Tuesday 15 December 2020
Scotland head coach Steve Clarke and penalty-save hero David Marshall have given their backing to a new initiative which will enable thousands of children across the country to add Scotland’s UEFA EURO 2020 adventure to their studies.
Learning Through Football, a classroom-based teaching resource, was today launched at Miller Primary School in Castlemilk and is designed to use the power of football to improve literacy and numeracy.
The programme has been developed in line with the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) and includes more than 40 activities centred around the UEFA European Championship for teachers to download and deliver after the Christmas holidays.
SCOTLAND manager Steve Clarke and goalkeeper David Marshall are backing a new teaching tool that will bring the UEFA European Championship into classrooms. The Learning Through Football initiative is designed to use the power of the sport to improve literacy and numeracy among primary and secondary school pupils. It has been developed in line with the Curriculum for Excellence and includes more than 40 activities centred on the delayed Euro 2020 for teachers to download and deliver after the Christmas holidays. They offer insight into the world of the Scotland men’s team and football more broadly, with activities including a look into the statistics behind the successes of captain Andy Robertson and goalkeeper Marshall, learning about presenting on TV and trying out football commentary.
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