GALLERY: City Duo Help Out With School Reading Programme

The first team stars pitched in to the national initiative, listening intently as the pupils read their favourite books out loud, before reading a story of their own - and Mark Little praised the potential impact of the sessions.

He said: “I don’t know if they’ve brought the elite reading squad out today, because they’re really good.

“To be honest, I wasn’t very good at reading; I spent my teenage years learning to read. I wasn’t very good at school but I would have loved to have someone come around and do what we have done for the kids today – I could have definitely done with that because I would have been more interested then.”