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Posts by Author: Candida Wingate

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And the fans go

Goalie-poet Dean Parkin visits Manor Farm Care Home, where the team engages in some poetic table football, after which he moves on to Kessingland Primary School, in search of a team name worthy of such a talented group of children.

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Extra Time in Leiston

The Extra Time team visit Year 5 at Leiston Primary school to chat about the connection between Garretts Engineering and football in the town and make some football characters of their own.

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Players and key positions

Residents at Manor Farm Care Home discover the Archive All-Stars and create their own versions of the football characters, whilst pupils at Kessingland Primary school consider their own characters and identify key skills, greatest achievements and goals.

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Season begins at Kessingland Primary school

The first Spring session of Extra Time in which the entire Year 5 class at Kessingland Primary school learn a little about the Archive All-Stars and create their own football character.

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Kick off at Poplars

A glorious afternoon at Poplars Primary School in Lowestoft, where Year 5 children learnt about the Archive All-Stars and then brought them to life through their cardboard figures.

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A celebration of football stories

We spend some Extra Time at Britten Court, to listen to some of their football stories, and Northfield St Nicholas Primary Academy, where Year 5 learn some stories about football in Lowestoft and celebrate the characters on the pitch.

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Old photographs and new beginnings

Whilst pupils at All Saints C of E Primary school in Laxfield enjoy a pre-half term session with poet Dean, creating the Museum of Us full of favourites sights, sounds and personal joys, children at Kessingland Primary Academy spend a post-half term period finding out about Extra Time, and telling us why they would like to be involved.

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More Football Stories from Suffolk

Members of sporting groups in Lowestoft and Ipswich get to see the Footballing Stories Box, and listen to themselves as they recount favourite memories.

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