This week our young learner became budding young journalists interviewing players from Rushden and Diamonds to find out what it is like to be a professional footballer and how this fits in with their life outside of football.

We saw mixed emotions from the students this week as they displayed a combination of excitement and nervousness at interviewing Matt Pattison, Jack Higgins, Max Porter and Kurt Robinson from Rushden and Diamonds first team, as well as prospective future stars in Nabil Sharrif, Lewis Halford, Matty Evans, George Cox, Callum Earls and Connor Hayes from the Rushden and Diamonds Academy. 

All the students showed great maturity when asking the players questions about themselves and the opportunity of talking to the footballers had clearly motivated the students to complete their follow up work of producing a write up of the interviews.  The interview activity and the follow up work proved to be an extremely worthwhile exercise in the improvement of their speaking, listening and writing skills in a very enjoyable way.

  Young learners with Nabil Shariff and Lewis Halford. 

  Young learners with George Cox and Connor Hayes.

  Young learners with Matt Pattison and Jack Higgins .

  Young learners with Matty Evans and Callum Earls.

 Young learners with Max Porter and Kurt Robinson.

This week the year 5 students from Greenfields, Grange and Avondale Junior schools completed a pitch measuring activity which included finding the perimeter and the area of the football pitch, the penalty area and the 6-yard box.  They also had a chance to finish off all the work that they have been doing over the last 6 weeks in preparation for their school displays which will be on show at the Presentation Evening, in the Vice President Suite on Friday 10th July at 5.30pm.

Year 8 pupils completed the Diamonds away trip activity.  The young learners had to imagine they were organising the accommodation, coaches, meals and entertainment for the Rushden and Diamonds team on their away trip against Weymouth FC in February.