Kick off

Our first Extra Time session at Beech House—and within minutes there’s singing on the terraces, pens flying across paper pitches and an entire pack of players’ cards.

First, the residents warmed up to a few well known football tunes, dancing their pens across the green ‘pitch’, after which they each created personalised Player’s Card, listing key skills and achievements, amongst them maintaining ‘good moral’ and ‘boiling tomatoes’.

Then it was over to the Edgar Sewter Primary school, where the children told us their reasons for wanting to take part, some of their skills, e.g. ‘being a good listener’ and ‘kind’ and also came up with a name for their team, the Super Sewter Dudes.

Match of the Day Cards

The players’ first task was to match images of items and photos from the Museum with corresponding statements.

So it was that they identified that the Halesworth Hospital Cup was a football trophy and not a drinking vessel for patients and that the Halesworth Thursday Football Club was so called because the only time they could meet was on a Thursday afternoon, when it was early
closing in town.

They also discovered that Halesworth Football Club took part in the annual town fair and wore fancy dress for the occasion and that, in April 1948, Beccles beat Bacton 5-0 at home—and a harness maker and threshing contractor advertised their business in the same fixtures card.

Team Goals: The residents think hope the children will benefit from working with older people.

The children think that working with them will give the residents someone to have a laugh with and may lift their spirits.

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