Inside the Westlake Boys High School sewing club
It's keeping a dedicated handful of teenagers off their phones and teaching them patience. The bell shrieks signalling the end of the school day at Westlake Boys High School.
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It's keeping a dedicated handful of teenagers off their phones and teaching them patience.
The bell shrieks signalling the end of the school day at Westlake Boys High School.
Cooper Phillips, a year 13 student with a mop of blond hair, explains the origin story.
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It's keeping a dedicated handful of teenagers off their phones and teaching them patience. The bell shrieks signalling the end of the school day at Westlake Boys High School. Cooper Phillips, a year 13 student with a mop of blond hair, explains the origin story.
How it works
- He'd admired a jacket made by his media studies teacher Casey de Wit, telling her he'd be keen to learn how to sew.
- "A few weeks later, she came up to me and said 'how would you how would you feel if I made a sewing club?'" Pushing concerns about his own work ethic aside, "obviously if you do it, then I'll join" he told her.
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- "I'm glad I stuck to it, it's like something that I really like." In May this year, Cooper and Prince Mancilla became the founding members.
Details worth keeping
These boys love sewing club and they're "not worried what people think". Kruze Agnew found out what they were doing and wanted in too. His extracurriculars are rugby and sewing club.
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