INSPIRE      CREATE      SUCCEED

Activity sessions

Young children can benefit greatly by taking part in some or all of our activity sessions. Understanding how things work and interact with each other, how to read circuit diagrams, solder and build circuits, how to use CAD and print in 3D or how to code a computer will develop unique skills and an understanding of the digital world in which we live. Our aim is to make the world of technology accessible, fun and inspirational by creating things. It is a matter of finding somewhere to start and there is no better place than here, so take a look.

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AQA Design Technology Resources

These practice papers and resources available for GCSE and GCE Design Technology, will provide your students with the additional opportunities and resources they need as they prepare for their exams. Click on the link below for further details about each of the resources available and for details of how to order.

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GCE Design Technology Questions

With very few exam papers available to draw questions from to use as home works or to test your students' knowledge and understanding, we have shared a number of practice questions here for teachers and students alike. Click on the link below to see the resources and to access the free downloads.

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3D Printing Resources

More and more design and development work in the world of manufacturing is now carried out using computer-aided design (CAD). Using some simple software is a great place to start in learning how to design products and being able to watch them grow in 3D on the printer bed is very exciting. So take a look at some of our resources and download for free and see what some of the children have produced. You can also take a look at our Introduction to CAD and 3D printing activity session.

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Home Schooling

With home schooling on the rise, access to technology based resources and activities is limited. We aim to provide some free to use resources ranging from computer science to design technonology based activities. 

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  • Inspire

    Having been inpsired and encouraged in the subject of Design Technology at school at a young age by a few teachers, I went on to teach the subject for over 30 years in a range of Secondary schools. I hope to have inspired a few of my students along the way. In fact a few have ended up teaching Design Technology themselves. Along the way I also taught Computer Science and A Level Electronics. I also spent some time training teachers in the UK and have delivered training overseas.


    Having held a number of senior positions in schools and having worked for a number of national exam boards and educational publishers, I recently started working with smaller groups of students and teachers. 


    As technology has moved on and developed at an ever increasing rate, I am hoping to find the time and space to INSPIRE children in these amazing subjects through a range of fun and interactive activities.

  • Create

    Whether you are writing a code for a computer, using CAD to produce a design for 3D printing or some other form of manuafcture or building electronic circuits and systems, ideas are tested, formed and products CREATED. We learn by seeing and doing and for me the best way was through practical based activities. 


    Learning what electronic components do and how they can be joined and linked together allows us to design and make products and to control devices. Learning what individual lines of computer code do and how they can be put  together allows us to write complete programs. 


    Creating things is at the core of all we do in our activity sessions, so take a look and see what we have to offer you and your children.

  • Succeed

    Making things that work is great fun and exciting but not all things work first time. 


    Sometimes through trial and error, sometimes by going back and unpicking what has been done and sometimes through sheer deteremination we get things working. 


    Eventually we SUCCEED and we move forward having discovered something about the process or ourselves along the way.

  • Practical fun with electronics

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  • Coding for beginners with Python

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  • Introduction to CAD and 3D printing

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  • Adventures with the BBC micro;bit

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Where are we based?

We are based in Gloucestershire but work across the whole of the South-West region. Some of our resources can be used online and accessed by different social media platforms. Our taught face to face classes are based in and around Cheltenham currently but we are exploring some new areas to work from. 
We have made visits to specific schools when asked to do so and if you are interested in this then please do get in touch with us.

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