The Winston Churchill School is a comprehensive, secondary school in
Woking,
England
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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
Pirbright
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. The school holds Specialist
Sports College
Sports Colleges are senior secondary schools which promote sports alongside secondary education.
United Kingdom
Sports Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The programme enabled seco ...
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
Physical Education
Physical education, often abbreviated to Phys Ed. or P.E., is a subject taught in schools around the world. It is usually taught during primary and secondary education, and encourages psychomotor learning by using a play and movement explorat ...
(P.E.) lessons twice a week (more frequently for P.E.
GCSE 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
planetarium on campus. It was opened on 10 December 2019 by the fifth incarnation of
The Doctor and former Winston Churchill School school student
Peter Davison. 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
Woking and
Rushmoor
Rushmoor is a local government district and borough in Hampshire, England. It covers the towns of Aldershot and Farnborough as well as Cove and North Camp.
It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the borough of Aldershot and the Farnbo ...
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
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Major General Jonathan Cole OBE,
CIO British Army
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Sam Underwood, TV actor (''
Dexter'', ''
Homeland
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'', ''
The Following
''The Following'' is an American crime thriller television series created by Kevin Williamson, and jointly produced by Outerbanks Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television.
The first season follows former FBI agent Ryan Hardy ( Kevin Bacon) ...
'')
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Peter Davison, TV actor
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Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood, architect of
New Labour
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Robert Atkinson, footballer
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Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London
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Deborah James, Journalist
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Pamela Motley Verrall, composer
References
External links
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Parent teachers associationRadio Woking web sitePlanetarium web page
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Educational institutions established in 1967
Secondary schools in Surrey
Foundation schools in Surrey