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their delivery of the curriculum.

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SHOUT ABOUT IT!!Ways to promote your subject

POSTERS• Creative careers (not just Textile ones) on your door, wall,

anywhere else you can in school (careers rooms)

• Display the skills and attributes gained from a creative

subject

• University/college courses/internships and

placements/employments

BOOKLETS

• Options booklet: this can be for open evening, options evening or just available in the classroom. Make sure that you have all the careers information in this as well as your course information & options

• School magazine: online or printed

• Department/Textile booklet: this can be for open evening, options evening or just available in the classroom. Make sure that you have all the careers information in this as well as your course options

There are 2.8 million creative jobs in the UK, that’s 1 in

12 jobs (800,000 fashion jobs)

12% of UK businesses are in the creative sector

Creative industries contribute 84billion pounds to the UK

economy every year

In the last 20years the UK creative industries have grown

faster than any other sector

The British Fashion Industry is worth 26billion in GDP to

the British economy each year.

The global apparel sector is worth £1.3 trillion a year

ASSEMBLY

Offer to take an assembly. Make it very visual. Do a mini fashion show. If you can display all past students successes at school, university or industry

FASHION SHOW

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FASHION SHOW

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EXTRA CURRICULAR

CLUBSAfter school

Lunchtimes

Get older students to run these

AWARDS & POSTCARDS

These can be given termly

Use students own artwork

WALL & CORRIDOR DISPLAYS

It’s so vital to get that

exemplar work up on

display

DISPLAYSCan you do displays around school that l ink to

world or cultural events. Mannequins are a great visual for the school foyer!

Send out to the whole

school to use in form

time or use as a lesson

starter

COMPETITIONS

This is a great competition to

get involved in, it can all be

done by post. Also a great

incentive to get work

completed

CHARITY

Try to get involved with a local community charity and the school charity. Not only

does this aid the community but it will give students extra curricular activities to add

to their cv

COMMUNITY CHALLENGE

This was a project with an ex student and Oxfam, re

vamping old clothes

Empty window shop displayLook to your local shopping centre, there are usually plenty of

empty shop windows.

FASHION

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T shirt

Open evening/morning (made

badges and took workshops)

Literacy boards/pillar

Fashion shows/organisation

Charity events/organisation

Take clubs (help or their own)

Take workshops/cascade skills

Displays (update/make their

own)

Fashion quiz

FASHION & TEXTILE AMBASSADORS &

6TH FORM MENTORS

CASCADE LEARNING

Year 13 students had a workshop on Photoshop and they cascaded this learning

to year 11&12

• In Lessons: Get years 12 & 13 to talk to year 9 (pre options) and 11 (pre GCSE)

• Options evening & Open day/evening: get students in to talk to other students and parents. Have displays looking really professional. Have a show running on the whiteboard

• Host your own separate Creative Careers evening.

EX STUDENTSKeep in touch with ex students, ask them to come into talk. Ask them to give your course a reference which can be used in your booklets/slides for assemble etc. Invite them in on a regular basis to show both work they are doing at university but more importantly to discuss their courses, interviews and portfolio, giving your students the confidence to apply. Do this at a lunchtime so all year groups can come and listen. Give them time to talk to each other after perhaps a presentation

Display ex students world of work/internships

'IN THE MEDIA’POST LINKS TO NEWS ARTICLES & FASHION SHOWS

https://youtu.be/z1BBjLzLHPs

Inside the atelier ~ ‘Roots of Rebirth’

Iris Van Herpen

Adidas Is Developing Plant-Based Leather That Will Be Used To

Make Shoes

DISPLAY: EXHIBITIONS, MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, ONLINE EVENTS ADD T O 6 T H F ORM HAND OUT S OR SCHEMES OF WORK

V&A · The World's Leading Museum Of Art And Design

(vam.ac.uk)Online Events | Fashion and Textile Museum (ftmlondon.org)

Home - The Knitting & Stitching Show

(theknittingandstitchingshow.com)

CROSS CURRICULARThis helps to explain how fashion and textiles links to other subjects as well ascross curricular projects and clubs. Put in your booklets. It would be great to see these in other subject booklets!

English: Expression, Journalism, vocabulary, critical thinking

Mathematics: measuring, grading, shape, geometry,

budgets, merchandising & sales

History: Research, culture, historical movements, history's

effect on fashion, costume design, analytical thinking

Art: Creativity, design, culture, colour theory

Media: PR, branding, trends, forecasting, digital styling

Photography: visual learning, fashion photography

Graphics: PR, branding and links to IT

Performing arts: Theatre, costume design, set design

Geography: environments, sustainability, circle economy

IT: Digital technology, design platforms, Computer Aided

design, PR & social media

Business Studies: Retail, management, budgets, markets,

ethical supple chains.

Science: fabric technology, materials, yarns & fibres

The use of geometry to design a form is used by both architects and fashion

designers. simple shapes such as circles, squares, as well as more complex

shapes are used in all design.

In architecture geometry is often used to create complicated interior spaces or shape the overall form of a building. in fashion design, when a dress is draped on a body, its shape is transformed and

the geometry that made it, often becomes invisible

Geometry is the study of

shape and shape is used in

all of Design