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Posts with tag: Lowestoft Rising

A school girl in a dark top, her hair swept away from her face, and holding a cardboard football figure in her hands on the table A Trawler Boy looks across the table towards another person Blog posts

Extra Time to Celebrate

Our final celebration session with the children from Kessingland Primary School and residents at Manor Farm Care Home, in which we gallop through the amount and variety of work they’ve created together, and the children receive gold medals for being so completely brilliant.

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I think they felt exhausted because all we did was chat. They go out dancing after they win a match Blog posts

A stitch in Extra Time

At Manor Farm, the residents chat about last week’s visit from the children and their thoughts on what they need to flourish in the game of life, whilst over at the school that afternoon, the children discuss the impact of their visit and then begin to stitch their pictures.

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A hand holds up a painted picture of a football scene whilst on the table in front of it is a pencil drawing of Lowestoft Town Football Club crest and trophy Blog posts

Match of the Day

The children visit residents at Manor Farm Care Home to share their stories and pictures from the footballing archive.

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A painted picture of a football match with players central and fans in stands with a pair of floodlights either side Blog posts

Gold medals and cracking goals

The Manor Farm Corncrake create stunning gold medals whilst the children reflect on what they learned about Suffolk Archives and finish off their artwork.

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A boy laughs as two women, one seated, one standing attend to a magnetic football game on the table in front of them Blog posts

The Wild Kessingland All-Stars play the Manor Farm Corncrakes

The children from Kessingland Primary school (aka the Wild Kessingland All-Stars) visit residents at Manor Farm Care Home (aka Manor Farm Corncrakes) for the first match of the season and the result was unanimous – they want a replay.

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Three brightly coloured wooden figures on a handmade football pitch Blog posts

There’s a lot of everything out there

As residents at Manor Farm choose their team name and prepare their players, the Wild Kessingland All-Stars tie themselves in knots and discuss team colours and tactics.

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Football pitches and roaring crowds

It was all hands on deck this week, as Manor Farm residents constructed a series of Extra Time football pitches and rows of spectators to line the sides. The afternoon was spent at Kessingland Primary where the children engaged in some energetic pen football, before creating their own football grounds in readiness for the forthcoming match.

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A woman has her hands up in the air, having just launched a black and green foam football across the table. Her companion is seated beside her, looking across the table Blog posts

And the fans go

Goalie-poet Dean Parkin visits Manor Farm Care Home, where the team engages in some poetic table football, after which he moves on to Kessingland Primary School, in search of a team name worthy of such a talented group of children.

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