Latest News Stories from Brooke Weston Academy
Brooke Weston Trust’s CEO, Dr Andrew Campbell, visited Brooke Weston Academy on the last of his tours of all the Brooke Weston Trust schools. He spoke to students and staff about all aspects of the academy and visited a range of classrooms.
Year 12 student Freya Marlow is facing her biggest fear by scuba diving in an aquarium with more than 27 different types of sharks to raise money for local Hospice Lakelands and the Breast Care Unit at Kettering General Hospital.
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.
Thanks to Brooke Weston Academy's DT technician, Mr Darren Hooper, who has spent hours making a trophy cabinet for Beanfield Primary School. The finished product, made of fingerjointed plywood, features shelves and a sliding perspex screen.
The Year 9 sports leaders facilitated the Primary Schools Town Sports Athletics Championships at Corby Triangle where they were responsible for running the track timekeeping, ordering the lanes and the overall scores.
The whole of Year 12 and their tutors visited Bedfordshire University this week to attend a UCAS exhibition to explore the wide range of opportunities available after school or college, under one setting.
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.
A group of students in Year 9 were invited to tour a Coca Cola factory in Milton Keynes as part of their Food Technology studies. The site is one of six education centres in the UK where students received a glimpse into the practical world of work and a behind-the scenes learning experience.
Year 11 student Haydn Bennett is taking part in a tandem skydive in Peterborough in aide of Crazy Hats Breast Cancer on the 9 July to raise money for a fantastic charity that is close to his heart.
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.
Former Brooke Weston student Charlie Mawby returned to Brooke Weston this week to give a presentation about life in the RAF and to answer questions about a career in the armed forces.
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