Kingsford Community School

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name = Kingsford Community School


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established = 2000
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type = Secondary School
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head_label = Head Teacher
head = Joan Deslandes
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street = Kingsford Way
city = Beckton
county = London
country = England
postcode = E6 5JG
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enrollment = 1,500 (approx.)
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lower_age = 11
upper_age = 16
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free_1 = 020 7476 4700
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website = http://www.kingsfordschool.com
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Kingsford Community School, abbreviated as KCS, is a secondary school in Beckton in the London Borough of Newham, East London, England. It opened in September 2000, and educates full-time students from the ages of 11 to 16. The current Head Teacher is Joan Deslandes.

Kingsford Community school served as a replacement for Woodside Community school upon Woodside's closure in July 2000. Most staff and students transferred to Kingsford in September of that year.

chool Statement

cquote|Kingsford Community School provides a distinctive and inspiring learning environment in which all students receive the challenge and attention they need to become successful and confident learners. The schools has a culture of high expectations, good discipline and mutual respect. Kingsford is a mixed comprehensive, community school for students between the ages of 11 to 16 years situated in the business and economic region of Docklands in the east of London. Kingsford is a multilingual community where more than half of the students speak English as an additional language. The school has placed extremely high expectations on all staff to deliver high quality teaching and learning within the inner city to support students with EAL and SEN needs and to stretch students academically.

At the heart of the school’s ethos, is the conviction that schools should be flexible, modern, innovative and exciting places where the learner and a learning culture are at the centre. Amongst many other innovations at Kingsford the teaching of Mandarin Chinese is the most significant. Every student at the school studies Mandarin as a compulsory part of their studies, and Chinese culture, history and society are also on the curriculum. The school is recognised as a centre of excellence for the teaching of Mandarin and became the UK’s first Confucius Classroom for London and the South East in July 2007. The school also has a unique link with the independent sector which allows gifted students to receive free boarding places at Brighton College to undertake their post 16 studies. This initiative is sponsored by HSBC.

Confucius Classroom

Kingsford is the first Confucius Classroom in the UK for London and the South East. Kingsford works with other schools and agencies to support developments in [Mandarin] and [Chinese Studies] in the Capital and the South East Region.

The network of Confucius Classrooms have been created to provide the following for schools and other centres interested in, or who already deliver Mandarin:

*Support for Hanban teachers from China
*Professional Development and Support for other teachers in the UK
*Curriculum and Pedagogical Development
*Professional Accreditation or Professional Recognition
*Chinese Language Teaching and Learning Materials
*China Studies Teaching and Learning Materials

Senior Management Team 2007-2008Leadership Team:

Ms Deslandes: Head Teacher

Mr Williams: Deputy Head Teacher

Ms Bezant: Director of Learning

Mr Deal: Director of Learning

Ms Johnston: Director of Learning

Mr Linathan: Director of Learning

Ms Nelson: Acting Director of Learning

Mr Steel: Director of Learning

Mr Throp: Director of Learning

Past Headteachers

The following list gives the headteachers who have worked at Kingsford Community School since it opened in September 2000. It only gives the academic year that they started for each headteacher:

External links

School Website: http://www.kingsfordschool.com