The Cobblers Study Centre are very pleased to be working with two groups of secondary school students who are working toward their FA Junior Football Organiser qualification.  The two groups from Kingsthorpe College and The Northampton School for Girls have been working with us and the NTFC Community Programme to gain skills and experience required from the course.  Last week the students from Kingsthorpe College delivered a coaching session at Upton Meadows Primary School, it was a daunting task for all involved but there was lots of positive feedback from the teachers and pupils at the school.  In a few weeks time the KC students will complete their course by organising and running a Futsal tournament at Upton Meadows.  The students from NSG have only just started their course but we have been impressed by the hard work and enthusiasm that has gone into planning sessions.  We are positive that all the students taking part in the course will make excellent role models as coaches.

We are on our sixth week at the Cobblers. It has been really good we have had such a good time, we have made smoothies and we made a tower out of pasta and marshmallows and me and Katie won .It has been really good at the Cobblers we have enjoyed it.  We have done some football skills with Russell and we went into a game where we learnt some new skills and we have watched some clips of what it’s like. Football is a really good sport, its my favourite sport ,it’s really good and we are going to train younger people like year six and five.It will be really good to train and get younger people than us involved in football.I really have enjoyed it at the Cobblers it has been really good. Jean and the others are really nice and helpful.

Rebecca