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May 6th, 2009 — Abbeyfield School, Arsenal FC, DCSF, Mereway Community College, Thomas Becket, Weston Favell School
Northampton has had a Double Club since 2006, now we have a report carried out by NFER (National Foundation for Educational Research) which our schools contributed data to. It’s great to see how successful this project has become locally and across the country (there are now 30+ clubs participating) and be recognised as a project of its own standing alongside PfS. Click below to download
nfer-dc-national-report
It’s also on the DCSF website: http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/research/programmeofresearch/index.cfm?type=5
Report highlights:
1. “It is having a positive impact on pupils’ motivation and self esteem, with young people reporting that they work hard in DC sessions and that they feel more confident and able to contribute in their other lessons.
2. “The report presents some data on attainment, which indicates that young people attending DC make good progress in basic skills. Pupils and teachers perceive the programme very positively, seeing it as an opportunity for lower-attaining young people to get additional support with their learning.”
(from section “Impact of DC on attainment”):
3. “In each of the five schools, DC teachers said young people’s performance levels in English had improved after participating in the programme……………Findings from the self evaluation data suggest that the majority of young pupils in the three schools made progress during their invovlement with DC (see Table 1). Most pupils had improved by at least one level in English and some had gone up two levels.”
March 24th, 2009 — Abbeyfield School, Cobblers Study Centre, NTFC
On Monday 23rd march, year 7 and 8 students from Abbeyfield’s Double Club visited NTFC and undertook some very wet stadium orienteering! They had to solve maths clues to find the right seats and stands and retrieve letters. The wind and rain were certainly heavy but the group didn’t seem to mind, it made them even more energetic! This activity was led by Cobblers Study Centre staff Jaimie Hodgkinson and Margaret Hillyer.
Back in the study centre the students worked in small groups to make anagrams from the letters they had found. The highest number of ‘proper’ words was 27, a good effort.
Next Jean Limpitlaw (Cobblers Study Centre Manager) led an observation skills activity. The group watched some skysports footage and looked out for colours, numbers and patterns. They answered questions afterwards before watching the clip again to see how accurate their observations were. Pretty good all round.
The pupils had been to watch the NTFC match on Saturday21st March vs Stockport County, a victorious 4-0 result with plenty of action. The match report can be found on: http://www.ntfc.co.uk/page/MatchReport/0,,10425,00.html
For more information on the centre, visit www.cobblersstudycentre.org and for the club: http://www.ntfc.co.uk/page/Home/
March 3rd, 2009 — Abbeyfield School, Steelbacks Study Centre
On Monday 3rd March, year 7, 8 students from Abbeyfield School visited the Steelbacks Study Centre at Northants Cricket Club as part of their Double Club experience. They interviewed new signing Ryan Cummins, asking him all sorts of questions. They used a questioning frame tp prompt them and guide their note-taking. Back in school they will use this information to write player profiles. Ryan was happy to talk and related well to the students. To find out more about Ryan visit http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/11751.html and Northants Cricket Club at http://www.northantscricket.com
Next was club shop maths whereby students worked to a budget, looked at merchandising and various aspects of the cricket shop. Thanks to centre manager Yvonne Starsmeare and co-ordinator Lyn Harrison who led the visit. www.steelbacksstudycentre.org
January 26th, 2009 — Abbeyfield School, Cobblers Study Centre
Today year 7 and 8 students visited the Cobblers Study Centre and Northampton Town Football Club. This is part of the Double Club programme which this term so far has covered anti-racism and healthy eating. Mrs. Jeyes and Miss Lindon from Abbeyfield school accompanied them.
Russell Lewis from Cobblers in the Community led the stadium tour and was on amusing form, still high from the weekend’s 5-1 win over Crewe. He was full of stories, club history and football facts. He led students around Sixfields stadium to the players lounge, changing rooms, West stand, home dugouts, police cell, (we did think about leaving them there with Clarence) Carlsberg Lounge and boardroom.
All the way round he asked questions, which with all the football fans amongst the group, were answered. The Double Clubbers had plenty of questions themselves. They will be doing some ICT literacy work back in school, using photos taken on the tour.
In the boardroom Russell had the group acting as new directors to the club. 2 had to be the chairmen and the others thought up issues they wanted discussed and decisions on. These included stadium food, facilities, players, kit, sponsorship, seats and stadium improvements. They got into character by sitting around the meeting table and talking in pairs about how to phrase their ideas so as the chairmen would accept them. The most popular topic of conversation was food!
To read more about Double Club at Abbeyfield, visit their page.
School website: www.abbeyfield.northants.sch.uk
December 1st, 2008 — Abbeyfield School, Steelbacks Study Centre
In November, year 8s from Abbeyfield visited the Steelbacks Study Centre for a stadium tour. They got behind the scenes access to Northants County Cricket Club and visited the gym, indoor arena, executive boxes, players’ balcony, Long room, supporter’s club, bar and saw the scoreboards. They had to do a literacy note-taking activity as when they got back to school in their ICT lesson, they produced a stadium tour postcard using this information.
Centre manager Yvonne Starsmeare led the tour and afterwards everyone made an origami T shirt while discussing sponsorship and logos. Yvonne showed the South Africa cricket world cup shirts for inspiration.
To see the Steelbacks Study Centre’s website: www.steelbacksstudycentre.org
Northants County Cricket Club’s ste: www.nccc.co.uk
To see Abbeyfield’s site
December 1st, 2008 — Abbeyfield School, Saints Study Centre
On Monday 1st December, year 8 students from Abbeyfield School’s Double Club visited Franklins Gardens Saints RFC, Saints Study Centre. They used photos taken when they visited the Steelbacks Study Centre and did a stadium tour of Northants County Cricket Club to construct a ‘photostory’. This is a free programme available to download from Microsoft whereby people can import photos, manipulate text, sound, voice recordings, music and make their own transitions. The group quickly picked up the skills needed and soon had some great ‘mini-movies’.They remembered an awful lot from their tour at the Steelbacks back in November, and used these facts to describe their photos. Some people proved to be naturals at commentating. Once they had gotten over their embarassment of hearing their voices that is!
Pete Austen, centre manager and Vicky Campkin, senior mentor ran the session, a big thanks to them.
To see what goes on at the study centre: www.saintsstudycentre.org
For the club: http://www.northamptonsaints.co.uk/2_20.php
The group watched NTFC play against Colchester on Saturday 29th November.
They have been working hard in the classroom based sessions in school with Mrs. Jeyes for several weeks now and have been doing practical sessions including table tennis with Andy Butler, the SScO (Sports co-ordinator partnership) there.
On Saturday 30th November, the pupils attended a game at Northampton Town Football Club with free tickets. This was a reward for their hard work in Double Club. Unfortunately Cobblers lost (boo!) but they all enjoyed it and well full of chat about it today!
For more on Abbeyfield School, visit their page
