Latest News Stories from Brooke Weston Academy
Year 11 student Haydn Bennett is taking part in a tandem skydive in Peterborough in aide of Crazy Hats Breast Cancer on the 9 July to raise money for a fantastic charity that is close to his heart.
Students in Year 9 entered an innovation challenge run by local global distribution company RS Components to design a new layout for their Innovation Truck and succeeded in beating 25 schools and winning five new computers worth over £500 for the school.
Former Brooke Weston student Charlie Mawby returned to Brooke Weston this week to give a presentation about life in the RAF and to answer questions about a career in the armed forces.
Students from Brooke Weston attended the annual Comic Con convention at Athena in Leicester where they joined in the celebration of comics, TV shows, films and video games.
Corby’s parliamentary Conservative candidate, Tom Pursglove, visited Brooke Weston Academy to speak to Sixth Formers about how to become a politician and why voting in the general election is so important.
Students at Brooke Weston were fortunate to be able to Skype with award winning author of ‘Salt to the Sea’ Ruta Sepetys, where they were able to ask questions about her book and life as an author.
Corby’s parliamentary Labour candidate, Beth Miller, talked to Sixth Formers at Brooke Weston about her career route, political aspirations and why voting is so crucial for young people.
Brooke Weston’s guitar teacher Mr Paul Balmer is searching for more students to become involved in his youth projects in music and creating podcasts and short films about Corby.
Congratulations to our amazing students who won awards at the Brooke Weston Trust Sports Award Evening.
Hania Mazur was named Brooke Weston Trust Leader of the Year in KS3, Sophia Shorrock was named SportsLeader of the Year in KS4, Annabel Thompson was named Sportswoman of the Year in KS3 and the Year 11 Futsal team was named as BWT Team of the Year for KS4. We also won Sports Festival for Year 7 and 9, U-14 Rugby and U-14 Cricket.
Congratulations to Mrs Karen Hearne who has been appointed the Trust’s first Director of Science. Mrs Hearne is a very experienced teacher, having been at Brooke Weston Academy since it opened, and Head of Science for the past three years.
She is looking forward to working with colleagues from across our Trust secondary schools to improve outcomes for students, sharing ideas and best practice between departments. The new role is about building relationships and offering support where needed:
Congratulations to Sixth Former’s Andrei Kzan, Shehan Retnasingam and Keoni Southwick who were successful in coming first, second and third respectively in a chess tournament against Corby Business Academy.
Brooke Weston’s chess club hosted the tournament, which consisted of three rounds of classic chess, suicide chess and checkless chess with points awarded for a win loose or draw and averaged out from the amount of games that the students played.
Congratulations to Year 7 students Matthew Russell, Anna Bredenkamp and Finlay Short who won prizes for their written book reviews on titles they chose from the Bookbuzz programme at Christmas.
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