🌟 Empowering Future Leaders at the Blaby Youth Conference! 🌟
Last week, 24 of our amazing Year 7-10 students took part in the annual Youth Conference at Blaby District Council! 🎤💡
💙 Morning Sessions:
✅ Hands-on resuscitation & first aid training 🏥
✅ Eye-opening cyber security insights 🔐
✅ Powerful knife crime awareness workshop & performance 🎭
⚖️ Afternoon Debate:
Our students joined local councillors to discuss how the council can better support young people in our community. Their voices were strong, their ideas were inspiring, and their leadership shone through! 👏
They left with valuable communication, citizenship, and leadership skills—and they were fantastic ambassadors for our academy. 💫
Hot Choc Friday 28th February! ☕☕
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! ☕⭐
⭐⚽🏓Empowering Our Girls Through Sport!
💪🏅A group of our students recently took part in an inspiring GALs Day at Huncote Leisure Centre, where they trained as GALs Ambassadors! The day focused on understanding the barriers to female participation in sport and physical activity, equipping our students with the skills to create an action plan to encourage more girls to get involved.
🤸♂️🌟A highlight of the day was meeting British gymnast Becky Downie, who shared her incredible journey and motivated our students to drive positive change.
🏓✨Our newly trained ambassadors are now working on ways to promote girls’ sport within our school – watch this space for exciting initiatives!
⭐⭐⭐Thank you to the staff at the South Leicestershire School Sports Partnership and the Youth Sports Trust for organising the day!
Here is the lunch menu for W/C 24th February 2025🍽🧃🥪🍉🍩😋
Last week, our Year 12 and 13 students had the fantastic opportunity to hear from Phil Sterne, a Careers Coach and professional CV writer with experience in recruitment for companies like Amazon and Alton Towers.
Phil’s talk provided invaluable insights on choosing the right career path and gave students a step-by-step guide to crafting a standout CV.
To support this further, parents and carers of Year 12 & 13 students have been sent a Free Teenager CV Template, offering useful resources to help their young person with CV writing.
Students found the session incredibly informative and inspiring—a big thank you to Phil for sharing his expertise! 👏
Please visit https://tinyurl.com/4tpk5h5t to read a letter from Mrs Aitcheson about important information for the start of the next half term.
Thank you, and have a lovely half term break.
Hot Choc Friday 14th February! ☕☕
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! ☕⭐
🎓✨ Aspire Students Visit Oxford University! ✨🎓
Our Aspire Programme students from Countesthorpe Academy & Hive Sixth Form recently had an incredible opportunity to experience a day in the life of an Oxford University student!
From engaging in thought-provoking seminars to exploring the historic campus, the visit gave our students a real insight into university life and the exciting possibilities ahead.
⭐Raising aspirations, broadening horizons, and inspiring future success—this is what Aspire at Countesthorpe Academy & Hive Sixth Form is all about!
📅Applications for Hive Sixth Form remain open, but only for a short time, so please hurry as places are filling fast! Please apply through PS16 or use the application form on our website https://www.clcc.college/6th-form-curriculum/
For any queries about our fantastic Sixth Form please contact Mrs Challinor, Director of Sixth Form. KChallinor@clcc.college
⭐📜To kick off National Apprenticeship Week at Countesthorpe Academy, Hive Sixth Form welcomed back Morgan who successfully completed his A Levels at Hive Sixth Form in 2023. Morgan is currently studying for a Degree Level Apprenticeship at Jaguar Land Rover and came back to school to share his experiences of this amazing career.
📚📅Students in Key Stages 4 and 5 will take part in Apprenticeship events in CREW and PREP this week and are invited to join an online Apprenticeship Fair with UNIFROG on Wednesday.
📅This is a reminder that our Countesthrope Academy EPQ students will be hosting a Marketplace on Tuesday 25th February from 5:15 and would like to invite you along!
📜The EPQ is a unique DIY A-level offered to Hive sixth form students. The students involved have a diverse array of topics to share with you! There is everything from dark matter to natural prisons and optimism to aviation!!!
📚Year 11 students may find the event particularly interesting, as it offers an insight into this additional qualification option. Come and find out more…⭐
📩Please send any questions to the EPQ Coordinator, Mrs Smith at lsmith@clcc.college
