Lockdown textiles
Published 22/02/21
The Year 7, 8 and 9 students at Brooke Weston Academy have been working hard on their textiles work during lockdown with some impressive results.
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Read MoreStudents have reviews published in national magazine
Published 01/11/19Well done to five students who have had their book reviews published in a nationwide fiction magazine, with the views of Brooke Weston Academy students taking up an entire page of Teen Titles!
Read MoreAuthor Ben Davis visits BWA
Published 24/07/19Author Ben Davis spoke to Year 7 and 8 students at Brooke Weston Academy about his writing career and presented prizes to winners of the Academy’s reading challenge.
Read MoreBWA students awarded Pixl Edge certificates
Published 14/06/19Well done to our first cohort of Year 8 students who have been awarded their Pixl Edge certificates. The students had to successfully complete two tasks in different topic areas and register their progress online.
Read MoreBWA team win prize national Carnegie video compeition
Published 06/06/19The Brooke Weston Book Busters reading group came second in a national video competition posing as characters from the Carnegie shortlisted books.
Read MoreStudents creates ingenious cake trench for history competition
Published 07/05/19Year 8 student William Farnsworth Coombs built an ingenious WWI trench from cake and won a Year 8 history competition in the process.
Read MoreBWA students take part in Trust Big Book Quiz
Published 29/04/19Well done to our students who took part in the Big Book Quiz against peers from other Trust schools.
Read MoreBWA congratulated by School Standards Minister
Published 24/04/19Brooke Weston Academy is in the top 9 per cent of state funded mainstream schools for its Progress 8 score and in the top 11 percent for its EBacc entry, based on 2018 figures.
Read MoreBWA's sporting success
Published 19/03/19Congratulations to three of our sports teams who all won gold medals in recent tournaments. The Year 7/8 Dodgeball, Y9/10 Handball and Y8/9 Futsal teams all stormed to victory in hard fought contests, winning the top spots in each competition.
Read MoreCharity money donated to Corby Nightlight homeless shelter
Published 19/03/19Brooke Weston Academy’s Principal, Pete Kirkbride, and Head of Sixth Form, Nina Smith, presented a cheque for more than £600 to Corby Nightlight, a homeless shelter in the town.
Read MoreYoung dancers' success at ballroom Grand Prix
Published 26/02/19Well done to talented young dancers, Daisy Ahearn and Millie Richardson on their success at a recent dance competition at the famous Blackpool Tower ballroom.
Read MoreStudents awarded for allotment development
Published 21/02/19Brooke Weston Academy students have been awarded certificates from the Royal Horticultural Society, after designing and constructing an allotment area which offers a wealth of enrichment and learning opportunities.