Visits to art galleries, museums, exhibitions, studios of professional artists and similar locations. Visits off the school site in order to create works of art in a different environment.

Students spending time, either on day-release or on block-release in a working environment, practising skills learnt on construction courses. Visits to construction sites to observe working practices. Visits to domestic and commercial building sites.

This edition of Futureminds has contributions about the future of D&T, novel project ideas, plastic recycling, 3D printing, extraction, food and textiles.

There are also the usual updates from our work, including about our move to the new makerspace.

This guide is intended to support schools in developing an environment that enables the teaching of D&T to be challenging and innovative whilst remaining safe for staff, students and others.

This guide gives an overview of risk assessment and how it can be sensibly managed in a busy D&T department.