The Courier

Miss Thompson and Evelyn and Iris met the poet, author and Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen. Mr Rosen was taking part in the Festival on the Close at Rugby School, he narrated Peter and the Wolf whilst the Symphony Orchestra played and local drama club children performed with puppets and movement - a thoroughly lovely evening and thankfully the rain held off! Evelyn is a fan of Michael after reading his autobiography and several of his poems at school.

Feranmi’s football team, the Hillmorton Lions, were the runners-up at the SoccerRockz Invitational Tier 1 Tournament in Coventry on Saturday (25 June) in their U7 category.

Feranmi himself also happened to win the 'Man of the Match' award, hence the golden football boot trophy, for his performance overall.  Well done Feranmi!

Contining the football theme, Lewis (3Y) and Tomisin (2W) won the second place final at the Woodford Utd football tournament. Their team Bilton Ajax Falcons U8s won three and lost one game. They won the final on penalties after coming back from 1-0 down with Lewis saving the last penalty to set up the win. Tomisin showed great determination and fearlessness as usual playing up a year against older children, as he has done all season. 

Kian in Year 2 has had a very exciting football journey this year! First he got scouted by Birmingham City FC and since has also been invited to join Aston Villa Academy, Wolves and Leicester City FC. During this time he has played and scored against big club academies including Manchester United and Arsenal.

He was very excited to be welcomed to Aston Villa by Steven Gerrard himself who gave him valuable advice:

1) Listen to your coaches 2) Work as hard as you can 3) Enjoy yourself!

We look forward to hearing how Kian’s football journey progresses!