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.

It was great to see so many students stay after-school for our new clubs. Students enjoyed chess, rugby, netball, Duke of Edinburgh and Animanga to name a few!

Year 10 student Jolanta is already showing excellent technical skills and high level of effort having just started Food GCSE – a very delicious and impressive looking cake!

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:

Jack 7CU, Leighton 7CA, Saketh 7ST, Mia 7SI, Ronan 7TA, Morgan F 7ST, Natalia 7TE and Mia 7CA.

Year 8:

Evie 8ST, Jennifer 8ST, Kinga 8SW, Joel 8ST and Alex 8CU.

Year 9:

Toby 9TA, Liam 9ST, Chloe 9ST, Oliver 9SW, Omayer 9SW, Dylan 9ST, Nana 9TA, Harry 9CO, Amelia 9ST, Shae 9ST, Matty 9CO, Kyle 9ST, Veronika 9TE and Szymon 9TE.

Year 10:

Lilly 10CA, Kent 10SW, Neva 10CO, Alexander 10ST. Oscar 10CO, Gabriela 10CO, Julia 10TE, Ruben 10SW, Conlan 10SW, Chanel 10ST, Keeley 10TA, Ana 10SW, Faith 10CA, Denis 10TA, Louis 10TE, Melissa 10SW, Alicia 10CA and Isla 10TA.

Year 11:

Kelly 11SW, Josephus 11SW, Samuel 11TA, Callum 11CA, Kian 11ST, Ruby 11TA, Abdou 11TA, Emily 11TE and Gus 11TA.

Year 12:

Carmen, Sean, Denis, Drew, Lucas, Dominik and Ewan 12A.

Maths:

Mr Lee would like to nominate Year 10 students George S, Dawid, Taylor, Tye, Pascal, Darcey, Luke and Markuss for excellent work in their Maths intervention lesson. Also nominated are 10A2 for their excellent work on our first unit of GCSE studies and some excellent assessment scores. Finally well done to Year 11 student Danielle for her excellent commitment to studies.

English:

Mrs Brown has nominated Year 10 Media students Sonny D, Dylan S, Chanel, Alicia, Seth and Devandre for their fantastic start to the course.

Year 10 have also started working on "An Inspector Calls" and Mrs Brown would like to say well done to the whole class for their intuitive work on the historical context and the concepts of Capitalism and Socialism. Special mention to Melissa S, Corina T, Eva W, Nikodem C, Dylan C for great progress so far and to Jonathan for being so helpful with handing out books!

Mrs Brown has also been working with Year 11 this week. Special mentions to Oliwia N, Ruby C, Ianis C, Layla M. Emma-May M, Lexi W, Oscar and Gus in 11BP2 for great work! And in 11A1 to Darcey C, Lana C, Ana E, Finley D and W, Julia G, Niav N, George S for great work analysing language in a fiction extract.

Music:

Miss Patrick has made the following nominations this week:

Year 7’s have impressed Miss Patrick this week with their enthusiasm for singing sea shanties. A special mention to Ronan, Patricia and Anneka in 7TA for singing so confidently this week.

Crystal, David, Stefan and Orla from 8ST showed great resilience this week in improving their ukulele skills. Miss Patrick was particularly impressed with the way they were moving between chords without looking at their fingers – excellent work!

Well done to 9ST for making a good start on their film music compositions. A special mention to Ainars, Chloe, Harrison and Shae for effectively following the brief!

MFL:

Miss Graziano has nominated Kent, Annie, Sarah, Izabela, Dylan, Ellie, Ana, Ruby, Chae-Thai, Melissa, Sean, Jonathan and Nikola from 10A Spanish for fantastic attitude to learning and effort. They are making a fantastic start to their Year 10 studies and we look forward to seeing them continue to make great progress.

Mrs Sahota would like to say well done to 7CA Spanish for their great enthusiasm and effort shown in Spanish. A special shoutout to the following students for their great participation in lesson and using fantastic pronunciation in Spanish. Ella B, Emily B, Carson, Archie, Leighton, Mia, Connor, Mateusz, Maisie S and Lewis W. Keep up the super work!

Also nominated are 11A Spanish students Kian ,Elle, Josephus, Nive and Michal. These students were focused and worked super hard recapping previous content and working on exam skills. Well done!

Humanities:

Mrs Vaghadia has made the following nominations this week:

7SI, 7TA and 7TE for their excellent start and contribution to the RE lessons this week well done!

11TA for their excellent contribution to classroom discussions in RE. Year 10 Sociology for making such a great start to the course. You all have been working really hard in the lesson and engagement has been great. Finally, well done to following Year 10 students for attending Psychology Club and making a great start:

Olivia, Myrtle, Alex Bona, Ellie, Matthew, Jana and Dawa.

Mr Gealy would like to say well done to Year 10 students who have made an excellent start to their GCSE studies and that as a department Humanities are really pleased with the work they are doing.

Science:

Miss Coulson would like to say well done to the 11A chemists who completed a core practical displaying excellent practical skills yesterday.

Scientist off the week:

Year 7 student Ronan for sharing some excellent answers and Connor RW for great knowledge of the periodic table! Wants to become a scientist.

Year 8 student Daniel H for sharing some excellent answers and Lottie M for amazing effort.

Year 9 student Ryan B for great work on heating and cooling graphs and Dylan C for great technical knowledge about paper chromatography.

Year 10 student Harley H and Kent for great effort in science this week.

Year 11students Cody and Ryan for great enthusiasm in science lessons and Callum B for excellent work in his Chemistry lesson this week on Acids and bases.

Sixth Form:

This week in Sixth Form we launched the ‘Enrichment and Personal Development’ programme to Year 12. This bespoke part of the curriculum allows students to engage in a range of activities that fall outside of their normal timetabled lessons. Over the course of the year students will be able to explore a range of opportunities, with the view to developing the transferable skills that employers and universities are looking for. To kick-off the programme all Year 12 students have signed up for a FutureLearn course of their choice, ranging from medicine to architecture, to help support their post-18 choices. A special mention needs to go out to those students in Year 12 who have also signed up for the Extended Project Qualification – well done for going the extra mile.

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