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Trips, Visits and Residentials


News about BWA trips, visits and residentials.

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  • BWA students meet Jacqueline Wilson

    Published 16/11/18

    Keen readers from Brooke Weston Academy had the amazing experience of meeting best-selling children’s author Jacqueline Wilson and learning about her writing career and inspirations.

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  • Gold DofE participants pay respects to fallen airmen

    Published 06/11/18

    Brooke Weston Academy’s participants on the Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme paid their respects at the crash site of a US aircraft high on a moor in the north west Peak District.

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  • Year 9s visit National Holocaust Centre

    Published 05/11/18

    Nearly 100 Year 9 students from Brooke Weston Academy learned more about the Holocaust during their visit to the National Holocaust Centre in Nottingham.

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  • Driving experience for Sixth Formers

    Published 17/10/18

    Sixth Formers at Brooke Weston Academy got behind the wheel during driver experience sessions run by local instructors.

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  • Poet Dreadlock Alien leads poetry workshops

    Published 16/10/18

    Poet Dreadlock Alien delivered workshops at Brooke Weston Academy preparing students for the poetry strand of their English examinations.

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  • Year 7 students visit Warwick Castle

    Published 11/10/18

    Our Year 7s had an action-packed trip to Warwick Castle as part of their humanities studies.

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  • Year 9 students make fidget blankets for care home residents

    Published 10/10/18

    A group of Year 9 textiles students are making individual ‘fidget blankets’ for people with dementia at a local care home.

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  • DfE project director visits BWA to see LED and PV project results

    Published 04/10/18

    Brooke Weston Academy was delighted to show an ESFA Project Director around its newly completed energy reduction project, where LED lights and PV Solar panels have already yielded thousands of pounds worth of savings in their first few months of operation.

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  • Ambition for All in South Africa

    Published 03/10/18

    Brooke Weston Academy is planning to support a school in South Africa by buying essential equipment for its maths and science departments.

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  • Baroness Young visits Brooke Weston Academy as part of the Peers in School scheme

    Published 01/10/18

    Brooke Weston Academy hosted a talk from a member of the House of Lords to encourage students to become more engaged with the political and parliamentary process.

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  • BWA host Governor Training event

    Published 25/09/18

    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.

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  • Inspirational talk by Polar Conrad Dickinson

    Published 24/09/18

    Conrad Dickinson was guest speaker at Brooke Weston Academy’s Prize Giving where he told students and staff how his love of adventure started early and progressed to him being the first and only Briton to complete the Polar ‘Grand Slam’ travelling unsupported to both North and South Poles, as well as leading a team to Siberia. More recently he was part of the ‘Walk with the Wounded’ team, including Prince Harry and wounded servicemen, who trekked to the South Pole.

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