CTS Snapshot

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.

On Wednesday 3rd November, our Year 12 and Year 13 students attended the UK University and Apprenticeship Fair at the King Power Stadium in Leicester. With over 80 universities and apprenticeship providers in attendance it provided the perfect opportunity for students to research and ask questions on the different post-18 pathways. They also managed to acquire lots of goodie bags and free gifts too!

Book Club was solving a murder mystery in the library this week. This will be continuing in the library next week for all students to take part in at breakfast and lunch.

Year 7 student Cassie recently passed her Compulsory Level 3 Grade in the British Gymnastics Elite Development Plan, these are taken yearly and work towards the British Championships. Cassie has worked extremely hard for this and we wish her every success what am amazing achievement!

Well done to our Year 9 students for their exceptional leadership for the primary cross-country event held at West Glebe. They were all extremely helpful to the students, running with them, leading them around the course, encouraging students and taking care of the scoring.

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:

Ellie 7CO, Samuel 7TA, Lilly 7TE, Sophia 7SI, CJ 7CA, David 7TU, Carson 7CA, Lucas 7SI, Jessica 7TU, Leighton 7CO, Jefe 7TU, Filip 7TU, Harley 7SW, Rhys 7SW, Luke 7TA, Natalia 7TE, Alan 7TE and Corey 7TU,

Year 8:

Mason 8TE, Mauricio 8CU, Erica 8CU, Finn 8TE, Dominik 8TA, Declan 8TE and Olivia 8SW.

Year 9:

Xavier 9SW, Harry 9CO, Chloe 9ST, Kitty 9CO, Toby 9TA, Ruby 9ST and Todd 9CO.

Year 10:

Ella 10SW, Cameron 10CA, Oscar 10CO, Ellis 10ST, Euan 10TE, Mason 10TE, Courtney 10CO, Louis 10TE, Harvey 10TE, Kai 10CO, Faith 10CA, Kiera 10TA, Rhia 10TE, Armaan 10SW, Jaasau 10CA and Adam 10CA

Year 11:

Abigail 11CO, Ryan 11TE, Oliwia 11CO, Gus 11TA, Andrew 11CO, Lexi 11CO, Angel 11TA, Cameron 11ST, Kelly 11SW, Tye 11CA and Israel 11TE.

Year 12:

Carmen, Dominik, Sacro and Kumo 12A.

English:

Mrs Hallybone has nominated the following Year 11 students for fantastic effort in their recent unseen poetry assessment:

Abigail, Tearlach, Neave, Tom, Holly, Gabi, Leon, Joe, Nathan

Year 8 students Rares, Thomas, Aleksandra, Klaudia and Trafford for excellent contributions in class and Year 7 student Sophia C for excellent contributions in class.

Mrs Rice has nominated Year 11 students Emma and Pascal for excellent work on their creative writing and Kian, Jasmine, Julia and Avantika for excellent paragraphs on your An Inspector Calls character questions.

Mrs Brown has nominated her Year 11 Literature group for some fantastic assessments in Unseen Poetry. Mrs Brown is so proud of your resilience. Special mentions to Cody, Sam A, Sam C, Jayme-Lei, Oscar S, Ianis, Lexi, Pascal, Gus, Emma-May and Oliwia. Well done to Year 11 Language students who produced excellent essays for Paper 1. Special mentions to Jasmine, Nikodem, Julia, Rowan, Avantika and Sam M.

Finally, thank you to all groups and Mrs Brown's Year 13 tutor group. You have been awesome! Mrs Brown has really enjoyed being back in the classroom with you all.

Drama:

Mrs Hallybone would like to nominate Year 11 student Ryan for excellent effort on his coursework and the students from Year 11 Drama who have been staying on after school to rehearse their pieces and work on their coursework. This shows excellent commitment and will definitely pay off!

Also nominated are Year 10 Drama class for absolutely fantastic performances in class this week. Very confident and creative performances.

Maths:

Ms Adamska has made the following nominations:

7TE for their amazing participation and attitude to learning in every Maths lesson.

Year 8 students Riley, Alexandra, Ryan, Amy, Kristof, Andrea, Grace, Patryk and Maisie for their excellent participation in every lesson and Anton, Lana, Amelie, Tanya and Tara for their hard work in every lesson.

Year 9 students Oliver, Elina, Shae, Shanli, Dominika for their fantastic participation in lessons and Year 10 students Robert, Jonathan, Tanya, William, Maciej, Armaan, Ana, Dylan, Ella, Corina, Raivo, Isabel, Izabela, Amelia, Melissa, Amie-Leigh, Gabriela and Myrtle for their hard work and excellent effort in learning Algebra.

Miss Kaur has nominated 10A1 for their hard work in term 1 and a good start to term 2. Well done!

Mr Lee has nominated Year 11 students George S, Nela, Kamila, Katie and Klaudia for their score on their end of term assessment and Abigail, Tearlach, Jack, Oscar, Thomas, Holly, Denisa, Gabriela, Leon, Daisy, Andrew and Nathan for their score on their end of term assessment.

Humanities:

Mr Hallas would like to say well done to 10SW for lots of valuable contributions during Wednesday’s Religious Studies lesson. You treated the topic of ‘Peace and Conflict’ with the sensitivity and maturity it deserves. I was also really impressed with the cross-curricular links made throughout the lesson, especially with what you learnt in History at KS3.

Music:

Year 7:

Well done to 7CO for their brilliant attitude towards learning. Students put their knowledge to great use in our game of ‘How green you are’! A special mention goes to Blake, Leighton, Naimah and Wiktoria for excellent technical knowledge this lesson!

Well done to Loghan and Olivia in 7CO and Levante, Natalia & Olly in 7TE for their brilliant approach to a group task in this week’s lesson – great work!

Year 8:

Year 8 have learnt two chords on the ukulele. Miss Patrick was very impressed with the resilience shown by 8CU, even if a mistake was made it did not stop students from trying again until they perfected their technique! This meant that the whole class could quickly change between two chords and stay perfectly in time with the pulse – well done! A special mention to Charlie and Miller who were brave enough to perform a short piece of music in front of the class by reading TAB off the board.

Well done to 8CO for their brilliant attitude to learning in music! Students were particularly good at correctly identifying the different layers within a well-known Elvis Presley song. A special mention to Julian and Judah for their ability to switch between chords this week and to Trafford and Nicole I for their impressive technical knowledge – great work!

Year 9:

9TE have made an excellent start to film music composition. Students were brilliant at being able to tell the differences between different film genres by listening to different musical examples. A special mention to Tyler, Marian, Alfie and JoJo who were all able to pick out specific musical elements within a piece of music and explain the relevance of this to a particular genre – great work!

Miss Patrick would also like to celebrate Finley from 9SW and Ellis, Matty, Stas and Harry from 9CO for their ability to layer loops creatively to compose a piece of music on GarageBand. The range of different sounds used made their pieces sound unique and very enjoyable to listen to!

DT/Food and Nutrition:

Year 11 – Mrs Firmin is extremely pleased with the effort and attitude the Year 11 Food Nutrition and Preparation students have shown on the start of their NEA coursework. They have produced some excellent work and shown great maturity and independence. The work so far is looking excellent – keep it up Year 11!

Key Stage 3 students have been finishing their first workshop project this week and many of them have achieved a really high quality finish to their acrylic holders. Mrs Firmin has been delighted with their effort and outcomes. In particular I would like to mention Amber and Witek 7CU, and Scarlett and Ethan 7SI.

Year 10 Food GCSE Students had their first test and all performed brilliantly - a fantastic set of scores and they should all be very proud of themselves. Corina deserves an extra special mention as she got full marks.

Science:

This weeks Scientists of the Week are:

Year 7 student Daisy R for amazing work and attitude in science.

Year 8 student Emily WH for an excellent attitude.

Year 9 student Max H for amazing contributions and technical knowledge.

Year 10 student Robert for excellent work and attitude in Chemistry.

Year 11 student Emma-May for an amazing attitude and excellent work.

PE:

Miss Williams has nominated the following Year 9 students for exceptional leadership for the primary cross-country event held at West Glebe. They were all extremely helpful to the students, running with them, leading them around the course, encouraging students and taking care of the scoring, Alicia, Kenzie, Maisie, Kurtis, Lucy, Isabella, Stas, Thomas and Jake.

Sixth Form:

Mr Hallas would like to say well done to the Year 12 and 13 students who visited the King Power Stadium in Leicester, you were great ambassadors for our school!

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