WORK HAS BEGUN ON THE STUDY CENTRE’S NEW ACCOMMODATION AT THE COUNTY GROUND.

AT THE MOMENT WE ARE HOUSED IN TWO ADJOINING ROOMS IN THE SPENCER PAVILION WITH PANORAMIC VIEWS OF THE FIELD OF PLAY. DESPITE THE EXCELLENT POSITION THE ROOMS HAVE BECOME TOO SMALL NOW THAT WE ARE OFFERING FULL TIME PFS PROVISION.BY THE SUMMER WE WILL BE MOVING TO THE OLD BOWLS CLUB ON THE ABINGTON ROAD SIDE OF THE GROUND.

IN THE NEW BUILDING WE WILL HAVE TWO DISTINCT TEACHING SPACES AS WELL AS A DESIGNATED OFFICE SPACE AND A BREAKOUT ROOM FOR GAMES AND BREAK TIME.

THE BUILDERS MOVED INTO SITE AT THE BEGINNING OF OCTOBER AND THINGS ARE MOVING QUICKLY WITH THE INTERNAL CEILINGS AND THE OLD OUTSIDE TOILETS ALREADY DEMOLISHED, AND WORK ON THE NEW EXTENSION UNDERWAY.

CHECK OUT THE PHOTOS TO SEE HOW IT IS LOOKING AND COME BACK FOR REGULAR UPDATES AND NEWS OF OUR LAUNCH IN THE COMING MONTHS. 

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

The group did name badges, cricket player maths cards, stumps and bales, cricket and the 5 senses.

Rob says “It was fun today cos we can work with people we haven’t met before.”

It was enjoyable because there were lots of different activities.” Josh (dark hair)

Josh blonde hair: “Making the stumps was fun, I learnt how to do teamwork and how to build stumps.”

Connor “I learned how to communicate in teams.”

Ashley “I found that I could work with different people that I haven’t worked with before. Working on the laptops was the best bit.”

“I learned how to use the macs, I hadn’t used one before.” Alex

I liked the cricket maths games because it was fun” Matthew

Myra (mentor) says “we have an excellent group of boys.”

Yvonne says “the next 9 weeks going to be fun”

Anna says “The lads’ ICT skills are great, better than the staff.”

George “The IT software on the laptops was the best bit. The maths was good because we worked as a team”

Name: Anna
Age: 9
School: Cedar Road Primary
Book Title: Starring Sammie
Author: Helena Pielichaty
What happens in the story? Starring sammie is a book about a girl called Sammie. She lives with her mum and 3 sisters. At her school they are raising money for children in need. All the groups are having a competition to see who can raise the most money. Sammie Joins an after school club because she doesn’t want to go to her childminder anymore.
The best part? I think the best part of the book was when they describe the after school club.
What did you think? I thought the book was very exciting and it was about something that would happen in real life.
Who would it appeal to? I think this book would appeal to anybody beacause it has lots of different things like action and drama.

Steelbacks had a family bonding night out on Thursday 27th November. They had a yummy meal the took on the challenge of neon-bowling: Monday team vs Wednesday team. (with Val and Vickie moonlighting as wanabee Steelback-ers!)

The scores were very impressive (or not) but not as stunning as the classy dancing from Jo, Anna, Daniel, Myra and Ilona. (not scaring Rufia and Hima at all with their microphone straws)

Bibin had been practising hard the week before (and it showed) and it was Myra’s 1st time bowling, ever! (she kept that quiet then suprised us all)

This was an end of term celebration as well as huge thank you to all my Steelbacks mentors who have been so brilliant over the last few years. I couldn’t run the centre without them!

Anna

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.

As a reward for their fantastic reading at school with the “Reading Stars” reading scheme, Cedar Road children from years 5 and 6 enjoyed some cricket coaching at the Steelbacks Indoor Arena; with community cricket coach, James mellor.

Alfie says .. “It was brilliant, the practising was fun and we had a game at the end.”

Aidan .. “It was fantastic, we all wondered why Lee had butter in his hands??!!”

Emelia .. “I enjoyed the batting, and I thought it was really good and fun!!”

Marc .. “We played lots of games, I fell over but I still thought it was cool.”

Jordan .. “I liked everything!”

Anna, Centre Manager .. ” The children were very excited, and certainly showed their enthusiasm through the various skills that they took part in.”

Jo, SSCA .. ” I wasn’t there but the children seemed very excited when they got back!!”

On Thursday 8th November, year 8 students from Weston Favell’s Double Club project visited the club with their teacher Mr Lucas. They undertook a stadium tour and saw behind the scenes of the indoor arena, club shop, changing rooms, bar, function rooms, committee room and went onto the life member’s balcony to get the best view of the pitch. Mr Lucas knew a lot about the club and was able to share his ‘pearls of wisdom’ with the children and hopefully convert them into cricket fans!

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 work done at school onto ‘garageband’ , a voice recording programme.

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.

This is what the thought about the visit/what they learnt and did:

Lewis: “It was good today because I used the garageband/music programme.”

Barry “The players have their own changing room.”

Amber “I created a comic strip about my day here.”

Colm “It was good as we saw where the cricket players train.”

Sophie “It was fun because we used the laptops.”

Dominique “I thought it was fun walking around, learning about cricket”

Simeon “I liked standing on the balcony as its a long way down.”

Mr Lucas “It was good to see the children very interested in cricket, they worked very well in the centre.”

Myra (mentor) “They worked extremely well”