Thornden is a school where staff, students and parents feel valued. We have a warm community spirit that enables individuals to develop their own talents and abilities, whilst taking the opportunity to try something new and different, without the fear of failure.
We have superb teachers and support staff, who take pride in their work and their achievements. They have passion for their subject and an enthusiasm in ensuring that all children in their care reach their full potential.
We teach students how to learn; to face challenges and problems and to find solutions, building resilience, confidence and work individually and together.
High expectations reach far beyond academic performance. Students engage in clubs, activities, trips and charity events, developing resilience while they enjoy and learn to work with people around them. This engagement is fulfilling in itself but also develops strength and confidence when responding to academic and individual challenges.
Coming Up:
He’s the wild man of rock who became a national treasure. Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder is hitting the road for a new, spoken word tour. The star of more-TV-shows-than-anyone-has-a-right-to-feature-on – including Celebrity Gogglebox, and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, among many others – redefined the sex’n’drugs’n’rock’n’roll lifestyle during the halcyon age of Madchester. He’s touring in support of his new book: Happy Mondays - and Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays. Fans can look forward to a carnival of excess, wild tales, and improbable truths, as they enjoy the talents of a unique rock'n'roll star dubbed Britpop's answer to WB Yeats. Strap yourselves in and say Hallelujah for Shaun.
Coming Up:
After 40 years in the business, Aled’s looking back on a remarkable career with a one-man show, featuring never-before-heard music, tales from the decades and for the first time, his story told in his own words. It's time to come Full Circle.
Coming Up:
Thornden School presents Annie.
During the Great Depression in 1930s New York, plucky young orphan Annie is forced to live a life of misery in an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Left only with a locket to remember her parents by, she dreams of escape and an exciting new life. Annie's luck soon changes when she is chosen to spend a fairytale Christmas with famous billionaire, Oliver Warbucks. Meanwhile, spiteful Miss Hannigan has other ideas and hatches a plan to spoil Annie's search for her true family ....
Performances: 17, 18, 19 and 20 July
Coming Up:
In 1909 Celie a black American girl is given away in marriage by her abusive father to a local farmer Albert who treats her cruelly. Celie is God-fearing and deliverance comes in the form of a jazz singer who takes her away to another city far away from her misery. She now gets her long due happiness.
Cert: 12A
Runtime: 2h 21m
Coming Up:
When people in Littlehampton--including conservative local Edith--begin to receive letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting that something is amiss, the town's women investigate.
Certificate: 15
Runtime 1hr 40m
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