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Great Resources from Culture Street

Culture Street is a wonderful site offering information, advice, activities and resources from artists, writers, filmmakers and performers.

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The Dream Lab competition

Enter a competition and win £20,000 for your school!

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Cracking Ideas Competition

Learn about patents, copyright and intellectual property and Wallace and Gromit’s Cracking Ideas site… you can also enter their competition and win lots of prizes!

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Wallace and Gromit need your help!

Wallace & Gromit are back with their World of Invention and they need help to put their inventions right. The Crackers pair are in trouble and need some inspiration to build their designs. Gromit just can’t get Wallace’s wake-up machine to work and has crashed their entire workshop! Could your pupils design a better machine? [...]

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National Baking Week

National Baking Week 2010 takes place from 19th to 25th October. The event encourages everyone to get involved in baking and their site offers a huge collection of recipes, ideas, advice and resources for schools to help them take part. You can download teaching packs include teachers’ notes, lesson plans and PowerPoint presentations for use [...]

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Young Design Club

The Sorrell Foundation is launching the YOUNGDESIGNCLUB to give pupils and their teachers an exciting new resource to inform and stimulate knowledge and debate about design. The YOUNGDESIGNCLUB is free to UK primary and secondary schools, to run in lunch breaks or as an after-school activity. Each meeting will focus on a piece of design [...]

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Things I’ve discovered on Twitter recently (part 6)

Twitter is an amazing way to discover new and interesting information. Here are links to some of the things that I have found recently: Design 2010 – An online exhibition celebrating the achievements of students in Design and Technology. Shared by Gareth Davies. Aviary Education – Aviary, who produce lots of fantastic online tools, are [...]

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CBE Learning

www.cbelearning.com is designed to support both students and teachers with the Diploma in Construction and the Built Environment curriculum. This resource will help bring the construction industry, and roles within it, to life through a variety of interactive learning experiences. www.cbelearning.com The site allows students to explore real construction situations, engaging activities, tasks and roles. [...]

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National Baking Week

Do you love baking cakes? Or making bread, cookies or other tasty food? If you do, get involved in National Baking Week from 19th to 25th October 2009. The National Baking Week site is a wonderful resource for schools, containing recipes, teaching packs for KS1 and KS2, baking tips, a free baking booklet and online [...]

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Design your own playground

Ministers today launched a fun, interactive website and poster campaign to encourage children to give their views on play and play areas as part of the first ever national consultation on children’s play. The website and posters give children the chance to design their own play space using playground favourites such as see-saws and round-a-bouts [...]

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