Burnt Oak Junior School

I am delighted to be able to share with you the wonderful opportunities we provide to maximise our pupils learning potential.

We are a vibrant ‘village-feel school’ embedded within the heart of Sidcup’s community and steeped in history but with a modern edge. We are proud of our pupils, staff and families that work together in a shared commitment to be enthusiastic and motivated to achieve more.

Through our engaging and stimulating curriculum, rich in content, we ensure that children can foster a passion centred on the development of cross-curricular skills and knowledge. Within this, workshops and grandparent and parent sessions run throughout the year, as we firmly believe that education is a partnership between pupil, home and school and regard you as an active partner in your child's education. Your interest and support is valued greatly.

As a junior school, we have developed a special connection with Chatsworth Infant school to support pupil transition, where pupils build on their progress and high standards of achievement as well as creating happy and special memories.

Please browse the website, where you will find lots of helpful information about us and see many of the learning opportunities that our children enjoy. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch or visit us.

Our school looks forward to welcoming you soon.

Ms V Denman - Head of School

We are delighted to announce that our very own PE teacher, Miss Moore, has been nominated by Active Kids Do Better and Discovery Education for an award which recognises the amount of sport run at our school. Miss Moore is one of only 12 activity school heroes who received the title for the launch of this new project! Her role is to support and promote sport across schools of Greater London to ensure that more children are active.

As part of this role, Miss Moore will continue to share her story and the sport we do as a school and across the academy - enriching children's lives to make healthier and more active choices.

Miss Moore attended a ceremony at the London Olympic Stadium, Stratford where she met sporting heroes such as Tanni Grey-Thompson, a former wheelchair racer.

For more information about the project please visit: https://www.ukactive.com/news/ukactive-kids-partners-with-nike-to-launch-active-school-hero/

Well done to Miss Moore, for not only being recognised as an ambassador for sport within Primary Schools, but for helping to promote this subject and physical activities around schools within Greater London!

The Burnt Oak Choir took part in The Bird College Music Festival at the Royal Festival Hall on Tuesday 26th March. They were joined by many other Bexley School Choirs and orchestras, including musicians from Belvedere Junior School. They sang their hearts out and did our school proud! Thank you to Mrs Murray for working so hard with the choir and for organising this fabulous event and to Mrs Fernando and Mrs Elmes for helping us out on the day!

We opened the doors to Mums, Aunties, Grannies and female friends on International Women's Day to celebrate the lives and achievements of women as role models. It was as every bit as successful as International Men's Day which we celebrated earlier this academic year. We enjoyed sharing learning time with the women in our lives!

We enjoyed celebrating World Book Day a week early due to the celebrations of International Women's Day the week after. Once again, the children and staff made a huge effort with their costumes! Here are just a few examples!

We were lucky enough to have a visit from some of the students who are training at Rose Bruford. They performed a puppet show to each class. The children and staff were enthralled with the performances and were hugely inspired by the stories that can be told by a simple household object! Pieces of cloth and torches created a dragon, a suitcase became a human being and a lamp told the story! Thank you to Rose Bruford for coming to our school and sharing your creativity and creations with us!

As part of National Story Telling week, year 3 and year 6 celebrated the love of reading by spending time reading and sharing stories with each other. They loved learning with children in different classes and getting lost in a good book!

The NSPCC encouraged schools across the UK to take part in their 'Number Day' - a maths-inspired fundraising day for children in nursery right through to secondary school. We enjoyed working in groups to solve and play maths puzzles and games.