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.
The Study Support Centre’s own Tony Coleman has been trawling the league tables and has found out something very interesting. Out of the 92 league clubs, 43 teams have achieved Premiership status at some point throughout their history. That’s almost half of all clubs. The Premier League has 20 teams, there are 15 ex-premier teams in the Championship, 7 in League One and Bradford are the only team to have played in the Premier League in Two.
Burnley were promoted to the Premier League this season and are the latest to join the elite list.
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.
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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Students from Tollesby and Holmwood were at the Study Support Centre this afternoon and were involved in creating a TV advert for our favourite game at the centre, Speed Stacks.
Before we got the cameras out to record the ad, students were given a set of Speed Stacks to play with so that they could get some ideas for the advert. A brief thought shower session followed where students came up with features and benefits of Speed Stacks which they wanted to promote in their ad.
Next we got the cameras out. Students were shown how to use the camera and what makes and effective shot. They filmed each other playing with the Speed Stacks and delivering lines to the camera.
The following week we asked the students to create a print ad for Speed Stacks using a digital camera and a computer program called Comic Life.
We think you’ll agree that the students from Tollesby and Holmwood have made Speed Stacks a must have item!
Students from Freebrough Specialist Engineering College have been attending the Study Support Centre this term, carrying out investigations all about sound.
During the first session students welcomed Chris Jackson, an Environmental Health Officer (EHO) with Middlesbrough Council. Chris spoke about many aspects of his job including a how to become an EHO and noise nuisances and also showed the students some interesting maps of Middlesbrough showing how sound levels differ throughout the area.
In a later session the students participated in an experiment where the aim was to calculate the speed of sound. Students recorded the echo created inside of the Riverside Stadium when beating a drum and analysed the sounds on the centre’s computers to get the most accurate figures for the calculations. Rather than simply writing their experiment in the usual manner they were then tasked to produce an audio podcast detailing their research and findings.
Below are examples of their fine work.
Lindsay & Hannah
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Alisha & Connor
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Lucy
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Yasmin & Lauren
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The Legends Lounge was packed out this afternoon as we celebrated the achievements of the latest cohort to complete their Study Support Centre course. Students from schools across Teesside, accompanied by their close family and teachers were present to enjoy each others efforts over the last ten weeks.
Boro youngster Matthew Bates handed out certificates and awards as well as posing with the students for photos and signing autographs.
The Study Support Centre would like to invite students and their close family to join us in celebrating the completion of their Study Support programme. The event will take place in Legends Lounge at the Riverside Stadium on Tuesday 31st of March and it all kicks off at 4 PM.
The celebration events are a great opportunity to share in the students achievements and to show that we all support them in their learning. They are also often attended by a special guest who presents students with certificate and prizes. You never know who’ll turn up!
Click the link below to see our latest event and get an idea what the evening will have in store.
You could be forgiven for thinking that students from Teesside’s primary schools were in the Riverside’s Press Room during their visits this week. They were in fact in the Study Support Centre’s TV Studio in front of a green screen with the Press Room superimposed in the background.
The students took on the roles of either the Boro Manager or a player and Scoop Daily, a sports journalist asking tough questions.
These videos will be embedded the student’s own unique web site that they have been producing during their time on our Playing for Success project.
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