Open Day

On the  6th of August it was the open day for Balmacewen. Students came to our school from all across Dunedin to check out what we do here at Balmac. I was assigned to help in the fabrics room. We had some great fun making hanging decorations. I thought the year 6's did very well, some struggled but at the end of the day they had a great product. It went for the whole day and I enjoyed it a lot. There where also other technology classes open that the students from different schools went to such as Art, Hard Materials, Cooking, Robotics and of course Fabrics. The process of making the hanging decoration was fun. First of they had to pick 2 shapes of the same design to sew together. They next had to pick a button of there choice to sew onto there shape. After they had completed that they sewed a ribbon onto the top of there back piece of fabric. There where lots of different ribbons they they could choose from. The next stage of the process was to sew together there two pieces making sure they had sewn on the button and the ribbon. they didn't sew all the way up they left a little gap so they could stuff the inside of there decoration with fluff. They thanked us helpers and left with a cool hanging decoration! I'm glad that there are going to be lots of friendly faces to see next year at Balmac!

By Solomon

Here are some finished products made by the Year 6 students: