Welcome to Thornden School.
We are on a mission to become the Best School in the South and we are relentless, as a school community, in ensuring that we get there!
Please see below for our Good Schools Guide Review from 2025 - it explains that we are "A big school with a big heart, exceptional leadership and a culture where it’s cool to want to do well. Delivers academic excellence without compromising on wellbeing or personal development. Families feel very lucky to have this school on their doorstep."
In 2025 we topped the table for GCSE results in Hampshire.
Our values; Aspire, Succeed, Belong and Care are lived - they form the backbone of everything that we do.
Thornden is a very special place - please take a look around our website and get in touch if you would like more information.
Coming Up:
23rd November, 7.30pm
The international hit musical comes to the big screen! Winner of eight Tony Awards in 2019, including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album, HADESTOWN: THE MUSICAL is the genre-defying musical blending modern American folk music with New Orleans-inspired jazz to reimagine a sweeping ancient tale of two intertwining love stories, that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and King Hades and his wife Persephone. Filmed live on stage in London’s West End and featuring the original Broadway stars, HADESTOWN: THE MUSICAL invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back.
Coming Up:
Monday 7th December, 7:30pm
Filmed live at the specially designed Starlight Auditorium at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER'S STARLIGHT EXPRESS - LIVE ON STAGE will immerse audiences in a world of speed, song and storytelling as an incredible cast of 40 whizz across the screen, performing some of musical theatre’s most beloved songs.
As a child’s train set magically comes to life and the engines race to become the fastest in the world, Rusty the steam train has little hope of winning until he is inspired by the legend of the ‘Starlight Express’.
A show seen around the world by over 30 million people, and with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER'S STARLIGHT EXPRESS - LIVE ON STAGE is an electrifying experience for all ages.
Coming Up:
13th November
Cert: 15
Runtime 1hr 40
The children of a once famous artist hire a forger to complete some unfinished, long ago abandoned canvases so they'll have an inheritance when he dies.
Coming Up:
Thursday 19th November
GIANT, the 5-star critically acclaimed play starring John Lithgow (Killers of the Flower Moon, The Crown) as Roald Dahl, comes to the big screen. Winner of 3 Olivier Awards® including Best Play and a Tony Award® for Best Actor in a Play (John Lithgow), the production was filmed live in London’s West End ahead of its sold-out Broadway run. The stellar cast includes Aya Cash (The Boys, The Franchise, You’re the Worst), Elliot Levey (Cold War, Patriots, Good) and Rachael Stirling (The Divine Mrs S).
A world-famous children’s author under threat. A battle of wills in the wake of scandal. And one chance to make amends...It’s the summer of 1983, The Witches is about to hit the shelves and Roald Dahl is making last-minute edits. But the outcry at his recent, explicitly antisemitic article won’t die down. Across a single afternoon at his family home, and rocked by an unexpectedly explosive confrontation, Dahl is forced to choose: make a public apology or risk his name and reputation. Inspired by real events, GIANT explores with dark humour the difference between considered opinion and dangerous rhetoric offering a complicated portrait of a fiendishly charismatic icon.
Coming Up:
Tuesday 1st December
At a cosy Christmas party, young Clara meets the mysterious magician Drosselmeyer, who gives her a nutcracker doll. When the guests have departed and the house is asleep, Clara sneaks downstairs in search of the doll. Instead, she finds Drosselmeyer, who whisks her away on a journey into a whole world of enchantment: fantastical landscapes of flurried snow and glittering confection where toys come alive and the magic never stops.
Peter Wright’s production of this festive family favourite sparkles to the wondrous swell of Tchaikovsky’s orchestral score, alongside the glow and grandeur of Julia Trevelyan Oman’s period designs.
Coming Up:
Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd December
Dare to believe in magic
The UK's #1 ★★★★★ rated magic show returns with a dazzling, new production for 2026.
★★★★★
You're invited to a beautiful night of wonder, filled with joy, magic and the impossible becoming possible.
This is the unmatched, unmissable, unforgettable Showman, The Man Who Was Magic.
A completely astonishing, five star rated night of magic.
Direct from London's West End and an unprecedented run of sold-out shows in theatres around the world - that guarantees to leave you aching with laughter & dizzy in disbelief.
Presented by James Phelan, the first magician in history to sell out a two week solo-run at The Magic Circle -
Most infamous for jamming the BBC switchboard after he correctly predicted the lottery.
Join us for the most astonishing and impossible night of magic.
Don't miss what The Standard calls
"An unforgettable evening we can't stop talking about".
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Tickets limited and will sell out quickly.
All new material for 2026.
DON'T MISS THE YEAR'S MOST UNMISSABLE MAGIC SHOW.
Thursday 12 November 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Wednesday 18 November 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Wednesday 18 November 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Friday 20 November 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Wednesday 25 November 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Tuesday 01 December 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Wednesday 02 December 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Monday 07 December 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Thursday 10 December 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Thursday 17 December 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Friday 18 December 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Wednesday 06 January 2027
8:00am – 8:30am
Friday 08 January 2027
8:00am – 8:30am
Friday 08 January 2027
8:00am – 8:30am
Friday 15 January 2027
8:00am – 8:30am
Wednesday 20 January 2027
8:00am – 8:30am
Thursday 21 January 2027
8:00am – 8:30am
Friday 22 January 2027
8:00am – 8:30am