Week 3 Gateway at Grendon: Shelter Building
2012-01-26
This week saw our group building shelters to camp at the Olympic site, thinking about their structure and how to make them waterproof. Both groups succeeded in the challenge and worked together to make a Read full article »Week 3 Olympics Double Club
2012-01-24
This week the group focussed on Olympics poetry, reading some examples and analysing their poetic features such as similes, repetition, rhyme, punctuation, verbs and adjectives. Students then had a go at writing their own poems Read full article »Huxlow Olympics Double Club week 2
2012-01-19
This week saw Dorcas Adusei from NCC's Extended Services study support team lead the Double Club sessions on Olympic/paralympic athletes. The group looked at video footage of paralympic 100m runner Oscar Pistorius, known as 'Blade Runner' Read full article »Huxlow Science College start Olympics themed Double Club
2012-01-19
Monday 9th January 2012 saw the start of an 11 week Double Club programme begin with year 8 pupils at Huxlow Science College. The project has a literacy theme and is based around the Olympics Read full article »Week 3 Gateway at Grendon: Oddball Olympics
2012-01-19
This week we saw the return of Connor from our previous Grendon Gateway group and the addition of Adam from the Cobblers Study Centre. They joined in well with the rest of the group to Read full article »Week 2: The Olympic torch and fire lighting
2012-01-12
This week we talked about the Olympic torch and its route around the UK this year on the way to London. Our group learnt how to light a fire (as the torch is lit at Read full article »New Gateway group at Grendon
2012-01-12
This week we welcomed a new group to the Grendon Study Centre. We looked at the different Olympic sports and continents. Due to adverse weather conditions we had to cut the orienteering session short. Bradley Read full article »S2R reporter is chosen to carry the Olympic Torch!
2011-12-15
We are delighed that S2R Nicola Kenton from the Ferrers School has been given a conditional offer to be a London 2012 Olympic Torchbearer! She has been selected out of tens of thousands of exceptional nominations. Nicola's Read full article »Gateway week 6: quad biking
2011-12-08
This week the group took part in a quad biking practical led by Grendon Hall instructor Kirsty. This is a reward for their hard work and good behaviour over the last 6 weeks. Everyone enjoyed Read full article »week 5: designing an Olympic Park
2011-12-02
Lynn led the session today, showing the group photos of the 2012 London Olympic site and a video presented by Jonathon Edwards detailing the various arenas and facilities. The sights are very impressive from the Read full article »
