Beaumont School is a state maintained mixed secondary school in St Albans

St Albans

St Albans is a city in southern Hertfordshire, England, around north of central London, which forms the main urban area of the City and District of St Albans. It is a historic market town, and is now a sought-after dormitory town within the London commuter belt...

, Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

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, England

England

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. It was founded in 1938 and has become a school of over 1200 students, including 300 in the sixth form. It is situated to the east of St Albans in Hertfordshire and is within access of the city centre. In 2003 it achieved a Language College

Language College

Language Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, modern foreign languages...

 status and in 2007, having been identified as a High Performing Specialist School, Beaumont was then able to obtain a second specialism as a Maths and Computing College. In 2007 Beaumont achieved the International Award from the British Council

British Council

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 and offers the International Baccalaureate as an alternative to A-levels. A December 2008 Ofsted inspection accorded the school a Grade 2 (good).

School uniform

Uniform consists of a black blazer embroidered with the school crest on the chest pocket, a white shirt or blouse, and black trousers or a knee length skirt. Boys are required to wear ties, and all year-11 students have different ties and crests to those of the lower years. In the summer students are allowed Beaumont summer shirts in place of the blazer and tie.

Forms and Houses

Beaumont School has six form groups in each year using the letters of the word 'L E A R N S'. In September 2009, the school introduced a house system to run along side the form groups. Students were able to vote for the names of the Houses resulting in the following: Luther-King, Elgar, Austen, Redgrave, Newton and Seacole. Interform competitions between year group forms are encouraged and take place regularly; testing a variety of skills including sports competitions, science challenges and drama performances. This allows all pupils to demonstrate their different abilities.

Sports

Beaumont offer a variety of both winter and summer sports. During the winter Football, Boys Rugby and Girls and Boys Hockey dominate the sporting scene within Beaumont. Within the district Beaumont have something of a rivalry between local Boys-school Verulam, Sandringham and St Albans Girls School, which often serve up interesting matches.

During the Summer, Athletics, Cricket and Tennis become the sports played at Beaumont. District Sports, the once-yearly Athletics competition is usually won by Beaumont, who field many Athletes in the many disciplines of Track and Field.

School district

The school works in partnership with two neighbouring schools via a consortium, to enhance post-16 educational provision. This partnership is known as "BeauSandVer" and consists of Sandringham School

Sandringham School

Sandringham School is a secondary school in Marshalswick, St Albans, Hertfordshire. It was established in 1988 following a merger of two local schools, Marshalswick School and Wheathampstead School. It occupies the former Marshalswick site, adjacent to Wheatfields Infant and Junior schools...

, Verulam School

Verulam School

Verulam School is a state secondary school for boys in St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK. It was founded in 1938 and was originally named St Albans Boys' Modern School. The name was changed in the 1940s to St Albans Grammar School for Boys and subsequently, following its change of status to a...

and Beaumont School. Students travel between schools using the consortium bus service.