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Beacon Celebrates a Great Ofsted Report

Beacon Community College was inspected recently under the new and tougher Ofsted regime and with a very pleasing outcome.  The college was graded Good overall with many Outstanding features.  The inspection team arrived with two days' notice to a day when yet again snow fell heavily on Crowborough, and students’ mature response to this was also noted  “Students show good social and collaborative skills. During the disruptions caused by snow, and around school, their behaviour was considerate.

Last Updated on Sunday, 21 February 2010 15:41
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Year 11 Study Skills Day

Thursday 11th March 2010

We are pleased to be able to offer a Year 11 Study Skills Day on Thursday 11th March, as part of the preparation for GCSE exams. This is an important event for Year 11 as it supports students’ knowledge and understanding of revision techniques through this crucial stage of their College career in a dynamic way.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 21:11
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Beacon U/13 Basketball Team win two trophies

For the East Sussex Play Off Finals, Beacon travelled to Heathfield on Friday evening to represent Ouse Valley. They went through to the final where  we faced Bishop Bell school from Eastbourne and in a closely fought game  came out winners .  In the West Kent Play Off Finals on Tuesday we hosted the final against our local rivals Tunbridge Wells Boys Grammar and again emerged victorious.

 

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:16
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Year 13 Sociology trip - Old Bailey and Royal Courts of Justice

 

We waited patiently to go through security outside the Old Bailey; students were filled with excitement, anticipation and perhaps a little dread as they imagine what it would be like to be tried for a crime in England’s most notorious court.

 

 

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:17
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Welcome

WELCOME TO BEACON COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Welcome to our website.

Beacon Community College is a High Performing School with specialist Science as well as Sports College and Training School status. An 11-18, co-educational comprehensive school with 1650 on roll situated on the edge of Ashdown Forest an area of outstanding natural beauty. It serves a rural area of over 100 square miles.

You might like to spend some time browsing our website to gain a sense of our purpose and ethos.

Our aim is simple: to enable every student to achieve the very best of which they are capable in every realm of activity we can provide. To help us to do so we have developed a college that is distinctive in all it does.

Please spend some time looking through our news pages.

Beacon is a thriving community college with aspirations for young people. This is not a college that stands still. Our students deserve the best if they are to succeed and the college has been through nothing less than a transformation over the last three years in order to achieve that goal.

As the school for Crowborough and the surrounding area we realise that we have a tremendous responsibility to be the best. Whether that be for students aged 11-19, adult learners co-ordinated by us, events such as our sporting work, our youth service or our primary links for gifted and talented, languages, science and sport.

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