Eli Prime

Beaumont Leys School was rocking when top boy band, Eli Prime, visited the sch

ool to educate Year 8 and Year 9 students on the dangers of drugs and alcohol abuse.

Eli Prime came on to the music scene in 2010 and have performed in front of 20,000 people at The Clothes Show Live and supported McFly and Alexandra Burke. They are currently touring schools throughout the country as ambassadors of DARE – Drug Abuse Resistance Education.

After stunning the students with a series of songs, Luke, Kyle and Mark brought to their attention the effects of drugs and alcohol showing the potential harmful effects via a series of graphic celebrity photographs.

The band's message was received loud and clear – drugs are dangerous!

At the end Eli Prime were kept busy signing autographs for the students, especially the girls, many of whom has been contacting the band on Twitter.

Luke, Kyle and Mark expressed how much they had enjoyed visiting our school and thought our students were great!

Stamp Out Bullying!

We strive to ensure that all students have an equal and fair chance to thrive and learn in an environment that promotes respect and dignity.

We do not tolerate any form of bullying at Beaumont Leys School. We believe all bullying, whatever the motivation or method, is unacceptable and should not be tolerated... Click to read more

Beaumont Leys judged to be outstanding!

In April our school was invited to join an organisation called Challenge Partners. This is a group of 50 schools, located throughout England, who want to work with each other to share good practice and to challenge each other to improve. More than half the schools in Challenge Partners have been judged to be Outstanding by Ofsted. Challenge Partners also has 9 out of the country’s 100 first Teaching Schools. We were very pleased to have been asked to join this prestigious and pioneering group.

An important part of Challenge Partners is the Quality Assurance Review which is like an Ofsted inspection. In September Mr Kirkbride was part of a team reviewing a school in Luton and next week he is in Manchester. In November Mrs Parkinson was part of a team which reviewed two schools in Luton. Their teams consisted of four Senior Leaders from four different schools and were led by Ofsted inspectors. Each Review takes two days. Both Senior Leaders came back with lots of excellent ideas for how we can further improve.

We were reviewed in December by a team of four senior leaders led by the Lead Ofsted inspector responsible for the whole Review process. Two of the team were from Outstanding Schools and another was the Deputy Headteacher from Soar Valley College in Leicester.

I am pleased to say that the Challenge Partner Review team judged that our school had moved into the Outstanding Category since our last Ofsted inspection in May 2010. Some of the things the report says are:

• School improvement strategies are outstanding

• There is real rigour and relentless drive to continuing improvement.

• School self-evaluation is extremely sharp, analytical and frank.

• There is a strong upward trend in attainment.

• Relationships are exceptionally strong between adults and pupils.

• Teachers and pupils take learning seriously yet are having fun at the same time..

• Staff are excellent role models.

• The school’s ambition for its pupils can be seen everywhere..

• This is a very outward looking school with a reputation for influencing others.

Mrs Logie

Click here to the see the full report

Just write

Let the pen see the paper

We are setting up a stationary shop up in our school called Just Write. It will start on Monday 23rd April and be open from 8:15 till 8:30 and at lunch times 12:30 till 12:55, it will be located in the music hub. The shop will sell pens, pencils, rubbers, rulers, highlighters and much more. The idea behind the shop is to help students to be ready for their lessons so they can achieve their best.

Beaumont Leys is Performing Beyond Expectations

2011 Best ever GCSE Results 70% 5+ A* to C

We are delighted to have achieved our best GCSE results ever with 70% of students achieving 5+A*-C [ 69% last year], 45% of students achieving 5+ A*-C including English and Maths and 24% of students gained 3+ A*-A grades. This is the result of a huge amount of hard work from students and staff.

We would like to thank the parents of our Year 11 students for their support last year. Together We Achieved Success!

Mrs Logie

Beaumont Leys an Ofsted Winner:

Outstanding Judgements 5 : Good Judgements  21

We are very proud to have excelled in our recent  Ofsted inspection despite a much tougher regime being introduced in September. As a result of the new framework  many schools have been down- graded from their previous report, whereas Beaumont Leys has bucked the trend and improved on its last inspection which was in March 2007.

Click here to see the full Ofsted report.