A massive thankyou to all the people who took part today and who donated to the Sport Relief Fund www.mysportrelief.com/CobblersRowathon

Hey guys the teams are still going on with the Sports Relief rowathon and we want to thank every one that is participating today,  you been brilliant
from Andrew and Graham

The rowathon has now started… Take a look at the first of the v-logs, made by Lyncrest Primary School.

Only 42, 195 metres to go!

Remember that on this Friday the 19th March we are participating in the Inaugural Playing for Success Charity Rowathon at the Cobblers Study Centre. The event is raising money for Sports Relief! Our aim, in teams of four is to use indoor rowing machines kindly donated by Northampton Rowing Club to row a marathon! Each team will consist of three adults and one Playing for Success student please go to our Sports Relief page and sponsor us!

Kingsthorpe College visited the Cobblers Study Centre for a Barclaycard Reward Day in return for the hard work that they have put in at school over this term.  Activities at the Study Centre included a Stadium Tour, Stadium Orienteering and a football practical session with Coach Lee Garlic.  ICT activities in the study centre included creating name badges and a comic strip of their stadium tour.  It was great to see the young learners enjoying themselves.  Thanks to Barclaycard for funding the day and supplying volunteer mentors for the day.

“hi i’m James and my thoughts of the day were … it was brilliant!!! my favourite part was when we got to train and warm up with some mini games my favourite part was when we played a mini world cup my team was Brazil even though we only came 3rd i had plenty of fun i would highly recommend this to other schools … Cobblers!!!”

This week our Year 8 Kic.in2.study group got the opportunity to interview two of the Cobblers first team. They researched what an open, closed and hypothetical question were and discussed what questions they would like to ask. Andy Holt and Chris Dunn were very impressed with the student’s interview techniques and the range of good questions asked.

In the half term the Study Centre worked in conjunction with the Northampton Town Football in the Community Programme and Daventry District Council to offer a Disability Fun Day to a group of youngsters aged between 12 and 25 from Daventry.  On the day the group of young people were lead on a Stadium Tour by Russell Lewis and young volunteer mentors from the Cobblers Study Centre.  They also took part in a practical football session and took part in a range of educational activities including the X-Box Challenge and Stadium Orienteering which was led by Study Centre Staff.  The highlight of the day however was a visit from Cobblers first team member Andy Holt. We hope that all involved enjoyed their day at the Study Centre.

This evening our Silver Duke of Edinburgh group have been joined by ladies from the local ExtraCare Village.  Over the past few months the Duke of Edinburgh group have been busy making Cobblers gift cards and place mats and the ladies from ExtraCare have volunteered hours of their own time cutting out extra photographs of the Cobblers players from old match day programmes to help boost the production of the stock.  The ExtraCare ladies visited the Study Centre to join the Duke of Edinburgh group to see what they have been making with all the cuttings. 

The signed gift cards and place mats are being sold by the Duke of Edinburgh group to raise money toward a Shelter Box that will be sent to Haiti.  The fundraising will form part of  their Community Service section of the award.