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Posts by Author: Candida Wingate

A woman in a yellow and white striped jersey smiles to the camera whilst holding aloft a cardboard Olympic Torch with yellow, orange and red paper 'flames' Blog posts

Extra Time and the Olympic Torch

When we learnt that Beech House is organising a procession through Halesworth to mark the Olympic Games, we were only too happy to help them make a torch for the event.

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Celebration Time Blog posts

Celebration Time

The Super Sewter Dudes visit the Beech House Bakers for the last session and celebrate all the wonderful work they have created together over the past three months.

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A Triumph of Trophies

The penultimate session, and Beech House residents and the team from Edgar Sewter primary school get together to finish off the trophies and find out what people have enjoyed about taking part in Extra Time.

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Extra Time at First Light Festival

The Extra Time team was thrilled to spend Saturday afternoon at the First Light Festival, inviting families to join our Supporters Club, award themselves a personalised medal, and fashion football players inspired by the Archive All-Stars

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Hacksaws and toilet rolls

The residents at Beech House spent a happy morning cutting up cardboard tubes and fashioning a series of trophies, after which the children spent the afternoon decorating them with art work created over the last ten weeks.

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Witch pots, helmets and a handmade wedding dress

This week, the children visited the Beech House Bakers, to tell them about their trip to Halesworth and District Museum and some of the things they discovered there about their heritage.

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What’s Heritage?

Whilst the Beech House Bakers blow bubbles and create gold medals, the children return to Halesworth and District Museum, to explore their heritage a little further.

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How to kick, volley and swerve … and make poetry

With the children on half term holiday this week, Dean, Candida and Amanda visit Beech House with the Extra Time Kit Bag, for a bit of a poetic chat.

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