Welcome

 


Welcome to Becontree Primary School from the school’s HeadTeacher, Mr. S. Peacock.

By following the links in the website you will be able to discover a lot about the school, the staff and the children.

There are many pages which inform adults about the daily life at Becontree which I am sure will show you how hard all the staff work in order to make the children’s time at Becontree as fulfilling as possible.

The children are expected to behave well and live up to our moto of ‘Respecting One Another’.

We all work towards academic success for the children and when this is supported by parents in partnership with the school great results can be achieved. This was seen in 2007 when we achieved our best key stage 2 National Test results with more than 90% level 4s in English, maths and science. Around 50% of children achieved level 5s.

Children have opportunities to take part in a wide range of enjoyable experiences. The school's budget pays for children in years 3, 4 and 5 to go swimming in support of our aims to educate children to be healthy and stay safe. The teachers organise whole class trips which support children's learning. In year 6 children can go to the Trewern Outdoor Pursuits Centre in Hay on Wye. Here they experience hill walking, canoeing, gorge walking, abseiling and caving. We often arrange excursions for relevant groups of children based on experiences offered to schools such as theatre trips which have included pantomimes and a trip to a ballet

We have regular visitors to the school who work with the children to compliment the whole educational experience. We have had visits from a Chinese acrobatic team, a display of birds of prey flying in the hall, an international skipping team, a maths puzzle company and a visit from a children’s author to name just a few. Recently we had a demonstartion from Danny Lawrence, on of Brtian's top male gymnasts. A short video clip of his demonstration is posted on this site.

The children are encouraged to represent themselves and the school through a range of activities. We have a School’s Pupil Council who have been involved in making decisions about how a playground improvement budget should be spent. We have two Junior Road Safety Officers who promote safety through competitions, send a team to the local authority’s annual maths challenge day, sent pupil delegates to the ‘Children and Young Peoples Plan’ conference and we participate in the annual Barking and Dagenham Dance, Drama and Music Festival. Children are encouraged to become confident performers through weekly performance lessons which are supported by a professional performer based with a company called, 'Artis'.

In 2006 a major building programme was completed when Becontree was selected to have one of the first and largest Children’s Centres on site. This enables the local community to access many services from one building, designed to meet the needs of young families. The centre offers support for parents refining the skills of parenting young children, opportunities for continued adult learning suitable to the needs of a job market including training in the use of computers plus access to medical and social services and family support teams. There are opportunities for accessing full day care for children from 4 months old to 5 years old. School aged children can attend before and after school care provision up to the age of 11 years old as this is available from 7.30 to 9.00am and from 3.00 to 6.00pm.

Children are able to participate in a number of after school clubs. Some run all year and some run at specific times of the year. The clubs vary from a games club for the younger children to sports culbs for older children. Some children are learning to play musical instruments and are supported each week by a visiting musician.

The school has continued to build upon the successful Ofsted inspection of 2007. In March 2009 the school had an Ofsted science inspection and was rated as 'good' in this aspect.

One of our most recent successes has been down to the netball team who won the 2009 borough netall tournament beating all the other school's teams. (We also won in 2005).

Welcome to Becontree Primary School and Children’s Centre, offering support and learning to everyone.

Mr S. Peacock
Headteacher

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