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Our move to offer GCSEs

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For many years, Kingshott families had been asking us to continue our education through to GCSE. In April 2023 we were therefore delighted to announce that we are expanding our ‘excellent’ ISI-rated education up to GCSE, incrementally adding three additional year groups (Years 9, 10 and 11) from September 2024 onwards.

"For over 90 years Kingshott has been inspiring and supporting children to achieve the very best start to their educational journey," says Headmaster David Weston. “The School has continually developed and adapted the education it offers. Always with our pupils’ best interests in mind. These changes began 40 years ago, when Kingshott became co-educational, and it continued 20 years ago when our ambitious building development programme began.  Therefore we are delighted to continue to enhance our school, as we extend our education up to GCSEs.”

Untitled designKingshott will grow naturally. Our first Year 9 pupils in September 2024 will be our first Year 11s to take their GCSE exams in June 2027. Current Kingshott pupils will be able to automatically move through to join our Senior School. New pupils – from Hitchin and across Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire - are now also able to join after successfully completing our admissions process.

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Our values and the excellence of our education, both academically and pastorally, will remain consistent.  We will be supporting and stretching children, from age 3 up to 16, to achieve their full potential at every stage of their educational journey, culminating in their GCSEs. Over the coming years, Kingshott will further develop to ensure we are offering the best educational experiences for all of our pupils and to facilitate our expansion to GCSE:

  • Our spacious site and first class facilities already provide excellent age-appropriate spaces and will enable pupil progression and growth as they get older. Additional facilities and areas are also being developed over the years ahead - our new Science labs are now already in use, along with our Study Centre. 
  • All of our staff with senior school expertise (who are currently teaching our Year 7 & 8 pupils) have been joined by new additional senior school teachers (in Science, Maths, English, PSHE and PE) who will bring even more senior school knowledge and experience to Kingshott.
  • In addition to developing a good range of GCSE subjects for pupils to choose to study, we will also be increasing the variety and number of learning opportunities and extra- curricular activities to complement our curriculum and expand all of our pupils’ minds and interests.

We encourage all families, who would like to find out more about our move to offer GCSEs, or who are interested in their child joining for our Senior School (now or in future years) to visit us.