Reference
AU10/82/4
Title
Letter from Effie Dibb to Andrew Underwood:
- infants school curriculum handiwork included clay modelling and coloured paper folding and modelling, bead threading and coloured sticks used for teaching capital letters and simple geometric forms;
- infants school was more like the later nursery schools with children attending from age 2 ½;
- she taught the top class knitting and sewing buttons on "pretty patterned oilcloth" to make mats (boys and girls), girls were taught to hem
Date free text
12 Oct 1956
Production date
From: 1882 To: 1956
Level of description
item