Roundwood Park School GCSE TEXTILE DESIGN GCSE Art

Roundwood Park School GCSE TEXTILE DESIGN

GCSE Art and Design Textiles Edexcel Head of Department Miss Jenny Durdey Teaching Staff Mrs Emily Ball and Mrs Gill Jenkins Art Technician Mrs Helen Hyam

Qualification at a glance • Component 1: Personal Portfolio (internally set). • 60% of qualification. • Component 2: Externally Set Assignment. • 40% of qualification. • Both components are marked out of 72 (18 marks for each of the four Assessment Objectives). • Marking: Internal assessment and external moderation.

What do students take from the course • An exciting and dynamic creative experience that enables students to experiment, understand process creative thinking and demonstrate problem solving. • To risk take through a process of investigation, refinement, recording ideas and developing personal and meaningful responses to projects. • To grow as individuals in both knowledge, skill and confidence.

Overview of Component 1 • Component 1 work at RPS is based on theme Natural Forms. • No prior Textile experience is required for the course. • Students create a personal portfolio that builds knowledge and understanding across Textiles. • • • This component allows students to: Develop and explore ideas. Research primary and contextual sources. Experiment with media, materials, processes and techniques. Present personal responses to themes.

Overview of Component 2 • Component 2: An externally set assignment that represents a culmination of the GCSE course drawing together all knowledge, understanding and skill development in Component 1. • Students respond to an externally set broad based thematic starting point; Event, Reflection, Fragments. • Personal preparatory period of study. A portfolio of development work usually represented in sketchbooks. • 10 hour sustained focus period under exam conditions. 2 days.

What knowledge and skills will students gain… • Drawing is a skill we teach in the development of Textile Design, from initial visual research, recording from primary sources, through to the translation of ideas into finished designs. • Annotation of work. • Photography. • Stitched and embellished textiles including hand machine stitching. • Applique techniques. • Weave and knit. • Dyed fabrics including the use of natural and synthetic dyes. • Printed fabrics including screen, stencil printing, heat and photo transfer. • Constructed Textiles.

What our students say…What do they enjoy • ‘It is different to any other subject. I learn how to do things I would never learn anywhere else. ’ • ‘The creativity and how it is different from all other lessons. ’ • ‘I like how I get to explore and venture into the subject, you get to produce your visions and ideas. ’ • ‘I enjoy the work we do on the sewing machine and about how to do different techniques on them. ’

Examples of work by textile artists and designers

Careers in Art and Textiles • Fashion Designer, Fashion Promotion & Marketing, Journalism • Gallery Curator • Landscape Gardener • Art/textiles Conservation • Digital Artist • Theatre costume design, • Publishing • Stage Design • Magazine Stylist • Graphic Design • Film Making • Architecture • Animation • Illustration • Floristry, • Photography • Landscape Gardening • 3 D Design • Art therapy, Teaching • Interior Design • Jewellery Design • Product Design • Make-up Artist,

Please contact with any questions G. jenkins@roundwoodpark. co. uk