Over the last 2 weeks, we have been collecting donations for Bethany Food Bank based in Great Barr.

To ensure that we collected a range of items, each House was assigned a food group and the Sixth Form were responsible for donating toiletries and sanitary items.

We are grateful for the generosity and kindness shown as we do our bit to help others.  

Thank you to everyone who donated as well as to the Year 13 students who packed it all up ready for collection.

The donations have been collected by a representative from the Food Bank and will be used to support local families over the coming weeks.

On Tuesday 12th December, 50 students across the Matrix Schools met at Barr Beacon to find out more about their “Far From Home” Italian adventure as part of the Turing Scheme. The day consisted of meeting their staff, team building activities and learning more about where they are going. This of course would not have been complete without a “surviving Italy” language taster session from a native Italian, as well as tasting some authentic Italian dishes such as ‘Melanzane alla Parmigiana’ ‘Patate, Gorgonzola e Chorizo’ and a choice of ‘Antipasti’ to awaken their taste buds. The day was finished off by writing a Christmas card back to their pen pal in our partner school in Rome, we cannot wait to visit and meet them in person! 

Congratulations to 9 of our current Year 13 students who have clocked up 100% attendance for 6 consecutive years.  

This fantastic achievement was recognised and celebrated at our Annual Awards Evening last month.

We are pleased to now be able to present them with their iPads. Well done to them all!

Thank you to everyone who supported our Christmas raffle. We have been running 2 raffles side by side – one for a chocolate hamper and the other for a cuddly toy.

Congratulations to our two winners:  G.Hands 7M2 and I.Patel 11M2.  We hope you enjoy your prizes.

We have raised £140.00, taking our grand total this term to £1,152.81!  This is an impressive amount and we are grateful to all pupils, parents/carers and staff who support our charity events.   £305.90 of this total has gone to Children in Need and the rest will be split, at the end of the year, between our chosen charities:  Humanity First and Birmingham Children’s Hospital.   

Well done to our Year 13 Ambassadors for all their hard work in organising and running the charity events.  They are already busy planning the next one and looking forward to your support once again!

Every year, we hold a Book Fair here in Barr Beacon School. It’s not only great fun for the students but it also promotes reading for pleasure and helps our school analyse pupils’ reading preferences. For 4 days in November students in year 7, 8 and 9 had a chance to browse our Scholastic shelves during their English lessons. Year 10 and 11 browsed before and after school. Pupils showed great interest in new releases, discounted books and especially stationery! We had over £200 worth of online orders and over £600 was spent by the school on books for Free School Meals students in Y7 and 8. With the total of £807.45, we have beaten last year’s sales! Many thanks to all the pupils and staff that attended. Happy Reading!

Last academic year, we encouraged students to take part in our Summer Reading Challenge over the summer holidays. They had to submit reviews of the books they read for a chance to win a Kindle reader. We were pleased to see that we had many entries and reviews were creative, thoughtful, and beautifully written. We randomly chose a pupil from those who took part, and the winner is N. Hancock 8M1!

Congratulations! We hope you will enjoy the books we uploaded to your Kindle so you can start reading right away! 

Come and join the Barr Beacon students for this year’s school production of ‘High School Musical’. This exciting musical will be performed in the main school hall on Wednesday 13^th and Thursday 14^th December 2023, 6.30pm to 7.30pm. 

Tickets can be purchased through Weduc priced at £3 per ticket. 

We look forward to seeing you for this celebration of the wonderful talent here at Barr Beacon School. 

Barr Beacon School German Christmas Markets Trip – Parents meeting powerpoint