Curriculum
TEXTILES
GCSE is about having an adventurous, enquiring and risk taking approach to Textiles Design, it involves the creation, selection, manipulation and application of a range of materials such as fibres, yarns and fabrics, and processes such as weaving, knitting, stitching, bonding, felting and printing to create a wide range of designs and products. Students will learn how textile designers work in multi-disciplinary ways to create ideas, materials and techniques for different applications.
Students will become designer makers and creatively and practically develop a broad range of skills associated with the design and making process.
Key Skills
•Developing creative, imaginative and intuitive capabilities when exploring and making textiles images, artefacts and products.
•Becoming confident in taking risks and learning from experiences when exploring and experimenting with ideas, processes, media, materials and techniques.
Developing critical understanding through investigate, analytical, experimental, practical and expressive skills
Curriculum Overview
Year 7- PART OF DESIGN TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUM | Year 8- PART OF DESIGN TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUM |
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Topics/ skills- Zentangle and 80’s/ 90’s games character inspired fabric postcards and cushions. •Hand skills- stitching accurately, cutting accurately |
Project- Moth/ butterfly Soft Sculpture •Artist research- Yumi Okita and Mr Finch |
Year 10 | Year 11 |
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AUTUMN 1, 2 AND SPRING 1 AND 2 Project 2- |
Autumn 1, 2 AND Spring 1 •Textile artists linking to pupils interests and ideas development Topics- ESA – set by exam board introduced and researched End of April 10 hour controlled exam sat |
Assessment
Internal assessments take place every half term. The GCSE in Textiles Design contains two units that are broken down into tasks and activities. There is no written examination at the end of the course. Instead you will have to complete the Unit 1 coursework project over two-years (worth 60% of your final grade) and then for 8 weeks work towards and sit Unit 2, an externally set assignment ending in a ten hour timed exam (worth 40% of your final grade).
The timed set task takes place over a two day period and involves you producing a finished piece of textiles work. This could be within any of the areas of textile design listed, Constructed textiles, digital textiles, dyed fabrics, printed fabrics, fashion design and illustration, installed textiles, soft furnishings and or interiors or stitched/ embellished textiles.
All work is marked by the textiles teacher and then again by an external moderator. A selection of work is also put on display at the end of year Creative Arts exhibition.
Exam Board Specification: AQA
Year 11- Click here for specification
Year 9 and 10 – Click here for specification
Enrichment Offer
Intervention to maximise performance and consolidate prior learning is at the heart of our delivery model.