Business details
Kirkby Stephen Grammar School
- Tel: 017683 71693
- Email: [Send email to Kirkby Stephen Grammar School]
- Website: http://www.ksgs.cumbria.sch.uk/
- Christian Head, Kirkby Stephen, CA17 4HA
Kirkby Stephen Grammar School is a unique school, with a positive ethos and a happy and purposeful atmosphere. Our ambition is quite simply to help every child in our care to achieve success whatever his or her individual abilities and talents might be.
OUR VISION:
• Kirkby Stephen Grammar School is a learning community committed to success for all.
OUR ACADEMY AIMS:
• To promote lifelong learning
• To promote an inclusive ethos in which everyone can develop and be successful
• To encourage everyone to improve standards of academic progress
• To develop self-discipline and positive social behaviour to enable students to become effective citizens in society
• To provide a wide and exciting range of enrichment activities beyond the classroom
• To provide high quality learning opportunities and higher standards through sharing specialist facilities and resources with partner schools and developing and disseminating good practice
• To work with the Eden Valley Sports Partnership to develop high quality PE, School Games and competition
• To provide high quality learning opportunities for members of the wider community
• To develop partnerships with local businesses and providers.
• To plan for all pupils to stay on in training, apprenticeships or education to the age of 18
• To cater for the needs of Gifted and Talented pupils.
• To work effectively with our partner schools for mutual support and benefits
The School
Kirkby Stephen Grammar School serves a wide catchment area and provides education for about 400 boys and girls aged between 11 and 19. There are about 70 students in the Sixth Form. The school has, on average, one pupil per square mile of catchment area and draws many individuals from small villages and isolated farms, including from North Yorkshire. Having such attractively small numbers enables us to provide for our students in a personal way, within the family atmosphere and ethos we enjoy.
In the centre of the Eden Valley, Kirkby Stephen is a thriving market town of some 2,500 inhabitants. It lies amidst some of the most splendid scenery in the North of England. Despite its sparse population and relative isolation, Kirkby Stephen has easy access to the M6 and the A1 via the A66. This gives simple, quick and convenient routes to the Lake District and the rest of the country. Kirkby Stephen also lies on the Settle-Carlisle line, one of the most spectacular rail journeys in the world. Our school occupies a prime site just two minutes walk from the Market Square and is set within extensive grounds and playing fields with excellent sporting facilities. The classrooms boast unparalleled views from every window.
The school was awarded Sports College status in 2003. It was inspected by Ofsted in December 2007; and converted to become a Co-operative Academy from August 2011.
Sixth Form
Kirkby Stephen Grammar School uses an open access policy for entry and aims to get the most from students by giving the most we can. We offer a wide range of subject at A' Level and vocational subjects from both here and at Appleby Heritage Centre.
It is our aim to offer individual packages to each student which could include both A' Levels and vocational courses, only A' levels or only vocational courses.
The sixth form has three areas where it focuses it's aims
Student Progress
• To ensure students are following appropriate courses
• To ensure students are set up to succeed
• To monitor student progress and keep students on target to achieve
• To encourage a good work ethic amongst students
Preparation for university/careers
• To prepare students for next steps in careers
• To prepare students for applying to university
Life skills
• To give students responsibility in the school
• To give students independent learning skills in preparation for careers/university
• To give students life skills for independent living
Our success is shown through our excellent results and the number of our students who increasingly choose to stay on after Year Eleven and who then go on to their first choice of university or career. We are also successful in helping every other student who leaves the Sixth Form, either to become full-time employed or join colleges for Further Education
Areas served: Kirkby Stephen.
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