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A real school day
A published timetable, a register every morning, lessons that begin and end on time, and work due before the next lesson.
Knowledge
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Est. 1995 · Live online school
Wherever You Are
This is a school with thirty years behind it and a timetable in front of it. Every lesson taught live. Every pupil known by name. From London to Dubai to New York to Lahore. This is Kings.
Why Kings
Why families choose Kings.
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Taught live, by specialists
Every lesson is a live class with a teacher who has taught the examined syllabus before. Nobody learns from a video playlist.
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Known by name
Classes of twenty at most, fifteen in the Sixth Form, and a weekly meeting at which every pupil is discussed by name by the people who teach them.
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One plan per pupil
The right year and route, with any support or training arrangement written down at the start and reviewed each term.
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A tutor, a house, a community
A form tutor who notices, a house that claims the pupil, clubs, assemblies, and a Speech Day across every region.
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Thirty years of doing this
Teaching at a distance since 1995, improved every year as the technology improved.
A plain test
What makes a school a school.
Online learning comes in many forms. Most of them are not schools. This is the test we invite families to apply to anyone, including us.
| What a family should expect | Kings | A video course | A private tutor |
|---|---|---|---|
| A register taken every school day | Yes | — | — |
| Lessons taught live by a subject specialist | Yes | — | Yes |
| Work marked by the teacher who set it | Yes | — | Yes |
| A form tutor who knows the pupil | Yes | — | — |
| Classes of twenty at most, fifteen in the Sixth Form | Yes | — | — |
| A house, classmates and clubs | Yes | — | — |
| Reports and parents' evenings every term | Yes | — | — |
| Examination entries made by the school | Yes | — | — |
| A safeguarding lead and a safeguarding policy | Yes | — | — |
Welcome from the Principal
A school day, not a login.
Kings has taught at a distance since 1995, when most schools had not yet imagined such a thing. We have had thirty years to learn how to do it well.
What has not changed is the shape of a school day. There is a register. There is a teacher at the front of the class who knows every name on it. There is work set in the lesson and marked by the person who set it. There is a tutor who notices when a pupil goes quiet, and a house that cheers when a pupil does well.
The screen changes where a child sits. It does not change what a school owes them.
Ms Lucy Harrison
Principal
Read more about KingsAcademics
Lower School, Senior School, Sixth Form.
The Kings Day
A real school day, in your own time.
Every programme keeps the same school day: tutor time at 08:45, lessons through to 14:30, then clubs and extra help until 15:30 — in the region’s own time. Choose a pathway below; the hours stay the same.
Sample timetable
Lower School· Years 7–9
08:45 – 15:30
- 08:45Tutor timeRegister taken, the day set out.
- 09:00Period 1Live lesson with the subject teacher.
- 09:55Period 2Live lesson.
- 10:45BreakA short pause between periods.
- 11:05Period 3Live lesson.
- 12:00Period 4Live lesson.
- 12:50LunchTime away from the screen.
- 13:40Period 5Live lesson. Work set for the next day.
- 14:30End of lessonsFormal teaching closes for the day.
- 14:45Clubs & supportHouse meetings, clubs, and extra help until 15:30.
Qualifications
The qualifications universities know.
Kings prepares pupils for the examinations sat in the best schools in Britain and beyond. No pupil sits a paper they have not been taught for, in a live class, by a teacher who has taught it before.
Lower School
O Level
IGCSE
International GCSE
A Level
International A Level
BTEC
Ontario Secondary School Diploma
American High School Diploma
Our Houses
Every pupil belongs to a house.
Every pupil is placed in a house on the first day, and stays in it for life. Brothers and sisters join the same house.
Windsor
Royal blue
Named for the present royal house, and for the castle that has stood above the Thames since the eleventh century.
Tudor
Green
The house of Elizabeth the First, under whom the great English grammar schools were founded.
Stuart
Crimson
The house that brought the crowns of England and Scotland together under one monarch.
York
Gold
The house of the white rose, and of the great minster city of the north.
The Kings Year
Three terms. Two examination seasons.
Kings keeps the English school year in every region. The calendar for the year ahead is published in the Summer Term and sent to every family.
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September to December
Michaelmas Term
New pupils join. House competitions begin. The October and November examination season for retakes and early entries.
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January to March
Lent Term
Mock examinations for examination candidates. Parents' evenings for every cohort. Subject choices for the year ahead.
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April to July
Summer Term
The May and June examination season. Speech Day, held online across all regions. Reports and the calendar for the year ahead.
Ready for a place
The application is completed by a parent or guardian.
Contact us
Tell us who the student is.
Age, time zone, and the qualification you are considering are enough to start. Prefer to write? Use admissions@kings.ac.