Bedonwell Infant & Nursery School

and

Bedonwell Junior School

RSPB birdwatch

This month, the children across both schools took part in the RSPB National Birdwatch, identifying and logging the birds they could see in the school grounds. In the photos you can see Year 3 looking for birds in our garden area.

School For Nature Award

Exciting news! We have been recognised for the work we are doing in school to save nature and as a result we have been granted the School For Nature award. Alongside our Birdwatching, EYFS and KS1 have been busy planting new plants across the school and tending to our garden areas. Check out our certificate signed by Sir David Attenborough.

Healthy Schools London Award!

The Infant and Nursery school have been awarded the Healthy Schools London Bronze Award.

Healthy Schools London (HSL) is an Awards Programme that supports London’s schools to provide an environment and culture that helps their pupils grow up to be healthy, happy and wanting to learn by improving both their physical and mental health. It is sponsored by the Mayor of London and is delivered by the Greater London Authority.

Launching Our new school Library

Our new school library was officially opened in January. A massive THANK YOU to FOBS (Friends of Bedonwell), for raising some of the money which was used to purchase brand new furniture and books for the library.

The children from both the Infant and Nursery School and Junior School have all had the opportunity to to visit the library with their classes and enjoy some of the new reading books, newspapers and information texts available. They have all had time to sit and read in the new library and have a wide range of different books to choose from.

Our Library was officially opened by Gary NorthField, a parent of the school and an author of the Julius Zebra and Derek the Sheep books.

Here are some photos of our library opening and the children enjoying all the books.

Young Voices at The 02

Each week the KS2 Choir practiced their songs to perform for Young Voices. In January they had the opportunity to perform alongside hundreds of different schools at the Young Voices event at the 02. They all really enjoyed the concert and sang beautifully throughout! So did the staff!

London CRICKET Programme

Year 4 loved taking part in the 2024-2025 Inner London Cricket Programme. They all got to practice their cricket skills and play some fun cricket games. They are now looking forward to attending an inter-school cricket festival in the summer term.

Year 2 topic on flight and a visit from Mr Nelson

Year 2 have been learning about flight in their History lessons. They spoke about how the first flight was significant because it inspired people to keep trying to fly further around the world and adapt aircraft to carry more people and travel to more destinations. We talked about holidays that we have been to on an aeroplane. This week Mr Nelson came into our class to speak to us about his job as an Aircraft Engineer. We listened, looked at photos and asked questions. Then we flew paper aeroplanes and spoke about Lift, Weight, Drag and Thrust.

NSPCC Number Day

All of the children across the Infant, Nursery and Junior schools took part in NSPCC Number Day - there were some brilliant costumes across the schools that all had a number theme. The children also got to take part in some fun number and maths activities throughout the day.

FOBS

Hello everyone!

This January saw year 5 enjoy their school disco and we are celebrating year 6’s final Bedonwell disco after half term! Don’t forget to purchase your tickets this week!

Our lovely DJ ensures all the kids have a blast and we are always so impressed with the kids dance moves. Thank you to our superstar parent helpers at these events!

On Friday 14th we celebrated Love and Kindness day at school and invited the children to wear red or pink for a donation of £1 to FOBS. Thank you to all those who contributed!

Following our annual AMM last week, we have some exciting purchase requests from the school. We are currently trying to raise money for shade sails, more info coming soon!

FOBS Committee

KS2 Cooking club

KS2 have had the opportunity to join an after school cookery club. They have been been making lots of delicious food this term. In the images here they made vegetable sticks with a delicious feta dip.

PROUD

We have launched our new School Values this term.

PROUD - Perseverence, Respect, Optimism, Unity, Discovery.

In both school offices, along the corridors and in every class we have displayed our PROUD signs, children have learnt about our PROUD values in assemblies and have started to earn dojos that are linked to our PROUD values. We have also launched the PROUD awards which are given out to children who have shown one or more of our PROUD values that week!

Check out the images below to see who has achieved a PROUD award across the schools this week!

Thank you once again to FOBS for paying for the signage, without their support this would have not been possible.

PROUD awards

Attendance across the schools.

Bedonwell Junior School current attendance for this academic year is: 95%

Bedonwell Infant School current attendance for this academic year is: 93%

Our target this year is 96%, will you help us reach it?

Each week in our PROUD assembly a class from the Juniors and Infants win the Bedonwell attendance cups, the winning class each week get the reward of an additional Golden Time. Check out some of the more recent winners below:

This months winners are.

KS1

WB 3.2.25: Mojave 1

WB 27.1.25: Niagara 2

WB 20.1.25: Mojave 1

WB 13.1.25: Colorado 1

WB 6.1.25: Victoria 1

Year 3 and 4

WB 3.2.25: Nile 4

WB 27.1.25: Danube 4

WB 20.1.25: Danube 4

WB 13.1.25: Danube 4

WB 6.1.25: Danube 4

Year 5 and 6

WB 3.2.25: Atlantic 5

WB 27.1.25: Marble 6

WB 20.1.25: Caspian 5

WB 13.1.25: Pacific 5

WB 6.1.25: Granite 6

Girls Football

The girls football team have been playing brilliantly this term in their league games. They showed excellent teamwork and unity and played really well in all of their league games scoring some great goals. Well done girls!

Boys football

The boys football team have continued their winning streak in their league campaign by beating Barnehust School 9-0. A terrific performance from the team especially as we had some players making their first appearances for the school.

Primary Schools' cUP cOUNTY champions 2025

Having won the Bexley tournament earlier this academic year, the Year 6 Boys Football Team represented Bexley in the Kent county tournament (for the first time in Bedonwell's history), playing against other district winners across Kent.

The group games were extremely tight with all of our group games ending in a draw. Bedonwell went through to the semi-finals on goal difference. We then won our semi-final game 1-0.

In the final we played River School from Dover district, it was tight game where we had the majority of the chances but just could not find the back of the net. In the penalty shootout we came out as winners winning the penalty shootout 4-3!

The boys will now represent Kent in the Southern Regional Finals in March. This is a massive achievement for Bedonwell Junior School as this is the first time we have won this competition, and for Bexley as they have not progressed to this stage of the tournament for several years. Well done to the team!

Calendar dates

Diary dates:

Friday 14th February – last day of half term

Monday 24th February – all pupils back to school

Tuesday 25th February – FOBS Year 6 Disco

Thursday 6th March - World Book Day

Thursday 13th March – Kalahari class assembly 9:15am

Friday 14th March – Mercury class assembly 9:15am

Tuesday 18th March - Year 3 trip to Kent Life

Tuesday 18th March - Atlantic class assembly 9:15am

Wednesday 19th March - Sahara class assembly 9:15am

Wednesday 26th March – Mojave class assembly 9:15am

Friday 28th March – Saturn class assembly 9:15am

Monday 31st March - Years R, 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Parent Evening

Tuesday 1st April - Year 4 trip to Tyland Barn

Wednesday 2nd April – Colorado class assembly 9:15am

Thursday 3rd April - Years R, 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Parent Evening

Friday 4th April – last day of term

Tuesday 22nd April - all pupils back to school

Safeguarding at Bedonwell

School uniform

Please ensure your child is wearing the correct school uniform, please read through the guidance below to see what our uniform expectations are and also see where this can be bought from.

Please see the guidance for school uniform below:

Grey sweatshirt (preferably with the school logo or otherwise plain)
Grey sweat cardigan (preferably with the school logo or otherwise plain)
Sky blue polo shirt (preferably with the school logo or otherwise plain)
Grey tailored trousers or grey tailored shorts
Grey skirt
Grey pinafore dress
Light blue & white checked dress (summer)
Navy blue, black or grey tights or white socks
Hair bands (small) in school colours only (grey, white or sky blue)
Where hijabs are worn they must be in the school colours of either blue, white or grey.
Pupils should at all times have suitable coats for outdoor wear, to cater for changeable weather.
Footwear must be plain black shoes or trainers.

Children wear their PE kit for the whole school day on the day of their PE lesson (you will be notified which day/s these are). This enables pupils not only to receive maximum learning time for their PE lessons, but also a reduces PE clothing being lost/misplaced.

PE kit expectations are:

Plain T-shirt in their ‘house colour’
Grey school jumper (plain- no branded clothing)
Grey shorts, grey tracksuit joggers or grey leggings (plain-no branded clothing).
Plain black trainers.

The children will be expected to wear their grey school jumper or grey sweatshirt with grey shorts, joggers or leggings and will therefore remain in school colours on their PE day.

It is also essential that trainers worn on PE days are plain black as this will ensure consistency across the school with our uniform expectations.

All uniform mentioned above can be found at Caseys Schoolwear. A link to their website can be found below:

Caseys Schoolwear webpage

X (Twitter)

Bedonwell has our own X (Twitter) page, this page is updated on a regular basis with a range of different events, activities and amazing work the children produce every day! If you have X (Twitter), please give us a follow and like and retweet the posts on our wall.

The link to our X page is below:

Bedonwell X page