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Our school motto Spectemur Agendo goes back to the founding of our predecessor school in the 1920s. It’s Latin for “let us be judged by our actions”. Our students gain excellent examination results and Ofsted rate the school as “good”. We’re proud to be judged by the actions which have led to those outcomes. Well, if you are coming up to Year 7 age, you will be coming to a school which gives its students the best start possible. And if you are thinking of coming to our Sixth Form, ours is one of the best around, graded outstanding the last time Ofsted announced separate judgments for sixth forms. We now offer students who join us in Year 7 a very exciting first couple of years. Rather than a long slow warm-up to what used to be called “key stage 3”, we now have a two-year Foundation stage to what we call “The Kingsbury Curriculum.” But school is about more than examinations and we are equally proud of the many opportunities we provide for our students beyond the curriculum. The way we are as a school is expressed through our PRIDE values: Personal Excellence, Respect and Friendship, Inspiration, Determination and Courage, and Equality. Through these, we aim to combine both academic success and the development of the broader aspects of each student’s character. Students will experience the full range of subjects by rotating through different arts and technology-based subjects in each half term. Students in years seven and eight receive extended homework projects to support their work at school and each half term they make an oral presentation to their class in one subject, to help improve their public speaking skills and confidence. Students are also expected to complete a portfolio of their experiences which we call “The Kingsbury Guarantee.” All of this culminates in a graduation ceremony at the end of Year 8 when students and parents come together to celebrate the successes of the first two years. We hope this firm foundation will enable our students to accelerate in Year 9 and go on to examination success at the end of Year 11. Currently, around two-thirds of our students gain five A*-C grades including English and Maths and we hope to maintain this high standard over the next few years. Alongside our academic work, we have an excellent program of extra-curricular activities, and every three weeks we have an “Excel Day” when the usual timetable is replaced by an all-day activity. Kingsbury High School started as Kingsbury County School in 1925, becoming the Kingsbury County Grammar School in 1944. Two secondary modern schools, Tyler’s Croft Girls and Boys, were opened on Bacon Lane in 1952, and the three schools merged to become comprehensive in 1967. In 1993 a majority of parents voted for the school to gain Grant Maintained status, which brought direct government funding and a degree of independence, for example, over admissions. The school rapidly gained a national reputation for computing, emphasized when The Queen personally chose the school for her launch of the royal website. Kingsbury High was then designated a “beacon school”, charged with sharing its good practice with other schools. Specialist status in Mathematics and Computing followed in 2004 and the years 2010 and 2015 have seen highly successful Ofsted inspections confirming Kingsbury High as a "good" school. The school has consistently maintained a very good level of examination performance with a record 77% of students gaining five A* - C grades including English and Maths in 2013. The school converted to Academy status in December 2011, reluctantly, in the knowledge that this would bring greater funding for the benefit of our students. Kingsbury High remains committed to the comprehensive ethos and national terms and conditions for teaching staff. We have retained our straightforward name "Kingsbury High School." Our students now have a whole new range of experiences at Kingsbury High as they move through years 7 and 8. At the end of Year 8, if they have met certain criteria, students will “graduate” from the Kingsbury Curriculum. Their pathway into Year 9 will depend upon how well they have been able to do that. In the Sixth Form, we offer traditional, two-year A-level courses, with BTECs available alongside. We also offer a three-year pathway for students who have not quite made the grades for A level but would like to try out an advanced pathway. And we offer English and Maths GCSE to those who have not yet fully qualified at GCSE. View full school

Kingsbury Green is an oversubscribed, happy community school for children from 3 to 11 years, set in an attractive and well-maintained building. We enjoy extensive outdoor space so our children benefit from plenty of exercises and “out of doors” learning at all stages of their school life. We were delighted to be awarded “outstanding” status by Ofsted in February 2016. This website demonstrates all that is remarkable and unique about our wonderful school and community. Our school community is diverse in many cultures, faiths, languages, backgrounds, and abilities and as a result, our children are active and increasingly informed global citizens. Kingsbury Green children love to learn in many ways and show this through their impeccable learning behavior, willingness to take risks, and to take on responsibility and leadership. We value and expect an open and active partnership with families so that together we ensure each child achieves their personal best having had an exciting, safe, and memorable learning journey here. As a reflective school, the curriculum content, resourcing, and ways children learn best are kept under constant review. Our school importantly it is founded on values of citizenship and we continue to develop our teaching of history, geography, and the arts to ensure we are exercising children’s skills and knowledge as local, national, and global citizens. Our curriculum captures and explores what it means to live in and contribute to British Society through learning about democracy, free speech, and appreciation of the laws of the country, it is an alive and developing program of learning reflecting the rapidly changing world around them. As opportunities arise we may adapt and adopt new themes, topics, and aspects of interest for our children. Our children have told us that rightly, that they want to learn to be “fun” and to as have many opportunities as possible to learn together in different ways. Our goals in 2014-15 are to harness and embed different ways of learning and working together across all subjects. Our curriculum matches the needs of our learners –children may be taught as a whole class, in smaller groups, or on an individual basis. Increasingly too our learning is happening outdoors and off-site. Assessing children’s learning teachers plan to learn on a weekly, half-termly and annual basis. Achieving our ambition to become a world-class school is the next natural step for Kingsbury Green. Our track record of ambitiously establishing a compelling vision and then systematically setting out to achieve this has brought great success for children and the community. We are a “LearningFirst” school. This means teaching is driven by the assessment of pupils' needs. Our goal is to be rid of labels that define pupil “ability”. Our goal is to be rid of ability groups and any other form of the ceiling to children’s learning. We aspire to remove limiting language and practice from our pedagogy. We focus on our children, their profile, and identify and what kind of child we want to develop and build our accountability around this We create a core curriculum that matches our vision and enrich it accordingly. We make it explicit to children what we are aiming for and their role We ensure children trust us to enable them to be successful. Academic and pastoral support goes hand in hand – in partnership with families. We ensure consistency – all classes – each year group. We know that potential +personal motivation + opportunities and support = high achievement. Our students are focused on building leadership capacity at all levels, and in developing the quality of teaching. Our students make outstanding progress from their starting points, in all subjects, including English and mathematics. Children in the Nursery have an excellent start to their education, they make rapid progress. They are thoughtful, highly motivated, and successful learners. The wealth of opportunities for them to take on responsibilities results in individuals who are mature and confident beyond their years. Our Partnerships are outstanding. The school reaches out to parents so that they are better able to support their children’s learning. Our students know that if they work hard they will succeed. They develop clear aspirations for career pathways for the future. They are exceptionally well prepared for life in modern Britain. Safeguarding is a high priority for all adults. Consequently, they are kept very safe and are taught how to keep themselves safe. View full school