Brooke Weston Academy hosted 40 Governors from across the Brooke Weston Trust schools for an intensive day of training and development, including whole cohort sessions and more informal afternoon workshops, one led by Principal Pete Kirkbride.

Explorer Conrad Dickinson was Guest of Honour at Brooke Weston Academy’s Prize Giving 2018. He spoke about how his early adventures led to both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions and he has achieved the ‘Polar Trilogy’, travelling unsupported to both North and South poles and travelling across Siberia. He encouraged our students to aim high and gave them valuable life lessons during his inspirational presentation.

Brooke Weston Academy was delighted to host Mr David Laing, the Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire, who visited to congratulate our Year 12 students on the excellent GCSE exam results they achieved this summer.

Congratulation to BWA Sixth Formers, Stuart Bryce and Matthew McCormick, who both completed the Great North Run raising hundreds of pounds for charity. It was the first time that they had taken part in an official marathon as they had to wait until they were 17 to compete.

More than 50 students saw butchery skills in preparation for their Year 9 food and nutrition course. James Edwards from Stilton Catering Butchers jointed chickens and showed them ways of producing burgers, to prepare them for a gourmet burger competition where they have to formulate their own flavourings.