Six of our Year 8 Beacon Boys discuss their favourite books to read, giving us a synopsis of each book and outline why they rate them, without any spoilers.

In this episode, our Head of Upper School Mr. Tenison and our Head Boy Team, come together to discuss all things leadership.

In this episode, we were delighted to welcome the Co-Chairs of our Beacon Parents’ Society to discuss everything the BPS Committee involves, from organising exciting events for our Beacon Community to enjoy to fundraising and planning new school development projects.

In this month’s episode, we will be discussing well-being; one of the core values strongly supported at The Beacon. The welfare and well-being of our boys is the primary focus and every member of our Beacon Community strives to ensure our boys feel happy, secure and confident.

 Each half term, we focus on embedding one of our Beacon values into school life, and wellbeing is the value of focus this half term. In light of this, we are pleased to welcome Sandy Drury, our wellbeing coach and counsellor, to discuss the importance of building a positive mental health culture at the school and to give us some insight into her role. 

In this month’s episode, we discussed The BeaconX, our newly launched online educational platform. We  talked about the upcoming courses and touch on the future plans for BeaconX.

We were delighted to welcome Mark Walker, Head of BeaconX, as well as Mika Paker and Sam Privett who run some of the online courses. 

In this month’s episode, we are delighted to welcome Nick Baker, our Headmaster and our newly appointed Head Boy Team; Dino, Sam and Shaan. 

Where will be delving in to why the boys applied for the position and their mission this academic year. We will also be discussing the importance of a Head Boy Team at the school with Mr Baker.

In this episode, we welcomed Ed Tenison, our Head of Upper School, with two Year 8 boys from the winning entrepreneurial business pitch, to discuss our newly introduced KidsMBA course. This brand-new initiative is a great asset to our Year 8 Leavers’ Programme.

The Beacon boys highlight their experience of the KidsMBA course, touching on their winning business idea and Mr Tenison outlines the importance of learning about business and enterprise.

We were thrilled to welcome three of our Beacon alumni in this episode of Beaconverse. The gentlemen take us back in time at The Beacon, giving us insight into what school life was like in the 40s to early 60s... as well as giving our boys a piece of advice.

Many thanks to the following for joining us:
Graham Kimber (OB 1942-48)
Iain Ward (OB 1950-57)
Bernard Culverhouse (OB 1956-62)

Graham Kimber attended The Beacon between 1942-1948. He left for Merchant Taylors' and did 2 years National Service obtaining a commission in the "Gunners" before joining Esso Petroleum now EXXON Mobil.  Graham started off serving fuel at service stations before moving into distribution and then ran the company’s public relations operations in the UK. He left to join Bunzl and is now retired.

Iain Ward joined Winterbourn in 1950 and was at The Beacon between 1951-1957. Iain went on to Berkhamsted School after which he joined the British India Steam Navigation Company. Iain lived in Hong Kong for many years where he was Superintendent of the territories’ marine police force. He is now retired and living in East Anglia.

Bernard Culverhouse was at The Beacon between 1956-1962.  Bernard went on to Berkhamsted School and read Philosophy at the University of Aberystwth. After his degree Bernard was offered a job by his neighbour which took him into a career in sales and marketing in the semiconductor industry – better known now as the silicon chip business, a job that took him around the world. Bernard retired early and now lives in rural Devon. 

In this month’s episode of Beaconverse, we are joined by our Head of Lower School, Jemima Elcomb, and Deputy Head of Lower School, Wendy Phillips, to talk about the benefits and provisions we offer here at The Beacon in Years 3 and 4. 
 
 If you are thinking about sending your son to an Independent Prep School from Year 3, have a listen to find out more about these vital two years of learning and the opportunities available to boys in Lower School at The Beacon. 

In this months episode, we are joined by our Housemasters and Mistress along with our 4 heads of house to take part in our Beaconverse Battle of the Houses competition. They take part in a series of question rounds in order to earn house points. They were tested on knowledge of The Beacon, from its history to modern day facts.

I'll warn you now, you will be sure to fall victim to the very contagious laughter throughout this podcast.