Waingels College

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Waingels College
Motto	Seeking quality in all
Type	Comprehensive
Headmaster	Richard Green
Students	1,500
Location	Waingels Road Woodley, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Colours	Green and Gold
Specialism	Maths & Computing
Website	www.waingels.wokingham.sch.uk

Waingels College (previously Waingels Copse School) is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school located in Woodley, Reading, Berkshire, UK. It has a population of 1,500 students but may rise due to overcrowding in the area and an appeals process which now has to take place. Over 400 people apply for entry annually, though there are only 270 places available (a rise from 240 in previous years). The school has specialist status as a Mathematics and Computing College.

1 Refurbishment
2 Learning communities
3 Sporting achievements
4 External links

[edit] Refurbishment

The school recently won a grant of £29 million to perform a full school re-build.

[edit] Learning communities

In September 2006 the school was split into six main learning communities (or houses). Each learning community has its own colour and role model:
Astor - White
Rowling - Yellow
DaVinci - Blue
Holmes - Red
Turing - Black
Brunel - Green

[edit] Sporting achievements

The P.E. department at Waingels encourages students to take part in many extra-curricular sporting activities such as football. Their main rival is The Bulmershe School, located on the other side of Woodley, as it is a specialist Sports College.

[edit] External links

Berkshire Secondary Schools
Comprehensive: The Bulmershe School \| Denefield School \| Desborough School \| Edgbarrow School \| John O'Gaunt Secondary School \| Kennet Comprehensive School \| Langleywood School \| Little Heath School \| Newlands Girls' School \| St. Bartholomew's School \| St Crispin's School \| The Downs School \| Trevelyan School \| Trinity School \| Waingels College
Grammar: Herschel Grammar School \| Kendrick School \| Langley Grammar School \| Reading School \| Slough Grammar School \| St Bernard's Convent School
Independent: The Abbey School \| Claires Court School \| Crosfields School \| Dolphin School \| Downe House \| Horris Hill School \| Lambrook Haileybury \| Leighton Park School \| Ludgrove School \| Sunningdale School \| St George's School, Windsor Castle
Public: Bearwood College \| Bradfield College \| Eton College \| Heathfield St Mary's \| Pangbourne College \| Reading Blue Coat School \| St. George's School, Ascot \| St Mary's School Ascot \| St. Piran's \| Wellington College