Work Experience- Day Five

Work Experience 


This was the last day of work experience this week and we started the day off by preparing the machines for the next lesson. I volunteered to change all the machine feet as I am confident in doing this, when the teacher said she would ask somebody else to do this. After this we changed the thread and bobbins to the appropriate colour. As there was a few of us doing this task didn’t take too long and we still had time to prepare of things for the next week. For example helping to refill the transfer dyes and watching the process of how to mix screen printing ink together. When this was done we tested this by screen printing the way the students will to see if the ink is concentrated enough. We left this to dry and we were happy with the result and it didn’t need to be adapted. 


Whilst lessons were going on I helped to prepare lesson planned materials for next term. This involved cutting up pattern paper for a project. As I didn’t want to take too long doing this it allowed me to work on my accuracy whilst not being to nitpicking or too careful on my work. Allow I did make sure it was right to be able to be used. I also cut up material and counted them making sure they will be enough for the class load. 


At the end of the day I made sure to help clean up so that the classroom would be ready for after the weekend. 


I think that today went well as I managed to help prepare lots of things for when I leave work experience making the preparation for the classes easier and a lower load for one person. 

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