Attainment in Education

These can be used to support creativity when generating design ideas in Design & Technology and Engineering. They have proved to be particularly effective when used as a challenge to students – ‘Are you SCARED of designing’?

SCARED Cards

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Schools use attainment criteria to facilitate the assessment of progress. However, the Secretary of State for education has disapplied the attainment criteria previously used for Key Stage 3 Design & Technology. This disapplication gives the opportunity to adopt new assessment criteria, which more accurately reflect the development of skills that will be assessed in GCSE 9-1 Design & Technology and GCSE 9-1 Engineering.

The following descriptor statements are based on the NEA assessment criteria in the new GCSE 9-1 Design & Technology specification and the new GCSE 9-1 Engineering specification. They were developed by a group of examiners for use in their own classrooms. They were not prepared by, and have not been approved by, any exam board.

• KS3 Level Descriptor Statements derived from New 9-1 GCSE Design & Technology 
• KS3 Level Descriptor Statements derived from New 9-1 GCSE Engineering 

A template for recording minutes and actions arising from department and faculty meetings.

Department/Faculty Meeting Minutes Blank

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. Simply click on the link below to download.

Start Charts Tool

The documents below are copies of the new KS3 Programmes of Study for Maths, Science and D&T. They have been edited to replace the bullet points with letters for easier cross referencing with assessment structures and models. 

Maths KS3 PoS with Letters

Science KS3 PoS with Letters

D&T KS3 PoS with Letters