A scrapbook of news and media highlights from around the Northamptonshire Study Centres.

Silverstone Study Centre Manager, Peter Ford, was interviewed by BBC Radio Northampton’s John Griff about the study centre and its activities.

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Saints Study Centre’s Match Day Experience was featured on Northants TV recently. Click on the photo to see what the children get up to on a matchday!

Saints Study Centre’s Match Day Experience was featured on Northants TV recently. Click on the photo to see what the children get up to on a matchday!


Pragna Gandesha from Barclaycard has won a National title for her work in the Community and now goes onto the World finals for Barclaycard staff. Saints Study Centre is very proud of their work with Pragna and all Barclaycard staff and the opportunities the relationship has given to schools and their pupils in Northamptonshire. Last year alone they had over 20 schools into the Study Centre involving over 600 pupils who had been rewarded for a variety of reasons by their schools. Click on the photo to see the first part of a more detailed video of Pragna’s work. The second part of the video can be viewed here

Pragna Gandesha from Barclaycard has won a National title for her work in the Community and now goes onto the World finals for Barclaycard staff. Saints Study Centre is very proud of their work with Pragna and all Barclaycard staff and the opportunities the relationship has given to schools and their pupils in Northamptonshire. Last year alone they had over 20 schools into the Study Centre involving over 600 pupils who had been rewarded for a variety of reasons by their schools.

Click on the photo to see the first part of a more detailed video of Pragna’s work. The second part of the video can be viewed here


The Diamonds Study Centre Presentation Evening, celebrating the end of the ‘Playing for Success’ sessions, was reported in the Evening Telegraph. Click on the photo for the full report.

The Diamonds Study Centre Presentation Evening, celebrating the end of the ‘Playing for Success’ sessions, was reported in the Evening Telegraph. Click on the photo for the full report.


“The Playing for Success programme is establishing study support centres at sports grounds. 18 sports are involved, including all the major national bodies. 18 of the 20 Premierships are signatories, as are Silverstone Motor Circuit and the Brit Oval… The point is that these schemes are aimed at children who have not succeeded in school. And around 180,000 students have benefited so far. And it works. Four successive evaluation studies, undertaken by the National Foundation for Education Research, found significant improvements in literacy and numeracy and ICT skills and, actually, motivation to learn.”
— Tony Blair as Prime Minister in 2007 making a speech to the Youth Sport Trust.

Peter Austin, Manager of the Northampton Saints Study Centre, is interviewed on BBC Northampton’s Afternoon Show. He outlines how and why the Study Centres are so successful in Northamptonshire.

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