The Winston Churchill School received a score of "good" from OFSTED in April 2018,[2] with GCSE results above the national average. "The curriculum is a strength of the school...teaching is good with aspects that are outstanding...students behaviour both in and out of classrooms is good" and "students feel safe & secure".[2]
The most recent short inspection by OFSTED on 14 and 15 November 2023 found that "This is an inclusive school, with high expectations for pupils’ conduct and achievement." and that "Behaviour around the school site is generally calm and respectful and the significant
majority of pupils meet the school’s high expectations for conduct well".[3]
Organisation
Teaching occurs during one-hour lessons with Physical Education (P.E.) lessons twice a week (more frequently for P.E. GCSE students). After school clubs provide extra sports and P.E., and other extra-curricular activities.
Planetarium
The Winston Churchill School is the first state school in the UK to have its own permanent planetarium on campus. It was opened on 10 December 2019 by the fifth incarnation of The Doctor and former Winston Churchill School student Peter Davison.[4] The planetarium is also open to the public out of school times, showing films on astronomy and holding lectures and space talks.[5]
Radio Woking
Radio Woking is a UK community radio station owned and operated by the school, broadcasting on DAB in the boroughs of Woking and Rushmoor and throughout the world online. Students at the school are trained and get the opportunity to broadcast regularly on the station.[6]
Presenters on the station are volunteers and the station broadcasts a wide range of programmes featuring local guests, sports clubs and specialist music shows.[7]
Notable alumni and faculty
Graham Willmott, better known as bestselling author Albert Jack
