Brentside High School is a high achieving, vibrant, successful secondary school located in the borough of Ealing, London. See what our students are up to below:
Our very own inspirational librarian, Ms Mohamed, has been selected by The Library and Information Association as an ‘inspirational practitioner’- one of the top 125 in the UK! We already knew this- now others know this too. Well done Ms Mohamed! 🌟
@CILIPinfo
@CILIPEvents
Our Brentside Tfl Youth Travel Ambassadors were busy measuring the air quality around the school today. They can’t wait to share their findings with the rest of the school as part of their challenge project on active travel...watch this space for more updates.
#tfl
#Hanwell
We are thrilled that
@FabioVG7
, CEO of
@Viaduct_Gen
returned to Brentside to share his career journey with our students. He inspired students from Year 7 to Year 13 as he talked about what motivated him to se up his own business, ensuring representation of all groups.
#Careers
Our students were mesmerised at this week’s careers talk. They learnt that it’s a choice to be self-disciplined, surround yourself with motivators and shift from being ‘too cool for school’ to become a multi- award winning engagement lead and Cambridge graduate.
#alumni
Eleven of our Inspire Programme students attended a trip to
@StJohnsOx
for their Year 11 Inspire Visit Day. Students went on a tour then attended lectures by Oxford University staff on why attend Oxford, the Oxford experience and how to apply to Oxford.
#GetInspired
@sjc_access
Our
@TfL
@EalingStars
Challenge programme group are working hard to plan an active travel week to encourage Brentside students to walk or cycle to school. Their presentations, step count competition idea and active travel map designs are coming along nicely. Well done all!
Group 3 are off on their
@DofE
practice expedition. Well done team! After three weeks of practice runs, Mr Reynolds will be an expert- a very tired expert!!
Our fantastic English teachers dressed up as characters in novels to engage our Year 6 pupils at tonight’s Open Evening. It was wonderful to hear feedback from our visitors- ‘I just love the energy and buzz of your school’. We look forward to seeing you in Year 7!
#OpenEvening
There are many reasons why we think our headteacher is awesome. Here is one of them! What better way to thank staff for their hard work at the end of the year
@gourmeticecreamservices
Lunch break and time to ask questions and learn more about the role of a judge and the criminal law. Good luck to our team for round 3- the final round!
@YoungCitizensUK
Our first day of full lessons comes to an end. We are very proud of the outstanding learning attitude our students have shown at the start of this new academic year!
#NewSchoolYear
Thank you so much
@bmmtweet
for sharing this photo of your Brentside school bade from circa 1963! And thanks for following us on X. We’d love to invite you back for a tour of the school in 2023!
Huge congratulations to all our soon-to-be Year 7 students who had their first day at Brentside on Friday. Students left happy, confident and with a Brentside oyster card holder ready for the next part of their educational journey.
What a successful New Intake Evening!
It was wonderful to meet our future Year 7s and find out more about them. We are looking forward to introducing them to school life on Year 6 Transition Day.
Huge congratulations to Kyrah in Year 11 who has been selected to represent Middlesex in this year’s English Schools’ Athletics competition on 29 June. What an incredible achievement. We wish her all the best for the upcoming competition. Go Kyrah!
@SchoolAthletics
We want to thank
@Lord_Livingston
who gave Year 10s and 12s invaluable insight into his work in the House of Lords and his extensive business career today. Students were impressed with his advice to grab the opportunities that come along, even if different to your original plans.
It has been a very busy morning. Well done to all students who have been offered a place in our highly successful Brentside Sixth Form!
#ResultsDay2023
#sixthform
We recognise the deep sadness and significance of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth's passing today, after 70 years of devoted service.
We extended our condolences to her family for their personal loss.
There’s no better way to spend a summer evening than watching a promenade production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. What a real treat! Well done students and drama team. This was just brilliant!
#performance
#Shakespeare
What a fantastic experience for our GCSE citizenship students and our very own School Cabinet to learn first hand about the role of an MP from
@jamesmurray_ldn
. This really is an example of bringing citizenship, democracy and careers to life.
#citizenship
#democracy
#careers
The jury is literally out, but no matter what the results, we are super proud of our legal team who have had an incredible day at The Royal Courts of Justice. Here’s to our barristers of the future.
@YoungCitizensUK
#barmocktrial
It was a powerful way to start the week with staff training on unconscious bias. Thank you
@Orlenebadu
for such an engaging, challenging and thought provoking session. We look forward to reading your book and putting our 10 step plan into action.
What an incredible time to be visiting the Houses of Parliament! Our very own School Cabinet thoroughly enjoyed their reward trip for their outstanding service to the school community this year. Thanks to Miss Kass for leading this trip.
@UKParliament
@jamesmurray_ldn
We are delighted to launch our Career Talk programme next Tuesday, 15:30-16:15 in the library. If you’d like to inspire the next generation by sharing your career journey one Tuesday after school, email info
@brentsidehigh
.ealing.sch.uk
#careers
#nextsteps
Today began with watching a chick hatching- a life being born. All our students will see this video in form time and have the opportunity to hold our chicks in Chick Club. What a great way to learn about the life cycle and the wonder of the world!
Everyone is a learner at Brentside. Teachmeet is well underway with staff sharing new methodologies they have embedded in their pedagogy throughout the year. Research forms the basis of our developments.
@EducEndowFoundn
EducEndowFoundn
Visual art at Brentside continues to inspire and engage. Graphics is one of the many disciplines on offer. This is just a flavour of what our students create in Year 11.
#graphics
#creativity
#diversity
Tickets are now available on Eventbrite for Brentside High School's Open Evening on Tuesday, 27 September 2022 from 17:30-20:30. Please select from one of these start times: 17:30; 17:45 and 18:30. We look forward to welcoming you to Brentside High School.
Our Year 10 students are hard at work sitting their internal assessments which started yesterday. We wish them the best of luck as they complete their internal subject exams which will finish on Monday, 7 November.
We are delighted to welcome Year 7 and Year 12 students to Brentside High School today- and what a wonderful day to start the school year! The next part of your wonderful journey is about to begin.
#startofterm
#transition
What a night at the Year 13 prom! It's been a challenging time for our Sixth Form students but we're so proud of the resilience they've shown- they've made it to the end in style! Get some well deserved rest and we'll see you all on results day!
#acievement
#brentside
We look forward to welcoming Year 6 pupils and their parents to our Open Evening this Tuesday, 27 September
from 17:30-20:30. Book your tickets via Eventbrite:
Some of our Year 12 art students visited the
@BarbicanCentre
in the City of London to see the exhibitions 'Post War: Modern' and 'Our Time on Earth'. What a great way to inspire their personal study and investigation!
#Excellence
#Achievement
Here are our Year 7 Platinum Award winners receiving their badges and certificates from Ms Hames, our Headteacher. This is in recognition of their achievement of over 200 merits this academic year. Well done all!
#Excellence
#Citizenship
#Happiness
Our Geography department really know how to inspire learners with their top class displays. This Open Evening display for Year 6 pupils focused on the joys of geography field trips!
#geography
#learningenvironment
#inspire
Year 8 Options Evening: what a fantastic turn out. Students learnt about the wide range of subjects on offer. Here’s one Year 8 student learning about our one day construction course.
#options
#choices
#GCSEs
“Following on from last week’s outstanding A level and BTEC results, we’d like to wish our Y11 students huge congratulations for their exceptional GCSE results. There was a real buzz at Sixth Form enrolment today!” (Headteacher, Charlotte Hames)
#achievement
#excellence
Girls’ football continues to grow at Brentside with over 50 students attending this popular club. Places are available for girls in all years to join our Football club every Thursday, 15:15-16:30. Come and join our team!
#girlsfootball
#enrichment
We couldn’t be more proud of our students on A level results day. We had the pleasure of watching Emilia opening her results- A*A*A! She will be studying law with French at Exeter. Huge congratulations!
#alevels2023
#achievements
#excellence
A big well done and thank you to Brentside students and staff for raising over £500 this half-term through our weekly cake sales! Look out for a survey in June to decide the charities who will benefit from our fundraising!
Need a place to do your homework, study or prepare for exams? Come to Homework Club every Tuesday-Friday, 3:10-4:10 in F9- it's open to all. You will have access to computers, art equipment, printing and members of our Learning Support team will be on hand to help you too.
Congratulations to Edward in Year 7! His artwork has been selected to be exhibited in the online exhibition, Young Artists Summer Show 2022, organised by
@royalacademy
. This is his second piece chosen by the Royal Academy of Arts, the first being displayed in 2020.
#achievement
As part of 'Mental Health Awareness Week' at Brentside, Ms Parr and Miss Smart would like to share this mental wellness reading list with students and staff. If you see anything you like, come to the Library to read or loan them home!
#Happiness
The Year 10 boys football team had a convincing win beating Cardinal Wiseman 6-1 to make it 4 wins out of 4 games for the season yesterday. Well done team!
#football
#success
We are now running weekly cake sales for different year groups every Friday. Years 7 and 8 have already raised £281.12!
If you would like to donate cakes and treats, please ensure that there are no nuts and to send them in with your child to F17 on the morning of the cake sale.
Here are our Year 8 Platinum Award winners receiving their badges and certificates from Ms Hames, our Headteacher. This is in recognition of their achievement of over 200 merits this academic year. Well done all!
#Excellence
#Citizenship
#Happiness
We were delighted to welcome our soon to be Year 7 students to Brentside today. Students enjoyed a whole range of activities from science experiments to holding newly born baby chicks. It was great to hear students telling us it was “the best day ever”.
#newbeginnings
#transition
Well done to our Yr11 Duke of Edinburgh students who completed their assessed expedition. All students successfully navigated a 6 hour trek across open countryside to camp. Sign up is underway for the Bronze award.
@DofE
#resilience
#teamwork
Thanks to Friends at Brentside (F
@B
), our wonderful PTA, for supporting at tonight’s Open Evening. If you’re a parent/carer of a Brentside student, why not join our wonderful team!
#PTA
#parentalengagement
Tonight’s Parent Forum was buzzing with parents/carers sharing strategies for supporting their children with homework, barriers they face and ways the school can support.
#parentalengagement
#homework
#partnership
There is lots to celebrate today. Congratulations to our Year 11 students for all their successes. We look forward to welcoming you back to our Sixth Form in September!
Today is the first Applied Learning Day of the year. Year 10s take a stunning walk over The Millennium Bridge on their way to the Tate Modern.
#enrichment
#culture
The Brentside Arts Festival returns! Join us for an evening of art, music, fashion and drama. Book your free ticket for our promenade adaptation of Romeo and Juliet on Eventbrite. See you there!
Thanks to all our students and staff who have been busy displaying our flags, creating decorations and preparing our food for our International Food Market later today. We are ready and hungry!
#diversity
#celebration
The exhibition is ready- the models for the fashion show are dressed and waiting by the catwalk- the actors and musicians are in position… We look forward to welcoming you at 16:00 for our Creative Arts Festival.
School’s out for summer and the
@mitie
team is working hard behind the scenes to ensure the site is tip top ready for the start of term. We are so lucky to have such fantastic facilities. We hope you are resting well!
#MITIE
#school
holidays
Our Sixth Formers are studying hard ahead of Year 12 & 13 parent information evening today. We look forward to seeing parents and carers later, please see start times below:
Year 12- 16:30
Year 13- 17:30
Today is World Teachers' Day, though we rename it as World All Staff Who Work in Schools Day. We celebrate all our teachers and teams who support young people in all that they do, every day, to change lives. Thank you!
#WorldTeachersDay
#WorldTeachersDay2022
Working hard is important. Ensuring a work/school life balance and building in time to relax and enjoy your life is vital. Look after yourself each and every day.
The annual jumping for joy shot! There is so much to celebrate at Brentside High School this morning. Well done to all our students who have done so well. We are very proud of all you have achieved.
#success
#achievement
Sun and heat did not stop play today. Thanks to the caretakers for making sure the water butts were filled and ready to keep everyone hydrated. Tomorrow we finish at 13:25 to keep everyone safe.
#staysafe
Each December our staff and students show giving and kindness to support some of those most in need in our local community.
We need your help to continue this tradition by contributing to our appeal. Click the link to find out how you can get involved:
Year 12 and 13 students had an incredible experience attending Harrow High School Careers Convention on Sunday. “Attending the convention was eye-opening! It was inspiring to hear their [employers] stories and advice.”
#Careers
#employer
engagement
“I was inspired by the bespoke and tightly knit Sixth Form community. The teachers are of the highest academic standard and extremely committed to their craft.”(Year 13 student). Brentside Sixth Form Open Evening Wednesday, 16 November, 17:30-19:30
From all of us at Brentside, we want to wish all our staff, students and those in our local community who are celebrating, a very happy Diwali!
#Diwali2022