Woldingham School is an independent school for girls aged 10 to 19.
Facilities
Purpose-built science labs, humanities and language hubs, studios for art, drama and music, and a 600-seat auditorium.
Direct trains reach the school in 25 minutes from Clapham Junction to the train station in the school grounds. The school bus service covers Surrey and Kent. It is less than three miles to the M25, only 30 minutes from Gatwick and 45 minutes from Heathrow.
Woldingham has excellent sports facilities. Sports centre includes a large sports hall, two squash courts and a fitness studio with a wide range of gym equipment. The dance/gymnastics studio includes a state of the art sprung floor. Extensive outdoor courts and pitches, including an all-weather pitch, an indoor tennis dome and an indoor swimming pool.
Features
Things to note
Woldingham has four mixed-age Houses, each of which promotes a spirit of community among girls of different ages and staff.
There is an active programme of PE lessons in which all girls, including Sixth Form, participate. These include netball, hockey, cricket, tennis and athletics. In the autumn and spring terms, netball and hockey are major sports. In the summer cricket, tennis and athletics.
Girls have a huge range of additional sports clubs and activities to choose from.
Woldingham’s Millennium Centre has some of the best facilities for music and drama performance of any school in the country.
There is a wide range of choirs, ensembles, bands and groups for students of all abilities.
The quality of the theatre production is exceptional. All girls take curriculum drama lessons in Years 7-9.
There is an extensive choice of lunchtime and after-school activities. Students relish the opportunity to try something new – or improve an existing skill - challenging themselves intellectually, physically and practically.
Most girls join the school in Year 7, Year 9 or at Sixth Form. Occasional places are available in Years 8 and 10. Assessment days are held in the autumn term and decision are made in December. 13+ candidates can apply in Year 8 to start at Woldingham in Year 9 or for deferred entry in Year 6. Click on the links below for more information:
11+: Academic, Art, Drama, Music, Performing Arts and Sport. There is a ‘Local Girl’ Scholarship (means tested) for a pupil at a local, maintained primary school.
13+: Academic, Art, Drama, Music, Performing Arts and Sport.
16+: Academic, Art, Drama, Music, Science and Sport.
2.26 miles
