Neaera Warren

Opening of The Beacon Centre Co-op

1st August 2019Neaera Warren

Thursday 1st August 2019

Today The Beacon Centre proudly welcomed Les Old and Steven Varty from the Co-op for the grand opening of our very own mock Co-op store set to tackle knife crime and antisocial behaviour in South Tyneside.

Les Old from the Co-op
Kelly Hudson and Les Old
Councillor Alan Kerr cutting the ribbon
Grand opening

The Beacon Centre have chosen to receive a brand new learning zone. This looks and works like a real shop, however, it is a ‘Mocked up shop’. The resource will give students the opportunity to work on a number of education and social scenarios, including budgeting money, finance and anti-social behaviour. We look forward to the students accessing this new learning zone.

The front of the shop
The tills
Self-service tills
Selection of frozen and household goods
Selction of drinks

Some staff members came into school, some bringing their own children with them to celebrate the opening of the store. This gave them the opportunity to explore the shop and have a go on the till.

Searching for products
Mrs Stubley scanning items
Mrs Gibson scanning items
Mrs Warren scanning items
Byron scanning items
Gwen scanning items

Shields Gazette came into The Beacon Centre to report on the opening of the Co-op shop and wrote an article giving more information on the new learning zone within the school. To view the article, please visit the following link. https://www.shieldsgazette.com/education/see-inside-the-ps100000-mock-co-op-store-set-to-tackle-knife-crime-and-antisocial-behaviour-in-south-tyneside-487760

*We would like to say a huge thank you to all of the following suppliers, for their generosity and involvement in the delivery of this project.*

Examination Results Day – 22/08/2019

22nd July 2019Neaera Warren

Examination Results Day

Thursday 22nd August 2019

The school will be open to students from 10:00am until 12:30pm to collect their examination
results.

Results will be available to collect in a sealed envelope from Mrs Johnson at the main office.
If you are unable to come to collect your results in person, a family member can pick them up
on your behalf, but they MUST have signed written permission from the you in order to receive
the results.

Please note that the actual certificates, which we receive at a later date, will be posted when
available.

Gazette article Regarding Recent Ofsted Inspection

18th July 2019Neaera Warren

Our headteacher, Katherine Walton has been praised by Ofsted for strengthening her specialist school.

For further information please refer to the full article in the Gazette.

Mental Health Campaign

5th July 2019Neaera Warren

July 2019

Students from Induction have been involved in the South Shields Young People’s Parliament Mental Health Campaign focusing on the topic of Creative Arts.

The students created their own cartoon strip, stories,poster, power points and even a small book. They spent a few days developing their ideas and have really worked well with their individual creations.

At the end of this project they did not only produce something but also learnt about the mental issue they they had worked on.

Their work has been handed over to the organisers.

PE in Induction

28th June 2019Neaera Warren

Friday 28th June 2019

Today is the favourite day of the week for our secondary Induction students as it’s their turn for their PE session.

Mrs Fearon took the students into the hall where they all engaged in badminton and football.

All of the students enjoyed this!

Extracurricular Activity

27th June 2019Neaera Warren

On Thursday 27th June, one of our secondary students requested to stay after school to engage in a session of badminton with the staff.

Molly F thoroughly enjoyed her games of badminton with Mrs Fearon, Miss Glenn and Mr Townend!

Molly can’t wait for her next match!

: Molly playing Mrs Fearon

: Molly playing Mrs Fearon

: Molly playing Mrs Fearon

: Molly playing Mrs Fearon

: Molly playing Mrs Fearon

: Molly playing Miss Glenn

: Molly playing Mr Townend

: Molly playing Mr Townend

: Molly playing Mr Townend

: Molly playing Mr Townend

: Molly playing Mr Townend

: Molly playing Mr Townend

Social Media and Mental Health

27th June 2019Neaera Warren

What trusted adults need to know about:

Social Media & Mental Health

For more information, please visit the National Online Safety website.

Health and Social Care – Understanding Barriers

27th June 2019Neaera Warren

In Health and Social Care lessons this week, Mrs Graham worked with the students to provide them with an understanding of the barriers that individuals face when they have mobility issues.

Students used crutches around the school building to understand the issues that users of crutches face on a daily basis.

Students really enjoyed this task and at first, thought it was really easy, however, students then understood that opening doors and holding items was rather difficult. This enabled students to understand some of the frustrations that users of crutches face.

: Arif trying to turn around using the crutches

: Arif using the crutches

: Arif using the crutches

: Cameron trying to turn around using the crutches

: Cameron using the crutches

: Cameron using the crutches

: Cameron using the crutches

: Cameron using the crutches

: Cameron using the crutches

: Cameron using the crutches

: Cameron using the crutches

: Cameron using the crutches

Year 11 Celebration Day – 26.06.19

26th June 2019Neaera Warren

Quad Biking – Wednesday 26th June 2019

To celebrate our year 11 students leaving school, Mrs Johnson arranged a day to remember; Tim from Vision for Education generously paid for the students to go quad biking at Broom House Farm, followed by a McDonalds for lunch.

We got ready into our overalls, helmet and gloves. We then had a health and safety talk followed by an explanation of how to operate the quad bikes.

We begun by riding on a field, driving round, up and down over hills. We rode in a line following the instructor. This was a perfect way to get used to safely driving the quad bikes.

When everyone felt confident with the use of the quad bikes, we went off rode into the forest, riding over tree trunks, bricks, through ditches, as well as up and down hills.