Work Experience-Day Six

Work Experience 

We started the day off with screen printing with year 8 and this went well as we managed to print everyone’s work quickly. This helped me develop my screen printing skills and I feel confident doing this. When doing this I also gave students advise on how to try to make the outcome of the print improved- add more ink onto the silk screen or to adjust the frame of the imagine there printing so it fits the fabric better. 


After this I cleaned the supplies up and wiped down the work surface so that the it would be clean for the next section of the lesson. 


In the second lesson there was a new teacher who is temporarily taking over for the art teacher so I tried to make sure that the materials she would need where easily accessible and that they class books where ready for them when they came in. As this teacher was new she also didn’t know where anything was so I tried to get the things she wanted for her. I helped the students with their work when they weren’t sure what to do. I also helped hand out samples the students had made but this was abit difficult as I don’t know the students names, I had to look at the names on the front of the books so this did take a little longer than a normal teacher would however this wasn’t an issue because this wasn’t on a time constraint. To end the lesson I made sure everything went back in the classes box ready for the next lesson so nothing got lost. 


Today went well although the second lesson was slightly stressful as it was the teachers first day but there was no issues. 


I think tomorrow I will try and create more samples and I think I will try and do this will screen printing as I am more confident in this now. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week Ten.

Image
 Week Ten.     In pattern cutting this week, we finalised our skirt designs that we had drawn at home. I think my skirt designs where successful because I have explored a range of skirt styles whilst still making sure they all relate to each other. I did this by making a start design and adjusting this about it, for example, the godet size, length or number of panels.    In our next lesson we started to make our pattern for our skirt, I decided to go with my design for a six gored panel skirt with four godets. I made this pattern by reflecting to previous bookwork to remind me of the steps. I think this went well as my pattern works. I know this because when we made our toiles for the skirt at home everything lined up and was correctly measured.     At home this week I made my toile for my skirt, this went well as I learnt my pattern w orks and I had no issues when sewing this together.     In textiles this week I started to work ...
Read more

Week Twelve.

Image
  Blog Twelve. In Pattern cutting, this lesson, I finished off making my skirt. I added the zip with an invisible zip foot which went well. I'm proud of how my zip has turned out as you cant see it beneath the fabric of the skirt. After I used the normal zip foot to attach the skirt together, this was harder to do as you can't get as close to the seam, however, the seams still looks neat from the outside. At home all I had to do was attach the facing and undertsitched it,so i'm proud of my progress and completing my skirt in good time.  In my last lesson before the hand in I made sure all my work was presented well and I stuck in the final photos of my skirt that I had evaluated. I'm glad that I managed to hand in all my work on time.  In textiles this week I made sure that my work was ready to hand in for Friday. I did this by printing out and repeating my final designs and adding in my recent samples to help show my development in my sketchbook.  In my final lesson...
Read more

Work experience - Day one

Image
Work Experience  Today was my first day of work experience at a secondary schools textile department and I started by preparing the screen printing station for the year seven students. I located the screen printing inks and squeegees and put these aside so that they can be used for the teacher demonstration. I decided to put out a range of sizes of these so that the teacher can choose which size of frame she wants to use in her demonstration. Once she decided this I then put away the larger size so that the area wasn’t cluttered. As this was my first time screen printing I was a bit apprehensive as I wand t sure how to do it but once I had watched the demonstration I was confident I would be able to help.    I helped the students put ink on there frames and hold them down when they print to ensure there’s less wastage of dyes. To further make less waste I scrape excess ink into the pot between prints. After everyone has screen printed I made sure to wash all the supplies ...
Read more