The Beacon School

honestly where could i start i would rather eat the toes of a heavily autistic monkey than go my nan spent around 10 mins there and never recovered since she keeps doing kartwheels down the stairs taking the micky now

Poor behaviour, teachers who can't control classes. Dirty environment and unsafe.

One of the worst school. Computer department is the worst. Teachers don't teach.

The teachers don’t control the students

I joined Beacon as a student in late 2021 in year 10 after moving house and my old school being too far (i’m now in year 11 about to leave) The teachers are amazing and it is easy to tell that they all care about the students and want them to do well, most will go the extra mile to offer support to those who are struggling which is something that was not true for my old school. I have noticed my performance academically has increased and I am predicted mostly 6s and above in my gcses when I was struggling to pass before joining the school. However the behaviour from some kids is awful and it is not dealt with properly. When I first joined the school there were very often physical fights between students in all years and huge crowds of kids would film and watch these fights. The kids involved would rarely face harsh consequences and would generally get away with this behaviour. I must say that this has improved and since the new head has joined things have turned around, these fights are far less common There is quite a few bullies and mean kids but i’ve found if you stay away from these people you will not find yourself involved in anything One thing that is great about this school is the mental health support. I have struggled with panic attacks throughout my time at school and the staff have always been very patient and understanding with me when I am in these situations. They put my mental health before my schoolwork and make me feel very safe Overall Beacon is an average school, it definitely needs improvement in terms of responding to poor behaviour but they have come a long way since I first joined so hopefully they will turn it around completely

Going to this school has given me nothing but traumatic experiences. Having ADHD, and autism and on top of it all as well as being a part of the LGBTQIA+ community, it has been so difficult to go to this school. The staff as well as the other students have been nothing but unkind towards me during my schooling here. Even when I had made complaints against other students bullying me, and when there were staff present during some of these instances of bullying and harassment, nothing was done about it. The staff have been proven to ignore a lot of the students who were in need of genuine help, and many of the instructors didn't quite teach coherently, and they were very impatient especially with me and other kids like me with ADHD. I wish I had never chosen to go to this school but I didn't have much of a choice. Honestly if you're thinking about putting your child in this school I strongly urge you to reconsider, as this school has been proven to absolutely break your mental health and could most likely institutionalize you. I don't know how this school is running, but it should be shut down as soon as humanly possible and reevaluated. thank you

This school did nothing for our child who started in 2022. It was awful and I literally mean awful. There was such lack of support. No follow up meetings. All talk about putting plans in place that did not come to fruition. In fact it was timely as the issues we were facing was around the time the Ofsted report became available and we could almost tick every box to say yes that has happened etc. In the end as we were so let down by the school and its support staff we managed to get a place in another school. I cannot believe how the behaviour is so bad in the Beacon given the area it is located in. My other child who went there did well, but said that the Ofsted report accurately described the goings on of the school. Shocking to think we put our children in the care of a school and they have to encounter the goings on of the Beacon School, Banstead.

Very bad. The teachers are always biased towards the students that misbehave and award them for doing the bare minimum in lessons, when other students (who are much more well behaved) could be spending their time doing extra work, yet would not receive any type of award. There’s always fights breaking out around the school and you literally cannot feel safe in school. Students don’t receive equal opportunities either.

I have a year 11 child and a year 8 child. There are some amazing teachers who go the extra mile for the children. There are a small minority who are not so great but I guess you get that in any school. The SEN support is very good and they really do care about the well-being and education of the children with additional needs. Unfortunately there has been a very difficult intake of children last year who have made school miserable for the rest of the children but the new head seems determined and able to either turn their behaviour around or get rid of them so the other children can learn in a safe, calm environment. I really hope he succeeds as it is a great school with a lot of strengths.

I joined the beacon school in October of 2021 as a year 10 as I had to leave my old school. The school is ok not bad I quickly made friends but there is also quite a few “bullies” but if you stay away from them you should be ok. There are quite a few physical fights but mostly between the same few individuals in the younger years. Best thing to do is stay away from those people as well. I wouldn’t recommend the school to those who are apart of the lgbtqia+ community as there is quite a lot of homophobic and transphobic slurs said despite the fact they do a lot of awareness on these topics. I don’t believe it is a safe environment I suffer from quite bad anxiety and severe panic attacks. The “link” is the pastoral support building along with first aid and all my interactions with them have been amazing, they never get mad at me and always make sure i’m ok and let me sit in a quiet room to calm down and give me resources to help. I feel very understood and safe with the staff in this department The lessons are pretty good pretty much the same as most other schools Overall this school is average. I feel like the school has the students best interests at heart although sometimes this causes them to give the mean students too many chances and are too lenient

The school has seriously deteriorated since my eldest child attended. The new strict policies of detention for the smallest of incidents are laughable! There is no communication between the parents and teachers and when They do it is condescending and demeaning to the child. Would I send my children to this school….Definitely not! Lunch queues are an absolute joke… So most of the week lunch is missed??? How can children possibly concentrate on empty stomachs? Seriously need to think of their procedures…Escorting them to use the bathroom? Prison or school? Recommend not at all!!!!

i dont like it at all. holly povah is amazing beautiful and smart young lady , barely learned anything. dont come!

This is bad as the hygiene is trash

As a student, I had to go to this school as a last resort after not being in the catchment area for any others. I feel much resentment for the treatment of people at this school, I have had first hand experience of bullying and discrimination and have been a witness to many other accounts. I could honestly list so many physical fights that have happened at this school, even between year seven students, but the list would be too long to fit. A boy with autism in my year was assaulted and bullied by a group of girls, they completely destroyed his prised possession which he always carried with him - his bereaved grandpas umbrella. Even after multiple students, including myself, reported this incident - we all received a copy and pasted response from our head of year, and nothing further was done to tackle the bullying. It pains me to rate the school so terribly because there are some truly great teachers at this school, who’s work would be much more appreciated somewhere else. All of the teachers listed have greatly improved my experience at this school and made me feel like I had something worth fighting for. However, some teachers are not so honourable and have extreme biases. You can tell that they do not care for the students that calmly mind their business and achieve the school the grades they need to be prevented from returning to special measures but instead their attention is predominantly focused on the badly behaved students that do something good once in a blue moon, which hurts when you feel unaccounted for and swept away despite never bending the rules once. There is also an extreme disregard for people within the LGBTQIA+ community or people who are simply ‘different’. Me and my friends are almost all part of the LGBTQIA+ community, and we have experienced discrimination within the school. My friends brother has been called slurs and insults for years and his form tutor will not remove him from the form that his bully is also present in, so much to the extent that her father had to phone the headmaster to try and get something done - which it still hasn’t. The teachers do not bat an eyelid at racist or homophobic jokes or insults, they simply don’t seem to care and I think having a poster that says ‘Some people are gay, get over it” isn’t going to miraculously stunt the homophobia in the school. Even on the s*x ed days only straight couples are told about how to be safe, there is no information for homos*xual people - which is dangerous as they could be exposed to S*Ds from their lack of education on the matter. The nursing staff are also horrendous, they’ve never let me go home even despite the fact I was never a regular. I’ve been on the brink of tears in pain and their reason for not letting me be picked up to be taken to the hospital was “you came in here after lunch” - despite the fact I had been sitting in there for over 2 hours. The teachers seem to have a specific dislike to me, I don’t know why but it’s probably how I look. I know the teachers say they don’t pick and choose who to tell off and stuff but they really do, I see popular kids getting away with literally pushing people down the stairs [this genuinely happened] but if i have my skirt a millimetre above my knee then I’m straight off to isolation - you aren’t even allowed to wear stud earrings or a coat that isn’t black or navy? Do they not realise that money doesn’t grow on trees. I could seriously go on for days about how horrendous this school is but I’m gladly nearly out and thank the heavens I’m not going to their sixth form.

Absolutely amazing school! If you want all A**s then come to the Beacon you will not be disappointed. Although I must warn the neeks are odd creatures.

Been there for almost 6 years now. Bullying doesn't get dealt with very well. I know someone who was hate crimed by another student and the victim was sanctioned for absolutely nothing. The teachers can be quite rude, although some are lovely. The students can be rough. Physical fights happen every few weeks and aren't handled very well. Teaching is okay, but could be better.

The Beacon School is an alright school, but it’s not the best. Being at the school for a while now, i’ve noticed a lot of things that aren’t okay. Teachers a rude to students for no reason. Calling them names and being horrible. They don’t do anything about bullying. I personally know two people who have reported bullying multiple times and nothing has been done about it and it has gotten worse. One of the people emailed the head teacher and he did nothing either. Overall, the lessons are fine and teach you a lot but the environment is bad.