Bishop Wordsworth's Church of England Grammar School
11+ Applications for Year 7 entry in September 2027
Applications close on Friday 3 July
To grow together
To search for truth
To live in love
HEAD MASTER'S WELCOME
Welcome to BWS – Mike Thorne, Interim Head Master 2025-2026
Founded in 1890 by Bishop John Wordsworth, BWS has been proudly educating children from Salisbury and its surrounds for over 130 years. At its founding the school sought to be a centre for excellence in education right at the very heart of Salisbury. This remains the case and although we have expanded somewhat from the original 40 boys to a cohort of nearly 1200 boys (yr 7-13) and girls (yr 12-13) we have kept to the vision of our Founder and seek to encourage all our pupils to develop their potential to the full by setting themselves the highest standards of excellence and achievement. I hope the pages that follow give you a sense of the ambition, character and community that define Bishop Wordsworth’s School.
UPCOMING EVENTS
23 June
Y8 Pencelli: Dpts 21/6 - Rtns 26/6
All Day
23 June
Y11 Text Book Collection - Day 2: GSR
All Day
23 June
Intermediate Coding Club, IT3
4:00pm – 5:00pm
23 June
Electronics Coding Club, IT3
4:00pm – 5:00pm
23 June
Learning & Teaching Meeting - SSR
4:00pm – 5:00pm
24 June
Y8 Pencelli: Dpts 21/6 - Rtns 26/6
All Day
24 June
GCSE & A LEVEL EXAM CONTINGENCY DAY
All Day
24 June
Y12 Senior Prefect Camp: Dpts 24/6 (9am) - Rtns 25 June (12pm)
All Day
24 June
Y13 Prom - Salisbury Arts Centre
All Day
24 June
Outdoor Adventure Mixed-U18A vs Senior Prefect Camp
8:00am – 12:00pm
24 June
Y12 Cathedral Reflections
9:00am – 9:30am
24 June
Y7-11 Assembly: Sports Hall
9:00am – 9:30am
24 June
Cricket Boys-U13A vs Warminster School
2:15pm – 6:15pm
24 June
Cricket Boys-U12A vs Warminster School
2:15pm – 6:15pm
24 June
Fencing Club (Booking Essential) - Drama Studio
4:00pm – 5:30pm
24 June
Beginners' Coding Club, IT3
4:00pm – 5:00pm
24 June
Intermediate Coding Club, IT3
4:00pm – 5:00pm
24 June
Electronics Coding Club, IT3
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Latest News Stories
On Friday we celebrated our Founders Day with a service in the cathedral honouring Bishop Wordsworth
50 Year 12 students are in the Welsh mountains for their DofE Gold practice expedition.
Over 40 of our History students visited Ypres and the war memorials just before Easter.
Our geography students have flown out to the Italian coast near Naples and are visiting Pompeii, Sorrento, Capri and Vesuvius as part of their stay.
A huge thank you and well done to all our senior rugby players. The boys at the start of the Rosslyn Park 7s week topped their group, just falling short in their knock out match.
Congrats to our 1st XI who went undefeated in the county to win the Wiltshire Cup this week against Marlborough College in the final.
We were delighted to host this year’s Salisbury Schools’ Book Awards Ceremony.
Year 7 students delivered an unforgettable evening as they competed in the semi-finals of the Poetry by Heart competition.
The BBC were in school filming a report about William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
First day of three trips to Swanage with year 8 students.
Six of our Music department pupils took part in a brilliant afternoon of music at the Salisbury round of the Rotary Young Musician of the Year at Godolphin School
A HUGE result in the race for the House Cup!
A team of sixth-form students from BWS has taken first place in a national chemistry competition.
BWS are runners up in the National Choir finals in Birmingham
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