More than 45 Brooke Weston students, the largest cohort represented in the Northamptonshire area, took time out during their summer break to take part in the National Citizen Service programme.
Students in Year 10 completed their year long maths leaders award by planning and teaching a lesson to students in KS3.
Students in Year 9 were invited to view a butchery demonstration and learn about careers within the food industry during a talk by Jeremy Musgrove from Peterborough-based Stilton Butchers.
Best selling novelist Dan Freedman visited Brooke Weston this week to speak to students about his career and host a creative workshop for a group of Year 7 students.
A group of Year 10 GCSE students visited the University College of Food in Birmingham, one of the countries leading universities for food courses as part of their food technology GCSE preparation.
Students who had taken part in the shadowing of the Carnegie/Greenway awards over the last three months were able to watch the awards being streamed live from the RIBA in London yesterday.
Brooke Weston Academy was delighted to host this year’s Carnegie/Greenaway shadowing event, which more than 60 students from Trust and local schools attended.
Students in Year 9 entered an innovation challenge run by local global distribution company RS Components to design a new layout for their Innovation Truck and succeeded in beating 25 schools and winning five new computers worth over £500 for the school.
Students from Brooke Weston attended the annual Comic Con convention at Athena in Leicester where they joined in the celebration of comics, TV shows, films and video games.
Students at Brooke Weston were fortunate to be able to Skype with award winning author of ‘Salt to the Sea’ Ruta Sepetys, where they were able to ask questions about her book and life as an author.
After weeks of dancing, singing and acting rehearsals students put all nerves behind them to perform their first night of ‘Grease’ to a packed out Weston Theatre.
Students from all year groups auditioned for the show in January and have worked together acting, singing, and dancing and assisting back stage with directing, managing, choreography, and costumes.
Five Sixth Form students from Brooke Weston will be taking part in a sponsored ‘Heart of London Bridges Walk’ in London on 9th July in aide of CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young).
The walk is the 11th annual CRY ‘Heart of London Bridges Walk’ and offers the opportunity to show support for CRY, remember young people, raise funds and help raise awareness of young sudden cardiac death.
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