PROSPECTUS
Achieving success and transforming lives through compassion, community and curriculum.
A WARM WELCOME
Find out more about The Kingsway School
At The Kingsway School, we are committed to providing an education that allows your child to be ambitious for their future, articulate about their learning and that helps them to achieve to the best of their potential.
Our values Opportunity, Achievement, Respect and Compassion underpin all that we do in school and all that we expect of each of our students in our community. We care about providing a learning environment that celebrates and recognises the different starting points and passions of our students and allows each individual to find rich experiences that prepare them for their future.
We want our students to be curious in their learning, about how they can contribute to our local community and how to be socially responsible young people. We seek to ensure
our students are compassionate in their understanding of themselves and their own wellbeing and towards others both in and outside of school.
Achievement at school is not only about GCSE results, it is about the lifelong friendships made and the experiences to make mistakes and learn from them in our journey to understanding who we are, our place in the world and how we can contribute to improving it for everyone.
We look forward to working with you in partnership to help nurture and enrich your child’s achievement and learning experiences in school over the next five years.
Mrs A. Fowler, Headteacher
“ School has taught me to be a better person.”
Kingsway Student
TURNING POTENTIAL INTO REALITY
Developing each member of the school community
Our motto, which you will see worn on every blazer and appearing all around school, is ‘A Posse Ad Esse’, means ‘Turning Potential Into Reality’. Our staff are committed to unlocking and developing the talents of each individual member of our school community – this is what inspires everything we do at The Kingsway School.
We have high expectations for conduct, politeness and appearance and students are praised and rewarded for good work and positive behaviour through our merit system.
Their academic progress, achievement and successes are also celebrated at every opportunity. There is no tolerance for attitudes which adversely impact our learning environments.
If you ask our staff, they believe that the one thing that makes us most special is the inclusive nature of our school community – we are a truly comprehensive school where students from all backgrounds learn together.
Our student population is a fabulous mix of many faiths and heritages, those with special educational needs and those who will progress to the highest performing universities in the country. We are proud of the way we teach our students to respect others and have understanding and tolerance for differences. We are proud to be one community.
“Leaders have taken judicious steps to improve the quality of education that pupils receive. Subject leaders have thought carefully about what they want pupils to learn.”
OFSTED, May 2023
“Teachers have secure knowledge of the subjects that they teach. Teachers frequently check that pupils have learned and remembered the knowledge that is most important for subsequent learning.”
OFSTED, May 2023
OPPORTUNITY
Inspiring ways to learn
One thing that is particularly special about The Kingsway School is that our staff encourage all of our students to embrace and make the most of every opportunity that comes their way. This is not only in lessons but outside of lessons and in the wider community outside of school.
We have designed our academic curriculum with a lot of thought so that it is both engaging and challenging. It is delivered by our hugely dedicated team of over 100 experienced teachers, ensuring that every student is supported to make maximum progress, whether that is in creative writing, languages, drama, art or music.
The Kingsway School has a distinct commitment to promoting opportunities within the STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths), which are essential for life in the 21st Century. We are one of a handful of schools nationally – and the only school locally – to receive the STEM Excellence Award, through the Museum of Science & Industry. Our strong partnerships with the business community also provide fantastic opportunities for our students to develop their STEM skills beyond the classroom.
As well as all of this, we are also extremely committed to the offer of a broad range of extracurricular opportunities, designed to nurture hidden talents, inspire passion, develop life-skills, enhance wellbeing and boost confidence.
ACHIEVEMENT
High aspirations, fulfilling potential
Another major commitment close to our hearts at The Kingsway School is the desire for every student to fulfil their potential. Our staff know our students well and work tirelessly to help each individual to strive for the highest standards so they achieve to the best of their ability. That being said, it is of equal importance to us that we also encourage students to develop spiritually, morally, socially, culturally by embracing the best values of British society.
We are enormously proud of our students! Not just because of their academic results but that alongside the excellent GCSE they achieve, they also develop the skills and attributes that the country’s top employers, colleges and universities are looking for. We achieve this by delivering high quality careers education, advice and guidance, which is reflected by our GOLD Inspiring IAG Award.
Whilst the vast majority of our students move on to further education in sixth form colleges, others go on to thrive and succeed in apprenticeship programmes in the world of work. Our main focus is to support and guide each student to find their best path beyond secondary school, whatever that may be.
“Pupils experience a suitable careers programme. For example, pupils in key stage 4 spoke enthusiastically about their recent mock interviews. These have helped pupils to prepare for the next stage in their education or training.”
Ofsted, May 2023
We are proud to be working towards the Rainbow Flag Award, which recognises our school’s inclusivity, encouraging the inclusion of LGBT+ students and preventing LGBTphobic bullying.
RESPECT
Kindness to ourselves, each other and the world around us
Respect underpins daily life at The Kingsway School because it is one of our four core values and one of our three positive behaviour rules of ‘Ready. Respect. Safe’.
We promote self-respect, mutual respect and respect for our community and environment at every opportunity. Students and adults in our school speak to and about one another with respect and we respect each others’ boundaries.
Respect for the Protected Characteristics of The Equality Act is embedded in our curriculum and in our personal development agenda.
At The Kingsway School we are passionately committed to inclusion; we learn about and celebrate diversity and we foster appreciation of our common humanity.
Our curriculum and personal development offer are actively anti-prejudice and we encourage our students to show respect for others by acting when they see injustice.
We have a committed group of antibullying ambassadors who belong to a wider student leadership team who inspire our wider school community to always choose kindness.
COMPASSION
Care in all we do
In 2024 we added the fourth cornerstone to our core values: compassion.
At The Kingsway School compassion means caring for our students academically, socially and emotionally. We strive for our students to leave us with a suite of qualifications that will facilitate ambitious next steps as well as being well-rounded young people ready to have a positive impact on the people they meet and the world around them.
Our core value of compassion means we behave with kindness and believe we can make a difference to each other and the wider community. Because of this, all members of our school community feel valued. We are sensitive to one another’s feelings; we consider how our actions affect one another and we empathise with each others’ experiences.
We strive to provide whatever pastoral and emotional support is necessary to enable our students to reach their potential. From the moment a child becomes a future Kingsway student, our pastoral support will begin. We have a unique transition offer so that our students truly belong to the school community before their first day of Year 7. Furthermore, we have a bespoke wellbeing and positive mental health programme delivered to all Year 7 classes that equips them for success academically, socially and emotionally as they embark upon their journey with us.
““I feel like it’s a school with a warm heart.”
Kingsway Student
ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES
Discover and develop your potential
Alongside our high aspirations for academic success, we strive to develop our learners as a whole by creating meaningful enrichment opportunities that connect the learning in the classroom to the modern world, so Kingsway students feel both part of our school community and understand that they have a valuable place in society as a whole.
Our diverse and extensive range of enrichment opportunities give our students the change to discover and develop transferable skills, which will help them to become successful in work and life.
Our Kingsway Active enrichment programme focuses on sports, where we have many competitive and successful teams and also offer a broad range of additional activities such as mountain biking, frisbee, basketball and cheerleading.
Our Kingsway Creatives enrichment programme includes aspects of Performing Arts, such as Arts Awards, Dance for LAMDA, musical choir or orchestra. In addition to this, we also offer creative enrichment through the creative writing club.
Our Kingsway STEM enrichment programme includes clubs dedicated to furthering areas of STEM such as engineering club or science experiment club.
Our Kingsway Culture and Community programme includes enrichment activities dedicated to bringing our school community together including clubs focused on charity work in our local community, chess and gaming clubs and clubs focused on our students’ hobbies and interests.
TRANSITION TO THE KINGSWAY SCHOOL
Stepping up to secondary school
At The Kingsway School we are very lucky to serve a community where students have had an excellent primary education. We work very closely with our local primary schools to ensure that we build on not only the high academic standards achieved but also students’ attitudes to learning.
Last year we relaunched our transition offer as TKS POP (Primary Outreach Programme). The aim was to build strong relationships with our future Year 7 pupils and families and to increase their confidence and independence as they move forward to secondary school.
Our POP transition programme offers:
• Partnerships with over seven local feeder primary schools: over 300 primary Year 5 and 6 pupils were involved in the programme in 2023-24.
• Up to 18 weeks working with Year 6 classes in their feeder primary schools
• At least five opportunities for Year 5 pupils to visit Kingsway each year for our ever popular taster days, including art activities, sports days, spelling bee and maths mystery competitions, science shows and much more!
• Step Up To Secondary - our specially tailored summer transition activity, allowing our future Year 7 cohort to explore the school, meet Kingsway staff and make friends before they start at Kingsway in September.
“We have been so impressed with the quality of the offer that we have been given from Kingsway and their transition team. Our children have been well prepared for their move, to Kingsway or other High Schools. Sessions have been delivered throughout the year, in which the transition team have been able to get to know our children extremely well. Just knowing their names to speak to them in their first few weeks will mean so much to them. Both the sports offer and the transition work have been invaluable and given the children the opportunity to show themselves at their very best. Thank you so much!”
Claire Wilson, Assistant Headteacher, Etchells Primary
“Just wanted to say a huge thank you for facilitating the evening transition activities for the children! The children have come back so excited but most importantly have said how the worries they did have had disappeared!”
Gemma Norman, Headteacher, Gatley Primary
“I
just wanted to say how much my daughter enjoyed this evening’s Step Up To Secondary event. She came away saying she had great fun and was really excited to come to Kingsway. ”
Year 6 Parent
HOW TO CONTACT US
Foxland Campus
Foxland Road
Cheadle
SK8 4QX
Broadway Campus
High Grove Road
Cheadle
SK8 1NP
T. 0161 428 7706 office@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk kingsway.stockport.sch.uk
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