sutton valence school for amj pupils

SUTTON VALENCE SCHOOL

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OUR SCHOOL QUICK FACTS• Our Headmaster is Mr. Grindlay.• We have 520 pupils• We have 55 teachers.• We learn lots of subjects, some are compulsory and some are optional, English, Mathematics,

Sciences, Humanities and Languages (Compulsory) and Music, DT, Art, Drama, HE PE and CCF.

• The school was founded by William Lambe in 1576.

SCHOOL FACILITES In our school we have facilities such as:•Swimming pool•Theatre•Athletics track•Hockey pitch•Netball grounds •Tennis courts•Dance studio

•Rugby pitch•Cricket pitch• CCF huts•Shooting Range •Boarding Houses•Art Department•DT Department

•Sports Centre•Chapel

A TYPICAL SCHOOL DAYWe arrive at school for 8:25am, where we then go to our tutor room for 10-15 minutes. After which on a Monday and Friday we will have Chapel or assembly.A normal morning for us is to have two lessons before our half an hour morning break, after this we will have a further two lessons before lunch (all of our lessons are 55 minutes long). We get an hour and a half lunch break then have another lesson followed by another 20 minute break and then another lesson or club

P1 Chapel or LessonP2 LessonBreak

30 minutes

P3 LessonP4 LessonLunch

1 hour – 1 ½ hours

P5 LessonBreak

20 minute break

P6 Lesson or club

CO-CURRICULAR •Music lessons•Team matches•Lamda

SPORT What we play:•Hockey•Rugby•Football•Athletics•Netball•Rounder's•Tennis•Cricket•Swimming

SCHOOL’S NOTABLE ALUMNI Terence Cuneo – PainterSir Charles Groves – ConductorGordon Apps – World War 1 flying aceAjahn Amaro – Abbot at Amaravati Buddhist monasteryAli Bongo – Magician Ben Brown – BBC journalist Joseph Friedman – Inventor of the flexible drinking strawPaul Anderson – Olympic SailorAshley Jackson – Olympic HockeyMark Benson – England cricket captainRobbie Joseph – Cricket PlayerSydney Wooderson – Olympic athlete and record holderSusannah Townsend – Hockey Player