Sew gifted!

Have you ever wanted to become a fashion designer? Well this term our students made this dream a reality! We explored different textile techniques and learnt how to apply them to add design features and colours to our work. For our Entry Point we teamed up with Middle Primary 1 to create wearable objects in a short amount of time. We dug through recycled materials, fabric, paper, plastic, plastic cups, wooden sticks, even old curtains were used for inspiration. 

We then took our learning beyond the classroom walls with a visit to the Museum of Industry. There we discovered how textile is made in the brand-new exhibition ‘100% Textile’: From cotton to towel With humming spinning machines, roaring looms and rattling sewing machines there was plenty to explore and learn from. 

Our unit led up to the Christmas show where students used all their sewing know-how to create celebration masks in our version of ‘The Nutcracker’. Inspired by Tchaikovsky’s soundtrack children brainstormed a movement piece to their music scene and pranced across the stage!

Wishing you all a safe and happy end of the year and look forward to seeing you again in the new term.