Alex is the author of the popular Football School series and he demonstrated the processes of writing using football as a stimulus, involving Geography, Maths and Drama to show different ways of looking at writing materials.

Students engaged in creative writing workshops and Alex shared extracts from his books, which our students thoroughly enjoyed. The day ended with a Q&A session where students had the opportunity to ask questions. Students discovered fascinating information about Alex, including when he met with Pele and wrote the World-famous footballer’s biography; a book which has sold over 200,000 copies.  

“I think Alex is amazing, he has a great personality and I love his books, they are super cool. The talk he gave was very inspirational.” Declan.P 

“The workshop was very enjoyable and entertaining. I especially enjoyed the story about Mo Salah, which was actually a request of mine for Alex to read to the class, this made me very happy.” Maisie.G

Alex kindly donated 8 of his Football Series books to our Year 7 library which are now available for students to borrow.