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At KINGS we provide aspirational opportunities for every one of our girls to achieve the highest possible academic standards and to develop the life skills and confidence to succeed as young women in the modern world. We offer an all-round education which enables each girl to find her strengths and direction in life, whatever her talents, expectation or needs. We take pride in our one-hundred-year roots, in our present, and our future, ensuring that girls are always a part of our community and play a part as citizens within their community. We provide a caring, relaxed yet purposeful environment in which girls can thrive. We value the richness that the arts, sciences, humanities, and enterprise subjects bring to a balanced education and our experience as a specialist college has given us particular strengths in languages and sport. We strive at all times to ensure the highest quality academic and enrichment experiences and opportunities. At Kings Norton Girls’ School, each student’s current skills and levels of attainment are assessed on entry through reading, comprehension, and spelling tests, Midyis, and PASS data. We use this information, with any other information from previous schools, to decide whether students require Special Educational Needs or Disability (SEND) support. Through regular assessment, we can identify students who are making less than expected progress for their age and individual circumstances. Kings Norton Girls’ School offers an exciting and innovative curriculum from Year 7 to 13. The curriculum is designed to meet the needs of all students, developing their knowledge and understanding in a range of subjects and honing their skills so that they become successful independent learners during their time at school and beyond. At Kings Norton Girls’ School curriculum departments are arranged into seven faculties: English, Maths, Science, Arts, Humanities, Modern Foreign Languages, and PE. English, Maths, PE, and Modern Foreign Languages are single discipline faculties, the Arts, Humanities, and Science are multidisciplinary. Life at school for a Kings Norton Girl is diverse, exciting, and full of opportunity. Learning is central to all that we do but there’s so much more than just lessons. During a girl’s life at the school, between years 7 to 13, all girls will have opportunities to participate in educational visits both in the UK and abroad, join one of over forty extra-curricular clubs, gain leadership experience, take part in our exciting cross-curricular or health days and play an active role in supporting the success of their house. Everyone can improve intelligence and the ability to learn. Intelligence and learning are not fixed but being open to challenges, resilient in the face of setbacks, and putting in the individual effort will help us to develop. We will help your daughter to adopt this growth mindset and show parents how they can also help to do this. View full school

At King's Norton Boys' School we are proud to be a traditional school with a modern, aspirational approach to education. We provide our boys with a diverse range of opportunities, both academic and extra-curricular, to ensure that they can gain the highest academic results possible whilst at the same time developing all-important life skills. With over 100 years of history, our school has many great traditions that live on in our ethos today. Our motto: Humani Semper Contendimus, 'we humans are always striving', drives us in providing the highest quality of education for the boys we serve, as does our understanding that 'we are all learners. Our 'Strive' values of Self-discipline, Teamwork, Resilience, Initiative, Vision, Endeavour underpin the work of staff and students, as does our commitment to the fundamental human values of democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect, tolerance, and kindness. Our Purpose is To provide the highest quality education which allows all of our students to thrive academically and personally. At King’s Norton Boys’ we: Provide a safe and secure environment where all individuals are valued. Deliver a broad and rich curriculum with stimulating learning experiences, which develops independent and aspirational learners. Equip our students with life-long and transferable skills to prepare them for the responsibilities and challenges of adult life. Develop kind and respectful citizens who have a strong sense of self-worth and emotional resilience. Cultivate in our students a strong sense of pride and belonging in our school and enable them to make a positive contribution to their community. Challenge and support all of our students so that they achieve success ensuring that none are limited by their background or circumstances. By 2022, King's Norton Boys' School is considered to be an outstanding school in all aspects. We are an extremely successful and highly respected school, embracing challenge and continuously improving in every regard always willing to share what we’ve learned and what we do with other schools. We have a reputation within our community for enabling our students to flourish both academically and personally. Places at our school are highly sought after by parents and students. Joining our staff team is an aspiration for teaching and support staff and we are highly regarded within the profession for our ability to develop future leaders. We continue to abide by our philosophy that ‘we are all learners, as we constantly strive to build upon our achievements. We are proud of the opportunities available to students at KNBS. Our curriculum is traditional, broad, and rigorous, and opportunities for students to thrive in our enrichment curriculum are plentiful. At KNBS every child has the opportunity to succeed, and every child is stretched and challenged for them to develop and then fulfill their potential. Recent examination results demonstrate the high standards of academic excellence for which we continue to strive. Also, we encourage boys to develop their talents in outdoor education, sports, music, and the arts. When boys leave KNBS, we want them to be well-rounded, confident individuals, with the skills needed to succeed in the next stage along their chosen path. We want them to have personal, social, and global awareness and understanding of both the opportunities and challenges presented by the world and the tools and confidence to embrace both as they encounter them. Our Personal, Social, and Health Education program includes careers education and a variety of important issues relevant to students at different stages of their development. The promotion of human values such as democracy, rule of law, and mutual respect, is at the core of our PSHE and Assembly programs. View full school