About us
Welcome to Beacon Business Innovation Hub
Our School
Our vision, put simply, is a coherent approach that aligns education, training, skills and employment services, that will enable our students to ‘develop the skills, qualifications, and experience they need to succeed in their careers and to make a positive contribution to our society and economy’.
This is embodied by our Trust’s approach to raising standards in education for all, as we believe every young person deserves to have the best education possible.
The Trust vision was born out of the need for this type of alternative, high-quality, human-scale provision. Our students come from a variety of school experiences – with the common characteristic that mainstream provision is not meeting their needs or enabling them to realise their full potential. We provide that rigorous, alternative progression route.
The Beacon Business Innovation Hub (BBIH) offers a curriculum that fills this gap with an occupational, business driven curriculum that links with their ‘real lives’ and aspirations; rather than the disconnect students may experience with current traditional academic routes or low level vocational pathways.
Our curriculum vision is not about equivalence, but a different type of success under – pinned by a mentoring programme that puts young people at the heart of their future and their future success. Our vision is one that provides aspirational work-related qualifications and pathways with a variety of exit routes at all levels to suit an individual and their choices. This, in turn, is supplemented by creative opportunities that extend beyond the core curriculum. The vision is built on a foundation of strong parental links and involvement coupled with the belief that all students, irrespective of race, faith, gender or background are entitled to consistent, high-quality learning experiences.
This will, in turn, lead to successful outcomes and futures and guarantee that our young people are equipped with the independence, resilience and social capital required in the 21st Century world.
Regards,
Kevin Howarth
Head of School, Beacon Business Innovation Hub
For information on how we demonstrate compliance with the public sector equality duty, policies and accounts, please visit beaconacademytrust.co.uk
Our Teachers
Personalised learning is at the core of our vision for teaching and learning. To ensure personal success for all the students we must provide a learning environment that challenges, supports and inspires; all students are entitled to consistent, high quality learning experiences. To be true to this vision, we are committed to maximising achievement through personalised learning in a culture of respect and independence.
Guiding principles:
- There is no ceiling to achievement and progress for our students
- Fully inclusive teaching approaches in every classroom
- Consistency of routines and approaches across the school
- All staff must have high expectations of behavior: promoting tolerance and respect and instilling positive attitudes to learning
- All students must know the areas of strength and challenge in their performance and must know what they need to do in order to continue to make progress
- All teachers are teachers of literacy, oracy and numeracy
