GCSE Textiles Overview
GCSE Fashion & Textiles offers an inspiring programme of study, which will challenge students to refine and develop practical textile skills, understanding properties of materials and creative thinking. Students will have 2-3 lessons per week over the duration of the two years and the course is made up of 60% coursework and 40% final practical exam.
Students will cover different projects per year, which will include a combination of research, recording from observation such as drawing & photography, artist study, design development and final pieces. The projects enable students to work within the parameters of a given topic and set of criteria but also to develop an individual style and/or direction.
Year 10 Textiles
In Year 10 students will create a body of work relating to the topic of 'Nature vs Man made' . The project will entail learning new textile techniques such as Printmaking, Nuno Felt, Appliqué, Shibori, Knitting, Natural Dyeing, Digital designs, Machine Embroidery, Surface Decoration and Fabric Manipulation and much more! Each student will be asked to investigate artists, designers and practitioners that create work inspired from urban or natural landscapes, organic forms, natural and man made structures, also artists that produce work using similar skills.
The main areas of study covered within the course is Fashion Design, Costume Design, Fashion Illustration, Constructed, Stitched and Embellished Textiles, 3D Textiles, Surface Pattern, Printed Textiles, Interior and Digital Textiles. Students will receive a mixture of group critiques and individual tutorials/feedback. Students will be marked according to formal GCSE grades and effort levels.
Students develop their ideas using primary sources of inspiration from many sources, experiment and sample new techniques and record their ideas and processes during the course with photography, sketching, drawing, painting and sampling.
Drawing skills for textiles and fashion design will be developed using various media. Students will be encouraged to develop their own ideas and to produce a body of work on set and chosen themes, this consists of practical work and relevant research into historical and contemporary textiles or fashion. Towards the spring term each student would of designed a final piece ready for their mock exam after February half term.
YEAR 11
The emphasis in Year 11 will be on completing one extensive coursework project on a certain theme of their choice. The students will immerse themselves in work by various artists who will influence the direction of their study, experiment towards a final piece and record visually and in writing building on prior knowledge and skills.
The major project in Year 11 will be marked alongside the Year 10 project which calculates to 60% of their GCSE grade. There is also a controlled assessment (worth 40%) delivered in a very similar way , the exam board issues a range of themed questions the students can chose and they will have up to 10 weeks of designing and planning. This will entail responding to artists, experimenting, recording, designing and preparing to produce a final outcome/outcomes during a 10 hour practical exam.
HOW IS THE WORK ASSESSED?
- AQA GCSE Art and Design-Textile Design
- During the two years students will be completing two projects of portfolio work supported by sketchbooks, Preparatory work and a practical outcome.
- 60% Portfolio Work - Controlled Assessment comprising of two themes 40% Externally Set Task – 10 hour practical exam.
- Students will answer one question (design brief) from the exam paper, which is issued in January of the exam year. This is the preparatory period in which to research, develop your ideas and plan your final realisation. You will then make and complete your final outcome in the ten hour exam in April/May. All work is internally marked and externally moderated by AQA.
ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES
RESULTS!
The Textile Department at JCG is a dynamic, high-achieving space where students consistently earn excellent grades and produce work of exceptional quality. With a supportive, creative environment and strong technical teaching, students develop impressive skills and confidently express their remarkable talent through innovative textile outcomes.
PROGRESSION
Students completing the Art & Design (Textile Design) course will gain the necessary skills to continue their artistic development IN further and higher education level. The course offers a broad skills base which equips students to go onto to A Level Art and Design courses and Fashion & Textiles degree courses. There are increasingly more opportunities for employment within Art and Design especially fashion and textiles such as: Fashion Design, Fashion Illustration, Fashion Buying, Trend Prediction, Textiles Design, Knitwear Design, Surface Pattern Design, Printed Textile Design, Interior Design, and Costume Design.
TRIPS
There will also be opportunities to go abroad, visit galleries and museums , to participate in fashion events and workshops, and to showcase their achievement in public exhibitions.
HOUSE FASHION !
More Opportunities...
Students on the course will have the opportunity to have hands on experience with renowned artists and practitioners which will lead to furthering their skills and gain an insight into career possibilities within the textile and fashion industry.
Eliza Anna Reine Workshop
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun !" Mary Lou Cook