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.
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Rushden 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.
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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

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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.
Young learners with Nabil Shariff and Lewis Halford.
Young learners with George Cox and Connor Hayes.
Young learners with Matt Pattison and Jack Higgins .
Young learners with Matty Evans and Callum Earls.
Young learners with Max Porter and Kurt Robinson.
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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.
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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.


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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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