Bookbusters shadow Carnegie and Greenaway Awards
Students from Brooke Weston Academy are shadowing the Carnegie and Greenaway book awards, reading and comparing the 15 shortlisted titles and taking part in an event with other schools in June.
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Students from Brooke Weston Academy are shadowing the Carnegie and Greenaway book awards, reading and comparing the 15 shortlisted titles and taking part in an event with other schools in June.
Well done to Year 7 student James Annable, Samuel Ward from Year 8, and Year 11 Archie Robertson-Smith, who were part of two teams that were sponsored to swim as many lengths of Kettering swimming pool as possible in an hour.
Congratulations to our Year 7 and 8 girls football team who competed in their first match of the season against Kettering Buccleuch Academy and succeeded in winning four goals to three.
Students in Years 7 and 8 attended their first boys hockey match against Bishop Stopford giving them invaluable experience of playing together as a team.
Following the excitement of the Bookbuzz scheme in December where Year 7 students were given a free book from a choice of 12, Librarian Ms Wendy McCabe has launched a book review competition to win the complete selection of books.
Students at Brooke Weston invited award winning author Jo Cotterill into school to speak to Year 7 students and deliver a creative workshop with a small group of Year 10s.
The tournament was divided into girls and boys teams and each team played five two minute games, with the first to three games winning.
Congratulations to three Brooke Weston students Daisy (Year 8), Joe (Year 9) and Max Oram (Year 10) who competed with Youth Brass 2000 (YB2K) in the British Open Youth Contest in Lancashire and came away as the British Youth Champions 2018.
Congratulations to Ashton McDonald 7K, Ellie Maguire 8R and Niamh Sayer-Brown 7S whose book covers’ all won first prize in the ‘Design a Book Cover’ competition.
We are delighted to announce the three winners of our Trust ‘Believe Big’ competition are 7E’s Robot Dog, 7B’s Crystal Clear and 7R’s Homeless token bench.
Students in Year 7 took part in a Trust ‘Believe Big’ day in conjunction with 7billionideas, an initiative to generate ideas that could change the world and build students’ confidence in delivering presentations.
A group of Brooke Weston Harry Potter fans were invited to take part in a celebration of J K Rowling’s unforgettable series of books at an event that was held at Corby Business Academy.
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