St Bart’s – Beacon School

We are incredibly proud to announce that St Bart’s has been awarded Beacon School status in Holocaust Education from UCL. This recognises the work that the school and Lead Teachers, Miss May and Mr Owen have put into improving student knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust.

As part of our commitment to improve Holocaust Education, we have appointed four new Sixth Form Beacon Captains for 2025-2026. They take on the incredible work, which our 2024-2025 Beacon Captains have contributed towards our aim. We thank Sophie Holmes, Mikey Cloete and Vanya Milovanovic for their efforts and commitment.

Niamh Breslin is the Student Lead and will work with Sam Dickens, Grace Proudfoot and Esme Frampton. They will work together with Year 9 Beacon Captains next year to raise awareness of the Holocaust through creating display boards and delivering assemblies.

Our Year 12 Beacon Captains will be attending St Cassian’s school next month to make plans for next year and to build upon the work last year’s captains had already started.

Year 8 will be completing a short unit on the Holocaust at the end of the Summer Term after studying WW2. These lessons will focus on children’s experience of the Holocaust and life for them after the war. This will help prepare students for their Holocaust lessons in Year 9 which focus on misconceptions of the Holocaust and will allow students to be able to explain how and why it happened.

We are delighted to announce our plans to re-run our overly subscribed Year 12 and Year 13 trip to Krakow, Poland next year. The trip takes a history first approach to the Holocaust, where students will learn about pre-war Jewish life in Krakow, be toured around the old Jewish district and former ghetto, and visit Auschwitz-Birkenau. For further information, please contact Mr Owen (mowen@stbarts.co.uk)