Year 6 recently held a competition to design a logo for a leavers’ top and there were lots of brilliant entries. Yesterday the lucky winner had their design printed on to the front of the sweatshirts (kindly donated by a parent) at the London Screen Service (http://www.londonscreenservice.co.uk/ based out of the Biscuit Factory at the Tower Bridge Business Complex). Seven children carried the tops there and were given an insight in to the process of screen printing by Rob from 3rd Rail Clothing (http://www.3rdrailclothing.co.uk/).
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Rob showed the children the processes including fixing stencils on to screens using chemicals and UV light, lining up the images and testing them on scrap material, printing the images on to the tops using special oil based ink and different heating processes to fix the ink. He made a brilliant teacher, helped all the children print one of the actual tops and then lent the children one of his images to screen print using watercolour paint and paper. Thank you Rob!