News and events specifically around Year 7.
Brooke Weston’s guitar teacher Mr Paul Balmer is searching for more students to become involved in his youth projects in music and creating podcasts and short films about Corby.
Congratulations to our amazing students who won awards at the Brooke Weston Trust Sports Award Evening.
Hania Mazur was named Brooke Weston Trust Leader of the Year in KS3, Sophia Shorrock was named SportsLeader of the Year in KS4, Annabel Thompson was named Sportswoman of the Year in KS3 and the Year 11 Futsal team was named as BWT Team of the Year for KS4. We also won Sports Festival for Year 7 and 9, U-14 Rugby and U-14 Cricket.
Year 7 girls have been working towards their Brooke Weston Leadership Level 1 Award during their PE lessons and have all been successful in completing the course.
The Leadership unit takes place over a three week period and is designed to help the girls understand sportsmanship, teamwork and fair play so that they can make friends with students they don’t normally work with. It also allows students who are not as physical to demonstrate their qualities in leadership.
The Reading Leader Scheme is organised by Reading Matters, in conjunction with Corby Reads. It is a registered charity which trains and supports volunteers to work with young people, helping them to become confident and enthusiastic readers.
Year 12 students are trained for six hours; upon completion they then give up half an hour of their time once a week to help a Year 7 student engage in reading activities. The mentor prepares materials from a wide range of resources, to match the ability needs and interest of the reader.
This week saw the launch of the Year 7 boys' premier league reading challenge. Introduced by Librarian Wendy McCabe, the students split themselves into teams of five, with each team representing a football team in the premier league.
Every student needs to read as many books as possible before the end of season. Each book equates to a goal and the more goals scored the higher up the league table the team goes. A review sheet about the book has to be completed before a goal is awarded, with stickers given for the goal and put on display on the league table in the library.
Year 7 student Taya Powell has chopped her long hair off to donate for wigs for children with cancer and she has raised £500 for charity in the process.
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