'Shout less; ask fewer questions; stand still; wait for silence; do the opposite; teach behaviour; reward more!'
Welcome to the Website devoted to the work of:
Trevor Averre-Beeson (Bsc, DipEd, FRSA)
Trevor can be contacted directly at:
taverre@edisonschools.com
or (M)
077984 111 500
THE ROCK CONNECTION AND TREVOR AVERRE BEESON
A lot of people will be aware of Trevor's Rock past from his bi annual gigs in Victoria Park, London and from Peter Hyman's book about Islington Green ( One out of Ten) that compared Trevor's pop success favourably with Tony Blair's.
Trevor's most successful band back in 1980 signed a deal with ATV music ( part of EMI) - Press UK were originally a 3 piece sounding a lot like The Jam/The Police/Elvis Costello.
They signed a contract in Liverpool with ATV for several singles and albums. ATV recorded two tracks with the band but after unsuccessfully promoting the Band dropped them after a year. The recordings still exist!!
The band played extensively in the North, touring clubs, Colleges, Universities and Festivals - playing at many of the same venues as bands like Costello, Eddie and the Hot Rods and the Jags.
But never mind about all that now Vicky Averre-Beeson, Trevor's daughter has left her teaching post to pursue her Rock career (See attached article) . Vicky plays keyboards and occasional bass guitar in THE REBS who have just won Channel 4's Road to V contest and play the Vfestival 2008 on the Channel 4 stage along with bands like The Kaiser Chiefs and the Zuttons.
They beat 14000 bands to get one of the 2 top slots and look set to have a big impact on the music scene in the coming year. What goes around comes around.
To hear the REBS go to their website -
The Road to V website.
http://www.roadtov.com/profile/40502
or their MySpace site http://www.myspace.com/therebsmusic
Book them now while you still can. See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhF3kYSo8Hc
See both Trevor's current band Deep Lilac and the REBS playing at TREVFEST in September 2009. Venue to be announced
Remembering others-Ann Neal. Ann worked with Trevor at Islington Green School and died this year.
Ann Neal was like many formidable women the power behind the throne. Ann who died in April of this year worked as the Headteacher’s confidential & personal assistant to the Head at the renowned and notorious Islington Green School...read more
Trevor hosts Evening Standard/Edison 100 Influential Londoners Evening-28th February 2008
'It was a fantastic honour to host this event at the London Television Centre. Over 150 invited guests attended the very glamorous 14th floor hospitality viewing area of Television Centre on London Southbank over looking the Thames and London at night.
The champagne and canapés flowed. Members of the press and the 100 list (see below) attended. In particular it was a privilege to welcome and speak about Jim Craig (City nominee), Mike Lee (2012 Olympics Bid Committee), Alex Northcott (Media/City), Richard Phillips (Surgeon), Andrew Lansley (Tory Health Spokesman), Carolyn Sampson (National Soprano) and Gemma Artherton (Actress – Bond girl!)
Along with many other interesting and exciting people, it made for an interesting event and an opportunity to show a new film by Toby Roberts of Edison@Salisbury School's work.'
Trevor Averre Beeson
Trevor himself was listed as one of the 100 most up and coming influential Londoners which led Edison tohost the evening.
Salisbury school is the subject of a Teacher’s TV documentary. Trevor Averre-Beeson (Executive Headteacher for Edison Schools) describes the experience, of a school being filmed and followed for 10 months.
What is Trevor now doing?
Trevor is currently working as Project Director/ Executive Headteacher for Edison Schools(UK). Edison won a contract to lead and manage Salisbury school in north London last year, for 2 further years. Trevor has taken in a team of 4 senior leaders and 6 middle leaders. The senior leadership team previously worked together at Islington Green School.
In the first 3 terms of their work at Salisbury, Edison and Trevor's team have - reduced exclusions to zero from 200 a year.doubled the 5 A-C score including Englis and Maths, reorganised the school and spent millions improving its Learning Environment.
The project has been filmed for Teachers TV. This is one of the first maybe only example of a UK school managed by a private organisation and so far so very good!"
LATEST:
Advanced Notice of Summer Fixtures-Emirates Stadium
Arsenal v Juventus
Arsenal v Real Madrid
Arsenal v Salisbury School -March 20th 2008
Awards ceremonies need to have a context that reflects the hard work and commitment of parents students and staff.
Our Awards ceremony for 700 students, and visitors kicked off in a Premier league setting that underlined the schools emphasis on achievement, in that many students had to get Diamond levels in their Merits to attend.
If you want to play with the best then enthusiasm and capability is part of the structure of our school and we celebrate this in style.
The images of the fixture are hosted below:
http://www.trevoraverrebeeson.com/emirates/emirates.html
It was a great day...we had the Director Of Education from the US Edison come over to present the prizes. We went to the Spurs ground the last time so we are just touring swanky places!
Please also see below for more details:
http://www.salisburyschool.co.uk/
Critical Cuttings /National Guardian /BBC/Local
See the video now on Teachers TV
In June 2007, Salisbury School in Enfield became the first state secondary school to be taken over by private management.
In this programme, we follow the first six months of this unique experiment.
Edison UK, a subsidiary of an American-owned education firm, were given a three-year £1.2 million contract to manage the north London school, with their fee directly related to school achievement.
According to executive headteacher Trevor Averre-Beeson, the secret behind school improvement is similar to the way in which profitable businesses such as Tesco have achieved success: they simply found a successful formula and repeated it.
Initially, staff at Salisbury were sceptical about this corporate philosophy. However, with time, many have started to react positively to a more business-oriented culture.
Trevor Averre Beeson took over as headteacher at Islington Green school in April "with a discipline system in my pocket, ready to put into place", a determination that the school should have a non-exclusion policy, and an unwavering confidence that he could turn around this inner-city secondary school which he believes had "lost its way and lost grip of its own image in the community".
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Trevor Averre-Beeson, the head teacher, argues that it is parents who are keen for their children to attend a school with a posh uniform and that, if managed sensibly, uniforms do not have to be prohibitively expensive. Much of the uniform - black trousers and white shirt - can be bought anywhere. "I'm very aware of all the concerns about expense," he says. "We serve a quite challenging community, and we deliberately sorted out a company that would supply the uniform at a reasonable price and let parents pay in instalments. We also waived our commission - which knocked £3 off the price - and have a support fund to help parents who can't afford it."
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Over the years, headteacher Trevor Averre-Beeson has grown to hate the ineffective school bell, which is rung twice a day in a fruitless attempt to persuade students to get back to lessons on time.
John Bayley trains Averre-Beeson's sceptical team to encourage students to return to lessons themselves rather than rely on the bell.
He encourages them to do this with a mixture of gentle persuasion and constant reminders that break is now over. Before the bell-less break was introduced it took a minimum of 12 minutes for all students to return to class. Now, it takes less than half that time.
Two months later the bell remains silent.
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Trevor Averre-Beeson, the head of Islington Green, was head of a thriving east London school until he too was approached by CEA. Like Mannion, he is a profound opponent of exclusion when it is a euphemism for being sent home. He has installed the now-common "exclusion room", to which miscreants are sent for a period of intensive study under the supervision of a mentor and he has taken the "teach rather than punish" principle a step further. Persistent offenders are sent to work with Fresh Start, a local organisation that specialises in "restorative justice". As a result, only three pupils were permanently excluded from Islington Green last year. Mannion, in the smaller St Aloysius, excluded none.
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