SPORT has been both the inspiration and the pride of one Hyndburn school this term.

Children in Year six at St Charles RC Primary School, Rishton, are not only using our NIE Sport Extra material to improve their literacy and numeracy skills, but have combined this with Blackburn Rovers' Learning Through Football project, and for the first time in 20 years, their school football team are the winners of the Great Harwood and District TSB Knockout Cup.

"The NIE material has really helped to improve our pupils' standard of writing," said class teacher Mrs Sharples. "We have used the newspapers and Sport Extra supplement in our Literacy Hour and the children were very interested to see reports of schools and teams they have played against and of places that were familiar to them. We just couldn't stop them reading."

The NIE Sport Extra material is available to any school in East Lancashire at only £10 for the minimum set of 25 delivered on any Wednesday and will be continued during July and August for summer schools.

For details please contact Rita Shaw, NIE Co-ordinator, telephone 01254 678678, or fax 01254 680429.

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