Ernest Bevin College

Ernest Bevin College is a successful and thriving community school in Tooting, South London with 900 boys aged 11-16 and a co-educational Sixth Form with 375 students. The college was awarded STEM Assured status in 2016 in recognition of the excellence in teaching STEM subjects which include Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths, Computing and Art. We also specialise in sportst and many boys go on to represent the school at local, regional and national level. We pride ourselves in offering a multi-cultural working environment for all our students and our dedicated, professional staff work closely with parents to support to their son's education.

In 2015 we consulted pupils, staff, and all members of the college community on what our shared values are. A consensus was reached on the shared Bevin Values which are as follows:

• Respect
• Tolerance
• Opportunity
• Reilience
• Happiness
• Sixth Former, Rubel, made the video below about one of the Bevin values: RESPECT

The curriculum at Ernest Bevin embraces everything the students experience at school. Our fundamental aim is to meet the individual needs of all students across the full prior attainment range by delivering a differentiated and supported curriculum which has high expectations, encourages active learning, delivers academic success, develops practical skills and builds self-worth. More specifically, the chief aims of the education provided by lessons, extended work and enrichment activities are as follows:

• To help all students to achieve their full potential in all areas of learning and experience, through a broad and balanced curriculum which is differentiated according to the varying prior attainment and
  motivational needs of the students.
• To help all students secure the maximum possible success in public examinations.
• To help students to develop a wide range of attributes that gives them advantages in their chosen
  careers and aids them in the development of their learning throughout their lives;
• To encourage students to regularly participate and compete in sports at all levels from beginner to
  elite national level and develop all of the skills that come with that participation;
• To help students to acquire a wide range of physical and practical skills and to help them utilise those
  skills in a variety of different contexts;
• To engender in students a love of learning for its own sake, helping them to recognise the pleasure
  and enjoyment that can be gained from the acquisition of new knowledge and understanding and the
  development of new skills;
• To help students to develop such qualities of character and personality as will help them to take their
  place as active citizens in a pluralistic, multicultural, democratic society;
• To help students to develop an awareness of moral values, to recognise the existence of moral values
  other than their own and to respect the moral values implicit in the ethos of the school;
• To help students to acquire knowledge and skills that will contribute to their development as mature
  adults, helping to prepare them for their future lives at home, at work, at leisure in continuing
  education and society;
• To create a curriculum that allows for progression and continuity within and between key stages and
  which is coherently implemented and organised;
• To facilitate equality of access to the curriculum for all students;
• To teach the curriculum through a wide variety of teaching styles and through the creation of learning
  situations appropriate to the needs of the students;
• To create an environment that is conducive to learning, where students feel free to adopt a positive
  attitude towards their education and where all forms of success and achievement are recognised and
  celebrated;
• To ensure that students gain as many formal extra-curricular qualifications as possible from their work
  including: sports coaching badges, practical music examinations, Basic Food Hygiene Certificate, ECDL,
  ASSE, ASDAN, HPQ, Duke of Edinburgh and other similar qualifications. These qualifications will be
  delivered on the basis of the advantages they bring to our students regardless of which qualifications
  count on national league tables.
• The EBacc suite of qualifications will continue to be at the core of our curriculum which is borne out
  by our excellent results in these subjects. However, we also continue to ensure that our students have
  full access to other subjects in the broader curriculum. In addition we work to ensure that all students
  follow a curriculum appropriate to their needs, regardless of the impact on national league tables.
• We also aim to give our students every advantage when entering the world of work by taking every
  opportunity to promote vocational skills. This is achieved not only through the subjects taught but
  also by ensuring that all opportunities are taken to teach these skills including: extra-curricular clubs,
  competing in elite sports, CCF, work experience, educational visits, visiting guest speakers and sector
  specific careers talks.