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.

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:

Marika 7TA, Joel 7TA, Max 7CO, Ava 7TA, Lilia 7TE, Julia 7TA, Adrija 7CO, Lena 7ST, Jessica 7ST, Rehan 7SW, Aanya 7ST and Riley 7SW.

Year 8:

Ava 8ST, Adam 8CO, Roberta 8SW, Alisha 8CO, Emma 8CA, Ruslan 8ST, Ethan 8CO and Patrick 8TA.

Year 9:

Sophie 9SW, James 9CU, Natalia 9TE, Riley 9SW and Megan 9TU.

Year 10:

Ivan 10SW, Kevin 10CO, Leyton 10TA, Emily 10CU, Iosif 10TU, Ellie 10CA, Lana 10SI, Abigail 10CA, Sian 10TU and Billie 10TA.

Year 11:

Veronika 11TE, Eureka 11TA, Shae 11CA, Esosa 11SW, Ruby 11SW, Liam 11TA and Dominik 11CO.

Year 12:

Victoria and Harvey 12B.

Each week will focus on two departments within the school and share their nominations with you.

Maths:

Ms Khumalo has made the following nominations this week, Lily 7R, Eleanor 8B1 and Milan 9C2 for excellent work and contribution.

Ms Jonga has nominated Year 9 students Alan and Olivia, Year 8 student Albert and Year 7 student Phoebe D.

Ms Wawryniuk has nominated Year 7 student Lucas who displayed great potential and enthusiasm during lessons and Jessica M for amazing work in class and for contributing positively in respectful whole class.

Year 7A2 have completed their first unit in Maths and demonstrated brilliant participations in Maths lessons, in particular Max, James, Kirill, Leah-Rose and Kaleb.

9B1 students are working incredible hard and Ms Wawryniuk is impressed with their attitude for learning. Well done!

10B1 students have shown curiosity about new topics and have engaged in the Maths activities thoughtfully, special mention to Dominic, Kinga, Filip, Kade and Ugne. Great work!

Ms Wawryniuk is also impressed with the standards of work in 11A1, especially Stas, Zhivko, Ollie, Isabella and Maya who are trying to complete challenge questions on regular base. Keep it up!

Mr Jackson has nominated Year 7 students Rose, Lucas and Myles for making an excellent start to secondary school mathematics. Also nominated are Year 11 students Scarlett Angela for excellent commitment to their studies during the first few weeks of Year 11.

Mr Lee has nominated Year 10 students Madison, Jakub, Tanya and Ongjen for their hard work at the start of their Year 10 Maths GCSE course – this has included four operations, laws of indices and priority of operations. Year 11 students Max, Antoni, Arina and Nicolas did an exceptional job on their first assessment on rounding, bounds and limits of accuracy, excellent work!

Mrs Wynn has shared all her groups have made an excellent start to the academic year. A special mention to 8A3 who collectively are already a fully focused group who are on route to make excellent progress this year.

9A3 have settled well and tackling new challenges head on. 10A2 and 10C2 are showing a maturity towards the start of their KS4 Journey and 11A2 are recognising that commitment and hard work is ahead of them and have made a great start towards their final year.

English:

Mr Kernaghan has made the following nominations:

the following students from 11B1, Stas for providing some very insightful interpretations of A Christmas Carol, Zhivko for challenging himself with using precise and ambitious terminology in lessons and Lucy D for fully engaging with the learning and contributing to whole class discussions.

12En1 for making an incredibly enthusiastic start to their A Level journey. They have thrown themselves into learning new terminology and reading their new texts. A very impressive start.

7BZ/En for making a fantastic start to Year 7. Everyone has been working incredibly hard at demonstrating their impressive vocabulary and creative writing skills.

Miss Vye has nominated her Year 12 English Language and Literature group for making a great start to the term and engaging in thought-provoking discussions. Also nominated are 7CO, in particular Lily, Max, Brianna and Adrija for making an excellent start to year 7, always having beautifully-presented books and being willing to share their amazing ideas.

Miss Collins has nominated Year 10 student Kade for his amazing contributions in English, fantastic work ethic and always willing to read aloud in class when studying An Inspector Calls. Miss Collins would also like to congratulate Year 7 student Aanya for beautiful presentation and pride of work. Aanya is Incredibly polite with thoughtful contributions to lessons.

Mr Toye would like to nominate Nojus (7CA) for an incredible start at tackling new learning in English; he has shown a great deal resilience and determination - keep it up!

Each week we will share with you what our Year 7, 8 and 9 students are learning in our focus departments this term, below you will find the topics for English with some questions you can ask your child about the topics:

English:

Year 7 - The Bad Beginning:

This term, Year 7 are studying the first novel in Lemony Snicket’s ‘Series of Unfortunate Events’. Students will explore characterisation and the use of literary techniques such as metaphor and pathetic fallacy with the goal of increasing their confidence in using this terminology in every lesson. In addition to this, our lessons will guide students in developing their vocabulary as they explore characters in depth and try to explain their motivations.

Questions:

What makes Count Olaf such a 'sinister' villain?

What interesting terminology have you used this week? What does it mean?

Would you like to read more books in this series?

Year 8 - Culture Poetry

This term, Year 8 will study a range of different poems that will expose them to different cultures and experiences. Students will consider what constitutes ‘culture’ and how different cultures may interact and relate to one another. Already this term, students have explored the poems of Benjamin Zephaniah, John Aagard and Tom Leonard, exploring a multicultural Britain, the role that skin colour may play in both defining and limiting identity, and conflict that may arise between speakers of different accents or dialects.

Questions:

What is 'culture'?

How do different aspects of life influence your culture?

What is the most memorable poem that you have studied so far? Explain why.

Year 9 - Adventure

This term, year 9 students have been exploring the writing of different explorers and adventurers. Through a range of fiction and non-fiction extracts, student have explored the writers’ different perspectives and experiences, using this as an opportunity to develop their skills of close language analysis to prepare them for their GCSE study next year. Lessons have encouraged students to develop their own opinions regarding characters’ journeys and their language use.

Questions:

What is the most interesting 'adventure' that you have read so far?

If you could pick one place to have an 'adventure', where would it be?

People may disagree on what constitutes an 'adventure'. What do you think it means to 'go on an adventure'?

Another fantastic performance from our Year 10 football team this week. Goals from Logan, Toby, Judah and Joel and a Man of the Match performance from Logan, gave the team a 5-1 win against Prince William. Excellent team work and a great performance from all.

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