Planning, Assessment & Progression Course for Art & Design GCSE Textiles (ONLINE LIVE)

Description

*ONLINE LIVE COURSE* (Through ZOOM)

DATE: Saturday 5 JULY 2025

TIME: 9.00 - 14.00

COSTS & BOOKING: £ 175 / DAY (+ Cademy Fee)

*ALERT: ECT/NQT's, TRAINEE TEACHERS, TECHNICIANS & SELF-FUNDING TEACHERS *

There are discounts for this course if you qualify. For more information, please contact dawn@textileskillscentre.com .

A New Motivational Online-Live Course for Teachers of GCSE Art & Design Textiles 

IF you need support with understanding and implementing the Art & Design specification, then this course will give you what you need.

This is an *ONLINE LIVE WORKSHOP* with the Textile Skills Centre, covering 4 different art textiles specifications at GCSE Level: AQA, Edexcel (Pearson), OCR & Eduqas. 

The course is designed to be interactive and there are several tasks to complete during the day as well as a personal assignment on ‘promoting textiles in your school’, which can be completed in your own time. Many exemplars and guides are included on the course and can be downloaded for future use.

Our aim is to support, encourage and inspire you, so that you can support, encourage and inspire your students!

REVIEWS FOR THIS COURSE:

'Absolutely brilliant and it has really helped get my head around the 'spec' wording and what it means. Lots of ideas to implement - I just wish I had been able to do it a year ago when I swapped from D&T! I am going back to school with much more confidence of the delivery of the course and can’t wait for exiting pupil outcomes. Thank you!'

'I thought this was a really fantastic course. I took away loads of ideas to use and integrate into my teaching with KS3 and KS4. I felt that it covered a huge amount of ground and was really comprehensive. It was especially helpful to hear from the perspective of a seasoned professional.' 

'Really informative and thank you for taking the time to run the workshop. Your courses are really strong and probably the best PD I have had in the least ten years. I would be in interested in CAD on how to do repeat patterns.'

What to expect on the day:

This course will support your understanding of the specification, plan a scheme of work, understand the assessment objectives and how you can enable all students to progress.

There is also a ‘frequently asked questions’ list.

From the specification:

‘Art and Design equips students with the skills to enjoy, produce and engage with the visual arts throughout their lives, and it has immense value as a GCSE subject.’

We aim to ‘inspire, challenge and motivate every student, no matter what their level of ability, while supporting you in developing creative and engaging lessons.’ (Art and Design spec (AQA))

What is special about the Planning, Assessment & Progression course?

The Planning, Assessment & Progression course is an experience that delivers textiles knowledge and understanding. This learning environment allows you personal creative engagement to gain new ideas, showing how these can be incorporated into schemes of work and lesson plans and delivered in a fun, inspiring and engaging way for your students. You can ask questions direct to the course developer/leader, you will have time to make resources and network online with other teachers.

Nicky Simpson
PGCE; BA(Hons) Textiles Design: Specialising in print.

Your course leader is NICKY SIMPSON, a contemporary textiles artist, who has 12 years teaching experience, heading up Fashion & Textiles at Hillview School in Kent. She has taught Art & Design Textiles at GCSE and A Level, AQA Design and Technology/Textiles at A Level and GCSE and BTEC Level 3 Fashion. 

Her last set of grades were: A Level 100% A-A*; GCSE 70% A-A* (100% A*-B). She had a previous 22-year career as a print designer in the heart of London. For the past 6 years Nicky has been a workshop developer and leader for Textile and Art teachers on behalf of the Textile Skills Academy.

COSTS & BOOKING VIA CADEMY: £ 175 / DAY (+ Cademy Fee)

*ALERT: ECT/NQT's, TRAINEE TEACHERS, TECHNICIANS & SELF-FUNDING TEACHERS *

There are discounts for this course if you qualify. Please contact dawn@textileskillscentre.com for more information.

All of the Textile Skills Centre events are payable IN ADVANCE. The Textiles Skills Centre uses Cademy to automate the bookings via credit card and cheque/BACS. When you book you will receive by email a booking confirmation and invoice.

If you have any queries, please email us at: info@textileskillscentre.com and include your phone number and/or email so that we can contact you easily.