Kingsley Primary School

At Kingsley, we aim for all children to be happy, independent and motivated with a real love of learning. For us, academic success and personal, social and emotional development are of equal importance and we work hard to ensure that we develop the whole child.

We believe that home, school and the local community work best in partnership to ensure that all children are able to reach their full potential.

We provide all our children with an exciting, rich and varied curriculum which meets their needs whilst promoting high standards. We believe in a rounded curriculum and promote a love for the arts, inquisitiveness about the world around them and enjoyment of physical activity alongside the basic skills of communication, literacy and mathematics. We believe that children should be encouraged to embrace challenges, take risks, be intrigued by mistakes and become lifelong learners.

We are a community school which represents a rich and diverse local population. We actively promote and encourage links with our local community and beyond to enrich everyone’s learning. It is very important to us that everyone feels valued and welcome when they come into our school.

The Primary Hearing Centre is also based at Kingsley Primary School.Deaf children from all over Croydon and some neighbouring boroughs come to the Centre for specialist teaching and support. The Centre is part of the centrally funded Croydon Sensory Support Service.

We are a four-form entry school, with a fifth 'bulge' class currently in Year 1, 2 and 3. Each year group is led by a senior teacher who has responsibility for the day to day running of the year team, and who liaises with the other year group leaders to ensure continuity in children’s learning as they move through the school. The teachers in each year team work together to plan the detail of the curriculum.

We also employ teaching assistants, nursery nurses and a behaviour mentor who work alongside the teaching staff, providing valuable additional support for the children.

We have Pupil Support Assistants (PSAs) who work with children who have special educational needs and a number of teachers and bi-lingual assistants who work with children for whom English is an additional language.

At Kingsley, respect for ourselves and others combined with integrity in all that we do, allows our community to feel safe to create, innovate and take responsibility for our actions.

Together, we model teamwork, positivity and consistency. Through these, we nurture all to demonstrate compassion, empathy and tolerance.We are motivated by challenges, resilient to setbacks and, through never giving up, take pride in our accomplishments.Driven by ambition and equal opportunities for all, there are no limits to what we can achieve.

The aims of the school curriculum as stated in the Education Reform Act are to promote the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and society; and to prepare such pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.

The School embraces these aims translating them into the most effective Learning and Teaching strategies. As far as is possible every opportunity is given for the children to learn through first hand experience. Maximum use is made of the child’s natural curiosity.The teacher guides the pupil encouraging high standards in the development of the basic skills in reading, writing and mathematics.The needs of the children growing up in a literate and increasingly technological society are of the utmost concern to the staff. Each stage of learning is carefully planned so that from simple everyday situations children progress towards abstract notions.