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7–10Textiles Technology 7–10 Syllabus (2025)

Implementation from 2028
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Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 4/5

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Textile design and product development
Textile design for diverse purposes
  • Identify the purpose of a range of everyday textile products

  • Identify a range of consumer needs for textile products

  • Explore how innovations in textiles can meet the needs of consumers

  • Generate textile design ideas to meet diverse needs

Material selection for textile production and end use
  • Identify that fibre is used to produce fabrics

  • Identify natural sources of fibre

  • Identify that some fibres are manufactured

  • Explore fibres and yarns to identify some of their properties

  • Identify features of fabrics

  • Identify sustainable materials for textile design and production

  • Explore the suitability of materials for textile products with specific purposes

  • Select suitable materials for textile products

Creative textile design and technological applications
  • Explore and use elements of design when developing or designing everyday textile products

  • Recognise design features in the work or collections of textile designers, including works created by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

  • Experiment with surface decorations or fabric colouration techniques

  • Select and use surface decorations or fabric colouration techniques to create specific effects

  • Explore the impact of technology on design

  • Use digital tools and processes safely when designing textile products

  • Safely use technology in the creation of textile products

  • Participate in generating design ideas for smart or interactive textile products

  • Explore how sustainable technologies can be used in textile design or production

  • Explore the practices or products of a range of textile designers

Promotion of textile products
  • Recognise ways textile products are promoted in everyday life

  • Identify consumers of everyday textile products

  • Identify how designers respond to consumer demands when designing textile products

  • Explore promotional techniques that target specific consumers, including digital strategies

  • Explore the influence of media and social media in promoting fashion trends

  • Explore marketing campaigns used to promote textile products

  • Design promotional material for a textile product that meets a specific need

  • Work collaboratively to develop ideas to promote a textile product in the local community

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