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Girls F.C. in Playing for Success Scheme

 

Huddersfield Town Study Centre is currently piloting a girls reading scheme with ten Year 6 pupils from Kirkheaton Primary School. The project is based on ‘Do Goalkeepers wear Tiaras?’ - the first book in the Girls F.C. series written by our very own Helena Pielichaty. As one of the first children’s series to feature a girls’ football team, Girls F.C. brilliantly raises the profile of one of the fastest growing sports in the world!

 

The Playing for Success programme has been incorporated into the core PfS provision and involves designing posters, analysing text and language, creating storyboards, making key-rings and badges and playing ‘Reading Football’ - a footy based reading game developed by centre staff.

 

The girls ‘play’ as two opposing teams and have come up with their own team names, designed their own team crests and created a squad list of typical player nick-names. The feedback from the girls involved has so far been very positive. As a result, the centre staff are hoping to roll the project out into secondary schools next year.

 

To mark the launch of the project Huddersfield Town Study Centre and The Zone are currently holding negotiations with the English Schools Football Association in the hope of hosting the ESFA Girls U-11s regional football finals in March.

 

  • 07/01/2010