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CTS Snapshot

07.12.2018

CTS Snapshot07.12.2018
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:

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Year 11 Geography Trip

Our Year 11 Geographers visited Hunstanton this week to look at longshore drift and the effectiveness of coastal protection as part of their GCSE coursework.
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Marine Society and Cadet Workshop

Year 7 students have enjoyed workshops today with John Lupton from the Marine Society covering Buoyancy, exploring some of the scientific principles such as Density, Displacement, Newton’s 3rd law and Archimedes Principle
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Year 10 PE students

Pictured are a group of Year 10 students who played an excellent badminton doubles game.

Stars of the Week:

Students:


  • Miss Connellan has nominated Year 11 students Baixu, Kellie, Matish and Callum for making excellent progress in their English language mock exams. Miss Fenner has also nominated Alex A, Harry, Logan, Georgia, Daryl, Josh, Tinashe, Haydn, Bronwyn and Bailey and Year 8 students Finlay, Jasmine, Niav, Sai, Rowan, Emma B, Nathan and Nikodem for producing excellent assessments.
  • Miss McGrath has nominated Year 8 Scientists for demonstrating very good practical skills whilst extracting DNA from peas and also 7TA for producing some brilliant marks in their end of topic science test.
  • Mr Godfrey has nominated Year 10 students Debony, Hallie, Morgan and Anjali for having consistently great attitude to learning in Science.
  • Miss Williams has nominated Year 10 students Finlaye, Damian, Luke, Macauley and Ewan for excellent badminton doubles games. Great use of tactics and moving their opponents around the court.
  • Miss Watt has nominated Year 9 students Tamsyn and Sophie for fantastic assessments in German.

Celebration of Student Work

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Mathematical Artwork Inspired by Kandinsky

Our mathematicians have produced artwork for the windows of the maths classrooms. They were inspired after learning about the abstract works of Kandinsky and decided to try it themselves.
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Models of Cells in Biology

Year 7 have impressed Biology teacher Mr Cox, by producing models of cells for their homework. They are very detailed models, showing every element with labels.
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Baking Bread with 7BY STEM

7BY STEM class have been filling the school with lovely bread-baking smells this week. They are focusing on kitchen skills this term in technical enrichment and this week was bread week!

GCSE Celebration Evening

We held a presentation evening this week for our former Year 11 students who collected their GCSE certificates. It was lovely to see the students who moved onto other education after leaving us. The students shared with us what their next steps have been, including A-Level study, college and apprenticeships.

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.
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Whole School Attendance

The whole school attendance this week was at 95.38% meaning that we've just missed our target! If we try really hard to come in next week, I'm sure we can make this figure the highest it has every been!
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Best Tutor Group

Well done to 7CA who had an attendance figure of 99.23% this week!
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House Winner

Our winning houses this week are Cayley and Coleman, who together had the best attendance of 95.85%.

Reminders:

  • A letter has been emailed to all parents with details of the Christmas Showcase and Christmas lunch for staff and students, a hard copy will also be sent home with students, and is available on the school website.