Blackburn Rovers players took part in a PE session and at a Tockholes primary school.
Under 18s players Lewis Bell, Paul Murphy-Worrall and Lucas Houghton visited pupils at Stephen's C E Primary School, to find out more about the work Blackburn Rovers Community Trust are doing with schools in the borough.
St Stephen’s is one of the trust’s partner schools and its primary education team pay weekly visits to help support the children in key stage two with their PE lessons.
The visit follows a number of visits in the summer, including when Rovers Women’s players Tyler Toland and Lucy Shepherd attended Blackburn Rovers Community Trust’s final football and sports camp of the summer at Our Lady Saint John Catholic College in Blackburn.
The Rovers players took part in a game of Benchball, that had been organised by one of the trust’s sports and education practitioners Nathan Hargreaves, who has been working with the students on their attacking and defending principles.
Following that playground fun, the three took part in a question and answer session in the hall where they revealed their pre-match habits, who is there best player they have faced and what their favourite dinosaur is.
Nathan said: “We’ve had three lads down from the academy who joined in on the session and the kids have absolutely loved it.
“They joined in on our attacking and defending session and we had a game of bench ball at the end.
“We then took them into the hall for a Q and A session where they asked the players a variet of questions question about football and their personal vibes.”
Rovers players often visit primary schools and sports schemes across the region.
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