With 1000 days to go until the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games in London, Beacon is leading the change within our local community. After two years of running the Young Leaders programme for Beacon students in Years 9 and 10, we have recently been given the opportunity to introduce Young Ambassadors to our leadership structure here at Beacon. This structure has meant Beacon are now responsible for taking a lead in the Young Ambassador programme across the North Wealden School Sports Partnership including Beacon, Heathfiled, Chailey, Uckfield and Uplands.
Jordan Broome and Emily Jones both in year 10 applied and were selected to represent our partnership at the training day held at the Brit Oval Cricket ground in London.We travelled up for the day and spent the morning realising the potential that each of the young ambassadors have to ensure that the legacy of the 2012 games is experienced in each of our own communities. Jordan and Emily then spent the afternoon planning their own roles as Young Ambassadors and considering the impact that they could have within the North Wealden partnership. They would now like to lead a Sports Council for the area, in which local young people can share their ideas about Olympic themed events and how to improve sport and physical activities in and around North Wealden. They will also take responsibility for two silver Young ambassadors from each of the other local secondary schools and begin to plan activities for National School Sports Week.
We were then also fortunate enough to take five other young leaders along to an Olympics leadership day in Oxted the following week and begin to motivate another 5 students to take a lead in Olympic themed events around the school. Daniel Allen, Harry Dobson, Bethan Downing, Hannah Lunn and Nicole Taylor all spent the afternoon planning events for Beacon to take part in throughout the year and came up with great ideas like Olympic value themed rewards (equality, determination, excellence, respect, friendship, inspiration and courage) that can earn points toward Olympic prizes, Olympic themed backgrounds for all of the schools computers and a Paralympic event hosted by Beacon for Grove Park.
It is really exciting to see young leaders here at Beacon taking responsibility for ensuring that the Olympic values and impact of 2012 is experienced within their local community. Leading the change there’s only a thousand days to do it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Leading The Change
