📚✨ Happy World Book Day 2025! ✨📚
Fab to see our amazing staff getting into the spirit and dressing up as their favorite book characters! 📖🎭
There’s still time to join the fun! 🎉
📌 Behind the Mask Competition – Enter by 17th March
📌 Book Review Submissions – Due by 11th March
🏆 Winners will be announced in the coming weeks!
Don’t forget to spend your book tokens! 📚 Those who haven’t received theirs yet will get them early next week.
💻Are you a Year 11 student? Thinking about Esports? 🕹Come and visit our Esports Arena and see where a career in Esports can take you. 📅Thursday 13th March at Countesthorpe Academy, LE8 5PR ⏰Registration from 3:40pm in Hive Centre – our fantastic Sixth Form Centre. ⚡Esports Taster Session 4-5pm. Find out more about this exciting new qualification and spend time in our incredible Esports Arena! Hive Sixth Form at Countesthorpe Academy is pleased to offer this incredible opportunity to complete an Esports Qualification alongside two other Level 3 qualifications.🎓 ➡Book your place to find out more: https://tinyurl.com/y8km5wwh Please be reminded that we will close early on Thursday 13th March 2025 at 2pm. Buses will depart at 2:10pm. We will have six lessons as normal, with each lesson being slightly shorter than normal to allow for the early finish, meaning that your child will have the same timetabled lessons for that day. More information about this early closure can be found on this letter – https://tinyurl.com/39ykr3du Hot Choc Friday 7th March! ☕☕ Students who were nominated by their teachers for achieving success, showing resilience or just being a fantastic, respectful student, were rewarded with a special hot chocolate breakfast with Mrs Aitcheson and Mr Williams! Well done to all of the students who were nominated – they are all fantastic, amazing young people! ☕⭐ ITV News are the latest national news agency to visit our school to report on our eSports Provision, and this should be broadcast Friday 7th March at 6pm! Our eSports provision continues to impress everyone who visits with ITV News being the latest to be wowed by our exceptional facility, innovative course, and exciting after school clubs. Arun Lal from ITV news and his crew visited our esports centre to report on the exciting world of esports and how our school is delivering a BTEC course to help develop the next generation of eSports professionals. Our BTEC course helps students learn about the business elements of eSports, marketing skills, shout casting and a range of other transferable skills, all through the media of competitive gaming. ITV interview our BTEC students and also interviewed our after school eSports club students. All remarked on how impressive our arena is and how it shows them that Countesthorpe Academy means business when it comes to eSports. The 2025 EPQ Marketplace: A Night to Remember! 🎉 The 2025 EPQ Marketplace and student stands blew visitors away! 🌟 Students showcased their expertise and eloquently discussed their projects with passion and confidence. A huge congratulations to the winners of the evening: Staff are incredibly proud of all EPQ students and wish them the best of luck with their assessed presentations! 👏✨ 👏Thank-you to the Law Lecture Team at DMU for joining our ASPIRE programme this morning and sharing their experiences, hints and tips for a career in law!🎓 ⚖Interesting and important to note that you definitely don’t need a Law A Level to do Law at University – choose History, English, Philosophy or any subject that assesses you in analysing, evaluating and essay writing!📝 📚 WORLD BOOK DAY COMPETITION 📚 Love a book? Review it in a tweet! 📝✨ Write a 280-character Twitter-style review of your favorite book—include the title, characters, themes & your thoughts! 🏆 Prizes for top reviews 🎫Year 7 & 8 Students will receive a £1.00 book token & the choice of a free world book day book from the following 5 titles during their library lessons📖 Open to all years—get reviewing! 🎉 #WorldBookDay 🎉 National Careers Week is Here! 🎉 This week, we’re celebrating National Careers Week, a fantastic opportunity for students to explore their future pathways! 🌟 Teachers will be encouraging conversations about different career opportunities in the classroom and wearing badges that celebrate their past careers. 📅 Mock Interviews – Thursday 6th March 💡 Explore Careers at Home 🔗 Take the quiz here: Quiz: What career is right for me? – BBC Bitesize Here is the lunch menu for W/C 3rd March 2025🍽🧃🥪🍉🍩😋
🏆 Most Informative – Jackson G
🎨 Most Creative – Abbie M
💬 Most Engaging – Isabel J
💪 Most Confident – Lucy B
🤯 Most Interesting Fact – Poppy B
📅 Deadline: 11th March | Winners: 14th March
📩 Submit to Mrs. Orton in the Library (email or handwritten)
To help prepare our students in Year 11 and 13 for the world of work, we’ll be holding mock interviews on Thursday, giving them valuable experience and confidence for their future careers! 👔💼
Parents and pupils can also explore career options together with BBC Bitesize Careers. Check out their “What career is right for me?” quiz to discover exciting possibilities! 🚀
