Tonight at the Diamonds Study Centre we welcomed students from across Northamptonshire for the start of their 9 week Kic.in2.Study programme.  The students worked extremely hard to produce creative designs for their name badges and learned the skill of making origami football shirts which they also artistically coloured in to make their very own football strip. 

The students were set a challenge to complete a Kaleidoscope puzzle and amazed staff at the speed at which they solved the puzzle. Val said “I thought it was absolutely stunning to see how quickly they completed the puzzles.  All of them showed persistence and some of them were amazing at how quickly they could visualise the puzzles.  It was also great to see them helping each other.”

The young learners also started their learning logs to record their time here at the Centre and participated in circle time activities.

A great time was had by all!

It has been another action packed week at the Study Centre this week with our four primary and three secondary schools from the Rushden area continuing with the Playing for Success programme. 

Students were set a challenge to produce their dream sports team complete with a stadium design, a sponsor, a manager and a mascot.  They also put their art skills to the test by producing creative designs for their sports kit.  Pupils learnt many new skills on the computer such as using search engines to find images of the players for their teams and year 8 pupils designed club badges incorporating the theme for their sports team using the computer.

Some comments from the students:

” It’s very educational and I liked it!” Shannon.

” It’s great and good fun!” Lizzie.

 ”I had a great lesson and really liked the origami!” Anna.

Next week:  Continue with the club challenge and make a poster display of the dream teams!

What a fun packed week we’ve had at The Study Centre.  Four primary schools and three secondary schools from the local area started on their nine week Playing for Success course and what a lot they managed to do!  Having completed a health and safety tour of the Sports Centre the students started their Diamonds diary to capture their thoughts during the programme.  The students then put their computer design skills to the test and made name badges before learning the art of origmai and making football shirts out of paper.  All the schools worked extremely hard and the Centre staff are looking forward to next week!

Next week: Club Challenge - Manage your own new football club by designing a stadium, create your dream team, pick your club manager and sponsor and much more!

The new term starts on Monday 15th September and we welcome all the students who are taking part this term. 

On Monday evenings we will be working from 4pm til 6pm with year 7 students involved in the Kic.in2.study project.

On Tuesday evenings we will be working with year 5 students from Higham Ferrers Juniors from 3pm til 5pm followed by year 8 students from Ferrers Arts College from 5.30pm til 7.30pm.

On Wednesday evenings we will be working with year 5 students from Great Addington and Finedon Mulso from 3pm til 5pm follwed by year 8 students from Huxlow Science College from 5.30pm til 7.30pm.

On Thursday evenings we will be working with year 5 students from Irthlingborough Junior School from 3pm til 5pm followed by year 8 students from Manor Sports College from 5.30pm til 7.30pm.

Transport as usual will be provided by Carters and will be escorted by Sara (Study Centre Co-ordinator).

May we take this opportunity to remind those of you who are picked up from school that it is important that you are collected on time as the bus needs to collect students from other schools.  We understand that on occassion there may be an unavoidable delay and we ask that you contact the centre to inform us of the situation.

If you have any questions regarding the PfS programme please contact us at the Study Centre.

Email: diamonds@studycentres.northants.sch.uk

Phone: 07771 523422

 We look forward to meeting you all soon!