Impatience in the remarks column it records Pat had been asked to unpick her knitting, not done so and thrown her work across the classroom, work I assume to be the knitting. I remember a girl from my primary school who was smacked on the bottom for dropping a stitch and complained the hand marks were still there when she reached home sometime later, but then we know how important knitting was to a girls future prospects.
Quite. Without skills like knitting, ironing, cooking etc. a girl doesn’t stand a chance in life.