My 14 year old daughter is very interested in fashion. She's brilliant at putting an outfit together and making budget stuff look amazing. She wants to be a stylist or a fashion buyer or have her own shop and she plans to do textiles or fashion at Uni.
At school it is compulsory that they choose a technology subject as one of their options. Problem is the technology teacher she is likely to get for GCSE is completely useless; gives them rubbish notes, does not explain techniques at all and even managed to lose the shirt my daughter made last year, without a word of apology.
I've been told that at A level, textiles becomes an Art option rather than a tech subject. In this case, can she get away without doing textiles GCSE or will she miss out on too much of the basics? She does a fair bit of sewing at home; customising stuff, making bags and soft toys. I imagine if she took graphics for her tech option she'd get an A - and she's not wildly academic so needs all the top grades she can get.