Latest News Stories from Brooke Weston Academy
Brooke Weston Academy is celebrating another successful year of Post-16 examination results with a significant increase in results in the harder linear courses taken for the first time this year.
Brooke Weston Academy’s Head of Belief, Philosophy and Ethics, Rachel Coombe, is making a long term dream come true by taking up a teaching post overseas.
Brooke Weston’s teachers Mr Troy Rutt and Miss Christina Kelly are looking forward to the challenges of their new roles overseas. Mr Rutt is moving to Malaysia while Miss Kelly will be teaching in Qatar.
Best selling novelist Dan Freedman visited Brooke Weston this week to speak to students about his career and host a creative workshop for a group of Year 7 students.
Brooke Weston Trust’s CEO, Dr Andrew Campbell, visited Brooke Weston Academy on the last of his tours of all the Brooke Weston Trust schools. He spoke to students and staff about all aspects of the academy and visited a range of classrooms.
Year 12 student Freya Marlow is facing her biggest fear by scuba diving in an aquarium with more than 27 different types of sharks to raise money for local Hospice Lakelands and the Breast Care Unit at Kettering General Hospital.
A group of Year 10 GCSE students visited the University College of Food in Birmingham, one of the countries leading universities for food courses as part of their food technology GCSE preparation.
Thanks to Brooke Weston Academy's DT technician, Mr Darren Hooper, who has spent hours making a trophy cabinet for Beanfield Primary School. The finished product, made of fingerjointed plywood, features shelves and a sliding perspex screen.
The Year 9 sports leaders facilitated the Primary Schools Town Sports Athletics Championships at Corby Triangle where they were responsible for running the track timekeeping, ordering the lanes and the overall scores.
The whole of Year 12 and their tutors visited Bedfordshire University this week to attend a UCAS exhibition to explore the wide range of opportunities available after school or college, under one setting.
Students who had taken part in the shadowing of the Carnegie/Greenway awards over the last three months were able to watch the awards being streamed live from the RIBA in London yesterday.
Brooke Weston Academy was delighted to host this year’s Carnegie/Greenaway shadowing event, which more than 60 students from Trust and local schools attended.
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