Textiles
GCSE Textiles
The curriculum provision at GCSE is three 100-minute lessons every two weeks. Students follow a lively structured GCSE course that involves a range of 2D and 3D work. This will enable them to produce a portfolio of personal and creative responses to set themes. It will build on the skills developed in Year 9 and earlier years. In Year 10 you will undertake a media and technique-based project to allow you to work more independently and gain confidence ready for the main coursework projects.
Our projects are broad and designed to be tackled individually. Over the two years, students will be given help and advice, but they must be prepared to take ownership and responsibility for their work. Personal research is an important part of Textiles and our students will be required to develop their own ideas and interests into the project.
Students have 3 lessons a fortnight. Year 10 will focus on learning and developing skills in a wide breadth of Textile techniques. Year 11 will focus on creating a portfolio of evidence for their chosen area of Textiles and completing their 10-hour exam.
Year 10
| Topic | Key Content | |
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| Autumn Term | Construction textiles |
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| Spring Term | Embellishment textiles |
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| Summer Term | Digital textiles |
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What you will be able to do at the end of this term
Autumn Term
- Use and adapt a paper pattern
- Sew seams and create finishes when working with fabrics
Spring Term
- Create embroidery and dissolvable samples
- Use heat transfer dyes to create samples.
Summer Term
- Prepare art work for screen printing
- Create a pattern digitally
- Using transfer paper to print digital patterns
Year 11
| Topic | Key Content | |
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| Autumn Term | Portfolio of evidence (Component 01) |
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| Spring Term | Portfolio deadline in May Exam in January 10 hours (Component 02) |
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What you will be able to do at the end of this term
Autumn Term
- Produce work in response to a centre- or learner-set starting point, brief, scenario or stimulus: a portfolio of practical work.
- Work creatively with processes and techniques
Spring Term
- Develop ideas through investigations, demonstrating critical understanding of sources
- Refine work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques and processes
- Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions as work progresses
- Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and demonstrates understanding of visual language.