Choosing your A Pull Out and Keep New School Feature with The definitive guide to open days for that all important decision. HABERDASHERS’ ASKE’S KNIGHTS ACADEMY Launcelot Road, Bromley, Kent, BR1 5EB Tel: 020 8461 9240 / Email: [email protected] www.haaf.org.uk/Knights-Academy Please see inside for more information on Haberdashers’ Aske’s Knights Academy Open Evening Haberdashers’ Aske’s Knights Academy arenas including athletics, football and business enterprise, presenting annually at Mansion House in London. Haberdashers’ Aske’s Knights Academy is a vibrant, diverse Part of the wider Haberdashers’ family of schools, their pupils 3-18 school community with an ethos that lies in their values of are able to experience unique opportunities, an innovative academic excellence and high expectations, ensuring that every careers programme and financial bursaries resulting in the child achieves their full potential. majority of pupils studying at university and securing high quality Their happy and caring environment nurtures pupils so that they apprenticeships across the country. mature into well-rounded, healthy young people with a passion They are a school that is built on an ethos of tradition and for learning. They are a thriving and growing community and innovation, respect and responsibility, collaboration and inclusion. It consequently is these moral values that the academy instils in their pupils which they have enables them to contribute and gain from their school community an exciting and the communities in which they live. building HAKA values the important relationships, collaborations and expansion partnership between staff, pupils and parents, and they look programme forward to welcoming you to their Open Evening on Wednesday 26 in 2018 so September at 5pm. For more information, please visit www.haaf. that their org.uk. pupils continue to learn in state- Welcome to Kingsdale Foundation School of-the-art After a recent visit to Kingsdale Foundation School, Ofsted reported facilities. that, ‘This popular school is a harmonious environment where Choosing your new School Excellent pupils learn how to be successful in modern Britain. The curriculum teaching is broad and balanced, supporting pupils’ outstanding outcomes and an engaging and stretching curriculum, supported by a highly because of the chance pupils have to be successful in a range of skilled pastoral team enable pupils to achieve academic success. subjects. Pupils’ personal development and welfare is outstanding Through their involvement in enrichment programmes, such as because of the care and attention that staff pay to making pupils’ debating, cadets, Duke of Edinburgh and book club, Knights time in school productive and safe.’ Academy pupils develop confidence, resilience and mutual respect Kingsdale is an Outstanding School in every area which provides for others. The academy focuses on each child as an individual to exceptionally rich opportunities to challenge students of all abilities, draw out their strengths and talents, adding value to their spiritual, including providing options in Year 9 to study Triple Science, Latin, moral and cultural development and well-being. Economics and Psychology and the opportunity to study two Music, sport and developing student leadership are all important languages from Year 7. Kingsdale attracts many able students and skills and qualities that Haberdashers’ Aske’s Knights’ pupils value operates a condensed or accelerated Key Stage 3 programme and excel in through the excellent tuition, coaching and facilities. of study to meet the particular needs and aspirations of all of the HAKA pupils are local and national champions in a wealth of HABERDASHERS’ ASKE’S KNIGHTS ACADEMY Launcelot Road, Bromley, Kent, BR1 5EB Tel: 020 8461 9240 / Email: [email protected] www.haaf.org.uk/Knights-Academy ‘where all children can succeed and reach their full potential’ SECONDARY SCHOOL OPEN EVENING Wednesday 26th September at 5pm 14 3 Sept - 7 Oct 2018 Follow us on Instagram - @primarytimesse students and their families. The school offers a wide variety Prendergast Ladywell School of academic subjects including four or five optional courses selected by each child in addition to enrichment activities every At Prendergast Ladywell School they believe that all their students day. can achieve excellence, which is the motto written on the badge Last year of every student in the school. The school provides an excellent Kingsdale education, with high-quality teaching, a challenging and enjoyable ranked as curriculum that supports individual need, and a range of enrichment a top non- activities. Students achieve outstanding exam results and become selective successful lifelong learners. school for Prendergast have the highest expectations for young people, attainment and are ambitious for every pupil. They work tirelessly to support at Key students in achieving Stage 4 their goals, and they and for the expect students to second work hard and be successive resilient in order to year was meet these high ranked in expectations. The the top 4% for progress at Key Stage 5. Remarkably, Kingsdale school’s caring has produced the top student in the country at GCSE for three community insists years out of the last four. They hold the national record with on tolerance and Elba Feo achieving an amazing 18 A*s or better in her GCSE mutual respect. The Choosing your new School examinations in 2017. Students Elba, Ned, Iona, Sylvain, Millie, knowledge and skills Katie, Darcy, Lois and Ricardo also achieved 99 A*/A grades at students acquire GCSE or equivalent between them (levels 9-7). The school has at the school will equip them for life as confident individuals and one of the best pupil to teacher ratios of any secondary school responsible members of society. in London and average class sizes are approximately 20 across Students are also entitled to post-16 provision at Prendergast Sixth all subjects. Form. Subsidised excursions to amazing destinations such as The forthcoming years at the school will be incredibly exciting. The Malaysia, Namibia, Brazil, the USA and the French Alps are also school has an Open Evening on Tuesday 11 September from 6-8pm organised every year. For more information, please visit www. and Open Mornings on 13, 18 and 20 September from 9.15-10.30am. kingsdalefoundationschool.org.uk. Niall Hand, Headteacher of Prendergast, as well as the staff of the school, warmly invite you to be part of their community. For more information, please visit www.prendergast-ladywell.com. Your PRENDERGAST Choice, Your LADYWELL SCHOOL Future We invite you to join us at our OPEN DAYS Open Evening It is an exciting time to join Tuesday 11 September - 6:00 to 8:00pm Prendergast Ladywell School Open Mornings ● Strong Leadership; strong vision Thursday 13 September - 9:15 to 10:30am ● High standards and high expectations Tuesday 18 September - 9:15 to 10:30am ● Academic excellence - progress for all Thursday 20 September - 9:15 to 10:30am ● Outstanding care - outstanding facilities ● A family school at the heart of the community ‘‘We look forward to meeting you’’ Niall Hand - Headteacher Manwood Road, London, SE41SA Leathersellers’ Leatherseller-federation.com FEDERATION OF SCHOOLS @prendergast_PLS EDUCATION FROM FOUR TO EIGHTEEN Follow us on Twitter - @PT_LondonSandE 3 Sept - 7 Oct 2018 15 Norbury Manor Business and Enterprise Ark All Saints Academy College It is an exciting time to join Ark All Saints Academy as the school moves into its sixth year. The school is now full with Year 7 to Year 11 Norbury Manor, a multi-faith and inclusive all-girls’ school in Thornton scholars. The Academy was judged to be Outstanding in its recent Heath, has been ranked in the top three of schools in Croydon by the SIAMS report which focused on the Christian character and ethos. Real Schools Guide 2018. In 2017 it was ranked in the top 10% of state The scholars’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development was schools in England by the Department for Education. particularly praised. They are proud of the In June 2015 the Academy received an overall grade of Good in its outstanding academic progress Ofsted report, with Outstanding Behaviour and Safety of Scholars their students make, but the and Outstanding Leadership. Ofsted also noted the excellent school’s nurturing ethos and progress that scholars make in all subjects and how proud they wide range of extracurricular are to be part of the Ark All Saints Academy family. In July 2018 activities also contribute to the Academy had a short their success. In recent years, inspection in which it was girls have won international decided that the academy enterprise competitions in had maintained the good Brussels and New York, gained quality of education since its Duke of Edinburgh awards, last inspection. sung at the Royal Albert Hall, taken part in Outside of academic public speaking challenges and competed in cheerleading contests. pursuits, the Academy offers Amanda Compton, Headteacher, believes providing students with a all scholars a wide range of Choosing your new School firm foundation to do well not only academically but in all areas of life opportunities. These include is key. She told Primary Times, “The opportunities we offer encourage the chance to appear students to develop a strong sense of self-worth. We want them to in theatre and musical become articulate young adults who consider themselves responsible performances, residential global citizens. trips, sports tours, and many others. Our curriculum is forward-looking and we have a reputation for Ark All Saints Academy prides itself on treating every scholar as an offering a genuinely comprehensive education in an environment individual with individual needs, strengths and talents. For more that is caring, happy, safe and inclusive. Faiths, beliefs and traditions information, please visit www.arkallsaintsacademy.org or go to one are respected and we work hard to establish positive working of their open events. partnerships with our parents.