Kingston Grammar School, combines the best of traditional values with a modern and friendly approach to co-educational learning. The school has a fine academic record with a high proportion of its pupils going on to higher education, with regular successes at Oxford and Cambridge.
Its facilities are continuously being improved and a recent major building programme has provided a Library, Lecture Theatre, Study Centre, Art and Technology Centre.
Academic success is important, but the boys and girls are encouraged to excel in every area of achievement, including sporting, musical and artistic pursuits. The school has a long tradition of supplying internationals in Hockey and Rowing, and possesses superb sports facilities at Hampton Court including a boathouse, astroturf hockey pitch and tennis courts.
The strength of KGS is its emphasis on the 'family of the school' with education seen as a partnership between pupils, staff and parents. There is an active PSA and a carefully structured system of pastoral care, where each pupil has continuous contact with a tutor. Staff, pupils and parents participate in a comprehensive regular review of achievement and are able to closely monitor performance. Later in their careers all students receive very thorough advice on further education.
The school encourages a plethora of other activities, including foreign tours by sports teams (Europe Hockey 1992) - and major scientific expeditions (Kenya 1992) together with music tours (America and Canada 1996) as well as a range of clubs and societies including a CCF unit.
We hope that pupils will leave the school able to adapt their talents to meet the needs of the modern world, whilst holding fast to the pricipals of self reliance, a sense of responsibility, courtesy and care towards others and a determination to seize opportunity. Whatever a pupil's talents it is the school's aim to discover it and develop it.
The motto of the school means 'work hard and be happy' which ideally sums up the KGS philosophy.
Alumni - Edward Gibbon, historian; R C Sherriff and Michael Frayn, Playwrights.
