Here is the lunch menu for W/C 17th March 2025🍽🧃🥪🍉🍩😋
On 27th February, over 75 of our talented students took to the stage at the Albert Hall in Nottingham for an unforgettable night of dance! 💃🕺
From jazz to musical theatre to street dance, each performance was bursting with passion, energy, and creativity. 🎶🔥 The audience was fantastic, and we couldn’t be prouder of every single dancer who took part—you should all be so proud of yourselves!
A huge well done to our incredible dancers and supporters for making this event so special. 🎉👏
We also want to give a heartfelt thank you to Miss Sophie for her dedication to our dance club over the past few years. 💖 She has now secured a new job, and while we will miss her dearly, we wish her all the best in this exciting new chapter! 🌟
Hot Choc Friday 14th 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!
Well done to all of the students who were nominated – they are all fantastic, amazing young people! ☕⭐
📅On Thursday 6th March, we held our annual Mock Interviews for Year 11 students and a select group of Y13s.
📚Students worked in Crew to prepare for the interviews by revising interview techniques and practicing answers for common interview questions.
👷♀️💼Students were interviewed by a wide range of employers from the engineering, logistics, healthcare and education sector alongside many others.
📝After their 10-minute interview, students received feedback from the employer so that they could evaluate their strengths and areas for improvements and better prepare for future interviews they will be having with employers and apprenticeship providers.
⚖Each employer also had the opportunity to select one of the students they saw to be awarded as their best interviewee, and those students will shortly be receiving certificates to celebrate their achievement.✨📜
👏A huge thank you to all the incredible employers who generously gave their time to support and inspire our students!🎓
Here is the lunch menu for W/C 10th March 2025🍽🧃🥪🍉🍩😋
📚✨ 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.