Northampton Transition project: Weston Favell Academy Cluster
2012-05-04
As part of the AIP Northampton Transition project, this term sees five Olympic themed sessions being delivered by Weston Favell Academy's year 8 leaders with year 5 primary students from Headlands, The Arbours and Abington Read full article »Weston Favell Academy student leaders prepare for Going for Gold transition sessions
2012-04-20
On Thursday, Anna visited the student leaders at Weston Favell Academy who are part of the Northampton transition project to help them prepare for 5 weeks of transition sessions with primary pupils. Having completed a day Read full article »Gateway at Grendon week 1: healthy eating and athletes diet
2012-04-19
To kick start the new term for Gateway at Grendon study Centre we chose to do a healthy eating session. The objectives were to cook meat and vegetables on an open fire but due to Read full article »Young leaders run Olympics themed workshops at PE and Sport Conference
2012-03-30
On Thursday 29th March, Henry, Ana-Maria and Amie who are year 8 student leaders from Thomas Becket, helped run a workshop at the Primary and Special Schools PE and Sport Conference at Northamptonshire County Cricket Club. Along Read full article »Final week of Huxlow Double Club, Olympic torch relay
2012-03-26
Week 11 saw the final sessions of Double Club take place at Huxlow Science College. Now that the official London 2012 torch route (http://www.london2012.com/olympic-torch-relay) has been revealed and we know it will be passing through Read full article »Huxlow Double Club week 10: designing Olympic athletes village
2012-03-19
In threes, the group designed their own village where the Olympic/paralympic athletes will stay during London 2012. As architects, they were tasked with drawing a plan of the facilities they would have, including transport, training, Read full article »Gateway week 4: Shelter building
2012-03-15
Sean and Adam worked brilliantly as a team to build a shelter that would be fit to stay in during the London 2012 Olympic games. It was free standing, could hold several people inside comfortably Read full article »Huxlow Double Club visit to Cobblers Study Centre
2012-03-15
This week, as part of their Double Club project, Huxlow students spent the day at Northampton Town Football Club using their literacy skills for Olympics and football themed learning activities. They went on a stadium Read full article »Thomas Becket leaders deliver Olympic values assemblies or Northampton Transition Project
2012-03-09
As the next step in the Northampton Transition Project, year 8 student leaders from Thomas Becket visited their cluster primary schools to deliver Olympic themed assemblies and workshops to KS2 students. This follows their training Read full article »Olympic themed animations from The Arbours Primary
2012-03-08
This week we gave the students a theme of Olympic sports. They had to use plastacine this time and make up their own sport for the Olympics. Once again they had to storyboard first and Read full article »
