After Year 5, pupils continue their journey through St John's Beaumont School into the Upper School where they will be growing into young people for others and prepare for their common entrance exams.
Our Upper School covers Years 6 to 8 (our year groups are named Lower Figures, Upper Figures and Rudiments respectively). In Upper School there is a strong emphasis on encouraging boys to engage even more actively in their learning, through a meta-cognitive awareness of how they learn and make relationships.
Time is spent not just developing knowledge in preparation for their examinations but also learning how to support each other and the wider school and local community. Their excellent exam results are the result of a broad curriculum that meets not just their academic but also their personal needs and allows them to see the benefits of focussing their time and efforts on the needs of others as well as themselves.
Teacher/pupil relationships and the ability to see each child as an individual remain vital to their learning and this is achieved through their subject-specific teachers offering many sports, activities and trips and acting as personal tutors, in which they see the pupils from many different perspectives.
We retain a strong focus on examination preparation by offering study skills workshops which involve parents as well as teachers
Despite the hard work that is inevitable as examinations approach, there is still a lot of fun in the Upper School: bushcraft, water-sports, team-building, activity days and discos are a small selection of how our students let their hair down together.
When these wonderful young people leave us at the end of Year 8 (at the age of 13) they move on to some of the country's finest schools, many with highly acclaimed scholarships to their name.
