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Stadium Tours This week students have been on a tour of the Nene Park Stadium. Whilst there the young learners worked in teams to complete an orienteering activity. This involved solving maths sums to locate nine seats in the stadium behind which were control cards with nine different letters. They then had to solve an anagram to complete the activity. On their return to the Study Centre, students produced a Stadium Tour poster using Comic Life for the PC.
Oct
21
2009
Family Learning Day - Saturday 14th NovemberPosted by: Diamonds Study Centre Team in Latest newsRushden and Diamonds FC and the Diamonds Study Centre have teamed up to offer you a FREE day of activities for parents and children. The day will start at 11am on Saturday 14th November 2009 in the Study Centre (located in the Sports Centre) with an ICT activity of making name badges. You will take part in a short coaching session before being taken on a tour of the stadium. There will then be an opportunity to meet the First Team manager and receive autographs from the players before heading back to the Study Centre to complete a Stadium Tour poster and learn the art of making origami football shirts. You will then receive FREE tickets to the match that day for RDFC V Histon (Kick off at 3pm). If you would like to take part in this exciting opportunity please contact Sara Cooke (Study Centre Coordinator) on 07805 106173.
Places are limited and are open to 1 adult and 1 child (aged 7-11yrs old) per family. Please note, children must be accompanied by an adult. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis and you will be notified via return email of your place on the day. Our young learners have been working hard this week and having lots of fun completing their Club Challenge posters. Students devised their dream team and designed a stadium for their football club as well as choosing a suitable manager, sponsor and mascot for their team. The posters were all completed to a high standard - congratulations to you all! A Year 5 Club Challenge Poster.
A Year 8 Club Challenge Poster
It has been another action packed week at the Study Centre this week with our three 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 with a budget of £50 million, 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 on their origami football shirts. 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. Next week: Continue with the Club Challenge. This week saw the start of the Autumn term for the Playing for Success programme at Diamonds Study Centre. 3 Primary and 3 Secondary schools from the Rushden area are taking part this term in this exciting 10 week programme. Young learners had a tour of the Sports Centre this week as well as using the ICT equipment to make name badges. They then learnt the art of origami by making football shirts out of folded paper. The young learners also started their Diamonds Diaries to record their experiences of their time here. Lots of fun was had by all and we look forward to continuing with the groups next week. Next week: Young learners will make a start on their Club Challenge which will see them design their own stadium, choose their dream team, manager and mascot and much more!
Jul
17
2009
Playing for Success Presentation Evening Summer 2009Posted by: Diamonds Study Centre Team in Latest newsThe Diamonds Study Centre held its Presentation Evening on Friday July 10th to celebrate the end of the Summer Term of “Playing for Success” sessions at the centre. The sessions have been run in the evenings, at the Study Centre based at Rushden and Diamonds Football Club, as part of a national government initiative which aims to improve the student’s standards in Numeracy, Literacy and Information Technology as well as to boost their confidence and self-esteem through the medium of “sports related” activities. The scheme involves a partnership between the Department for Children, Schools and Families, Northamptonshire County Council and the football club and is geared towards Year 5 and Year 8 students. There are currently 161 centres, representing nineteen different sports, based at professional sports clubs across the country. The Presentation Evening for the Diamonds Study Centre was held in the Vice President Suite at Rushden and Diamonds Football Club and the room was full to capacity as relatives and teachers watched the youngsters, aged between 9 and 14 years, being presented with their certificates by Rushden & Diamonds first team players Sam Smith and Jake Beecroft. The schools involved in the scheme this term have all come from the Kettering area namely from Southfield School for Girls, Latimer and Montagu Secondary Schools in addition to the younger students from Greenfields, Grange and Avondale Junior Schools. Study Centre Manager Rob Jones said, “The Presentation Evening was a nice occasion for all concerned and it was pleasing to hear some of the young people talking to their teachers and families about their achievements during the course of the term. It was also particularly pleasing to see two players, who were brought up in the local area and products of the clubs academy, presenting the certificates. The youngsters have been a credit to their families and their schools and the tremendous turnout reflected the high regard shown for the Playing for Success initiative. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of the teachers and parents for their assistance this term and to commend Rushden and Diamonds Football Club for its involvement with the local community and the continuing support which it has given to the Study Centre during this academic term.” This week our young learner became budding young journalists interviewing players from Rushden and Diamonds to find out what it is like to be a professional footballer and how this fits in with their life outside of football. We saw mixed emotions from the students this week as they displayed a combination of excitement and nervousness at interviewing Matt Pattison, Jack Higgins, Max Porter and Kurt Robinson from Rushden and Diamonds first team, as well as prospective future stars in Nabil Sharrif, Lewis Halford, Matty Evans, George Cox, Callum Earls and Connor Hayes from the Rushden and Diamonds Academy. All the students showed great maturity when asking the players questions about themselves and the opportunity of talking to the footballers had clearly motivated the students to complete their follow up work of producing a write up of the interviews. The interview activity and the follow up work proved to be an extremely worthwhile exercise in the improvement of their speaking, listening and writing skills in a very enjoyable way.
This week the year 5 students from Greenfields, Grange and Avondale Junior schools completed a pitch measuring activity which included finding the perimeter and the area of the football pitch, the penalty area and the 6-yard box. They also had a chance to finish off all the work that they have been doing over the last 6 weeks in preparation for their school displays which will be on show at the Presentation Evening, in the Vice President Suite on Friday 10th July at 5.30pm. Year 8 pupils completed the Diamonds away trip activity. The young learners had to imagine they were organising the accommodation, coaches, meals and entertainment for the Rushden and Diamonds team on their away trip against Weymouth FC in February. This week students have been on a tour of the Nene Park Stadium. Whilst there the young learners worked in teams to complete an orienteering activity. This involved solving maths sums to locate nine seats in the stadium behind which were control cards with nine different letters. They then had to solve an anagram to complete the activity. On their return to the Study Centre, students produced a Stadium Tour poster.
Wow! We have been having so much fun this week at the Study Centre as the young learners became programming technicians for Robolab! The Robolab software allows pupils to programme a lego built buggy to follow a set of instructions and move in different directions. The young learners took part in three challanges: The Conference challenge - the buggy must turn exactly 360 degrees. The Championship challenge - the buggy must be parked in the parking bay. The Premiership challenge - the buggy must be parked in the Premiership garage. All the young learners did fantastically with many completing all three of the challenges! Well done to you all!
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