NTFC involved in Classroom Champions Project with Sponne School

Over the last few months, Sponne School have been part of an engagement and motivational study centre project, a version of Classroom Champions: PfS style activities combined with literacy and numeracy resources from Northampton Town Double Club.

PfS Curriculum Practioner Anna Letts is visiting the school for a series of days to work with 20+ pupils in year 7 and year 9.

The pupils are targeted for literacy, especially those that are capable of achieving higher national curriculum levels than they presently do.

Getting the students to engage in their tailor-made days will help them to transfer key skills back into their usual lessons. They also do some community coaching with coaches from the Cobblers visiting the school.

Follow up visits to Sixfields and the Cobblers Study Centre are scheduled for July.

This project is funded by Sponne Cluster and organised by Shirley Button and Jo Holliday from Sponne School. Mrs Button has worked with the study centres in the past, through Silverstone PfS sessions and Classroom Champions in South Northants primary schools. She works alongside Anna in delivering these days and provides advice in literacy skills.

So far the students in the year 9 cohort have been writing match reports, player profiles and persuasive paragraphs to justify their fantasy team profiles. They used Cobblers programmes to do an information retrieval exercise: a programme trail crossword.

The students will be attending a game at Sixfields to see the players they have been learning about in action.

For information on the school visit http://www.sponneschool.northants.sch.uk

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