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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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Friendship Day 2024
Featured - 29th Mar 2024

Friendship Day 2024

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Welcome to our new Year 7s! As a relatively small school, one of our biggest strengths is the positive relationships that we develop between staff and our students. No student is overlooked and every student matters. And when – five to seven years later – our students leave Southborough to move on to university or the workplace, they leave as well educated, well rounded, confident and happy y
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Commonwealth Day Service
Posted 22nd Mar 2024

Commonwealth Day Service

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Students invited to Westminster Abbey On Monday 11/3/2024, Headteacher Mr Smith, Extra-Curricular Teacher Mr Iles and a selected few Southborough High School students attended the Commonwealth Service in Westminster Abbey. It was a time to gather, celebrate and give thanks for our great Commonwealth family and at the same time to marvel at its continued vitality and capacity to meet the needs, hopes
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World Book Day '24
Posted 15th Mar 2024

World Book Day '24

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Southborough's Celebration of Reading “Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.” “Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, t
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A-Level English trip to Brontë Country
Posted 8th Mar 2024

A-Level English trip to Brontë Country

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Ask any book lover to list their favourite novel about love and passion, and the chances are that Emily Brontë’s gothic novel Wuthering Heights would feature highly. The evocative, melancholy and sorrowful tone embedded in the love story between Cathy and Heathcliff is one that has endured. So it was a rather special treat for our Year 12 and 13 A-Level English Literature students to be taken on a
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Students ‘step up’ in Jack Petchey’s ‘Speak Out’ Challenge Workshop
Posted 1st Mar 2024

Students ‘step up’ in Jack Petchey’s ‘Speak Out’ Challenge Workshop

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On Wednesday, a group of Year 10 Southborough students took part in a highly rewarding Jack Petchey workshop. The one full day workshop –led by a Speakers Trust trainer – offered our boys structured, interactive exercises for both individuals and groups to develop communications skills and expand comfort zones. The aim of the workshop was to support students to exceed expectations. And our stud
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'Accelerated Reader' Winners' Reward Trip
Posted 23rd Feb 2024

'Accelerated Reader' Winners' Reward Trip

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On Wednesday 7th February, Miss Geering celebrated the Word Millionaires with a rewards trip to Kingston for them. Twenty students were on the trip as they had become the first word millionaires in Key Stage 3, having read a staggering total of 39,481,432 words between them last term. Asher R said ”I just love reading and am really excited to go on the trip. I will be keeping up the re
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Geography GOT Learners Visit
Posted 9th Feb 2024

Geography GOT Learners Visit

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Natural History Museum London Visit for Years 8&9 Geography GOT Students  "Gifted, Outstanding, and Talented" (GOT) refers to a programme or initiative designed to identify and provide specialised educational opportunities for students who demonstrate exceptional abilities, talents, or potential in areas such as academics, arts, athletics, or leadership. These programmes are often aime
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Wellfest 2024: ‘university fair’ style event on Wellbeing
Posted 2nd Feb 2024

Wellfest 2024: ‘university fair’ style event on Wellbeing

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At Southborough, we deliver a robust PDT curriculum designed to engage with mental health. Students from all year groups are nominated to become Mental Health Ambassadors and the school marks Mental Health Awareness Week with a rigorous programme of assemblies, lessons and talks. In January 2023, we launched ‘Wellfest’, our first ‘mental health event’, bringing together a wide range of char
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Bletchley Park Codebreaking for Maths G.O.T. Students
Posted 26th Jan 2024

Bletchley Park Codebreaking for Maths G.O.T. Students

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Those familiar with military history recognise the significance of Bletchley Park, a  country estate pivotal to the British codebreaking efforts in World War II and the birth of modern computing. Alan Turing and other key figures in the Ultra intelligence project decoded encrypted enemy messages, notably those from the German Enigma and Tunny machines. Historians estimate that the Codebreakers' contributi
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Christmas 2023 Carol Service
Posted 19th Jan 2024

Christmas 2023 Carol Service

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In the lead up to Christmas, Southborough students celebrated Christmas with a very special carol service at St Matthew’s Church, Surbiton, presided by Reverend William Allberry. The service took place on Thursday 21 December and was very much a special event for Year 7 and 8 students. All of the students got the chance to take part in the service, either through singing or delivering a reading &ndas
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Xmas 2023 Food Collection
Posted 12th Jan 2024

Xmas 2023 Food Collection

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Thank you 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 commun
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Grandparents Christmas Tea Party 2023
Posted 15th Dec 2023

Grandparents Christmas Tea Party 2023

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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 blessing – whether it’s providing childcare when the grandchildren are young, dro
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PTA Quiz & Family Fun Activity Evening a Great Hit!
Posted 8th Dec 2023

PTA Quiz & Family Fun Activity Evening a Great Hit!

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Last Friday evening, members of our Parents & Teachers Association (PTA) pulled out all the stops to host a highly entertaining and very enjoyable Family Quiz fund-raising event for the school. The PTA team had clearly spent a great deal of their own time planning and preparing for this event, as the attention to detail was faultless, right down to the varied challenges and activities and the hall deco
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Sponsored Walk 2023
Posted 1st Dec 2023

Sponsored Walk 2023

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Southborough supports The Children's Trust, Tadworth When Southborough sixth former Rio Crocker sustained a serious head injury in a freak accident earlier this year, his family and f
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Prizegiving 2023
Posted 24th Nov 2023

Prizegiving 2023

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Celebration of year-long effort Last week Southborough saw one of the most important occasions in the school calendar take place in the main school hall – the annual Prizegiving event, where students are recognised and rewarded for their achievements. This special night was held to celebrate the success of our wonderful students, whether for attainment, endeavour, extra-curricular
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‘Sky Up Academy Studios’ visit 2023
Posted 17th Nov 2023

‘Sky Up Academy Studios’ visit 2023

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Awesome learning experience Ask any young student interested in media  to put into words their dream workplace of the future, it may sound a little like this: “State-of-the-art building, colourful and with open spaces to work in and inspire creativity, access to the very latest  technology… free cinemas , a free gym, the choice of 13 cafes and a Little Wait
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Halloween Competitions 2023
Posted 10th Nov 2023

Halloween Competitions 2023

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Winners announced Here at Southborough, we wanted to ensure that our students were given the opportunity to show-case their creative talents by setting them the challenge before we broke up for the Half Term break to take part in one of two seasonal Halloween-themed competitions, namely a pumpkin carving competition for those who like to roll their sleeves up and get ‘arty’ &
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Madrid Exchange Trip 2023
Posted 3rd Nov 2023

Madrid Exchange Trip 2023

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Language students excel Our students had a great time on our trip to Madrid as part of our residential exchange programme with Colegios el Valle school in Madrid. This has been an annual highlight for our students of Spanish, with the opportunity to practice speaking and listening with native speakers. As is customary, our boys were given a warm welcome on our arrival into Barajas air
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Southborough hosts the Mayor's 100% Attendance celebration
Posted 20th Oct 2023

Southborough hosts the Mayor's 100% Attendance celebration

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The Mayor of Kingston upon Thames leads the celebrations at Southborough Both parents and staff know that being around teachers and friends in a school or college environment is the best way for pupils to learn and reach their potential. Time in school also keeps children safe and provides access to extra-curricular opportunities and pastoral care. That’s why school attendance is so important and w
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National Poetry Day 2023
Posted 13th Oct 2023

National Poetry Day 2023

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National Poetry Day Inspiration of ‘Refuge’ theme On Thursday 5 October Southborough celebrated National Poetry Day, an annual  encouragementl to enjoy, discover and share poetry. The theme was “REFUGE’’,  whether the refuge of finding peace and solace within someone’s mind, or a safe home to come back to at the end of each day, or of being a refugee tr
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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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