Future minds

The Interactive Digital Magazine from CLEAPSS

The Sustainability Issue

Welcome to the spring edition of Futureminds! We hope you enjoy our interactive digital version of the magazine from CLEAPSS.

Developing greater flexibility in the teaching and learning of D&T, food and art

By Dave Parry

Sustainable Design Education By Jo Barnard

Neston High School MakerSpaceBy Pat Link

Making with PalletsBy Steve Cole

Acrylic BendersBy John Donnelly

Textiles Action for a Sustainable Future: Making it Succeed in the CurriculumBy Dawn Foxall

Affordable Food Lessons for AllBy Barbara Rathmill

Teaching Primary Food and NutritionBy Frances Meek

CLEAPSS Guidance - The Small PrintBy Dave Parry

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CLEAPSS NEWS

Welcome to the Spring 2023 edition of Futureminds.

As always, it’s been a busy time since the last edition in the autumn term.

We have generally been able to resume normal working, much as before COVID. Over the autumn term we carried out a number of department health and safety audits, and ran some face to face training. We have also been pleased to see that our online training continues to be very popular.

For the first time in three years, CLEAPSS attended the ASE (Association for Science Education) conference in Sheffield. Although this is a science conference, we always have a D&T display, this year we took along the resin printer, as it has a tenuous link to chemistry!

We have also run our first D&T course in our new facilities at Chesham. The D&T space is designed to provide a showcase for good practice, as well as exemplifying a mobile, or flexible solution to practical space designs. We do not have any heavy workbenches, and only a couple of fixed machines, but we do have the capacity to work with all types of materials, including; woods, metals, plastics, textiles and even food.

The training day went really well. Not only did we cover the H&S management for D&T, we also invited the three main awarding organisations to provide a short input. Phil Holton (Pearson), Louise Attwood (AQA) and Liz Bull (OCR) joined us to provide information about the latest developments at KS4 and post-16.

If you would like more information about our courses, or would like to work through our online training, some of which is free to members, go to the courses section of the website:

CLEAPSS Courses

We have also started to develop a range of Tool tips videos. These are designed to supplement the MRATs, and give a short illustration of some of the points teachers and technicians need to consider when developing their own, localised risk assessment record. So far, we have produced some on the larger machines used in D&T, but the library will increase over the coming year: