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2. Primary: 'Skills For Life'

2. Primary: 'Skills For Life'

By Textiles Skills Centre

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Highlights

  • On-Demand workshop

  • 6 hours

  • All levels

Description

Primary 2: Skills for Life

(ONLINE ON-DEMAND COURSE)

What This Course Is About

This is Resource 2 in a series of textile resources created for primary teachers.

The aim of this introductory course is to give pupils their first experience of stitched textiles through a mix of fun, hands-on activities and creative learning. Pupils will explore how to stitch textiles, while also making links to everyday life, careers, and creativity.

The resource includes:

  • Practical activities (stitching, Suffolk puffs & Sashiko stitching, Textile tales)

  • Spotlights on artists, designers, and careers in textiles including Mr X Stitch

  • Cultural, cross curricular and sustainability links

  • Equipment needed and health & safety

  • Reflect and recall sheets, games and quizzes to consolidate knowledge

By the end of this course, pupils will have developed a basic understanding of stitches and the role they play in our lives, as well as enjoyed creative opportunities to practice stitches.

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Resource Aims

To introduce pupils to “Skills for Life” in textiles and explore what it means in everyday and creative contexts.

• Understand and discuss the value of sewing as a life skill.

• Learn how to thread a needle, tie knots, and use pins safely.

• Practice key hand stitches including running, back, blanket, whip, and cross stitch.

• Explore seams and decorative stitching, while developing accuracy and creativity.

• Recognise the difference between hand and machine stitching.

• Apply good health and safety practice when using needles, pins, and scissors.

• Take part in activities linked to culture, using stitching in a creative and meaningful way

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Practical Activities

  1. Using needles, pins, knotting & finishing

  1. Create your own Sashiko pattern

  1. Suffolk puffs - collaborative artwork or blanket

  1. Textiles Tales: To encourage creativity, imagination and collaboration, to allow children to use their senses to explore a range of fabrics and stitches.

Who is this course for?

This resource is designed for any primary school teacher who would like to introduce pupils to textiles. While it is not curriculum-specific, the activities can be used to support both the Art & Design and Design & Technology curriculum, with a clear focus on textiles.

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Key Notes for Teachers

  • Practice first: It’s recommended that teachers try out the activities themselves before delivering them in class.

  • Flexible use: The resources are designed in a sequence, but you can dip into them in any order, depending on your pupils’ needs.

  • Timing: There are no strict time limits — teachers can choose to deliver a single activity, or take a resource through its full progression with a class.

  • Stage, not age: The resources are built on the principle of meeting pupils where they are in their learning journey. Teachers may wish to check pupils’ prior knowledge before starting.

What to Expect - the Resources

  • Resource Plan

  • Health & Safety - a H&S guide to textile equipment

  • Introduction to ‘Skills For Life’

  • Looking at stitches and home activity

  • Pins

  • Needles, knots, threading and finishing off

  • Running stitch

  • Japanese Sashiko & activity

  • Suffolk puffs

  • Back stitch

  • Blanket stitch

  • Whip stitch

  • Satin stitch

  • Cross stitch with Mr X Stitch

  • Attaching a button

  • Seams

  • Artists to inspire, with activities

  • Careers in hand stitching

  • Reflect & Recall

workshop Content

19 sections•29 lessons
INTRODUCTION7 lessons
  1. 1WELCOME
  2. 2BENEFITS OF TEXTILES FOR PUPILS
  3. 3YOUR RESOURCE PLAN
  4. 4HEALTH & SAFETY
  5. 5EQUIPMENT
  6. 6YOUR TRAINERS
  7. 7TERMS & CONDITIONS
RESOURCE PLAN1 lessons
  1. 1RESOURCE PLAN
HEALTH & SAFETY1 lessons
  1. 1HEALTH & SAFETY-Scissors, Needles & Pins
SKILLS FOR LIFE1 lessons
  1. 1INTRODUCTION
LOOKING AT STITCHES2 lessons
  1. 1LOOKING AT STITCHES
  2. 2HOME ACTIVITY - LOOKING AT STITCHES
HAND V MACHINE STITCHING1 lessons
  1. 1HAND Vs MACHINE STITCHING
PINS1 lessons
  1. 1PINS
NEEDLES, KNOTS, THREADING, FINISHING OFF1 lessons
  1. 1NEEDLES, KNOTS, THREADING, FINISHING OFF
RUNNING STITCH3 lessons
  1. 1RUNNING STITCH
  2. 2JAPANESE SASHIKO & ACTIVITY
  3. 3SUFFOLK PUFFS
BACK STITCH1 lessons
  1. 1BACK STITCH
BLANKET STITCH1 lessons
  1. 1BLANKET STITCH
WHIP STITCH1 lessons
  1. 1WHIP STITCH
SATIN STITCH1 lessons
  1. 1SATIN STITCH
CROSS STITCH2 lessons
  1. 1CROSS STITCH
  2. 2MR X STITCH
ATTACHING A BUTTON1 lessons
  1. 1ADDING OR REPAIRING A LOST BUTTON
SEAMS1 lessons
  1. 1SEAMS
ARTISTS TO INSPIRE WITH ACTIVITIES1 lessons
  1. 1AFRICAN AMERICAN STORYTELLER: FAITH RINGGOLD
CAREERS IN HAND STITCHING1 lessons
  1. 1CAREERS IN HAND STITCHING
REFLECT & RECALL1 lessons
  1. 1REFLECT & RECALL

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Textiles Skills Centre

The TEXTILES SKILLS CENTRE brings together industry and education experts to support, develop and deliver resources, courses and events for textiles teachers, trainers and the...

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