Fabric Technologies

You can elect to choose Fabric Technology in both year 9 and 10.

The Year 9 Option is broken into two semesters, where as year 10 is a full year course.

The Year 9 and 10 units of work are designed to give you a broad understanding of Soft Materials Technology focusing on the design process and skills attainment. It aims to give you a set of skills that can be applied to materials. These skills can also be transferred to other areas of life. You will learn how to: plan and manage your time effectively, how to problem solve, how to work to a design brief/ deadline, to understand the importance of research in the design process, to communicate your ideas through illustration, to use numeracy skills to measure , draft and adapt patterns, to evaluate your own and others work to find the best solution to a problem, to consider and evaluate the ideas of others to help develop your own, to appreciate the value of care in presentation and finishing your work,use stakeholder feedback to develop your design ideas.

It is advisable to complete Year 9 Fabric Technology prior to choosing this option in year 10.