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Wider Achievement: Enterprise

January 10, 2025 by gw23carrlaurieanne@glow

Over the last term our enterprise group planned to make and sell little trinkets and decorations.

We needle felted with Ann Marie Anderson, making lots of little trinkets, like gonks, Christmas tree ornaments. Most of us loved them so much we took them home. We also made decorations, like balls of wool with knitting needles which we sold at the Whalsay Wool Week “Makin and Yakin” for £3 each. We even got a commission for some more. We made £80 towards materials for further enterprise opportunities for next year. Some people made fairies with pipe cleaners and fabric; little hats with carboard tubes and wool and Christmas cards

Pupils enjoyed the needle felting, making and selling the yarn balls!

The needle felting was considered the best, enjoyed the most and pupils hoped to do it again!

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Christmas Home Economics

December 17, 2024 by Miss Irvine

Pupils have been busy in the past few weeks in the Home Economics classroom.

S1 pupils have been learning about Christmas food traditions around the world and made up a question each for a class quiz. They have also learned some sewing stitches and used the running stitch and blanket stitch to make a Christmas decoration. Last week they made shortbread and had fun using different shapes to make biscuits, I’ve never seen duck shaped shortbread before!

S2 pupils have had a couple of weeks making biscuits, they made and decorated gingerbread house biscuits with a sweetie glass window and last week they made shortbread.

S3 and S4 have baked mini Christmas cakes baked in a small bean tin and the following lesson they decorated them with marzipan and icing. S4 baked and decorated a Gingerbread house using royal icing.

 

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