Carnegie Award-winning author, Sarah Crossan, paid a return visit to the school Library today to talk about her latest novel, Toffee. One of her earlier novels, Apple & Rain, was Beaumont’s first “whole school read”, enjoyed by students of all ages and many staff too! Assistant Librarian, Mrs Shepard, marked the occasion with a commemorative cushion […]
Ms Wilson and the Year 11 Tutor Team have hosted a grand Graduation Ceremony for the ‘Class of 2019’ and their parents. After an introduction from Mr Atkinson, Ms Wilson introduced the “Year 11 montage” of images taken since the cohort were in Year 7, at events such as Sports Days, field trips and CED […]
Congratulations to Year 13 student, Zak Smith, who will be representing the UK in the International Olympiad in Informatics this August, in Azerbaijan. To join the team of four, he successfully competed in the three-day national computer programming final at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Year 13 students have achieved success in the British Biology Olympiad. This is an international competition, organised by The Royal Society of Biology, which challenges and stimulates students with an interest in Biology to expand and extend their talents. It enables students to demonstrate their knowledge and to be suitably rewarded with publicly recognised certificates […]
The Minister of State for School Standards, Nick Gibb MP, has written to Beaumont to congratulate us on our 2018 GCSE results which place Beaumont in the top 4% of state-funded, mainstream schools, in terms of student progress. He went on to praise the school for enabling 87% of our students to enter the EBacc […]
Students have worked with Dr Jones and Affinity Water to raise whole-school awareness of the need to use water responsibly, culminating in an “Aqua-Fair”, which raised over £1300 for Water Aid UK!
Members of the Royal Navy Recruitment Logistics Team have paid a visit to a Year 9 Food Technology lesson to talk about careers in the Navy as well as providing a master class in cooking. The “omelette challenge” had students (and the teacher!) displaying their best culinary skills.
In September, we launched the Beaumont Leaders programme with Year 8 students. The idea behind the initiative is to develop leadership skills to provide students with work-related skills such as creativity, organisation and team-work, while also giving something back to the school community. Some of our Beaumont Leaders are working hard to organise a family […]
Jazz & Swing by the Music Department; catering and hosting by the BSA – a winning combination! Guests were treated to a fantastic evening, raising money for a new school performance space.
This year’s whole school production was the imaginative version of ‘Grimm Tales’ written by Philip Pullman. Full of deliciously dark twists and turns, the Tales came to life through a bunch of players waiting backstage for their performance. Using ropes, hatstands, umbrella’s and brooms the bright and magical cast performed familiar favourites – Little Red […]
