Blackfen School for Girls is a secondary modern all girls school located in Blackfen in the London Borough of Bexley

London Borough of Bexley

The London Borough of Bexley lies in south east Greater London, and is a borough referred to as part of Outer London. It has common borders with the London Borough of Bromley to the south, the London Borough of Greenwich to the west, across the River Thames to the north it borders the London...

. Although it is a girls school, the sixth form

Sixth form

In the education systems of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and of Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica and Malta, the sixth form is the final two years of secondary education, where students, usually sixteen to eighteen years of age,...

 over the past few years has become mixed. This is due to the partner school Hurstmere Foundation School

Hurstmere Foundation School

Hurstmere Foundation School, commonly referred to as Hurstmere School, is an all boys secondary academy, located on Hurst Road in Sidcup, a suburb of London, England. The school is an accredited Sports College and has also gained the second specialism of Science which also deems the school a...

 having no sixth form, so many pupils from Hurstmere join the sixth form in Blackfen school. The headmaster is currently Matthew Brown, having previously been Louise Sharples. The school has specialised in Maths and Computing since 2004. Compared with many other secondary schools in the area, it is one of the highest achieving in terms of GCSE and A-level results.

In 2009, a sixth form teacher in the school, Keith Kinsella, was involved in a protest regarding the play England People Very Nice

England People Very Nice

England People Very Nice is a play by Richard Bean. It opened at the National Theatre in February 2009. The play, directed by Nicholas Hytner, is about four waves of immigrants - French Huguenot, Irish, Jewish and Bangladeshi - that have arrived in the district of Bethnal Green, East London, over...

at London's National Theatre. He and local playwright Hussain Ismail, who led the protest, claimed that the play was racist and heavily stereotyping. They interrupted a Q&A session with the writer Richard Bean until security removed them ten minutes later, with Kinsella holding a sign exclaiming 'Proud to be living in multicultural Britain.'