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Educake Case Study Beacon Academy, East Sussex
Educake Case Study Beacon Academy, East Sussex www.educake.co.ukEducake Case Study Beacon Academy, East Sussex We talked to the Head of Science at a rural comprehensive academy about their first two months of using Educake, including reducing the marking load, students’ feedback, getting started with Educake and their science budget. Background Beacon Academy is a split site, rural, mixed- comprehensive converter academy with approximately 1400 students, including 350 in their sixth-form. The school was rated as good in the latest OFSTED report in 2013. The school started using Educake in September 2016, and their students had answered over one hundred thousand questions by half term in mid- October. We talked to Sarah Mercer, Head of Science, in November 2016 and began by aski