Burntwood School


Burntwood School is a girls' secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Wandsworth, London, England, opened in September 1986. The motto of Burntwood was "every day there's always a new start".

History

The school opened in September 1986. The first headmistress of the school was Brigid Beattie-Moriarty - known to the pupils as Mrs Beattie.
The school converted to academy status on 1 July 2013.
Burntwood School is recognised as a Science Specialist School and has the coveted 'Sportsmark' and 'Artsmark Gold' awards. It is also recognised by the Rights Respecting UNICEF Gold Award.

Enrollment

For the 2008–09 school year, there were 1,733 pupils enrolled at the school. In September 2009, the school admitted 283 new students: 71 places are offered to the girls who scored highest in the Wandsworth Year 6 Test; the remaining 212 places are offered to siblings of current students and then to those girls living closest to the school.
While nominally an all-girls school, Burntwood does in fact have a small number of male students in the sixth form. In 2002, for example, two percent of the pupils were male.

Buildings

For the school year beginning September 2012, students moved into the new buildings which have been under construction the last two years. Fully complete in 2014, the project that cost £40.9 million saw the opening of six new buildings to create a new-look campus.
In October 2015, Burntwood School won the RIBA Stirling Prize, the UK's leading architecture award.

Notable former pupils