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Townsend VA Church of England

High Oaks, St Albans, Hertfordshire AL3 6DR, UK
11-18 Years

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Townsend Church of England School is a voluntary aided secondary school based in St Albans, England. The students attending are aged between 11 and 18 years old.

Facilities

  • A state-of-the-art Discovery and Independent Learning Centre that also houses our library and some of our extensive computing facilities – including 50 wireless laptop computers for use in the Independent Learning Centre
  • All teaching areas have broadband fibre optic internet access, interactive computer whiteboards and computer data projectors, as well as traditional specialist resources
  • Seven specialist refurbished hi-spec science laboratories
  • A modern, award-winning classroom suite for the English department
  • Fully-equipped specialist rooms for art and design – including a large photography darkroom
  • A dedicated modern Technology Centre with two fully-equipped food technology rooms and refurbished electronics and resistant material areas/workshops
  • A drama studio equipped with specialist lighting
  • Seven computer suites networked by fibre optic cables that run throughout the school and all with broadband Internet access. The computing facilities are  complemented by a wireless Wi-Fi network accessible throughout the school
  • Dedicated classrooms for the teaching of mathematics and others for the teaching of modern foreign languages
  • We have a partnership with the St Albans Music School, part of the Hertfordshire Music Service, who operate from our purpose built music centre and also deliver our music teaching, organise our visiting music specialist teachers and tuition, and provide extra-curricular music – such as choirs, bands, orchestra, wind groups etc.
  • Dedicated modern religious education and humanities classrooms
  • A modern fully resourced dedicated Sixth Form Centre with study rooms, computer room with student broadband and Wi-Fi internet access, teaching rooms, seminar rooms, and a comfortable Post-16 student common room/social area
  • A large lecture theatre with full audio/visual facilities
  • Picnic and landscaped areas with outdoor seating and two canteens, one of which serves a range of foods at lunchtimes and break
  • Six outside table tennis tables and ten indoor table tennis tables
  • A prayer and reflection room organised by students for students and available for anyone to use
  • A large outside, all weather covered canopy area for students to relax in
  • Covered walkways between main buildings for student comfort
  • All student toilets and changing rooms have been refurbished to a high standard
  • Seminar, conference and training facilities – available for hire but available for use by our students during the day
  •  A 25 metre heated indoor swimming pool
  • An (ECB Standard) artificial cricket pitch
  • Six hard surface tennis and netball courts
  • A fully equipped gymnasium
  • Two extensive sports playing fields used for athletics, rounders, football, rugby and other team games

Features

Things to note

  • Clubs are open to all years unless a year group is specified. There are activities & worship in The Reflection Room every day run by the sixth form.
  • Girls netball & football and boys rugby & football fixtures take place after school on a variety of days.

Extra Curricular

Please check the school website link for details.

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Selection Criteria: Selective

Admission Details

Townsend Church of England School is a Voluntary Aided School and it is the school Governors who decide who will be admitted to the school.

The Governors will admit 150 students to Year 7 each September. The school wishes to protect its Christian character and ethos but also warmly welcomes applications from the wider community.

Priority Areas as defined by the County Council for Community Schools do not apply to this Voluntary Aided Church School. As Townsend is the only Church of England secondary school in this part of Hertfordshire we welcome applications from a very wide area. Distance from the school is not a criterion for admission unless we are over-subscribed when it is used as a tiebreaker.

In the event of more applications being received than there are places available, it will be necessary to operate a scheme of allocation. This will be done using the criteria set out below. Places will be allocated by the Governing Body in the order indicated.

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