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March 2017

  • Brooke Weston students visit Auschwitz

    Published 28/03/17

    Two Year 12 students, Brooke Gray and Albert Nyarko-Agyei, visited Auschwitz as part of a project organised by The Holocaust Trust to educate them on the Holocaust and the lessons to be learned from it today.

    The Holocaust Educational Trust was established in 1988 and works in schools, universities and the community to raise awareness and understanding of the Holocaust. They run an annual project taking more than 200 students from 16-18 years old from secondary schools and colleges across the country to Auschwitz in Poland.

    The Holocaust was the mass murder of six million Jews and millions of other people leading up to, and during, World War II. The killings took place in Europe between 1933 and 1945 organised by the German Nazi party which was led by Adolf Hitler. The largest group of victims were Jewish people where nearly 7 out of every 10 Jews living in Europe were killed.

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  • Student raises £100 towards school trip

    Published 28/03/17

    Year 9 student Ella Cummins has raised £100 towards her school trip to Tanzania by organising a Mother’s Day raffle at school and in her local community.

    Ella is one of 14 Brooke Weston students from Year 9 to Year 12 who are taking part in a three week expedition to Tanzania in July 2018. The expedition costs £3,495 and students have each taken on the challenge to raise the money themselves through school events, raffles and sponsorship. This is a huge undertaking for anyone and requires a great deal of organisation and motivation from every student.

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  • DofE students camp on the school field

    Published 27/03/17

    Duke of Edinburgh students in Year 9 have been practicing for their first two day DofE expedition by learning how to pitch tents and cook a variety of food on camp stoves in the school grounds.

    The practice is vital before their first assessment at Rutland Water in April and included camp stove safety, first aid, cooking their own food on the campfires and camp craft - knowing the best place to position your tent and physically putting it up.

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  • Brooke Weston student wins the A S Felton Cup for her cornet recital

    Published 21/03/17

    Brooke Weston student Daisy Oram competed in the Kettering and District Eisteddfod competition, an annual festival of music, speech and dramatic arts for amateur performers where she was successful in winning the A S Felton Cup in the 13 Years and under cornet Recital Class.

    Daisy practices the cornet five times a week and had to fight her anxiety issues during the competition when on the first day she became too nervous to compete but managed to overcome her fears and came back the next day to win. She said ‘The first day my anxiety got the better of me and I wasn’t able to play at all. I went back on the second day feeling scared and worried that I wouldn’t be able to play or I would go wrong. I played two different pieces tried my best to keep focused and won. It felt amazing, I was shaking I was so happy.’

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  • Year 8 students visit Kidzania world in London

    Published 21/03/17

    Students from Year 8 enjoyed a trip to Kidzania world in London to help them make more informed choices for their year 8 options.

    Kidzania is a 75,000 square foot city built for children that allows students to explore more than 60 different career options using simulations and activities. Careers included; learning how to become a pilot, acting or singing on stage or fighting crime on the streets as a police officer. It mixes learning and reality with fun and the experience teaches students essential life skills including financial and literacy skills, teamwork and independence.

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  • Brooke Weston drama teacher selected as one of 120 teachers across the country for SSAT Leadership L

    Published 20/03/17

    Brooke Weston’s drama teacher Ms Camilla Kerr has been selected from hundreds of applicants across the country to take part in the SSAT, School Students and Teachers Network Leadership Legacy project.

    SSAT is the leading national provider of training and development for school leaders at all stages, they work together with schools to allow teachers to learn from their peers, measure improvements and celebrate each other's achievements.

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  • Brooke Weston teacher is announced as runner up in the top ten teachers in the World at the Global T

    Published 20/03/17

    Brooke Weston Academy’s computer science teacher Ray Chambers has been announced as runner up along with eight other finalists and the only teacher from the UK in the global teaching competition to find the best teacher from across the world.

    More than 20,000 nominations from 179 countries were received for the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize. The award, now in its third year, is the largest of its kind with the winner receiving a prize of US $1m.

    All of the ten finalists from across the world were invited to attend a ceremony at the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai where they attended workshops and master classes and the winner Maggie MacDonnell, who teaches in a fly-in Inuit village in the Canadian Artic was announced by an astronaut in the International Space Station.

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  • Brooke Weston congratulated by Minister of School Standards for our EBacc results

    Published 20/03/17

    Brooke Weston has been congratulated by the Minister of State for School Standards Rt Hon Nick Gibb MP for being amongst the top state-funded schools in England for the percentage of students entering and achieving core academic subjects in the English Baccalaureate 2016.

    The English Baccalaureate (EBacc) is a school performance measure set by the government which allows people to see how many students obtain a grade C or above in the core academic subjects of English, mathematics, history or geography, the sciences and a language at key stage 4 in any government-funded school.

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  • Students come out on top at The Winter Games Volleyball competition

    Published 07/03/17

    Our Year 9 and 10 boys and girls volleyball teams attended the Winter Games finals in Kettering and succeeded in coming fourth and second place respectively.

    The Northamptonshire School Games is part of a national programme of competitive sport that is open to all young people in every school across Northamptonshire. It is a celebration of sport that involves young people from 5-18 years, of all abilities and backgrounds.

    The boys; Alex Hodgkinson, Evan Clark, Sam Parker and Harry Gardner won two of their games and lost one taking them to their last game against Northampton School for Boys which would determine whether they would win a medal. It was point for point throughout however Northampton School for Boys managed to win 2 sets to 0 meaning Brooke Weston boys finished in fourth place having played some of the best volleyball they have ever played.

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  • Year 8 celebrate a win at Trust Festival

    Published 06/03/17

    Students from Year 8 were invited to attend the Trust Festival at Kettering Science Academy to compete in an alternative sports event where they were successful in winning joint first prize.

    More than 43 Brooke Weston students took part in the event which included; Endball, Capture the Flag and Dodgeball together with students from Kettering Science Academy, Thomas Clarkson, Corby Business Academy and Corby Technical School.

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  • Brooke Weston celebrates World Book Day

    Published 02/03/17

    Brooke Weston celebrated the 20 year anniversary of ‘World Book Day’ by inviting all students to come to school dressed as their favourite literary character and bring their favourite book in return for a £1 contribution.

    ‘World Book Day’ brings together children of all ages across the world to celebrate reading and a love of books. The aim of the day is to encourage students to explore the pleasures of books and reading by providing them with a £1 book token, which they can redeem at any local bookseller.

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  • Brooke Weston offers Pre-Learner road safety sessions to Years 11 and 12

    Published 01/03/17

    Students in Years 11 and 12 who are interested in experiencing driving a car or riding a motorbike for the first time were invited to take part in a three hour taster session held in the school grounds this week.

    The event, which has been organised by Northamptonshire Highways, working with the Motorcycle Industry Association and Northamptonshire Police, will see more than 270 students take part in an hour of classroom education, an hour driving a car and an hour riding a motorcycle both with qualified instructors.

    The sessions are a pilot scheme and if successful will be offered to all secondary schools across the County. Northamptonshire Highways Keith Millard said ‘We chose Brooke Weston to trial the scheme as I have been involved in a number of educational presentations here and the space and environment the school is in is the perfect setting for the sessions. We are working together with the MIA to try to help students prepare for when they become drivers and highlight the effect drugs and alcohol can have on them. We also point students to accredited training to empathise the importance of quality lessons.’

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March 2017

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