Today at the Cobblers Study Centre  a group of budding young reporters from our Year 7 Kic.In2.Study group are reporting on the match between the Cobblers and The Robins.  Check the young reporters webspace to hear some of their reports and read their blogs.

Welcome back to all of our schools after the half term!  This evening we have been joined by Green Oaks in the Study Centre.  Half of the group have been inspired by the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and have been making an animation based on an Ice Hockey with Ash.  The other half of the group have been finding out all about Healthy Eating and have been making match day menus on the computers and designing smoothie recipes which they were then allowed to make!

Check back soon to see the Winter Olympics Animation!!

On Saturday the 13 Feb we did flash animation. My animation used shapes and colours to make a simple Flash animation sequence. Josh did an Alien Invasion stop motion animation. His set looks like it’s been burnt. His set is dark but he is using Christmas lights in the background to make an atmosphere. He has used Lego to make his characters. Luke has worked on his Bad Attack animation. Most of his programme is stop motion but he has also had a go at Flash animation today.  

By Chloe

The Gateway have been working hard on their Olympic project in the Study Centre.  Last week the boys went to Grendon Hall and tried archery to continue their research into the less well known Olympic Sports.  They blogged about the day on their Supporter 2 Reporter web spaces and their videos will be appearing there soon.  Meanwhile back in the Study Centre the boys put together a news report about an exciting week for Northampton Town Football Club.   Take a look at their work below!

This week at the Cobblers Study Centre all of our Playing for Success groups have been Stadium Orienteering. The session requires the groups from The Grange, Green Oaks and Kingsthorpe College to work in teams to solve numeracy questions that lead to various points around the stadium. By following the clues they find letters that are hidden all over the Sixfield’s Stadium which is made into an anagram. Back in the Study Centre the groups are challenged to solve the anagram and then make as many words as possible from the letters they found.

We hope you all have a great half term and look forward to seeing you after the break.

Last Saturday Ash led the first ever Saturday morning Animation Club at the Cobblers Study Centre. Students from  Danetre Seconday School attended the club as part of a Cobblers outreach programme.

Take a look at the first weeks work below!

All throughout the week our Playing for Success groups from Green Oaks, The Grange and Kingsthorpe College have been taking part in stadium tours around the Sixfields Stadium.  The groups have been given exclusive access to all parts of the stadium and have seen inside the changing rooms, players lounges, training centre and the police cells.  The groups were all provided with digital cameras to take photographs of their tours and back in the Study Centre they all logged on to I Am Learning to take part in a quiz about the stadium.  The photos that the groups took will all be used in future sessions at the Cobblers Study Centre.  We can’t wait to have everyone back next week!

Our Silver Duke of Edinburgh group are currently working hard every Wednesday in the Study Centre making place mats and gift cards containing pictures of Northampton Town squad members. They are producing these items as part of their Community Service section for the award. Last night they were joined by Cobblers Skipper Craig Hinton who joined the group in producing more items to sell. The group are raising money to buy a “Shelter Box”to help those who have lost everything in the Haiti earthquake disaster.

We went to the stadium and went to the top of the stands and put the tape measure to measure the height of the stands, it was 4 metres. We put out the parachutes out at arms length then let them go. Our partners timed our parachutes when they went to the bottom. when we got back to the study centre we got out the calculator and worked out the speed by working out the distance divided by the time.  My parachute took 3.81 secs to to get to the ground. This means that my parachute travelled at 1.05 m/s. Written by Josh.