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I love being the headteacher of this school. Not only does the progress we have made over recent years fill me with enormous pride, but I also know that this is a school where staff and students work exceptionally well together. We are a school that is going places! Niall Smith MA (Cantab), NPQEL - Headteacher
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Southborough Celebrates Its Best Set of GCSE Results EVER!
Featured - 6th Sep 2024

Southborough Celebrates Its Best Set of GCSE Results EVER!

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GCSE Results Day 2024 proved to be a particularly upbeat day for not only our students but for the school itself, with Southborough celebrating its best set of GCSE results - and highest Progress 8 score – EVER! For a number of years, Southborough has nurtured and developed a growing number of systems and processes that successfully target, inspire, motivate and above all support our boys in their jo
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Super-Curricular Art Commission for Year 9
Posted 14th Feb 2025

Super-Curricular Art Commission for Year 9

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Our talented Year 8 Art students had only just delivered on an internal ‘commission’ to decorate the school’s recent ‘WellFest’ event – they produced bright, beautiful images of planets in response to the ‘outer space’ brief they were given – when a real life creative brief from Elmbridge Borough Council landed on the Art department&rsqu
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Young Leaders' Winter Walk 2025
Posted 7th Feb 2025

Young Leaders' Winter Walk 2025

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Sponsored walk raises over £2800 for the Royal Star & Garter home It was a privilege to take part in our Young Leaders’ Winter Walk for the Royal Star & Garter last Saturday. The way in which the boys have responded to their charity fundraising has been inspirational..! So far they have raised over £2,800, which is approximately what we us
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WellFest '25 Annual Student Wellbeing Event
Posted 31st Jan 2025

WellFest '25 Annual Student Wellbeing Event

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Southborough pulls out all the stops to host another successful ‘university fair’ style event on wellbeing. For the third year running, Southborough hosted it’s highly successful ‘WellFest’ event, a lively ‘university fair ’style event specifically designed to bring together a wide range of charities, organisations and clubs that either offe
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Super-curricular Religious Studies Trip to London
Posted 24th Jan 2025

Super-curricular Religious Studies Trip to London

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A pilgrimage to investigate religious developments in London through the ages The secret marriage between Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII took part at Whitehall Palace in the early morning hours of January 25 1533, in a private chapel. The ceremony was kept secret to many due to the controversial nature of Henry’s desire to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne. A
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Making the difference for all our students: How our inclusive Sixth Form plays its part.
Posted 17th Jan 2025

Making the difference for all our students: How our inclusive Sixth Form plays its part.

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Southborough High School takes great pride in being a highly successful inclusive secondary school. Indeed, our mission statement ‘Making the difference for all our students’ really encapsulates our true ethos. ‘To make the difference’ means ‘to do something that is important and helps people or improves the world’. ‘Inclusivity’ in a
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2024 Christmas Carol Service
Posted 10th Jan 2025

2024 Christmas Carol Service

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Southborough celebrates Christmas with a wonderful carol service at St Matthew’s Church “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”  (Ebenezer Scrooge –A Christma
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Christmas Food Collection 2024
Posted 20th Dec 2024

Christmas Food Collection 2024

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Thank you so much for your generosity! In the run up to Christmas, we asked parents, carers, pupils and staff to kindly donate foodstuffs and useful household provisions for the Kingston Pantry, a local charity that supports almost 200 local families in need living in and around Surbiton, Tolworth and Chessington. Despite many of us feeling the effects of the cost of living crisis, our Southborough
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Christmas Tea Party 2024
Posted 13th Dec 2024

Christmas Tea Party 2024

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A thankyou for our grandparents As a community, we at Southborough understand and appreciate the crucial role that grandparents play in the lives of their grandchildren. Today’s parents more often than not balance two careers whilst running a busy home and raising their children. Any help and support they can get from their respective parents is a very welcome blessing.
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Southborough wins coveted Attendance Award
Posted 10th Dec 2024

Southborough wins coveted Attendance Award

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FFT collects daily attendance data from almost 10,000 schools. This data helps schools to track, monitor and compare their attendance every week through the FFTr Attendance Tracker system. The awards are an acknowledgement of the hard work and dedication of staff, pupils, parents and carers in achieving excellent attendance. Whilst all schools do an incredible job to improve pupil attendance, FFT&n
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King's Trust Brunch 2024
Posted 29th Nov 2024

King's Trust Brunch 2024

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Southborough Students Deliver a Staff Brunch Fit For a King! Southborough High School is committed to developing the talents of every single student within its care and goes to great lengths to deliver the appropriate courses to bring out the very best from all its’ students. For over twelve years, Zenith -our Inclusion department - has, on behalf of a small c
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Prizegiving Evening 2024
Posted 22nd Nov 2024

Prizegiving Evening 2024

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The importance of publicly praising our students It doesn’t matter what age you are – be it child or adult – we all need to be praised for our hard work and efforts from time to time. Receiving praise helps build strong, effective relationships and motivates people to strive for excellence and live up to expectations. It nurtures confidence, improv
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PTA Comedy Night success
Posted 15th Nov 2024

PTA Comedy Night success

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PTA Fundraising Success Last Friday evening Southborough High School’s wonderful PTA (Parents and Teachers Association) hosted a highly successful and extremely entertaining Comedy Night. First launched a couple of years back, the evening once again proved to be highly enjoyable. Over 100 parents, carers and staff bought tickets to see three very funny stand-up comedia
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Geography students enjoy a fabulous trip to The Bay of Naples
Posted 8th Nov 2024

Geography students enjoy a fabulous trip to The Bay of Naples

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Here at Southborough, we believe that learning doesn’t just happen within the confines of the classroom. School trips - whether it’s a day out seeing the sites of London or a week-long visit abroad – are all about personal growth and discovery for most children. Students are pushed out of their comfort zones and learn to adapt to new situations, which can help build resili
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'Readers make Leaders'
Posted 25th Oct 2024

'Readers make Leaders'

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Why Southborough wants its students to lead Teachers and parent/carers alike will know that engaging in reading is good for you, both on an academic AND personal level. And the earlier that children get into the habit of reading – particularly reading for pleasure – the greater the benefits to be gained. Reading bolsters cognitive processes because it exer
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Southborough Sixth Form goes from Strength to Strength!
Posted 18th Oct 2024

Southborough Sixth Form goes from Strength to Strength!

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As we approach the end of this term, we have been encouraged by just how successful our Sixth Form recruitment has been this year. Last summer, the Sixth Form area underwent a significant face-lift. Rooms were stripped back to empty shells and re-decorated from top to bottom. Layout was re-defined to make better use of functional space and new furniture was purchased for the study a
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Celebrating National Poetry day 2024
Posted 11th Oct 2024

Celebrating National Poetry day 2024

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This year's theme is 'Your Voice Counts' At Southborough High School, we place great importance on celebrating all things literary. On Thursday 3 October it was National Poetry Day, an annual mass celebration to encourage all to enjoy, discover and share poetry. This year, the theme at Southborough was “Your Voice Counts’’ and this was interpret
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Open Evening 2024
Posted 4th Oct 2024

Open Evening 2024

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A night to remember - for all the right reasons!   Last week, Southborough High School pulled out all the stops to provide visitors with a warm welcome to our whole school Open Evening and an interesting and fun evening of subject activities to see and take part in. With record numbers through the door, visitors were able to pre-book a specific time to listen to
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Southborough High School once again hosts Mental Health Conference for Kingston Primary Schools
Posted 27th Sep 2024

Southborough High School once again hosts Mental Health Conference for Kingston Primary Schools

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Last week we were thrilled to welcome back Mental Health Ambassadors from primary schools in and around the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames. It’s an event we feel extremely passionate about hosting and we were bowled over by how enthusiastic and articulate the primary school visitors were about Mental Health. The background facts are sobering; 1 in 3 people will be affected by mental health iss
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Celebrating Southborough’s Inclusive Offer with the Opening Ceremony of our Zenith Centre
Posted 20th Sep 2024

Celebrating Southborough’s Inclusive Offer with the Opening Ceremony of our Zenith Centre

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Last Friday saw the official opening ceremony of the Zenith Centre, our specialist Inclusion department that is the central hub –and heart! – of the school for identifying and providing a wide range of effective academic support, targeted intervention, alternative pathways and bespoke provisions for our students. With a robust team of specialist in-house professionals and qualified practitioner
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Respect, Responsibility, Resilience, Relationships, Support, Challenge.

Each year we reward a student that embodies our virtues

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Kulash - Senior NCO

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Drew H - Assistant Head Boy

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Dima M - Striking gold

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Josh M - The Ambassador

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Laura LN - 'Can do' attitude

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Leo B - On court Griffin

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