Students finish at 12.45 on the last day of term Weds 19th Dec and that January 3rd and 4th are INSET days.
10th December, 2018
Beauty and the Beast- mysterious and magical
Audiences were transported to 18th century Paris in all its baroque grandeur this week with our Christmas show
02
6th December, 2018
Design Tech trip to Bowers and Wilkins
On the 20th November the W6 3D Design students attended a visit to the Bowers and Wilkins facility in Worthing
03
3rd December, 2018
Primary indoor football tournaments
Congratulations to all the girls and boys who took part in our primary indoor football tournaments last week
04
29th November, 2018
Apple tree gift from departing Librarian
Former SRWA Librarian Sue Waton kindly donated an apple tree for our allotment as a leaving present to the school
05
29th November, 2018
'Youth Speaks' public speaking competition
Well done to all the students who took part in the Worthing Rotary Club Youth Speaks public speaking competition
06
26th November, 2018
Year 9 students join NHS Skills Club
A group of year 9 students have been taking part in an NHS Skills Club, a 6 week course designed to introduce young learners to the different health and social care caree...
07
19th November, 2018
Year 8 student is marital arts champ
Congratulations to Alfie Carter who has won gold and silver medals in the Matt Fiddes Martial Arts British Championships
08
19th November, 2018
Donation gives boost to Greenpower team
A massive thank you to Sompting Big Local who have donated £400 to the SRWA Greenpower race team
9
12th November, 2018
Junior Band Christmas Concert
Come along to this super festive event on Saturday 8th December, raising money for two great causes
10
12th November, 2018
Beauty and Beast
This year the SRWA Performing Arts department are staging Beauty and the Beast. Don't miss it! Get your tickets today!
11
8th November, 2018
Safe Drive Stay Alive
This week our Year 12 students attended a Safe drive Stay Alive event, a hard-hitting stage show run by the West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service
12
8th November, 2018
Sixth formers' Careers Lunch
Our sixth formers enjoyed a Careers Lunch with local business people to find out more about the world of work
13
5th November, 2018
Year 8 are Championship League winners!
Our Year 8 team have brought home the Championship League trophy after beating Bohunt in the final
14
11th October, 2018
Parents go back to school for lesson in maths
Some brave parents went back to school this week to join their children in learning Maths
15
27th September, 2018
SRWA opens new STEM research hub
Schools from across the country joined us this week to celebrate as we launched a new hub for STEM research
16
24th August, 2018
Congratulations to our GCSE and A-level students!
All staff at the academy would like to congratulate our GCSE and A-level students on their achievements this year
17
16th July, 2018
Duke Of Edinburgh Bronze expedition
A huge well done to the bronze Duke of Edinburgh students, who successfully completed the expedition part of their DofE programme.
18
11th July, 2018
Woodardstock festival a triumph
In temperatures feeling more like Larnaca than Lancing, the Sir Robert Woodard Academy’s staged its very first Woodard Stock festival
19
2nd July, 2018
A big week for STEM at sixth form
W6 host an evening at world renowned engineering firm Ricardo in Shoreham and sixth former wins award for science project
20
1st July, 2018
Amazing Book Awards presentation evening
Last Friday was the Amazing Book Awards presentation evening at Shoreham academy and the culmination of a term of exciting reading
21
28th June, 2018
Music at SRWA gets an £11,000 boost
Sir Robert Woodard Academy are delighted to announce that the school has been granted an £11,000 donation for the further development of music education by the EMI Music...
22
21st June, 2018
Head of Music wins Sussex Teacher of the Year!
The whole academy is so proud of our amazing and inspirational Head of Music, Ms Laura Fauvel, who has won Sussex Secondary School Teacher of the Year!
23
12th June, 2018
Greenpower team tackle first real race
On the 10th June the SRWA Greenpower team took part in their first ever race at the infamous Goodwood race track
24
24th May, 2018
Little dresses for Africa
Thank you so much to the kind members of our community for all the fabric you donated to our textile art department earlier in the year
25
24th May, 2018
Sports Leaders organise Year 3 and 4 Fundays
This week we hosted over 500 Year 3 and 4 children from our feeder primaries. The children came in for two fun days organised and run by our year 10 sports leaders
26
10th May, 2018
Year 8 students 'graduate' from Sussex uni!
Yesterday, year 8 students at the Sir Robert Woodard Academy took part in a graduation ceremony, mortar boards and all, to celebrate completing the inspirational ‘Makin...
27
10th May, 2018
3G pitch launch with Albion stars Glenn and Ini!
Tuesday 2nd May was the long awaited launch event for our amazing 3G pitch funded by Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club
28
23rd April, 2018
Year 9s through to national quarter finals!
Unstoppable year 9 basketball team beat Canterbury School in the last 16 of the Basketball England National Schools Competition and are now through to the quarter finals!
29
19th April, 2018
Students on life-changing trip to Kenya
Over the Easter holidays a group of students from SRWA travelled to Kenya on a life-changing expedition with African Adventures.
30
28th March, 2018
Dance show a big hit
Our annual celebration of contemporary dance took place last week. Featuring a variety of genres from urban to contemporary this was an opportunity for students to showca...
31
12th March, 2018
Godspell: an explosion of colour, sound and spirit
The SRWA production of Godspell, in association with local primary schools, burst onto the stage at the Pavilion Theatre in Worthing last Thursday in an explosion of colo...
32
11th March, 2018
Dance Showcase
No rest for our performing arts department! Next up our Dance Showcase. A celebration of dance from urban to contemporary showcasing performance and choreography by SRWA...
33
8th March, 2018
Sixth former organises Fair Trade Fortnight
We interviewed sixth former Jack Taylor who has been working hard this month to raise awareness of the issues surrounding fair trade
34
1st March, 2018
Holiday clubs now open for booking
The SRWA Holiday club is on during the Easter holiday from Monday 9th April to Friday 13th April and the summer holiday from Monday 20th August to Friday 24th August
35
1st March, 2018
Meet the Greenpower team
Behold the dream team! The SRWA 2018 Greenpower team were selected through a rigorous application and interview process involving a series of design tasks and an intervie...
36
22nd February, 2018
World Book Day 2018
The LRC (Learning Resource Centre) and the English department are delighted to announce a range of events planned to celebrate World Book Day, which happens this year on...
37
22nd February, 2018
SRWA can't stop winning at basketball!
There must be something in the water at SRWA this term because our basketball performance has been stupendous
38
8th February, 2018
Get your Godspell tickets here
Students in all year groups along with many pupils from local primary schools will be performing Godspell next month.
39
6th February, 2018
Boys visit Chichester Uni for STEM event
On the 6th February 15 students visited Chichester University to take part in a Flare event promoting engineering and design to boys in years 9 and 10.
40
5th February, 2018
National Theatre Connections- The Free 9
Performing arts students at SRWA are this month taking part in the prestigious National Theatre Connections festival.
41
1st February, 2018
We need your old pillow cases!
Textiles teacher Mrs Knight and a group of KS4 students are looking for any spare, clean fabric to make simple dresses for girls in Africa
42
29th January, 2018
Southern Schools Book Award
A group of ten students attended the Southern Schools Book Award event at Roedean School last week.
43
22nd January, 2018
Cambridge University visit for Year 10
This Saturday 14, Year 10 students visited Cambridge University with the aim of experiencing a top level university and exploring the opportunities that are available to.
44
18th January, 2018
Sixth Form Bears on a roll
Congratulations to SRWA Bears Sixth Form Basketball team who won both of their ABL fixtures this weekend against two tough London schools.
45
11th January, 2018
Pride as students make Oxford University
The Sir Robert Woodard Academy sixth form college, W6, are incredibly proud to announce that two Year 13 students have received offers to study at Oxford University.
46
10th January, 2018
Four students make the county football squad
Proud to have no less than FOUR students make it into West Sussex South U12 District Football Team.
47
4th January, 2018
Sixth form chemists make aspirin in the classoom
Sixth form students at SRWA have been gaining first-hand experience of the pharmaceutical industry by making aspirin in the classroom.
48
11th December, 2017
Wendy & Peter entertains old and young alike
Students from year 7 to 13 pulled out all the stops last week to put on an unforgettable school production of Wendy and Peter, a clever retelling of the classic Peter Pan...
49
8th December, 2017
SRWA trio win public speaking competition
For the first time, SRWA entered (and won!) the Worthing Rotary Club’s public speaking competition hosted at Bohunt school
50
7th December, 2017
Students experiment with behavioural economics
A-level Economics students have been experimenting on younger students (not as sinister as it sounds!) with behavioural economics
51
4th December, 2017
STEM comes to life for Year 8
Last week 180 Year 8 students were amazed by drones, cyber intelligence and everything STEM!
52
30th November, 2017
Kenya quiz night fundraiser
The Sir Robert Woodard Academy hosted its second quiz night this year in order to raise funds for the 13 students going to Kenya in April 2018.
53
28th November, 2017
SRWA students win art competition
Congratulations to SRWA artists Lauren Harris and Bethany Hilton who scooped first and second place in the International Neighbours festival art competition.
54
27th November, 2017
Adur Sea of Lights
On Saturday 25th November SRWA students took part in the Adur Sea of Lights lantern parade, an annual event involving local schools and community groups.
55
27th November, 2017
Profile: Swimmer, Charlotte Johnson, Year 9
Only 14 but already one to watch out for on the international stage after being invited on the Swim England talent pathway...
56
23rd November, 2017
I’m a scientist. Get me out of here!
This month the SRWA science club took part in the ‘I’m a scientist. Get me out of here!’ online event
57
21st November, 2017
Christmas Celebrations
Come and join us for some festive Christmas Celebrations performed by our talented music, dance and drama students.
58
20th November, 2017
Year 10 Basketball team clean sweep
Very proud to report the fantastic success of our Year 10 Basketball boys in Durrington last week!
59
20th November, 2017
Incredible STEM opportunities from new link
SRWA students are to conduct real life science research and contribute to publishable scientific work thanks to a new partnership with The institute for Research in Schoo...
60
20th November, 2017
Sixth formers in UKMT Senior Maths Challenge
Well done to the team of four Sixth Form students who took part in the regional heat of the UKMT Senior Maths Challenge at Lancing College last week
61
20th November, 2017
SRWA Junior Band Christmas Concert
Come along to this free Christmas Concert performed by our fabulous Junior Band!
62
13th November, 2017
Parent View/Ofsted
The academy is expecting an Ofsted inspection soon and we would like to ask you for your contribution to Parent View ahead of this visit.
63
6th November, 2017
Student art work brightens up local area
SRWA art students have produced a collection of paintings of the local area in the style of pop and street art
64
2nd November, 2017
Students test nutritional value of foods
A group of Year 11 Food Preparation and Nutrition students recently took part one of their practical exam.
65
19th October, 2017
Duke of Edinburgh at SRWA
The Duke of Edinburgh Award was launched two years ago at SRWA and it has grown in leaps and bounds ever since...
66
19th October, 2017
Year 7 through to second round of County Cup
Congratulations to the Year 7 football team who are through to the second round of the County Cup
67
19th October, 2017
SRWA Bears Half Term Camp
Half Term basketball camp 23 and 24 October. All ages welcome. Great fun and even better value!
68
18th October, 2017
Sponsored walk raises funds for African Adventure
Earlier this month a group students took part in a sponsored walk from Brighton Pier to Worthing Pier.
69
16th October, 2017
Business Breakfast event builds local links
On Friday 13th Oct, SRWA held its regular Business Breakfast which sees local businesses visit the academy to share in its successes, present about their own business and...
70
12th October, 2017
Year 9 learns science of flying with RAF
Year 9 students were this week treated to a live RAF Road show courtesy of Royal Air Force Engineers.
71
9th October, 2017
W6 Open Evening
Come and check out our dynamic, friendly sixth form centre at the W6 Open Evening on Thursday 19th October from 6pm until 8pm.
72
9th October, 2017
SRWA launches book award for year 6 students
Last week saw the launch of our 6-up Book Award at North Lancing Primary School.
73
6th October, 2017
Open Evening 2017 a great success
Open Evening on Thursday 5 October was a great chance to show off the school in all its glory and staff and students at SRWA made sure they grabbed the opportunity with b...
74
11th September, 2017
New wheels for Shoreham shuttlers
New Year 7 Students travelling to SRWA from Shoreham have been enjoying school runs in their very own shuttle bus.
75
24th August, 2017
SRWA GCSE Results Press Release
Students at Sir Robert Woodard Academy in Lancing are celebrating today after opening their magic envelopes on GCSE results day. There have been many fantastic individual...
76
17th August, 2017
A Level results 2017
Students and staff at W6 Sixth Form at SRWA, a member of the Woodard Academies Trust, are today celebrating another great set of exam results.
77
26th June, 2017
SRWA Students Get Creative
SRWA art students have been busy lately getting involved with two projects, the Creative Waves for Worthing’s ‘Appear on the Pier’ art exhibition and the Worthing C...
78
19th June, 2017
SRWA at GSK Headquarters
On 16th June, 14 of the Academy’s Year 8 students took part in a national competition final at GSK HeadquGSK june 17arters in London, as part of the Go4SET Industrial C...
79
12th June, 2017
Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award Expedition
On 1st and 2nd June the first successful SRWA cohort of DofE Bronze Award year 10’s completed their Bronze assessed expedition
80
24th May, 2017
Ricardo Aerodynamics Session
On Thursday 18th and Friday 19th May, the Academy hosted the annual Ricardo Aerodynamics workshop.
81
18th May, 2017
SRWA Students at Lancing College Medics Dinner
82
16th May, 2017
Mrs Heery with TapTastik on Britain’s Got Talent
The Academy is extremely proud of Mrs Heery, who is through to the next round of Britain’s Got Talent, tap dancing with the troupe TapTastik.
83
10th May, 2017
Year 12 BTEC Music Performance – ‘Parklife'
On Tuesday 9 May, the Year 12 BTEC Music Performance students put on their own live music event in the Academy’s Alan Strong Theatre.
84
5th May, 2017
Visit to SRWA of Christelijk Lyceum Zeist school in the Netherlands
Before the Easter holidays, we hosted two groups of visitors from the Christelijk Lyceum
Zeist school in the Netherlands as part of their week long cultural visit to the...
85
5th May, 2017
Cracking the Code STEM visit to Worthing College
A group of aspiring STEM students took part in a code breaking task at Worthing College. This involved using the periodic table, design and engineering skills and team wo...
86
23rd April, 2017
PGL Adventure Revision Weekend
On the weekend of 21st-23rd April, Miss Bovill and Mr Andain took a group of year 11 students to Windmill Hill PGL Centre, Hailsham for an adventure revision weekend.
87
22nd March, 2017
Bang@Butlins
Twelve students from the SRWA Science Club went to visit the Big Bang event at Butlin’s Bognor Regis.
88
16th March, 2017
Ypres Battlefield Trip
On Monday 27th February, 40 students from year 8 had the opportunity to go to Belgium. They were accompanied by Humanities Teachers: Mr Lowe, Ms Vivier, Ms Highmore and...
89
1st March, 2017
Southern School Book Awards
Since September, our students have been involved in the Southern Schools Book Award. Students have read five simply superb young adult novels and were given the chance to...
90
30th January, 2017
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
In January, we hosted for the fourth year running, the All Schools Music Workshop with a record-breaking 500 students and staff taking part from six local primary schools...
91
16th December, 2016
Christmas Shoebox Appeal for the Homeless
92
15th December, 2016
Upper School Celebration of Achievement Evening
At the Upper School Celebration of Achievement Evening on 14th December, we recognised and celebrated the achievements of our senior students.
93
12th December, 2016
Newsletter - December 2016
Read our December Academy newsletter.
94
12th December, 2016
Dickensian London in Lancing
The December school production was the family favourite A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by John Mortimer.
95
11th November, 2016
Borneo Expedition Summer 2016
Throughout our lives we are often busy and unfortunately don’t get enough time to appreciate what and who we have around us. During the summer holidays I was privilege...
96
8th November, 2016
W6 trip to B&W
On 8th November the W6 3D design students attended a visit to the Bowers and Wilkins facility in Worthing for a tour of the manufacturing plant and to experience some of...
97
3rd November, 2016
Auschwitz
On 3rd November, Sarah, Megan and Ms Vivier visited Auschwitz-Birkenau, alongside 160 other young people and their educators from different colleges in the South of Engla...
98
5th September, 2016
GCSE Results – August 2016
Staff and students are celebrating once again!
99
1st September, 2016
SRWA Multi Sport Summer Camp
At the SRWA Multi Sport Summer Camp in August, great fun was had by all children that attended, with a range of sports over a two week period, including - archery, table...
100
18th August, 2016
A-Level Results
Continuing success for A level students at Sir Robert Woodard Academy.
101
9th August, 2016
SRWA Activities Week
Activities Week was our chance as an Academy to team build within the Chapters, experience new events and take time to enjoy education in a broader sense. We are proud t...
102
1st July, 2016
Shell Make the Future
‘Shell Make the Future’ Festival of Innovation, London
103
22nd June, 2016
SRWA Summer Fete
SRWA Fairytale Themed Summer Fete, Saturday 9th July 2016
104
17th June, 2016
Palestinian Friends
On 7th June, the Academy opened its arms to five special people from Gaza, Palestine - Mohanad, Farouk, Mohammed, Najlaa and their teacher, Ismail. They had the most dif...
105
14th June, 2016
Going Postal Drama Production
This summer’s drama production at The Sir Robert Woodard Academy is an adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s novel, Going Postal. The production will be held on 5-7 July a...
106
14th June, 2016
Summer Sounds Concert 2016
The Sir Robert Woodard Academy and local charity, Electric Storm Youth (ESY), will be hosting the ‘Summer Sounds’ concert on Thursday 14 July at 7.00pm, in the Sports...
107
9th June, 2016
University of Brighton Graduate Show 2016
On the 8th June 2016 the year 12 3D Design and Art students attended a trip to the 2016 University of Brighton Graduate Show.
108
8th June, 2016
Multi Sport Summer Camp
8th - 12th august and 15th - 19th August
109
27th May, 2016
BOWERS AND WILKINS FACILITY TRIP, WORTHING
On 13th May, the 3D Design Sixth Form students attended a visit to the Bowers and Wilkins facility in Worthing to take part in a tour of the manufacturing plant and exper...
110
23rd May, 2016
Become a teacher
Become a teacher and inspire the next generation with the Universities of Brighton and Sussex and local schools
111
10th May, 2016
Be The Change
A group of year 9 students have been working with volunteers from business at the American Express Stadium in Brighton.
112
27th April, 2016
Online Safety and Digital Parenting
This week students have all had an assembly from our School Police Officer, PC Andy Price about using technology safely.
113
3rd March, 2016
World Book Day Celebrations at SRWA
On Thursday 3rd March, SRWA was full of staff and students in costume for World Book Day, ranging from terrifying zombies (‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’) to the M...
114
1st March, 2016
Ski Trip 2016
After months of planning, the first ever SRWA ski trip got under way during the spring half term holiday. Spirits were high as the group set off on the 15 hour journey a...
115
1st March, 2016
DAY TRIP TO BOULOGNE 2016
On Tuesday 1st March, we left the Academy at 5.00am to embark on a fun filled day to Boulogne with 60 students. We took the ferry from Dover to Calais, where students ex...
116
29th February, 2016
Visit to SRWA by Matt Dickinson, Everest Summitteer and Author
Matt Dickinson, Everest Summiteer, inspirational speaker and author visited the Sir Robert Woodard Academy on Friday 12 February 2016 to enthral the entire staff and stud...
117
11th February, 2016
A week of Musical Extravagance!
‘Maestro – let the music play!’ was the call at The Sir Robert Woodard Academy recently. The Academy celebrated two significant events during the week involving se...
118
11th February, 2016
Internationalism
At the Sir Robert Woodard Academy we are committed to developing an internationalist perspective that pervades all of our work and meets the needs of three interconnected...
119
11th February, 2016
SSBA Award Presentation Evening
The hugely exciting finale of the Southern Schools Book Award was held at Roedean School on Friday 15 January, and eighteen of our most able readers went to the event. W...
120
11th February, 2016
Drop-in Health Service
In recognising that the health and wellbeing of young people is of great importance, we launched in November a new initiative. This coincided with the publication of the...
121
9th February, 2016
Borneo Trip 2016 – A flavour of what’s to come
Students started fundraising in June for a month-long trip of a lifetime to Borneo next summer. They will make the long haul flight to Malaysia next August to experience...
122
21st January, 2016
Make Your Mark
SRWA has been awarded a Certificate of Achievement in recognition of our contribution and involvement in student democracy.
123
21st January, 2016
Star Gazing
In the New Year, the Science Department, took a selected group of 20 students from year 7 and 8 to Sussex University to learn all about star gazing and our universe.
124
1st December, 2015
Rocket Car Competition
On the 13th November 2015 the year 12 and 13 Three Dimensional Design BTEC students visited the Ricardo test track to attend the Ricardo Rocket car competition. In this...
125
19th August, 2015
GCSE Results - August 2015
126
13th August, 2015
A-Level Results - August 2015
