Welcome to Thornden School.
We are on a mission to become the Best School in the South and we are relentless, as a school community, in ensuring that we get there!
Please see below for our Good Schools Guide Review from 2025 - it explains that we are "A big school with a big heart, exceptional leadership and a culture where it’s cool to want to do well. Delivers academic excellence without compromising on wellbeing or personal development. Families feel very lucky to have this school on their doorstep."
In 2025 we topped the table for GCSE results in Hampshire.
Our values; Aspire, Succeed, Belong and Care are lived - they form the backbone of everything that we do.
Thornden is a very special place - please take a look around our website and get in touch if you would like more information.
Coming Up:
Tickets £14
Tuesday 21st April, 18.45
Princess Pamina has been captured. Her mother, the Queen of the Night, tasks the young Prince Tamino with her daughter’s rescue. But when Tamino and his friendly sidekick, Papageno, embark on their adventure, they soon learn that when it comes to the quest for love, nothing is as it really seems. Guided by a magic flute, they encounter monsters, villains, and a mysterious brotherhood of men – but help, it turns out, comes when you least expect it.
Mozart’s fantastical opera glitters in David McVicar’s enchanting production. A star cast including Julia Bullock as Pamina, Amitai Pati as Tamino, Huw Montague Rendall as Papageno, Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, and Soloman Howard as Sarastro, led by French conductor Marie Jacquot in her Covent Garden debut.
Coming Up:
Thursday 23rd April, 7:30pm
Featuring songs by Ocean Colour Scene
Ocean Colour Scene guitarist Steve Cradock is responsible for some of the most distinctive riffs of the past 30 years. The man who gave us signature riffs ignited The Riverboat Song and Hundred Mile High and helped propel OCS to double-platinum glory with Moseley Shoals has been a mainstay of British rock since forming Ocean Colour Scene in 1989 with Simon Fowler, Damon Michella, and Oscar Harrison. OCS played record breaking gigs with Oasis at Knebworth for 250,000 people as Britpop reached its zenith in 1996. He joined Paul Weller’s band in 1992 and has appeared on all of his studio albums, while also joining The Specials in 2014. In his debut tour, Steve will be playing and singing hits from the OCS songbook, and much more.
Coming Up:
Friday 24th April
£5
Ramsden, Yorkshire, 1916. The chorus master and most of the men of the ambitious local Choral society have volunteered for the front, so under the direction of the demanding, driven Dr. Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes), the Choral recruits a crop of teenage boys and girls. Together they discover the joys of singing and the urgency of desire as the new boys come to terms with their imminent conscription into the army.
Cert: 15
Runtime: 113min
Coming Up:
Star for a night is changing - Houses are appearing - The search is on to find out which house is the House with the Talent! Keep your eyes peeled for tickets. - 30th April, 2026
Coming Up:
Thursday 7th May
Hailed by critics and fans, alike, as a one of the finest songwriters of his generation, Dean Friedman has achieved legendary status for chart-topping hits, Ariel, Lucky Stars, Lydia and more.
"Soundtrack of our lives!" – NYTimes; “Entirely unique and utterly brilliant” – ThreeWeeks.
Join Friedman for an evening of powerful, poignant, hilarious songs about the ordinary and extraordinary lives we share.
Coming Up:
Friday 8th May, 18:00
Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of the urbane Onegin, who realises his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph).
Runtime: 245min
Saturday 18 April 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Thursday 23 April 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Friday 24 April 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Saturday 25 April 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Sunday 26 April 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Wednesday 06 May 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Thursday 07 May 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Friday 08 May 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Monday 11 May 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Tuesday 12 May 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Wednesday 13 May 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Thursday 14 May 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Friday 15 May 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Friday 15 May 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Saturday 16 May 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Monday 18 May 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Tuesday 19 May 2026
8:00am – 8:30am
Wednesday 20 May 2026
8:00am – 8:30am