Posts with tag: Halesworth
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Fantastic afternoon at Halesworth and District Museum
A huge thank you to everyone at the Museum for making the Special Delivery visit such a delight; the children loved it and I’m still buzzing at discovering that the […]
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Goose feathers and green ink
Having studied the beautiful handwriting in the Lincolne letters, it was time for the children to find out what it might be like to write in pen and ink. Using […]
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What a beautiful bunch …
The children sent messages, written on handmade flowers, to the residents at Beech House, and just look how they responded … the flowers are beautiful, and everyone looks like they […]
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Flowers can say so much
The children have been studying a letter from Mary Lincolne, written when she was 13 years old and away at boarding school in Beccles. Unaccustomed to the beautiful copperplate writing, […]
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News from Beech House
We’ve just collected the cards from Beech House, and this is what the residents had to say: – We had such a lovely afternoon, we lost track of time, so […]
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Getting to know you
Oh, the excitement of opening the envelope. Inside, there were more envelopes and inside those were the individually wrapped and labelled ‘I am from …’ poems, written by residents at […]
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An Important Invitation
Last week, the children at Edgar Sewter sent little letters in huge envelopes to the residents at Beech House – and just look at what the adults sent back; this […]
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I am from …
The Lincolnes were prolific letter writers and their use of the English language was gloriously descriptive and creative, as in the ‘Feathered choristers’ in the excerpt above. Taking his lead […]
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