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:

Svetlana 7CO, Millie 7SW, Riley 7SW, Lily 7CO, Leah-Rose 7Ca and Gorana 7TA.

Year 8:

Vlad 8SW, Kaleb 8ST, Alex 8SW and Matei 8ST.

Year 9:

Mirren 9TU, Robert 9CU, Riley 9SW, Jessica 9ST and Anneka 9TA.

Year 10:

Antonio 10TA, Nicole 10TA. K-Jay 10CA, Adam 10SI and Alexis 10TE.

Year 11:

Shae 11CA and Angela 11CO.

Each week will focus on a department within the school and share their nominations with you. This week our Geography team will be sharing their nominations with you.

Mr Shephard would like to say a massive well done for 2 years of hard work for Year 13 Geography, for focusing on constant improvement and completion of strong NEAs. You have everything you need to succeed, Good luck with your future endeavours.

Also, well done to Year 11 Geography students, you have worked so hard, an you have everything you need to succeed in your exams. Have confidence in your own ability and leave your exams feeling proud of your hard work. Good Luck!

Mr Shepherd has also nominated Year 12 and Year 13 Travel and Tourism students for working really hard on their Unit 1 and 3 respectively. Good luck to Year 12 who will sit their unit 1 shortly. Well done to Year 13 for completing their Unit 3 coursework.

Mr Strumpher has nominated Year 13 Geography students for working so hard and trying their best in improving their exam skills before their final exams. Keep up the good work!

Also nominated are Year 11AGg class for working really hard on the Geography Paper 3 pre-release. Special mentions to Max H, Milena G, Rene H, Kacper B, Ava M, Zofia B, Phoebe S, Matthew C, Kacper L and Dominika D.

Mr Strumpher would also like to congratulate his Year 10 Geography group for their punctuality, hard work in lessons and also outside lesson to improve their marks on their assessments, well done! Finally, Year 12 and 13 Travel and Tourism students have worked exceptionally hard on their Unit 9 coursework, there has been a lot to do but students are nearly there, keep up the good work, you can do it!

Good luck to both groups sitting their A level and GCSE Geography examinations in the next few weeks. Study hard for the last few days and remember what you have been taught in lessons.

“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m Possible’” – Audrey Hepburn.

Mr Dorfling has nominated the following this week:

Year 7 student Svetlana for a great academic performance, Year 8 student Ropa for excellent work in class, Year 9 student Gabriele C for an extremely positive work ethic and Year 10 student Sebastien for his great work ethic and drive.

Each week we will share with you what our students are learning in our focus departments this term, below you will find the topics for English.

Year 7:

This term, students in Year 7 have been given their first introduction to thematic poetry. Studying poems that reflect different relationships, students have spent their lessons considering how poets construct images with their language and attempt to communicate abstract emotions through their words.

Year 8:

This term, students in Year 8 have been reading the non-fiction, autobiographical memoir of ‘I Am Malala’, written by the Nobel Prize winning Malala Yousafzai. As a young girl, Malala was attacked by the Taliban for protesting in the name of girls’ education in Pakistan. This text offers students the opportunity to engage at length with a piece of non-fiction, rather than focusing on smaller extracts as is normally the case. Students will consider how the author captures their own experiences and communicates their values and ideals before beginning to consider how they might tell their stories about their own lives.

Year 9:

Maintaining the theme of conflict that runs throughout Year 9, students have been studying ‘Salt to the Sea’, a novel of historical fiction. The novel explores the deadliest maritime disaster in history, the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship transporting refugees from East Prussia at the end of the Second World War. Students will explore the author’s use of language in constructing characters, themes and narrative – considering how the author ties together the narratives of multiple different characters.

Year 10:

This half term, students will be introduced to the 15 poems, selected by AQA, as part of their ‘Power and Conflict’ cluster of poetry. In their lessons, students will explore how each of the poems constructs a poetic voice that either experiences conflict or attempts to interpret the power dynamic in a certain situation. For example, in one poem, students may consider how nature is depicted as a powerful force, while in another they may consider the internal conflict that emerges from soldiers on the battlefield. Next term, while also revising the core knowledge learned this half term, students will have the opportunity to begin comparing these poems and considering how power or conflict may be presented similarly or differently by the poets.

Year 11:

Year 11 continue to revise in preparation for their forthcoming exams. Lessons are currently alternating between preparing students for their exams in English Language and English Literature, revisiting the core skills that are required to succeed in the exams, recapping the analysis of core quotations, and consolidating knowledge to support their independent revision.

Year 12:

Year 12 have begun the production of their NEA in English Language and Literature. Each student has selected their primary literary text, with selections ranging from ‘The Da Vinci Code’ to ‘The Silence of the Lambs’, and begun to consider which non-literary sources they might choose to further illuminate their understanding of the text they have chosen.

Year 13:

Year 13 continue to revise for their forthcoming exams. Current lessons are being used to consolidate students’ knowledge of the core texts that have been studied throughout the past two years while also providing students with an opportunity to practise their language analysis skills

Bank Holidays:

Monday 6th May 2023 – Early May Bank Holiday

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