Archive for September, 2008This week at the Cobblers Study Centre we made smoothies for the healthy eating topic. My recipe was:
It tasted yummy and was very healthy and I enjoyed it very much. We made healthy eating posters for footballers too. By Katie from Falconers Hill.
 Boys from the Gateway have been the first young people to complete the Cobblers Study Centre X-Box Street Football Challenge this term. The boys designed posters, selected teams and researched suitable venues to hold a street football tournament and then proceeded to complete their competition on Fifa Street 3 on the X-Box. Extra tasks included keeping a score sheet and totalling up the final results. We look forward to more street football tournaments in the coming weeks!Callum was the manager of the English Street Football team and said “This week has been good, I liked playing the football tournaments. I liked making posters too.” We have a fun filled week in store at the Cobblers Study Centre. Playing for Success continues with pupils from Falconers Hill, Danetre and The Gateway whilst children from The Grange in Daventry had their first experience of the scheme. We are also lucky to have with us young learners from Kingsthorpe College who will be attending the Study Centre weekly to complete a Junior Football Organiser (JFO) qualification in partnership with the Northampton Town Football Club Community Team. The JFO qualification has been designed to offer training in three main areas: planning & organising a fun football session for young people; refereeing mini-soccer games and organising and administrating a football festival. If you have attended any of these sessions please leave a us a comment below we would love to hear from you and look forward to working with you all!
Playing for Success continued last night with Falconers Hill Junior School. Stadium orienteering and player maths allowed the children to demonstrate a combination of their excellent team working and numeracy skills, whilst the fun continued with Margaret who led a noisy animal card game in which observation skills and an ability to impersonate animals was essential! Pupils from Falconers can see a selection of photographs from the previous two weeks by clicking here. Please leave us a comment to let us know if your enjoying the sessions. We are looking forward to seeing the Falconers for their third PfS session next week and are also excited about starting PfS with Danetre and The Grange in the coming weeks!
Our first Playing for Success session of the new term kicked off last night with pupils from Falconers Hill Primary School. The children took part in a range of activities including team building games, making name badges, adding diary entries and a paper tower challenge. Children and parents from Falconers Hill will be able to access photographs and updates of their progress on the website from Week 2. The Study Centre staff also welcomed back mentors Emma, Matthew and Daniel. Daniel will be joining the staff at the Cobblers Study Centre as an assistant throughout the year. He has a lot of experience of working within PfS which will make him a valuable part of our team.
A few words from Daniel…
Now I work at the new Cobblers Study Centre building, which compared to mentoring in school classrooms and the club’s boardroom, has amazing facilities to make the children’s learning even more enjoyable.
In my spare time I like to watch and play sport (football in particular) aswell as reading, socialising with my friends and watching films.
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Upton Meadows Primary School Team Building DayPosted by: The Cobblers Study Centre Team in Team Building
Yesterday staff from Upton Meadows Primary School visited the Study centre to take part in a range of team building exercises as part of their INSET day. The day began with some ice breaking activities which provided an opportunity for staff from both Upton Meadows and the Study Centre to start talking and get to know each other. Later on in the morning the staff from Upton Meadows were challenged to Stadium Orienteering, an activity which is often included in the Study Centres’ Playing for Success sessions. This activity involved working as a team to solve simple maths problems. The solutions of to these calculations indicated various locations around the Sixfields stadium which staff had to go and find. Another activity, which enabled the staff to demonstrate their numeracy skills, was Player Maths. In this activity the staff had to work together to solve calculations using the squad numbers of Northampton Town Football Club players. Building towers out of marshmallows and spaghetti provided the last challenge of the day. The final towers varied in height and stability and evidence of these constructions can be seen in the photos below. Helena Weedon ended the team building morning by leading a Relax Kids session with the Upton Meadows staff. Relax Kids is a unique method of teaching children to relax using movement, games, peer massage, stretching and breathing exercises. A fun morning was had by all, and staff commented on the good pace and variation of activities provided. We hope to run similar team building days in the future.
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