Glasgow Class Adopts Eagles Into Curriculum as Teacher Heads to London Game
PhiladelphiaEagles.com reported Oct. 8, 2026, that a Glasgow primary school class has turned its enthusiasm for the Philadelphia Eagles into a cross-curricular learning project and that their teacher will see the team play in London this weekend. Katharine Tornow, a teacher at St. Brendan’s Primary School in Glasgow, used her family connection to Philadelphia to build classroom activities around the team. Tornow secured tickets to the Eagles’ London game against the Jacksonville Jaguars after months of planning, and the timing coincides with the school’s midterm break. She had not been able to attend an Eagles game in person previously because of her teaching schedule.
The classroom displays wall-to-wall handmade Eagles pennants, a student-crafted banner that spells E-A-G-L-E-S and a board behind the teacher’s desk where 11- to 12-year-old students track the team’s record. Students watch Eagles highlights every Monday, and Tornow keeps a mini-Eagles helmet and other merchandise sent from Philadelphia on display to fuel interest. The class also uses an Eagles-themed voice-level meter to manage classroom noise and reinforce the team’s presence in daily routines. Those visible cues support the teacher’s effort to make the team a consistent learning tool across subjects.
Tornow, who has a Scottish father and an American mother from Philadelphia, said she inherited her Eagles fandom from her mother’s side of the family. She noted similarities between American football and rugby as part of why the team resonated with her and her students. “We decided that we would use the Eagles basically as an interdisciplinary conversation topic for covering math and design and technology and PE and even food technology as well,” Tornow said to PhiladelphiaEagles.com. She said tapping that interest helps engage students across multiple areas of the curriculum.
The Eagles theme powers a range of classroom projects, including planning a budget for a hypothetical trip to Philadelphia and building a scale model of Lincoln Financial Field from recyclable materials. Students will design and sell beaded Eagles bracelets in a small enterprise project to raise funds for an end-of-year trip, and food-technology lessons will explore foods associated with Philadelphia as part of a class Eagles party. Tornow also used the Eagles Autism Foundation as a teaching tool to discuss charity and supporting children with autism. Teachers and students are linking measurable learning objectives to these hands-on activities to reinforce math, design and enterprise skills.
Until the London game announcement, Tornow had never been able to attend an Eagles game in person because of her schedule, the article said. She said the whole class cheered when confirmation arrived that she had obtained tickets and that there had been a substantial school investment in her effort to secure them. PhiladelphiaEagles.com noted that the team is playing in the United Kingdom for the first time in eight years.
Many students in Tornow’s class also follow local soccer, including Celtic, and the teacher pointed to cultural overlaps between passionate Scottish fans and Eagles supporters. She noted that one Celtic player, center back Auston Trusty, is from Media, Pennsylvania, and said those connections make the students’ enthusiasm feel authentic. Tornow said to PhiladelphiaEagles.com that tapping student interest in the team helps learning, and she added that the class will perform the fight song with a heavy Glaswegian accent.
NFL Sports Blog Take
This feature shows how an NFL franchise’s international presence can extend into classrooms and communities, creating concrete learning opportunities beyond fandom. By linking the Eagles to budgeting, design projects, enterprise skills and charity education, the teacher transformed team enthusiasm into measurable classroom outcomes. The London game created an occasion for a local school to connect transatlantic culture and provide real-world context for curricular goals. It also underlines how international regular-season games can deepen global fan engagement and community outreach.