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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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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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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

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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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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