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Bedworth Library
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Established a Dads 'n' Lads
project to try to encourage reluctant teenage
readers.
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Coventry City provided a table football game,
a signed football and a pair of match tickets
to see Coventry vs. Liverpool. The items were
used as draw prizes for completed evaluation
forms and book reviews, respectively.
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Two Playstation consoles plus
footie games were loaned from another county
council youth project free of charge.
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Sports Development officer attended from
Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council with
information about coaching, local football
clubs, etcetera.
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Plenty of football magazines
were also made available.
David Reed, Divisional Librarian, has kindly
made his report available. From this you will
be able to gain an idea of some of the practicalities
and logistics of setting up such a project.
Click here
to view the report - you will need Adobe Acrobat
Reader, click here
if you don't have it.
Click here
to see a copy of the review form used for parents
and their children to note down their comments
on books.
Click here
to view the invitations to the Dads 'n' Lads sessions.
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Islington Libraries
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Held an inter-secondary school
quiz to test knowledge of World Cup countries.
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Venue supplied by Arsenal
FC, prizes from Sainsburys.
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The winning school received
a trophy and a replica World Cup football
while the 6 winning team members got a bagful
of goodies.
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The runners-up each received
a £5 book token.
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The borough's 10 libraries
put up exciting and imaginative displays of
books, videos, DVDs and music.
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32 collectable World Cup cards
are also available: one for each of the countries
taking part, with questions testing knowledge
on the history of the competition. Cards could
be picked up from libraries, but not all cards
were available from every library.
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Held competitions to write
a match report, published by local paper High
& I, and to draw a picture from a match.
Contact Geoff James: Geoff.James@islington.gov.uk.
Click here
to view the poster inviting pictures for the competition,
here
to view the blank poster for students to complete.
Click here
to view the poster inviting match reviews for
the competition, here
to view the blank report for students to complete.
Click here
to view the quiz (contains answers).
Click here
to view the poster welcoming schools and explaining
some of the rules.
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Doncaster Libraries
Joined up with Doncaster Rovers Football in the
Community for the 2002 World Cup to help promote
each other's services in the community. There
was a quiz
(you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to download
this, click Acrobat
Reader if you don't have it, to try the quiz
online click online
quiz) for the over eight's relating to the
World Cup history. All the answers to this were
on a big display within the library, and in books
and websites.
Eric Randerson at FITC provided prizes of a family
ticket for the first home game of the season,
places on a football skills challenge day, and
each week of the competition (which lasted throughout
the World cup) there was a draw for a football.
The under seven's had to design a football shirt,
and the best received a 'goodie bag' from the
Rovers and was entered into the draw for a football.
Everyone who entered received a certificate from
FITC and bookmarks from the Library service. During
half term, the library hosted an activity which
involved reading football poems and stories and
making a footballing puppet.
On 22nd of July
2002, Eric Randerson from FITC came to the library,
to talk about FITC & give out the prizes from
the competition. The local radio and lots of children
came along for a brilliant day. Following from
this, Rovers have asked Carol Wootton of the library
to write an article each week for their website,
so permanently linking the library & the club.
Now the website has an official children's area
with lots of games, quizzes, book reviews, poems
jokes and more. To see this visit
http://www.doncasterroversfc.premiumtv.co.uk/
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Hampshire Libraries
- Steve Claridge (currently Millwall
FC but from Portsmouth) appeared on a bookmark
with library service (he has also written a
book).
- A Dads and Lads librarian, originally funded
by the Arts Council, has established after-school
groups in four locations.
- This post has now been expanded by the library
authority.
- Robbie
Earle has visited one group, Bournemouth
players another and there are plans for Southampton
players to attend an event in September.
- Reviews from their book discussions are posted
online.
- Some of their reviews have also featured
on the RIF site and they have received prizes
for these.
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Bradford Libraries
- Have held several football writers' sessions in a local pub, where fans can talk about football and find out how to read more about it.
- Encouraged to write book reviews as 'homework'.
- Have a website (launched by Nick Hornby in May) to encourage book/football discussions, with lots of literacy related activities such as swapping football songs, write a review of 90 words.
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Hampshire
Schools in Hampshire held a competition to make
a booklet out of local school children's original
work inspired by first lines. The opening sentences
came from Anne Fine's 'Bill's New Frock' and Tolkien's
'The Hobbit'. Portsmouth FC provided the venue,
and awarded medals as prizes which were given
out by players. First team members have also visited
after-school clubs to talk about reading.
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Lancashire
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School. "In
order to inspire boys to write, we invited our
local football clubs to send in a representative
that we could interview [for our newsletter].
Students gave a brief outline of the importance
of our local teams and the best were then invited
to interview the Chief Executive of Burnley FC,
players from Bury FC and coaching staff from Liverpool
FC. The project focused on boys who did not see
a purpose for their writing. By focusing on one
of the most popular male activities boys who were
not usually attracted to writing for the paper
were now very eager to participate. How successful?
The number of boys writing for the paper went
up seven-fold. The finished articles were included
in the paper which was a complete sell out. The
proceeds from which were donated to school to
help with our fundraising for new sports facilities.
Our activities were also featured in the local
press.
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Norfolk
In their school library, Blythjex High School
in Norwich showed World Cup matches at lunchtimes,
made a display of football fiction, non-fiction,
a big display of results and posters with footballers
reading. They also held competitions to identify
20 players and their countries and to design a
strip or a mascot. A range of prizes was offered,
from book vouchers to an England Football (signed
by an author), to packets of crisps.
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Staffordshire
In Staffordshire James Brindley High School
asked Years 7 & 8 to write book reviews for members
of the England Squad. This gave students an opportunity
to suggest their favourite reads to Becks and
Rio, and to tell them what is so good about them.
They then put screensavers up saying: "Becks should
read."
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Malta
"St Patrick's School takes boys aged 8 and
upwards. It delivers both a mainstream and remedial
curriculum. It also has a residential care home.
The school has just started a 6 months pilot project
for under achieving boys based totally on football.
The name of the club is 'Johnny Bosco's Learning
Club' (JBLC), named after the founder of the Salesian
Order. The boys are called players, our learning
support volunteers are coaches and as teacher
in charge I am known as the referee. We deliver
our alternative football curriculum in a very
large room which has striped curtains - black
and white for Juventus, red and white for Man
u and black and yellow for a local club. The boys
attend the club dressed in their football gear
for 6 hours a week. At the moment we are concentrating
on improving their English. A lesson based on
colours enabled the boys to design their own team
strip, a lesson on body parts included labelling
our football mascot, Each session the players
can earn 2 goals and I also award a ref's goal
for special work. Once they have earned 10 goals
which are recorded on a goal mouth they can trade
these in for a player which they then colour in
their own team strip. The object being to collect
a team plus officials. This is a real motivator.
Each boy has their own pitch made from green card
on which they position the players they have earned.
We also operate yellow/red card procedure but
haven't yet had to use it!
"This week we started the JBLC grammar league
and had teams of nouns, adjectives and verbs."
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Leyton
Orient - held a paper-chase literacy
related quiz around the ground
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Millwall - send junior
players into special schools to work
with children helping their reading
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Newcastle - junior players
work with local children in the Literacy
Hour
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Mansfield Town - the
entire first team have been trained
as book buddies and work with local
schools
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Brentford - have a literacy
day at one of their games where they
give away thousands of free books to
local children donated by local publishers
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Manchester United -
worked with local libraries to celebrate
World Book Day by hosting an event there,
featuring several authors, Hedwig the
owl and a reserve keeper
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Rotherham RUFC have
also had their first team players trained
as book buddies
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Wimbledon - players
visit local RIF schools and give out
books whilst answering questions about
their reading habits
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Ipswich - players are
recording a video with them reading
from their favourite books
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Boston Utd - Fantasy
Football team - £55million budget, tournament
within group with cheap football games
from Woolworths.
- Leicester City - The club has been worjking
in conjunction with local schools in order
to deliver successful community programmes.
For example, 20 students from the Robert
Smythe School recently visited the stadium
to discuss how a business is run as part
of their A-Level studies. The topics discussed
included finances, merchandising, marketing
and conference and banqueting. The club's
community mascot, Filbert Fox, has also
visited over 20 schools for sessions of
'Read with Filbert' to encourage children
to read more often.
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