Cams Hill School was first recognised by government education chiefs as one of the shining lights in education in the country in 1998 when we were amongst first 75 schools across England selected to receive Beacon Status.

This status gave us financial support to collaborate and form partnerships with many other primary and secondary schools across the region so as to develop a series of innovative teaching and learning projects to enrich and enhance the curriculum.

In Autumn 2002, we were disappointed to learn that the DfES were intending to phase out Beacon funding for secondary schools. However Beacon Status was to be replaced with a new initiative called ‘Leading Edge’ and in May 2003 we were delighted when we became the lead school within the Cams Hill Leading Edge Partnership.

Working collaboratively with a wide variety of other schools, we have led a wide range of curriculum enhancing projects over a number of years. We have led innovative projects which have covered a wide range of curriculum areas including; Art, Drama, English, Electronics, Geography, ICT, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Performing Arts, Religious Education, and Science.