Georgia, “I think coming to Steelbacks is fun especially teasing Tim. I’ve made loads of new friends. I think we should play more games.”

Emmy, “The skills I have developed are to use apple computers : I.C.T! I have enjoyed the games, and the team work. :-)”

Clarissa, “Coming to the Steelbacks is fun because it is interesting and enjoyable. I’ve enjoyed playing the games and learning new things. :-)”

Sarah, “I have enjoyed coming to the Steelbacks. My favorite part was when we played the drain pipe game and I have improved my computer skills.”

Sophie, “Coming to Steelbacks is soooo much fun. I’m enjoying it sooo much. :-). (Must have the smiley face)”

Chloe, “I have found the Steelbacks Study Centre really fun and I have made loads of new friends, ie. Hannah. Would be good to do more Teamwork!!!:-)”

Han, “I’ve learnt that I can work in a team!! Steelbacks is enjoyable because it has fun activities. We want more Teamwork!”

Hope, “I have enjoyed Steelbacks because the activities are fun and we can talk about what we are doing.”

Natasha, “The skills I have developed are I.C.T and working with other people and it has been fun. If I were to improve anything I would have more games. :-)”

Tasha, “I have enjoyed this experience and have become more chatty. I have learned many things and have made new friends. :-)”

Chloe, Vernon Terrace “I liked the hoop game. we had to hold hands and get the hoop around the circle without un-linking hands!”

James, Kingsley “I liked making our name badges and learning to use Photo Booth”

Micheal, Kingsley ” I thought the T shirt making was really fun!”

Nimca, Vernon “I loved it when we got the Stadium tour.”

Dimz, Vernon “I like it when we do ICT, we learn different things we can do on the laptops!!”

Luke, Kingsley “Making the T shirts was my best bit because I like being creative”

Basil, Vernon “It has been fun making the shirts and playing the games.”

Shannon, Kingsley “I like going to Steelbacks because it is good fun, I enjoyed the Maths game.”

Kyle, Kingsley “I loved making our T shirts!”

Sophie, Kingsley “I learnt how to make an origami T shirt on my own, that was my favourite thing. It is fun at Steelbacks!”

Today at the Steelbacks study centre a group of 6 lads from NSB had a tour of the stadium, taking photo’s on the way, hen we used a Comic life program to make some cool comics.

Rob “I enjoyed making the comic’s the most because I haven’t done it before and it’s fun to play on!”

Ashley ” The tour of the ground was my favourite part today because it was and interesting to see what it looked like behind the scenes”

Josh (the dark haired one!!) “I liked the tour because we took pictures of all the sights we liked and we learnt loads of facts!”

Josh (the blonde one!!) “It was great today, we got to have a good look round the stadium and I practised my posing.”

Yvonne, Centre Manager “NSB were a credit to their school today, well done boys!”http://steelbacksstudycentre.org/files/2008/01/img_0285.JPG

On Monday 12th November, year 7/8 students from Mereway’s Double Club project visited the club with their teacher Mrs Jeyes. They undertook a stadium tour and saw behind the scenes of the indoor arena, club shop, bar, committee room and went onto the life member’s balcony to get the best view of the pitch.

They then used the digital photos taken on the tour to create comic strips using the Study Centre’s apple laptops ‘comiclife’ programme. They did a great job and were very creative adding commentary, captions and speech. Afterwards they recorded some match commentary onto ‘garageband’ , a voice recording programme. They could pretend they were players and interviewers. Previously in school, Mrs Jeyes had been working with them on press interviews.

The students were a credit to their school and study centre staff found them polite, well mannered and well behaved. They showed enthusiasm for their work and asked intelligent questions about the club and its players.

Writing sports poetry and talking about sports photos’ action in the style of comentators.

This is what children, parents and school teachers thought about the session held on Parklands’ open evening:

Tiegan: “I thought it was fun interviewing the adults and writing sports poems”

George: “It was fun, I wish I could listen to more music”

Harriet: “It was difficult because my mum doesn’t know anything about sport”

Josh: “My mum was good at helping because she did it all”

Alex: “I had fun working with my mum and interviewing her, she was helpful”

Kieran: “Working with my dad was funny, he made me laugh with weird things”

Tiegan: “We learnt how to record our voices”

Harry: “We learnt how to insert music to go with our voices”

Mr Dicken says “The children are very lucky to have an opportunity to come and use this equipment”

Alexs mum: “I enjoyed today seeing what Alex was learning”

Keiran’s dad: “I found it interesting but Kieran is hard to work with, he was good at commentating”

Jack’s mum: “It was really intersting to see what they do out of school, and glad to see the children are so well behaved out of school”

Mrs Gedney: “I can already tell that their attendance at the sessions are having an impact back in school, they are more confident”