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We currently have spaces available in Years 4 & 5. Our school features a 20m indoor heated pool, offering weekly swimming lessons for pupils. We provide full wraparound care on-site and offer approximately 20 extra-curricular clubs each term. If you would like to visit the school, please contact us.

Welcome to our school website!

At our school each child is valued and their unique set of skills and talents developed so that they can ‘be the best that they can be’. Our belief is that learning should be exciting and engaging. We want every child to leave our school ready for the next stage in their education and with a real appetite for learning.

We have high aspirations for every child that attends our school and a strong track record of achieving academic success. Equally, we ensure children at Bishop’s Waltham Junior are able to explore their full range of talents and interests.

Alongside a stimulating and varied curriculum, we offer a range of sporting, musical and artistic enrichment activities including successful sports clubs, drama productions and music concerts.

We place great emphasis on developing children’s personal skills and believe in the importance of developing kind, caring and respectful individuals. Behaviour in our school is very good and we offer children high quality care and pastoral support. We have strong systems in place to support children with additional learning needs and have a fully qualified Special Needs Co-ordinator on the staff team.

I am incredibly proud to be the Headteacher of Bishop’s Waltham Junior School and of the children and staff who contribute so much to the life of the school.

If you would like to find out more about the school or to arrange a visit please do not hesitate to contact us.

Darren Campbell

Headteacher

A place where excellence, effort and happiness are valued in equal measure.

Latest News

25/04/2025 3:00 PM

Summer Term!

We cannot believe that we are now in our final term of Year 4! How did that happen? Everyone came into school happily on Tuesday and eager to carry on our learning. We have a lot going on this term, as normal, and lots of new and interesting topics to learn about.

In Guided Reading, we have started a new book called Varjak Paw by SF Said. It is about a ninja fighting cat and the children have really enjoyed reading the first few chapters. We will also do some work based on this book in our English lessons later on in this half term. In English, we have just started a new unit where we are using a short film clip called 'Soar' as inspiration. We have also completed another Let's Think in English lesson called 'Clockwork' which the children really enjoyed and were really engaged with. Ask them all about it!

In Maths, Year 4 have started this term by multiplying 3 numbers together and also 3-digit numbers by a single digit number. They have worked really hard on this during the week and using the formal method for multiplication. We will have a strong focus this term on our times tables as the Year 4 MTC Test is only a few weeks away; it takes places after May half term.

Our Science topic this term is all about electricity, how things are powered and also making our own circuits. This feeds nicely into our DT topic where children will design and make their own nightlights which will come home before May half term.

As we are in the Summer Term, our PE lessons will focus on atheltics and getting ready for District Trials and of course, Sports Day! Hopefully the weather stays nice so we can spend lots of PE lessons outside on the tracks.

We also have a visit from a history expert, Paul Nolan, this term which we are very much looking forward to! Hope you have a lovely weekend. Remember the bank holiday on Monday 5th May.