Showing items for tag “KS3”

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  Year 7 triumph at Dodgeball tournament

  Published 16/01/18

  Congratulations to our Year 7 Dodgeball teams who competed in a Dodgeball tournament at Corby Technical School and succeed in coming first and second respectively.

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  BWA students make gingerbread houses

  Published 21/12/17

   

  Students from Brooke Weston Academy made and decorated gingerbread houses with an emphasis on ‘healthy’ decorations. Five students from Year 9 took part as they were the winners of a healthy eating burger competition and selected students from Year 7 were also invited to take part.

  

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  Year 7 students receive books for Christmas

  Published 12/12/17

  Students from Year 7 received a free book from the Library as part of the Bookbuzz programme. Over 180 books were wrapped by Sixth Formers Charlee Broad, Amy Kirby and Daniel Fell and handed out to students during tutor time.

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  Internationally acclaimed author visits Brooke Weston

  Published 04/12/17

  Students in Years 7 and 8 were visited by Damian Dibben the Internationally acclaimed author of the adventure series ‘The History Keepers’ where he spoke to students about his career and hosted some creative workshops.

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  Premier league reading challenge

  Published 21/11/17

  This week saw the return of the popular Year 7 boys' premier league reading challenge where students split themselves into teams of five, with each team representing a football team in the premier league and compete to read as many books as possible before the end of the football season

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  BWA introduces robotics into DT

  Published 20/11/17

  Following years of research, teachers at Brooke Weston have been working across departments to introduce robotics into DT and have succeeded in bringing IT and DT together to enable students to make and programme robotic bugs.

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  BWA students grow their own fabric

  Published 13/11/17

  Students in Year 8 are growing their own fabric from bacteria to help better understand the importance of sustainability in the textile industry.

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  BWA Students have work published in national magazine

  Published 30/10/17

  Congratulations to Brooke Weston students Kirndeep Dhassi, Lana Green, Seren Devine and Eliza Donnelly who have all had their book reviews published in the latest copy of ‘Teen Titles’, the book review magazine for teenagers.

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  Former Brooke Weston teacher returns to talk about her new book

  Published 25/09/17

  Former Brooke Weston teacher Tamsin Winter spoke to students about her first novel ‘Being Miss Nobody’ which deals with anxiety and mental health issues. Tamsin, who trained as a teacher at Brooke Weston and taught English here until leaving in 2005 always wanted to write and now she is doing author visits and working on her second novel.

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  Best selling novelist visits Brooke Weston

  Published 14/07/17

  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.

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