Saints Study Centre

Our Saints Summer School has begun… Olympic style! It kicked off to a great start with some super ‘Maths is Fun’ which tested the children with their knowledge of all past Olympians and their world records. Children used their estimation skills to mark out the length of the 8 metres 95cm that Mike Powell jumped. They were amazed to see just how far it really was!
The children then explored Franklins Gardens during their Stadium Tour. Here is where they acted as a professional athlete and ran out of the player’s tunnel.
“My favourite part was sitting in the Burrda Stand and seeing the whole pitch and all the hospitality boxes!” Kylie Ferron, aged 11.

Arts and Crafts skills were developed when children designed and made fantastic Olympic Mascots, giving them their own names and characteristics. They thought carefully about the colours, symbols, and props! “I put a red phone box on my Olympic Puppet to represent London because that’s where the Olympics are held.” Casey-Jayne, aged 11.

Day three encouraged children to use technical thinking, along with developing their trial and error skills. The challenge was to build their own racing buggy using Robolab software. “It was really cool and fun because it was really hands on and you got to build your own design.” Megan Allard, aged 11. An Olympic race took place once all the buggies were built. We had the 100m Sprint, and a relay race! “I felt happy when I won the Gold Medal for the 100m Sprint, and I even got a real Saints Medal!” Katie Clark, aged 11.
The girls were then put to their pace with their own practical tag rugby session by one of our great Saints Community Coaches. They were challenged to use dodging, sprinting, and tactical ideas. There were lots of laughs, fun and games!

Creativity flowed throughout Day 4 during a superb Animation session. Lego and plasticine were tools used to create characters to some fantastic animated clips. The girls positioned and captured every small movement, and included sound effects! Professional animations girls, well done!!

The last tomorrow (Friday) the group will be coached in the Olympic sport of Trampolining at Northampton Trampoline Club who have many Olympic hopefulls at their club. Once we get back to the Study Centre the group will have lunch and complete a Photostory on their time at the centre.

A fantastic five days during which the girls have tried many new activities and made new friends in preparation for beginning their Secondary school lives in September. good luck to all of you at NSG.