Sydenham Campus News

Year 10 Textiles at Sydenham junior campus

These finished garments are examples of the work that the Sydenham Year 10 Textiles students did last semester. They are both inspired by 1950s cocktail dress designs. Both students looked at the House of Dior and its designers from the last seven decades. They were taught how to design and prepare design options, annotate their pages, get to know different types of fabrics, read pattern symbols, design their patterns and how to apply specific construction techniques using the sewing machines.

Year 7 Linocut prints

The best year 7 Linocut prints have been purchased and professionally framed for the College’s Student Art Collection. The students were taught how to safely carve their individual linos with the carving tools according to their designs. Some of them took as inspirations their photos taken on a recent Zoo excursion. They were also taught the collaborative process of printing and the proper registration of paper and inked lino. They also worked as cleanly and orderly as possible while going through the printing process.

Mr. J. de Castro

Art and Technology teacher