Kingsmead School

I enjoyed my experience at Kingsmead, and so has my cousins now. Kingsmead really have been working on pushing their students to perform their best - honestly one of the best high schools in the area

Not sure how sheep and dogs running about the place works with health and safety, what if a kid got bit?

Cannot speak highly enough of the school. They do the important things well. Could not be happier!

Let's dogs and sheep? roam the corridor's? Would love to see the risk assessment for that, just need one kid to get bit

Kingsmead - a school of first choice. Consider a school that has its very own animals, zip lines and inflatables. A school where students take charge of their own learning and know where their gaps in knowledge are. Or where National Theatre scholarships are achieved, with sell out school shows and regular performing art concerts are common. Look no further than Kingsmead - it is a place where students make progress, but in addition develop their character, shaping values in resilience, mindfulness, innovative and employability. Kingsmead sees debut handball teams take national competitions by storm, along with other sporting prowess. Student leadership conferences and national maths challenges are common place, oh and raising over £20,000 through enterprise and it’s very own Inititaives suppporting all families. A school that is innovative, supportive and at its centre considers what is best for its students. Quite simply it is a place where students succeed, validated by Ofsted who say ‘At Kingsmead Students thrive’. Kingsmead is a unique place and well worth a visit. I am proud to be associated with Kingsmead School.

Kingsmead a place where students work and play hard- where will you find a school that has sheep and goats, a zip line, an outdoor learning classroom and inflatables and go Karts...Kingsmead of course. A school where students earn National Theatre Scholarships, perform sell out school shows to wowed audiences. a school where debut teams smash the competition in handball championships, not to mention individuals who hone their skills to represent GB in specialised sports. This if course is just a snippet of what an amazing place Kingsmead is. What is best for students is the key philosophy and it seeks to develop academic success and develop charter. Where else would one students request to learn a song produce an a achapello group that got a standing ovation. Kingsmead focuses on students and seeks to give them the best- Ofsted came and summed it up- Students at Kingsmead thrive - and truly they do. Go see for yourself visit the open evening and see the magic happen. A great place to study, grow and develop.

Kingsmead- where students work and play hard. Where will you find a school with animals, zip lines, outdoor learning classroom,community garden and opportunities to develop and hone skills....well look no further than Kingsmead School. A place where students hone their skills and successfully earn National Theatre scholarships, where debuting Handball teams take a championship by storm, where students perform to sell out audiences for shows such as Little Shop of Horrors, not to mention performing Shakespeare. Ofsted came and validated for all to see 'students at Kingsmead thrive' and indeed they do. A school that has the mantra 'What is best for students' matters. A school where student leadership is encouraged. A place where there is character and academic progress made. a school that enhances values that will prepare young people for the future world and where students grow and achieve success. a school that is over subscribed, not to mention developed ways to continue learning despite a pandemic. Don't take my word for this incredible place go see it for yourself- visit on open days and see a hive of learning, enthusiasm and character building in action right from the get go. Kingsmead is truly the place to be.

All I can say is it is just an amazing school - go have a look.

Honestly, the best school in the area. The teachers have a strict, yet caring attitude towards their work. They work tirelessly to ensure the pupil's academic success and put on many extracurricular activities in their own time. The headteacher is very proactive with behaviour and I feel very safe whilst my child is at Kingsmead. The Blended Learning Platform is very innovative and has helped my child to progress.
Overall I would definitely recommend the school, the only problem I have is that it is too oversubscribed, so it was a struggle to get my child in.

This school is utterly amazing. I don't think that you would easily find another like it that is state run. My daughter has attended it now for 4 years and has made real progress in so many subjects. Yes they are strict but I feel that this makes her safe, sets boundaries for her and let's her flourish. My daughter loves the school and the teachers who really do care. They actually have animals on site to support well being, well being mentors to help children explore their concerns and incredible specialist teachers in every subject. They investigate thoroughly if there are any issues around bullying and use restorative practice to resolve issues. We hope that our daughter stays on in sixth form so that she has access to the Lyceum society.

We chose this school for our child to attend based on the exceptionally high standards of education that children achieve at the school delivered by high quality teachers. My child has barely had a lesson covered in 2 years since joining because of the high focus that they have on specialist staff and this has not been the experience of their friends in other schools. I am proud of my child attending this school and feel sure, just like the other parent that the very people who made these comments are the ones that spoil schools for hard working, diligent and committed children. Luckily at Kingsmead this type of behaviour is not tolerated and children are allowed to thrive in a caring environment where they understand their boundaries. The school achieved incredible progress last year and I feel that this is down to their focus on independent learning and huge variety of enrichment that staff provide in their own time. They even give children a free breakfast to set them up for the day. My opinion is if you don't want these standards for your child give your place to someone who would appreciate it.

This is a brilliant school if you are lucky enough to get into it, it is very oversubscribed. The staff are so caring and always work hard to go above and beyond in all that they do. Yes the expectations are high but that is why we picked it for our daughter. There are several other schools that you can choose if you do not want high academic expectations and caring staff. The extra curricular offer is second to none. If you need to find out more just look at their progress.....Best in area and the amazing OFSTED report.

Best school in the area and the students get a really good deal going to Kingsmead. All teachers and support staff work very hard.

Kinda bad ngl cause the staff don’t care if you are sick, you have to go in and if you don’t they show up to your house, and or will fine your parents so yh

Worst school I’ve been to teachers are terrible a students are vile

The rules at this school are ridiculous. You can only wear one ring on one hand and no bracelets you can’t even wear a hair bobble on your wrist.if you get caught chewing gum then you get an R&R(1hour detention) and have to scrape all the old gum off the bottom of the table.The teachers do nothing about bullying when they try the make it stop it gets worst and only punish the victim and praise the bully.They don’t let you go to the toilet in lesson under any circumstances but at lunch and break they are always crowded also they lock up all off the toilets and only leave the unisex ones open but the e block ones are for girls and boys the they are open.when ofsted came in 2021 the unlocked every toilet but once they left they locked them back up.

It's good, but could use major improvement. the canteen is packed at break, the lessons do not engage you and you dont feel ready to learn or even want to learn. the lessons feel like they "drag out" according to my son and that they do not get an adequate amount of time to talk with friends at school. this school introduces new teachers and students and do not care that the number of students and teachers combind has the chance of creating dangerous hallways for the younger years. Bullying disguised as banter is all too common at this school.

School is terrible bullying teachers don’t care specially head of years never take you seriously kids start a fight when they Carnt finish it they run to teachers never listen to your side of story run for the hills

Toilets not in good condition. Only a very short breaks for students. School doesn't hardly even deal with racism and bullying only bothered about behavior in class. Cold rooms and school dirty with Covid masks and chewing Gum all over the place.

Facilities aren't cleaned, bullies are everywhere and the school uniform is itchey and expensive. No help is given too students who need extra help.