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Sledging at Primary

10th February 2021Mr Barnes

Thanks to the Christmas fundraising raffle, Beacon Primary were able to buy some new sledges… Just in time for all the snow!

Children have been able to demonstrate soft skills of team work, turn taking and, consideration.

No learning opportunity was missed either, with young people and staff discussing forces, mass and velocity.

It was great to see all of the children getting stuck in and having a great time in the snow!

What’s the benefit? Where’s the value?

Not only is sledging a fantastic form of exercise for children, repeatedly climbing up the slopes, the fact children have fun doing it is motivation to exercise for longer.

Sledging also helps to improve our endurance levels, cardiovascular fitness and total body strength, all that lugging up the hills and trudging through the snow. It also encourages core stability and control during the descent.

Getting up from falling off demonstrates skills in resilience as well as further developing all the large muscle groups.

Being outside in general, but especially in winter, boosts the heart rate, refreshes the mind and helps to calm children through the day.

Front Page News,Primary,Uncategorized fun sensory sledding snow team work

Using ICT at Beacon Primary

3rd February 2021Mr Barnes

The Beacon Centre is rapidly developing its technology offer and its highly integrated use of ICT within all aspects of learning. To that end the children at Beacon Primary have been using a variety of platforms to help with both English and Maths skills.

The girls using the Chrome Books to access Bug Club.

Today in Class 1 Mrs Simpson was making good use of Bug Club (a link can be found in the Remote Learning Links section of the website – see below) to help Lacey and Millie improve their reading and comprehension.

Bug club is a platform that allows the children to be assigned texts that are appropriate for their individual reading level with tasks attached that aim to help make reading fun.

Sometimes the children need some additional personalised tasks to complete before they can engage with their more independent online learning. Here Mr Hall is working with Matthew on his phonics sounds, whilst Mrs Roberts worked with Malaki on their language skills.

Meanwhile in Class 2, Mr Popple was using some more of the schools Google Chrome Books to allow the children to access Times Tables Rockstars (a link can be found in the Remote Learning Links section of the website – see below).

TT Rockstars allows children to practise their timetables, complete challenges to each coins to purchase items to personalise their profile. Children are able to challenge each other to see who can achieve the highest scores for a given timestable.

In Class 3, some more fantastic maths was taking place today with Jack looking at his “Number of the Day” today that number was 312! This process helps to build Jack’s confidence so he can better engage with Timetables Rockstars and other online Maths learning platforms. Well done Jack!

Front Page News,Primary,Uncategorized Beacon Primary English ICT Maths

National Apprenticeship Week 8th – 14th Feb

2nd February 2021Mr Barnes

National Apprenticeship Week is 8th – 14th Feb. There are loads of events happening in support of the week. See the file below.

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Events include Q & A events, ask an employer events as well as a whole host of events specially aimed at helping young people make the choice that best suits them for their post 16 lives.

Even during these challenging times it is vital that young people think about what their options are, an apprenticeship might just be the way to go.

Below you will find loads of activities that you can complete at home or in school.

1. Complete the Amazing Apprenticeships NAW2021 Activity Pack

Using the interactive word document, this enjoyable activity pack can
be completed digitally or printed off. Working through the activities,
students will explore hundreds of different apprenticeship job roles by
completing quizzes, watching films, filling in a word search and more.
There’s something for everyone!
Visit www.amazingapprenticeships.com/naw2021

www.amazingapprenticeships.com/naw2021

2. Test your apprenticeship knowledge

Amazing Apprenticeships has created lots of fun quizzes to help inform
students, teachers and parents about apprenticeships, traineeships and
T Levels. There is also a recycling quiz which is really good fun (and
nothing to do with apprenticeships).

apprenticeships quiz (amazingapprenticeships.com)

3. How apprenticeships can link to your favourite subject

If students aren’t sure where to start researching apprenticeships, it can
be made easier by encouraging them to think about the school subjects
that they enjoy most, and then looking at which apprenticeships they
could lead to.

Have a think about your favourite subjects.
• Use the subject posters to look at the range of apprenticeships listed for each subject.
• Carry out independent research to see what you can find out about those apprenticeships.

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4. Which employers offer apprenticeships?

There are thousands of employers that offer apprenticeships. Students
often start by looking at some of the more recognisable names and
the Amazing Apprenticeships Vacancy Snapshot portal has some of the
best-known apprenticeship employers in England.
Through the portal, students can explore the different sections to find
out the company benefits, the programme details, unique look-behindthe-scenes footage, case studies and detailed information about the
recruitment process. You will be amazed at the opportunities!

Visit www.amazingapprenticeships.com/vacancies and browse the different companies offering apprenticeships.
• Which companies do you recognise?
• What can you discover about the apprenticeships that they offer?
• Click on Time To Apply – what can you see about the vacancies currently available?
Please note that this portal only shows the vacancies available with those employers. There are thousands of other apprenticeship vacancies available on the GOV.UK Find an apprenticeship website: https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship

5. Meet real apprentices

Have a look at the video case studies and meet real
apprentices in their workplace. These films will help to build an
understanding of day-to-day responsibilities and the range of
apprenticeships available.

www.amazingapprenticeships.com/apprentices

Visit www.amazingapprenticeships.com/apprentices
• From the 20 films available, select 2 or 3 to watch that interest you.
• Did you discover anything that surprised you?

6. Relax with a mindfulness colouring sheet.

Download and print the image or copy it onto some paper and colour it in, with a nice cup of tea.

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All News,Careers,Front Page News,Secondary,Uncategorized,Useful Information Apprenticeship National Apprenticeship Week 2021 Post 16 work

Children’s Mental Health Week

29th January 2021Mr Barnes

1 – 7 February 2021

#ChildrensMentalHealthWeek

Like most of the schools across the country, at The Beacon Centre, we will be completing a whole range of activities at both the Primary and Secondary sites. This is to help encourage positive conversations around Mental Health and to help improve all of our mental health. This year the theme for Children’s Mental Health Week is self expression.

What is Self-Expression, and why is it important?

Self-expression is about communicating your individuality. This can be through words, clothing and hairstyle, or through art forms such as writing, drawing, music and dance.

Self-expression can help you to showcase your true self – your story, your thoughts, feelings and emotions. But this can also make us feel vulnerable, so you might want to take things one step at a time.

We often get told by our family, friends, school, communities and through social media how we ‘should’ look, think, speak, and act. These constant messages about what we ought to do, and who we out to be, can make it difficult to let go of expectations and express our true selves.

Self-Expression helps us connect to our true self.

Self-expression is a great way to relieve yourself of stress and free your mind. Self-expression can help you to reflect on your life, actions, decisions, relationships, beliefs, and thoughts – rather than keep them buried deep down.

Self-Expression helps us connect to each other – in good times and bad.

By expressing ourselves thoughtfully, we can better communicate, collaborate and build a community with others. At times of crisis, people come together to express themselves individually, and as a group, through the arts.

Here are some examples:

  • Gareth Malone’s online choir — bringing self-isolating singers together during the Covid-19 lockdown.
  • Grayson’s Art Club —a series of online masterclasses to help unleash creativity during the Covid-19 lockdown.
  • BBC Lockdown Orchestra – as part of a ten-day creative challenge, nearly 1,500 members of the
  • public joined the newly formed BBC Lockdown Orchestra as part of a huge virtual performance.
  • Create 2030 Solidarity Art Shows – The World Health Organisation, Create2030 and a group of international working artists collaborated on a project to showcase films, music, poetry and visual art about the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Te Rito Toi — using art to help children when they first return back to school in New Zealand following a traumatic or life-changing event.

Get Involved

Why not get involved at home and send us some photographs of what you are up to at home in relation to #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek. Whether it’s dressing up, creating posters, writing stories or drawing pictures, we would love to see them and share them with the world!

You can find loads of ideas to help you get involved at the #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek website!

https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/parents-and-carers/

All News,Front Page News,Parents,Primary,Secondary,Uncategorized ChildrensMentalHealthWeek ExpressYourself MentlaHealth

Acts of Kindness

22nd January 2021Mr Barnes

All of the staff at the Beacon Centre are performing random acts of kindness to help look after one another. These can be something small like a making someone a cup of coffee, or something as big a gift.

At Beacon Primary for example Mr Wemyss made sausage sandwiches, and Mrs Roberts made teas and coffees for all of the staff in Beacon Primary.

The sandwiches were greatly appreciate by all, and put a smile on everyone’s face for a Friday morning which is always nice!

At Beacon Secondary the Kitchen staff all enjoyed a bacon sandwich with teas and coffees made by members of the SLT.

Ms Huse went so far as to create Mr O’Neill’s name out of item’s with a note for each letter!

Miss Lambert decided to bring in some Biscoff Cheesecake for staff with a personal note which was a lovely thing to do!

I think we all want to be like Mrs Hudson when we grow up. The queen of the Beacon Centre is always there to take care of all of us, staff and young people, any time, day or night. I am sure we all feel the same way in wanting to offer a huge thank you for everything that she does for us all every single day. THANK YOU MRS HUDSON!!!

If you have anyone you would like to thank, or if you have received a random act of kindness, let us know on Facebook! Send us a photo! We would love to see them!

Front Page News,Primary,Secondary,Try this at home,Uncategorized kindness

Amanda Gorman – An Inspiration

21st January 2021Mr Barnes

You may or may not have heard of, Amanda Gorman, she is the fantastically talented young poet who read her own work at the inauguration of 46th President of America Joe Biden!

What you will undoubtedly be unaware of, is that Amanda Gorman has speech and auditory processing issues. Her triumphant reading of her magnificent poem is truly an inspiration to us all.

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If you would like to read more about this amazing young woman, you can do so by following this link:

https://www.understood.org/en/community-events/blogs/making-a-difference/2018/07/25/amanda-gorman-youth-poet-laureate-has-speech-and-auditory-processing-issues?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=evergreen-jan21-mb&utm_content=post-w-image&fbclid=IwAR3khnhCevfhMcDtJcJsr5eRcoPMbc9dZF_jW2psxQQoOBg2I4_SjARQ-yo

When asked how she felt about her monumental achievement, Amanda replied with a typical humility stating:

“I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,” 

Gorman told the BBC World Service’s Newshour programme before the ceremony.

“I think it’s about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55738564

If you would like to read the poem for yourself, you can find it below.

When day comes we ask ourselves,

where can we find light in this never-ending shade?

The loss we carry,

a sea we must wade

We’ve braved the belly of the beast

We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace

And the norms and notions

of what just is

Isn’t always just-ice

And yet the dawn is ours

before we knew it

Somehow we do it

Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed

a nation that isn’t broken

but simply unfinished

We the successors of a country and a time

Where a skinny Black girl

descended from slaves and raised by a single mother

can dream of becoming president

only to find herself reciting for one

And yes we are far from polished

far from pristine

but that doesn’t mean we are

striving to form a union that is perfect

We are striving to forge a union with purpose

To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and

conditions of man

And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us

but what stands before us

We close the divide because we know, to put our future first,

we must first put our differences aside

We lay down our arms

so we can reach out our arms

to one another

We seek harm to none and harmony for all

Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:

That even as we grieved, we grew

That even as we hurt, we hoped

That even as we tired, we tried

That we’ll forever be tied together, victorious

Not because we will never again know defeat

but because we will never again sow division

Scripture tells us to envision

that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree

And no one shall make them afraid

If we’re to live up to our own time

Then victory won’t lie in the blade

But in all the bridges we’ve made

That is the promise to glade

The hill we climb

If only we dare

It’s because being American is more than a pride we inherit,

it’s the past we step into

and how we repair it

We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation

rather than share it

Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy

And this effort very nearly succeeded

But while democracy can be periodically delayed

it can never be permanently defeated

In this truth

in this faith we trust

For while we have our eyes on the future

history has its eyes on us

This is the era of just redemption

We feared at its inception

We did not feel prepared to be the heirs

of such a terrifying hour

but within it we found the power

to author a new chapter

To offer hope and laughter to ourselves

So while once we asked,

how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe?

Now we assert

How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?

We will not march back to what was

but move to what shall be

A country that is bruised but whole,

benevolent but bold,

fierce and free

We will not be turned around

or interrupted by intimidation

because we know our inaction and inertia

will be the inheritance of the next generation

Our blunders become their burdens

But one thing is certain:

If we merge mercy with might,

and might with right,

then love becomes our legacy

and change our children’s birthright

So let us leave behind a country

better than the one we were left with

Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest,

we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one

We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the west,

we will rise from the windswept northeast

where our forefathers first realized revolution

We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states,

we will rise from the sunbaked south

We will rebuild, reconcile and recover

and every known nook of our nation and

every corner called our country,

our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,

battered and beautiful

When day comes we step out of the shade,

aflame and unafraid

The new dawn blooms as we free it

For there is always light,

if only we’re brave enough to see it

If only we’re brave enough to be it

The Hill We Climb – Amanda Gorman

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Gross Motor Skills

13th January 2021Mr Barnes

What are Gross Motor Skills?

  • Gross motor skills involve movements of the large muscles of the arms, legs, and torso.
  • Children need to use their gross motor skills for everyday activities at school, at home and in the community.
  • Children who struggle with gross motor skills have trouble doing whole-body movements like climbing and star jumps.

Why is it important?

Gross motor skills are linked to many other key aspects of development:

  • Balance
  • Coordination
  • Body awareness
  • Physical strength
  • Reaction time

All of these abilities help children participate successfully in activities at school, at home, and in the community. Linked gross motor skill development can have an additional impact on self-esteem and self-worth.

What is The Beacon Centre doing to help?

Both Beacon Primary and Beacon Secondary have put in place resources and activities to aid in the development of Gross Motor Skills in children and young people in our care. For instance at Beacon Secondary, weekly activities which involve balance, strength building and physical exercise are all designed to include elements are gross motor skill development.

At Beacon Primary, daily gross motor skill activities are set up to help the younger children to continue with the early stages of gross motor skill development. This includes obstacle courses, activities which focus on balance, dancing and co-ordinated playground play.

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Staff Survey Results

9th December 2020Darren Brown

Staff Survey

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Secondary Celebrations

23rd October 2020Darren Brown

Friday 23 10 2020

On the last day of half term, celebrations were carried out for Secondary pupils.

Student of term was awarded to  Shakil A
100 attendance all term was awarded to Bradley P
Student of placement was awarded to Summer A
Most improved attendance was awarded to Marley M
most improved Behavior was awarded to   Kai M





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