This morning, Kate and Dean visited residents at Britten Court, where they shared the children’s souvenir plates. The plates were decorated with images and text taken from their visit to the Suffolk Archives, and the residents were thrilled to hear about basking sharks, recipes for pickled herring – and a picture of a well-known Southwold […]
Britten Court Residential Care Home
A little souvenir of their trip to Suffolk Archives
Last week, the Special Delivery group of children from Roman Hill Primary school visited Suffolk Archives, and discovered a whole host of things. Many of the discoveries they made were prompted by questions from residents at Britten Court and yesterday they set about creating a record of their visit, in the style of a souvenir […]
Roman Hill Discoveries at Suffolk Archives
From old school photos and bus timetables, by way of lifeboat heroes, shopping lists, basking sharks and testimonial football matches, the children from Roman Hill discovered an amazing amount yesterday, including a couple of brand new words, as used in Dean’s poem below. Langled & Galing Time travelling snow snowing gale galing – we’ll do […]
An imaginary scrapbook, postcards and wishes
Oh, what a joy to be back at Britten Court. Two years ago, we paused all face-to-face Special Delivery sessions with residential care homes, so it was lovely to be back at Britten Court last week, where we could actually meet the residents and chat directly with them. Hopefully, we’ll be able to visit with […]
What do fish play on the piano?
Scales. We have Martin to thank for that riddle, along with several others that he sent to the group at Roman Hill, in response to the postcards they sent last week. It was lovely to share back the postcards from all the residents at Britten Court taking part in Special Delivery; from questions about fishing, […]
Front flips and kittens
Last week saw the first Special Delivery creative session at Roman Hill Primary School, with poet Dean Parkin impressing the children with a recital of his ‘list’ poem, ‘The Bubble Wrap’. List upon list followed, from different ways to say hello, to favourite animals, sports, hobbies and subjects. All these were then distilled into personal […]