Exchanging skills from generation to generation at a NE primary school.
The days when girls learnt knitting and patchwork from their mothers and grandmothers seem to be long gone, but traditional handicrafts like these can hold a curious fascination for some of today’s high tech, computer savvy kids. And in the north east of England, W.I. members from Tyne and Wear have become a surprising star attraction in a number of primary schools all because they’re dab hands with a couple of needles and a ball of wool. And in return for knitting know-how, the children are passing on their knowledge of computers. Caz Graham has been to see how this skill exchange works at Barley Mow Primary School in Birtley and met some of the pupils along with W.I members: Jean Willis, Maureen Jay-ver, Nora Graham, Edith Crawford, and Brenda Brown.
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