Becket’s trip to the Steelbacks Study Centre

On Wednesday 18th November, Thomas Becket’s Double Club group visited the Steelbacks Study Centre at Northamptonshire County Cricket Club.

Lynn led the group on a stadium tour in high winds, where students completed a literacy quiz about the stadium. Back in the study centre, they used this infomation to produce comic life adverts.

They had a go at ‘cricket co-ordinates’ using the centre’s windows for a cricket pitch with player positions indicating the co-ordinate points.

There were team games to end the morning: group juggling and gutterball in the indoor cricket arena.

Helena Weedon and Yvonne Turvit also helped in the session.

These visits reinforce how engaging the sporting context is for motivating learning that the students are also experiencing in their school based lessons. The study centre and cricket club can provide the ‘wow factor’ that helps them apply their ICT, literacy and numeracy skills in a different and effective way.