Gardening at the Beacon Centre
Students in The Green Room have been learning how to plant seeds for winter vegetables.
Over 100 seeds were planted including carrot, sprouts, leeks, parsnip, spinach and swede.
We are hoping to have a bumper crop to use in the school in a few months.
‘What’s in the News’ is a new topic in The Green Room where students browse various news websites and conduct some in-depth research into a story that catches their eye.
Students complete a piece of work to summarise the main parts of the story and once completed, the students discuss the stories that they have researched.
The students work is put onto the display in the classroom for all to see. Keep checking for more updates.
Every morning our secondary students are welcomed into school and have the opportunity to receive a free breakfast. This is offered again at morning break time.
Students enjoy having something to eat and drink. It allows provides the opportunity for staff and students to socialise together at the table.
We are now active on TWITTER!
Primary have posted our first tweet … follow our page to keep updated with more tweets!
http://twitter.com/CentrePrimary
Wednesday 5th September 2019
We are excited to be subscribing to the Wanderer’s programme this academic year!
The Wanderer’s Sports Association is a voluntary organisation providing sporting opportunities for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. A variety of sporting events, are arranged with support from regional schools, which encourage engagement, participation and achievement and brings pupils together from across the North East.
Sporting events provide a range of benefits such as:
The aim is to help children with special educational needs and disabilities discover the pleasures of being involved in sport, from the enjoyment of new skills, to on-going social involvement and friendship.
The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning at The Beacon Centre
You are invited to our annual coffee morning to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Each tutor group will use their Food Technology/Catering lessons to make delicious cakes and biscuits to sell with teas and coffees.
Where: The Beacon Centre Secondary, Temple Park Rd, South Shields
When: 11:00am on Friday, 27th September 2019
RSVP: [email protected]
Text to donate!
If you are unable to attend you can still donate by texting BUN WYA6 to 70550 to donate £5* – and your donation will be added to our fundraising total.
*Texts cost £5 + standard network charge. Macmillan receives 100% of every £1 donated in this way.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
For further information please refer to the full article in the Gazette.
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.
