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Not quite the last post for Special Delivery

December 2, 2020 by Candida Wingate

A collection of brown envelopes, pens and paper, plus a copy of a hand-written letter

In the last three months, we have listened to brand new stories, created poems and self portraits, drawn to music, made unique envelopes, aged paper in trays of cold tea and crafted greetings cards decorated with images of ‘small things’ – all inspired by the Dunkirk Letters. The children have shared that work with the […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Abbots Green Academy, Dunkirk Letters, Poetry, Reminiscence, School, story telling, Suffolk Record Office, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds

Nine miles of documents zoom into the classroom

November 26, 2020 by Candida Wingate

A photo of the Eye Charter with a magnifying glass held over the word Eye

Originally, we intended to take the school children to visit the Bury St Edmunds Record Office but, of course, that isn’t possible right now. So we were thrilled when Hannah Salisbury, the Community and Learning Officer (West Suffolk) from Suffolk Archives, offered to do an online presentation. It was fascinating; did you know that there […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Abbots Green Academy, Dunkirk Letters, Suffolk Record Office, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds

Acting your Age and enjoying jigsaws

November 24, 2020 by Candida Wingate

A collection of self-portraits in pencil

Special Delivery began with some jigsaws, as the children pieced together copies of the Dunkirk Letters. After this, the children created postcard self-portraits, cut them up into jigsaws and, using handmade envelopes, posted the puzzles to members of the Bury St Edmunds Theatre Royal Act Your Age group. The group was thrilled to receive them […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Abbots Green Academy, Act Your Age, Dunkirk Letters, Suffolk Record Office, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds

It’s the little things that matter

November 21, 2020 by Candida Wingate

A decorated card with smaller cards attached with images of cake, and saying my tooth fell out

Here are some of the cards created by the children, to celebrate the little things in life that matter so much.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Abbots Green Academy, Letter writing, School, Suffolk Record Office

Something softer than soil

November 19, 2020 by Candida Wingate

A handrawn picture of a bird with the caption Birds in my garden

We’ve been thinking about ‘little things’ – as in the little things the soldiers wrote about in their letters home from Dunkirk – and also the things they asked for, like shaving soap and writing paper. Exploring the letters like this, looking for clues about what it was like, really brings the letters – and […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Abbots Green Academy, Dunkirk Letters, School, Suffolk Record Office, Young People

Acting our age

October 28, 2020 by Candida Wingate

A collage of old newspapers and a brown label that reads Amanda

Members of the Bury St Edmunds Theatre Royal Act Your Age group have been hard at work, creating characters based on the Dunkirk Letters – and I got to sit in on a Zoom session and hear them performing the monologues. It was amazing – people who were barely mentioned in the actual letters suddenly […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Abbots Green Academy, Act Your Age, Bury St Edmunds, Dunkirk Letters, School, Suffolk Record Office, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, Young People

Cold tea and poetry

October 9, 2020 by Candida Wingate

Eight brightly coloured envelopes, addressed to the participants

They’ve arrived. The children received their letters, which they read before the session, as there was so much to get through, we weren’t sure we’d fit it all in. First, it was finishing off the envelopes, after which children had to snip up the postcard pictures they’d drawn of themselves and put them inside. To […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Abbots Green Academy, Bury St Edmunds, Dunkirk Letters, Paper making, Poetry, School, Suffolk Record Office, Visual Art, Young People

Self portraits and favourite colours

October 6, 2020 by Candida Wingate

A pencil drawing of a face with spectacles

Last week, we asked the children to draw a self-portrait on a postcard, and to add a few lines about themselves. The results are so lovely, we thought we’d share them here, ahead of tomorrow’s session … when who knows what might happen to them? The featured image is of our wonderful volunteer, Amanda who, […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Abbots Green Academy, Dunkirk Letters, Suffolk Record Office

Special Delivery to Abbots Green Academy

September 24, 2020 by Candida Wingate

Special Delivery stamped in red on a white background

What a joy to start our brand new intergenerational project, Special Delivery, yesterday, and to meet the children from Abbots Green Academy in Bury St Edmunds. Their reasons for wanting to take part in the project were many and varied, from a desire to work with artists to a keen interest in local history and […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Abbots Green Academy, Bury St Edmunds, Older People, School, story telling, Suffolk Record Office, Young People

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