Welcome to the Beacon pages

Contact beacon@henleycol.ac.uk, or call on 01491 634022.

The HENLEY College was awarded Beacon status in October 2004. This award was made by The Department of Education and Skills at a ceremony in London by the Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education, Dr Kim Howells, who commented "organisations awarded Learning and Skills Beacon status have already made an outstanding contribution to the Learning and Skills sector. The award of Beacon status will enable the sharing of this good practice, which encourages and promotes excellence and accelerates the rate of improvement across the whole sector." The award of Beacon status is the highest accolade in the post sixteen sector

Click here to read more about the Beacon award.

The HENLEY College offers over 40 AS/A Levels, The International Baccalaureate and a range of vocational diplomas. It has about 1900 16-18 yr old students drawn from a wide area including Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. It has four 11-16 partner schools in South Oxfordshire: Gillotts School in Henley, Chiltern Edge School in Sonning Common, Langtree School in Woodcote and Icknield Community College in Watlington.

Beacon Colleges are recognised for the excellence of their teaching and learning and are funded to share best practice with other providers, both other colleges and schools.

The HENLEY College worked with other educational providers by:

• Establishing links and enduring partnerships
  
• Co-operative working between teaching staff
  
• Disseminating good practice

The HENLEY College welcomes enquiries from other institutions who would like to work with the College to develop teaching and learning to improve the educational experience for all young people.

The College has offered development activities in:

• Art and Art Therapy
• Dance
• English
• Geography
• Geography Movie Makers
• Glass Fusing
• Importance of Modern Foreign Languages in Year 9 choices
• Information Technology
• International Baccalaureate
• Mathematics
• Music
• Performing Arts
• Physical Education
• Science
• Sociology
• Teaching Shakespeare
  

There are also cross-college areas such as Student Services and Students Performance Monitoring, where the College would be willing to share its work.

All enquiries should be directed in the first instance to beacon@henleycol.ac.uk, or call on 01491 634022.

Simon Cuthbert and Peter Allen
Assistant Principals