
Beaconverse Podcast
Educational Inspiration and Insight Into Beacon Life.
Episodes
21 episodes
Episode 22- Questions for Nick Baker
In this episode, three of our Beacon boys thought of questions they'd most like to ask our Headmaster, Nick Baker, and then interviewed him with these.
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Episode 22
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6:13

Beaconverse Episode 21 - Festival of Word 'Book Reviews'
Six of our Year 8 Beacon Boys discuss their favourite books to read, giving us a synopsis of each book and outline why they rate them, without any spoilers.
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13:01

Beaconverse Episode 20 - Leadership with The Head Boys Team & Ed Tenison
In this episode, our Head of Upper School Mr. Tenison and our Head Boy Team, come together to discuss all things leadership.
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Episode 20
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14:23

Beaconverse Episode 18- Beacon Parents' Society
In this episode, we were delighted to welcome the Co-Chairs of our Beacon Parents’ Society to discuss everything the BPS Committee involves, from organising exciting events for our Beacon Community to enjoy to fundraising and planning new schoo...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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8:54

Beaconverse Episode 17 - Wellbeing with Sandy Drury
In this month’s episode, we will be discussing well-being; one of the core values strongly supported at The Beacon. The welfare and well-being of our boys is the primary focus and every member of our Beacon Community strives to ensure our boys ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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13:20

Beaconverse Episode 16 - The BeaconX
In this month’s episode, we discussed The BeaconX, our newly launched online educational platform. We talked about the upcoming courses and touch on the future plans for BeaconX.We were delighted to welcome Mark Walker, Head of Bea...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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12:03
Beaconverse Episode 15 - The Head Boy Team and Mr Baker
In this month’s episode, we are delighted to welcome Nick Baker, our Headmaster and our newly appointed Head Boy Team; Dino, Sam and Shaan. Where will be delving in to why the boys applied for the position and their mission this aca...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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8:00

Beaconverse Episode 14 - KidsMBA
In this episode, we welcomed Ed Tenison, our Head of Upper School, with two Year 8 boys from the winning entrepreneurial business pitch, to discuss our newly introduced KidsMBA course. This brand-new initiative is a great asset to our Year 8 Le...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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9:40

Beaconverse Episode 13 - Alumni
We were thrilled to welcome three of our Beacon alumni in this episode of Beaconverse. The gentlemen take us back in time at The Beacon, giving us insight into what school life was like in the 40s to early 60s... as well as giving our boys a pi...
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Episode 13
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29:55

Beaconverse Episode 12 - Lower School
In this month’s episode of Beaconverse, we are joined by our Head of Lower School, Jemima Elcomb, and Deputy Head of Lower School, Wendy Phillips, to talk about the benefits and provisions we offer here at The Beacon in Years 3 and 4. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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9:56

Beaconverse Episode 11 - Battle of the Houses
In this months episode, we are joined by our Housemasters and Mistress along with our 4 heads of house to take part in our Beaconverse Battle of the Houses competition. They take part in a series of question rounds in order to earn house points...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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13:46

Beaconverse Episode 10 - Future Sparks
We are joined by our Head of Middle School, Steve Miles, as well as Leo and Rory from Years 5 & 6 to discuss our new Future Sparks Programme.
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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12:02

Beaconverse Episode 9 - Headmaster & Head Boys
In this months episode of Beaconverse, we speak to our Headmaster, Nick Baker, and our newly appointed Head Boy team. We discuss exciting plans they all have and Nick takes part in a 'Quick Fire' round.
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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20:48

Beaconverse Episode 8 - Simon's Summer 'Jubilee' Term
In this months episode of Beaconverse, we spoke to our former Interim Headmaster, Simon Detre, all about our Summer 'Jubilee' Term under his leadership. He kindly answers questions submitted by our Beacon boys.
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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11:48

Beaconverse Episode 7 - Meet Our Head of Music
In this episode of Beaconverse we chat to our newly appointed Head of Music, Dr Gavin Lockley. We delve into his extensive career and how his passion for Music was ignited. Gavin also gives us a small taster of his Opera singing sk...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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11:08

Beaconverse Episode 6 - Upper School
In this month’s episode of Beaconverse, we were pleased to welcome Mrs Olhausen and Mr Tenison, who were accompanied by two of our Year 8 boys, to discuss life in Upper School at The Beacon. We explore the benefits of staying...
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13:33

Beaconverse Episode 5 - Little Beacons Nursery
We are delighted to release our 5th episode of Beaconverse. This months episode is all about our Nursery department with guests, Claire Sharp (Head of Early Years) & Ryan Steward (Head of Pre-Prep). During this episode we...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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13:35

Beaconverse Episode 4 - Converse with our Headmasters
In this episode, we are joined by our Headmaster Mr Will Phelps, and our Deputy Head Mr Simon Detre, to discuss the heavily debated topic of Single-Sex Education. With an extensive background of leading independent boys' schools, we hear some i...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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25:11

Beaconverse Episode 3 - Wellbeing
Beaconverse - Episode 3, Wellbeing A big thank you to our guests: Mr Sam Privett - Head of Self and SocietyMrs Kim Rowland - Head of Cooking & NutritionMrs Lucie Thomas - Yoga and Mindful...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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25:23
