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Corby Business Academy Winter Showcase

On Thursday we celebrated the many achievements of hundreds of our students at our first Winter Showcase, which included a combination of musical performances and a presentation of awards.

The Junior Concert Band opened the show with a performance of ‘The Great Escape’ before Head of School Mr Simon Underwood welcomed families and introduced awards and comperes throughout the event.

Awards were presented to students in four categories. Head of School Mrs Nicola Treacy presented the Academic Progress Award, Chair of the Governors Marianne Harris-Bridge presented the Success through Adversity Award, Executive Principal Ms Anne Hill presented the Academic Attainment Award and CEO Dr Andrew Campbell presented the Student of the Year Award.

In-between awards our audience listened to a variety of popular Christmas songs such as Frosty the Snowman, Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer and It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas. A range of classical and contemporary numbers also featured and consisted of songs such as Let It Go from the Disney film Frozen, Ravel’s Balero and Oye Como Va arranged by Wakeman.

All songs were performed by a variety of music groups including the Junior Concert Band, Junior Brass Ensemble, Woodwind Ensemble, CBA Vocalize, CBA Big Band, Senior Concert Band, Senior Vocals and Compass.

As well as the music groups their were solos from Louie Anderson on trumpet, Jessica Walker on cello, Louie Anderson and Sullivan Rymarz, who is our first student to have a xylophone solo. He played Helterskelter by W G Lemon, and although he seemed exhausted after, the performance seemed to be a big hit with the audience.

Vocal soloists also stunned the audience and were performed by Rebecca Loveday, Lauren Samuels-Hammond and Bethany Aveyard. Rachael Beezer and Lael Hatinawedu also sang a duet of Love Lies by Khalid and Bethany performed a duet with Laurie Coleman who played the saxophone.

Director of Music, Mr Clive Wears said: ‘It was great to see so many of you attend the Winter Showcase. We are very thankful for all the support we continually receive from families.

‘The young musicians put in a lot of time and hard work in preparation for the event and this shown in the spectacular performance they put on. The evening demonstrated the wealth of talent we have at the Academy and the students should be very proud of themselves.’

Head of School, Mr Underwood said: ‘The student awards typify a range of achievements across our student body. Academic excellence and individual progress are key indicators or how hard the Academy is working.  Students from a wide range of backgrounds are displaying an outstanding attitude towards learning on a daily basis.’

A big thank you to everyone that made the evening possible. We wish all our students and their families a very happy Christmas and New Year.

 

Well done to all award recipients:

Academic Progress

UNIT

James Stuart

UNIT

Kaitlyn Williams

Year 7

Ben Lattimore

Year 7

Weronika Burek

Year 8

Niall Shackleton

Year 8

Lucy Stone

Year 9

Blazej Puchala

Year 9

Sumiya Swara-Soran

Year 10

Jarrod Ackah

Year 10

Katie Thacker

Year 11

Jozef Balogh

Year 11

Eleanor Webster

Year 12

Christopher Williamson

Year 12

Paula Uljanica

Year 13

Craig Scott

Year 13

Hannah Collier

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Success through Adversity

UNIT

Benjamin Sayles-Haslam

Year 7

Harry Byrne

Year 8

Ayden Baldwin

Year 9

Eden Trotter

Year 10

Eleanor Pike

Year 11

Jack Ennis

Year 12

Erin McDougall

Year 13

Sophie Malone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Attainment

Year 8

Reece Forsdike

Year 8

Bethany Wishart

Year 9

Alan Zajac

Year 9

Bethany Aveyard

Year 10

Lennon Gibbs

Year 10

Cuba Aves-Walker

Year 11

Joe Shirlaw

Year 11

Denisa Stanciu

Year 12

Jack Watts

Year 12

Abbi McKay

Year 13

Chantal McLaren

Year 13

Harry McEwan

& Louie Anderson

 

Students of the Year

UNIT

Tyler Haxton

Year 7

Emily Draycott

Year 8

Daniel Wyper

Year 9

Kiezer Upfold

Year 10

Sullivan Rymarz

Year 11

Daniel Ferreira

Year 12

Kyle Murray

Year 13

Lauren Shirlaw