Salesian School (Chertsey)
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Salesian School, Chertsey, was started in the early 1920s and was originally 2 single-sex education Roman Catholic grammar school on 2 sites maintained by the Salesian Fathers and Sisters. Highfield Road was for boys and, later, Guilford Road was for girls.
In 1971 they merged to form one comprehensive school but maintained the single-sex education on separate sites. It has a sixth form college.
In 1983 it became a coeducational school with pupils located on a site according to their age. The school has children of all lower abilities from 11-18 years. The lower school (years 7 and 8) and Sixth Form (years 12 and 13) primarily attend classes at the smaller site of Highfield Road, occasionally travelling to the Guildford Road site. Lower School students do so twice a week, during the lunch break, for PE and Technology.
Sixth Formers vary depending on their timetable. Upper School year groups (9, 10 and 11) are permanently based at Guildford Road.
In 2004 the Fusion Project was started to combine the two halves of the school on to one site, Guilford Road. The first stage was to build a new technology block, which was finished in October of the same year. It was to house old class rooms for Graphics, Food, Resistant Materials, Electronics and Textiles.
They have now also completed the second phase, which is an all weather sports facility. The next stage of the Fusion Project is to build some more class rooms, attached to the technology block, and then keep going from there.
At the end of the summer term, in July 2005, the Headteacher David Cleworth left after 15 years. Eric Doherty became headmaster for a temporary basis and then in September 2006, James Kibble took the post as Headteacher. Kibble then appointed Ciran Stapleton as head of Sixth Form replacing Steven Bell (who became deputy head of Sixth Form).
Nowadays there are currently more than 1,200 pupils in this school and is heavily under-subscribed.
