Euro 2012  

With the biggest football event in Europe now having kicked off in Poland and the Ukraine, football author Tom Palmer is very kindly produced some fantastic resources for us to help you use the excitement of the Euro 2012 tournament to get your pupils reading:

Daily cliff-hanger story: The Great Euro 2012 Swindle

The Great Euro 2012 Swindle is the sequel to Black Op, the first book in Tom Palmer’s new spies and football Squad series. The story will be influenced by the events of Euro 2012, and a new chapter will be written by Tom every evening after the games have been played. Also, every Friday, children will be invited to vote on what will happen next in the story.

New chapters will be published every weekday at 8am. The story will come to an exciting climax on Thursday 28 June*.

Click on the Download link below to read the story.

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Euro 2012 teacher and librarian toolkit

A bumper pack of fun Euro 2012 literacy activities based around Tom Palmer’s The Squad: Black Op and The Squad: White Fear books.

Includes:

A Tom Palmer interview
Practical activities
A letter to send home to parents
Display ideas
Pupils worksheets

And lots more.

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Euro 2012 blog

In the build-up to Euro 2012 and during the tournament itself, Tom will also be blogging regularly. His latest blog provides ideas for teachers to pass on to parents for using the tournament as an opportunity to read with their child at home.

* Originally, there were going to be sixteen chapters, ending on 2 July. Now the story will end on Thursday 28 June with the fourteenth chapter.