A Year 2 Primary class at St Mary’s Catholic Primary School in Ryde have written to the England player, Bukayo Saka, to express their feelings towards him following England’s penalty defeat in the Euro final on Sunday.
Saka was the final penalty taker, whose miss resulted in England being eliminated from the competition. His failure apparently led to him being subjected to a torrent of racial abuse by so-called England ‘fans’.
The story is told by the Year 2 teacher at St Mary’s, Gosia Whitmore. She said:
“On Monday, 12th July, the children were allowed to come to school later than usual (by 10am). To practise their writing, we decided to ask the children to write about football as most had watched the Euro final the previous night. One group was asked to write to Bukayo Saka to tell him what they thought about the match. They were not directed in what they were supposed to write: they were free to express their disappointment or to send their best wishes.
“Because their replies were so kind, we asked the whole class to write the letters to Bukayo. All the children, whatever their skills and abilities (they are only 6 or 7 years old), reacted in such a positive manner, that we then decided to send the letters ‘for real’.”
The letters, with accompanying pictures drawn by the children, have now been sent to Bukayo Saka’s club, Arsenal. The children and staff have expressed their best wishes to Bukayo Saka for his future career with Arsenal and England.
A selection of the letters and pictures of the children have been reproduced below:
Amazing! The so called ‘fans’ should look at these wise words from such young children and educate themselves.
These letters are amazing and you all should be so proud of yourselves well done!!
and why didn’t the teachers encourage them to write letters to the players who actually scored a goal – you know, to congratulate them. Typical teachers, ask the children to ignore the successful penalty takers and focus on the ones that missed.
perhaps the teachers should provide a lesson in…
if the players don’t score the team loses…if the team loses, the players that don’t score get dropped next time and end up finding other careers as no team will keep a player on, who cannot hit the net.
that is the reality – all this molly coddling is all virtue signalling – unless he scores goals, he will be out of football.
Are you ok isle of wighter, you’ve managed to make time to post 2 negative comments about a positve story, do you need the kids to write you a letter?
No, i am just fed up of seeing all this virtue signalling instead of actually teaching the kids about success, succeeding and what the reality of failure means in high profile sports such as football.
It has nothing to do with winning or losing they are quite aware of how a football match is won.
Its the fact these kids have been grown up enough to see through the racial abuse these three fantastic players have been receiving and show that they are grown up enough at 6 and 7 years old to know that racial abuse is wrong!
if the kids are already aware of all that you say IOWter then that just proves the point that the teachers have been wasting valuable learning time getting the kids to write letters to an overpaid player instead of actually educating them.
they are paid to teach the kids, not impose their own virtue signalling onto them.
The job of teachers is to teach children how to become well rounded, funtioning members of society.
The recent Euros final has been a large event within our culture, and these children will have been exposed to all the elements that occured as a result.
All I see is teachers using it as a useful tool to teach the kids some lessons about how to navigate such situations.
I think it says more about you that you manage to find anything else in this!