The Double Club has been running at Weston Favell since February 2007, covering 2 cohorts of year 8 students so far. James Lucas, PE teacher and Anna Letts, PfS teacher are delivering sessions at the school with Denise Moody, assistant headteacher heading the project.
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NORTHAMPTON TOWN DOUBLE CLUB
During term time
Study support work in the Double Club at Weston Favell Secondary School continues and is supported by NTFC. In the last few weeks, students have been busy participating in football-themed lessons in numeracy, literacy and ICT. As a follow up to their stadium tour to Sixfields stadium, year 8 pupils completed work on ‘selling the stadium’ to new fans. They had to advertise its facilities and attributes by usng adjectives, persuasive and descriptive language. They used digital pictures taken on the tour.
This week children have been acting as football club managers to choose a fantasy football team, made up of Cobblers and premiership players as well as non-famous players such as their friends, family and teachers. They had a budget of £30million so could only afford a few premiership players, thereby choosing to pay their dads £10 for the year or their friend £1000 in wages (!) to save money. They had to write descriptive paragraphs to persuade their football club’s board executives as to why they had chosen them, dependant on their real or imagined football and personal attributes. As extension work to this, they will be writing player profiles for their team using the internet and NTFC/Arsenal match day programmes. This will develop their skills in concise writing and scanning to pick out the most important information.
As well as classroom based sessions, all students play football on a weekly basis with NTFC Football in the Community coach Trudy Kirby. Their skills are improving and their small-sided games are getting more competitative. This week the focus was on first touches when passing and keeping the ball under control. This ‘double’ experience of physical and educational work is a winning formula for these students who need more encouraging and motivation in their schoolwork.
Students have been rewarded for their hard work by receiving free match day tickets to watch NTFC vs Bournemouth on Saturday 10th March 2007.
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Weston Favell visit Northants County Cricket Club
On Thursday 8th November, year 8 students from Weston Favell’s Double Club project visited the club with their teacher Mr Lucas. They undertook a stadium tour and saw behind the scenes of the indoor arena, club shop, changing rooms, bar, function rooms, committee room and went onto the life member’s balcony to get the best view of the pitch. Mr Lucas knew a lot about the club and was able to share his ‘pearls of wisdom’ with the children and hopefully convert them into cricket fans!
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 work done at school onto ‘garageband’ , a voice recording programme.
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.
This is what the thought about the visit/what they learnt and did:
Lewis: “It was good today because I used the garageband/music programme.”
Barry “The players have their own changing room.”
Amber “I created a comic strip about my day here.”
Colm “It was good as we saw where the cricket players train.”
Sophie “It was fun because we used the laptops.”
Dominique “I thought it was fun walking around, learning about cricket”
Simeon “I liked standing on the balcony as its a long way down.”
Mr Lucas “It was good to see the children very interested in cricket, they worked very well in the centre.”
Myra (mentor) “They worked extremely well”
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