PUPILS at a Teesside school have been inspired to learn more about the world of business thanks to a trip to the Riverside Stadium.
Youngsters in Year 8 at Unity City Academy took part in a Big Enterprise Day at Middlesbrough Football Club.
The event was hosted by MFC’s Enterprise Academy and aimed to help the students learn more about how the football club operates as a business.
They were also given a tour of the stadium and took part in a variety of football and business-related challenges, including planning how to build a stadium and looking at the enterprise characteristics of the perfect player.
It is one of a series of programmes students at UCA are doing with MFC Enterprise Academy.
Martin Thomson, director of enterprise at UCA, said: “We are trying to do as much as possible to develop the life skills of our young people before they finish school and go off to work.
“This includes building up confidence and self-esteem and working together as teams to learn organisation and communication skills.
“The students can learn about the business side of the club - how it runs through the week, not just on match day, and the corporate side as well.
“Not many of our students have been to the stadium so it is a real first for them.”
Connor Palmer, 13, from North Ormesby, said: “It was good to see what the changing rooms were like.
“Today is good because it is not all in the classroom - we can learn in a particular way which is fun.”
Pictured: Unity City Academy visit to Boro. Teacher Martin Thomson with students from left, Jodie Cole, Connor Palmer and Amy Beckett
