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Tolworth Girls' School and Sixth Form

Academy converter secondary school in Surbiton (Kingston upon Thames).

Attainment 8
55
▲ 8.8 England 2025/26 provisional: 46.2
2025/26 provisional
English & maths 5+
58.2%
▲ 12pp England 2025/26 provisional: 46.3%
2025/26 provisional
Attendance rate
92.3%
▲ 1pp England 2024/25: 91.6%
2024/25 academic year
Pupil : Teacher
17.7
▲ 1.0 England 2025/26: 16.7
2025/26
Eligible for free school meals
17.5%
▼ 10pp England 2025/26: 27.3%
school census 15/01/2026
Teacher turnover
17.8%
▲ 4pp England 2024/25: 14.2% (secondary schools)
2024/25
Capacity
104%
1,529 / 1,477 pupils
register figure (GIAS)
Ofsted
Ungraded inspection
inspected Sep 2023

Location

iSchool location from Get Information about Schools. Nearby schools are coloured by phase. Open Map+ for a full-screen map with neighbourhood deprivation (England only).

About

Tolworth Girls' School and Sixth Form is a academy located in Surbiton, Kingston upon Thames. The school caters for girls pupils aged 11 to 18. The Headteacher is Jolande Botha-Smith.

In the school’s own words, from the school website.

Enrichment

17 activitiesiFound on the school website by WhatSchool. Not verified by Governance Register; the school website is the authority.
  • Badminton
  • Band
  • Basketball
  • Chess
  • Choir
  • Cricket
  • Dance
  • Drama
  • Duke of Edinburgh
  • Football
  • Mandarin
  • Photography
  • Rugby
  • Stem
  • Textiles
  • Young Enterprise

and 1 more

Awards

1 awardiFound on the school website by WhatSchool. Not verified by Governance Register; the school website is the authority.
  • Duke of EdinburghPersonal development

Key facts

URN
137060
Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
11 to 18
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Non-selective
Sixth form
Has a sixth form
Local authority
Kingston upon Thames
Constituency
Kingston and Surbiton
Setting
Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Opened
2011

Governing body (21 current, 4 former)

iAcademy trust: local governing body and trust board.

18 governors are linked to a profile (all confirmed).

Governors marked “Confirmed same person” have exactly the same forename and surname as the only officer of that name at the school’s own academy trust company on the Companies House register, so we treat them as the same person. The governance record itself comes from DfE.

Leadership

NameRoleHow appointedTerm
Mr Simon Laycock Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2026 · until 2030
Ms Carvey Francis Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2026 · until 2030
Mrs Carol Wolrich Confirmed same personChair of TrusteesTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2026 · until 2027 ends 2027
Mrs Louise Hedges Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardElected by parentssince 2026 · until 2030
Mrs Navneet Dhillon Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2026 · until 2030
Mr Andrew Whateley Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2026 · until 2030
Mrs Christine Prytz Rasmussen Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2026 · until 2030
Mr Karthi Kumar Kuppuswamy Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2025 · until 2029
Mr Charles Grieve Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2025 · until 2029
Mr Andrew McCallum Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2025 · until 2029
Mrs Elizabeth Thompson Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardElected by school staffsince 2025 · until 2029
Ms Caroline RamsdenMemberTrust membersAppointed by academy memberssince 2025
Mrs Naomi Cheatle Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardElected by parentssince 2024 · until 2028
Mr Andrew Perks Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2024 · until 2028
Mrs Jolande Botha-Smith Confirmed same personAccounting OfficerTrust officersince 2023
Mrs Jolande Botha-Smith Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardEx-officio by virtue of office as headteacher/principalsince 2023
Mr John AzahMemberTrust membersAppointed by academy memberssince 2022
Mr Matthew SossickMemberTrust membersAppointed by academy memberssince 2022
Mrs Carley GermaniChief Financial OfficerTrust officersince 2020
Mr Charles Grieve Confirmed same personMemberTrust membersAppointed by academy memberssince 2020
Mr George Tunnacliffe Confirmed same person FormerTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2026 · term ended 2026
Ms Helen Spiro Confirmed same person FormerTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2023 · term ended 2026
Mr Tariq Khurshid Confirmed same person FormerTrusteeTrust boardElected by parentssince 2022 · term ended 2026
Mr George Tunnacliffe Confirmed same person FormerTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2022 · term ended 2026

Full governing body

NameRoleHow appointedTerm
Mrs Angela Williams Confirmed same personGovernance Professional - Single-Academy Trust (SAT)Governance professionalsince 2006

Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools (governance records, as at 25 October 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Names are shown as published; there are no addresses or contact details. Current and former are worked out from term end dates when the page loads. Object or ask for removal · Report an issue with this record