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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 specialize in sports and many boys go on to represent the school at the local, regional and national levels. 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 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 Resilience 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 that 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 that 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 the 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 utilize those skills in a variety of different contexts To engender in students a love of learning for its own sake, helping them to recognize 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 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 recognize 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 organized To facilitate equality of access to the curriculum for all students To teach the curriculum through a wide variety of teaching styles and 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 recognized 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 based on 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. Also, 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. View full school