Kesgrave High School Year 7 pupils sign a canvas after Ipswich Towns Carlos Edwards did at a celebration for the top ten percent pupils in their year
Kesgrave: Outstanding students meet ITFC heroes as reward for hard work
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
6:51 PM
A GROUP of excited students at Kesgrave High School celebrated their hard work with VIP guest, ITFC star Carlos Edwards.
Ipswich Town player Carlos Edward takes a photo with a Year 7 Kesgrave High School pupil during a celebration at the schoolThe Super Blue was invited to the school in Main Road, Kesgrave yesterday to take part in a celebration tea party for Year 7 pupils.
The Town captain, who has supported a number of initiatives at the school in the last year, went along to congratulate the youngsters on their “outstanding attitude and effort towards their work”.
Organised by head of year seven Faye Hubbard, more than 30 students took part and got the chance to meet the star.
To mark the occasion and to represent the relationship between ITFC and Kesgrave High School, Carlos and the students signed a large canvas which displayed both the Ipswich Town and Kesgrave High School crests.
The afternoon rounded off with every student getting the Town player’s autograph as well as having a few photographs with their hero.
Carlos said: “This group have worked hard and obviously had a great attitude towards learning. All they need to do is keep doing what they are doing, learn as much as they can and I am sure they will go far. Keep up the good work!”
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5 comments
To the people below who disagree with the use of the word hero, there are three things to say: 1. Could it be that heroism is in the eye of the beholder? 2. What is it easier to do: Make negative comments about people you don't respect or spend your time looking for something positive to do instead? 3. Half of the children who were selected for this reward because of their outstanding attitude to learning, left the primary school I work at last summer to start at Kesgrave. I am delighted to see so many of our former pupils being recognised in this way. The nature of the reward is important to them, not us. Please think carefully about the people which this article is really about before you rubbish something which was special to them. Surely we as adults need to build up rather than suck the life and joy out. Well done Y7s. The Gorse is strong with you! ;)
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Mr. S.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Really great to see footballers celebrating academic success and helping to promote education as their future. The below comments seem to take away from the occassion somewhat, which is a shame as I'm sure it was a very memorable day for those kids. Heroes can simply be how one person views them, for example in my opinion my dad is a hero but he hasn't faced death, danger and adversity (that I know of anyway!)
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IpswichResident
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Too often on this website - and in the local papers for all I know - the present motley crew of under-acheiving Ipswich Town players and borrowed has-beens from other clubs are referred to as "heroes" or the "Super Blues" when they are neither.
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Ken Kernow
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Heroes? Overpaid ballerinas, yes. Heroes, certainly not.
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beerlover
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Surely a "hero" is someone who undertakes heroic actions in the face of death, danger and unimaginable adversity to oneself? Kicking an air filled, plastic balloon, around a neatly mown grassy pitch a couple of times a week, does not equate to "heroism" by any stretch of the imagination.
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Steve Blake
Tuesday, February 12, 2013