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Playing for Success Presentation (December 2009)

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

The Riverside Stadium’s Hardwick Suite hosted our termly PfS Celebration of achievement event on Thursday 10th December.
More than 100 students, teachers and family members turned out to see young people who’ve been involved with the Playing for Success and Double Club projects over the last school term. Australian international and upcoming Boro star Rhys Williams was on hand to present certificates and prizes out to the pupils of the latest Playing for Success project for their efforts. Pupils were given special prizes for outstanding work including cinema tickets, a match day experience, i-pod shuffles and even a signed away shirt.

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Kings Manor Science Podcasts

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Students from Kings Manor school in Middlesbrough have been studying science with us at the Study Support Centre. The students have investigated the speed of sound through measuring the echos around the Riverside Stadium and they’ve been finding out which shin pad offers the most protection in our own, custom built, shin pad testing rig.
Part of any experiment involves creating a report but rather than write this report in the usual manner, students from Kings Manor created an audio podcast of their findings.


They were shown how to use GarageBand, a multitrack audio editing and composition software and used state of the art professional grade microphones to capture sound effects and their own voice for the podcast. Click below to hear the results…

Fahad & Daniaal

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Saif & Mackale

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Saif & Sharif

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Sohaib & Bellal

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Sohail

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Toseef & Shaad

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Playing for Success Montage

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Pupils that have attended the Playing for Success project over the last ten weeks have been creating their very own website advertising a unique tour of the Riverside Stadium. Each page on the website looks at a different area of the stadium in which each pupil has used literacy skills, podcast recording, Video recording and photographs to advertise their work. This montage shows just a flavour of the work the pupils have produced including photos from their tour.

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More support for our film project

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Our film project has received even more backing from Boro superstar Adam Johnson. He took the time out from one of our Playing for Success sessions with students from St. Joseph’s to lend his support to our campaign.

Adam Johnson with Adam Heward and Tony Coleman

Adam Johnson with Adam Heward and Tony Coleman

During the session he answered questions, posed for pictures and signed autographs before students from Trinity College and Kings Manor arrived to carry out some scientific experiments.

They wanted to find out if playing video games had a physiological effect on the gamer. Strapping themselves into heart rate monitors they played on Guitar Hero and even challenged Adam to a game of FIFA 10 on the Xbox 360. The match was Middlesbrough Vs. Newcastle with Adam representing Boro of course. The game was full of twists and turns and the heart rate recordings reflected this. First the Boro took the lead but Newcastle came back to equalise. Then a corner from Adam’s in game likeness led to a towering David Wheater header to win the match and send Adam’s opponents heart rates soaring.

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Adam Johnson (PfS Visit)

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Boro’s tricky left winger, Adam Johnson attended the MFC Study Support Centre to answer questions from the pupils of St. Joseph’s school.

Adam with students from St. Joseph's

Adam with students from St. Joseph's

This was a special treat for the pupils who have been part of the Playing for Success project at the centre, working on their literacy skills. ‘Jinky’ talks about making his Boro debut, playing in Europe and life in the Championship as well as the personal qualities that have helped him become successful.

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Boro stars back our bid

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Playing for Success are applying to the prestigious First Light movies organisation for funding to produce films involving local youngsters and we’ve got the backing of Boro defender Chris Riggott and new signing Kaleb Folan.

Boro stars Chris Riggot and Kaleb Fowlan

Boro stars Chris Riggott and Kaleb Folan with Adam and Tony from PfS

First Light is the UK’s leading initiative enabling young people to realise their potential via creative digital film and media projects.

Our last film, Mobile Bullies, has previously been short listed for a national film award but Playing for Success are looking to recruit a team that will help us take home a trophy at next years awards ceremony.

If you’re between 5-19 years old and have a passion for acting, script writing or film production we want to hear from you.

Find out more!

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Transition Summer School

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Students from some Middlesbrough’s primary schools were giving the opportunity of taking part in a Transition Summer School. The aim was create situations for the students to practice key skills that they will need to make a successful transition from primary to secondary school.

The first activity that the students took part in was a cookery course in association with What’s Cookin’ Kids at Middlesbrough College. In the aspirational environment of a professional kitchen and under the guidance of an expert chef the students prepared healthy fruit kebab snacks, a wholesome tuna pasta for lunch, sweet chocolate chip muffins for desert and a convenient sandwich to take home. These activities encouraged the students to call upon and develop their preparation and organisational skills.

Next, the group traveled to Carlton Outdoor Education Centre A.K.A Carlton Camp. Here the students would embark on numerous outdoor activities designed to test their communication and team work skills such as orienteering, climbing and puzzle solving.

Gateshead was the next destination for the group where they took part in musical activities in the stunning surrounds of The Sage on the banks of the river Tyne. The focus of the day was being creative and taking risks. The students were encouraged to do their own thing and stand out from the crowd, letting their creativity flow. The  students worked in groups to produce musical rhythms using drums, co-ordinating their beats and taking freestyle solo’s occasionally. Later they were involved in a freestyle rapping session that everyone was part of. Every one created a verse that was then put into a track and put onto a CD.

On the last day the students joined us at the Study Support Centre. Here the students created TV adverts for the cooking project that they took part in. Using footage that was shot on the day the students used iMovie to create their own advert and used the centre’s microphones to record a voice over for the add. The best bit was yet to come as the students entered the Riverside TV studio to record their personal promotions for their adverts in front of the green screen. This was then imported into iMovie to give their adverts a more persuasive edge.

Finally it was off to the Fenton Lounge at the Riverside Stadium where friends and family were invited to celebrate the students success. The whole week had been captured on camera and the footage was show in a presentation to give the attendees an idea as to the activities that their children had been involved in. The awards evening featured special guest for the evening Boro’s own David Wheater who kindly presented certificates of achievement, posed for pictures and signed autographs.

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Presentation (July 2009)

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Learners from the Playing for Success and Double Club projects had their achievements recognised at our latest presentation in the Legends Lounge.

Former England World Cup and Boro legend Alan Peacock was on hand to present the learners with their certificates of achievement and special prizes.

Students taking part in the Playing for Success project have completed a 10 week literacy course based at the Study Support Centre. During this time the students have been creating their own website showcasing the Riverside Stadium and all it has to offer in the guise of a stadium tour. Their website included a press room video which was filmed in the centres TV studio infront of a green screen. The learners pretended to be news reporters and Boro superstars conducting a post match interview in a heated press room environment.

They also used the latest microphone and computer technology at the centre to create radio adverts for their stadium tour which were added to their websites.

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Summer School Transport Details Amendments

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Sorry about the confusion with the address details of the pick up and drop off points for this years summer school at the end of August.

Please see the revised travel arrangements in this document.

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Media with Priory Woods

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

This week was the first in the series of sessions at the centre for Priory Woods. Learners are taking part in two different media courses.

One group will be making their own radio shows including their own jingles, news articles and an interview with with a special guest from within the radio industry. They’ll be using the latest professional level audio equipment including HHB Flash Mics, Samson CO3U Podcast Kits and GarageBand on Apple iMacs. They’ve already made a great start by interviewing Sara Fellows from BBC Tees who has great radio experience having presented her own show on various stations as well as traffic and travel. The interview had to be edited and so the learners moved on to the iMacs for a quick tutorial on GarageBand. GarageBand is so easy to use that the interview was almost fully edited before the end of their first session.

Another group from Priory Woods are taking part in a movie making course using video cameras and iMovie on Apple iMacs. This week the learners were shown a Study Support Centre favourite, Speed Stacks. They were given a little time to play with the Speed Stacks before being shown the equipment that they’ll be using over the coming weeks. Once they got to know how to operate the camera they recorded each other playing with the Speed Stacks. There was time for a quick tutorial on iMovie before they left so that the learners could begin editing their movies in the next session.

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