Policies and Statutory Information

At Kingsdale we believe All children are of equal worth and have the right to equal access to a broad and balanced Curriculum. All children have the right to be valued equally, regardless of their, ability, disability, gender, culture, race, ethnicity, religion, linguistic, social or care circumstances.

What are Special Educational Needs?

Children have special educational needs if they have a learning difficulty which calls for special educational provision to be made for them. Children have a learning difficulty if they:

Have a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children of the same age; or have a disability which prevents or hinders them from making use of educational Facilities of a kind generally provided for children of the same age in school.”

Kingsdale recognises the following main areas of Special Educational Needs;

Cognitive and Learning
Social Emotional and Behavioural
Communication and Interaction
Sensory
Physical
Medical conditions/Syndromes

For further information please contact Miss G Smith (Director of English and Learning Support) or Ms S Jarada (SENDCo) via the senco@kingsdale.southwark.sch.uk email address.

Please find below our Combined Special Educational Needs (SEND) Policy and Report which can be accessed via the link

Ofsted Inspection Report, March 2023

Six of the Best for Kingsdale

The full report can be found here or downloaded via the link at the bottom of the page.

Ofsted Parent View

Parents of students at Kingsdale can access the Ofsted's Parent View website by clicking here.

Performance Tables

For information regarding the performance of Kingsdale Foundation School published by the Department for Education, please click here.

You can find more information about 2024 Exam Successes at GCSE and A Level by clicking here.

Headline Key Stage 4 Information for Kingsdale Foundation School 2024

Key Stage 4 (Year 11)

Progress 8 Score: +0.68 (Well Above National Average)

Attainment 8 Score: 66.7 (Well above National Average of 45.9 and Local Authority Average of 51.9)

% of pupils who achieved grade 5 or above in English and mathematics at the end of KS4: 82.1% (Well above National Average of 45.9% and Local Authority Average of 56%)

Average Point Score of pupils who achieved the English Baccalaureate (EBacc): 6.36 (Well above National Average of 4.07 and Local Authority Average of 4.82) 

% of pupils entered for the English Baccalaureate (EBacc): 84.2% (Well above National Average of 40.4% and Local Authority Average of 68.2%)

% of students staying in education or going into employment after KS4: 97% (Above National Average of 93% and Local Authority Average of 94%)

Headline Key Stage 5 Information for Kingsdale Foundation School 2024

Key Stage 5 (Year 13)

Progress Score for A Level Qualifications: 0.32 (Above Average)

Average Grade Achieved: B (Above National and Local Authority Averages of B- & B- respectively)

Average Point Score: 40.11 (Above National and Local Authority Averages of 37.74 and 35.55 respectively)

Achieving AAB or Higher, including at Least 2 Facilitating Subjects: 25.6% (Above National and Local Authority Averages of 19.9% and 17.1% respectively).

Retention: The proportion of students who continue to the end of the main programme of study): 96% (Latest available data is Summer 2023)

Destination Information: (The percentage of students who continue in education or training, or move on to employment at the end of 16 to 19 study): 88% (2022 leavers) - (LA Average 88%,

England Average 80%)

*No Level 3 vocational course entries in 2023-24.

Attendance Information

For information regarding student attendance at Kingsdale Foundation School published by the Department for Education, please click here.

The school’s appointed Data Protection Officer (DPO) are Judicium Education, who will endeavour to ensure that all personal data is processed in compliance with the school's Data Protection Policy and the Principles of the Data Protection Act 2018. The GDPR, the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 are also relevant.

In this section you will find key documents relating to the school's management of data and data protection, including information on how to request data from us, e.g. Subject Access (SAR), Freedom of Information (FOI) and Enviromental Information Reguations (EIR). 

Please select the relevant documents from the links at the bottom of this section.

For any queries or requests relating to Freedom of Information (FOI) or Enviromental Information Regulations (EIR), including accessing published information, please email Ms T. Dyer via foi@kingsdale.southwark.sch.uk or write to the school at our registered address for her attention.

For any queries or requests relating to Data Subject Access (SAR), please email Ms T. Dyer via dataaccessrequests@kingsdale.southwark.sch.uk or call on 0208 655 9723.

Our Data Protection Officer (DPO) who are Judicium Education, can be contacted via dataservices@judicium.com

For all other queries relating to data protection, please contact us vis asrpa@kingsdale.southwark.sch.uk