Headteacher, Elizabeth Hitch, congratulated delighted staff and students who are celebrating another year of record ‘A’ level results: ‘It’s so rewarding that so many students across all levels have reached or surpassed their aspirations’.

Head of Sixth Form, Paul de Kort, reserved special praise for the Year 12 cohort who have successfully completed their first year of the new, and more demanding, reformed ‘A’ level courses, with a record number achieving the highest grades at A/S level. Not to be outdone, several Year 13 students achieved straight A or A* grades, earning them places at prestigious Russell Group universities (including Oxford and Cambridge) on competitive courses such as Medicine, Maths, Social Sciences and Engineering.

South African international hockey player and 2012 Olympian Lance Louw visited Beaumont today. He joined the Year 7 and Year 9 girls hockey team practices and put them through their paces. Helped out by regular coaches, Mrs Hicks, Miss Mobbs and Miss Cleverley, Lance taught the girls training routines to improve their game. Headteacher, Mrs Hitch, visited the practice and was delighted to see the new all weather pitches put to such excellent use as even flurries of sleet couldn’t put the girls off their sport.