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.
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.
What makes a big rural specialist community college a special place to be?
Beacon is a good deal more than just the sum of all the subjects and the activities we offer. The college has developed a climate for learning and a sense of community in a friendly encouraging and positive sense. This makes for warm relationships that underpin successful learning in a well ordered and disciplined environment.
We know that cheerful and confident students working in a real spirit of community are much more likely to rise to challenges, to commit themselves, and to develop their talents to the full.
At Beacon there is an understanding of the importance of getting expectations and relationships right. We have this as our starting point in promoting excellent learning, outstanding opportunities and the will to go the extra mile whether that be staff or students.
Students at Beacon know that if they take the opportunities they can succeed. With our encouragement and support anything is possible, from the academic through to wider activities, thereby developing the whole person. There is a huge breadth and range of experience at Beacon providing real opportunities to achieve together. One cannot expect to get all of that right unless we also know students as individuals! Our students can attest to this fact.
We believe we have an exciting vibrant community spirit where people want to be.
They want to learn, they want to teach, they want to achieve; together.
If I had to sum it all up, the key word has to be community. Not only does this reflect the rich variety of formal and informal links that bind us to our community, it also reflects a view that education is part of life and not something that ends at 16 or at the school gates. The college is at the heart of its community. The idea of community underpins a climate for learning and teamwork in which we all wish to thrive, to achieve, to have aspirations and to experience success.
Are all these stories about big schools true?
Talk to our students and listen to what they have to say about the college. Come and visit us and learn for yourselves what the reality of achieving together looks like. We would be happy to show you round.
The staff and I look forward to a strong partnership between home and college, characterized by regular two-way communications for the benefit of your child; our student.
I do hope that if you like what you read you will consider finding out more and eventually joining us.
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