Textiles
Exam Board: AQA
A level Textiles offers the opportunity for talented students who can offer a combination of artistic, inventive and creative flair, the opportunity to express their ideas, technical knowledge and organisational skills. It is a multi faceted course which especially needs interest, enthusiasm and determination.
We offer A level Textiles (Product Design) through the AQA Exam board. This follows on smoothly from AQA GCSE Textiles at Kenilworth School. However if you have always had a secret desire to work in the exciting, varied and colourful world of Fashion we regularly have students enrol and flourish on the course who do not have previous experience of Textiles at GCSE, but have a good set of GCSEs and are prepared to challenge themselves and work hard.
The course combines practical projects which involve originating design ideas, acquiring research and illustrating possible ‘creations’. Illustration can be hand based or involve Photoshop and Speedstep computer packages. To support and enable you to achieve your creative ideas you will also look at: Fashion, Textiles, and Art and Design influences from 1800 to present day contemporary work, The course involves studying the continual development of fibres and materials e.g. heat and light reactive materials, micro-encapsulation etc, Methods of manufacture from straight stitch to heat sealing and Market and Business influences at work in the Textiles industry.
We incorporate experiences that will inspire, stimulate and aid those following an A level Textiles (Product Design) course by taking as many opportunities as possible to visit exhibitions at Art Galleries and Museums, Theatrical Productions, Films, Industrial and even Retail visits. This term Year 12 & 13 will visit the Ballet Russes Exhibition at the V & A and ‘Drawing Fashion’ at the Design Museum. Pre-October half-term 2011 we intend to visit Paris and the ‘Musée de la Mode et du Costume’, Droguerie, Les Arts Decoratifs, Musée des Gobelins and any other inspiring exhibitions, land marks and markets that we can fit in!
Course Description
AS |
A2 |
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Unit 1
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Materials and components /design & market influences/processes and manufacture exam |
Unit 3 |
Design and make project |
Unit 2 |
Design and make project |
Unit 4 |
Synoptic paper |
Units in each year carry the same weighting.
For detailed information on the course from the exam board visit the AQA website (www.aqa.org.uk).
What next?
Over the years students have gone on to work as Designers in Fashion, Footwear, Jewellery, Fabric and the Theatre. Buyers, Merchandisers and Technologists some even Zoologists! You may enjoy the subject and wish to pursue design as a career or relish the opportunity of a contrast to your other subjects all reasons will be enthusiastically accepted. This course will provide you with a wide range of skills that will prove that you can take an idea and develop and create a real product through your problem solving, skill and tenacity.
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