Holy Rosary Primary School,
Oriel Drive, Aintree, Liverpool, Merseyside, L10 6NJ.
The Merseyside Schools World Cup Festival 2010. The competition ran on a similar basis to the forthcoming World Cup Finals being held in South Africa 2010, with a league format of 4 teams per group playing each other in the early stages. 2 teams from each group
progressed through to second round. The winners of each game went forward until reaching the Semi Final. The Semi Finals and Final are being held at The Liverpool Echo Arena On Friday 16th April 2010 as part of the inaugural The European Former Players Association (EFPA) Champions Cup,the 4 final teams have now also ensured the excitement of forming the basis of the mascots for the main event of the evening.
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Organised by Jim Buckley (Alan Ball Soccer Ltd ), Lord Grantchester, Max Dunbar and Jayne Byatt (The Everton Collection Charitable Trust), The Rev Harry Ross & his son Philip (The Everton Former Players Foundation) and with the help of and support of Ronnie Goodlass “Health Through Sport” The festival was held on 31st March 2010, at PlayFootball Liverpool North, Drummond Rd, Crosby, http://playfootball.net/liverpool-north, running from 9.30am until 3.00pm. Schools from the whole of Merseyside including Liverpool, Knowsley, Wirral, Sefton and St Helens were represented. The Event was attended by former professional footballers including, Graham Stuart, Howard Gayle, Derek Mountfield, Ron Goodlass and Alan Kennedy, who all also helped and encouraged the teams, Derek Mountfieldbrought his medals that he won in his playing career. Simon Peter photography taking over 450 pictures (which can be viewed when loaded on www.alanballsoccer.com), ensuring the schools and pupils have always something to remember about this fabulous one off event. The referees were kindly supplied by PlayFootball.net and much thanks need to go to Paul Dobson and all his staff. www.simonpeterphotography.co.uk/
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The conditions were atrocious, the teams being mixed boys and girls. All pupils were from Year 6 and aged between 10 and 11 years old. This was a 5 a side competition with each team having a squad of 10 players to choose from, each squad had at least 2 girls at least 1 girl from each side had to be playing on the field at all times. Schools which included pupils, teachers and parents giving well over 325 heads attended and had a fabulous day. it was an action packed, competitive, exciting and fun filled , all the children had a fabulous time. They were jubilant in success and gracious in defeat. It was a pleasure seeing and meeting such a lovely bunch of children; they were impeccably behaved and were a credit to their parents and great representatives of their schools, the 4 schools going through to play at the echo arena are Holy Rosary Catholic Primary, Oriel Drive, Aintree, Liverpool, Merseyside, L10 6NJ, Emmaus CE & RC Primary, Fir Tree Drive South, Croxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, L12 0JE, Federated schools of St Sebastian's and St Cuthbert', Catholic Primary School, Holly Road. Liverpool. L7 0LH. plus St Teresa's Junior School, ,Utting Avenue East, Liverpool, Merseyside, L11 1DD. We have also a major surprise for all the other schools who think they have lost out in attending the echo arena evening, there are no losers in The Merseyside Schools World Cup Festival 2010. All schools will be notified of what their further part will be in the coming week. ” Jim Buckley.
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The Merseyside Schools World Cup Festival 2010, is not just about playing football, the event organisers are designing a flag which will measure 15mts x 10mts and will include the country that the schools represented in the tournament plus the school name, the flag will be displayed at The Echo Arena with all the children taking part. The flag will then be taken over to South Africa and form part of The England World Cup campaign."
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The pupils were also asked to design World Cup Brochure they had to research into the culture of their allocated country creating a leaflet. The leaflets were approximately 4-6 sides of A4 paper in length including colour imageslaminated and included some key information about their school’s country, such as:- National flag - National anthem - Cultural activities - Lifestyle/ & food - Sporting events and people – The booklets will also be part of the display stands for whole of echo arena events on 15th & 16th April. When the Echo arena events are over The World Cup 2010 Schools Festival carries on as part of The Everton Collection Schools Project which is being organised in partnership. As part of their school’s involvement in the Festival the Everton Collection is giving the opportunity for the schools to take part in one of the many activities organised by the learning programme. Learning about Liverpool’s Amazing Football Heritage. Liverpool is home to one of the greatest collections of football memorabilia in the world.All schools taking part in the EFPA event will be given the opportunity to take part in fun, interactive learning sessions.Schools groups will be invited to our travelling Everlution exhibitions: They will enjoy a guided tour of the Collection’s fascinating football history, take part in a creative cross-curricular taught session with the Collection’s Creative Learning Officer and explore the history and heritage of football in Liverpool, they will be able to dress up in replica 19th Century football kit, watch Dixie Dean play in the F.A. Cup and find out how football fans used to celebrate a goal!Please visit www.evertoncollection.org.uk/learning .
Below is copy of the flag that was made, you will see that Alan Ball Soccer Ltd was also one of the sponsors.
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