News

Our new school!

It was fantastic to open the doors and welcome students to our new school building. There was a lot of excitement as they explored their new surroundings and had a chance to try out some of the new facilities available …
11th September 2020

Healing Together

COVID 19 has increased the anxieties of some students. So, we are proud that two members of our staff team have completed their ‘Healing Together’ training. Healing together is a programme designed to support young people who are vulnerable as a result the COVID-19 pandemic. …
11th September 2020

New website

Welcome to Unified Academy’s new website! Here we will keep you up to date with all the news from our school, students’ achievements and useful information for students, parents and carers. We look forward to sharing all our news as …
24th August 2020

Unified Academy opening

We are thrilled that the finishing touches are now being made to our new school building in Dorking. The school will become Unified Academy, as chosen by our students, and staff are excited to be welcoming students to the new …
23rd August 2020

New Acting Principal appointed

The school has appointed a new Acting Principal. David Thomas said “I am incredibly proud to join the team. The school has great potential to improve and provide the best possible support for our pupils and families. I am grateful …
13th May 2020

A new school name!

Pupils and staff have been discussing a new name and logo for the school. Pupils from the student council collected views from across the school and created the new logo. The colour was important for the pupils to represent the …
28th April 2020

A Community Mural

Last week, students and staff contributed to creating a lovely mural at the school to say thank you to essential workers. The boys were so proud of what they created that they wanted to share it with those students and …
27th April 2020

Hearts for Hospital

Ciaren, one of our year 7 students has been keeping busy and getting creative whilst at home. Ciaren says “I live very close to the hospital and wanted to do something nice for everyone there. First I made a blue …
17th April 2020

World Book Day

For world book day we held a competition to see who could design the best door to their classroom based on a favourite book cover. 8R won with a beautiful door based on four David Walliams books and even got …
11th March 2020

Update on our new school building

The building works are progressing well at the Dorking site (which will be Unified Academy from September 2020). From the photos below you can see the extent of works that are taking place. The layout of the building has been …
2nd March 2020

Chinese New Year

In celebration of the Chinese New Year students were given the opportunity to join in an assembly.  Everyone learnt about the traditional story of how the twelve animals were chosen for the Chinese Zodiac. 2020 is the year of the …
5th February 2020

Consultation on the proposal to close residential provision and increase capacity for day pupils

Chart Wood School is consulting on the proposal to close its residential care provision as of July 2020 and to increase the capacity of the school from 105 to 120 place for day pupils from September 2020. Please click here …
7th January 2020