Our secondary pupils took part in cake and biscuit decorating for Children In Need on Friday 18th November. Mrs Pattison set the bar high with her exemplar prototypes and the pupils tried their best to match her high standards!
We are celebrating National Outdoor Learning day at Primary today; every lesson is outdoors. So far we have had Maths and these are some pictures of the D&T lesson. The children are making bird feeders and inventing things to help Wallace and Gromit.
As you can see, staff are always engaged in extending the learning through skilful questioning and direction. No wonder everyone loves to be at The Beacon Centre!
We have ended our Outdoor Learning Day with a firepit party where the children are making – and eating – s’mores.
Our pupils learn all about fire safety in Forest School. Mr Popple is demonstrating how to safely access the firepit. Everyone else knows the rules and are sitting safely, waiting to take their turn.
What a wonderful end to a great day!
The Beacon Centre celebrated Gratitude Week between the 17th and 21st October 2022. Students took part in different activities exploring their gratitude for themselves, others, and their lives. During tutor times they completed activities including listing their favourite things, creating gratitude pizzas, considering what they love about themselves, writing thank you notes to others and recognising how their five senses can bring them joy. At the end of each day students completed a gratitude journal reflecting on the people/things that had made them happy.
Prizes were awarded to the Most Grateful Student and the Most Grateful Tutor Group at both the primary and secondary sites. The Most Grateful Students each won a £20 Amazon voucher and the Most Grateful Tutor Groups were treated to a lunch at a venue of their choice.
The winners were:
Primary:
Most Grateful Student: Mark
Most Grateful Tutor Group: Blue Group
Secondary:
Most Grateful Student: Leon
Most Grateful Tutor Group: Redwoods
Take a look at some of the amazing work our students produced!
Last week our Aspens, Blossoms and Evergreens groups competed in Sumdog’s South Tyneside competition. Students spent their Maths lessons competing against 15 other classes in various schools across the borough and became the overall winners of the competition!
14 students from the Beacon Centre competed, they correctly answered 2500 questions! We had 8 students finish in the top 50 students out of 156 students that took part and 3 of those finished in the top 10!
Well done to those student who made it into the top 50:
Ryan S 6th
Shea L 7th
Liam J 9th
Daniel P 11th
Mason W 13th
Mark B 19th
Jack B 24th
Harvey E 37th
Miss Burrows and Mr Paterson have been so impressed by the efforts of those students involved; there has been a real buzz in the Maths classroom this week with students eager to compete!
The pupils at our primary school are thrilled to have earned this fabulous silver award from The British Ecological Society for their work in the ‘Connecting Schools to Nature’ project.
Mrs Dixon led the project, and is already working towards the gold award.
Well done everyone!
This week the Blossoms have been practising their basketball skills in PE to complete their Basketball Skills Life Skills Challenge. Students had to demonstrate various different passes and shots as well as completing a dribbling course. Miss Burrows and Mr Paterson were really impressed with students’ efforts and skills which were then out into practice in a basketball game.
