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This club is designed for Year 8 and 9 pupils who would benefit from some extra Spanish language teaching and the practice of football.
How it runs:
• The courses normally run as a once-a-week after school project involving 30 Year 8/9 pupils (some schools have also found pupils in Year 7 suitable for this course).
• The project lasts for 6-12 sessions (depending on ability on group/time in each session/extension activities added in).
• 15 pupils have a Spanish language lesson in a classroom for 45 minutes, whilst the other 15 have football coaching (using some of the language being taught if possible). At half time, the two groups swap over.
Requirements:
• Maximum of 15 pupils in any one group and a minimum of 10 pupils allowing for 5 a side football matches.
• Volunteers (other teachers, teaching assistants, Year 10-13 students studying the language, University students, local business language speakers) recruited, especially to help in classroom sessions to try to create a 1:4 ratio.
What you get:
• Each pupil receives a lesson booklet with football related language learning exercises and resources in Spanish. An Arsenal folder, pens and other Arsenal items (player and team cards, old match day programmes).
• Access to interactive language and football resources.
• Double Club: certificate.
• T shirts at end of course for all teachers and volunteers who have been involved regularly.
Optional extras
• A trip to the new Emirates Stadium.
• Free t-shirt and football presented to pupils on the day trip to the Emirates stadium.
How much does it cost?
• £8 per pupil plus the costs of a football trainer at around £12.50 per hour (if you are local to Islington and use one of our community coaches. Other Arsenal coaches and soccer school operators have their own rates). Please allow for travel time/expenses.
The cost of £8 per pupil goes towards the production of resources and administration costs.
The trips to the Emirates Stadium and t-shirts have extra costs of £5 and £4 per pupil respectively.
For example, if a school has 30 pupils signed up, costs would be £240 plus approximately £200 (if using Arsenal community coach) for a football trainer for an 8 week course. The Arsenal Double Club has only a limited number of football coaches available for work. Therefore depending on geographical location and timings, Arsenal will try to help find or supply an FA Level 1 qualified trainer.
Moreover, the Arsenal Soccer School organisation has a large number of operators working throughout England and it is possible that they might be able to provide an "Arsenal" coach for your Double Club sessions.
Alternatively, other solutions are:
• Find a FA Level 1 coach from your local sports clubs and leisure centres.
• Contact your nearest football League/Premiership club. They are likely to have FA level 1 coaches but will obviously not be Arsenal ones.
• Use a PE teacher (FA level 1 minimum) from yours or a local school
The Arsenal Double Club will provide each Spanish Double Club with suggested football schemes of work and also a bank of language words that link in with the classroom sessions.
What to do next?
• Decide on a group of pupils (could be from different year groups e.g. 15 Yr 8/15 Yr 9).
• Agree on a Spanish teacher to lead the classroom sessions and be the main school contact.
• Find a football coach and choose an afternoon when there is a classroom and football facility available.
• Please fill and return the application forms to the Consejería de Educación (details at bottom of application form).
Please note that it will not always be possible to meet your request for when you would like to start and run your Arsenal Double Club. Factors such as coach availability and access to Emirates Stadium tours restrict the number of Double Clubs that can run at any one time.
After your application, you will be contacted about your start date, postage of resources and if applicable, possible dates for an Emirates stadium visit towards the end of your course.
If you have any further questions, please contact Ionkar Angulo at the Consejería on 0207 9089382 (email info.uk@educacion.es) or Sami Singh on 0207 704 4158 (email ssingh@arsenal.co.uk)
Downloads
• Application form
• worksheet sample
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Arsenal Double Club 
