Happy Birthday Harley!

Students from Sponne School spent the day in the Study Centre today. They took part in a number of activities including a stadium tour, team building games, stadium orienteering and ICT comic strips. The day was very successful and some of the students made the following blog contributions: 

My day at the study centre was really good. I got really wet when we were outside. It would have been better if it wasn’t raining, but I still had a lot of fun. Annon

Today we went to the Cobblers Study Centre and it was great. Everyone enjoyed themself. We saw the players train and we looked around the football ground. – Leanne 

George Husbands – I really enjoyed coming to the study centre because we did loads of thing like……Stadium tours, team games, watch the players train, go on computers and XBOX 360!!

I don’t think anybody that comes here goes home unhappy.

Hi I am Jessica Mouton for a school in Towcester and I have came here to have a

Good day out at Cobbler’s stadium to have a tour around there. It is sooooooo big.I saw some players one of them was called Wesley and aswell when I was walking around the stadium. We went into their changing room and we saw a lonely little spider in their ice bath that they fill with ice to un-tense their muscles.

I really enjoyed the day at the Cobblers Study Centre, having a stadium tour, using the computers, also watching the 1^st team train in gruesome weather.

 So if anyone comes here it will be a brilliant time and you will go home with loads to say!    Robson Kightley

 Today was GREAT I really enjoyed it. The games were good fun because we all had to communicate with each other which made it quite hard. The best part was the tour when we got taken around the stadium and got to watch the Cobblers train.

By Demi Hillyard

My day out to Cobblers study centre was awesome I got to go all around the Cobblers Stadium and got to talk to Andy Holt. I then got to watch all the team train including my favourite player Jason Crowe. He is well good! My day out to the Cobblers Study Centre was wicked. - Callum Townsend

I really enjoyed my time at the study centre.

My favourite bit about it was the tour of the stadium because we got to see all around the rooms and the dungeons, where my friends locked me in for a little joke. And my other favourite bit was watching the Cobblers train on the training pitch.

By Harry Peters

Volunteering as a Mentor at the Cobblers Study Centre is continuing to be an extremely rewarding experience. Thirteen students walk in through the doors on the first day of their experience here, shy and uncertain of what to expect. In a few short weeks the students charge through the doors, excited about their new challenges. It is my pleasure as a mentor to be a friend to these students, helping them to improve their Literacy, Numeracy and ICT skills through games and challenges. As some of these students have never experienced using a computer before it is wonderful that they are learning these new skills. Orienteering, Smoothie making and the Club Challenge are just a few of the experiences which I am proud to be a part of, supporting, guiding and building confidence in the students which will last throughout life. I have made some wonderful friends in the students who I have supported, many who feel sad on their final departure from our centre, and the staff here continue to make my work fulfilling and enjoyable.

Gail Taylor – Student at the University of Northampton