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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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Expanding Horizons

“I’ve had so much fun today, it’s lovely just to laugh together, it makes me feel so much better.”

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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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What we do do …

Along with Dean Parkin, we visit Manor Farm Care Home in Kessingland, to learn about the residents’ favourite sports and pastimes and create a poem celebrating the things they choose to do – and one or two that they don’t.

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Footballing Stories from Suffolk

Members of the Ipswich Sporting Memories group get to experience the Extra Time Footballing Stories box – and are amazed and delighted by it.

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The Long Shop and The Hold

Volunteers from the Long Shop Museum in Leiston visit The Hold in Ipswich to explore the Garrett archives at first hand

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