Wool4School is an annual design competition open to year 7-12 students, with amazing prizes to be won. Wool4School features a free education work book, PowerPoints, information packs and more, that are designed to fit into your teaching and learning program to inspire your students. Students can also enter the competition individually. This year, the competition is open to all types of design. The brief this year is ELEMENTS: Earth, water, fire, air:
Create a unique design made from wool, taking inspiration from the earth’s natural elements.
From fashion design to architecture, visual arts, and beyond – there’s no limits to your area of design.
Research the design properties of wool and investigate how these can be included in a design that embodies your interpretation of your chosen element of earth, water, fire or air.
Your design should consist of 1 to 4 pieces and must be made up of at least 70% wool. Show how the characteristics of wool fabrics and wool innovations have been harnessed within your design to showcase this incredible fibre. Investigate and develop your use of colour, texture and decorative techniques, and incorporate these in your design idea.
Create a design that celebrates Merino wool and our planet and let your creativity run free!
For more information on the competition and how to enter please go to www.wool4school.com
For teachers: Want to learn more about wool?
The Woolmark Company offers excellent online professional learning for teachers. Teachers can access our full program of coursework with supporting facilitator notes and guides.
Our extensive coursework looks at the global supply chain of wool, from farm to fashion. Here you can learn about fibre fundamentals, science and technology as well as industry insights from designers.
All coursework is badged, giving learners capacity to promote and acknowledge their achievements.
To begin, we recommend that you pursue the Wool Appreciation Course which is delivered through 15 interactive learning modules. Participants can complete the course at their own pace, through a process of self-directed learning. Each module contains knowledge checks to assess participant comprehension. Those who complete the course will come away with an in-depth understanding of the entire wool pipeline.
Upon completion of the online Wool Appreciation Course, participants are eligible for a Wool Appreciation Badge from Credly, which can be displayed on their digital professional portfolio, such as LinkedIn.
For students: Want to learn more about wool?
The Woolmark Company offers excellent online educational tools for students. Our extensive coursework looks at the global supply chain of wool, from farm to fashion. Here you can learn about fibre fundamentals, science and technology as well as industry insights from designers.
All coursework is badged, giving learners capacity to promote and acknowledge their achievements.
To begin, we recommend that you pursue the Wool Appreciation Course which is delivered through 15 interactive learning modules. Participants can complete the course at their own pace, through a process of self-directed learning. Each module contains knowledge checks to assess participant comprehension. Those who complete the course will come away with an in depth understanding of the entire wool pipeline.
Upon completion of the online Wool Appreciation Course, participants are eligible for a Wool Appreciation Badge from Credly, which can be displayed on their digital professional portfolio, such as LinkedIn.
View Woolmark Learning Centre video above.
Receive online professsional learning for teachers:
For those teachers who want to increase their knowledge about wool, The Woolmark Company is offering two seminars delivered by industry experts.
Shelia-Mary Carruthers will take you on a journey from farm to fashion, demonstrating wool’s benefits and properties, whilst dabbling into some of the latest wool innovations.
Shelia-Mary knows the fashion supply chain inside-out, starting her career in textile design, specialising in weave and print. Her illustrious career has seen her work with a number of global brands such as Product Innovation for Nokia and Microsoft; Global development of a knitwear business on behalf for DuPont and Invista, for Lycra®; Jaya Shree spinners (Aditya Birla group India), product and brand development; and many more.
And Helene Steiner will demonstrate who science, engineering and design can be incorporated into today’s industry. Helene is a designer and engineer who works at the interface between technology and science. She co-founded Open Cell with the mission to provide affordable lab space to early-stage start-ups innovating at the intersection of design and biology. She is the co-founder of a biotech company, Cell-Free Technology, where she develops computational and biological design tools for proteins and materials and leads the biomaterial platform at the fashion department at the Royal College of Art.
Enjoy your online tutoring on wool.