Sticky clay, busy classrooms and Suffolk Archives
With plastic aprons on and rolling pins in hand, the Manor Farm Corncrakes were soon getting stuck in to their clay.
It was a delightfully messy business, with much kneading and smoothing and mark making, before finally cutting out small discs, which really do look like chocolate biscuits right now, but will be transformed at the next session into something altogether different.
Over at the school, we had a visit from Mandy Rawlins, the audience development manager at Suffolk Archives – and her audience was the entire Year 5 at Kessingland Primary school.
The children explored press cuttings and photographs, quizzed Mandy about old documents and the importance of keeping them safe, and ended up with a quick online jigsaw puzzle of the oldest document in the Archives, courtesy of the Suffolk Archives website.
The children were asked to choose one aspect of Lowestoft’s footballing heritage to share with other people; what better way to share them than via the gallery below?
And if you fancy trying out the Eye Charter jigsaw yourself, you can find it at https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=02531865ceeb
The Manor Farm Corncrake fan club
Dave's graphite sketch of a football match
An alternative use of rolling pins
Mark making
It felt lovely and soft
Moulding the clay
You can't do clay without getting messy
Getting to grips with the clay
These will be transformed next week but right now they look like delicious chocolate biscuits
There are old football clubs I never knew about
That's one explanation as to why the Eastern Coach Works magazine was called The Hooter
Winning sides
Football fireworks and the Waves
Ice creams and the World Cup
Lots of different old archive papers
The Waves, the Co-Op Ladies and some ice creams
The Hold, from a ship's precious cargo is like the archives
The FA Cup and Jackie Has Won
Players and Ethel the Bell celebrating a goal
Lowestoft wins and football trophies
Lowestoft Town FC Trawler Boys
‘I've just seen two really cool words about research on the classroom wall - 'primary' and 'secondary'. Today, you're all doing primary research because you're using press cuttings and other documents that were written at the time these things happened.’
‘I had no idea there were so many football clubs in Lowestoft.’
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