CTS Snapshot
29.04.2022
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:
We were delighted to see our Year 11 Spanish students engaging so positively in their Spanish Conference last week, in preparation for this week’s GCSE Spanish speaking exams. They worked on the role play and picture description aspects of the speaking exam, as well as analysing what makes a great opinion phrase, and working in teams to build a text about holidays using extended sentences and a range of tenses, before going around to see what other groups had written and adding additional detail to those texts. Well done Year 11, and good luck with your speaking exams! ¡Qué tengais suerte!
Year 11:
Year 13 Workshop:
This week in sixth form, we welcomed an outside organisation to CTS to deliver a two-hour workshop to Year 13 on exam success. There will also be a follow up session next week to help our students with their exam preparation. By the end of the workshops the following topics will be covered:
- Why exams are stressful and the emotions that may come up around the exam period
- Mindfulness and meditation and the science behind why these tools are useful
- Morning routines and how they can help towards confidence in exams
- Comparison and how to overcome this
- The inner critic within us and how we can challenge it.
- The concept of progress not perfection
- Goal setting and visualisation
- Time management
Year 10 Engineering:
Year 12 Engineering:
Year 8 Art:
Vanessa 8TU has gone above and beyond with her Pop Art shoe project. She has created this repeating pattern shoe entirely on her own. She has worked with acrylic paint accurately in her lines and colours used. Well done Vanessa!
Year 8 Maths:
Top Lesson Stars:
Year 7:
Igor 7CA, Alan 7SI, Moyo 7SI and Nicola 7SW.
Year 8:
Jennifer 8TE, Evie 8ST, Jennifer 8ST, Orla 8St and Leyton 8TA.
Year 9:
Keane 9CA, Omayer 9SW and Aadi 9CA.
Year 10:
Courtney 10CO, Emma 10TE, Jess 10Ca and Theo 10ST.
Year 11:
Ruby 11TA, Alfie H 11CO, Rowan 11TE and Gus 11TA.
Subject Highlights:
Music:
Miss Jenkins and Miss Patrick would like to say a huge well done to Year 9 student Marion who passed his grade 7 clarinet with a distinction. Fantastic work!
Miss Patrick has made the following nominations this week:
Year 7:
Miss Patrick would like to celebrate 7SI for their brilliant approach to this week’s lesson where they had to record a version of Rihanna’s ‘We found love’ in GarageBand. This requires students to be able to read music and perform it on keyboard, which 7SI did beautifully. Miss Patrick really enjoyed watching students support each other and help each other to finish the task – well done! A special mention to Brachen, Maja, Bradley, Alan, Kaiden and Lucas in 7SI for finishing the melody and beginning to add triads. An extra-special mention to Harry this week, who managed to completely catch up in record time after being off the week before – excellent work!
Year 8:
This week year 8 have added triads to their electronic dance tracks. It’s been lovely to hear so many different creative approaches to this project. Miss Patrick would like to celebrate Roisin in 8CA for her work this term. Not only has she created a multi-layered track which sits perfectly in time with the pulse, she has consistently demonstrated her ability to find an error in the track and edit it herself – brilliant problem-solving skills!
Year 9:
Miss Patrick would also like to celebrate 9CA this week for their use of chromaticism in their work. This led to some very interesting compositions! Miss Patrick was particularly impressed with how well students were notating their work, after only three lessons. Well done!
MFL:
Mrs Sahota would like to congratulate all the students of Year 11A Spanish group who have completed their GCSE Spanish speaking exam this week! They have all shown such great resilience, effort and hard work in preparation for this exam. Well done. Superb effort!
Mrs Gonzalez-Villamil Lean has nominated Year 7 student Katie for ALWAYS being so helpful before, during and after the lesson with resources and having a wonderful attitude to learning. Also nominated is Finley (8TE) who has really impressed with his efforts to succeed in Spanish. Finally, Year 11 who have completed their Spanish Speaking GCSE. It has been a long road for them and the team are extremely proud of their effort and resilience during this journey.
Maths:
Miss Kaur has made the following nominations this week:
Year 10 students Theo, Rhema, Adam, Harvey, Jess, Emma, Mason, Dawa, Syzmon, Milena and Emily for consistently sharing ideas and thoughts with the class, also in 10A1 Ellie for her hard work and improvement in FTG scores and Euan for outstanding book work presentation. The class as a whole are working really hard well done!
Year 9 student Kacper who has been supporting a new student in the class with the stats project and Lily for supporting a student who was absent for part of the project, Liam and Chloe for their consistent determination in lesson. Alfie, Shae, Max, Maya, Bianca for sharing their thoughts and ideas with the class. Well done to Ava who won a prize for her stats project report. Again, as a whole the class is working hard as always!
Year 8 students Eden, Mark, Madison, Sophie, Daria, Hollie, Pippa and Jakub for always working hard in lessons and always following all expectations. A special well done to Mia in 8A3 who has been working really hard in lessons and has come so far in maths particularly this term well done! Another well done to Madison, Daniel and Riley for pushing themselves on to more difficult questions consistently challenging themselves. Finally, well done to Thomas (8B1)who has been working really hard in lessons consistently particularly in terms 3 and 4.
Mr Horne has nominated Year 7 student Robert who has made a great start to our study of probability, Year 8 student Jennifer C who has developed a great understanding of probability trees and Year 9 students Nadia M and Sophie K who have shown a great understanding of 2-way tables.
Art:
Miss Bowman has nominated Vanessa (8TU) who has gone above and beyond with her Pop Art shoe project. She has created a repeating pattern shoe entirely on her own and has worked with acrylic paint accurately in her lines and colours used. Also nominated is Ethan in 7CO for his great attitude to the subject. He has been focused and working really hard on his work – well done!
Science:
Scientists of the Week are:
Year 7 student Tamika for her fantastic attitude in Science.
Year 8 student Aleksa for great effort in Science recently.
Year 9 student for Greta for her great attitude to Science.
Year 10 student Theo who has demonstrated excellent effort in Science.
Year 11student Jack who has displayed a brilliant effort in revision this week.
Food Technology:
Year 10 had a fantastic lesson this week with Mrs Firmin making mayonnaise by hand. They all had very aching arms by the end of it but there were some fantastic outcomes – many of which looked just like mayonnaise! Of particular note were Alisha B, Timotheos, Robert, Leena, Lilly, Kai and Keeley.
DT:
Mrs Firmin has been extremely impressed with the working efforts and perseverance of Year 9 this week – all of whom are working on a coat hanger project using recycled pallet word. They have all put super effort in to preparing the wood and no-one would guess it was a dirty old bit of pallet wood – we now have lots of beautiful pieces of pine.
Mrs Brook has nominated Darius (7CA) for his helpfulness in DT and for a great success with his lamp.
PE:
Miss Williams has nominated the students who attend dance club for their perseverance with fast choreography. Well done to Gretil, Maya and Mariyah who have been learning their own dances. Also nominated are Miss Williams Year 7 PE classes for great tactics and communication in their modified striking and fielding lessons.
Mr Rogers has nominated Year 12 students Liam, Brady, Bradley and Lacey for their excellent controlled assessment in Sport Science and Year 8 students Artjom, Daniel and Kevin for their resilience, empathy and teamwork in striking and fielding.
English:
Mrs Brown has been marking Year 10 Romeo and Juliet assessments and is really pleased with the class' understanding of the key concepts. Well done!
Special mentions to Amie-Leigh, Robert, Ana, Melissa, Dylan, Ella, Myrtle, Paulina and Hasan who made excellent progress in timed conditions.
Mrs Rice has nominated Year 8 student Adam for his excellent knowledge of Edgar Allan Poe and Year 9 students Phoebe, Sophie, Chloe and Ruby for their excellent work on exploring characterisation in Salt to The Sea.
Miss Lodge has nominated nominate 8A3 for their great creative writing on the gothic setting. They have a great understanding of the gothic genre and are using this knowledge to create some well thought out pieces of writing. Also nominated are 9B1 for their speech writing. They had some really insightful ideas about the importance of history and why we value the knowledge and experiences of survivors.
Miss Hallybone has nominated 11B1 for their excellent commitment in their English Literature lessons this week. They have all been working on poetry flashcards to help them with their revision in the lead-up to exams.
Humanities:
Mr Strumpher has nominated Year 8 students Patryk S, Trafford and Reva for always working hard in RE and taking part in the class discussions. Keep up the good work. Also nominated are Year 11 students Kamila, Leila, Daisy, Oscar H and Niav N for always working hard in their Geography lessons.
Mrs Vaghadia has nominated 7TA for their excellent responses and contribution to the lesson in RE this week. Also nominated are 8TU History students Oliwia, Charlie and Lottie for their excellent answers to the End of Empire lesson this week and Year 10 Sociology students who have been working very hard and keeping up with the new challenging concepts which has been presented to them.
Mr Hallas would like to nominate Cameron, Adrian, Daria, Reese and Jakub in 11E Geography for their excellent work ethic. A special mention to Katie for her brilliant contributions in this week's lesson – well done!
Mr Harris has nominated Tanya (8SI) for showing great passion when talking about Zimbabwe and the British Empire. It was excellent to see her be so vocal. Year 11 student Jasmine S in year 11 has completed excellent work and showed great commitment to her GCSE revision and her excellent recent mock grade!
Mr Gealy has nominated 10B for showing a consistently good work ethic in their Geography lessons.
Miss Buffini would like to say a big well done to all the year 7’s who have completed the interpretations task on Richard III and the Princes in the tower, she has been very impressed with the way pupils have answered what is a GCSE skill, with many pupils getting very high marks. Well done!
Reminders:
School will be closed on the following dates:
- Monday 2nd May – Early May Bank Holiday
- Thursday 2nd June – Spring Bank Holiday
- Friday 3rd June - Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday
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