A PROJECT to reward children for their school attendance continues today when three youngsters will meet Middlesbrough Football Club players.
The Schools Tackling Absence and Rewarding Success (Stars) programme, which is managed by Stockton Education Social Work Service, will be rewarding three children who attended school under exceptional circumstances by taking them to meet the players at the club's Riverside stadium.
Jacob Harland, from St Gregory's Primary School, Thomas Smith from Oxbridge Primary School, and Lewis Sirrell from Mandale Mill Primary, all Stockton, will have their photographs taken with all the players and the management of the club, and each child will receive a replica home kit for the forthcoming season.
Polly Hampton, manager of Stockton Education Social Work Service, said: "The 100 per cent club is about rewarding children who make a special effort to attend school every day.
"These three children are a perfect example to having tried extremely hard to attend school when perhaps it hasn't been easy for them to.
"Middlesbrough Football Club has been invaluable to the success of the 100 club, and by offering rewards money cannot buy we are seeing more and more children achieve success within it."
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