Twyford School, Winchester, Hampshire, UK

Everyone will play in a school or house team and be involved in our inter-house sports competitions. It is incredible to think that on many Wednesday and Saturday afternoons 25 School teams across the various age groups may have been in action at the same time. Twyford School has had notable national success in cricket, hockey, netball, swimming and athletics, in particular.  

Every child at Twyford has the opportunity to experience, understand, create and enjoy music.   The Music Department is extremely well resourced with ten teaching rooms and a large rehearsal studio.   We also have a beautiful mid-Victorian chapel and two-manual pipe organ.  Every pupil from Nursery to Year 8 has a weekly class music lesson and a weekly singing practice; 80% of pupils also choose to have individual lessons on instruments and/or singing. Approximately 300 individual music lessons are timetabled each week!   There are usually one or two children each year that achieve grade 7 or 8 on their instruments. These children are often awarded scholarships and exhibitions at their chosen Senior Schools. 

We have a full Symphony Orchestra for children in Years 3 to 8, Junior Choir, Senior Choir, Wind Band, Jazz Band and flexible opportunities for chamber music. We have a long-standing arrangement to train pupils to sing in operas at the Grange. Twyford children have performed in Tosca, Queen of Spades, La Boheme and Oliver! The Senior Choir recently toured the Champagne region of France and we are exploring tour ideas with various contacts in the USA. 

he Art and Design departments are housed in light, spacious purpose built studios. Twyford pupils are encouraged to explore and nurture ideas to produce paintings, drawings, sculptures, models and ceramics.  We ensure pupils explore and utilise all manner of media to become aware of the possibilities that stimulate the creative mind.
Children are given opportunities, both in the classroom and on school trips, to investigate and develop a number of personal skills to create images and artefacts.

In Year 6 potential art scholars and pupils with high interest and ability are invited to join the Extra Art evening sessions. Here they develop their own style in an environment conducive to exploration and absorption.

Design and Technology is centred on focussed practical tasks using a ‘design and make’ approach towards problem solving activities. In the workshop each project increases in complexity and requires the pupil to learn new skills and techniques. These include traditional hand skills through to Computer Aided Design and laser cutting.

Each year pupils are regularly entered for competitions including designing and building a go cart for the Greenpower Challenge at Goodwood race track, which we have won twice in the last five years.