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The Double Club website pages can now be found at: http://ontheroad.northantsstudycentres.org/northants-study-centres/double-club/

This week in maths the lads made up the scores and league tables for the premiership teams by playing a dice game and working out their points. During ICT they created ‘My favourite moments in Double Club’ comic strips using photos taken throughout the term.

Miss Letts and Miss Ellis ran a year 8 assembly to present the group with their certificates and medals to celebrate all their hard work during the term.

To read more about today’s activities, visit the Hatton page: http://double.northantsstudycentres.org/schools/sir-christopher-hatton/

This afternoon we have been joined by Abbeyfield School. They visited the Cobblers Study Centre as part of their Double Club programme in school. The Double Club is used in schools as a vehicle for learning and engagement in the curriculum by usinmg sort to motivate the learning experience.

Today the Abbeyfield Students took part in a Stadium Tour, Stadium Orienteering and used the computers int he Study Centre to make a comic strip about their day which will be displayed in school. The group also observed the first team training on the main pitch prior to the Cobblers match against Burton tomorrow evening.

This week Miss Mason continued our work on shapes and their properties. She showed the group how to make origami isosceles and equilateral triangles and a kite. They used these (and some of the hexagons and pentagons from last week) to create tessellated patterns for display. There were some interesting and creative layered patterns.

To see how the students discussed the issue of ‘success and failure’ in their literacy lesson, visit: http://double.northantsstudycentres.org/schools/sir-christopher-hatton/ ‎

Week ten saw students learning how to fold origami regular shapes pentagons and hexagons to construct a football. Miss Mason led the session and asked the lads about their knowledge of shape and space. During ICT/literacy, the students wrote creative match reports based around headlines and high frequency words. To see their high quality work visit: http://double.northantsstudycentres.org/schools/sir-christopher-hatton/students-work/

To read more about the skills used today and the basketball session visit the school’s page: http://double.northantsstudycentres.org/schools/sir-christopher-hatton/ ‎

Carl, Jordan and Ellis from Abbeyfield write about their second visit to the Cobblers Study Centre.

“We started the day with the treasure hunt by doing some maths questions and then we had to find the letters and put them in the folder. When we did that we had to make words out of them and there was one big word which was Goalkeeper. There were lots of smaller words too. Carl got tired and sat the last bit out, Jordan found it fun and liked the running. Jordan also got to see the players. Ellis thought it was fun but yet at the same time it was exhausting!”

“We also made a short but comedy comic named “Jordan goes nuts”. This comic contains a wild nutter boy on the lose. We used Comic Life 2 on the macs to make the comic and took photos in the stadium. The camera man in the comic who got sent to hospital is Carl. (PS. no boys or camera men got harmed in the making of this comedy comic but the nut boy is still on the lose!) Enjoy!

Courtney, Kai and Megan also blog about their experience:

Hello people of Northampton. Today we made a comic strip with camera pictures with human characters. Kai shot the pics and Courtney and Megan were the characters in the comic. We shot our pics in the Cobblers stadium at Sixfields! I hope all you people like our comic strip! Thanks for reading!

To see the group’s comiclife posters, please visit the Cobblers Study Centre website: http://cobblers.northantsstudycentres.org/2011/03/14/abbeyfield-visit-the-study-centre/

On Tuesday 15th March, (week 9) the Double Club group from Hatton visited the Grendon Study Centre at Grendon Hall Outdoor Education Centre.

The took part in some practical adventure activities that tested their agility, strength, co-ordination and teamwork. They also learnt about the Olympic and Paralympic values which underpins the work of the Grendon Study Centre as its an Olympic/international themed centre.

To see more photos, videos and activities, visit the Hatton page: http://double.northantsstudycentres.org/schools/sir-christopher-hatton/

Bish bosh I run across the line
Bish bosh I want to know my time
I beat Ussain Bolt
I ran faster than a Colt

All the people are cheering
Tonight I’m gonna be beering
All the players respect me
Never want to come against me

People say I’m excellent
I aint gonna question it
People say I’m equal
And I don’t think they’re deceitful
Tick tock, tick tock
Ive gotta watch the clock
Liam

To see more Olympic poems visit the student’s work page: http://double.northantsstudycentres.org/schools/sir-christopher-hatton/students-work/

This week the lads worked on calculating a footballer’s possible earnings when comparing player contracts. They also used ICT to research facts about a city and team from the European Champion’s League and create a fact sheet.

Many of you will be aware that government funding for the Playing for Success programme at Northamptonshire Study Centres will end this term. We wish to emphasise that this does not signify the end of Study Centre provision within the county.

Within Northamptonshire we have been offering PfS programmes for seven years. These programmes have been focused on raising standards in literacy and numeracy in underachieving Key Stage 2 and 3 pupils, by engaging them through sport, in an extended course of voluntary out of school study support activities. Feedback from schools and parents has been very positive and has reflected local and national evaluations.

We have also offered, and will continue to offer on a traded basis, an additional range of high quality day time and holiday programmes that extend and enrich the school curriculum, to meet the needs of vulnerable and at risk groups as well as Gifted and Talented students. We have a proven track record of successfully engaging with a wide range of students including the most difficult to reach and hope to continue to work with these young people.

The work of the Study Centres has a significant contribution to make to the new Government’s plan for Children and Young People:
• How pupils are progressing in their attainment in English and Maths between Key Stages
• The use of “a wider range of providers to offer services to young people”
• Ensuring a strong start for disadvantaged children
• Narrowing the gap in educational attainment

We believe that Study Centre provision has a key role to play in the early intervention and prevention agenda particularly in relation to supporting transition and in supporting School Behaviour and Attendance partnerships in their work with both primary and secondary age pupils.

The unique selling point of the Study Centres is their link to and use of sport as a vehicle for engaging and inspiring children and young people. With the Olympics on the horizon, we have developed a range of themed programmes that can be delivered at the Centres, at the Grendon satellite centre or in schools, either by teachers or as student led activities. We are proud to say that we have achieved the Inspire Mark for a number of these Olympic themed programmes. We are also involved in the national Supporter to Reporter programme, and will be delivering a Cultural Olympiad digital photography project, CLIX.

For more information contact your local study centre, or ring Val Sudlow on 01604 237150

This week our group had a go at writing match reports after watching some Arsenal highlights. They also did some geography, finding out where the teams in the European Champion’s League are from on a map.

To see what else happened this week, visit the school’s Double Club page.