ABERYSTWYTH TOWN FC DELIGHTED TO HOST SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD

Aberystwyth Town FC Club Event, March 11th 2015

Aberystwyth Town FC were delighted to host Show Racism The Red Card Cymru's educational club event last week. The following report is reproduced from SRTRC's website.

Young people from Ysgol Plascrug and Ysgol Gymunedol Tal-y-bont attended the stadium to take part in the event for the day. Our education worker Noam Devey 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”

Aberystwyth Town FC Women’s player Chelsea Maiklem and U-19s Assistant coach Aneurin Venables attended the event to take part in the press conference joined by Campaign Worker Jason Webber. 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. 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 match tickets 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 thank both the schools 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 Visit the SRTRC site 
here.

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