I would be grateful for advice please from people whose children have taken GCSE Textiles. My daughter's school offers the Art & Design Textiles.
My daughter is keen to do something at Uni such as the College of Fashion's makeup and hair course which encourages applicants to have at least one A level in Design, Art, Fashion, Media etc. Her school has a computer programme to help with GCSE choices and her results are always steering her to the Arts.
Her school offers both Art and Textiles and we feel she should choose one of these to make sure she has options for A levels. My daughter doesn't feel confident in Art and prefers Textiles. She has wanted to do Textiles for a number of years but unfortunately the Textile teachers have put her off as apparently they are very shouty so she is a bit nervous about taking Textiles. I have encouraged her not to make her decision based on the teachers - its likely once she starts the course she will develop a better relationship with them.
She is also feeling nervous about Textiles as she is worried her skills are not as good as the other girls - she will start Textiles in Year 9 so I have assured her she has plenty of time to improve her sewing. Although I am a bit worried that she has not done enough sewing to know if she enjoys it as much as she might need to.
I have asked her what she would do instead if she doesn't take Textiles and there is nothing else she is super keen to do. I also think it would limit her Art A level options if she does not take an Art subject.
I have read a lot on mumsnet about how Art is a lot of work - I know that Textiles is likely to be more work than other subjects but does anyone have any idea please if they are similar work loads? Art sounds very onerous and I am hoping Textiles is not as bad.
She hopes to do Business at A level - we have steered her away from Business as a GCSE because she really needs an Art GCSE if she wants to do an Art A level. But part of me is wondering if it would be easier for her to do a Business GCSE and then do an extra year after A level to get into the uni programme she wants (you can do a pre year if you don't have the right A levels).
She has do a language and she has chosen GCSE Spanish and she is also doing History and Dance (Dance is the subject she is doing for fun - she takes dance out of school and has since she was 4).
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GCSE Textiles (Art & Design) advice please
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ittakes2 · 11/03/2020 08:43
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