The Double Club at Abbeyfield School has been running since September 2006, covering many cohorts of year 7 and 8 students so far. This was the pilot school for the project and its great to see it still running so well and benefiting so many pupils. Kate Jeyes, head of year 8 at the school is delivering Double Club lessons. In 2006, Martin Gibbs (PE teacher) and assistant headteacher Helen Wilkinson who headed up the project worked alongside Anna Letts, the PfS Curriculum Practitioner. Anna still supports the school by providing curriculum ideas, links with the sports clubs and study centres and ‘arm’s length’ support. This school is considered to be the ‘model school’ by PfS and Northants Study Centres, it shows how the school has adapted and embedded the project within the school to meet their needs.
To see more about the Abbeyfield students in the Double Club, visit our ‘About’ page as well as the blog which details events involving the school since 2007.
For school information click on www.abbeyfield.northants.sch.uk
see previous newsletters, articles and photos below
To see Abbeyfield on the NTFC website: http://www.ntfc.co.uk/page/StudyCentreIndex/0,,10425,00.html
EVENTS
Mereway visit Northants County Cricket Club
On Monday 12th November, year 7/8 students from Mereway’s Double Club project visited the club with their teacher Mrs Jeyes. They undertook a stadium tour and saw behind the scenes of the indoor arena, club shop, bar, committee room and went onto the life member’s balcony to get the best view of the pitch.
They then used the digital photos taken on the tour to create comic strips using the Study Centre’s apple laptops ‘comiclife’ programme. They did a great job and were very creative adding commentary, captions and speech. Afterwards they recorded some match commentary onto ‘garageband’ , a voice recording programme. They could pretend they were players and interviewers. Previously in school, Mrs Jeyes had been working with them on press interviews.
The students were a credit to their school and study centre staff found them polite, well mannered and well behaved. They showed enthusiasm for their work and asked intelligent questions about the club and its players.
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