Secondary Rewards

16th October 2020Darren Brown

Friday 16th October 2020

The students who attended school 100% and students who improved most this week were rewarded with a Greggs order of their choice.

Well done!

 

New Curriculum

15th October 2020Darren Brown

Thursday 15th October 2020

The Beacon Centre has now started to introduce construction to the curriculum. Pupils can learn the principles of bricklaying as well as getting hands on experience.

Setting out the bricks

Learning how to butter the brick

Pupil lays his first brick

Checking for level

 

River Dewent

9th October 2020Neaera Warren

Friday 9th October 2020

Key Stage 3 students visited the River Derwent near Rowlands Gill, earlier in the day they had decorated stones with positive affirmations and messages for Mental Health Day.  Students enjoyed a woodland walk leaving their stones for others to find and also enjoyed a walk down to the river bank.

Young Minds

9th October 2020Darren Brown

Friday 9th October 2020

To celebrate young minds this week,  The Beacon Centre hosted a number of events across both sites with personalised lessons, activities and a conference call to link up the two sites. A great day was had by all and the message was clear throughout.

For more photos from the day, please visit the Gallery.

Secondary Awards

9th October 2020Neaera Warren

Friday 9th October 2020

This week the top 2 pupils were rewarded with a Greggs’ breakfast:

Bradley and Shakil.

 100% Attendance Award to:

Bradley, Marley, Kai and Summer

KS3a Science

8th October 2020Neaera Warren

8th October 2020

Today in Science students in KS3a investigated ‘Forces’.   We set up two different sized paper clips and measured the attractive force using a ruler. We found the smaller paper clip had a more attractive force.