
CTS Snapshot
05.04.2019
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:
High School Musical
This week saw our students perform High School Musical, well done and thank you to all students and staff who made this such a success.
CTS - First Musical Production
This is our first musical production and we are extremely proud of our very talented students. After many weeks of rehearsal and preparation it was amazing to see the final performance.
Big Book Quiz
Year 8 students took part in the Big Book Quiz this week, they had the opportunity to dress as their favourite character and took part in groups challenges.
Stars of the Week:
Students:
- Mr Gourlay has nominated Year 8 students Cameron, Brandon, Michal and Lukasz for showing superb programming skills in the recent Raspberry Pi Scroll Bot module in Computer Science.
- Mrs Brown has nominated Year 11 student Matish for extra commitment to work outside class and outstanding outcomes for English Literature.
- Mr Williamson has nominated the following Media students, Year 9 Adrian for his photoshop skills, Year 10 students Paris and Amy for excellent effort in lessons on the US film industry and Year 12 student Dany for effort outside lessons and working ahead of schedule with planning and photoshoots for NEA magazine brief.
- Miss Willams has nominated Year 7 students Ksennija for helping others in Science in preparation for their test and Adam for going above and beyond in his efforts. Also nominated are 7CA students Amelia and Lily for organising and delivering and assembly to the rest of the year for their PiXL edge tasks, Year 9 student Kiero for his excellent play in badminton and rugby lessons and finally Year 9 boys for their participation in rugby sessions with Northampton Saints.
- Mrs Vaghadia has nominated the Year 13 Psychology students for their excellent delivery of the PowerPoint presentations, in particular Aaron and Malika.
- Mr Horne would like to say well done to Year 8 students Wojiech, Holly and Daisy and Year 9 student Sam for their participation in the UK Maths Challenge, resulting in 6th place, well done.
- Mrs Morgan would like to say well done to the Year 11 VCert students who completed their Food and Cookery this week.
- Mr Lee has nominated his Year 7 Mathematicians for their work this week on Compound Interest and for being fantastic ambassadors of the schools when a visitor was in school.
- Miss Fenner has nominated Year 11 English student Keiran for his excellent contributions and commitment to studies and Year 9 students for their excellent focus and enthusiasm on studying GCSE poems.
- Mrs Hopkins has nominated Year 11 Historians for working so hard on their mocks that on average every students made one grade improvement! Well done!
- Miss Connellan has nominated Year 9 students Aleksander, Hana, Dominika and Indira for their extra work outside of lessons and fantastic effort towards their GCSE English work.
Celebration of Student Work
Maths Challenge 2019
This week students took part in the UK Mathematics Challange and finished 6th overall, beating many local schools. Well done to Wojiech, Sam, Holly and Daisy.
Visit with Navy Chefs
Year 10 students took part in this workshop, serving Naval personnel gave a cookery demonstration and then gave information on Navy careers.
Commando Joe's
This week students were taught survival skills including how to effectively deliver an SOS in an emergency.
Attendance Matters
Every single day a student is absent from school equates to a day lost of learning. At Corby Technical School we pride ourselves in maintaining excellent attendance. Our target is to achieve and maintain a whole school attendance of above 96.5%. We will be giving you weekly updates on our whole school attendance, the tutor group and house who achieved the highest attendance this week.
Whole School Attendance
Whole school attendance this week is 93.67%. significantly below our target, we need to improve this.
Best Tutor Group
Our best tutor groups this week is 7TE with 99.2%, well done to Mr Lee and your students.
House Winner
House winners are C house with 95.66%, again, still below our target of 96.5%.
Reminders:
- Year 7 Parent/Consultation Evening will take place on Wednesday 10th April, please book your appointments via the Parent Booking system using the login details sent to you.
- Year 8 Curriculum Options Evening will take place on Wednesday 17th April, places can be booked using the Parent Booking system.
Corby Technical School
Email: enquiries@corbytechnicalschool.org
Website: www.corbytechnicalschool.org
Location: Cottingham Road, Corby, United Kingdom
Phone: 01536 213100
Twitter: @CTSCorby