The Weald School


The Weald School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form. It caters for around 1,700 pupils in years 7 to 13, including over 300 in its sixth form. The school opened in 1956, and celebrated its 60th anniversary in the academic year 2016–17.
The school is located in the village of Billingshurst, West Sussex, England. Its grounds adjoin the main road through the village, and is shared with the local leisure facilities at Weald Recreation Centre. On 20 September 2008, the Weald Recreation Centre became the Billingshurst Leisure Centre. The centre is run by Places Leisure on behalf of Horsham District Council.
The Weald admits students from a catchment area, reaching north to the Surrey/Sussex Border, south to Bury, west to Midhurst, and into parts of Horsham.
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History

In December 2008 Mr P May, headteacher since 1998, retired and Peter Woodman became the new Head having left RSA Academy Arrow Vale to take up the post. In December 2020 Peter Woodman retired, leaving Mrs Sarah Edwards as interim head teacher. Mrs Sarah Edwards was appointed headteacher in March 2021.

Extracurricular activities

Classrooms for Kenya

Since a visit to Kenya by a number of staff and students in the summer of 2006 the school has had links with 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 School's 50th Year the school decided to try and raise £50,000 to build new Brick Classrooms at these schools. 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. After the insurrection of 2008 another big push was planned for the 2008–9 academic year. The plan was to raise another £30,000 to finish completely re-building Lumuli Primary School. This was in the worst state of all the schools the project has been working with and it was hoped that by the end of 2009 that it would be completely re-built to brick classrooms.

Notable alumni