Faith and spirituality in a modern world
A children's after school club that ran in Earith from 2007 to 2012.
Each evening was themed, in the early days it was focused on Bible stories and then we started doing real stories from history and some cartoon stories.
This was a monthly themed event where the children explore and relive historic situations, or visit different parts of the world, or have talent nights ..
It was aimed it at Primary School children…
Storykeepers had our own version of Burns Night:
Guests are piped in by bagpipes to take their places at the dining table.
A Grace written Robert Burns was read.
The supper should begin with a soup course, but we skipped that!…
It was a very long journey of about 100 miles.
I had the donkey to ride on but Joseph had to walk.
We had to go because of the census. Bethlehem was the town where Joseph was born and we went to be counted.
It was a bumpy road, but the little donkey didn’t give up…
1940 and England is at war with Germany.
Well, we still need to earn our money and people still need fish to eat, so we had better carry on fishing.
Later we hear that everyone with a boat – however small – needs to report for duty.
We quickly learn that our troops are cornered in France at Dunkirk…
When ‘harvest’ is mentioned, people tend to think of combine harvesters and also that not many people are involved in actually harvesting crops.
But in the old days most people within a village would have been working hard to bring in the crops.
Harvest doesn’t just mean the wheat crop but all sorts of things, including apples, nectarines…
At the Pondlife Party we had a strange collection of things, including a Moorhen, Frogs and a Bullrush!
After having a lot of fun with pond games we looked at the number of amazing things you get in an old pond…
In 1854 amidst the disease, filth and badly injured soldiers entered a lady called Florence:
She did an extremely difficult job caring for those soldiers, cleaning and bandaging their wounds, feeding them and being with them…
We called this event: ‘’Bugsy (Leave) Me-alone’ It’s 1929 and what was Bugsy trying to do? (Do the right thing – not join the gangsters) He was being bombarded from all sides by Mr Big who runs the show around here and Dusty Dirty Rat who ran another gang. When we want to do the right… Continue reading 25th May 2011 Storykeepers
Duncan, our friendly (puppet) Donkey, has mysteriously disappeared from his field, but fortunately there were some clues:
a turned over water trough, a hole in the hedge, tyre tracks…
We joined the ‘Local Defence Volunteers’ or ‘Homeguard’ as it was known as. Oh yes, and we also had some trouble from the A.R.P. Warden as well…
Captain Montgomery and Sergeant Wimpey had a difficult decision to make when they had to defuse an unexploded bomb…
At times we see awful pictures on the TV of people in the world who are really struggling to survive.
Is there anything we can do?
At Earith Storykepers we decided there was one thing we could do…
The cowboy was heading west with a number of wagons.
The journey was long and difficult and they finally came to a huge mountain range blocking their way.
Another problem was that it was autumn and winter was coming…
Our Christmas Party:
We enjoyed some games.
Can you spot the two ‘human Christmas trees’…
Cornwall November 1907 and the night of a violent storm!
The ship S. S. Suevic was sailing from Australia to Southampton.
It was an appalling night, a gale was blowing and the Captain couldn’t see anything and they were getting close to the Cornish coast…
Can we learn anything good from Robin Hood?
The Sheriff was up to his bad tricks again.
He was pushing people around and treating the people very badly.
The problem was that he was used to getting his own way…
