and further adaptation of each recipe. Teacher guidance notes.

Looking to develop the teaching of literacy within Design and Technology? Look no further! This is a training pack to support teachers and middle leaders in developing the teaching of literacy in the subject. The pack consists of three PowerPoint presentations (over 100 slides in total) that can be used to deliver training to teachers at a department level or used by individuals as a self training CPD exercise. It has been written by a team of experienced department middle leaders and teachers with support from a literacy specialist. A teacher guide details the rationale for developing literacy teaching in the subject and suggested ways of delivering the pack as a departmental training exercise or CPD activity. Included in this pack: Introductory guide detailing best use of the pack. Presentation 1 - Understanding levels for literacy in Design and Technology. Presentation 2 - Practical ways of introducing literacy into the design and make process. Presentation 3 - Additional practical ways of increasing literacy in the subject. Example worksheets and resources bank.