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The Beacon School

We are a dynamic and vibrant community where everyone is individually valued. Our aim as a school is to provide a world-class education where students can fulfil their potential and grow into happy, kind and well-rounded individuals. We strive for students to develop their resourcefulness, and resilience, accept responsibility and be challenged to take risks in order to learn and succeed.

We want all students to achieve the best possible qualifications, so that as many doors as possible are open to them in the future. Equally, we are also committed to our students gaining key skills that prepare them for life in the 21st century and for them to become passionate about life-long learning beyond the classroom.

We have high expectations of each other and recognise that everyone learns differently. We expect our students to work hard and behave well both inside and outside of the classroom. Our values of Endeavour, Kindness, Community, Ambition and Integrity are at the core of everything we do and we will continually look for ways to improve each day.

We have high ambitions for our students and believe they only have one chance at school.

About our school experience

Details

- observing lessons and different teaching styles
- interacting with students and staff
- experiencing life in school first-hand
- seeing how specific subjects are taught
- learning more about the teacher training process and the chance to meet with current and previous trainees and Early Career Teachers who are training or have trained at de Stafford

Start and finish times
8:15am to 3:30pm - Flexible

Please contact us if you have a specific time frame in mind.

Dress code

Business dress

Teacher training

GLF Schools' Teacher Training is an alliance of highly successful schools in Surrey, Croydon, Oxfordshire, West Sussex, Wokingham and Hampshire. We have a very strong history of providing exceptional Initial Teacher Training since 2013, with high employment rates within our partnership schools.

What GLF can offer:

Be part of something bigger with our vast portfolio of schools
Train in a place where you feel you belong.
Receive high-quality training and a personalised training approach
Support us on our mission to transform the lives of all children to enable them to Grow, Learn and Flourish.

If you are passionate about education and want to make an impact on the lives of our next generation, apply to be a part of our highly successful teacher training programme.

All of our placement schools have significant experience in delivering Initial Teacher Training and are able to provide you with a consistently high quality settings throughout your training programme.

There are often opportunities for successful trainees to go on and work within their host school, or group of schools, following a successful training year, subject to schools' recruitment and selection processes.

Find out more about our teacher training

Links to more information about our school

Entry requirements

You must:

    • Must be applying to or have applied to our, or a partner school's, teacher training course
    • Must have a degree
    • Photo identification: Passport, driving licence
DBS check required

No, candidates will be accompanied at all times.

Placement availability

This school has not yet provided their availability for offering school experience. You can still request experience with this school and they will contact you when they have availability.

School experience type
In school

Location

Address
Picquets Way, Banstead, Surrey, SM7 1AG
Map showing The Beacon School
Parking

Not available on site

Parking is available in the surrounding residential roads. Please consider our neighbours when parking

Disability and access details

We offer facilities and provide an inclusive environment for students, staff and school experience candidates with disability and access needs. We're happy to discuss your disability or access needs before or as part of your school experience request.

Address
Picquets Way, Banstead, Surrey, SM7 1AG
School phases
Secondary (11 to 16)
DBS check required

No, candidates will be accompanied at all times.

Subjects
  • Art and design
  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Communication and media studies
  • Computing
  • Dance
  • Design and technology
  • Drama
  • English
  • French
  • Geography
  • History
  • Maths
  • Music
  • Physical education
  • Physics
  • Religious education
  • Social sciences
  • Spanish