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.

This evening at the Cobblers Study Centre our Year 8 Kic.In2.Study group have been designing plasticine models, attaching them to parachutes and releasing them from the top of the South stand.  The Kic.In2.Study boys created characters such as ”Frank Landhard” and “Skeleton Bob” and timed their flight to the ground. Back in the Study Centre the boys calculated the speeds of their characters using the distance divided by time formula.  They finished off their session by playing a number of table tennis related games.

Monday: On Monday at the Cobblers Centre our group from The Grange took part in Robolab and Healthy Eating at the Cobblers Study Centre.  Robolab is a control task in which students build Lego buggies and then have to programme it to complete a number of tasks such as rotating in a full circle and parking in the specially designed Cobblers Garage. 

Tuesday: My name is Jachym and tonight at the Cobblers Study Centre I have made a smoothie out of banana, pineapple, strawberries and grape juice. I have made a restaurant menu for all of the Cobblers Players when they play away matches. It was fun and the smoothies tasted really nice.

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.