Entries from June 2009 ↓
June 26th, 2009 — Thomas Becket
Advanced skills teacher Sarah Mason, from Sir Christopher Hatton School in Wellingborough, visited the Double Club at Thomas Becket to share her skills in teaching and learning practical maths. The session was based on shape, area, space, angles and shape properties. Students learnt how to fold origami shapes like a kite, various triangles, hexagons, polygons, pentagons and parallelograms. This was more difficult than it looked!
They used these shapes to make tessellated patterns, construct a foodball and other 3D shapes. Everyone enjoyed the activity and the hands-on approach. The students’ knowledge about shape, space and angles was excellent and they discussed with Sarah various shapes and their properties. They were all up for the challenge of making a football and experimented with all sorts of weird and wonderful patterns and formats when building their models.
As a starter, Sarah got the year 8 students thinking about maths in real life contexts with a quiz about the Olympics, covering facts and figures from previous games. Dean Dixon, from MK Dons was visiting as he will be teaching this project in Milton Keynes.
June 22nd, 2009 — Arsenal FC, Cobblers Study Centre, NTFC, Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket Double Club visited the Cobblers study centre and NTFC to do some stadium orienteering. They solved numeracy and literacy clues to find the right seats, stands, stadium facilities where they collected letters to make anagrams of ‘goalkeeper’.
They also took digital photos of the various areas in the ground so they could compare them to Arsenal’s ground which they visited a few weekis ago. Centre manager Jean Limpitlaw gave the students some information about the stadium as they looked around. They found different and interesting ways to photograph the stands, pitch, goalmouth, changing rooms, walkways, physio room and stadium complex as a whole. Back in the study centre they used a publisher document to import their photos to match the corresponding Arsenal ones on the template. Back at school they will complete the work by writing and comparing the two lots of facilities.
June 11th, 2009 — Arsenal FC, Thomas Becket
On 14th May 2009, 37 students from Thomas Becket, who have attended Double Club over the last three terms, visited Arsenal football club at the Emirates Stadium.
They took part in a stadium tour where they visited the changing rooms, executive boxes, (where X Factor auditions were taking place!) manager’s area, VIP area, pitchside and the media room. They saw the legends tour with Charlie George leading in front of them and sat on Arsene Wenger’s seat.
The group also visited the club shop and Arsenal interactive museum. They had a fantastic day and were in awe of the stadium. It was great to see a premiership stadium and look around the huge complex. Thanks to Samir Singh for organising this day.
June 4th, 2009 — Thomas Becket
Today Anna met the 3rd cohort of year 8 pupils to be taking part in Double Club at Thomas Becket.
The group did Cobblers player card maths, some ice-breakers/’brain breaks’ and looked at cricket and the 5 senses. They watched some Ashes footage and did some creative writing putting themselves in the position of the batter, bowler, bat, ball, fielder or wicket.
Reading some sports poetry ended up turning into a bit of a sing-a-long as the students started to ‘perform’ the chorus in one of the poems. The group compiled their own version, writing two lines each, fitting them together and adding a chorus. This is a great collaborative effort, see below.
Double Club Poem
4th June 09
Show off striker
With lots of skill
His team thinks that he is brill!
Man of the match man of the match
What a catch!
Football’s amazing
Like double glass glazing
It’s absolutely brilliant
The skills are blazing!
Man of the match man of the match
What a catch!
He has a nose for the net
He always wins the bookies bet
He scored on the pitch
And his celebration was to itch!
Man of the match man of the match
What a catch!
Football star
He’s got a car
He also lives in a jar!
Man of the match man of the match
What a catch!
He is the player in the game
But no-one ever knows his name
He enjoys playing, he has scored 10
He also has a cousin called Ben!
Man of the match man of the match
What a catch!
He shoots he scores, the crowd shout more, more, more!
He shoots he misses the crowd are full of disses
Man of the match man of the match
What a catch!
Football, football, I love you,
What could I be without you?
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