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Louise Chapman and Paul Twamley both finished the London Marathon and exceeded their fundraising totals after spending months training and preparing for the event. It was Louise’s first ever marathon and, a year ago, she hadn’t even run a step! For Paul it was his second London Marathon and he beat his previous time, despite the sweltering heat on the day.
Well done to Year 6 student Benjamin Hunter who is the youngest student in his karate club ever to attain the level of Shodan (black belt).
Fresh air, exercise and imaginative play are so important for our students and two of our schools are in the process of updating parts of their outside space.
Ray Chambers, Brooke Weston Academy’s computer science teacher, is one of the judges for the IT category of the Pearson Teaching Awards 2018. He will be looking at innovation and best practice in the classroom and beyond and he, plus two other judges, have been given a selection of nominated schools to visit.
Well done to Brooke Weston Academy students James Annable, Samuel Ward and Archie Robertson-Smith, who were part of two teams that were sponsored to swim as many lengths of Kettering swimming pool as possible in an hour.
Kettering Science Academy has taken over as the torchbearer for the Trust-wide Ambition for All campaign, and has organised a range of events to celebrate and support the ambition of their students and staff.
Brooke Weston Academy has been recognised for its excellence by becoming a member of the SSAT Leading Edge network, a national group of exclusively high-performing secondary and special schools. Leading Edge supports schools in collaborating to raise achievement, develop innovative new ideas and share practical strategies within the network and across the school system to benefit all students.
Good luck to Paul Twamley from Brooke Weston Academy and Louise Chapman from Corby Business Academy who are both running the London Marathon this weekend, raising money for the Teenage Cancer Trust and Asthma UK respectively.
Chris Lapsley is looking forward to taking up his new role as Trust senior catering manager, heading up the kitchens across all ten of our schools. He plans to standardise food handling and preparation techniques, suppliers, ingredients, menus and portion control so that everyone will have the same quality and quantity of food, regardless of their location.
An overnight stay at the University of Cambridge gave a group of Year 10 students from Thomas Clarkson Academy a unique experience of university life.
Brooke Weston Teaching School Alliance is delighted that its bid to secure over £110,000, to target and support primary reading strategies, has been successful.
Members of the Brooke Weston Trust Combined Cadet Force enjoyed an action-packed weekend, developing their military fieldcraft tactics and camping under make-shift shelters which culminated in a large scale three-phase platoon assault.
