Little Kingshill Combined School

A buddy scheme pairs every Reception pupil with a Year 6 pupil to help new pupils settle and reinforce expected standards.

“We operate a buddy scheme where every Reception pupil is matched to a Year 6 pupil, while this serves to settle the Reception class in quickly, it also encourages pupils to discuss and demonstrate our expected standards.”

The school identifies every child's health, safety and well-being as its paramount concern.

“At Little Kingshill Combined School, the health, safety and well-being of every child are our paramount concern.”

The school identifies itself as a small village school with a strong and diverse extended community.

“We are a small village school, although the school's extended community is strong and diverse.”

Educational visits and clubs spanning artistic, sporting and environmental interests supplement academic learning.

“We believe that children learn best when they are happy, secure, stimulated and challenged, both academically and through extra-curricular pursuits. As well as the busy school day and educational visits inspiring learning, there are a range of clubs. These cater to all interests from artistic to sporting and environmental activities.”

Pupils can hold leadership and service roles including house captain, council member, agent for change and positive play leader.

“Pupils have key roles and responsibilities in school, such as monitors for various tasks about the classroom and whole school, house captains, school council, eco-council, agents for change, recycling monitors, librarians and positive play leaders.”

The school embraces the UK's multicultural and multifaith character and promotes five named British values.

“Little Kingshill Combined School is proud to recognise and embrace the multi-cultural, multi-faith and ever-changing nature of the United Kingdom. Our ethos promotes our pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development and our curriculum supports our British values, which are:”

The school seeks to develop safe, caring, democratic, responsible and tolerant pupils who respect others and contribute positively to society.

“At Little Kingshill, we nurture our pupils to allow them to grow into safe, caring, democratic, responsible and tolerant adults, who make a positive difference to British society and to the wider world. We encourage our pupils to be creative, unique, open-minded and independent individuals, respectful of themselves and of others in our school, our local community and the wider world.”

The school reports an Outstanding rating in all areas from Ofsted in March 2024.

“In March 2024 we were rated outstanding in all areas by Ofsted. This is a marvellous recognition of all the hard work the staff at the school undertake on a daily basis to make the school the unique and wonderful place it is.”