Course Title: Textiles
Exam Board: AQA (60% coursework and one examination 40%)
Entry Requirements (if appropriate):
Contact: Miss K Sasbry
Course Aims: 
Students will be given the opportunity to acquire and apply knowledge, skills and understanding through:
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Analysing and evaluating products and processes.
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Engaging in focused tasks to develop and demonstrate techniques.
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Engaging in strategies for developing ideas, planning and producing products.
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Considering how past and present Design and Technology innovations, relevant to a designing and making context, affects society.
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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 Future Career Pathways
Social Work
Primary Teaching
Caring Profession
Nursery Nursing
Skills and Knowledge transferable and are key to the development of adult life
