A Level Results Day!
Congratulations to our Year 13 students!
Congratulations to our Year 13 students!
On 26th July, Brooke Weston Trust catering colleagues came together for the Trust’s first annual Wow Day. This was the first time the team had met face to face for several months and provided a great chance to ensure colleagues could spend some time focused on their personal development and the development of our catering offer.
During the day, colleagues discussed how the team could work effectively as one team, working across our ten schools. Colleagues discussed the new structure, which enables us to be more agile, effective, creative and innovative, supporting one another across different locations and enhancing our student experiences of dining at Brooke Weston Trust.
Colleagues spoke about the high expectations and standards that characterise our offer, working within our core values and mission – ‘how’ we deliver service and food for our students and staff as well as ‘what’ we offer in terms of quality, taste and portion size.
We spoke in-depth about Natasha's Law and the impact of allergies for our families. Several of our colleagues had recently attended a conference at the Local Authority Caterers Association. This was attended by Natasha's parents who gave a talk about what happened and why Natasha's Law was introduced. This is so important not only for the catering team to understand but also in raising awareness for staff
Head of Catering, Theresa Jackson, said: “It was brilliant to get everyone together in person for our first Wow Day as it’s such an exciting time for Brooke Weston Trust catering. Our recent restructure has enabled us to realign our resources, develop a clear career and development path and appoint several current colleagues into new roles with ten individuals being promoted internally. We are also enhancing our apprenticeship offer with three colleagues already part of this scheme.
“We are excited to be launching a new brand for BWT catering at the start of the Autumn term in each of our schools, following a consultation on the four final designs. This will include new uniforms. We will be piloting new menu offers which are due to be rolled out after October half term, alongside fresh sandwiches made on the premises commencing 5th September.
“We have been focused on integrating ‘student voice’ when making decisions on what we propose within catering and will continue to do so, ensuring what we offer reflects student tastes and diversity of requirements. Themed days throughout the year linked to activities or national celebration days will also be part of our new offer.”
The BWT Catering Team’s Wow Days will now become an annual event, recognising our amazing catering teams and their value in delivering education to our students.
More than 400 students and staff from Peckover Primary School were treated to a surprise festival on Friday 15th July – Peckfest.
Over 300 children from across the Brooke Weston Trust primary schools headed to Compass Primary Academy on Monday 11th July for the Trust’s first face-to-face Primary Competition Day.
A popular caterer has been presented with an award for her phenomenal work in catering for students and staff at Thomas Clarkson Academy.
Gretton Primary Academy were delighted to celebrate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, with the grand return of the school’s annual Rose Fair for the first time in two years.
Please see link to access the Brooke Weston Trust's summary annual report for 2020/21. This is based on the information included in the formal accounts and annual report which were published in December 2021. We hope you find this information useful!
Charlotte Hawker-Smith and Rachel Lawrence started their new roles as Director of Professional Development. Working together, they will help strengthen our five secondary schools and provide a bespoke and personalised offer of professional development to our staff at all levels in their career, to ensure they are supported to be the best they can be.
Staff, pupils, and parents from across all five primary schools within Brooke Weston Trust have been having fun learning about the importance of coming to school as part of Attendance Week.
This week, we’ve welcomed Michelle Wenham to her new role as Chief Operations and Resources Officer (CORO) at Brooke Weston Trust. Working alongside the Trust Strategic Delivery Group, Michelle will oversee a wide range of functions across our Trust, including Estates, IT, Human Resources (HR), health and safety, catering, communications, procurement, risk and data protection.
Corby Business Academy is celebrating a successful Ofsted monitoring inspection, which found leaders and governors to be “taking effective action” to achieve a ‘Good’ Ofsted rating.
Last week Corby Technical School, part of the Brooke Weston Trust, hosted The Trust Network’s ‘Greening the Estate’ National Conference 2022 – the organisation’s first face to face event in almost two years.