Worth School, Sussex

Founded 1959
Paddockhurst Road, Turners Hill, West Sussex RH10 4SD
Tel: +44 1342 710200  Fax: +44 1342 710201

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Head Master: Mr Gino Carminati, BA MA  Bursar: Mrs A Higgs, ACA  Admissions: Miss Yvonne Lorraine - Registrar

Worth School is known for its strong community values, high academic standards, outstanding pastoral care and the excellence of its all-round education. As a Benedictine school, we encourage our pupils to develop their own individuality while living within a community that inspires learning, worship, friendship and service.

Co-education at Worth
Worth has 530 boarding and day students from 11 to 18. We welcomed girls into Years 7 and 9 in September 2010. They join other girls in an already thriving co-educational Sixth Form, and by 2012 the School will be fully co-educational. The school has invested in stunning new girls’ boarding and day houses, a new Social Centre and a new Library. An exciting £12 million development plan includes additional academic, sports and boarding facilities.

Academic Worth
At Worth, we see our pupils as ‘Lanterns to Light’. Inspiring pupils is pivotal if each individual is to develop their intellectual, emotional and spiritual potential. The school offers a broad curriculum, where students can opt for the International Baccalaureate Diploma or A Levels. Examination results are high and pupils enter the best universities in the UK and abroad, including Oxford and Cambridge.

Active & Community Worth
The wider curriculum is rich and varied. Pupils benefit from a wide range of societies, lectures, trips and visits, enriching the academic life of the school whilst encouraging everyone to aim high. Worth has a tradition of community involvement and an active voluntary service programme. The School is also a Centre of Excellence for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and around a quarter of all students participate in the Awards.

On the sports front, the major team sports are played successfully at all levels throughout the School. Sports facilities include extensive playing fields, a sports hall, an eight-hole golf course, fencing salle, stables, dance studio and fitness suite. Sports on offer include the mainstream (e.g. rugby, soccer, hockey and netball) and the less usual (e.g. clay pigeon shooting and fencing).

Worth has a reputation for excellence in drama and music, and student tours have visited Prague, Germany, the USA and Australia. The outstanding drama and music departments are housed in the purpose-built Performing Arts Centre comprising a theatre, recording studio, sound-proofed ‘rock room’, rehearsal and recital rooms.

Scholarships
Academic, Music, Sport, Art and Drama scholarships are available at ages 11+, 13+ and 16+.

Location
The school is set, alongside Worth Abbey, in 500 acres of beautiful Sussex countryside yet only 8 miles from Gatwick Airport, 40 minutes by train from central London and convenient road and rail links to London and the South coast (30 minutes).

For further details, visit our website at www.worthschool.org.uk. You are warmly invited to visit Worth School to discover what makes us special and why your son or daughter will flourish here.

Age range: 11 - 18

Day pupils: 165 boys and 28 girls

Annual day fees: £16,587 - £18,981

Full boarding pupils: 280 boys and 33 girls

Annual full boarding fees: £22,386 - £25,626

TOTAL PUPILS: 445 boys and 61 girls, including 168 boys and 61 girls in the 6th form

Staff numbers: 58 full time and 16 part time

Method of entry: Common Entrance, Entry test or exam, GCSE results, Interview, Report from previous school, Scholarship or bursary exam

Accreditations and affiliations: BSA, HMC, CISC, IBO

Religious affiliation: All denominations welcome, Roman Catholic

Teaching languages: English

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Academic	Languages	Sport	Activities	Music	Miscellaneous
Business studies Classics Drama/Theatre Economics Electronics Media/Film studies Painting/Sculpture Philosophy/Ethics Psychology Theology	Ancient Greek Chinese English as foreign/2nd language French German Italian Latin Russian Spanish	Athletics Badminton Basketball Cricket Cross-country Fencing Fitness training Football Golf Gymnastics Hockey Martial arts Netball Polo Rounders Rugby Squash Swimming Tennis	Adventure training Canoeing Chess Dance Drama productions Duke of Edinburgh Award Horse riding and management Language club Public speaking/Debating Sailing Shooting Young Enterprise	Band/Orchestra Brass Choir Guitar Jazz Keyboard Organ Singing Strings Woodwind	Experience of diplomatic corps' children Experience of expatriates' children Experience of gifted children Experience of international students Experience of services' children Particular diets Rail/Airport services School bus service

The school offers: Academic, Art, Music, Financial need, Organ, All-rounder, Roman Catholics, 6th Form, Sport

Exam boards: Edexcel Foundation, AQA, OCR, IB, IGCSE, AS Level, GCSE, IB DP

  % pass rate at grades A* to C (exams at age 16): 95.2%
  % pass rate (exams at age 18): 99%
This school offers International Baccalaureate courses
24 courses are offered for age 18 exams
99% of pupils went on to Higher Education or took a Gap Year

This school provides for individual pupils with these needs:
Dyslexia or Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD)

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