Chatsmore Catholic High School
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Chatsmore Catholic High School is an 11-16, mixed comprehensive
Comprehensive school
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 school located in Goring
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 By Sea, Worthing
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, West Sussex
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. The school holds specialist Arts College
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 status.

The Head Teacher is Mr Michael Madden, NPQH. There are currently 632 students on the roll.

The school now has a vertical system, the pupils are organised into four houses currently named Teresa, Bridget, Green and Wilfred. The houses will be named after Saints when the students have voted for the Saint who inspire them most.

Each house has a Progress Leader who deals with the 120-ish students in their house. The current progress leaders are:
  • Orange - Miss Archer
  • Red - Mr Kirby/ Mr Durr
  • Wilfred - Mr McNaughton
  • Green - Ms Gilles


Chatsmore has a Canteen, the Learning Resource Centre, more commonly known as the LRC by the pupils, a food technology room, an Apple suite, which has many iMacs and Macbooks inside for more creative lessons, a wood tech room, graphics rooms, a drama department, an averagely sized gym, a large sports hall, tennis courts, football pitch and a very large field.

The school operates a prefect system with head boy and girl and two deputies for each post.

The School prayer is:

God be in our heads and in our understanding,
God be in our eyes and in our looking,
God be in our mouths and in our speaking,
God be in our hearts and in our caring,
God be with our friends and families,
Be with us now and always.


The school hit the news in the summer of 2008 when it banned the popular drink Red Bull
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as it believed that the drink had an adverse effect on the behaviour of the pupils (never fully proved init blud).

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