Sponne School "Classroom Champions" Project

Year 7 visited Cobblers on Wednesday 9th July as a follow up to their Classroom Champions project in school with Anna Letts and Mrs Button.

Students went on a stadium tour led by Cobblers Study Centre manager Jean Limpitlaw, visiting the changing rooms, Carlsberg Bar, dugouts, stands, press area and police cells. They were able to watch the first and youth teams in training on the back training pitch.

Next they competed in teamwork initiative games led by Margaret Hillyer in the West Stand's concourse area. This included group finding using observation skills, drainpipe tennis runs passing and body hoopla. Pupils got very competitive, to say the least!

After lunch, there was stadium orienteering where teams had to solve literacy and numeracy skills to find letters around the ground. This was also a fitness test as trekking around proved very tiring and soaking. Then back to the Carlsberg Lounge to solve anagrams from the letters found.

The other activity was an ICT session in the Study Centre. Students used their digital stadium tour photos to make a comic strip using publisher programme. They experimented with titles, colour, speech bubbles, backgrounds.

Some had time to write a blog for the Cobblers Study Centre website: http://cobblersstudycentre.org
"Today we went to the Cobblers Study Centre and it was great. Everyone enjoyed themselves. We saw the players train and we looked around the football ground". - Leanne
"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". George Husbands

The children really enjoyed the day and got a lot out of it. The hands on approach to learning really suited them.

Their behaviour, enthusiasm and motivation was excellent. It was great for Anna and Mrs Button to see them out of school in a different setting, as well as a positive follow up to work carried out in school.

In school, the group have participated in some football coaching delivered by Darren Norton and came to watch a game.

To find out more see:
http://ontheroad.northantsstudycentres.org/classroom-champions/sponne-school/