Textiles
Year 9 Textiles develops student’s skills is sewing and design work. Students work from a design brief and develop skills through investigation, design, planning, production and evaluation process. This unit is an excellent introduction and preparation to progress further into Year 10 Textiles.
Students are taught machine sewing skills and safety guidelines associated with the operation of a Bernina sewing machine and use of textiles equipment. Students are introduced to the use of a commercial pattern. Students undertake a Personal Fashion Profile and research their own personal preferences in fashion creating a mood theme board of their personal favorites and research clothing styles. They produce textiles products such as a pencil case and designer shorts; including decorative aesthetic finishing techniques. Students will be encouraged to apply their knowledge in the creative application of machine sewing.
Students are introduced to the basic principles of fashion drawing techniques and produce a fashion illustration through the application of design and colour rendering. Students are introduced to Design Folio work that incorporates inspiration research and visual presentation.
Pattern Construction and Design is studied where students are encouraged to make their own design choices in the selection of materials for shorts and decorative features incorporated in pocket design construction.
Wood
In this unit, students build on design and construction skills developed in Year 8. They further develop skills in designing, planning and construction techniques whilst practising cutting joints and finishing techniques to make a compact storage device of their own design. Students are taught safety requirements of operating machinery and equipment and joint construction processes that can be incorporated into their products.
Students acquire fundamental skills in the effective use of small hand tools and machinery in the practical application of using materials and processes. Students will use design research inquiry skills, relevant to practical problem solving and use computer technology to design their product. On completion of their product students will evaluate their chosen design option. Students design a product that is functional and fulfils a specific purpose for intended use.
Food Studies
Year 9 Food Studies builds on skills acquired in Year 8, this course looks at the origins of the food that we eat and investigates the environmental impacts of growing and consuming food. Students will be encouraged to question and use enquiry-based learning throughout the semester. The course encourages students to investigate, design, produce and evaluate a wide variety of food products, allowing students to prepare food competently and independently as well as make healthy food choices.
The unit commences with an investigation into food styling and presentation sustainability, and looks at environmental issues in food, the origins of food, vegetarian diets, and Australia’s appreciation and enjoyment of take-away food. Food safety and hygiene practices and the nutritional properties of foods are important elements in the course of study. Students analyse and evaluate recipes and design their own dishes from design briefs. Students will undertake a practical lesson each week, during which they will gain competence in the use of a wide range of tools and equipment within the Food Studies Kitchen.
This unit is an excellent introduction and preparation to progress further into Year 10 Food Studies. Loyola College is committed to providing, as far as practicable, a safe learning environment for all its students. This duty of care includes students who experience anaphylactic reactions due to allergies or intolerances to food products. The College ensures that peanut products are not included as ingredients in any Food Studies recipes. Full disclosure of any anaphylactic allergies will need to be communicated to the relevant teaching staff member prior to commencing this unit.
Fabric Printing and Production
In this subject, student will explore the world of fabric printing and its role in the textiles industry.
Students will investigate a range of traditional and contemporary fabric printing techniques and utilise these to create and engineer their own designs for print.
Student will learn about a range of jobs and pathways in this field, and how to license their art for use in textiles.