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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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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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Forensics with Freebrough

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Students from Freebrough Specialist Engineering College were continuing their scientific investigations at the centre this week. There had been an incident at the centre and a replica of the Carling Cup, the only major trophy Middlesbrough’s ever won, had been stolen! The perpetrator of the crime was hiding in plain sight in the centre but proof was needed to apprehend the thief!

Fortunately the scoundrel had left clues that would reveal their identity in the form of foot and finger prints.

The students set about creating molds of the foot prints and dusting for finger prints and in no time the guilty party was identified.

In the audio file below, Charlotte, one of our class room mentors at the centre explains to students the different parts that make up a finger print.

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Mobile Bullies

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Mobile Bullies is a film made in partnership with students from a year six class from St. Joseph’s school in Middlesbrough with Middlesbrough Football Club’s Playing for Success project and the help of Middlesbrough Media Zone.

Lizzie is a young girl who is alone. Nobody wants to know Lizzie and her ‘friend’ Chloe has made sure of this. Too afraid to tell her teacher or her parents, Lizze finds herself with nowhere to turn. Even her life at home is ruined by text messages and phone calls. However, a chance encounter, early one morning reveals more than she could have ever expected to know.

The film was premiered in front of a full house at Cineworld in Middlesbrough and was later shown at the Odeon in London’s Leicester Square where it was nominated in the ‘Best Drama’ category of the First Light Movies awards.

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Player Visit – Stewart Downing (February 2009)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Students from Hall Garth school and members of their family have been at the Riverside this week take part the Communicating for Success project.

The participants worked closely with poet, author and Boro fan Andy Croft to create unique poetry based around football memories. Newly learned ICT skills were then put into practice to create a short film with evocative images and music with the spoken words of their poems.

Boro and England winger Stewart Downing was our special guest on the final day and was treated to several of these short films including poem all about himself.

After the presentation Stuart was the focus in a question and answer session where he revealed his thoughts on many subjects including progressing through the Boro ranks, playing for England and his career as a DJ.

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Centre Activities – All Saints (Green Screen)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

This evening the students from All Saints were using the centre’s television studio to record a promotional advertisement for their Riverside Stadium Tour. Using green screen technology, the students were able to superimpose some footage of the Boro in action behind themselves whilst delivering a powerful advertising message.

All Saints must be experts by now as someone forgot to push the record button and so they had to go back into the studio to record it all again. It’s a good thing the students really enjoyed the activity!

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Player Visit – Rhys Williams (January 2009)

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

This afternoon we had a special guest join is at the Study Support Centre, Welsh international and Boro startlet Rhys Williams.
Rhys was happy to answer questions that the students from Newport had prepared for him and talked openly about his life in Austraila, signing for the Boro and his international career.

Click below to hear what Rhys has to say when he met students from Newport Primary.

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Presentation – Robert Huth (December 2008)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

The Riverside Suite hosted the MFC Playing for Success project’s presentation evening on Tuesday December 9th. Students from primary and secondary schools from across Middlesbrough attended the award ceremony where their achievements were marked with certificated, trophies and special prizes.

The students were celebrating the end of a ten week literacy course where the football club has been the focus of their learning.

Making the evening even more memorable was Premiership star Robert Huth who presented the students with their awards. The Boro defender arrived to a hero’s welcome from the 150+ students, parents and teachers and later posed for pictures and signed autographs.

Martin Hedgley centre manager commented on the success of the evening. “Robert’s attendance capped off a very successful ten week course and helped make the awards evening very special. Having a Premiership star share in your success and celebrate your achievements is a great way to mark the end of the course.”

One excited students said, “The course was fun and we learned a lot but meeting Robert Huth was the best bit!”.

It wasn’t just the students that were excited though. One parent remarked, “My son has taken part in the Playing for Success course and has enjoyed coming every time. The children took us on a guided tour around the stadium last week and this week we all get to meet a Boro player!”.

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