Worth School

Worth School is a private Roman Catholic boarding and day school for students aged 11 to 18 years. It is located near Turners Hill, Crawley, West Sussex / England. It is located on the grounds of Worth Abbey, a Benedictine monastery. In 2005 visited Internatler 305 and 150 day pupils the school.

History

The school was founded in 1933 on the estate of Lord Cowdray. This year, the property, which was originally known as Paddock Hurst, was bought by the Benedictine monks of Downside Abbey in Somerset. This started a preschool and primary school for boys between the ages of 7 to 13 years. During the Second World War, the school was outsourced to Downside.

1957 Worth Priory became independent, eight years later it was renamed in Worth Abbey. 1959 Worth School was founded for boys between the ages of 13 and 18. The activities of the elementary school, however, was scaled back and eventually converted in 1965 in a Junior House for boys 10 to 13 years, year after year.

In 2005, the school was sentenced to a fine of 10,000 pounds, as they had broken competition law by had made arrangements on school fees with fifty other leading private schools. During the process, all participating schools decided to voluntary donation of three million pounds together, which zugutekam the students who had attended the schools during the period of consultation fees.

Since September 2008, the first girls are taught at school. The co-education will be expanded in the coming years.

Houses

The eight houses divide the students according to age and / or gender.

• Austin (born 7-8 ) - Junior House
• Butler (born 9 to 12) - Senior Boarding House
• Chapman (born 9 to 12) - Senior Day House
• Farwell (born in 9 to 12) - Senior Day House
• Gervase (only Year 13) - Upper Sixth House
• Rutherford (born 7 to 12) - Junior and Senior Boarding House
• St. Bede (born 9 to 12) - Senior Boarding House
• St. Mary's (only Volume 12, September 2009, Volume 13) - Girls Boarding House

Statements

At the Worth School both A - Level and the International Baccalaureate (IB ) are available from the Sixth Form as financial statements. Traditionally, slightly more students decide per year for A-level than the IB, which is especially favored by foreign students. In May 2008, accounting for 15 German students IB. Similarly, large crowds gets the school also from Southeast Asia and Spain, and Spanish-speaking regions of South America. Unlike most German students who switch preferably after the tenth grade from Germany in the Sixth Form, students come from other nations tend to be in front of the Sixth Form - mostly from vintage 7 or 9 - by Worth.

Educational offer

Worth School is in the line of traditional English elite boarding schools, which is focused in addition to academic performance on a socio -oriented education of the students. This seeks to promote social skills. This is done through activities such as participation in the acquisition of the Duke of Edinborough Award or charitable activities. Artistically gifted students be promoted in the disciplines of modern art and the theater and the music in the school's Arts Department and the Performing Arts Center. In addition to a school orchestra and a private school choir occurring internationally in the big Sunday Masses and at the end of a school year (most recently in Koblenz in the summer of 2007), are students on request individually instrumental and vocally trained.

The sport is divided according to the seasons of the trimester. In the first trimester Rugby is offered as a major sport while running to prepare for the football season in the second trimester. In the second trimester football will continue to be offered as a major sport, rugby for training. In the third trimester cricket, tennis and athletics are offered. Participation in sporting activities is mandatory.

Students are also required to attend during the week and on weekends to worship, devotions and prayer times. These are usually led by a monk of Worth Abbey.

My students are determined by teachers to prefects to take responsibility over a range of school. This creates a hierarchy in the student body, which allows a limited self-government.