Children from a local junior school have been learning all about sports reporting thanks to the Bristol Rovers Study Centre.

Rovers' education department joined forces with the club's community team to teach kids from Filton Avenue Junior School all about writing match reports.

As part of the BBC News School Report the 12 youngsters will be reporting on the Football League Community Cup for local schools.

The children reported on all the afternoon's matches, as well as interviewing players, coaches and supporters.

The Study Centre has been working with Filton Avenue Junior School since September and has had groups from the school along every term to take part in Playing for Success projects.

The most recent group have taken a journalism based course to prepare them for the BBC News School Report which aims to interest young people in the world around them.

It is also an opportunity for students to inform a real audience, via BBC programmes and web pages, about the stories which are important to them.

As well as reporting on the cup matches, the children have also come into the stadium this week and interview a range of people around the club including Paul Trollope, club mascot Captain Black Arab and the Memorial Stadium grounds man.

These stories will then go live on the BBC website on Thursday afternoon.

Playing for Success manager Becky Hunter said: "We have been working with these children since the start of the school year and have built up a great relationship with them.

"As part of the School Report they have done 18 hours with us learning the news skills set out by the BBC. We wanted to find football stories for them to report on, so this tournament has been perfect opportunity for them to put their newspaper reporting skills to the test.

"There has been a lot of work leading up to this point and there will be a lot more work after today."

The students from Filton Avenue are back at the Memorial Stadium today take part in the live School Report session. Another session was run at the club on Wednesday for students from Monks Park and the Bristol Metropolitan College.

Becky said: "Our Filton Avenue students are quite unique as the School report is aimed at slightly older children. But we have done so much work with them, and they are a really talented bunch."

The education and community departments will be linking up again to promote a Peer Tuition scheme with Filton Avenue. The children who have taken part in school report will take their skills back with them to school, where they can pass them on to other children. The youngsters will also be helping Peter Aitken and the community department with their coaching sessions.

The Football League Community Cup featured ten teams from local primary schools. The winner of the competition will go on to play the regional finals in Swindon, with the eventual final taking place at Wembley Stadium.

Playing for Success is an initiative set up by The Department for Education and skills, aims to focus on raising literacy, numeracy and ICT standards by holding out of school hours study support centres at football clubs and other sports' grounds.