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Kettering Buccleuch Academy is an age 4-19 academy and a proud member of the United Learning family. “Excellence is a habit.” What's your calling?
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Following our recent Ofsted inspection we are PROUD to share that we are a GOOD school with OUTSTANDING features. 🎉 🙌 Thanks to students, parents, staff and
@UnitedLearning
for the hard work that helped us reach this milestone in our history.
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300 pairs of science safety glasses have been packaged this morning and are on their way to
@KettGeneral
- we hope these are of use. Please pass on our thanks, appreciation and best wishes to all hospital staff who are doing such an amazing job.
@BBCNorthampton
@UnitedLearning
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BREAKING NEWS; KETTERING BUCCLEUCH ACADEMY SOARS ABOVE NATIONAL AVERAGE. Our Progress 8 score now sits ‘well above’ the national average at +0.61. This strong performance makes us the top achieving school in Kettering and one of the top four achieving schools in the county.
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Our two superstars did it! Stage 1 of raising £10k for
@CR_UK
complete.
@DinoDiSalvo
and Mr Philips completed the
#greatnorthrun2019
in a very respectable time of 2 hours 11 minutes.
#LondonMarathon2020
here they come... Well done gents 🏃♂️
@UnitedLearning
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We are very proud to announce our best ever set of GCSE results!
English 77% 4+ and 58% 5+
Maths 72% 4+ and 52% 5+
Science 64% two 4+ and 49% two 5+
Well done to all staff and students for their amazing efforts 💙❤️💚💛
#hardworkpaysoff
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It is with great pleasure that we can now announce that Mr Dino DiSalvo has been appointed to the permanent role of Principal of KBA 💙❤️💚💛
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Congratulations to our Principal, Dino Di Salvo, and Year 6 teacher Ashley Loasby who have both received Certificates Of Excellence for the Pearson National Teaching Awards. 👏👏
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Staff and students of
@KBuccleuchA
are celebrating the school’s best ever A Level results. Congratulations everyone!
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We have had a call from someone who had a fall in Melton Street and was helped by 2 of our students who asked him if he was ok, called an ambulance and waited with him until it arrived. We are trying to find out who these students were. Can you help?
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Thank you to all students, families and staff for an amazing year here at KBA. Have a great summer! Whether you are at home or on holiday, please stay safe. We will see you all again in September.
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We wish the best of luck to Mr Di Salvo and Mr Philips as they take part in the Great North Run this weekend. We will be sharing a link later next week to enable our community to donate money as they look to raise money for
@CR_UK
and prepare for the
@LondonMarathon
2020.
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We are monitoring the weather situation. Updates will be released via this account regarding whether the academy will be open tomorrow. Please RT.
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Thank you to our students who were amazing today. Thank you to our parents for being so wonderfully supportive. Thank you to our staff for being brilliant. We’re back!
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On behalf of all members of the KBA community we would like to express our sympathies for family, friends and colleagues of PCSO Alex Franklin who, sadly, passed away unexpectedly this week. Alex had developed close links with us and will be sadly missed.
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Thank you 👏 to everyone who helped make the return of KBA’s Year 11 Prom 🎉 such a memorable evening. Making memories that will last forever. 💃🏾🕺🏼
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We would like to say "happy birthday" to our Principal
@DinoDiSalvo
from all students, parents, staff and everyone associated or linked in any way with the academy. Have a great day!
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The academy will be closed tomorrow due to extreme weather conditions. We will be working hard to make the site safe for students and staff and plan to re-open on Tuesday 12th December. Please RT.
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Thanks to
@imgeorgiamusic
for visiting us today and performing for our students. You were amazing and we wish you every success in your music career.
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When time stood still...
#KBAmannequin
⌛️
#AntiBullyingWeek
#ChildrenInNeed
Have a great weekend KBA community ❤️💙💚💛
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We have received some lovely messages from parents, carers and students via telephone, email and social media. Whilst we may not be able to thank you all individually, please know that this has helped to make a difficult day easier and we appreciate everyone's support.
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A wonderful start to the year and a pleasure to welcome all of our new year 7s. Now the hard work begins. 💙❤️💚💛
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Worth the wait? We think so. Congratulations to our Head Boy, Matthew Holland - Maths A*, Further Maths A, Chemistry A, Physics A. Matthew will now be reading Natural Sciences at Cambridge University.
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Year 11, it has been a pleasure working alongside you. See you at the Prom!
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We were delighted to take part in the
@TeachingAwards
Silver Winners afternoon yesterday in London. This achievement is a result of the combined effort of students, parents and staff and was received by
@DinoDiSalvo
on behalf of all members of the very special KBA community.
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Wow! Many thanks to the KBA community and
@friendskba
who have raised money and purchased gifts to thank our staff for the support given during lockdown. We are truly humbled by your kindness.
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We are proud to announce 📢 that KBA has been selected as a Silver
@TeachingAwards
Award Winner in the category of Secondary School Of The Year. We are delighted to achieve this recognition for our students, parents and staff. 👏
#TeachingHeroes
#ThankATeacherDay
@UnitedLearning
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Can we take a minute to thank all of our parents, carers, grandparents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles who are playing a role in keeping our country going. Whether you are working in a hospital or supermarket, driving food deliveries or collecting rubbish - we salute you!
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A huge congratulations to
@KBA_Sixthform
student Molly, who has been selected in the U18
@EnglandRugby
squad for the 2022 season. An incredibly committed young lady, who has worked incredibly hard throughout her playing career to get to this stage. We are so proud of you 🏉
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Please support us in quelling rumours about 'clowns' at our site today. There is no truth in this. Let's concentrate on learning.
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A lovely lady has called to thank one of our younger Viking students who helped her yesterday when she fell off her mobility scooter. He ran over to check she was OK and was really kind. It may be tough times but we can all still do good things.
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We are celebrating the success of our Year 13 students on A Level results day. We are proud of you all and wish you all the very best for the future.
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Congratulations
@KBA_PE
on picking up Sports School of the Year at the Kettering Sports Awards this evening. Two of our students, Joe H and Gracie M also picked up both the male and female Sportsperson of the Year Awards respectively. An amazing evening for KBA! 🏂🏌🏻♀️
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Congratulations to Mr Phillips who was presented with an
@unisontheunion
Hidden Hero Award at lunchtime today. This is well deserved and we are proud to call him a KBA colleague. 👏 Not all heroes wear capes! 🦸♂️
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Our staff have been working hard for you over the break, hope you are as excited for Monday as we are. Let's have a great term!
#Proud
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We have received news from
@UnitedLearning
that some of our students have been selected as winners of a Best In Everyone Award! We are thrilled and will share further details soon.
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Merry Christmas everyone, have a wonderful day with your families and friends 💙❤️💚💛
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We hope everyone has a great summer break. Stay safe and we will see you all in September.
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…and here is a message from all of our students and staff. This image was taken this afternoon and features every student in Years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 plus all secondary staff; over 1000 children and adults working together.
#ThankATeacherDay
@TeachingAwards
We are proud to announce 📢 that KBA has been selected as a Silver
@TeachingAwards
Award Winner in the category of Secondary School Of The Year. We are delighted to achieve this recognition for our students, parents and staff. 👏
#TeachingHeroes
#ThankATeacherDay
@UnitedLearning
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A huge congratulations and well done to all of our incredible year 11s who received their GCSE results today.
We wish you every success for the future and look forward to welcoming many of you into our
@KBA_Sixthform
in September 🎉
#gcseresultsday2022
@BBCNorthampton
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We would like to congratulate former student Lucy Heald who has won a place in the National Youth Theatre (NYT) Company. Lucy deserves every success in her future career.
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Teamwork makes the dream work as staff and Sixth Form students work together to put remote learning packs together for Year 7-11 students. Those not in school to be given theirs will have these sent out to them.
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The DfE’s performance data ranks us second out of 68 schools and colleges in Northamptonshire for A-level performance. This highlights that we continue to make a difference to the lives of our students.
#excellenceisahabit
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Thank you to parents and carers for ensuring that students have returned to school smartly dressed and equipped to learn. We appreciate your support.
#excellenceisahabit
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We are proud to be the first school in the county to achieve all eight Gatsby Benchmarks in delivering high-quality careers provision to students. You can read more about this here:
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The academy will be CLOSED today (Friday 9th February) following a major water leak which has left the building without water or heating. Have a safe half-term. We will re-open on Monday 19th February. Please RT.
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We will shortly be taking part in a ceremony where the academy will receive a Rose of Northamptonshire Award. This award is given to those groups or individuals who have worked tirelessly to keep our communities safe, and our businesses moving during the global COVID-19 crisis.
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Wow! What an amazing Open Evening we have had. Thank you so much to everyone who came to visit us, We hope you had a great evening. Remember - excellence is a habit.
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Happy Christmas to all members of the KBA community. We hope you all have a great holiday.
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We were pleased to hand over a cheque for £1976.88 to
@WNDLRAirAmb
today. Thank you to everyone who helped raise this fantastic amount of money for a very worthy cause.
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Message from the Principal, “We would like to congratulate all our students on their commitment and hard work over the past two years. Credit is also due to our amazing staff team whose encouragement and guidance has been vital to their success.” 3/3
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Congratulation to Braveheart House who are this year's House Champions!
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Good luck to all students in Years 11 and 13. Wherever your futures take you, you will always be part of KBA. Take life by the horns and enjoy the ride!
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It’s the last week of term - let’s make it a good one. This Thursday will be a non-uniform day across the academy with donations supporting our Cancer Research fundraising.
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Tonight we would have been celebrating a very special time with our Year 11 students at their Prom. We are very sad that this has not been possible and wanted to let Year 11 know that they are very much at the front of our thoughts today.
#kbamemories
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We now have 2 weeks for family, festive fun, rest and recharging of batteries ready for the rest of the cademic year. Have a great holiday and please stay safe. We will see you all again in January 2020.
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Wow! What a term it has been. Thanks to all students, parents and staff for being AWESOME. Stay safe during the next week and we will see you again on Monday 1st November.
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Congratulations to Sophia Perkins - Fine Art A*, Media A, Applied Business Studies Merit. Sophia will be studying Fine Art at the University of Northampton.
@UniNorthants
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We would like to wish a very happy birthday to
@captaintommoore
from everyone at Kettering Buccleuch Academy. You sir, are an inspiration. 👏❤️💙💛💚🎂
#HappyBirthdayCaptainTom
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Primary students had a special welcome as they arrived this morning.
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The legendary KBA Sports Day is back. 💙❤️💚💛 Every student and member of staff playing a part.
@UnitedLearning
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All staff and students may wear non-uniform tomorrow (Wednesday) as well as House colours on Thursday. Please RT and spread the word!
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Congratulations to Richard Svitan - Maths A*, Chemistry A, Biology A. Richard will be studying Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at Nottingham University.
@UniofNottingham
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A long life, well lived. We join the nation in mourning the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Rest in peace.
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Have a great weekend everyone. We will see you all again on Monday for the first full week of the new academic year. Enjoy yourselves, get some rest and stay safe.
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An emotional farewell, or ‘au revoir’, to our Year 11 class of 2023. Good luck to you in all that you do. May your futures be bright and bold.
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Another great start to the week. We are so pleased that the overwhelming majority of our students are back where they belong.
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We are proud to have received a Gold Award from the NAtional Citizen Service Trust. Well done everyone.
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We would like to send a massive 'thank you' to
@asda
in Kettering for the amazing help they gave us this morning. In particular Sophie, Donna, Jody and Donald were, quite frankly, brilliant and beyond helpful. 🛒👍
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We are very proud of the determination shown by Year 9 student Nick who has participated in the ‘Superhero At Home’ event and completed 22.44k on his trike. Well done Nick - you are an incredible young man!
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On behalf of everyone at the academy we wish you a safe festive season and a prosperous new year.
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We are looking forward to a ‘virtual’ return to school tomorrow. Many thanks and good luck to
@MissdaleKBAONA
and
@AdrianoDiSalvo1
who are delivering science and art lessons online as part of the
@UnitedLearning
input into
@OakNational
- look out for further information.
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We have been pleased to welcome
@NorthantsPolice
into the academy today to deliver vitally important educational messages relating to the prevention of knife crime. Knives end lives.
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It has been a journey. Good luck to all of our year 11s as they take their next steps in life 💙❤️💚💛
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Happy birthday to the amazing
@wendy_millsop
who is, without doubt, one of the unsung heroes here at KBA. Positive, organized and the epitome of calmness.
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Congratulations to Caitlin Smith - Sociology A*, Child Development Distinction *, Applied Law Distinction *, Psychology A. Caitlin will be studying Law at Leeds University
@UniversityLeeds
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Congratulations to one of the hardest working students ever to have graced our classrooms.
Congratulations Esele for receiving a conditional offer from
@UniofOxford
to read Medicine. We are all so very proud of you. Your hard work and dedication to your future career has been recognised 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Opening soon......KBA Academy Shop!!! Run by our students for our students. All proceeds will go to our house charities.
@KettGeneral
#Proud
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We are at the Best In Everyone Awards in Birmingham with Year 13 superstar Kasey. She will be picking up the Business Studies Award.
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We hope all students, parents, carers and staff have a well-deserved summer holiday. We know how hard you have all been working throughout this strangest of years and you now need time to recharge your batteries ready for September. Stay safe everyone!
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A special thank you to the Duke of Buccleuch for hosting our staff at Boughton House this evening. We look forward to returning in a few weeks for the Year 11 Prom 👑
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Thank you so much to
@whiteeskimouk
for visiting us and performing today. You were brilliant and we now think of you as part of the KBA family.
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If you are a student in Years 8-13, make sure you look after our new Year 7 students who will be joining us tomorrow. Be that friendly face and make a difference.
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Congratulations to Year 13 on an amazing set of results. We will share individual success stories as students collects their results.
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