This year BGS is celebrating its Platinum Jubilee!

A variety of events are taking place to commemorate 70 years of BGS.

We have had a whole school photo and a celebration meal for staff and a few faces from the past, and our current Head of English, Mr Griffin has just sent his chronicle of the last twenty years to print! This is an update to Robin Ackerley’s Golden Jubilee’s celebratory book ‘Bexley Grammar School, A History’. We are also holding an OBA vs. staff sports day and would love to see as many alumni as possible attend - details via the BGS Alumni Facebook page.

For alumni wishing to reminisce, take a look at our school's history via the 'Through Our Eyes' Heritage Project by end2endTV, and get a flavour for what it's like now with our current video prospectus.

Support our Platinum Jubilee Fundraiser

If you would like to, and circumstances are such that you might consider giving a donation to the school, we are raising funds this Platinum Jubilee year for the renovation of our Sixth Form study facilities, updating but retaining the character of the building built by our PA members. This was started in the school's Silver Jubilee year, and opened in 1982 (see below for more detail from Robin Ackerley’s ‘A History’.)

Every donation is gratefully received and will help us to develop our facilities for our growing Sixth Form.

Thank you.

From 'Bexley Grammar School, A History' by Robin Ackerley

"1980 was the year of the School’s Silver Jubilee. [...] The Parents’ Association, which year after year had given the School invaluable financial support, was now embarking on its most ambitious project. Several years earlier Mr Le Feuvre had complained to the governors at the lack of sixth form accommodation, and now, with the increase in sixth-form numbers, the need for this was even greater. Having received permission from the LEA to proceed with their plans, the P.A. now set about fund-raising for and designing a sixth form centre. Early in the Spring Term they learned that they had been granted a loan for the project.

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The building of the Sixth Form Centre was now under way. The ceremonial cutting of the first turf by the Head, preserved for posterity in a photograph for which the Head himself provided the wonderfully ambiguous caption “The First Sod”, took place in the spring. The raising of £2,350 at the Parents’ Association Fete in July gave an encouraging boost to the PA’s quest for further finances for the project.

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In July 1980 work commenced on the construction of the Sixth Form Centre and now at last, in September 1982 the job was complete. No praise can be too great for the efforts of the band of volunteers, all members of the Parents’ Association who had given up evenings and weekends to see the project through. [...] It was indeed a justifiably proud moment for Chairman Derek Burgess and his helpers when on 30th September the Right Honourable Edward Heath formally opened the Centre."