Year 11 Textiles & Design

Teacher in Charge:  Ms Siobhan Boughton
sboughton@wdsg.school.nz

Course description:
The Level 1 Textile & Design course allows students to express themselves creatively and extend their design thinking knowledge, understanding and skills by undertaking a variety of projects related to the development of a given brief. Students will explore traditional and innovative methods to produce functional and decorative outcomes using a wide range of textile materials and components.

Course of study:

• Use design ideas to produce a conceptual design for an outcome to address a brief.

• Implement basic procedures using textile materials to make a specified product.

• Use the work of an influential designer to inform design ideas.

• Applied design.

• Garment construction

Opportunities exist to extend students’ design capabilities by entering local and national competitions in garment design and/or construction.