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Kingsmead is a mixed 11 - 16 Community Comprehensive School in the Somerset Local Education Authority Partnership.
Kingsmead Community School supports all members of our learning community to be enthusiastic, critical and active learners who achieve their full potential through personal endeavour, active citizenship and commitment to each other.
We know that every student is unique and we want to nurture and develop their skills and talents so that they can develop into rounded human beings having achieved their very best.
We recognise that individuals all have particular strengths. We aim to build on those strengths and make learning enjoyable, relevant and challenging.
At Kingsmead we have high standards and high expectations and our students respond by achieving excellence in many areas of school life.
PRINCIPLES
We believe in:
- Equality of opportunity within a comprehensive, inclusive and student centred organisation.
- A breadth of opportunity and experience in order to develop our learners into active and positive members of society.
- High achievement.
- Strong relationships based upon respect and pride within a caring and committed community.
- Firm and fair discipline based upon courtesy, common sense and consideration.
THE AIMS OF THE SCHOOL
We intend that all members of our learning community:
- Enhance their self-esteem and develop a range of positive personal qualities.
- Develop a wide range of skills and acquire the best possible qualifications.
- Become lifelong learners, able to adapt and respond positively to our ever changing world.
- Develop a sense of responsibility and active involvement in the international communities in which they will live and work.
- We aim for these to be achieved in a caring, stimulating, well ordered environment and in partnership with the home and the local community.
STRATEGIC TARGETS
- Each student receives the right level of individual support in realising their potential.
- Our value-added results strive to be first in the County.
- All students and staff are confident and competent in the use of ICT and use it effectively to enhance learning and teaching.
- Our rigorous self review systems and processes promote school improvement.
- Students develop key skills in at least two foreign languages and become responsible members of the international community.
- We are an excellent centre of learning for the whole community.
SPECAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
Students requiring special learning support are given help in small groups or on an individual basis, with each student being assigned an individual learning programme to assist with their development. Support within the classroom is also provided, through the use of Teaching Assistants. Subject teachers work in conjunction with the Inclusion Coordinator responsible for Special Needs when appropriate, to ensure that these students get the maximum support at all times.
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
All students follow courses in Religious Studies until they leave School. The content of these courses is shaped by the Somerset Agreed Syllabus. This reflects the fact that religious traditions in Britain are in the main Christian and also takes into account the teachings and practices of other principal religions in the country. In addition to developing an understanding of religious belief and practice, Religious Studies also promotes an understanding of the beliefs which shape moral behaviour and spiritual development. Consideration is given to non-religious and religious views on contemporary issues. Parents may exercise the right of withdrawal from lessons on religious grounds, but we are delighted that the majority of students and parents value the lessons whatever their belief background may be.
COLLECTIVE WORSHIP
All students attend two Assemblies each week. During these periods we attempt to give a broad definition of the meaning of "religious worship" and seek to make the most of these Assemblies "mainly of a Christian nature" as required by the 1988 Act. All parents have the right to withdraw their child from or Acts of Worship in accordance with the regulation of the 1988 Education Act. Parents wishing to do so should contact the Headteacher.
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