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The
Fashion Café |
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School: Sawtry Community
College |
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Fellow: Julia Jones |
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Email: julia.jj.jones@talk21.com |
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Next year, I would like to encourage and
involve several curriculum areas in working
with the Design and Technology Department
to run a ‘Fashion Show’. This
will not be an ordinary ‘Fashion Show’.
The idea is, that the Fashion Show will focus
on four different styles of music as the theme;
Folk, Dance, Rock and Classical. |
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Students will design and manufacture the
food, suitable 3D table displays; they will
design and arrange the catwalk, complete with
lighting etc. Graphics will be involved in
working on a large scale to produce the set
as well as the necessary publicity materials,
and tickets. Students will design and manufacture
corporate clothing, and a 3D beanie styled
toys will be mass-manufactured, to be given
away as a souvenir for the evening. Other
subjects such as Maths, Science, Performing
Arts and Music will support this overall plan
as appropriate as well as supplementing their
own national curriculum. |
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This project will benefit other teachers
in other educational establishments in several
ways: |
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Teachers could visit Sawtry
Community College and see how learning
is taking place during the planning
and making of the products for the fashion
show and use our tried, tested and evaluated
‘model of delivery’ as a
starting point to organise events for
their own establishments. This information
could be placed on to CD Rom could accompany
this with background information about
how the project has been put together
and how it works. |
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Teachers from our college could act
as consultants for other establishments
to guide them and support them through
a similar project. These suggestions
would not only relate to secondary education
but could be used by the primary sector.
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We could write up a case study from
this event that could be used as an
example of the way a project like this
could be used as a vehicle for the delivery
of the new ‘Citizenship National
Curriculum’. |
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Teachers could log on to the college
website on http://www.sawtrycc.com/
to see the fashion show live. |
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Teachers who are interested in the
project could use our template for the
student and staff information booklets,
we will produce to accompany the cross-curricular
project. This could be distributed either
via the website or a CD ROM. |
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Year 10 Students will benefit from the project
in the following ways: |
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The project will automatically
provide the opportunities for spiritual,
moral, social, and environmental issues
to be covered. |
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Their Designing and Making skills
will improve because they have real
customers, and real products, to produce
for an actual deadline. |
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They will be highly motivated and
this will stretch them to learn more
than they would normally. |
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They will enjoy and remember the vast
amount of learning that will take place.
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The Fashion Show project can be used
as research for their GCSE coursework
next year. |
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They will fully understand what it
means to design for mass production.
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They will understand the meaning of
terms like ‘quality assurance’,
‘tolerance levels.’ |
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The project will give lots opportunities
for students to cover the six Key Skill
areas. |
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Citizenship Issues |
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The project will cover a considerable number
of the citizenship programmes of study. Providing
the real context for students learning to
take place. |
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