We were delighted to host a special talk from Cambridge academic,
@wmarybeard
to our classics students! Great to hear her reflections on the relevance of classics to our modern world and even to the world of work.
Well done Burntwood - winning this global competition for learning languages beating private and state schools from around the world. Thanks to all the staff and students for the dedication and commitment it took to become top of the world!!!
Hugely proud of our Chamber and Pearl choir who gave outstanding renditions of ‘Killing Me Softly’ & a 500 year old Latin motet by Monteverdi at The Wandsworth Brighter Sounds concert at The Royal Albert Hall last night.
#proud
#talent
#dedication
#chambermusic
#together
Burntwood is signing off 2021 celebrating the joy of giving. Our UNICEF Ambassadors had a huge job on their hands delivering our mammoth donation of winter welcome boxes to the local Afghan Refugee charity
@WWRefugees
Great job
@BurntwoodSchool
Fresh from their success in securing our re-accreditation as a Gold Rights Respecting school, our ambassadors are proudly representing the school and children's rights by teaching all the KS2 lessons at Honeywell Primary School
It’s an exciting day for our Year 8 students who are performing King Lear as part of the Shakespeare Schools Festival. If rehearsals were anything to go by yesterday, it’s going to be amazing.
#breakaleg
#kinglear
#shakespeare
Jane Hansen founder of the
@OneDayOneChoir
movement joins us to celebrate World Peace Day in whole School assembly. Burntwood Chamber Choir voices join 1,000,000 others worldwide to sing out for peace !
We are delighted that
#DofE
is inspiring a new generation of female skateboarders.
Meet the young women from South London who have taken up skateboarding for their DofE:
First day of winter and our lunchtime craft club has been embracing the start of the new season by making these fab winter decorations - we love them!
#woolyhats
#crafts
#winter
Hello from our Classics students enjoying their trip to Rome. They have already visited the Ara Pacis and spent today in Ostia Antica returning via the Capitoline museum and the Trevi Fountain.
Well done to all Birntwood’s Award winners tonight. Razia Iqbal BBC journalist and ex-student gave an inspiring speech and presented the prizes
@raziaiqbal
A moving joint assembly this morning with
@beatrixpottersc
for our Remembrance. Lovely readings from the Primary School,Burntwood students playing the Last Post and a joint planting of poppies including purple ones to remember animals killed in war too
Fantastic opening night of our Drama Festival-performance poetry, plays written and performed by students and the first performance of our National Theatre Connections play which will be performed at The Lyric Hammersmith. Well done everyone !
Hot off the back of his run in Grease, our cast and crew were ecstatic to receive these words of wisdom from
@MrPeterAndre
. Perfect timing & fab motivation as we enter the home straight of rehearsals before our first performance on Tuesday 😱. Thanks Pete
#GreaseIsTheWord
A huge thank you to the anonymous donor of this fantastic book to Burntwood School which arrived today!
#ShesMyInspiration
It is now in the library for everyone to enjoy and be inspired!
HUGE congratulations to all the talented students who took part in last week’s dance festival. Our first live event in nearly 2 years was a colossal success. Take a bow Burntwood students, the reviews are in and everyone LOVED it!
#dancedancedance
#cantfightthebeat
#puretalent
Thanks to Kings College London and the KCL Women in Surgery Society for another great talk at Burntwood. This time to the Year 12s preparing their medical application.
Congratulations to our Year 8 Netball team who placed third in the recent Wandsworth Borough Schools Netball Tournament. 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss - great going girls!
#netball
#thisgirlcan
This morning Burntwood welcomed Ariana Grande, Stormzy, Dre and Shawn Mendes to our assembly to help raise awareness and money for the annual Burntwood
#Movember
appeal!
A wonderful event to showcase the Wandsworth Young Chef of the Year at the Civic Centre where the 6 finalists cooked a formal dinner for 150-well done May our Burntwood contender who came second overall!
And we are off! Day 1 of GCSE public exams. Year 11 you are on & you will do great. All your hard work & efforts over the past 2 years have been worth it. Good luck for today & the rest of exam season. You’ve got this - you are going to smash it👊🏻
#classof2023
#GCSE
#calm
#proud
Well done Burntwood ! Second place in the Global Challenge Vocab Express beating other schools from all around the world! Over a million points scored putting us clearly in second place. Amazing work everyone.
We are so proud of the 25 Year 10 and 45 Year 11 students who completed their Duke of Edinburgh Bronze award this summer. A huge achievement and a great example to the 50 Year 9’s just about to start their
#Dofe
Bronze challenge this year.
#thisgirlcan
#newskills
#challenge
Great Young Chef of the Year masterclass today focussing on professional knife skills. Students made Viking boats from melons and swans from apples - very creative !
Well done Burntwood’s Para team- Shot, Javelin, Long Jump and Track (200&100m). Great effort & teamwork as well as congratulating & supporting other schools from the borough today - AND winning overall!
Sporting scores were settled yesterday with the return of the staff v students lunchtime challenge. 5 fast paced netball games ensued in the blistering heat. Students played well but the staff team were on 🔥Congratulations Burntwood staff, victory is yours! But for how long?
A huge congratulations to our Year 13 students who achieved some fantastic results today and have secured some hugely impressive university places and apprenticeships. You have worked incredibly hard and your efforts have paid off today! We are proud of you!
#classof2023