The Aquinas Foundation are always looking to support the schools that we work with and Reigate Primary School in Derby is one of them. They have recently had a new Library renovation and we did our very best to make their re launch a special occasion.

The BBC News were present on the day and we arranged for Simon Dawkins(Derby County) to pay a special visit to the school.

Simon Dawkins is a professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for English club Derby County and the Jamaica national team, he kindly gave up his busy schedule to come along with Aquinas to give a reading of the Gruffalo story book to the small year groups at Reigate… The children absolutely loved every minute of it.

He then took time to open the new library which was covered on the BBC news. Later that afternoon Simon partook in a question and answer session which was part of an assembly for the year 5 and 6’s, the pupils had really thought hard about the questions that they were going to ask him and all looked as though they thoroughly enjoyed having a special guest in their school.

After all of this Dawkins waited around at the school for all of the children to get their autograph books signed by himself.

Reigate School are promoting reading to all of its students and with the help of Simon Dawkins the day was a huge success and I’m sure the schools library will be bustling with children most days now.

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