Knitting a hit with Newbridge pupils (From South Wales Argus)

Knitting a hit with Newbridge pupils

7:30pm Friday 17th June 2011 in News

STUDENTS at Newbridge School are swapping their lunch hour for a knitting club, as they learn to “stitch one, purl one” in aid of charity.

The new knitting group has been set up at the secondary school, with the help of a £100 donation from Abercarn and Newbridge Rotary Club, to make blankets for Project Linus. The charity makes comfort blankets for sick children and teenagers, and for use in hospitals, neonatal units, and shelters.

Up to 40 children attend the club in their lunch hour or after school, where they are taught to knit by members of the Newbridge branch of the Women’s Institute, and they have already completed six blankets.

Deputy head teacher Nick Thomas said: “It’s been brilliant because the WI ladies get to meet the students and show them how it’s done, and the youngsters are fascinated by how the can talk and knit at the same time! Some of the students are excellent already.”