ANNUAL AWARDS EVENING in This Edition You Can Read About the Celebrations of Our Students’ Academic Achievements and Contribution to the Academy
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CBA STUDENTS & THEIR FUTURE... ANNUAL AWARDS EVENING In this edition you can read about the celebrations of our students’ academic achievements and contribution to the Academy. IN PRESS ISSUE 40 DEC 2016 AMY WINS STUDENT FEATURES STUDENTS TAKE SCHOOL IN NEW ILLUSTRATED MEMORABLE LIBRARIAN HARRY POTTER TRIP TO OF THE YEAR BOOK AUSCHWITZ LETTER FROM Patrick Hallam Elaine Wood Matthew Shone THE ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL During the last two terms Corby Business Festival in Nottingham, participated in a music to do and know what they have to do to take Academy has continued to nurture the skills, tour to some of our primary schools and those next steps. In the world of sport our abilities and aptitudes of our students so they finally took part in our Christmas Concert students have demonstrated great courage can be fulfilled members of society, contributing which was extremely impressive. particularly in netball when they have played to that society, challenging and perhaps Our Sixth Form students are role models for teams older than themselves. changing that society so all have a sense of the younger students as they demonstrate a belonging and worth. In all that we do we Finally it is not just our students that represent high degree of self-management. We were demonstrate our values of ambition, drive and ambition, drive and commitment but it is also very proud that there were so many applicants commitment, self-management, kindness, the staff. Earlier this year our effervescent I studied sports sociology at Leeds I am an experienced teacher and I am a history teacher and in my sixth for the roles of Head Girl and Head Boy. We politeness and courtesy and finally courage. librarian, Amy MacKay was named National Metropolitan University and then examiner of psychology. Psychology is year of teaching. I grew up in Stoke- are very proud of our new Senior Team which School Librarian of the Year. This honour went on to study my PGCE at Hull a real passion of mine and I have been on-Trent before moving to Liverpool to One of the highlights so far this year was has already supported the life of the Academy acknowledged her role in driving up literacy University. I have worked in education teaching it for over 20 years. I decided complete a history and sports science our Presentation Evening which celebrated by meeting and greeting visitors, running our standards and instilling a love of reading in all. in various roles, including as a teaching to join CBA as I had the chance to degree which led me to getting my first the commitment of our students to their Senate and attending key events. This year assistant, cover supervisor and primary develop the subject in the way I wanted full time job as a cover supervisor at a academic achievement and contribution to the Combined Cadet Force is based here I hope you enjoy reading even more articles school sports co-ordinator. After a to. This term I have set up Psychology high school in Liverpool. I met my wife the Academy. Those who attended also heard at Corby Business Academy and they too that celebrate the students’ ambition, successful sporting career in rugby, Club and I am working towards starting at university and we both moved to of the courage of our speaker Claire Lomas demonstrate self-management and discipline commitment and drive and how they respond representing the Leicester Tigers GCSE psychology in September 2017. I Stoke so that I could complete my PGCE who inspired everyone when she described which was most apparent in the Beret Parade to challenge demonstrating resilience, that paralysis was not going to stop her from Academy, Nottingham Rugby club as am looking at setting up a psychology at Keele University. I taught at a high attended by many visitors. courage and perseverance. having a full and active life. During our re- well as county and England Schools hub across the trust so psychology school in Nantwich for five years before I decided that a career in teaching teachers can get together once a term moving to Kettering with my wife and styled Open Evening over a thousand visitors As Year 11 work towards their exams they have I would like to thank all associated with demonstrated great courage and resilience. was how I could fulfil my ambitions. to share their resources and good two children so that we could both start were able to see the ambition of our students Corby Business Academy for their continued Together with Year 13 students they have just I worked in schools in West Yorkshire practice. I’m really looking forward to new jobs at CBA for a new challenge. I and staff who demonstrated the different commitment. learning opportunities here at Corby Business finished two weeks of Mock Exams and now alongside a semi-professional rugby seeing psychology grow as a subject am looking forward to a new challenge Academy. Recently we have celebrated the they are being interviewed by members of career. I decided to settle back down because it is so interesting and useful as a Director of Learning for Year 9 and commitment many of our students have to the Senior Leadership Team about their next in Lincolnshire to complete my teacher for students to study both in terms of developing my career in a new, modern developing their music talents when they steps after they finish their exams in June. The Janet Duggan training and now I’m pleased to be a knowing themselves a little better and establishment. performed in the National Concert Band majority of the students know what they want Associate Principal member of the CBA staff and a part of as a way to learn useful skills to take to the Brooke Weston Trust community. university and the world of work. Natasha Currie Emily Boyd Katrina Shone Krystale Vallerie I am an English teacher at CBA and have been teaching for I am one of the Art and Photography teachers at CBA. I have I am a special needs teacher who teaches in the ASD base I originally come from Northern Saskatchewan; a small village seven years. I started lecturing English in Further Education and a degree in illustration and a master’s degree in digital surface at CBA. This is my eighth year of teaching and I have always called Holbein and came to England in 2014 to complete then taught in a prison. I then moved into Secondary Education design from the University of the Arts, London. Before becoming taught in SEN schools. I wanted to specialise in ASD and the my NQT and RQT. My partner’s job was being transferred so and was a second in department at my last school. I joined a teacher I was a freelance illustrator and business owner selling job at CBA offered the opportunity. I am looking forward to I started searching for a new position and came across CBA. CBA as I really wanted the opportunity to teach A Level again. my work and printed clothing in shops across the UK and developing the ASD base over the coming years and hoping to The different structure of the day and the overall set-up of The environment is professional and organised and I look worldwide. I wanted to bring my experience from industry into contribute to staff training when the opportunities come up. The the school intrigued me and I thought it would be a positive forward to helping students of all abilities reach their potential the classroom, and bring relevance to the curriculum. I chose Unit team have been really welcoming and very helpful, I am change. I look forward to exploring all the academy has to in English. CBA in particular because it is a forward thinking school, and we really enjoying working with them. I hope to work closely with offer and so far in my time at CBA I have set up a volleyball share the same values, one of which is to connect the lives of colleagues across the trust in the future. club. The staff seem so dedicated to the clubs that they run students to the real world of work. I look forward to working with and it is a great team to be a part of. a fantastic department and help continue their successes. 2 3 www.corbybusinessacademy.org www.corbybusinessacademy.org SCHOOL CBA LIBRARIAN OPEN OF THE YEAR WINNER EVENING Congratulations to Amy McKay who has won the SLA (School Library Corby Business Academy’s Open Evening was Association), School Librarian of the a great success attracting hundreds of families Year Award 2016. Multi-award-winning who wanted to look around the building and author Kim Slater presented her with see what we have to offer. There were lots of the award on 3 October at a School activities that students and staff had organised. Libraries Celebration Day Ceremony Amy, second from left, with her award Mrs Alice Beckwith, Senior Assistant Principal said held at The Judge’s Court in London. ‘Parents told us in previous years that the evening Amy said ‘The recognition was lovely and I think you to the students we are going to invite an she was up against four other librarians before felt a bit flat as we used to hold a presentation and it is really important as an academy to receive author of their choice to the Academy. show them around an empty building. clinching the title. this award because they are very supportive of ‘You can have the best library in the world but ‘The idea for this year was to get the children the library.