Yr9 Textiles Booklet - Design & Make a Bucket Hat for a Festival
This booklet has been written for Yr9 mixed ability classes, building on their skills learnt in Yr7 & 8. Information includes:
Hypothetical design brief and analysis, based on textiles designer Jayne Pierson
Recap on health & safety
Independent research homework task
Prototyping self assessment - cutting, pining, machine sewing a hidden seam on a curve etc.
Writing an algorithm and flowchart on how to thread a sewing machine
Calico & cotton (fabric choices to manufacture bucket hat)
Sustainable and ethical choices in textiles and how they effect the environment and society
Smart materials used in textiles
Numeracy (labelling a measuring tape, converting & reasoning skills), summative assessment (score out of 20)
Specification, summative assessment (score out of 20)
Initial ideas (bucket hat designs)
Final design
Self & peer assessment for manufacturing lessons
Final bucket hat product formative & summative assessment (score out of 20)
Numeracy task - calculating profit & loss
The booklet includes titles and English and Welsh and assessment is based on the CfW framework (with a focus on numeracy), which could be easily tweaked if using this booklet outside of Wales. Teachers PowerPoints and resources have been written to be taught in line with the booklet. The booklet, including bucket hat manufacturing lessons, is typically taught over a 12 week period, 3 lesson per fortnight.
