The Kingstone School

The Kingstone School

Infobox UK school
name = The Kingstone School



size = 200px
established = 1978
type = Comprehensive
head = Mr Matthew Milburn
specialist = Performing Arts College
street = Broadway
city = Barnsley
county = South Yorkshire
country = England
postcode = S70 6RB
LEA = Barnsley
enrollment = 1445
gender = Co-educational
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 16
colours = White & Burgandy color box|White color box|Maroon
website = http://www.thekingstoneschool.co.uk

Kingstone School is a secondary school located in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Founded in 1978, Kingstone provides secondary education to pupils aged 11-16. Formed by the amalgamation of Broadway Grammar School with adjacent Charter Comprehensive during restructuring of the British education system, Kingstone has a capacity of approximately 1500 making it one of the largest schools in the area.

The Head teacher is Matthew Milburn, he succeeded the original head of the school David J. Richards in September 2003.

Academic performance

Kingstone achieves consistently good GCSE results for the area, with 48.5% of the class of 2000–2006 achieving GCSE grades A*-C. This is very favourable on local league tables, although it still remains below the national average.

Under Local Authority education restructuring, Kingstone faces closure by 2012, with work on a new "Learning Centre" beginning on the site and the nearby Holgate School site starting in 2009.

chool tie

There are 6 variants of the school tie: five of the same design with a different coloured stripe, and one "Year 11 tie" which is optional for Year 11 (final year) students.

The colours are rotated each year so that pupils need not buy more than one tie. In 2007-08:
* Year 7: Yellow
* Year 8: White
* Year 9: Green
* Year 10: Black
* Year 11: Blue

Performing arts at Kingstone

chool productions

Kingstone School recently performed the production of "We Will Rock You" and have most recently performed "Little Shop of Horrors" and "High School Musical". Previous productions include"Smike" and "Dracula Spectacula".

Kingstone Concert Band

Kingstone School is home to the Kingstone Concert Band (formerly Kingstone School Concert Band), which has played in the world famous Blackpool Opera House, and over the last few years has graced the stages of Disneyland Paris, de Efteling theme park in Holland, and in April 2006 toured Barcelona promoting Concert bands in the area. Most recently, in April 2007 the band visited Florence, Italy.

port at Kingstone

A large community sports centre opened on the school site in October 2006, it is now used for PE lessons. The school performs consistently well in sports events, most notably the current Year 11 Boys' Football Team has won the local schools Football league and cup every year since they joined the school in 2001. The school is also involved in rugby, tennis, netball and cricket leagues.

External links

* [http://www.kingstoneschool.co.uk Official site]
* [http://www.barnsley.gov.uk/bguk/Education_Skills Barnsley Council: Education and Skills]
* [http://www.dfes.gov.uk/cgi-bin/performancetables/dfe1x1_05.pl?School=3704035&Mode=Z&Type= DFES Kingstone School Performance Tables 2005]


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