Mr Hooper completes endurance cycle race
Published 21/08/17
Mr Darren Hooper, Brooke Weston Academy’s DT technician, took part in a gruelling 24-hour bike ride alongside current national and world champion endurance cyclists.
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Read MoreStudent swims with sharks for charity
Published 10/07/17Year 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.
Read MoreBrooke Weston netball team succeed in winning entire weekend tournament
Published 03/05/17The Year 10 and 12 girls netball team were invited to take part in a two day tournament at Condover Hall in Shropshire where the Year 12 team succeeded in winning the entire tournament.
Games lasted for 20 minutes, 10 minutes each way with a quick one minute turn around in between. Both teams only had seven players which meant they had no substitutes and played in the same league as each other due to other teams pulling out of the competition prior to the weekend.
Read MoreYear 7 girls complete their Level 1 Sport Leaders Award
Published 02/05/17Year 7 girls have been working towards their Brooke Weston Leadership Level 1 Award during their PE lessons and have all been successful in completing the course.
The Leadership unit takes place over a three week period and is designed to help the girls understand sportsmanship, teamwork and fair play so that they can make friends with students they don’t normally work with. It also allows students who are not as physical to demonstrate their qualities in leadership.
Read MoreTrust students enjoy Year 9 sports festival at BWA
Published 26/04/17Around 250 students took part in the latest Year 9 sports festival held at Brooke Weston Academy. Up to 50 students from each Trust secondary school joined in dodgeball, handball or orienteering.
Read MoreYear 7 netball team narrowly miss out on semi finals
Published 05/04/17The year 7 girls netball team took part in the district netball tournament at Bishop Stopford where they missed out on the semi finals by only two points.
Read MoreBrooke Weston student wins the A S Felton Cup for her cornet recital
Published 21/03/17Brooke Weston student Daisy Oram competed in the Kettering and District Eisteddfod competition, an annual festival of music, speech and dramatic arts for amateur performers where she was successful in winning the A S Felton Cup in the 13 Years and under cornet Recital Class.
Daisy practices the cornet five times a week and had to fight her anxiety issues during the competition when on the first day she became too nervous to compete but managed to overcome her fears and came back the next day to win. She said ‘The first day my anxiety got the better of me and I wasn’t able to play at all. I went back on the second day feeling scared and worried that I wouldn’t be able to play or I would go wrong. I played two different pieces tried my best to keep focused and won. It felt amazing, I was shaking I was so happy.’
Read MoreStudents come out on top at The Winter Games Volleyball competition
Published 07/03/17Our Year 9 and 10 boys and girls volleyball teams attended the Winter Games finals in Kettering and succeeded in coming fourth and second place respectively.
The Northamptonshire School Games is part of a national programme of competitive sport that is open to all young people in every school across Northamptonshire. It is a celebration of sport that involves young people from 5-18 years, of all abilities and backgrounds.
The boys; Alex Hodgkinson, Evan Clark, Sam Parker and Harry Gardner won two of their games and lost one taking them to their last game against Northampton School for Boys which would determine whether they would win a medal. It was point for point throughout however Northampton School for Boys managed to win 2 sets to 0 meaning Brooke Weston boys finished in fourth place having played some of the best volleyball they have ever played.
Read MoreYear 8 celebrate a win at Trust Festival
Published 06/03/17Students from Year 8 were invited to attend the Trust Festival at Kettering Science Academy to compete in an alternative sports event where they were successful in winning joint first prize.
More than 43 Brooke Weston students took part in the event which included; Endball, Capture the Flag and Dodgeball together with students from Kettering Science Academy, Thomas Clarkson, Corby Business Academy and Corby Technical School.
Read MoreYear 9 PE students attend Gymnastics event
Published 28/02/17Year 9 GCSE PE students were selected to attend a gifted and talented trip to Huntingdon Gymnastics Club where they spent the day taking part in various gymnastics disciplines including floor and bar work and vaulting.
Read MoreYear 10 girls come fourth in County Netball tournament
Published 20/02/17Brooke Weston’s Year 10 Netball team were invited to attended the Northamptonshire County tournament where after a gruelling competition they succeeded in coming fourth place.
Read MoreBrooke Weston wins School Games Volleyball competition
Published 07/02/17Brooke Weston saw success when they hosted and won the School Games Volleyball Competition for Years 9 and 10 successfully qualifying for the Winter Games at Kettering Leisure Village later this month.