The Winston Churchill School is a comprehensive, secondary school in

Woking Woking ( ) is a town and borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in northwest Surrey, England, around from central London. It appears in Domesday Book as ''Wochinges'' and its name probably derives from that of a Anglo-Saxon settlement o ...

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. The school was established in 1967. It is near

Knaphill Knaphill is a village in Surrey, England, between Woking to the east and Aldershot to the west; to the south and north on the A322 – its western border – are Brookwood, and Bisley. Some of the village is on a hill, hence its name. ...

, Bisley, West End, Brookwood and

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. The school holds Specialist

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status.

Academics

The Winston Churchill School received a score of "good" (OFSTED April 2018) with GCSE results above the national average. "The curriculum is a strength of the school...teaching is good with aspects that are outstanding...students behaviour both in and out of classrooms is good" and "students feel safe & secure".

Organisation

Teaching occurs during one-hour lessons with

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(P.E.) lessons twice a week (more frequently for P.E.

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students). After school clubs provide extra sports and P.E., and other extra-curricular activities.

Planetarium

The Winston Churchill School is the first state school in the UK to have its own permanent

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on campus. It was opened on 10 December 2019 by the fifth incarnation of The Doctor and former Winston Churchill School school student

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. The planetarium is also open to the public out of school times, showing films on astronomy and holding lectures and space talks.

Radio Woking

Radio Woking is a UK community radio station owned and operated by the school, broadcasting on DAB in the boroughs of

and

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and throughout the world online. Students at the school are trained and get the opportunity to broadcast regularly on the station. Presenters on the station are volunteers and the station broadcasts a wide range of programmes featuring local guests, sports clubs and specialist music shows.

Notable alumni and faculty

* Major General Jonathan Cole OBE, CIO British Army *

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, TV actor *

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, architect of

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* Robert Atkinson, footballer *

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, Bishop of London * Deborah James, Journalist * Pamela Motley Verrall, composer

References

External links

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Parent teachers associationRadio Woking web sitePlanetarium web page
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