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Kingsford Community School
Secondary · Maintained · London
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Kingsford Community school
SLT are the laziest I have ever seen
Why you should not go to this school
dont go to this schoool its horrible the students are mean and they are rude my son cant go to the toilets because older kids peak from thte other cubicles and when a teacher gives a detention does it have to be right on the same day?like can u not just call the parents and let them know before?Not only that when there is a substitute the students mess around and the teacher doesnt care.There is also some teachers that let my son go late to lunch for no reason because the teacher came 5 min late and we had to finish the work and then my son couldnt eat.NOT ONLY that theres more my son went to buy lunch which costs £2.10 but the school took £4.80 and lied .this is why u shouldnt go to this school
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It's not that bad
Amazing teachers good education cation system and has lots of fun clubs and activities.kingsford is also a very diverse school the only reason why I gave it a 4 was because of school lunches only good thing was snacks untill they removed them and the occasional pizza other than that it tastes disghusting.
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It's actually not that bad
Great school in all good teachers good education and opens a variety of options for gcse and clubs they also have but the lunch is my only problem only good thing was snacks which they got rid of and pizza which comes occasionally
Student
Kingsford is not a good school at all.All they care about is getting paid they don’t care about young students at all.the head teacher is never in unless she has to come in they are a disgusting school.they give you detentions for dumb things! This school is ghetto it has so much violence and drama. Even the students do more work than the head teacher.some teachers are just blatantly rude and target black girls as well but some teachers are honestly really nice. I don’t get how this school is still open all these teachers need to go!!! They’re sick people and try to cover it up they don’t care about your kids!! It is a prison inside of there. DONT COME TO THIS SCHOOL YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR GETTING YOURSELF INTO
Save your kids!!!
What can I say about experience in this school. My daughter has been bullied and even assaulted but nothing has been done about it. A school well known for bullying and violence. DO NOT SEND YOUR KIDS THERE!!!!
Terrible school
Where do I start , this school has got to be the worst in newham your child will start there in year 7 as a innocent young child and after a few weeks of attending will see and know things you wouldn’t dream of them witnessing and knowing. The bullying is so bad that it completely changed my child from being a confident child to having such low self esteem and feeling down the school don’t deal with the bullying as they should. The head teacher is hardly on site and never there to support the children as she claims she does.
They don’t offer children who need extra support the support that they should be given , the communication is really bad and no one gets back to you.
The children are left unattended in classrooms which my child has had to deal with , with no adult supervision. During detention no adults present so they just mess about instead of doing work.
Children sell drugs in the school and take weapons into school.
Please don’t send your child here it will be such a bad decision as I am living Proff of this.
They don’t offer children who need extra support the support that they should be given , the communication is really bad and no one gets back to you.
The children are left unattended in classrooms which my child has had to deal with , with no adult supervision. During detention no adults present so they just mess about instead of doing work.
Children sell drugs in the school and take weapons into school.
Please don’t send your child here it will be such a bad decision as I am living Proff of this.
Secondary
Avoid
This schools is run by someone who reads from a piece of paper on open day. This is a reflection on how she runs the school too, from a script, and only what is minimally necessary. If you want your child to do well, seek a different school. This school aims at the average kid to make it through compulsory education. It is extremely hard to get issues resolved in this school, everything is swept under the carpet. Parents who complain are chastised for doing so by the teachers and head of year, the head teacher does not address issues unless forced to do so. Appalling lack of respect for parents.
Rating of a secondary school
This school is the worst, it's so corrupt, the students are borderline psychopaths and bullies the food here is terrible it was great at the start the food was actual edible and they had several different choices you could choose now its just rice and chicken most of the time and it mostly looks like plastic .
It is what you make of it
They will support you if that’s what you need, and will take you where you want to go.
my experience at KCS
teachers are homophobic and let people make homophobic comments in class and let them pass. some teachers even make it clear they’re homophobic, and when students do too they say it’s “freedom of opinion”, as if someone’s existence is an opinion to them. they invalidate mental health, barely give any resources to help with the overwhelming amount of work teachers pile on and some teachers are just overall rude and act as if they’re better than the students, just because they’re teachers. some teachers do care, i will admit. they care about all students, no matter who they are and they might give people a safe space to talk to. but the bad outweighs the good on another level. some teachers do care about students who focus in class and who actually do work but some teachers only care for the kids who are popular and it’s honestly so discouraging seeing your hard work being dismissed and someone doing the bare minimum and getting a bunch of praise.
Wouldn’t recommend
I have been to this school and wouldn’t recommend it. The teachers are taught to be inclusive but there are many who are homophobic and invalidate mental health. Classes are easily disrupted and some teachers can’t control them. 3/10
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The Head works remotely and is not always present.
If you are offered a temporary contract with a view to it going permanent with the excuse given that the head was not present for the interview decline. Countless staff have been in this situation and were unsuccessful for the post job when it was readvertised on the TES.
The students are good fun and hard work. It’s just the leadership of the school is appalling. Do not believe the ofsted report. I think they either do not know what they are doing or are corrupt. Possibly both