Part of Boyd Education
About Us
Hello
We're Paul and Julie Boyd and we love all things D&T (design and technology), STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) and Art.
We're both qualified teachers with extensive experience working in a range of education settings, including working at university level. We also both have experience working in industry.
We're a husband and wife team and since 2010 we've ran an independent consultancy supporting D&T and STEM education in schools across the country. During that time we've created teaching and learning resources for use in D&T classrooms, as well as planning and delivering training courses and workshops for schools.
We're now semi retired and although we'll be continuing with some of our work supporting Design & Technology teachers we're gradually reducing this work to focus more on our own projects as artists and makers. Our free and paid for D&T resources will remain on this website but we will no longer be producing new resources. Schools and teachers are welcome to contact us with requests for in school support and we'll be happy to help if we have time available.
Our experience in design & techology eduction
Our experience includes:
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Working in a range of educational contexts across the country, from primary to university level, including in challenging schools
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Experienced senior leaders in both education and industry
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Qualified teachers with extensive experience teaching in secondary and degree level contexts
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Industrial experience linked to teaching D&T including in design, manufacturing, quality control and retail (including qualified watchmaker, retail manager, retail buyer, quality control manager, independent designer and photographer)
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Experienced trainers working together for more than 14 years as Boyd Education and known for the high quality training, resources and support we provide to schools, both as independent trainers, and working for a range of providers including the DfE, D&T Association, exam boards, Ofqual, the National STEM Learning Centre (including Lead Facilitator accreditation as part of the National STEM Learning Centre CPD Quality Mark) and various trusts and local authorities including School Improvement Liverpool
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Published work including KS3 and GCSE textbooks and online resources for education publishers, as well as creating resources for various organisations including Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Kitronik Ltd, D&T Association, National STEM Learning Centre
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Experienced coaches and mentors (with PGCE qualification), including working at university level and in industry (including Nottingham City Council & Helen Kennedy Foundation)
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Innovative teaching and learning and leadership recognised through national awards (Guardian Teacher of the Year distinction award and D&T Association Subject Leadership award)
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Outstanding knowledge of teaching and learning across the curriculum, including senior leadership roles leading teaching and learning and coaching and working as a senior lecturer at Nottingham Trent University on the teacher training programmes
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Extensive experience of delivering across all D&T specialisms including new technologies, STEM, CAD/CAM, electronics & e-textiles, systems and control, resistant materials, textiles, and graphics
Our websites
This is our original website which Julie created when she began working as an education consultant in 2010. When Paul joined her as a consultant a few years later the website and Julie's work was well established so the decision was made to keep the website name. As the website content grew the BoydCreate website was created leaving the original website to focus on free resources to support learning in D&T with snippets of information, video links, thinking points, activities and useful starting points for ideas to support D&T teachers and students at KS3, KS4 and KS5.
Our BoydCreate website (this website) is where our free and paid for ready to use resources and products are hosted. This is also where our own work as artists and makers is hosted.
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Contact
We're based in our workshop by the sea in New Brighton on the Wirral although our work takes us all over the country.
For our full contact details visit the 'Contact' page
Content on this website is the copyright of Paul and Julie Boyd and Boyd Education.This includes text and images, apart from a small number of images which are from www.pixabay.com. Content mustn't be reproduced or copied without permission. Resources developed using our content is for personal use & may not be shared.