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Baker’s Beacon Blog

Baker’s Beacon Blog – Week 19

24 February 2023

Dear Parents, I trust everyone had a restful half term; Year 5 boys delighted in regaling me of their various holidays in Geography this week,…

Baker’s Beacon Blog – Week 18

9 February 2023

Dear Parents, Staff Changes at The Beacon Replacing Mr James Skea was always going to be difficult but, following a comprehensive recruitment process involving candidates…

Baker’s Beacon Blog – Week 17

3 February 2023

Dear Parents, Long time readers of this column will recall that on the event of the Queen’s passing, I was attending Westminster School for their…

Baker’s Beacon Blog – Week 16

27 January 2023

Dear Parents, Good to be back with my Beacon family today, after spending the middle part of this week inspecting a school for ISI. Inspection…

Baker’s Beacon Blog – Week 15

20 January 2023

Dear Parents, Now I have spent a term at The Beacon getting a general picture of our School, I am now going into lessons across…

Baker’s Beacon Blog – Week 14

13 January 2023

Dear Parents, Happy New Year and welcome to The Beacon 2023! I trust everyone had an enjoyable and restful Christmas. The Bakers were ‘at home’…

Baker’s Beacon Blog – Week 13

15 December 2022

Dear Parents, It was already a festive end of term with the charming Pre-Prep performances, Christmas jumper day, Christmas lunches and yesterday’s Carol Services, but…

Baker’s Beacon Blog – Week 12

9 December 2022

Dear Parents, I have come across lots of remarkable things at The Beacon this term but none more so than the truly remarkable production of…

Baker’s Beacon Blog – Week 11

2 December 2022

Dear Parents, A ‘Beacon Christmas’ is now officially in full swing!  The lights are up, the trees decorated, penguins (?) on parade…and even my office…

Baker’s Beacon Blog – Week 10

25 November 2022

Dear Parents, ‘World Cup Fever’ in schools is something normally associated with hot and humid classrooms and the end of the school year, not two…