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Proudly Working Towards The Rainbow Flag Award

6th October 2022Mr Barnes

At the Beacon Centre we are Proud to be working towards achieving the Rainbow Flag Award.

The Rainbow Flag Award is a national quality assurance framework for primary schools, secondary schools, SEND schools and colleges. The award focuses on positive LGBT+, (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, plus other related identities), inclusion and visibility.

The Rainbow Flag Award encourages a whole organisation approach to LGBT+ inclusion, as well as developing strategies to effectively challenge and combat LGBTphobic bullying.

The Rainbow Flag Award is a commitment to improve the lives of all the young people that we work with, as well as the LGBT+ young people in our care, those from LGBT+ families, and LGBT+ staff members.

After School @ Secondary

16th September 2022Mr Barnes

Miss Lambert’s After School Club, where Young People were given the opportunity to create tasty and healthy breakfasts.

Overnight oats were a huge success. The Young People enjoyed a mixture of nutritious and exotic fruits making delicious breakfasts they can eat at the breakfast club the next day!

Staff share best practice.

16th September 2022Mr Barnes

Teachers from both sites shared best practice last night at our Primary School site to ensure that high quality teaching and feedback is consistent across the school. They all looked at the new feedback policy in action and shared how to gather evidence from non-written sources.

Commando Joe’s Staff Training

27th April 2022Mr Barnes

What is Commando Joe’s?

Commando Joe’s is one of the UK’s leading educational providers, utilising the expertise of service personnel to improve the educational outcomes for pupils through our RESPECT programme. Working on Resilience, Empathy, Self-Awareness, Positivity, Excellence, Communication and Teamwork.
Commando Joe’s

How will Commando Joe’s be used?

Within the Beacon Centre, across both sites, young people will have the opportunity to complete challenges in order to build their RESPECT development areas. This will be used both during structured lesson times and during through times when young people need time to regulate and reflect on their behaviour.

The Training

In order for the programme to have the greatest impact, it was important that the staff at the Beacon Centre experience a session first hand and had an understanding of the theory / evidence base behind the practise. To that end staff completed both classroom based and out of classroom elements throughout the day. As can be seen in the photographs below.

We are The Beacon Centre

8th April 2022Mr Barnes

At the Beacon Centre we strive to educate the whole young person, giving them access to life opportunities that might otherwise not be available to them. We are proud of the work we do with our young people and of the work they do. Here are some photos of some of the amazing things that have happened this term!

We are the Beacon Centre!

Swimming Gala

6th April 2022Mr Barnes

Young People from the Secondary site took part in a regional Swimming Gala! The results are as follows:

3rd Place for Kai breast stroke

2nd and 3rd Place for kobi back stroke

3rd Place for Connor butterfly stroke

3rd Place for Kai butterfly stroke

3rd Place for Connor diving

2nd Place for Kobi diving

3rd Place for Thomas diving

2nd Place for Kobi front stroke

3rd Place for Thomas front stroke

3rd Place for Connor and kobi relay

2nd Place for Connor, Kobi, Kai and Thomas

Under 16 boys winners

Amazing teamwork from them all!

World Book Day

11th March 2022Mr Barnes

World Book Day was a Cross Site affair this year with some fantastic work being completed by all young people.

Here are some more photographs of World Book Day at our Primary Site.

We prioritise reading as we believe that the ability to read unlocks the world for our pupils. All of our pupils read to an adult every day bat school, and are encouraged to read to an adult at home every evening.

We actively encourage all of our pupils to read for pleasure and have developed a wonderful library which everyone loves to use. As you can see, they really do love reading.

Meanwhile at our Secondary site, young people engaged in reading and writing tasks. They read the published work of their peers and attempted to write similar stories.

They also had a book club in which they discussed their favourite books and talked about what they liked about them.

Well done to everyone involved.

Filming at The Beacon Centre

24th September 2021Mr Barnes

Dear Parents/Carers,

We are writing to request permission to video your child taking part in a series of lessons in The Beacon Centre and this video will then be used for training purposes in other educational establishments.

Young People will engage in a variety of vocational lessons which will help them to get first hand experience of relevant, significant cultural issues. The project based learning will run as an ongoing event on Wednesdays up until Christmas.

If you do not want your child to be filmed in this course of this project please inform school before Wednesday 29th September.

Kind regards

Mrs Hudson

Pastoral Manager

Young Writers Success!

9th June 2021Mr Barnes

We have just received the printed books containing the published work of three of our young people! A huge well done to Shane, Sam and Isaac! Each of whom have received a copy of the book and a certificate from Young Writers. If you would like to read their fantastic stories, you can do so below.

Sam – Innocent?

Nobody believed he was innocent, everyone though he did it. There was all the proof you needed. The body, the gun, the witnesses, even what’d happened in the past. Everyone knew about their big fight and he hit her straight across the face and walked out on her. He says that night never happened. Anyway, back to the present now. He was found next to her body on his hands and knees, covered in blood. The cops stormed into the room. He ran straight out the window and has been running since.
Young Writers – Case Files: Unsolved, On the Run – Page 130

Shane – The Wrong Crowd

People think the dead can’t talk, but what people don’t know is the so-called dead are alive. I’m thirty-three years old, I’ve been on the run since I was seventeen as I got involved with the wrong crowd, which ended up in a bad situation. One night the gang and I was involved with decided they were going to rob a bank. I’m now FBI’s most wanted as all my accomplices got caught at the scene. I had been a fugitive for sixteen years until the courtroom drama in which I was found not guilty, the case is left unsolved…
Young Writers – Case Files: Unsolved, On the Run – Page 131

Isaac – Mistaken Identity

His body lay on the floor in a puddle of his own blood, his body still gasping for air with a bullet in his lung. This was the third gang-related shooting this week.
He was walking through the street he walked through every day to get to his nan’s from school but he was a little bit late, he walked past a few people and noticed that he was getting followed, they started shouting at him, then they chased him, he was running for about five minutes. He turned a corner. All he heard was bang!
Young Writers – Case Files: Unsolved, On the Run – Page 132

If you are feeling inspired by these great stories, you can enter the current Young Writers Competition ” Spine-Chillers” by following this link:

https://www.youngwriters.co.uk/writing-portal/start?code=69821-503