Authentic, award-winning schools programme which enhances literacy skills through sports reporting lessons. For more information visit literacykicks.com
Joined January 2021
- Tweets 694
- Following 115
- Followers 268
- Likes 446
327 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
31 Dec 2025
🌟 2025 highlights 🌟
This year Literacy Kicks has worked with leading sporting organisations and athletes, developed new and existing partnerships and taken the number of schools that have run our sports journalism workshops to over 120
Here are some of our 2025 highlights 🧵
1
3
3
1,228
Jun 12
It’s been brilliant to be back at three of our regular schools for new sports journalism programmes this half-term, at Euxton Primrose Hill, St Hugh’s Oldham and Rivington Primary St Helens. This week has seen pupils writing about amazing Paralympian Nathan Maguire ✍️ 📰
45
May 22
It was an absolute pleasure to be back in classrooms with @ikramofficial today to conclude our sports journalism programme with Olive Tree Primary in Bolton. The pupils loved hearing stories of his trailblazing rugby league career before writing their own newspaper articles ✍️📰
May 22
Year 5 continued their journalism project today with @LiteracyWorks, learning more about the inspiring Ikram Butt and his rugby journey. The children loved using their notes to write their own reports! #Journalism #Literacy @Mr_H_Neville @skovariwala @OliveTreeHT @ikramofficial
2
4
1,490
Literacy Kicks retweeted
May 15
Year 5 have done a fantastic job with Literacy Kicks this week, stepping into the role of sports journalists to write about Nathan Maguire. Brilliant writing, great questions and some excellent reporting skills on show! @literacykicks @OliveTreeHT @Mr_H_Neville @skovariwala
2
2
640
It was great for our primary school project with the Deighton Carnival to feature on the front page and prominently on page three of the Huddersfield Examiner last week ✍️ 📰
1
53
Apr 30
Media coverage of our project with the Deighton Carnival in today’s Huddersfield Examiner ✍️ 📰
examinerlive.co.uk/news/west…
1
545
Apr 22
Over the last two weeks we’ve been working on our first non-sporting project with the Deighton Carnival - and it’s been an absolute privilege.
Four primary schools have learned about the 25-year history of this amazing event through the eyes of organiser Howard Belafonte (1/2)
1
1
1
1,131
Apr 22
Students then wrote their own newspaper articles on the subject. Howard’s passion, knowledge and enthusiasm for the carnival shone throughout, helping to capture the imagination of Year 5 and 6 pupils, many of who had been involved in the event.
Made possible by @HeritageFundNOR
70
Apr 14
It was brilliant to return for a fifth year to Christ the King High School in Southport this week, working with their entire Year 7 in classroom match reporting sessions ✍️ 📰
81
Literacy Kicks retweeted
Mar 27
Over 1,000 primary school pupils have learnt the fascinating history of the BARA & the impact of one of its founders Dr Ikram Butt over the last two months 🙌
As part of the ‘Beyond the Try Line’ project, schools programme Literacy Kicks developed a bespoke writing workshop ✍️
2
5
10
2,987
Literacy Kicks retweeted
Whitworth Whistle 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ Easter 🗞️ 📰 🗞️
Congratulations to our students on another great edition of the paper. Thank you to @garethwalker @literacykicks for the support. 👏👏👏
online.fliphtml5.com/sqlxy/E…
1
2
328
Literacy Kicks retweeted
Mar 25
"It makes you think you can do it, no matter whether you're a boy or a girl, or your ethnicity." @ikramofficial the first South Asian to play rugby (in either code) for England visited Parkinson Lane school in Halifax this week to inspire the children with @literacykicks @therfl
1
9
28
4,771
Literacy Kicks retweeted
Mar 19
Another fabulous session from @literacykicks! The same exceptional quality input that we’re accustomed to but to a wider audience and achieving the same level of motivation and quality from our writers across the trust. Thanks for working closely with us across @endeavourlt
1
1
71
Mar 18
"Not only did the Literacy Kicks sessions raise aspirations, they also supported pupils’ understanding of how literacy connects to real-world opportunities."
Coverage of our Beyond the Try Line project with the British Asian Rugby Association ✍️ 🏉
thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/n…
2
2
632
Mar 17
Today we have run the latest of our online workshops with @endeavourlt, with eight classes becoming sports journalists to report on the Lionesses’ historic Euro 2025 win. Literacy Kicks online sessions will be available in the summer term, with further details to follow ✍️ ⚽️
1
2
2
630
Mar 14
Our project with the history-making @ikramofficial has now reached over 700 primary school pupils in West Yorkshire, telling the story of his and others’ trailblazing careers as part of the British Asian Rugby Association’s Beyond the Try Line heritage programme ✍️ 📰 🏉
3
3
917
Our project to donate sports-based reading books to schools that we work regularly with has continued, with St Andrew’s in Rochdale and Woodlea Primary in Leyland the latest to add them to their libraries 📚
In association with the brilliant Ebb and Flow bookshop in Chorley
1
1
137
Feb 26
Literacy Kicks began a powerful new project this week as we were joined by the trailblazing @ikramofficial to deliver ‘Beyond the Try Line’ - the story of the British Asian Rugby Association.
In coming weeks 900 primary school children will take part, funded by @HeritageFundNOR
1
2
2
628
Feb 26
It was a real privilege to hear @ikramofficial talking to pupils at Headfield Junior School in Dewsbury about his career, before helping them to write their own newspaper articles that also included the inspiration story of another history maker in Manjinder Nagra
1
2
119
Feb 13
This half-term 16 classes from Cottingley Village, St Andrew’s Littleborough, Hopwood Community Primary, Woodlea and Northbrook in Leyland and St Luke’s Heywood have completed six-week sports journalism writing programmes with outstanding results ✍️ 📰
1
1
709
Literacy Kicks retweeted
Easter Edition of the paper coming along nicely. We have a new editor James P in year9️⃣ with lots of new ideas.
@literacykicks @garethwalker
2
4
808