Lessons engage pupils' attention with pace and challenge, enriched with all sorts of activity to extend pupils’ interests and skills beyond the confines of the National Curriculum and examination specifications.
Our expectations of boys, both in terms of personal achievement, academic and otherwise, and behaviour, are very high. We have an excellent pastoral system that very effectively communicates our core values of respect, tolerance, courtesy, cooperation, service to the community and personal achievement. Teachers know the boys very well and visitors often comment on the laughter, good humour and warmth that mark relationships between boys and staff.
Our school was founded in 1615 by Edward Wilson, Vicar of Camberwell, as a grammar school for the sons of his parishioners. After the Second World War the school became Voluntary Aided and in 1975 we moved from Camberwell to more spacious accommodation in Wallington. In 2002 the school was designated a Specialist School in Mathematics and Computing and as such we work closely with a partnership of local primary and secondary schools in promoting excellence in these two key curriculum areas. In 2007 the school added a second specialism in the Arts and was graded 'outstanding' in its Ofsted report.
We welcome boys from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds and regard the diversity and richness that this brings as a real strength of the school. All places are dependent upon achieving a pass mark in the entrance examination and places are awarded solely on the basis of rank order of performance in the entrance tests, which take place in the autumn term.
Our school was founded in 1615 by Edward Wilson, Vicar of Camberwell, as a grammar school for the sons of his parishioners. After the Second World War the school became Voluntary Aided and in 1975 we moved from Camberwell to more spacious accommodation in Wallington. In 2002 the school was designated a Specialist School in Mathematics and Computing and as such we work closely with a partnership of local primary and secondary schools in promoting excellence in these two key curriculum areas. In 2007 the school added a second specialism in the Arts and was graded 'outstanding' in its Ofsted report.
We welcome boys from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds and regard the diversity and richness that this brings as a real strength of the school. All places are dependent upon achieving a pass mark in the entrance examination and places are awarded solely on the basis of rank order of performance in the entrance tests, which take place in the autumn term.
D. M. Charnock, Head
FROM its beginnings as a local grammar school in inner London, thirty-six years on from its relocation to Surrey Wilson's has emerged as one of the country's most successful state funded selective boys' schools.
Parents regularly tell us that they choose Wilson's, not just because of our excellent academic record, but also because the boys seem to enjoy their time here. We believe that school life should be enjoyed for itself and not just as a preparation for adulthood. Our extra-curricular programme is excellent; sport in particular is very strong.
Parents regularly tell us that they choose Wilson's, not just because of our excellent academic record, but also because the boys seem to enjoy their time here. We believe that school life should be enjoyed for itself and not just as a preparation for adulthood. Our extra-curricular programme is excellent; sport in particular is very strong.
D. M. Charnock
Head
Head