Figure 1.--This girl in her hobbies activity is mking a tiger stuffed toy, one of many kits the children can choose from.
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Figure 1.--This girl in her hobbies activity is mking a tiger stuffed toy, one of many kits the children can choose from. |
A common activity at the girls' and coed schools is sewing. This is an activity that the girls enjoyand even some of the yonger boys may get involved. We noticed the girls working on sewing kits. Popular beginning items or soft toys or hand puppets. Older children get involved in more advanced projects. Sewing is sometimes dome as a club activity. At many schools it is done more as a class. This used to be much more important at girls' schools. At a few schools, some of the time normlly allocated for games is used.
Sewing is a major activity amongst the girls. The juniors have their sewing lessons on a Monday in games time, and the sebiors have theirs on a Wednesday evening, this means that the day girls can come if they want to. The sewing lessons are taken by a lady called Mrs Searle. As well as practising our stitches we do dressmaking and knitting, and we make pom-poms and cuddly toys.
Clare Hind, 12.3, The Bramcote Magazine, Autumn 1984.
