2008-09 Annual Review pdf

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Your local study centres

4. Saints Study CentreNorthampton Saints Rugby Football Club,

Franklin's Gardens, Weedon Road, Northampton NN5 5BG

Tel: 01604 599152

Email: [email protected]

2. Diamonds Study Centre

Rushden & Diamonds Football Club, Nene Park,

Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire NN9 5QF

Tel: 07771 523422

Email:[email protected]

3. Cobblers Study Centre

Northampton Town Football Club, Sixfields Stadium,

Upton Way, Northampton NN5 5QA

Tel: 01604 759864

Email:[email protected]

5. Steelbacks Study Centre

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club,

The County Ground, Wantage Road, Northampton NN1 4TJ

Tel: 07921 403945

Email: [email protected]

6. Silverstone Study Centre

Silverstone Circuits, Silverstone,Northamptonshire NN12 8TN

Tel: 01327 320401

Email: silverstone@studycentres. northants.sch.uk

For further information about Northamptonshire's Study Centres,

please see our web site at: www.northantsstudycentres.org

Northamptonshire County Council

Children & Young Peoples Service, Northamptonshire Study Centres,PO Box 216, John Dryden House, 8-10 The Lakes, Northampton, NN4 7DD

This information can be made available in other languages and formats

upon request, such as large print, Braille and audio cassette.

Please contact 01604 237150.

Published September 2009

1. Corby Study Centres

Adrenaline Alley, Arnsley Road, Weldon,

Corby, NN17 5QW

Tel: 07771 523422

Email: @studycentres.northants.sch.uk


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Northamptonshire Study Centres

Annual Review2008/2009

In partnership with


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WelcomeThank you for taking the time to read our annual review for the academic year 2008/2009

Northamptonshire Study Centres provide young people with wider, richer

educational experiences and opportunities. We are proud of the partnership

between the study centres and the local sports clubs which works in an effective

and exciting way to offer young people the opportunity to learn new skills and

increase motivation and self esteem.

Councillor Andrew Grant, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People

Northamptonshire Study Centres go from strength to strength. They are beacons of good practice

providing innovative and exciting learning experiences to children and young people who attend

either Playing for Success (PfS) or one of the many day time programmes on offer.

Playing for Success is a partnership between the Department for Children,

Schools and Families (DCSF) Northamptonshire County Council and the local sports clubs

Northampton Saints Rugby Club, Northampton Town Football Club, Northamptonshire

County Cricket Club, Rushden & Diamonds Football Club and Silverstone Circuits.

Evidence from a number of national evaluations shows that PfS has contributed to

improvements in pupils literacy and numeracy skills and has improved their self

confidence and motivation as well as raising standards, through personalising learning

experiences. The feedback we receive from schools, parents and carers, and the young

learners themselves supports the national findings.

Each of our five study centres achieved a bronze Charter Mark award for their Engagement and Active

Involvement of Young People and we continue to extend our Quality in Study Support (QiSS)

accreditation. An indication of how well the ongoing commitment and enthusiasm of the entire team is

regarded was apparent in our being shortlisted for the NCC Team of the Year award.

We are delighted to have established a new partnership with Adrenaline Alley in Corby where we have

opened a satellite centre - the first PfS centre in the country to be based in an urban sports centre.

We look forward to introducing the young people of Corby to all that Northamptonshire Study Centres

have to offer.

Cross team and partnership working has been demonstrated in the growth of the Supporter to Reporter

programme which began with the kic.in2.study group and has now extended to include students fromschools across the county. This project joins PfS on the Road and Double Club in our portfolio of Study

Centre opportunities which can be offered outside of, but in partnership with, the various centres. We

are very excited by the introduction of the Duke of Edinburgh Award at the Cobblers Study Centre which

extends what we can offer to young people, as well as expanding the range of young people accessing

the Study Centre facilities. This year has also seen an exciting piece of work done in partnership with

the Race Equality Team a summer school at the Steelbacks Study Centre for new arrivals - another

innovative example of partnership working for the benefit of young people in our community.

We hope you enjoy reading about our work and we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our

partners who have made this last year so successful.

Val Sudlow, Study Centres Manager

For more information on all our programmes please visit our website: www.northantsstudycentres.org


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Saints Study Centre

Once again the year has been busy delivering the core PfS programme as well asincreasing the daytime use of the centre. The achievement of QISS Established

status is a testament to the hard work done in the centre.

The Saints Study Centre supports schools in improving the life chances of children

through developing each students motivation and confidence by improving their

personal and social skills and attitudes to learning. The centre assists young people

to become more effective learners, focusing on numeracy, literacy and information

and communication technology (ICT) in a sporting context.

The centre promotes the value of learning and that it is cool to succeed.

Maths Is FunWe have established an excellent relationship with an Advanced Skills

Maths teacher who now comes in and delivers Maths Is Fun to different

cohorts in PfS time and during the daytime programmes. This alsoprovides Professional Development for staff and mentors at the Centre.

Pete & Jeanette

Daytime ProgrammesThe Study Centre has been increasingly used by

schools for a variety of programmes which assist

them in promoting and accelerating learning

amongst their pupils. We have delivered bothGifted & Talented and transition programmes in

partnership with secondary schools in the area.

Supporter to ReporterDuring the Spring half term break agroup of Year 10 and 11 students

were involved in the Supporter to

Reporter programme.

ICT facilities updateWe have also updated eight of our

PCs with flip screen tables and a new

SMART board which has enabled us

to offer all four teaching areas in the

centre with IT facilities.


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Our daytime provision has been an area of

exceptional growth over the past year. We

continue to work with numerous long-standing

partners including: The Northampton Town

Football in the Community Programme,

Connexions, The Princes Trust, Aim Higher and

the Gateway School.

Through our ongoing work with these partners we have been able to

develop new projects to meet the changing needs of young people in the

wider community. In addition to these projects we have been involved in

a number of new projects including: Key stage 3 Numeracy and Literacy

days, Alternative Provision for students at risk of exclusion, Intervention

Programmes for poor school attendees, Staff INSET Training Days,

Double Club visits, Reward Days and Walter Tull Curriculum Days.

Cobblers Study Centre

Jaimie & Jean

Playing for SuccessIt has been a very busy and exciting year for the Cobblers Study Centre.

The Centre achieved QiSS Emerged Status in October 2008 and has now

begun working towards Established Status. We continue to develop our PfS

curriculum and overall provision. This year has seen the introduction of a PfS

returnees programme for primary students and the opportunity to attend a

Junior Football Organiser (JFO) course for secondary students. The aim of

these projects is to extend the PfS experience and increase the impact of the

programme on the young people involved. Through the PfS returnees

programme young people have been directly involved in the PfS curriculum

development process. Through our partnership with the county wide

Kic.in2.Study Project, the Centre has also has the opportunity to be involvedin the national roll-out of the Supporter to Reporter programme this year.

Duke of Edinburgh AwardThe Cobblers Study Centre is now a recognised Duke of Edinburgh Centre.

The Study Centre has been working in partnership with the Football in the

Community Programme to deliver the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award.

The award is split into four sections, Community Service, Skills, Physical and

Expeditions. Each section has to be completed over a number of months.

Fifteen members of the Northampton Town Multi-Disabled Football Club have been the first of the cohorts to

undertake the Award. They have been very committed to the programme and meet weekly at the Study Centre. Each

week they have developed new skills such as map reading and pitching tents which has enabled them to become

self sufficient for their two day expedition. Over the course of the next year the Study Centre plans to expand its

provision of the Duke of Edinburgh Award to more groups from across Northamptonshire.

Daytime Projects


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Diamonds Study Centre

Supporter to Reporter (S2R)We had a fun packed Easter holiday at the Study Centre when six young

learners from Latimer Arts College and six from Ferrers Arts College joinedus for the Supporter to Reporter project. S2R is a project in partnership with

Radiowaves which trains young people in the skills of interviewing, reporting,

editing and uploading the finished articles to the Radiowaves website.

S2R aims to train young learners to

become sports reporters for events going

on in their county and nationwide with an

overall aim that some of them may

become young reporters at the 2012 Olympics. In addition to a visit to Sky News

HQ the reporters were invited to the local derby between the Diamonds and

Kettering where they interviewed both of the first team managers, the local press

and the fans of both teams. The young reporters then returned to the Study Centre

where they worked on editing all of their footage and then uploaded all of their work.

Family Learning DayThe centre, in conjunction with the club, ran a programme for local families

where parents and their youngsters completed an educational activity on the

computers within the centre and experienced an hour of practical coaching

with the clubs academy players. They then interviewed the first team

manager, met the players and finally watched that afternoons game against

Salisbury City. More of these community days are planned for next season.

Rob & Sara

The centre continues to serve the needs of schools within the Rushden,

Wellingborough and Kettering areas of Northamptonshire. In addition to running a

very successful PfS programme and bespoke daytime programmes for these local

schools, we have built a very strong relationship with the host club and this bond

has enabled us to introduce a variety of daytime projects such as Connexions,

Supporter to Reporter and a Family Learning Day.

It was a fantastic day for the local families and gave all of them an insight intothe many different aspects of this football club. Justin Edinburgh (RDFC Manager)

Corby Study CentreWe have, during the course of the year, been instrumental in the setting up and piloting of

a satellite Playing for Success centre based at the Adrenaline Alley Urban Sports Centre in

Corby. It is very different from using football as a tool to motivate and educate young people

but we are confident that we can use the sports of skateboarding and BMX biking to

stimulate an innovative curriculum which will excite the youngsters of Corby. PfS, coupled

with the culture and ethos of Adrenaline Alley, will surely capture their attention, enable

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Steelbacks Study Centre

The study centre at the Steelbacks continues to go from strength to strength.We appointed Lynn, our first full-time centre co-ordinator, in September to

facilitate our increased capacity, our new building opened on time and on budget

in April, and in the summer term we welcomed eight new primary schools to the

centre to participate in our PfS programme. This has all been incredibly exciting

and has given me the opportunity to further develop our programme to ensure

that our curriculum remains exciting and relevant both to the young people who

use us and the schools they attend.

Our new centreOn April 30th 2009, the new Steelbacks Study Centre hosted its highly successful official

opening event in the old Bowls club at Wantage Road. Our special guest for the afternoon

was former England and Northants batsman Allan Lamb, who completed the official

opening with a speech about the importance of education in front of an invited audience

including local authority officials, headteachers, and officials and players from the club.

Yvonne & Lynn

Playing for success continues to be our core project with three

secondary schools and 23 primaries participating in the programme

at Steelbacks last year. Within our primary curriculum, we have

continued to review and develop the activities offered and this year, through our

work on the Bronze level Children and Young Peoples Charter of Involvement,

have given the pupils a much greater say in the sessions offered and how they

participate in them. In addition to this, we have provided a greater range of

snacks, at the students request, to enable effective learning to continue for

extended periods, and we have introduced elements of Philosophy for Children

to snack time to ensure that students remain focused throughout their time.

During the afternoon, guests were treated to a tour of the facilities and an opportunity

to observe some of the work we do as children from Barry primary completed some

of our activities. In return the children were thrilled to meet a few of the Northants first

team including David Lucas and Monty Panesar. The day was an excellent

opportunity for our partners to meet each other and better understand both the work

we do and the contributions that they each make to our work. Everyone thoroughlyenjoyed the chance to network, as well as the afternoon tea and cricket.

By moving to our new facility the Steelbacks Study Centre has now been able to offer

a wider range of ongoing daytime projects. We have structured sessions to reflect a

range of different skills, so one week the children recorded interviews with staff

around the ground before using Garageband to edit them and add sound effects, and

in another session, the children used animation software and Lego to create short

animation films around the theme of building relationships.

PfS

For the secondary students we have worked very closely with the schools to offer a rich and

varied programme that is both relevant and will spark the students interest. For example withour cohort from Weston Favell, we piloted a Media in Sport programme, which had significant

positive impact on the attendance and behaviour of a third of the students who attended.


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Silverstone Study Centre

Life is never dull at Silverstone! We have continued to combine creative ideasfor teaching and learning with the potential of new technologies to provide

children and young people with authentic opportunities for communication and

collaboration. The role of the young people themselves in shaping what we do at

Silverstone is becoming an increasingly important and effective reality for us, as

evidenced by the award of the Bronze Level Active Involvement Charter Mark.

Our children and young people really do make a difference at Silverstone!Peter & Vicki

Performance poetSponne Cluster Primary Schools visited Silverstone for a series of Literacy

activities. Aimed at KS1 and KS2 gifted and talented students, the programme

was varied, ranging from e-safety to scripting and recording video. The sessions

culminated in a visit from Phil Whitehead, a performance poet who encouraged

the young people to write their poems on racing-car tyres and to perform them to

a live and secure audience on the internet. The show was a resounding success!

Enable LearningThe early adoption of the county-wide Enable

Learning Platform at Silverstone allows

students to access PfS activities and work

from anywhere with an internet connection.

Many students have taken this opportunity

outside the sessions at the centre to develop,

extend and reflect on their work, as well as to

share their achievements with parents and

peers. The virtual Study Centre is almost as

cool as the real one!

Partners for Success

The willingness of clusters ofschools to capitalise on the

benefits of the Playing for

Success programme across

wider bespoke projects has

translated into a number of

effective projects. Excite to

Write activities throughout

the year saw over 600 pupils

from 11 schools experience

the excitement of being

reporters at Silverstone to

stimulate writing and performance across a variety of media. The

creative process was not limited to the Silverstone visit but also

nurtured back in school, at home and across cyberspace. The results

can be viewed at www.excitetowrite.net

The Marketing MasterclassThe Marketing Masterclass has again offered students this year the opportunity to apply

the business and marketing knowledge they have acquired in school within a real business

setting. Students set up their own marketing teams and work on a business developmentchallenge from the circuits marketing and product development department. Creating and

developing ideas as part of a realistic strategy, they present and justify their pitch to a

representative from Silverstones marketing department. The presentations and elevator

pitches are recorded onto a DVD for evaluation back in school.


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Projects

Kic.in.2.studyKic.in2.study continues to be an integral part of the work of Northants Study

Centres. The project targets young people in the care of the local authority and is

based on the PfS programme with an emphasis on engagement and motivation as

well as targeting literacy, numeracy and ICT skills

Thirty nine young people attended after school kic.in2.study sessions at either the

Cobblers or the Diamonds Study Centres and twenty nine of these students have also

attended holiday activities including visits to the pantomime, Grendon Outdoor

Education Centre and The Stables music studios where they wrote their own songs

and produced their own CD. Eleven of them have followed the Supporter to Reporterprogramme which trains young people and gives them the skills to be taken seriously

as sports journalists. The fact that some of them have done more than seventy hours

on this project gives a good idea of how much theyve enjoyed it. We have offered

study skills sessions to year 11 students and in partnership with the Life Chances

Team and Aim Higher helped some of our year 11 and 12 students attend a Higher

Education Experience Summer School at the Universities of Leicester, De Montfort

and Loughborough.

Helena, Anna & Val


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PfS On the Road

Corby Reads with PfSWorking in partnership with the Corby Learning Partnership has enabled

Northamptonshire Study Centres to extend their outreach work into Corby. We

visited five schools in the Kingswood cluster and delivered taster days based

around sport and reading. Students in years five, six and eight worked on such

reading skills as scanning, skimming, picking out key information and reading

for a purpose. They also had the opportunity to take part in football coaching

sessions led by a Cobblers community coach.

This year has seen PfS on the Road adapt and diversify to meet theneeds of schools, clusters and other partners. The team has grown toinclude Helena Weedon, a behaviour specialist, who brings many skillsand talents to the team.

She has introduced and led sessions on Relax Kids, Speed Stacking and Brain

Breaks. We spent two terms at Towcester Primary School working alongside

the schools Higher Level Teaching Assistants (HLTAs) to deliver extension

and enrichment lessons around numeracy, literacy and ICT mapped against

national curriculum objectives. We also looked at learning styles, multiple

intelligences and learning environments.

Ive enjoyed all of it because we do funmaths and ICT, its all good.

Abbeyfield School continues to run this project successfully with year seven and

eight cohorts and we have enjoyed expanding it into Thomas Becket Catholic

School this year. We have set up a mini-study centre within school and

embedded good practice in numeracy, literacy and ICT across several faculties.

So far we have seen three cohorts of year eight students benefit from the double

experience of educational and physical activities which boost confidence and

self esteem as well as improving key skills. Special events have included

interviewing Cobblers players on World Book Day, contributing to a sports

careers day organised by EBLO (Education & Business Link Organisation), and

inviting an advanced skills teacher to demonstrate innovative Maths activities.

Both schools have taken the opportunity to visit Arsenal FC at the Emirates

Stadium for a stadium tour and visits to the interactive museum and club shop.

Currently there are thirty Double Clubs nationwide, all running this winning

formula of sport related study support sessions within a school setting.Northamptonshire Study Centres continue to support this project, enabling

students to visit their facilities and experience the wow factor during stadium

tours, player interviews, club shop visits and ICT sessions. As well as coaches

from Cobblers and Saints, Northamptonshire Sport have provided a multi skills

coach to offer an added incentive to students to participate in the PE sessions.

Northampton Town Double Club

The aims of the

programme are to:

improve standards and achievement

throughout the school

raise engagement and motivation

raise the level of attendance

raise the standards of literacy andnumeracy, particularly that of the boys

improve the consistency of teaching

and learning across subjects to the

level of the best

For the first time this summer and autumn, groups of targeted year six children from Daventrys primaries are taking part

in a PfS transition project based at Danetre and William Parker Schools. Working in partnership with primary learning

mentors, secondary pastoral staff and the Transitions Team students can get to know their new school, improve their

social skills and take part in PfS style activities. A curriculum has been created around SEAL (Social Emotional Aspects

of Learning), Protective Behaviours and transition. The aim is to boost confidence and self esteem and make the move

from primary to secondary a little easier.

Daventry Transition


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Thanks to funding from the Corby Learning

Partnership staff from the Diamonds Study

Centre were able to offer a two day summer

programme at the newly opened Corby

Study Centre to fifteen young people fromDanesholme Junior School and Kingswood

Primary School. Students had a taste of

PfS activities and were also able to enjoy a

practical session in the Alley.

Mentoring

Summer 2009

This years Summer Challenge programme at the Saints Study

Centre was subsidised by the Northamptonshire County Council Youth Small Grants Fund and operated in conjunction with the

Saints Community Department and the Saints Study Centre.

Forty eight students from fifteen schools attended one of three

four day programmes this year. They took part in a stadium tour,

participated in practical rugby sessions, enjoyed using the ICT

facilities available in the study centre and experienced a range of

software including Publisher, Photostory and Robolab. They made

puppets, did Maths with a difference and visited Brixworth

Country Park for orienteering and team building activities.

In addition to Study Centre staff, volunteer mentors from local

schools and the University of Northampton supported this

summers programme.

At the Cobblers Study Centre fifteen young people from Northampton and

Wellingborough took part in a Junior Football Organiser (JFO) course. This

was run in conjunction with the Football in the Community Programme and

the Cobblers Study Centre and was funded by an Awards for All grant.

The JFO is a Football Association certified course for students aged from 14

- 19. The young people learned coaching and refereeing skills, and also how

to organise a mini soccer festival.


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Kic.in2.study students enjoyed summer activities at three

different venues. The first was at Grendon Outdoor

Education Centre where they worked together to build rafts,

enjoyed some time in the pool, polished their archery skills,

experienced the zip wire and tested themselves on the

ropes course.

The second was at the Steelbacks Study Centre where

students from years 6 and 7 were lucky enough to take part

in a Drama day led by Tricia and Mike from Act It Out. The

third venue was BBC Television Centre in London which was

visited by our kic.in2.study Supporter to Reporter group.

Anna Letts led a two week summer school at the Steelbacks Study Centre for

Key Stage 3 students for whom English is an Additional Language. The target

group were young people who have recently arrived in the UK and who started

school here during the last year. Fourteen students were involved from six

different countries.

The aim of the programme was to use Northants Study Centres PfS

ethos, activities and ideas to engage and motivate the students, to

improve key skills through sport based literacy and numeracy activities,and to improve confidence and self esteem.

The programme was planned in partnership with the Race Equality Team

and Anna was supported throughout the two weeks by members of the

Northamptonshire Study Centres team.

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