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Tanbridge House School, formerly Horsham High School for Girls, is a coeducational secondary school located in Horsham, West Sussex, England. Its current head master is Mr Sheridan who started in 2022. The school teaches a variety of subjects across the curriculum. In 2012 95.7% of students achieved A*-C grades at GCSE. Of those, 79% achieved 5 A*-C including English and Maths.

In November 2012, the school achieved an 'Outstanding' Ofsted rating in all four key areas of inspection. This placed it in the top three per cent of secondary schools in the country and made it one of only seven 'Outstanding' secondary schools in the county.

School Information

There is a 'Student Voice' at Tanbridge which involves over 100 student representatives, who are involved in interviewing potential staff, leading on environmental and charitable issues and helping pupils make the transition from primary to secondary school.

There are SMART Boards in every classroom, nine IT suites and another five computer areas and iPads. Since 2008, the school has had a Virtual Learning Environment and Moodle. The school has its own Learning Resource Centre.

The school theatre production is held every summer at The Capitol Theatre in Horsham, and has included West Side Story (2008) Sweeney Todd (2009) Les Misérables (2010), Evita (2011), The Phantom of the Opera (2012), Miss Saigon (2013), Jekyll and Hyde (2017), Made in Dagenham (2018), High School Musical (2022) and Sister Act (2023).

In 1971, pupils at the school, then Horsham High School for Girls, put on the play Antigone by Jean Anouilh jointly with Christ's Hospital school.

School Timeline

Notable former pupils

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Horsham High School for Girls

• Kirsten Cooke, actor
• Maggie Gee, novelist
• Barbara Yorke, historian

Tanbridge House School

• Devon Endersby (born 1992), first-class cricketer
• Jamie Hewlett - artist/cartoonist and developer of the comic strip Tank Girl, and co-creator of the band Gorillaz

References

1. Ofsted Communications Team (5 November 2010). "Find an inspection report". www.ofsted.gov.uk.
2. http://www.tanbridge-house-sch.co.uk/ipadsenhancelearning.shtml
3. "Celebrating a visit from Dr Trevor Hoskins (PrepB, ColB 40-50)". Christ's Hospital. 30 October 2024. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
4. ^ "Horsham: Education". British History Online. 2 January 2025. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
5. Blain, Virginia; Clements, Patricia; Grundy, Isobel (1990). The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-5848-0. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
6. Lavelle, Ryan; Langlands, Alexander (2020). "Introduction". The Land of the English Kin. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-42189-9. Retrieved 1 January 2025.

Further reading

• Horsham High School for Girls 1904-1954, by E. M. Marchant, published c.1955

External links

• School website
• Tanbridge House School Worthing Road site
• Horsham High School for Girls at the National Archives
• 1942 letter from headteacher

• Community schools in West Sussex
• Secondary schools in West Sussex