Page 7 - Beacon Hill School Annual Report 2016-17

ESF Beacon Hill School Message from the Principal

The 2016-17 Academic Year was a year when we continued building on the achievements

and successes of previous years. Some of our priorities were around building greater
opportunities for single-subject teachers to plan more collaboratively with year group

teachers to enhance the transdisciplinary experiences the students were having; beginning

to develop more open-ended and differentiated problem-solving approaches within the
learning and teaching of Maths with support from Dr. Peter Sullivan and ESF; deepening

our use of technology through more resourcing of 1:1 laptops and training for staff;
promoting opportunities for students in our gifted and talented programme; introducing

the ‘Evidencer’ to allow parents and students to have access to online portfolios; the
planning and refurbishment of half of the classrooms; the introduction of ‘growth mindset’

as a way of thinking and being.
In addition to these main priorities, much work was accomplished in other areas of the

curriculum and beyond.

For the coming year, we will be working on three key priorities under the objective that

‘Successful learners are able to articulate their thinking.’

Reading
To enable students to use different strategies to understand

what they read, hear and see, and to explain their thinking.

Writing
To develop students’ awareness of the power of language

ESF Beacon Hill tools in written communication and the ability to explain
their use.

Maths
School Good mathematicians are able to clearly

articulate their thinking by regularly tackling
open ended problems

Mr James Harrison