Kic.in2.Study

Year 10

Year 10’s Kic.in2.study programme began in the Autumn term when the group got to know each other, toured the stadium and took part in sessions lead by the University of the First Age. These sessions focused on learning to learn, learning styles and different intelligences. The group came back together in the summer term to hear a presentation from Aim Higher and one from Connexions, take on the Diamonds Club Challenge, tackle three Robolab challenges, a number of problem solving tasks, a map activity based on the location of Premiereship football clubs, and various ICT tasks using both Publisher and Powerpoint.

In addition the students took part in additional workshops on Circus skills and Shakespeare, holiday activities at Silverstone Study Centre and the Saints Study Centre and visited the Emirates Stadium. They are now looking forward to their visit to Longtown Outdoor Education Centre at the end of term.

Evaluations at the end of the programme described it as fun, interesting, challenging, brilliant and good. Robolab was the favourite activity.

Grendon

During half term year seven and eight students had a fantastic day at Grendon Outdoor Education Centre where mountain biking and raft building were the order of the day.  Mountain biking over an obstacle course which included a seesaw and a limbo pole gave us a chance to develop individual skills whilst raft building (in the rain) focused on team work.  Most students gave the day full marks for enjoyment.  Comments included “The best day ever”, “Terrifying but fun,” and words such as Excellent, fantastic, funnilicious, brilliant and awesome.

Kic at the Emirates

Fourteen young people and four members of study centre staff  visited the Emirates Stadium, home of Arsenal FC during May half term.  We began with a tour of the stadium including visits to the directors box, the press lounge and the changing rooms.  We were very impressed by the size of the stadium and by the luxuriousness of the changing rooms.  We weren’t able to go near the pitch because there was work going on to set up for a concert later in the week.

We also went to the club museum where we learned a lot about the history of the club, and to the club shop where we saw a huge range of Arsenal memorabilia.