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Posts with tag: Halesworth

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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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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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What’s Heritage?

Whilst the Beech House Bakers blow bubbles and create gold medals, the children return to Halesworth and District Museum, to explore their heritage a little further.

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How to kick, volley and swerve … and make poetry

With the children on half term holiday this week, Dean, Candida and Amanda visit Beech House with the Extra Time Kit Bag, for a bit of a poetic chat.

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Everyone’s a Winner

The children visit the Beech House Bakers at home, where they pair up to create unique origami Trophy Booklets, inspired and prompted by poet and part-time chanteur, Dean Parkin.

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Extra Time Season Opens in Halesworth

The start of a brand new Extra Time season, this time with residents at Beech House Care Home and pupils from the Edgar Sewter Primary School teaming up to explore the stories and traditions behind their local footballing history, using source materials from Halesworth and District Museum.

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We won

Halesworth and District Museum win the Suffolk Museums Object of the Year Award 2022 with the Blythburgh Iron Age coin chosen by Freya, a pupil at the Edgar Sewter primary school.

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