Everything you need to know from timetables to lost property
Dates for the Academic Year 2023-24 are as follow: Term 1 Start Year 7 & Year 12: Tuesday 5th September 2023 Start All Years: Wednesday 6th September 2023 End: Wednesday 18th October 2023 Term 2 Start: Tuesday 31st October 2023 End: 12pm Friday 15th December 2023 Term 3 Start: Thursday 4th January 2024 End: Friday …
Read moreYounger Readers Stone Cold – R Swindells Goldfish Boy – L Thompson Trash – A Mulligan Rail Head – P Reeves The Fastest Boy in the World – E Laird Wonder – R J Palacio Rook – A McGowan The Falcon’s Malteser – A Horowitz Hacker – M Blackman The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas …
Read moreFor academic year 2021-2022, download the Application Form for Music Lessons below.
Read moreCommonweal is lucky to have a very active PTA which is unusual for a school at secondary level. Commonweal wants to provide those extras which make school a great place to be for the students, and we help them raise the funds to do that. Among other things, we have helped to fund tennis nets, …
Read moreWe support all EAL Students who are either New to English or Developing Competence. We offer differentiated Private Study sessions for individuals and small groups. We closely monitor student progress using a range of assessments. In addition, we support students in main stream lessons in order to access the curriculum. Our aim is to ensure …
Read moreThe ‘Commonweal Way is all about encouraging our students to be outstanding learners and scholars. We expect our students to be well behaved in and outside of the classroom, showing respect for their fellow peers, all school staff and for the school environment. There is though, a very important difference between this traditionally accepted meaning …
Read moreThere are four School Houses within Commonweal which are named after Historical sites within Wiltshire. These are: Ridgeway Sarum Stonehenge Whitehorse Upon arrival at the school, each student is placed within a House. This House will act as a ‘Community’ for the students, a school within a school. Students will compete in inter House events …
Read moreRequests for absences in term time The Department for Education has recently made amendments to school attendance regulations, the most important of which relates to term time family holidays: Amendments to the 2006 regulations remove references to family holiday and extended leave as well as the statutory threshold of ten school days. The amendments make …
Read moreBooks are loaned to students and must be treated with care. Equipment lost or damaged must be replaced and paid for. Although all reasonable care is taken, no responsibility can be accepted for the loss or damage of personal property belonging to students. All articles should be be clearly and indelibly marked with the owner’s …
Read moreAt Commonweal, we expect all students to remain on site at lunchtime, unless written permission is sought by parents at the start of the year. When students enroll on the first day of the September term, we will issue School Network Accounts and a scan will be taken of their index fingertip. The optical scanner …
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