On Monday the 9th of June the Year 5/6 class at Upton Meadows Primary School were rewarded for reaching and surpassing their reading target as part of the Playing with Words Reading scheme. This is the first year that the school has been involved in the scheme and every member of the class received NTFC prizes for their contribution to the class effort. The reading scheme is run in partnership with the Football Foundation and the National Literacy Trust and challenges each class to read 100 books in a term. The school receives 60 new reading books, posters to fill in, stickers for every book read and a journal for each child to record their progress. The children are also encouraged to complete book reports and online evaluations of the programme. Ms York’s Yr5/6 class have now challenged the current Yr4 class to try to beat their reading score, when they take part in the reading scheme in September. 

On the 3rd of May the Cobblers Study Centre welcomed a group of children and staff from the WBA Study Centre to Sixfields. The group are taking part in a Gifted and Talented project, run by the study support centre at WBA, that will take them to a number of study centres in football clubs around the country. The group  participated in a range of activities during the course of the day including the Stadium Orienteering Challenge, team games and a sequencing activity based on the life of Walter Tull. The day was rounded - off with tickets to the Cobblers final match of the season against Tranmere. The day was a great success and children from the Cobblers Study Centre can look forward to a return visit to the Hawthorns next season.