The Week 'Best of the Best' Awards
The Week awarded Ardingly its prestigious ‘Best of the Best’ award in the category of ‘Best Preparation for Life’: “Last year, the school shifted away from traditional careers guidance to introducing Enterprise & Employability as part of its mission to equip students to be World Ready… Key life skills are on the curriculum for al students, including financial planning, and every year group takes part in an enterprise initiative.”Ardingly Wins The Week’s ‘Best Preparation for Life’ Award
Talk Education
“There’s a real magic to this creative, all-through school in rural West Sussex where an idyllic setting is matched by fabulous pastoral care and excellent academics… with a real focus all the way through on equipping pupils with skills for now and for life.”
Tatler
“If you like your schools good-looking, then this is the one for you… Ardingly is Sussex’s best kept secret.”
Muddy Stilettos
“Given the academic excellence, strong pastoral support, plethora of opportunities and inclusive, holistic feel of the place, you’ll definitely wish you (or rather, your child) were here… It’s hard to imagine a child who wouldn’t thrive here.”
Talk Education's Environmental Achievement Award
Ardingly is proud to have won Talk Education’s Environmental Achievement Award! This is in recognition of our innovative Solar Car Project, the brainchild of Dr Andrew Spiers MBE, who has inspired a generation of students about the power of sustainable energy and enabled them to design, build and even race solar-powered vehicles. Most recently, students have been busy building a new off-road, solar-powered SUV with extendable solar panelled wings, which can be used where there is no charging infrastructure – making it ideal for the developing world, where it could be used to power a small school or operating theatre.
Good Schools Guide
“Often picked by parents as a particularly caring all-rounder, but this school is ambitious for its pupils and eager that they excel academically: they usually do.”
Schools Cricket Review
‘Here are the players to watch now the nets are up… Fifteen pupils at the school are on county pathways, indicating the programme’s success in nurturing talent’.
