Beaumont students have achieved considerable success in the First Lego League – Hydrodynamics, London Regional Tournament. The competition involved designing, developing and building an autonomous robot which was then presented, along with a research project, to a panel of judges. Although the team of Year 11 students (comprising Ella Katz, Olivia Chrisp, Will Collins, Stefan Cayless and Salim Hanafi) were knocked out in the semi-final stage they, were awarded the prize for Robot Design. Thanks go to Dr Jones for organising and leading the school’s entry into this prestigious national competition.

Parents, students and staff got together to celebrate the Beaumont Christmas spirit at the BSA Christmas Fair. There was a range of stalls (including the ever-popular bottle tombola!) and activities for young and old, with students running House stalls to help raise money as well as earn points for their respective Houses. All the funds raised will go to supporting the school. Thanks, as ever, go to the BSA Committee for its work to make this event such a success each year.

Proud parents looked on as last year’s Year 11 students received their examination certificates in a formal ceremony last week. The presentations were made by Beaumont alumni Jack and Joe Madley who shared their pathways since leaving Beaumont which have culminated in their writing, appearing in and directing a video for the Czech, avant garde, “future pop” artist, Boris Carloff!

Alongside the presentation of GCSE and BTec certificates, four trophies were awarded: Outstanding Academic Achievement (presented to Isobel Todd), Outstanding Contribution to the Community (nominated by Beaumont staff and presented to Beth Hardisty), Outstanding Contribution to the School (nominated by last year’s Year 11 Pastoral Team and presented to Annabel Jones) and the Headteacher’s Award which was nominated by the students themselves and presented to Emma Cox.

Students (no doubt with a little help from home!) have been baking cakes, biscuits and other sweet treats for the Great Beaumont Inter-House Bake-Off, 2017. Based around their House colours and the great people after which their Houses are named, students showed great flair and ingenuity in outdoing the successful offerings from previous years. Mr Atkinson judged the winning entries before students were allowed into the Hall to buy the cakes, with the money raised going towards the “80 in ’18” school appeal.

Starting after school on Friday 13th October, the combined Drama and Music departments staged a one-off performance of The Sound of Music on the evening of 15th October. Cast and crew worked tirelessly over the two days to create props and staging for the sell-out show. Such is the involvement of students in these shows that there featured two complete inter-changing casts of von Trapp families and two Marias!