Design and Technology (Textiles Technology)

Course summary

The course encourages students to develop their personal interests and passion for Textile Design, whilst recognizing the subject’s value to the creative industries. The course provides opportunities to develop personal responses to ideas, observations, experiences, environments and cultures in practical, critical and contextual forms; this allows students to develop their strengths and interests further, within the specification. Students will have the opportunity to explore their ideas through the subject specialist areas of Garments and Fashion, Accessories, Soft Furnishings, Printed and Dyed Textiles, Constructed Textiles, Textiles Installation, Expressive Textiles and Digital Textiles. Many students develop a lifelong interest in the subject and continue further studies via direct University entrance or a Foundation course. Students will begin their studies in Year 12 following the two-year A Level Textile Design course.