Recently, the Double Club visited the Cobblers Study Centre and Sixfields Stadium.

Jean Limpitlaw, the Centre manager, led the session where year 8 students from Thomas Becket School visited the club shop to design their own Cobblers catalogue.

Their task was to photograph 6 items in the shop (with a theme: youth, babies, home, away kit, gifts…) and make notes about them as to their price, sizes available, material, sponsor and variety.

Back in the Study Centre's ICT suite, the group used publisher or PowerPoint to design their catalogues. They had to use language associated with advertising and marketing, as well as describe the items in detail and make fans and non-fans alike want to buy them.

The club shop owner was so impressed with the students' ideas that he asked to see the finished articles.

The group then had a look around the stadium: the players lounge, ticket office, west stand, press area, dugouts and directors chairs.

Some people had been to a match at the ground a few weeks ago, others had never visited before. As a follow up activity for homework, the students will be writing paragraphs about their day, with a focus on adjectives. It was then back to school for the weekly football coaching session with Adrian, from the club's community department.

These visits are a crucial part of the Double Club experience as it gives children an innovative, exciting and creative way to use their literacy, numeracy and ICT skills in a real life situation. The group enjoyed their time at the stadium and hope to attend some games in the future.

For more details, please see http://double.northantsstudycentres.org or
www.cobblersstudycentre.org