Lord Lawson Of Beamish School

Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy is an Academy in the town of Birtley in the Gateshead area of Tyne and Wear, England. It was first opened to pupils in the early 1970s and was rebuilt in September 2007. The new building was constructed by Sir Robert McAlpine. The academy has been led for the last four years by Principal Mark Lovatt, replacing David Grigg who retired in July 2013 after 11 years. It was most recently inspected by Ofsted in February 2017 where it was assigned a 'Requires Improvement' grading (or 3 /5 stars) in all areas of the framework with the exception of 16-19 study programmes. Jack LawsonThe school is named after Jack Lawson, an influential British trade unionist and Labour politician, serving as Secretary of State for War during the 1940s. Consequently, the school has been associated with left-wing politics, particularly relating to its connections to the mining industry and trade unionism, as well as Lawson's refusal to join Ramsay MacDonald's National Government due to his reluctance to work alongside Conservatives. The school motto, "each other. . . and our dreams", is a quotation from Lawson's autobiography, A Man's Life.

Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy is an Academy in the town of Birtley in the Gateshead area of Tyne and Wear, England. It was first opened to pupils in the early 1970s and was rebuilt in September 2007. The new building was constructed by Sir Robert McAlpine. The academy has been led for the last four years by Principal Mark Lovatt, replacing David Grigg who retired in July 2013 after 11 years. It was most recently inspected by Ofsted in February 2017 where it was assigned a 'Requires Improvement' grading (or 3 /5 stars) in all areas of the framework with the exception of 16-19 study programmes. Jack LawsonThe school is named after Jack Lawson, an influential British trade unionist and Labour politician, serving as Secretary of State for War during the 1940s. Consequently, the school has been associated with left-wing politics, particularly relating to its connections to the mining industry and trade unionism, as well as Lawson's refusal to join Ramsay MacDonald's National Government due to his reluctance to work alongside Conservatives. The school motto, "each other. . . and our dreams", is a quotation from Lawson's autobiography, A Man's Life.