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Through Playing for Success (PfS) , the Department for Children, Schools and Families has been establishing out of school hours study support centres within top sports clubs, grounds and venues. The centres use the environment and medium of sport to help motivate those pupils in danger of under-achieving. To date around 162 sports' clubs have signed up to the full Playing for Success model and 99 have opened centres to date. Around 180,000 pupils have benefited so far, and over 55,000 will benefit each year when all centres are open. Wakefield currently has three Playing for Success centres. The first of these was set up in 2005 as Featherstone ImpRovers. Centres are equipped with the latest ICT facilities and are open after school hours, at the weekend and in the holidays. Typically, each pupil attends a two hour session each week for 10 weeks . Featherstone Improvers, however, give the same number of hours but over a 5-week period each session being 4hours long. If you want to know more about Featherstone ImpRovers contact Tina Dransfield at |
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