Academic Information

‘Leaders aim to nurture the talents of pupils through their scholar programmes in mathematics, music, art and sport.’
‘’Leaders have designed a curriculum that is broad and ambitious for all pupils. For example, nearly all pupils study two languages from the start of Year 7. -
Ofsted 2023

The Lower (Key Stage 3) and Upper School (Key Stages 4 & 5) Libraries offer our students fantastic resources to develop their self study skills and literacy and to become truly independent learners.  All students are inducted into their library in their first weeks at Kingsdale.  There is also a specially adapted reading library based in the Special Educational Needs department which caters for students with specific learning needs, included students who are visually impaired.  All libraries at the school have a range of targeted quality reading and reference material along with access to information and communication technology.

As schools are increasingly required to make provision for highly structured and responsive approaches to young people’s learning and our libraries empower students to access multimodal information sources, enabling students to benefit from subject-specific after-school help, along with access to daily newspapers and multilingual resources. All of this supports our whole-school focus on developing literacy amongst our student cohort even further, as well as a love for reading.  Our catalogue now contains up to 15,000 items for loan across the school, and this will be developed over the next year to provide online access to our collections. Having recently joined the Nestle Box Tops scheme, we gratefully accept tokens from Nestle Cereal packets to purchase even more resources.

Kingsdale is also a 'Reading Connects' school, effectively binding the libraries to leading the school in embedding a reading culture across the curriculum. As part of our commitment under this programme, we now meet with a Parent Steering Group once a month, which has been instrumental in shaping the way we promote and encourage reading in and around school.
Kingsdale Foundation School Libraries have also joined up with the Southwark Book Award Initiative, linking our school with a number of other primary and secondary schools along with Southwark Library Services. This is just the latest phase of the libraries’ development during the National Year of Reading.  The libraries also regularly host author events, show casing new and emerging talent, as well as works from established authors.

See our news section for details of exciting author visits, all of which are advertised in advance in our Parental News Bulletin each week.
All libraries are open each lunchtime for students to complete homework or independent study.  
The Upper School Library is open after school each day for all students until 5.30pm and is also open on Saturdays from 10am until 2pm.
Please access the link below for further information concerning our Literacy focus and the work of our libraries.

Please see the document below detailing the Kingsdale Foundation School numeracy policy. 

At Kingsdale, there is an extensive range of holiday based revision and booster classes which take place for students, primarily in years 11, 12 & 13.

Arrangements for year 11 Students 2023-24

As well as optional holiday revision sessions, Year 11 students are required to attend compulsory days within the school holiday as follows:

Spring Term

Monday 17th - Tuesday 18th February 2025 (Compulsory)

Wednesday 19th - Friday 21st 2025 (Optional)

Summer Term

Monday 7th April 2025

Tuesday 8th April 2025

Should you wish to contact us for more information regarding holiday revision classes, please email as follows:

Year 11 - year11hol@kingsdale.southwark.sch.uk 

Year 13 - year13hol@kingsdale.southwark.sch.uk

Homework Timetables

At Kingsdale Foundation School, homework is set regularly in line with our published homework timetables.  The homework timetables show the last day each when homework for a particular subject should have been set by the class teacher.  Please be advised that subjects that are taught for one lesson a week, such as PSHE/Citizenship or Religious Education, will usually set homework on alternate weeks to allow sufficient time for completion and marking.

The latest Homework Timetables can be downloaded via the link at the bottom of this page.

Online Homework Portal - Satchel One (Show My Homework)

To ensure parents are able to effectively support their children with homework completion, all tasks set by class teachers are recorded on our online portal provided by Satchel One - www.satchelone.com

Using this system, parents are able to log in to view the individualised homework set for each class timetabled for their child.  Letters are sent to parents at the start of the academic year detailing how they can access the personalised homework timetable for their children.

The login page for students/parents can be accessed via the website www.showmyhomework.co.uk Technical and logging in support, including retrieval of logging in details, is available by via email homework@kingsdale.southwark.sch.uk or by calling 0208 655 9727.

School Homework Expectations

Students are expected to take care and pride over their homework tasks.  All homework completed must be headed by a clearly underlined titled, a date and the code H/W to signify that this is a homework task.  Homework completed on paper should be neatly secured into the student exercise book or folder as soon as possible.  Loose sheets should not be stored in student exercise books or folders.

While all homework tasks are available via the ShowMyHomework online portal, they are encouraged to record all homework tasks set in lessons in their personal school journal.  This is to ensure students develop skills as self organisation.

Homework Queries

All homework queries can be directed to our dedicated homework email address at homework@kingsdale.southwark.sch.uk This email can be used to clarify particular homework tasks or to advise staff of particular circumstances or issues pertaining to subject homework. Please ensure that the name of the teacher who set the homework, along with the student's name, are clearly included in the subject line of the email query.

We realise that it is easier to adapt for some than others to remote learning. To help families make the best of these new and sometimes unfamiliar remote learning environments, we have produced some summary guidance below which we hope you will find useful.

Here are some practical tips for parents, carers and guardians on what they can do to check on and build student learning, without becoming the teacher!