Page 32 - Real Rochdale Issue 09 Winter 2020

RAFC players read dinosaur story for schools
Footballers record story of
swashbuckling pirate dinosaurs
for schoolchildren
Three Rochdale AFC players sat down last
month to record a story time session for
Rochdale primary schools, and met Dippy the
Dinosaur, whose visit to the Rochdale
council offices in Rochdale town centre has
been extended until 12 December.
Usually, Rochdale AFC players would visit local
schools, but due to the coronavirus pandemic,
they have been unable to do this, or be out and
about in the community.
This hasn’t stopped the club coming up with
new ways for the players to engage with the
area’s younger residents and encourage
children to be enthusiastic about reading.
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Ollie Rathbone, captain Eoghan O’Connell and
Jimmy Keohane visited Dippy the Dinosaur at
Number One Riverside and recorded a book
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