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Textiles

Course Title: GCSE Textiles Technology

Examination Board:AQA

Entry Requirements (if appropriate): Not Applicable

Contact: Miss Sasbry


Course Aims:

Students will be given the opportunity to acquire and apply knowledge, skills and understanding through:

  • Analysing and evaluating products and processes;
  • Engaging in focused tasks to develop and demonstrate techniques;
  • Engaging in strategies for developing ideas, planning and producing products;
  • Considering how past and present design and technology, relevant to a designing and making context, affects society;
  • Recognising the moral, cultural and environmental issues inherent in design and technology.

Course Description:

Students will investigate a range of textile design processes and will then develop both creative and technical skills and techniques to produce work in two and three dimensions. A folder of design work will support students coursework where fashion, interiors, silk painting, felt making, batik and tie dye as well as other surface and 3D decoration are applied to produce a final product.

How will I learn:

Interpret information from different sources, carry out calculations, interpret results and present findings, take part in discussions, read and obtain Information, find, explore and  develop information, confirm what needs to be done and who is to do it, plan work and confirm working arrangements, plan and try out ways of solving problems, evaluate all work.

Possible Career Pathways:

Fashion Design
Interior Design
Textile Design
Millenary
Shoe Design
Textile Craft Design
Fashion and Textile Buyer
Fashion and Accessory

Retailer
Fashion Marketing
Fashion Promotion and Manufacturing
Theatre/Costume Design
Surface Design for Fashion and Interiors
Fashion Media
Advertising Media

Subject summary:

During this year students will have worked in a couple of areas within Design:

  • Textiles
  • Resistant Materials
  • Electronics

Students have been taught a range of basic skills which are common to all the areas as well as specialist knowledge, understanding and techniques from the individual subjects.

Subject summary:

During this year students will have worked in three areas within Design:

  • Graphic Products
  • Resistant Materials/Mechanisms
  • Product Design

Students have been taught a range of basic skills which are common to all the areas as well as specialist knowledge, understanding and techniques from the individual subjects.

Subject summary:

Throughout Key Stage 3 the students will follow a balanced Engineering and Technology curriculum from the following areas:

  • Manufacturing/Resistant Materials
  • Graphic Products/Product Design
  • Mechanisms
  • Textile

Students have been taught a range of basic skills which are common to all the areas as well as specialist knowledge, understanding and techniques from the individual subjects.

This report has been written after consultation with all the department staff