Knitting In School In The News

Below are listed recent newspaper articles about school's knitting clubs.

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Belper News: "Knitting Launch For Belper Kids" (26.01.10)

Click here to read of a new Knitting Club just launched at a school in Belper, Derbyshire


London Genesis Housing Group: Genesis Community's Knitty Noras Share skills With Schoolchildren (10.07.09)

Click here to read how nine women from a Genesis Community-funded knitting group called the Knitty Noras held a knitting workshop with eight- and nine-year-olds at Scotts Primary School in Hornchurch, Essex. Genesis Community is part of Genesis Housing Group


Warrington Guardian: "Pupils Form A Tight Knit Group" (21.05.09)

Click here for news of a school knitting group in Great Sankey


Doncaster Today: "It's A Wrap" (09.05.09)

Click here to read about Owston Park Primary school knitting club that has been very busy knitting blankets for people in Hungary, Romania and the Ukraine as part of a Salvation Army appeal


Ipswich Evening Star: "Keen Youngsters Get The Needle" (29.04.09)

Click here for news of an enthusiastic knitting club at a Primary school in Kingsfleet near Ipswich


Yorkshire Evening Post - Leeds: "Harewood Pupils Knit Their Way To £10,000 Prize" (31.03.09)

Click here to read how pupils at Harewood's Gateways School knitted their way to a £10,000 prize


Campaign Series - Caerphilly: "Knitting For Charity" (23.02.09)

Click here to read how pupils at a school in Trethomas have knitted more than 200 chickens to help raise money for charity


Reading Evening Post: "Pupils Square Up To Knitting Challenge" (16.02.09)

Click here to read about a School Knitting Club in Wokingham knitting a blanket for people in Zimbawe