TNS FC Educational Club Event

We visit Welsh Premier League champions TNS FC for our educational club event

Young people from Rhosymedre Primary and Ysgol y Waun attended the Venue stadium to take part in our educational club event with The New Saints FC for the day.

Campaign Worker Jason Webber delivered a workshop in the morning to the young people educating them on the topic of racism using interactive activities and discussions.

Pupils prior to attending the ground at school were set a task to prepare for the afternoons anti-racism “press conference”.

Pupils had to create a newspaper name and were tasked with researching racism in sport and society. Pupils also were required to read newspapers and online blogs to explore how they are designed and written.

From the information they had learnt they had to prepare questions for the press conference at the event to help produce their article for their newspaper after the event.

In the afternoon pupils watched our educational DVD which gave them a last opportunity to obtain further knowledge on the topic before the question and answer session in our “media / press conference event”

TNS manager Craig Harrison and player Tom Matthews attended the event to take part in the press conference.

Pupils now in the role of newspaper journalists were selected to ask questions, introduce themselves and the newspaper they “worked” for followed by their question.

This club event was funded by the Football Association of Wales

The journalists posed some really challenging questions for the players and had clearly researched and planned some well thought out questions.

The best asked question won a TNS kit and a SRtRC goodie bag.

When the pupils return to school they will use all the information they had learnt at the event along with the responses from the players to write and design their article.

We would like to the school for attending the event and the club for working in partnership to host the event and providing the prizes for the pupils.

To view photos from the event click HERE