Please view our very moving Remembrance Assembly video.

 

 

We are delighted that Year 11 student Ella won 1^st prize in her age category for her poem at the recent Hampshire Young Poets competition.

Miss Knight, English Teacher, said “It was a wonderful morning, and I am so proud of Ella for representing the school.”

Her poem is on the concept of ‘Home’, and it is below: 

Hurriedly sewn into lovingly stitched petticoats,

The last of the family silver came with us

Across the Channel, across the water

To safety

We left our life on distant shores

To build another somewhere strange

Surrounded by new customs, language, people

We forged a new future

And made our home again.

The years have passed

Time has changed us

But the silver still sits, pride of place, upon the mantelpiece

 

As a result, the school won a £50 gift voucher for P & G Wells to spend on poetry books.

Ella has also received a Headteachers Gold Award for her achievement. This award represents the highest award you can get in school!

Congratulations Ella!

PRESS RELEASE – DATE – 13^th June 2023

 

Section 8 Ofsted Inspection March 2023

 

The Henry Beaufort school continues to be a ‘good’ school.

The school’s high expectations for students remains a constant thread from its previous inspection report in 2017 and students are ‘happy and proud of their achievements’.

 

Sue Hearle, Headteacher stated;

‘‘I am pleased that the Inspector has recognised that our curriculum is broad and provides interest for all of our young people. Our five-year curriculum is acknowledged as a strength and learning is supported by the expertise of our teachers.

The work the school has undertaken to secure high-quality provision for personal development is also recognised including our ‘high quality’ careers guidance.’’

 

The school has two action points:

1. Curriculum Mapping.  Students have a curriculum map in their exercise books that details the five-year learning journey for each subject they study.

The focus for the action point is to increase the detail in the curriculum maps.

2. Ofsted consider the Ebacc GCSE subjects as the most ambitious GCSE pathway for young people.  The Ebacc [the study of english, maths, science, history or geography and a language] is not a qualification and does not impact on entry to any university.   Although the school’s Ebbac entry is 2% above the national average it does not meet the government target.

The school is to encourage more students to take a modern foreign language to GCSE level. 

 

Sue Hearle stated ‘Ofsted have recognised that we are an inclusive school, and that our inclusivity goes well beyond our significant academic success. Our ethos is centred on preparing our young people for the complexities, the challenges, and the excitement of opportunities beyond the school gate.

We are committed to continuing that journey, sustaining what we already do well, rising to the challenge of strategic improvement and continuing to be an important and successful presence in our local and wider community.’

On the 21st February a team of year 9 students from both Design and Technology and Engineering were invited to take part in a competition at the very prestigious Winchester college. 

The competition was made up of a selection of schools from Winchester College to Portsmouth and the surrounding areas. 

The students were given a strict timeline in which to design and manufacture a full sized, and functional chair.  The chair was to be made entirely out of corrugated card, use no glue or tape, be as light as possible, attractive as possible, comfortable as possible and hold the weight of a full-grown adult. 

Henry Beaufort had two teams of three all of whom fully embraced the challenge, creatively engineering and designing a solution to the problem. 

The completed items were then evaluated and tested using rigorous testing criteria. 

Mr Brown Teacher of Design and Technology said “I am delighted to say that out of the 8 teams Henry Beaufort came a very credible seventh and second, being just pipped to the post by a Team from a school in Portsmouth. 

I am incredibly proud of Team HB, who really showed their creativity and innovation, not to mention teamwork and a phenomenal work ethic.”