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The Big Impact Academy Project by Mr Honer

We’ve been fortunate enough to bring a select group of students for some sessions at the Saint’s Study Centre as a way of showing them how important it is to set goals for themselves not just in education but also in their lives outside of school. Without exception every session we have done has kept the students engaged and also helped them to realise their own hidden talents (including a couple of our lads having the amazing ability of walking on a barrel with no prior experience during a circus skills session!!). Each activity gets the students working in a way that sitting in a classroom never could, for instance in a school environment when asked to calculate how much power is needed to get a motor working they would almost immediately switch off……ask them to build a car and then work out how much power needs to go into each motor (as in RoboLab) and they will be starting before you can even tell them how to do it!!

We have two more days left at the Saints Study Centre so watch this space to find out what we get up to!

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Presentation Evening Summer 2011

On Monday 27th June the Saints Study Centre hosted their end of term presentation evening to celebrate the success of their Playing for Success pupils over the summer term.

 Over 300 pupils, parents and teachers attended the event from Northampton primary and secondary schools: Bellinge Primary; Castle Primary; Delapre Primary; Standens Barn Primary; St James Primary; Thomas Becket Secondary and The Friars School.

Bernie, the Saints Mascot, presented the pupils with certificates and prizes and even signed some of the special Saints memorabilia for them.

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Easter Challenge for St.James Primary School

Fourteen children from St.James Primary School have been enjoying the first two days of their four day holiday programme. Activities have included;

Name Badge Making
Maths Player Card Games
The Paper Tower Challenge
Maths is fun session
Tag Rugby Sessions

The group still have a Stadium Tour, Circus Skills and Animation workshops to experience over the next two days along with more tag rugby sessions. They will then complete a Photo Story on their four days of activities.