Bitterne Park School
A Specialist Performing Arts and Applied Learning School
GCSE TEXTILES
What type of person would it suit?
This course is suitable for all pupils with an interest in textiles.
It will suit pupils who enjoy designing and using fabrics in imaginative ways. Each pupil will have the opportunity to:
- Develop their design and making skills.
- Produce quality textile products.
From an Art based approach it aims to stimulate imagination and sensitivity and develop visual perception, conceptual thinking and practical skills.
What Do I Learn About?
We encourage you to develop essential skills to enable you to research and experiment in an independent way.
These skills include:
• Fabric construction
• Machine and hand embroidery
• A variety of creative thread work
• Silk Painting
• Transfer Printing
• Batik
• Stencilling
Sketchbooks are used extensively to collect examples of textural surface qualities, observational drawings, colour combinations and the development of ideas.
Your work will make informed connections with that of other artists, designers and crafts people.
How do I learn it?
In Year 10:
Unit 1- Organics
Pupils will be given practical tasks supported by drawings and notes to
develop their confidence and skills of making in:
- using sewing machines,
- hand sewing techniques
- fabric construction.
- they will learn to ‘draw’ and ‘sculpt’ in stitch to produce a cushion for a final piece.
in year 11:
unit 2 – chinese cultural study
pupils will learn to use a wide variety of printing and dyeing skills including stencilling, transfer printing, silk painting and batik.
they will make a fashion accessory using one or more of these techniques for their final piece.
unit 3 – mock exam
pupils will experience what a textile exam is like and produce one unit of coursework from it.
examination:
pupils will have an exam paper containing 8 questions. pupils will choose one question and after a given preparatory period, they will have 10 hours of supervised time to make a final piece.
how am i assessed?
pupils will be expected to demonstrate a response to all of the assessment objectives in each component of the examination and coursework. they are equally weighted.
pupils will be required to demonstrate their ability to:
a01 develop their ideas through investigations informed by contextual and other sources demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding.
a02 refine their ideas through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes.
a03 record ideas, observations and insights relevant to their intentions in visual and/or other forms.
a04 present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating analytical and critical understanding, realising intentions and where appropriate, making connections between visual, written, oral or elements.
coursework
no time limit 60% of total marks
three units of coursework where pupils will be expected to design and make quality textile products that are externally assessed in the chosen option.
response to all assessment objectives required in coursework as a whole.
centre-assessed and moderated by aqa.
controlled test
10 hours 40% of total marks
candidates must respond to one starting point.
they are given a preparatory period and 10 hours of supervised time.
response to all assessment objectives required.
set by aqa, centre-assessed and moderated by aqa.
