Teaching & Learning at
Lift Kingsley

At Kingsley we believe that outstanding learning changes lives and education opens doors. We have high expectations of all our students and we accept no excuses when pursuing success for them no matter what their starting point is. 

We believe sincerely that through a curriculum that is broad and balanced, carefully planned and sequenced, and expertly taught we can make each and every Kingsley student a powerful citizen with the ability to affect positive change in their communities and the wider world. At Kingsley we expect all members of our community to walk the talk. 

For teachers this is demonstrated through planning and teaching ambitious and impactful curricula and lessons.

For students this is demonstrated through the hard work they exhibit every day, the resilience and determination with which they approach challenges and in the success they achieve in their educational outcome. 

The Kingsley curriculum is designed to:

Engage 

• enable students to engage with learning and build networks of knowledge through the careful sequencing of study to build on prior learning 

• respond to the needs of each student as identified through carefully planned formative and summative assessment

• root study in students’ personal experience and develop their understanding of and engagement with the wider world

• expose students to experiences both within and beyond the classroom that enriches their learning and supports their future choices

Enlighten

• provide students with a breadth and depth of powerful knowledge  

• support students to develop long lasting knowledge 

• support students to understand the links between subject areas and the knowledge they are learning

• support students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development 

Empower 

• provide students with the skills needed to employ their knowledge with expertise

• encourage students to develop initiative, to be independent learners and to take responsibility for their own learning

• develop literacy, numeracy and articulacy, so that students can critically and confidently engage with the world around them

• have high academic ambition for our students where they are creative, critically aware, empathetic, sensitive and high achieving