On Friday 24th July, Mark Foster opened Corby East Midlands International Swimming Pool. Anna attended the official opening at this magnificent new facility. The pool complex is amazing, with huge 50 Olympic sized pool, diving pool, fun pool with crazy slide, cafe, , gym and children’s pool.

Speeches came from Mayor of Corby Councillor Mary Butcher , Leader of Corby Borough Council Pat Fawcett, MP Phil Hope, MP Ben Bradshaw, Secretary of State for Culture and legendary Olympics swimmer Mark Foster. Understandably the people of Corby and Northamptonshire are very proud of this state of the art modern pool. In order to try and increase numbers of people swimming, all under 16s and over 60s have free entry, always! As the pool opened to the public in the afternoon, there were huge crowds of families waiting to give it a try.

Spectators in the gallery were treated to various swimming demonstrations and races including Synchronised swimming, diving, scuba diving and snorkeling, Corby swimming club races and an official timed 50 metres set by Mark. This was all very exciting and it was great to see local children taking part in sporting activities.

Supporter 2 Reporter students Josh and Nicola (Burton Latimer school) attended with Sara Cooke. These are trained reporters  who are part of the Diamonds Study Centre’s bank of reporters who will be invoved in 2012 events. Trained as part of national project Radiowaves, they attend various sporting events to practise their media skills. They were lucky enough to grab a few minutes with Mark and ask him some questions. They also roamed about taking voxpops from visitors. To see their finished blog and audio tracks, visit: http://www.radiowaves.co.u/r/hiphoppopotomus/blog

Photos of the students in action to follow soon….

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foster_(swimmer)

For more information on the pool: http://www.corby.gov.uk/LeisureAndCulture/SportsClubsAndCentres/Pages/CorbyEastMidlandsInternationalPool.aspx

Year 5 children at Danesholme Junior school joined the ‘Corby Reads with PfS’ project this week with all 3 classes taking part in sports based reading activities as well as some Cobblers football coaching.

check out what they learnt on their page: http://ontheroad.northantsstudycentres.org/wp-admin/page.php?action=edit&post=386&message=4

On Tuesday 19th May, Anna Letts, Helena Weedon and Cobblers community coach Adrian visited Kingswood secondary school as part of the ‘Corby Reads with PfS’ project. They delivered a taster day with year 8 students and brilliant HLTAs (higher level teaching assistants) Liz and Caroline.

To see what they got up to on the day, and see some of the students’ work, visit their page:

http://ontheroad.northantsstudycentres.org/wp-admin/page.php?action=edit&post=383&message=4

P= put one in the net                                                      

E= every time we score I jump for joy                                           

T= the Posh rule the league 

E= every time we win I cheer                                   

R= running up the league

B= booting the balls in the net

O= our boys play the best

R= roaring crowed helps us win

O= one team out of a million

U= upping our game

G= great football

H= hit the net with the ball                        

Dylan Hunter.

To find out more about ‘Corby Reads with PfS’, and to see the scheme of work (mapped with reading skills and national curriculum levels) used, visit:

http://ontheroad.northantsstudycentres.org/corby-reads-with-pfs/

Here are some of their evaluation comments:

Tyler: “We’ve been reading stories and writing comments, watched a movie looking at facial expressions.”

Ben: “We looked at different letters to make lots of words”

Melise: “We looked at bend it like beckham the book and then we looked at a bit of the movie and it was cool !!!!”

Lewis “We played games and did ICT. We found out about fact files. I enjoyed it”

“I really enjoyed playing football.”

Vanessa “I liked it when we played games with Ryan and when we copy and pasted pictures and words for player profiles.”