The Kingswood School
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The Kingswood School is a state comprehensive school
for boys and girls between the ages of 11 and 18 located in Corby
, Northants. In 2008 Kingswood saw its highest GCSE pass rate at 54%. The school used to operate on two sites; the Upper School site, which was for students between the ages of 11-16, and the Lower School, which was once Our Lady and Pope John Catholic
Secondary School
. The school was bought by The Kingswood School in 2004 and all of its students were then mixed with The Kingswood School's pupils the Lower School site was then used as a Sixth form
centre.
The School is now on one site in the new building.
in 1965 with 150 students. The school now has over 1,000 students operating on the new school site. Many changes have taken place in the past two years with the introduction of a new school uniform, vertical tutoring, a brand new building with state of the art facilities.
The new school is now open and the has changed the way the school operates. There is a vertical tutoring system, which includes a few students from each year and four sixth form students, in which the sixth formers are encouraged to mentor students in year 7. There are five houses with names related to the performing arts, which each have their own heads, school counciler, school mentor and peer mentors.
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Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...
for boys and girls between the ages of 11 and 18 located in Corby
Corby
Corby Town is a town and borough located in the county of Northamptonshire. Corby Town is 23 miles north-east of the county town, Northampton. The borough had a population of 53,174 at the 2001 Census; the town on its own accounted for 49,222 of this figure...
, Northants. In 2008 Kingswood saw its highest GCSE pass rate at 54%. The school used to operate on two sites; the Upper School site, which was for students between the ages of 11-16, and the Lower School, which was once Our Lady and Pope John Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
Secondary School
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
. The school was bought by The Kingswood School in 2004 and all of its students were then mixed with The Kingswood School's pupils the Lower School site was then used as a Sixth form
Sixth form
In the education systems of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and of Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica and Malta, the sixth form is the final two years of secondary education, where students, usually sixteen to eighteen years of age,...
centre.
The School is now on one site in the new building.
History
The school was established as a grammar schoolGrammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
in 1965 with 150 students. The school now has over 1,000 students operating on the new school site. Many changes have taken place in the past two years with the introduction of a new school uniform, vertical tutoring, a brand new building with state of the art facilities.
The New School
Specialist Arts
The Kingswood School was designated a Specialist Arts College in September 2004 after grades were excelling in subjects related to the performing artsPerforming arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
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The School Day
The school day officially starts at 8:40am with lessons also starting then. Every student has 5 lessons, each of which lasting 1 hour. At 10:40am the students will either go to their allocated form room or attend an assembly, depending on the students house, the day on which the assembly is held will change. The students receive two 30 minute lunches during the day, one after their second lesson and then another after their fourth. The day then finishes at 3:00pm unless the student partakes in an extracurricular activityExtracurricular activity
Extracurricular activities are activities performed by students that fall outside the realm of the normal curriculum of school or university education...
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