House System

The Beacon School House System aims to achieve and encourage the following principles:

To further develop the students' spiritual, moral, social and cultural understanding and awareness

• To build a Community within each House
• To build healthy Ambition and a sense of pride in the House
• To recognise the value of showing Kindness to our peers, others in our school and the wider community
• To Endeavour to provide role models for the younger students
• To develop leadership and Integrity opportunities throughout the school

During the 2023/24 academic year, we consulted our wider school community, parent/carers and also our students to review out house system. Resulting from that consultation, The Beacon School selected four new house names that were selected by the community itself as figures that were important to them that also respresent the school values.

The House system allows all of our students to participate in House celebration assemblies and competitions and win valuable points for their Houses. House 'Proud' points are awarded in various ways, for example, through good attendance, positive behaviour, participation in extra-curricular activities, competitions and representation in sports teams and tournaments or school events.

At the start of Spring Term 2025, The Beacon School also launched a new role of House Captain for our students to apply for. This is another new and exciting role for our students to have opportunity to take on a leadership position in our student community, helping to organise, design and run our House events throughout the year and will look great on their future college and work applications.

Please see the below poster for confirmation of the house competitions The Beacon School will run throughout the year.Annual House Competitions

The House names have been voted for by our students who have chosen individuals who they find inspirational through their demonstration of our school values.

Attenborough - Head of House: Miss N Bulley

Sir David Attenborough, born 8 May 1926, is a British broadcaster, biologist, natural historian, and writer. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Studios Natural History Unit, the nine nature documentary series forming the Life collection, a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth. He has advocated for restoring planetary biodiversity, limiting population growth, switching to renewable energy, mitigating climate change, reducing meat consumption, and setting aside more areas for natural preservation. He is widely considered a national treasure in the UK.

Davison - Heads of House: Mrs Connolly-Webb

Emily Wilding Davison, born in 11 October 1872, was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause, she was arrested on nine occasions, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after being hit by King George V's horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race.

King - Head of House: Mrs K Leavers

Martin Luther King Jr.  was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination.

Parks - Head of House: Miss N Chaieb

Called "the mother of the civil rights movement," Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when, aged 42, she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955 launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens.