Newark Town Ladies visit Fernwood Day Nursery for a training session

Members of a women’s football team organised a training session for children.

With the aim of educating children about women’s football and exercise more generally, Fernwood Day Nursery held training session with Newark Town Ladies as part of their Out of School Club.

Nursery manager Kelly Dowling said: “We were delighted to welcome Chloe from the Newark Town Ladies team into our holiday club to carry out a skills and coaching session with the children.

“The children were excited to come dressed in sports wear or football kits and to be able to learn new skills or showcase existing abilities.

“This year we are sponsoring one of the players from the team and as we have lots of budding footballers attending the club we thought it would be a great opportunity for them to experience a training session.”

“We have both boys and girls at the club that play for local teams in the youth leagues and we always aim to plan activities at the club which reflect the interests of the children attending.

“It is important too for us to promote a healthy lifestyle and to get the children moving whilst having fun.

“We are hearing more about women’s football in the media recently since the Lioness’ success at the women’s Euros and it is great that we are able to work with local teams to promote women as positive role models in sport.”