The Weald School, Billingshurst

The Weald School, Billingshurst

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name = The Weald School


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street = Station Road
city = Billingshurst
county = West Sussex
country = England
postcode = RH14 9RY
LEA = West Sussex
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enrollment = 1498
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The Weald School is a maintained comprehensive secondary school for pupils aged 11 to 18. It caters for around 1500 pupils in years 7 to 13, including over 200 in its sixth form. It is now a specialist Technology school and a sports college. The school opened in 1956, and celebrated its 50th anniversary in the academic year 2006-7.

The school is located in the West Sussex town of Billingshurst. Its campus adjoins the main road through the town, and is shared with the local leisure facilities at Weald Recreation Centre. On the 20th September 2008 the Weald Recreation Centre became the Billingshurst Leisure Centre. The facilities have greatly improved with a new pool opening and a larger Gym with new, state of the art equipment. [ [http://www.horsham.gov.uk/your_area/News/news_9319.asp] "New Billingshurst Leisure Centre Opens Saturday 20 September." Published 15/9/08 Retrieved 24/9/08] . The Centre is run by D C Leisure on behalf of Horsham District Council [ [http://www.dcleisurecentres.co.uk/Centres/West+Sussex/Billingshurst+Leisure+Centre/Billingshurst+Leisure+Centre.] D C Leisure's Billingshurst Leisure Centre Website]

Noteable Extra Curricular Activities

The Greenpower Car Project

The school has been very successful in the [http://www.greenpower.co.uk Greenpower Car] Competition with 3 cars. The Sussex Trug (named due to it looking like a local style of Garden Basket: Sussex trug) was the original car, followed by the Super Trug and Slippery Trug. The cars have all ended the 6 hour races on the podium with only a few exceptions. In October 2006 the Slippery Trug won the Final making the school UK Champions. Due to the parent running the project ending his work with the school after many years the project did not run in the 2007-8 school year but it is hoped that it will be able to run again when a suitable parent is found to take it on.

Radio Weald

Radio Weald is a Student Radio Station and has been running since 2001 and broadcasts over 87.7FM and across the school computer network once a year for a week at the end of the summer term. In July 2008 the station broadcast for the first time over the internet as well as on FM and in school. Since September 2007 there have also been regular Friday Lunchtime broadcasts played in the School Canteen. From September 2008 it is hoped that these Friday Broadcasts will also be sent out over the internet through [http://www.radioweald.co.uk the Radio Weald website] .

The Africa Project (Classrooms for Kenya)

Since a visit to Kenya by a number of staff and now ex-students in the summer of 2006 the school has had close links with a number of schools in Kenya. When the project started after this visit all of these schools had mud buildings which regularly got washed away and needed re-building. In the Schools 50th Year (2006-7 Academic Year) the school decided to try and raise £50,000 to build new Brick Classrooms at these schools. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldclass/your_stories/your_stories_africaproject.shtml] "UK schools' life changing project raises £50,000" Published ?? Retrieved 24/09/08] The Students rose to the challenge; in the summer of 2007 another set of staff and students went out to Kenya again to help build the new classrooms the school had paid for. Another trip was planned for the summer of 2008, but due to the political unrest in the country it was cancelled, and a teacher is going out instead to deliver a large amount of clothing, stationery and computer equipment to the rebuilt schools. There are number of videos and pictures of the earlier trips on the [http://www.classroomsforkenya.org.uk/ website.] After the failed trip of 2008 another big push is planned for the 2008-9 academic year. The plan is to raise another £30,000 to finish completely re-building Lumuli Primary School. This was and is in the worst state of all the schools the project has been working with and it is hoped that by the end of 2009 that it will be completely re-built to brick classrooms.

Noted alumni

*Hinda Hicks - R'n'B singerFact|date=July 2007
*Jon Edgar Sculptor (1979-1986)

References

External links

* [http://www.theweald.org.uk/ The Weald School website]
* [http://www.radioweald.co.uk/ The Radio Weald Website]
* [http://www.classroomsforkenya.org.uk/ The Africa Project Website]


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