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WelcomeWELCOME TO BEACON COMMUNITY COLLEGEWelcome 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. Latest Articles |
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Events Legend
Message from the Princpal
Dear Parents/Carers
After an interesting start to term with snow, lack of heating and bad news regarding school closure earlier this week, for which I have often had to apologise, I am pleased to be able to share with you the good news about our latest Ofsted inspection.
We were inspected under the new inspection Framework, which is considerably more demanding than the old Ofsted Framework. The outcome was ‘a good school with outstanding features’.
In brief, particularly pleasing are the inspectors’ judgements that the college is Outstanding in its care, guidance and support; curriculum; safety of students; community cohesion; partnerships, and its capacity for sustained improvement.
Everything else was graded at least “Good”. The full inspection report is available on our website and all students will receive a very positive letter from the inspection team, also available on the website.
I am very pleased with the huge improvements and rapid progress made over the past few years, due to the commitment of the students, staff, and not least yourselves in your support of children and the school. Governors and staff would like to thank you for that support.
Yours sincerely
Peter Swan
Principal
Beacon had four runners selected to representing the Ouse Valley area at the Sussex Schools Cross Country Championships last Saturday at Lancing Manor.
Beacon community College has invited Year 5 students from local primary schools to take part in forensic experiments in their science laboratories with very interesting results.