The Dream Goal: Kick Off

The Dream Goal Kick Off took place on March 25th 2006 at Curzon Ashton Football Club, on Richmond Street in Ashton-under-Lyne. Over 150 children and adults came along to take part in football activities like beat the goalie and speed shot. They also joined in with design your own strip arts sessions, listened to performance poet Performance poet Terry Caffrey , found out about all the football books Tameside Libraries have and got to hear about other Dream Goal activities that are coming up. Watch this space for photos from the Dream Goal Kick Off - they will be coming soon.

What did you think about the Dream Goal Kick Off?

These are some of the comments adults and children made about the Dream Goal Kick Off event.

Children & Teenagers

• Today was really great. There was a lot of different things to do which kept us all busy. Thanks. Ste.
• Today I think it was a fantastic day because it was really fun. I really enjoyed it. I hope you organise this loads of times.
• Today was really fun and interesting because of the info and the footy games, thanks for allowing us to come along - Damian.
• I liked today because there are lots of activities to do.
• Today was very good because I’ve done very good activities and I have enjoyed myself - Ian aged 11.
• "Today was a very special day".
• I enjoyed doing the book, some of it was hard, but I still enjoyed it - Lauren.
• I liked the penalty shoot out best and the poem jabba dada do. Good fun - Adrian.
• I liked the games and the arty stuff.
• I liked the penalty shoot out and the art and the poet and the free stuff !!!! - Alan
• I liked today because I played football and did activities.
• I thought it was good - Danish
• I liked the football outside, art, the poet and the free stuff - Zain
• I liked Dream Goal, I liked everything what we done, I liked the penalty shoot out and the speed shot and all the poems. - Lewis aged 8
• "I liked the football. Fun" - Dale aged 6
• The dream team sheet was very good.
• Today was great but there should be even more football so we can have more fun - James
• I liked the speed goal best and the match. I've been to two places like this and this is the best.
• Thanks for the fun day - written large across 4 sheets of paper!

Adults

• Both my daughter and son have had a great day. My son is usually quite shy but everyone was really great with him, and my daughter loved all the activities.
• Today was very entertaining, my two boys enjoyed it very much. We will visit the library soon. Thankyou.
• Enjoyed poems - jabba wabba dabba doo!
• Good to see kids encouraged to play football.
• Anyone who misses out on the "Dream Goal" action will be as sick as a parrot. Lots of fun for kids and adults alike - lots to find out about and I really liked the poet.
• There were lots of different things to do. The guy doing the poetry was fantastic and our children really enjoyed everything.
• This was a great afternoon and was a lot of fun for the children. It is the first time my daughter has run around and joined in.
• There are lots of games and things for my lads. They both enjoyed the day.