Kingston Grammar School, London

Founded 1561
London Road, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey KT2 6PY
Tel: +44 20 8546 5875  Fax: +44 20 8547 1499

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Head: Mrs Sarah Fletcher  Bursar: Mr Edward Lang  Admissions: Mrs Helena Smith - Registrar

Kingston Grammar School combines the best of traditional values with a modern and balanced approach to co-educational learning. The school has a fine academic record with all pupils going on to higher education, and regular successes at Oxford and Cambridge.

Its facilities are continuously being improved and a recent major building programme has provided a Library, Drama Studio, Art and Technology Centre, ICT Centre and Modern Languages Multi Media Centre. The Queen Elizabeth II building, opened by the Queen in November 2005, provides a Theatre, Music School, Drama Department, 6th Form Centre and 19 classrooms around a landscaped courtyard.

Academic success is important, but the boys and girls are encouraged to excel in every area of achievement, including sporting, musical and artistic pursuits. The school has a long tradition of supplying internationals in Hockey and Rowing, and possesses superb sports facilities at Hampton Court, including a boathouse, 2 astroturf hockey pitches and tennis and netball courts.

The strength of KGS is its emphasis on the 'family of the school' with education seen as a partnership between pupils, staff and parents. There is an active PSA and a carefully structured system of pastoral care, where each pupil has continuous contact with a tutor. Staff, pupils and parents participate in a comprehensive regular review of achievement and are able to closely monitor performance. Later in their careers all students receive very thorough advice on higher education.

The school encourages a plethora of other activities, including World Challenge Expeditions, foreign tours by sports teams (including hockey to Australia 2003, South Africa 2005 and New Zealand 2008, netball to Barbados 2008), together with music tours (Spain 2008) and trips to classical sites around the Mediterranean. There is a wide range of clubs and societies including a CCF unit.

We want pupils to leave the school able to adapt their talents to meet the needs of the modern world, whilst holding fast to the principles of self reliance, a sense of responsibility, courtesy and care towards others and a determination to seize opportunity. Whatever a pupil's talents it is the school's aim to discover them and develop them.

The motto of the school means 'work hard and be happy' which ideally sums up the KGS philosophy.

Alumni - Edward Gibbon, historian; R C Sherriff and Michael Frayn, Playwrights; Neil Fox, Capital Radio; James Cracknell, Gold Medallist Sydney Olympics 2000 and Athens Olympics 2004.

Age range: 11 - 18

Day pupils: 456 boys and 362 girls

Annual day fees: £14,283 - £14,283

TOTAL PUPILS: 456 boys and 362 girls, including 110 boys and 10 girls in the 6th form

Staff numbers: 78 full time and 13 part time

Method of entry: Entry test or exam, GCSE results, Interview, Report from previous school, Scholarship exam

Accreditations and affiliations: HMC, AGBIS

Religious affiliation: Non-denominational

Teaching languages: English

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Academic	Languages	Sport	Activities	Music	Miscellaneous
Business studies Classics Critical thinking Design technology Drama/Theatre Economics Electronics Government/Politics Painting/Sculpture Psychology	Ancient Greek French German Italian Latin Russian Spanish	Athletics Badminton Cricket Cross-country Fencing Fitness training Football Golf Gymnastics Hockey Netball Rounders Swimming Table tennis Tennis Water sports	Adventure training Cadets - CCF/ACF/ATC etc Canoeing Chess Dance Drama productions Duke of Edinburgh Award Horticulture Public speaking/Debating Rowing Sailing Shooting Skiing Young Enterprise	Band/Orchestra Brass Choir Guitar Jazz Keyboard Organ Percussion Singing Strings Woodwind	Experience of gifted children

The school offers: Other bursaries, Academic, Art, Music, Financial need, 6th Form, Sport

Exam boards: Edexcel Foundation, AQA, OCR, All GCE exam boards, WJEC, IGCSE, AS Level, GCSE, ECDL

  % pass rate at grades A* to C (exams at age 16): 98%
  % pass rate (exams at age 18): 100%
23 courses are offered for age 18 exams
100% of pupils went on to Higher Education or took a Gap Year

This school provides for individual pupils with these needs:
Dyslexia or Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD)

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