The SMSC programme is designed to improve students’ ability to discern right from wrong and to understand and appreciate others’ views. Its aims are to support students to socialise, communicate and cooperate with a wide variety of people. It takes account of a range of cultural influences and knowledge of British Democracy. The assembly programme promotes fully as does the RE curriculum. 

All religious festivals are acknowledged and celebrated through Assemblies, Tutor Time and our calendar of celebrations! We use staff and student voice to drive how we celebrate religious festivals with the community coming together to celebrate Iftar, Christmas lunch, Hanukkah, Diwali, Holi and more. Our RS curriculum drives religious education at KS3 and KS4 while our Key Stage 5 Journey of Life programme also engages our young people in examining diverse beliefs and commonalities across a range of religious faiths.

Our Character Education is explicitly taught through Assemblies and Tutor Time, so that all students are clear about our values: Kind, Courageous and Curious. 

Our PSHCE Curriculum explores moral concepts and ensures that all of our students are active citizens who understand and enact our British values. The culture of our school connects all that we are and all that we do. We expect all of our students to be kind and our behaviour policy ensures that students explore their decision making and its consequences. Our Culture Card sets the tone for all students, ensuring that they actively participate in our community as kind, courteous and curious citizens. We reward our students for embodying the culture of our school through our Culture Card and DNA points system.

Students at Kingsley Academy engage in a wealth of social experiences that enhance their learning journey, their school experience and their holistic development as individuals within a unified community, both within and beyond school. 

External Speakers and Agencies

Each year group has regular opportunities to engage with external speakers and facilitators so that they can become active participants in society. The following list is far from exhaustive: 

• Year 7:  Road Safety programmes to ensure that they realise the impact of their decisions on themselves and on the lives of others. 

• Year 8:  Your Life, You Choose programme allows them to engage with police, emergency services and substance misuse organsations to  support their safety in the community and their capacity to be active participants in a safe society.  

• Year 9 participate in the Coachbright programme to enable them to be confident, independent and resilient citizens who can lead the lives they want. 

• Year 10 DHL residential affords students to opportunity to push themselves beyond their limits and realise their potential to survive in an outward bound setting, pushing them beyond the boundaries of their local, urban community. 

• Year 11’s PGL residential continue to develop the confidence and reslience through a programme of academic support and social opportunities to engage in activities that build their confidence, resilience, self-esteem and the sense of community they share with their fellow students. 

• Year 12 engage in a wide variety.

All students benefit from regular careers education via PSHCE, Tutor Time, Unifrog and external led assemblies to open their eyes to the wealth of opportunities the world has to offer them.  All students KS3-5 are supported to develop healthy,  safe  and empowered relationships with friends, family and romantic partners through regular workshops with the LVA.  The LVA also provides students with a comprehensive education in online safety, consent, coercion and the law, while also offering a supportive curriculum in developing self-esteem, self-talk and self-worth. Students have also begun to work with Women’s Aid, Expect Respect Programme and the Turning Point programme, to further develop their understanding od Frf healthy, safe relationships. 

We offer a wide range of intervention programmes to support the social development of our students also and work closely with both community and national organisations to do so. 

A sample of interventions includes: 

• Read, Write, Inc Literacy and Fresh Start Phonics Programme: to develop cognition and learning skills so that students can read and communicate in school and the world beyond. 

• Speech and Language Therapy: to support students to communicate and interact with others. 

• Zones of Regulation and Teenage Talkabout: to support social, emotional and mental health difficulties. 

• Brentford Football Club Mentoring: to empower students in managing their behaviour, self-regulation, self-image and social skills in a variety of contexts. 

• Timegivers: TimeGivers creates a sustainable and scalable bridge between our students and charities that need their help in ways that benefit all.

• HAY Social Enterprise: an ASDAN-accredited  social enterprise workshops in conjunction with Hounslow Action for Youth and Ultra Education designed to support students to make positive choices and go on a journey of mentorship, support and guidance resulting in a project with an incredible outcome: their own, profitable,  business enterprise. Students develop skills in calculating margins, financial literacy, design and business presentation along with the ability to see themselves beyond past choices.

• Raising Futures Programme: A year-long intensive coaching and support programme equips Year 7 - 11 students with the essential skills needed to succeed inside and outside the classroom.

• Anti-Bullying Programme: A programme designed to create an Anti-Bullying culture in the school through student leadership and pastoral mentorship. 

At the end of each term, each year group attends a formal rewards assembly where they are acknowledged for their academic achievements, but also, the manner in which they embody our school’s DNA and our school’s values. We also award students for their creativity, sporting prowess and progress in Reading. At Kingsley Academy, we believe that it is crucial to ensure that students are acknowledged for both achievement and improvement across a term.

Kingsley Academy sits in the heart of Hounslow and so, our community links are invaluable to us, as is the role that we play as active participants in our community. We work with a vast array of local partnerships to support the holistic character development of all of our students. 

• Hounslow Borough Council DEI and Communities Team: Students attend the Hounslow Climate Assembly along with other borough assemblies celebrating International Women’s Day, Pride and Black History Month, to name but a few. 

• Brentford FC Community Sports Trust: We work closely with Brentford FCCST a number of projects: mentoring projects, CPR training, team-building activities, football training, NCS certification and community social action projects. 

• Hounslow Action for Youth: annual partnerships to develop courage and aspiration across a range of our students.  

• Eco-Schools sponsored by our local Amazon Fresh store: our local store funds accreditation, training and sponsors others student activities. 

• Conquest: A Feltham based organisation that works closely with our PE team and contributes to our Character Development Days, promoting kindness to ourselves, others and the wider community through their team-building activities, mindfulness sessions and physical activity and nutrition education. 

• Local Primary Schools and Transition: We have a longstanding and ever evolving relationship with our local primary schools, in particular: Alexandra Primary, Hounslow Town, Hounslow Heath, Cranford Primary School and Beavers Primary School. We build partnerships with Year 5s through our outreach projects in baking, reading, art, science, drama and PE. We offer opportunities for our expert teacher to support local primary schools with reproductive health education, art and other specialisms while also welcoming our primary colleagues to shadow KS3 and 4 subjects to support their own curriculum development. 

Our students are part of our community from the moment they are offered their place at Kingsley Academy. We welcome our students by sending them a care package on the day that they are allocated a place with us. 

We arrange a series of events to support transition such as:

• Open Evening and Open Mornings: every September, our school opens its doors to welcome in future students and families. 

• Year 6 into 7 Welcome Evening: Year 6s are introduced to life at Kingsley through a series of taster activities and families have every opportunity to meet key members of staff who will be on hand to support their children through their secondary school journey. The evening culminates in a festive Friendship Party to celebrate the new additions to our community. 

• Headstart Day: All students who will be joining us in Year 7 join us for a full day of activities and immerse themselves in life at Kingsley Academy with support from their new pastoral tutors, pastoral leads, SEND team and student buddies from our current Year 7. 

• Year 7 Summer Camp: Every summer we offer three free days of activities to our new Year 7 students. Students are educated and supported to meet our expectations and to tackle the different challenges of secondary school: resource management, uniform, behaviour and relationships. They also engage in team-building activities and adventurous activities designed to support them to develop their relationships as a group. 

• Start-Time: A staggered start in September to build confidence and their capacity to navigate their new school in a quieter setting.

Our SEND and safeguarding teams work hand in hand with feeder schools to ensure the best possible start for our most vulnerable, ensuring that they are seen, known and supported. 

Cultural celebration, inclusion and diversity is at the very heart of our Kingsley Academy community. All students engage with British Values education through PSHCE and they live those values through the culture and expectations of the school along with the opportunities they have to express themselves and celebrate their culture. 

Students are educated and supported to live in a democratic society that abides by the rule of law. Our community  is fully inclusive, tolerant and respectful to all and every student is taught about the Equality Act, protected characteristics and British Values through our PSHCE and assembly programme.  

We also drive and celebrate the diversity of our school culture through our annual Culture Day when students dress up in traditional dress or in anything that represents their unique identity. The day’s activities also explores food, music, traditions, language, dance, art and more. 

We run 3 Character Development Days per year focusing on our core values: Kindness, Courage and Curiosity. 

Each term celebrates one value and is designed to develop the whole student. For example: 

1. Kindness Day (Term 1): focuses on developing kindness to self, others and community. 

2. Courage Day (Term 2): designed to align with Careers Week to promote aspiration for all. 

3. Curiosity Day (Term 3): designed to catapult students into the wider cultural life of London. Every year they visit a different museum or gallery culminating in a picnic in a Royal Park such as Hyde Park. 

We also drives the acknowledgement of key events in our local community and on the British calendar. The list is not exhaustive, but includes:

• Black History Month

• Disability History Month

• Pride Month

• International Women’s Day

• World Refugee Day

• Human Rights Day

• International Day for the Eradication of Violence against Women and Girls 

• Anti-Bullying Week

• World Mental Health Day

• Children’s Mental Health Week

Students are invited to enter Creative Campaign Competitions for Anti-Bullying Week, World Mental Health Day and Black HIstory Month each year.