Welcome to

Beechwood Primary School

We place a firm emphasis on the importance of nurturing our children towards becoming confident, responsible, sociable, well-rounded individuals, ready for life in high school and as young adults in our community.

As you explore our website, we hope that you find this ethos reflected and enjoy the many different aspects our pupils' daily experience at Beechwood.

Foundation Stage African Drumming

To help the children celebrate and learn about Black History month, the nursery and reception children toolk part in an African drumming workshop. Everyone had a great time. 

Three Years in a Row

We are delighted to announce that we, Beechwood Primary School, have achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2017/18 academic year.

The School Games Mark is a Government led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

Our sporting achievements this year include:

• Winners of the Luton Schools Kwick Cricket Tournament 2018/19 (Year 5 & 6)
• Runners up of the Bedfordshire County Kwick Cricket Tournament 2018/19 (Years 5 & 6)
• Winners of the Netball League 2018/19 (Years 5 & 6)
• Winners of all competitive games in the basketball tournament 2018/19 (Years 5 & 6)
• Runners up in Luton School Girls Football Tournament 2018/19 (Year 5 & 6)

With a total of young people competing in local inter-school competitions this year, we are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible.

As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.

A special thanks to:

• PE Team and
• Mr. Hussain (Cricket)
• Miss (Netball & Multi-skills)
• Mr. Prior (Football)
• Miss Knowles (Netball)

We look forward to applying once again in 2019!

The Parliamentary Review

We have been featured in The Parliamentary Review. Schools have been highlighted for showing best practice.  Please click on the link below to read about our school. 

http://www.theparliamentaryreview.co.uk/organisations/beechwood-primary-school

Saturday Morning Clubs

Saturday Morning clubs have now restarted with Football, cricket, art and craft. These clubs last for an hour each and cost £2 per hour (pupils who are eligible for pupil premium funding will be charged £1 per hour). If your child would like to join on any of the remaining Saturdays, please fill in a form at the office. Our new sports coaches have exciting activities planned for the children and art and craft are always popular. 

First Weeks of the new year

2017-2018

West Area Partnership Event

At Beechwood we work with local schools in the area to build relationships and learn together. Some of our children were invited to take part in a team building event at Pirton Hill Primary School. Below are some of the pictures from the day of our children working with children from the other schools. 

Reception and KS1 Sports Day

Thank you to all the parents who came along to support the children in the Reception and Key stage 1 sports day. The children had a lovely time and were lucky with the weather on the rearranged day. Children enjoyed taking part in a round robin event which gave the opportunity to compete in all activites. 

Winners of Luton Schools Cricket Tournament 2017/18

On Wednesday 23rd May 2018, our cricket team played in the Luton Schools Tournament. They played brilliantly all day and were victorious at the end of the day as they were the Luton Schools Cricket Tournament champions. To read the full write up, click the file below. 

Key Stage 2 Sports 

On Tuesday 22nd May 2018, we held the key stage 2 sports day. We were very fortunate with the weather and all the year groups had a very enjoyable day. Thank you to all the parents who were able to attend and show such great support for the children. 

The results so far:

Year 3- Wembley

Year 4 - Wembley

Year 5 - Lords

Year 6 - Twickenham

Sadly, we have had to cancel sports day on Thursday 24th May due to the poor weather in the morning. 

Receptions, Year 1 and Year 2 sports day will now take place on Thursday 7th June 2018. We look forward to seeing as many parents as possible. 

• Reception                  9.15-10.30
• Year 1                       10.30 - 11.45
• Year 2                       2.00 - 3.15

Author Visit

Beechwood children were lucky to recieve a visit from famous author Matt Brown, former radio presenter and published author of the following Titles: Compton Valence series was in school to share his love for reading and writing and to inspire children to read more. He also shared some really useful tips with the children on how to develop characters and ideas for their own stories. Here are some of what the children thought about the author visit.

Matt Brown inspired me by making his books really funny and now I actually want to read some of his books

                                                Aayan Hussain

Matt Brown has inspired me to start writing.

                                                Sultan Zahid

I think having an author visit our school has really helped and inspired us to start reading and writing more.

                                                Maria Chowdury

I really like Mats Browns idea of creating names for his characters by using names of different roads and villages.

                                                Breanna Frankson

I like Matt Brown because his books are really funny.

                                                Fezan Jabbar

100 Million Minutes Reading Challenge

We are taking part in the 100 Million Minutes Reading Challenge – a national reading initiative from education charity Achievement for All. Beginning on World Book Day (Thursday 1st March 2018) all children and young people involved in the challenge will try to collectively read for 100 million minutes! Find out how you can help to eradicate child illiteracy and brighten futures at www.100MillionMinutes.org.

World Book Day

World Book day at Beechwood was a great success, with all children and adults getting involved. Children and adults all dressed up and as a special event this year, each classroom door was decorated as a different book. The school showed a real love of reading. Which classroom door did you think was the best?

Families First Quality Award

We are delighted to have been awarded the Families First Quality Award in recognition of the quality of our work with families.

The award has been given to us by the Family and Childcare Trust through the National Association of Family Information Services.

The award is designed to help schools demonstrate how they keep families at the heart of their practice and support children throughout their education.  It recognises work with partners such as the Families Information Service to help families access a range of information, advice and support.

Our assessor Tim Swithenbank said: ‘The Beechwood Primary staff and families have shown a clear commitment to the accreditation process.  The welcome for families has been extended to a personal approach including home visits and effective use of local providers to facilitate support that is holistic and bespoke in its planning. The development of communication methods has been installed to enable all families to engage fully with the school. This has conveyed the success of the pupils and the aspirations for the school effectively. The pupils were a positive and visible part of the running of the school with school councils and elections held to recognise the skills and qualities that I had the pleasure to see on my visits.  Well done to you all.’

Congratulations and thank you to all staff involved in achieving this award with particular thanks to Jo Hintz and Emma Mellett from the Family Worker team for collating and uploading all the evidence.

Luton families information service

At Beechwood, we are committed to supporting our families. Please follow the link below to find out more from Luton families information service.