BWA prepares to stage Oliver!
Students and staff are putting the finishing touches to this year’s big musical performance of Oliver! at Brooke Weston Academy.
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Students and staff are putting the finishing touches to this year’s big musical performance of Oliver! at Brooke Weston Academy.
Believe Big, a Trust-wide competition to come up with life changing ideas to benefit the planet, has been launched to our Year 7 students at Brooke Weston Academy. The initiative, which is run by 7 Billion Ideas, encourages students to think creatively, make presentations, posters and jingles and promote their innovative concepts to panels of judges. The best ideas from each school will go through to a Trust Grand Final later this spring.
Art teachers, who are also passionate about ceramics, have met up to share ideas and strategies about introducing the media more widely to students in two of our Trust schools. Charlotte Asprey from Brooke Weston Academy and Thomas Clarkson Academy’s Head of Art, Sarah Loosemore, first met at a Trust subject training day. They share a love of pottery, so Charlotte visited Sarah to see how the subject is taught at her school and share ideas.
GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition students put their Food Processing theory knowledge into practise by making their own mozzarella cheese.
Brooke Weston Academy has been ranked as the fourth top performing school in Northamptonshire according to recently released Government figures. Its ‘well above average’ Progress 8 figure of 0.61 also means that it is the top performing secondary school in Corby.
Government figures on secondary school performance, based on Progress 8 scores for the past two years, shows that The Brooke Weston Trust is the third most improved Multi-Academy Trust in the country.
Well done to our Year 7 and 8 teams who came first in each of the age categories in the recent Sportshall Challenge.
Some of our Sixth Form photography work is currently on display at the Market Harborough Building Society in Corby town centre.
Year 8 students at Brooke Weston Academy are making striking geometric masks, inspired by the artwork of Kimmy Cantrell.
Brooke Weston Academy is cutting down on food waste and introducing a range of wooden and compostable resources in its restaurant to enable it to be as environmentally friendly and efficient as possible.
Educational trainer and influencer David Didau delivered a literacy training session at Brooke Weston Academy giving teachers insights into how to ensure children are ‘word rich’ and empowered in every subject area.
Pictured are some of the Year 12 Brooke Weston Academy volunteers who helped to organise and co-ordinate donations across all tutor groups in the academy for the Corby Foodbank during the last fortnight. We would like to thank our students, parents, carers and staff for their generosity and support as it will make a difference to many in the local area over the festive period.
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