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.

Students at Brooke Weston Academy are on top of the world with the latest drone technology introduced by the Design Technology department.

Brooke Weston Trust’s Chairman of the Board and CEO welcomed the first cohort of delegates onto the Leadership Academy at a celebration inaugural dinner.

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.

A dozen students from Brooke Weston Academy had the experience of a lifetime, climbing mountains in Tanzania and trekking with the Maasai. As part of their 21-day adventure the students also built a classroom in a local school and had a day-long safari, as well as time for rest and relaxation at a beach resort.

Colourful Alice in Wonderland themed dresses made by Brooke Weston students were displayed at a recent exhibition in Kettering.