Work Experience- Day Eight

Work Experience 

Today was my eighth day of work experience and there wasn’t a lesson before break. In this time I looked over the samples I made yesterday with the teacher and we discussed ways to develop these samples which I then proceeded to do in this time. I used different machine stitches and also used the free embroidery foot to create lined which developed two samples. I then used some already painted transfer dye  paper to cut and layer more colours onto my screen print samples. 


Before this lesson I made sure that the booklets were laid out in the table so that the students could start the lesson straight away. The first lesson consisted of the class making bondaweb samples, to help with this I made sure to stand around the irons to answer people’s questions. This was useful as the students had lots of questions and were asking for assistance when completing their samples. In this time I also sorted out and make sure all the colouring pencils were in their right places and sorted by colour. I also tried to combine two trays of colours but as there was so many pencils I couldn’t. I wanted to keep these still separated by colours but I couldn’t find any rubber bands and didn’t want to interrupt the teacher so I overcame this by using masking tape to hold the pencils together in a bundle. This worked well to keep the pencils together and it will be easy to undo and reseal. 


In the last lesson we screen printed so I got all the materials we would need and putting them onto the table. This process overall went well but a few times the students struggled to make the ink go all the way down to the bottom of their page so I offered some advise- for examples, adding more ink, holding the pressure all the way down the screen and changing the angle. After this I washed all the screens up and the other things we used up and put it away. Next the students needed to irons their hems to see in the next few weeks I stayed by the irons again to make sure everyone was confident in this. I was left with the responsibility of making sure all the glues and scissors where put back in the pots so I counted them up before the class left to check they where all there.  


After school I did a general clean up around the room and brought any spare sheets of work to the front in a pile so that the room will be ready for tomorrow. 


Tomorrow I want to make sure that all my samples have been handed back to the teacher and the instructions I left with them are legible. I think I have developed my confidence well with talking to students so I will make sure to keep this up tomorrow. 

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