Chess Tournament 2023
Published 19/12/23
Corby Business Academy's Library was finally able to host it’s first Chess Tournament at the end of this term with a number of Year 12 students going head to head to see who would crowned this years champion.
Library News
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Read MoreSonia Leong, Award winning Illustrator visits CBA.
Published 04/12/23Award-winning Illustrator, Sonia Leong visited Corby Business Academy to meet our Year 7 students, for many of which, it was their first chance to meet an Illustrator in real life. Sonia specialises in illustrating Manga books, amongst other
Read MoreWilliam Hussey, Award winning YA author visits CBA.
Published 17/07/23Award winning author William Hussey visited Corby Business Academy to deliver three Horror and Gothic based workshops to some of our KS3 and KS4 students. In the morning session, students participated in an interactive ‘Witchfinder Trial&rs
Read MoreCBA attend the Carnegie Shadowing event at BWA.
Published 22/06/23Corby Business Academy recently attended the Carnegie Shadowing event at Brooke Weston Academy. Students from CBA, BWA and also Beanfield and Oakley Vale primary schools met to discuss this year’s shortlisted titles and vote for their favo
Read MoreCBA Library Author Visit from William Hussey
Published 22/06/23CBA Library Author Visit from William Hussey Tuesday 11th July 2023 CBA Library is extremely excited to announce that William Hussey, successful and Award-winning YA author will be visiting us this term to deliver 3 fantastic workshops.
Read MoreCBA Library Poetry Competition 2023
Published 22/06/23To coincide with ‘World Poetry Day’ and ‘Poem in your pocket day’ CBA Library launched a poetry competition, where students could submit their entries to win a copy of ‘Life is sad and Beautiful’ by Hussain Manawer.
During their recent Library lessons, Year 7 and 8 were asked to produce their own ‘Blackout Poetry’ with which they could use to enter the competition. We received over 100 entries to the competition that was judged by our very own Mr McCormick from the English department.
We were delighted to announce the following students as our winner and runner ups:
Winner – Rowan – Year 7
Runner-Ups - Zuzanna M – Year 7 and Caitlin – Year 8
