IVth Form (Year 5)

 

   

 The handwork department aims to develop resourceful and creative life skills through the joy of making and designing. All girls have a double lesson a week in our well equipped sewing room.
 

Year 4 and 5 develop traditional hand sewing and knitting skills through creative projects often inspired by the garden.

Year 6 and 7 concentrate on traditional dressmaking skills using sewing machines. The girls love making and wearing their own clothes, one of the advantages of not having a school uniform, and there are many proud Hanford fathers who own colourful handmade ties, and pets who sleep on tailor made beds.
 

Year 8 continue using sewing machines with an emphasis on machine embroidery skills, again using the garden as a source of inspiration.