EIGHT budding journalists, preparing for an Olympic assignment, will meet the British long jump record-holder tomorrow.

Pupils from Kings Manor and Hall Garth Schools will meet Middlesbrough-born Chris Tomlinson at the town's Clairville sports stadium.

The children, who are on a summer school to learn about the media and sport, will interview Chris before setting off on their Olympic adventure.

The children are flying to Greece next month to report on the games in Athens, thanks to the Creative Partnership Tees Valley and Middlesbrough Football Club's Playing for Success study programme.

During the summer school at the Riverside stadium, the pupils will learn from journalists and film-makers about the media and how to write and produce their own reports.

Carol Alevroyianni creative director of Creative Partnership Tees Valley said: "This project is all about teaching the young children valuable skills such as how to communicate and how to research and write something.

"It is at the very heart of what we are trying to achieve with the Creative Partnership programme.

"By capturing the imagination of children in this way we are helping to animate the national curriculum and provoking young people to continue learning and working creatively."

The young people involved are Ashley Turner, Scott Gell, Sophie Rowney, Selina Rashad, Magadass Ahmed, Helen Appleby, James Ooi and Grant Quick.