Don’t forget that this Thursday is International Literacy Day when all the lessons at Brooke Weston will have a specific literacy focus and students and staff can donate a book in the ‘Take One Pass It On’ scheme. Books should be age appropriate and there will be dropboxes at the turnstiles in the morning where all the books will be collected. At lunchtime and after school anyone who brought a book in can choose one to take home and enjoy. Any unused books will be donated locally.

A film crew from BBC News’s Click filmed at Brooke Weston for a ‘back-to-school’ educational feature that will be broadcast tomorrow.

Presenter Spencer Kelly and director Talia Franco interviewed our Year 10 students who have used Minecraft in their technology lessons to bring abstract concepts, such as logic gates in programming, to life. IT teacher Ray Chambers, who has been invited by Microsoft to become an Innovative Expert Educator, was also interviewed about technology in the classroom.

One of our longest serving teachers has left after nearly 25 years at Brooke Weston. Lisa West has performed a huge number of roles since coming to work in the sports department in 1991.

As well gaining her degree, she has taught in the PE, Science and Design Technology departments as well as delivering the BTEC Health and Social Care qualification. For the past three years she has been Brooke Weston’s SENCO (Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator).