Kingswood School

Overview: Kingswood School is a good independent school that provides a warm and respectful environment for its pupils. The school has high ambitions for its pupils and places emphasis on their personal and character development. Pupils are courteous, welcoming, and friendly, and they enjoy learning and coming to school.

Strengths:

• Pupils’ well-being and care is at the forefront of everything that happens at the school.

• The school offers a wide-ranging and balanced curriculum that engages pupils.

• Teachers know pupils extremely well and understand their needs, including those with SEND.

• The school prepares pupils for life in modern Britain by focusing on their character development.

Areas to improve:

• The school has not identified the precise knowledge that pupils are expected to know and remember in a few subjects, which limits pupils’ learning.

• The school’s approach to assessing what pupils know and remember is not fully developed in some subjects, which hinders teachers from addressing gaps in pupils’ learning effectively.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.