Latest News Stories from Brooke Weston Academy
Congratulations to students in Years 11, 12 and 13 who were amongst four local schools invited to take part in the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition at Kettering Museum and Art Gallery.
A group of Year 8 students from Brooke Weston were invited to Beanfield Primary where children’s author and illustrator Jim Smith spoke to them about writing and illustrating books.
Students in Year 7 have enjoyed spending time working on a community art project with two local artists creating woodland creatures from wire sculptures that will be used in the ‘Our Woods’ display in Corby on the 5th - 7th May.
Congratulations to Eliza Donnelly, Eliza Markova and Siobhan McGrady in Years 7 and 8 whose book covers’ all won first prize in the ‘Design a Book Cover’ competition.
This week sees the launch of a competition for all students in Years 7, 8 and 9 to design a book cover and be in with the chance of winning a book of their choice from those available at the Book Fair in February.
Students can design a cover for a book they have read or an imaginary book made up by themselves. The cover should be colourful, intriguing and eye catching and include information about the book, title and author’s name on the spine.
Students are invited to enter a national Harry Potter competition to invent their own magical Professor and be in with the chance of winning a class trip to Warner Bros. Studios in London, where they will have the opportunity to explore original sets from the Harry Potter movies.
The winner, together with 25 runners-up will also receive a hardback box set of the seven Harry Potter books and Harry Potter themed goody bags.
After 14 years at Brooke Weston Academy art technician Susan McAlpine is retiring. She has been fundamental in helping teachers organise their lessons, makes sure students have the equipment they need and carries out a host of other duties that she has been doing so long that it’s just second nature to her.
Susan, originally from Glasgow, moved to Corby 44 years ago. This meant that she had to leave her apprenticeship as a window dresser with House of Fraser that she had started aged just 14 and a half.
She came to Brooke Weston as a part time cleaner and four years later went on to the role of technician.
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