CTS Snapshot

22.04.2022

Welcome to our CTS Snapshot - a weekly celebration update. We are delighted to share with parents and carers alike student triumphs at Corby Technical School. We are proud of every student and every success they have - please feel free to share with us any achievements they might have.

Snapshot News:

Knife Angel:

The Knife Angel is the National Symbol Against Violence and Aggression. The statue is made of over 100,000 knives collected at knife amnesties. It was made at British Ironwork Centre by artist Alfie Bradley.

The statue will be on display in Corby from May 14th to May 30th and an Art competition has been launched for young people in advance of the Knife Angel’s arrival in the town. KS3 and KS4 students who attend out Art club have created a submission for the competition. Both are three dimensional and will be displayed in school for all our staff and students to see. The first was created by Year 10 students and the other by students in Year 7 and 8.

Year 10 Media:

Year 10 Media students have been analysing the difference between tabloid and broadsheet newspapers. As part of this students have been designing front pages, the class are shaping up to be fabulous desk top designers! Another project saw some excellent designs of magazine contents pages which are pictured below.

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Year 7 Art:

Amber in 7CU created a successful final piece for her Pop Art project. She contributed further to her work by completing it in her art club this week. Miss Bowman would like to say well done to Amber for her commitment to the subject!

Year 9 Maths:

Pictured is a fantastic piece of work by Year 9 student Amelia, the groups have worked extremely hard on their statistical investigations. Mrs Wynn is very proud of their efforts.

Year 8 Football Team:

Well done to the Year 8 on winning their league and reaching the district cup final.

Top Lesson Stars:

Students receive lesson stars where a teacher feels a student has made an excellent contribution in their lesson. Some students receive multiple lesson stars across the week, below are the students who have received the most stars for each year group this week:

Year 7:

Levente 7ST and Nicola 7SW.

Year 8:

Jennifer 8TE, Finley 8TE, William 7ST and Oliwia 8TU.

Year 9:

Keane 9CA, Roman 9CA, Patrikas 9TE and Todd 9CO.

Year 10:

Jess 10CA and Rhema 10TE.

Year 11:

Finley 11CA, Brandon 11CA, Ruby 11TA and Israel 11TE.

Subject Highlights:

Music:

Miss Patrick has made the following nominations this week:

Year 7:

This week I would like to celebrate 7CA for working so hard on their GarageBand drumbeats. Miss Patrick is really impressed with the way students support each other when using the Macs and is very much looking forward to hearing the finished sections of music – keep up the great work!

Year 8:

Year 8 have recorded in an off-beat bassline to their dance tracks this week. This requires students to demonstrate their knowledge of both rhythm and pitch. Miss Patrick would like to mention Aleksandra, Ruby, Leyton and Tyler in 8TA this week for finishing their basslines and moving on to add triads to their piece – well done!

Year 9:

This week 9TA impressed Miss Patrick with their creative use of the chromatic scale. A special mention to Keegan who showed resilience in developing keyboard skills and Greta for demonstrating effective practice strategies to improve the performance of the group composition – excellent work!

Maths:

Miss Kaur has nominated 7C2 and 7A1 for their hard work in the statistical this week.

Mrs Wynn has seen some excellent work from the Year 8 and 9 students on their statistical investigations. With a special mention to Amelia in 9B3, an example of Amelia's work is pictured above. Also, well done to Markuss in 7B3 who has showed great mathematical skill, by completing a challenging question just by listening, focusing and making notes in a previous lesson.

Mr Lee has nominated 10A2 for their work investigating sample spaces.

Mr Horne has nominated Year 9 students Rene, Ava, Phoebe and Keely who produced great time series graphs and Year 8 student Will who provided great contributions to class discussions during our study of probability.

Science:

Scientists of the Week are:

Year 7 student Maxym F who has demonstrated incredible knowledge about renewable energy and photovoltaic cells!

Year 8 student Nayon for consistent effort in Science throughout Term 4. Well done!

Year 9 student Shanice for a great attitude in science recently.

Year 10 student Dylan C for great practical work this week.

Year 11student Alicja S for brilliant Physics revision this week.

Art:

Miss Bowman has nominated Arina and Mary in 9TA for their exceptionally successful Van Gogh inspired portraits. Good use of acrylic paint and have shown confidence with their colours.

PE:

Mrs Feeley’s sports science group have completed some excellent work toward their RO45 LO4 this week preparing diet plans for their partners.

Miss Williams has nominated 7SI for their fantastic knowledge and demonstration of fielding tactics in this week’s lessons. In particular, a special mention to Lucas, Bradley, Vlad and Brachen for great leadership and inventive ideas in their team games

Drama:

Mrs Hallybone would like to say well done to Year 8 students Charlie and Oliwia for demonstrating excellent leadership and creativity in Drama this week, also well done to Year 10 Drama students for making great progress on their devising coursework.

English:

Mrs Brown has nominated her Year 10 English group who have been producing poetry essays for homework. These are thoughtful and analytical pieces of work that have required lots of independent effort. Special mentions go to:

Amie-Leigh, Dylan C, Gabi C, Ella C, Nikodem C, Thomas H, Ana, Paulina, Amelia, Melissa and Jonathan.

Mrs Brown's Year 10 Media class have been analysing the difference between tabloid and broadsheet newspapers. As part of this students have been designing front pages, the class are shaping up to be fabulous desk top designers! Another project saw some excellent designs of magazine contents pages, with special mentions to:

Alicia S, Rhia, Faizah, Eva, Shammah and Alisha B

Miss Duncan has nominated the following students who attended an after-school session to revise before their assessment on Romeo and Juliet. Coming from different classes, students shared their ideas and knowledge on the context of the play and considered how this can be applied to an exam question. Well done for your additional hard work!

Ruben, Isla, Kiera, Ethan, Keeley, Tanya, Conlan, Keira T, Leena and Corina.

Mrs Rice has nominated Year 8 students Jasmine, Karina, Kai, Milly, Veronica, Georgia, Beatrice, Addison for their wonderful gothic creative writing. Also nominated for excellent detail in their answers are Petar and Luba. Top scorers on The Raven Points Table are Jakub, Jasmine and Kai.

Miss Lodge has nominated 10AP1 for their fantastic focus and effort during their Romeo and Juliet assessment. They have worked really hard this term and Miss Lodge is so pleased with their effort. Special mentions to Sanita, Josh, Floreen and Dexter for their excellent focus during the assessment and Harley and Cameron for their resilience and perseverance.

Humanities:

Miss Gilbert has nominated Christopher and Conor (7TE) for their hard work and dedication in Geography this term. Also nominated are Oliwia G and Lubo (8TU) for their continued effort within biomes, and for showing their dedication through their classwork.

Mr Strumpher has nominated 7TU for Geography and History this week. In both lessons they worked so well and are engaged with the lesson and discussions in the classroom. Keep up the good work 7TU.

Mrs Vaghadia has nominated Year 11 Sociology students Israel, Katie, Brandon, Darcey and Kelly for their consistent contribution to the class discussions and Year 10 Sociology students Ella, Jessica, Seth for their excellent questions and contributions to classroom discussions.