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Upper School

Remarkable Remote Learning Creations

6 April 2020

Our boys have produced some amazing work during their remote learning before the Easter break and we have been so impressed with their incredible creativity….

Félicitations Tout Le Monde!

27 March 2020

Congratulations to our Year 7 French Class. They have worked so hard on their online language platform – This is Language – this week that…

‘Tree of the Year’ Photography Competition

18 March 2020

We had a brilliant response to the whole school photography competition based on the theme of ‘The Tree of the Year’, with 96 photos to…

Friday Pi Day!

17 March 2020

The Beacon Pi Day brought lots of Pi fun! The Pi recital competition, where boys recited as many digits of Pi from memory as they…

Persuasive Victorians in Year 7

16 March 2020

Our Victorian Waxworks event was a huge success with the whole of Year 7 involved. It followed our study of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’…

Academic Excellence

10 March 2020

Our termly Academic Celebration Assembly took place on Monday this week. This is a celebration of boys’ academic achievements. Prizes are awarded to boys who…

World Book Day!

6 March 2020

The theme of this year’s World Book Day was “sharing stories”, and we certainly did that at The Beacon in many ways. Monica and David…

Sensational Swimming at National Qualifiers

5 March 2020

The Beacon swim squad recently travelled to Berkhamsted School to compete in the 2020 National Swimming qualifying round. Unlike swimming gala rounds where final placings…

Hockey Boys on Tour

5 March 2020

On Friday 28 February, The Beacon school departed for the wonderful town of Cheltenham on the school’s first ever hockey tour. Months of early morning…

The Beacon Explodes into British Science Week

5 March 2020

There was a brilliantly bonkers buzz of excitement on Tuesday as the boys in Year 3, 4, 5 & 6 were visited by Dr Sulfur…