Newport County FC Event

Below is an article about racism and the experience of attending our event that young people have produced and written in school after attending our event with Newport County FC

MILLBROOK MOMENTS

By Logan Johnson.

THREE NEWPORT SCHOOLS GO TO 

SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD

Sycamore class left school at 9:45 am on the 25^th October 2012.Three schools went Lliswerry Primary, St Joseph and Sycamore class from Millbrook Primary School. 

We went to Rodney Parade the pitch of Newport County and Newport Gwent Dragons.

There was an event called Show racism the red card. All three schools were put in to different groups. We all were excited about the day. An ex-football player presented it - his name was Christian Roberts. He showed the children videos about racism.

 

He showed us one video before lunch about a boy who got called racist comments, it was so bad he killed him self.This was a sad story it made the children understand how important it is to try and stop racism.

After lunch some Newport County players came in and were questioned

by the children for their school newspaper. Joel O’ Brien from Millbrook won the Goodie Bag for asking the best question.

When they left everyone was really happy because they had a signed poster of Newport County.  

We are all sure the children told their friends back at Millbrook more about racism. 

The message was very important to say.

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MILLBROOK MOMENTS

By Libby Price.

SYCAMORE SHOWS RED CARD TO RACISM

We went to Rodney Parade on Thursday 25^th October and met Christian Roberts who is an ex- professional football player. He spoke to us about the bad language of Racism and the different experiences he has had as he follows the religion of Islam.  He gave us numbers so we could sit on different tables and meet new people.

        First of all we met other children from Lliswerry primary and St Joseph’s Primary Schools , that were involved with red card to racism project . Then we made friends with most of them sharing ideas and thoughts.

Christian gave us brain teasers to work out on our own. After a while we started doing group writing and working together. We found out most of the answers to the questions he asked us but they really made us think hard about the different types of racism there can be and made us understand it more clearly.

We watched a clip that showed us other football players from different parts of the world all linked together in football but with one common understanding of racism.

        After lunch six football players from Newport County Football Club arrived and we were able to ask them questions about their own experiences of racism. They told us that some child spat at one of them and their guardian did not do anything about it. Then Christian told us a sad story that made us understand how bad racism can be.

Before we all went back to school one child from each school was given a goodie bag for the best question. Joel in our class had one, because he asked the best question. Then we all had a signed poster of the football players to take home, when we got back to school the class showed everyone their posters.

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