Kingsdale opinions - direct experience please

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Wanderlust9 · 27/11/2024 10:05

I know there have been lots of threads about this school but I am only interested in hearing from people who have recent direct experience with the school (last 5 years)

DD wants to go there. She has an EHCP. Will she be put in lowest sets with the worse behave kids and be forgotten about?

I have always been of the impression that this school is good for kids that have a talent: academically, music or sport. Not so good for the rest.

Does the school have a strong discipline? Lots of detentions? Or do they have some freedom?

What is behaviour like?

Does it feel crowded?

What about opportunities for trips? Are they for everyone?

Are the teachers good? Caring? Probably too much to ask for a a school of 3k children.

Thanks in advance.

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Wanderlust9 · 28/11/2024 21:36

Thank you

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wtftodo · 28/11/2024 21:01

No direct experience but re your point about lower sets: you can look on Compare School Performance at the gov stats for this school. It has an extremely able intake - more than half of kids are high prior attainers and very few are low prior attainers (a comp intake is normally around 25/50/25 with the 50 being middle attainers; many in london are more like 30 low/50 min/20 high). So from the intake, you can expect that a "low" set at Kingsdale isn't the same as a "low" set at a more representative school.

Check the same website for SEN data; from memory I think it's lower than it might be but don't quote me.

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Wanderlust9 · 28/11/2024 08:46

I have one private message but would like to have more opinions please

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Wanderlust9 · 27/11/2024 11:58

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