VISION

We will meet this by helping each young person to enjoy and excel within a diverse, inclusive, innovative and dynamic school community which is committed to:

• Being a safe and caring community in which every student can thrive;
• Providing outstanding learning opportunities within a truly broad, balanced, and knowledge-rich curriculum;
• Promoting an ethos of equality, diversity and inclusion, with opportunities for all members of our community, regardless of their ability, background or culture;
• Being a centre of academic, artistic, cultural, and sporting excellence;
• Providing a model of intelligent, thoughtful leadership in secondary education;
• Being a place where educational professionals are trusted with autonomy and able to build great careers;
• Providing young people with opportunities to develop an awareness of the world and a concern for the environment;
• Valuing and trusting students and staff as individuals with their own strengths and interests; and
• Investing in the long-term happiness and success of our students, whichever paths they choose.

We hope that every student who leaves Beaumont does so with:

• a sense of pride in their and their community’s achievements;
• an understanding of their responsibilities;
• a hunger for knowledge and learning; and
• an awareness of all the opportunities that they have experienced.

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

We will continue to maintain and promote Beaumont School as:

• a nationally-leading non-selective comprehensive school;
• which continues to provide outstanding opportunities and quality of provision for our local community; and
• which increasingly shares its outstanding practice beyond Beaumont.

We will achieve this by…

• Maintaining our unique ethos: Maintaining our unique, supportive community ethos through a period of change and instability;
• Providing outstanding opportunities for our students, staff and local community: Ensuring extensive curricular and extra-curricular programmes, which develop and inspire our students;
• Championing equality, diversity and inclusion: Ensuring equal opportunities for all students and staff, including work to improve the progress, experience and achievement of disadvantaged students (including pupil premium);
• Completing our ambitious capital investment plan: Completing our premises development plan over the next five years to ensure outstanding provision for all students and the local community; driving forward our ambitious building programme including a performing arts centre
• Working with other schools: Expanding opportunities for our students and sharing our outstanding practice through appropriate collaborations, whether formal or informal, with other schools in St Albans and beyond;
• Budgeting and fundraising: Sustaining the school’s financial position and outstanding provision through prudent budgeting and appropriate fundraising; and
• Being recognised for all that we do for our students, staff and the wider community: Ensuring that Beaumont’s reputation for all that it achieves is recognised as widely as possible.