Arsenal Double Club
Arsenal Double Club
DOUBLE CLUB EVENTS:
- Community: Scott Cohen on the Double Club
- Business Studies students hold Q&A
- Double Club gets cooking at London Colney
- Double Club captures excitement of Euro 2008
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The Arsenal Double Club is an innovative education and football programme which offers a range of subjects, together with football coaching. In 2005, the Double Club was awarded the "Big Tick" from Business in the Community.
Arsenal Double Clubs run in schools as after school clubs and during lesson time. They are also being used in weekend clubs, in holiday programmes, in prisons and as part of alternative education schemes. The prestige of Arsenal Football Club and the popularity of playing football is the inspiration behind the Arsenal Double Club. The aim is to raise the confidence and ability levels in various school and education subjects, through teaching resources about Arsenal and football. These sessions are combined with a parallel programme of football coaching. The Arsenal Double Club has modules in literacy, numeracy, Science, French, Spanish and German, ICT, Geography, Cookery and Healthy Living, History, Business Studies, Architecture, Citizenship. Most of the modules are aimed at underachieving pupils at Key Stages 2 and 3 but are easily adaptable to suit other needs. The Double Club currently runs in approximately 40 schools in literacy and numeracy and a further 30 in other modules.
Resources
All Double Club resources are well produced and are developed in partnership with schools and education consultants. They link in with the National Curriculum and attempt to tackle school subjects in a fun way using football related topics. The German module for example, was developed with the Goethe Institute and the Voyage-The UK-German Connection and uses an interview with Jens Lehmann and the World Cup in Germany as the focus for the module.
Staff
The classroom sessions are led by teachers or mentors from schools, depending upon location, Arsenal may be able to supply football coaches; alternatively FA Level One coaches can be used.
Volunteers
Older pupils and local students assist in the running of Double Clubs. Sixth formers (and in some cases Year Tens and Elevens) go into local primary schools or help out in Year Seven Double Clubs in their own school. The Double Club also works with Reach (London Metropolitan Volunteer Services) and UCL's Volunteer Services Union to attract volunteers to work in many of our local schools. These volunteers make a significant contribution to the success of the programme.
The Arsenal Double Club package
Aside from their lessons in school, all Double Clubs are encouraged to present their pupils with t-shirts and certificates at the end of the course. This often happens in a school assembly. All Double Clubs are also invited to spend a day towards the end of their course at Emirates Stadium, where the students get a tour and a visit to the interactive Arsenal museum. Some schools also get involved in Double Club tournaments.
DfES Secondary School Project
Since January 2004, Arsenal in the Community has placed full time teachers in secondary schools in London in a joint venture with the DfES and local education authorities. Selected groups of pupils receive a concentrated Double Club Key Stage 3 curriculum and the results of this intensive football based programme have been very positive. As a result, in 2006-07, the DfES has asked the Arsenal Double Club to work with other clubs to establish Double Clubs in their local schools. Clubs involved, through their Playing For Success Study Support Centres, are Ipswich, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Northampton, Oldham, Portsmouth, WBA, Fulham, Southend, Bolton, Watford, Ipswich, Blackburn, Norwich, Northampton Saints Rugby Club, Leicester Tigers Rugby Club, Hunslet Hawks Rugby League Club, Northants County Cricket Club and Surrey County Cricket Club.
Other Developments
On the back of the success of the DfES Pilot in secondary schools in Islington and Tower Hamlets, a full time Arsenal Science Teacher has been working in Tower Hamlets schools since September 2005. This joint project with Tower Hamlets education authority has now spread to include science teaching and football coaching in primary schools in the borough.
The Arsenal Double Club has also had twice weekly sessions in Pentonville Prison since May 2005. The learners have been writing match reports and reading and debating topical football issues in the classroom, before taking a basic course in football coaching.
Double Club Languages
Arsenal Double Club is an innovative education and football programme that provides pupils with a 'double' experience - engaging football related resources in the classroom followed by coaching in the target language. This successful programme won CILT’s European award for Languages 2008.
The resources have been developed in collaboration with our partners; Institut Français, Goethe Institut, UK-German Connection and Consejería de Educación. So far, over 3000 pupils have completed the programme at KS3. Our secondary resources are suitable for Years 7-9 and aim to raise the profile of languages in schools, motivate pupils and encourage uptake at GCSE. Following their success, Primary language modules have been developed to enthuse younger learners at KS2.
The colourful workbooks include fun games and quizzes and are linked to interactive whiteboard activities. A key element of each module is a DVD featuring an Arsenal player speaking in the target language. Within the workbooks are listening exercises based around these interviews.
The modules cover a range of topics including; personal details, countries, numbers, colours, daily routine, food, likes and dislikes, directions and body parts. All modules also focus on football vocabulary and expressions.
Another unique feature is our insistence on reinforcing the language on the pitch.
We will do our best to provide you with an Arsenal coach, however due to the success of the programme, this is not always possible. If your school is not local to us, there are several official Arsenal Soccer School’s around the UK that may be able to offer coaching. Alternatively, you can use a qualified coach known to your school/P.E. Dept. We provide coaches’ notes with basic vocabulary and suggested language drills to be used during the football sessions.
At the end of the programme, pupils will have the opportunity to visit the stadium - this is not compulsory, but they always have a good time! This includes a guided tour, museum visit, language activities and a prize giving ceremony. Thanks to our partners, the European Commission, we can now offer Double Club t-shirts and footballs free of charge on the day.
Links have been established with European Football clubs and in 2008/09, thanks to funding from our partners, Double Club pupils visited RSC Anderlecht in Brussels and Hertha BSC in Berlin as part of a Languages/Football exchange. Future trips are planned to clubs in Germany, France and Spain.
The modules cover a range of topics including; personal details, countries, numbers, colours, daily routine, food, likes and dislikes, directions and body parts. All modules also focus on football vocabulary and expressions.
The modules cover a range of topics including; personal details, countries, numbers, colours, daily routine, food, likes and dislikes, directions and body parts. All modules also focus on football vocabulary and expressions.
If you would like more information on Double Club Languages, please contact Julie Stoker on 0207 704 4148 / jstoker@arsenal.co.uk.
For further information on the Arsenal Double Club, please contact :-
Scott Cohen
Arsenal Double Club Co-ordinator
Emirates Stadium
75 Drayton Park
London N5 1BU
Email: scohen@arsenal.co.uk
Telephone: 0207 704 4149
Contact re: DCSF, Science, Cookery and Healthy Living
Paul Thompson
Assistant Double Club Co-ordinator
Emirates Stadium
75 Drayton Park
London N5 1BU
Email: pthompson@arsenal.co.uk
Telephone: 0207 704 4152
Contact re: After-schools, Weekend and Holiday programmes, Geography
Samir Singh
Museum and Double Club Assistant
Emirates Stadium
75 Drayton Park
London N5 1BU
Email: ssingh@arsenal.co.uk
Telephone: 0207 704 4158
Contact re: Languages, History, Business Studies, Architecture, Citizenship
Ross McKinley
Double Club Assistant
Emirates Stadium
75 Drayton Park
London N5 1BU
Email: rmckinley@arsenal.co.uk
Telephone: 0207 704 4147
Contact re: After-schools, Volunteers
Julie Stoker
DCSF Languages Consultant
Emirates Stadium
75 Drayton Park
London N5 1BU
Email: jstoker@arsenal.co.uk
Telephone: 0207 704 4148
Contact re: Languages
Double Club Fax: 0207 704 4151
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