Latest News Stories from Brooke Weston Academy
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Lockdown textiles
Published 22/02/21The 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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Students 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!
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Author 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.
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BWA 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.
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BWA 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.
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Students 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.
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BWA 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.
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BWA 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.
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BWA'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.
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Charity 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.
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Young 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.