Furzedown is a friendly, happy and stimulating place to learn. We have a strong sense of community and we ensure that our children feel safe and nurtured.
Above all we want our children to have a variety of experiences during their time with us, to be willing to try new things without fear of failure and to become independent, confident and open minded young people. Read more.
As the UK faces a global coronavirus pandemic, things can feel a little uncertain and even overwhelming. But, during these difficult times, one thing is clear: small acts of kindness make a big difference.
The power of kindness calendar helps children and young people learn about and carry out kind acts. Click on the British Red Cross logo to find out more.
We are reaching out to every nursery and Primary School across the UK to offer our support at this difficult time.If you are not yet familiar with our service, Sooper Books is a trusted online library for 4-12 year olds bringing award-winning children’s stories to schools and families across the UK at the touch of a button. Our service is currently being used by thousands of Families, Schools and Councils across the UK.***In light of recent events we are making ALL content on our site completely free of charge for the foreseeable future***We recognise this is an extraordinarily challenging time for millions of families and the disruption to schooling is (and will continue to be) immense over the coming weeks and months. We simply hope that our small gesture will give Schools and Families a little bit of fun and educational value at this difficult moment.Staff and parents can gain unlimited access to all of our stories via this link:
If you enjoy a good story, please click the link below. David Walliams reads a story every day at 11:00am.
Esafety home learning packs from CEOP
More Home learning
with links to websites 4-5s Activity sheet 4-7s Reward chart 5-7s Activity sheet 8-10 Activity sheet
Dear all, Furzedown will be open for children of key workers and some other children with needs.
There will be a supply of packed lunches. If your child has free school meals, please let us know if you want to pick up a packed lunch so we have the numbers. Let us know by 4:00pm Thursday 19th so these can be ordered. 7 weeks of work on the homework page (portal/pupil resources) for all year groups. A link to classroomsecrets follows which gives you access to lots of activities.
We will contact you further when we are told anymore.
Dear Parents
Thanks for your lovely messages and offers of support.
As soon as I know anything about schools I will let you know.
The teachers are adding new materials into the site regularly . If anyone needs help they can message us on the site and a teacher will get back and answer the queries.
We are happy to help if we can.
Take care
Hope to see you all soon
Monica Kitchlew Wilson
Dear all,
we have created a space at scratch.mit.edu for children to access scratch online and save their work.
username : Furzedownschool
password : FurzedownSW17
Furzedown Primary School
This school is committed to safeguarding children
Beclands Road, London. SW17 9TJ
Tel: (020) 8672 3480
Email: admin@furzedown.wandsworth.sch.uk
Headteacher: Mrs. M. Kitchlew-Wilson
Deputy Headteacher: Ms. C. Heywood
20th March 2020
Dear Parents/Carers
As you know school will close today.
As an emergency provision, we aim to provide childcare for those workers that are critical to the country’s response to COVID 19.
Please do not send your child to school on Monday unless we have contacted you and offered you a place next week as announced by the government.
Many of you may technically qualify but we ask you to consider whether your job is crucial to the country’s response to COVID 19 and whether this provision is essential. For example if you have already been told by your employer you can work from home, it is unlikely you need this provision.
In order for the closure of schools to be effective, we mustn’t have more than 20% of our school roll on site. This is a maximum cap and we will try our best to offer as near to this number of places as we can dependent on our staffing.
We have asked for families on Free School Meals to let us know if they want to pick up a packed lunch bag in the mornings and we will only be able to supply those of you who have responded.
We have up loaded a lot of links onto our homework pages which you access with your passwords and we have also uploaded links onto the front page of the website that do not need passwords.
We will keep you updated as we know more. There is enough work on the web site for 7 weeks we will be update it further if this is necessary.
Please email me if you have further questions. head@furzedown.wandsworth.sch.uk
Keep safe.
Monica Kitchlew Wilson
Headteacher
