Hi from the sunny south coast of Dorset

Hi folks, I'm a D&T teacher who has just started teaching a BTEC Engineering course and I might be looking for help/advice etc!

Handy with the spanners and happy to try anything, but not with the sort of precise, apprenticeship that some might have had.

Thanks in advance for any reading/help/advice you might do/offer.

Hi Jon, welcome to the forum. Any questions ask away, someone will have an answer.

I'm in North Dorset, the bit the sun skips in favor of the south! Welcome Jon. With any luck your students will be able to see some model engineering in the flesh soon to get the inspiration flowing.

Greetings John!

We look forwards to progress reports!

Certainly was sunny today - I quite enjoyed being playing grockle on this T-shirt weather afternoon by walking along the sea-front and harbour of my own town (Weymouth).

Before burrowing into the depths of my workshop to continue fitting a gearbox to my elderly Myford lathe.

Hello Jon

I'm in south Dorset and a retired Technology teacher. It's good to see that engineering is appearing on the curriculum after years of national curriculum D&T, that effectively destroyed the subject. As the well known acronym for GCSE D&T went - Glue Guns Can Solve Everything.

Fortunately there were many teachers of Technology who tried hard to keep the subject meaningful and inspiring.

If you need any advice then please message me.

Paul

Hello Jon

Hope you will find help/advice here as and when you seek it. Wife and I spent many happy years exploring around your beat while based in our static caravan at Bowleaze Cove. If I lived down there though your most beautiful part of the UK would easily be to much of a distraction for me and the workshop would have to take second place

Rik

WELCOME!

You will find lots of advice and help, on here.

If possible, find a local Model Engineering Club and join.

You will see the work of others and can ask questions about how ikt was made.

You'll soon pick things up.

Learn the basics first of all, and then start studying the more complicated procedures.

But remember that different folk will have different ways of dealing with a problem, depending on their experience, skill and the equipment available.

Howard

Welcome to the forum

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Welcome to the party ! South Dorset - where ? Grew up in the north of the county, and schooled in Weymouth. You may be able to have a look at Bridport Foundry, that may prove interesting. Good Luck Noel.

Thanks everyone, what a lovely welcome! 😍

Thanks everyone, what a lovely welcome! 😍

Edited By jon oxenham on 07/10/2021 18:47:31

Hi Jon,

We are in Broadmayne, 3 miles from Dorchester, 15 mins from Weymouth.

We always have the kettle on if you are passing by!

cheers, Martin

And there is an ME club in Weymouth!

Also , if you are nearer them, one in Bournemouth and I think another in Wimborne.

Also a great club in Yeovil just up the road for you to visit too