Bentley Wood High School is a secondary school for girls in Harrow

London Borough of Harrow

The London Borough of Harrow is a London borough of north-west London. It borders Hertfordshire to the north and other London boroughs: Hillingdon to the west, Ealing to the south, Brent to the south-east and Barnet to the east.-History:...

, England.

Admissions

The school is oversubscribed. The school is a Maths and Computing college. It is situated just north of the A410, accessed via Masefield Avenue. To the north is Bentley Wood Nature Reserve. It lies in the parish of All Saints, Harrow Weald

Harrow Weald

Harrow Weald is an area in north-west London, England. It includes a suburban development and forms part of the London Borough of Harrow.-Locale, geography and history:...

.

History

The school is just south of Heriot's Wood, which is itself just south of the famous Bentley Priory

RAF Bentley Priory

RAF Bentley Priory was a non-flying Royal Air Force station near Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow. It was famous as the headquarters of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and the Second World War. The RAF Bentley Priory site includes a Grade II* listed Officers' Mess and Italian...

, and was originally called Heriots Wood Grammar School.

Academic performance

It gets very good GCSE results, and it's A Level results have improve drastically since 2007.

Notable alumni

• Shami Chakrabarti
  Shami Chakrabarti
  Shami Chakrabarti CBE , has been the director of Liberty, a British pressure group, since September 2003. Chakrabarti is the Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University.-Early life:...
  
  , Director since 2003 of Liberty (pressure group)
  Liberty (pressure group)
  Liberty is a pressure group based in the United Kingdom. Its formal name is the National Council for Civil Liberties . Founded in 1934 by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith , the group campaigns to protect civil liberties and promote human rights...
  
  , and Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University
  Oxford Brookes University
  Oxford Brookes University is a new university in Oxford, England. It was named to honour the school's founding principal, John Brookes. It has been ranked as the best new university by the Sunday Times University Guide 10 years in a row...
  
   since 2008
• Abi Oyepitan
  Abi Oyepitan
  Abiodun Adesola "Abi" Oyepitan is a British sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. She won the 100 m at the 2001 Summer Universiade and at the 2002 Commonwealth Games she took a bronze medal with the 4×100 metres relay team...
  
  , 100m sprinter

Heriots Wood Grammar School for Girls

• Jane Priestland, historian
• Sue Sharpe, social researcher and author

Former teachers

• Dr Mary Bousted
  Mary Bousted
  Dr Mary Winefride Bousted is the General Secretary of the teachers' union, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers .-Early life:...
  
  , General Secretary since 2003 of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers
  Association of Teachers and Lecturers
  The Association of Teachers and Lecturers is a trade union, teachers' union and professional association, affiliated to the Trades Union Congress, in the United Kingdom representing educators from nursery and primary education to further education...
  
  (English teacher between 1982-7)

External links

• Bentley Wood High School
• Edubase