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Kingsdale Foundation School Pride at Oversubscription Levels

In the late 1990s, Kingsdale Foundation School was in some difficulty. Just fifteen years later, Kingsdale Foundation School finds itself considerably oversubscribed each year. Kingsdale Foundation School now receives more than 7 applications for every new available student place each year.

The demand for places at high-performing state schools like Kingsdale Foundation School, is in part being…

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The UK's Largest Internal Educational Space at Kingsdale Foundation School

The UK’s Largest Internal Educational Space at Kingsdale Foundation School

School buildings such as those at Kingsdale Foundation School in south London have varying roles to fulfil, and as such need to be many things – robust, functional and organised, to name just a few. Traditional ideas on design for educational establishments were based primarily around these aspects, with little or no consideration for the ways in which students and staff experience the…

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The Imaginative Rehabilitation of Kingsdale Foundation School

It the late 1990s, Kingsdale Foundation School in south Londonwas undergoing a challenging period in its forty-year history. Built as part of a late post-war building boom, the original buildings were at the time considered to reflect the optimistic mood of the time. The Kingsdale Foundation School design by Leslie Martin, who five years previously in 1952 had designed the much-revered Royal…

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The Transformation of Kingsdale Foundation School

Opened in 1957, Kingsdale Foundation School was part of a countrywide public sector programme of construction. Designed by the then Director of the Greater London Council, Leslie Martin, the original Kingsdale Foundation School buildings were conceived in a forward-looking atmosphere of modernist attitudes that epitomised the hopefulness of the era.

However, after forty subsequent years of…

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The Celebrity Status of Kingsdale Foundation School

The word ‘celebrity’ is most commonly used in connection with a famous person but it can also mean ‘the state of being famous’, and Kingsdale Foundation School in Dulwich, south London, could arguably be described as having celebrity status. The dramatic transformation of Kingsdale Foundation School is akin to a rags to riches story, and has attracted a great deal of media attention that has…

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A Timeline of Kingsdale Foundation School

Kingsdale Foundation School, which has been open for over fifty years, has been through many states and changes in its time. Kingsdale Foundation School has seen it all, over the years. Despite all the school’s hardships throughout the decades, it has been described as a perfect representation of the multicultural community in which it is set, and has changed along with the face of inner city…

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Fifty Years of Kingsdale Foundation School

In 2009, Kingsdale Foundation School celebrated half a century of achievement and growth. The school held a reunion concert, with current students performing, and invitations were extended to former students and staff. The concert and performance was a perfect and apt celebration for Kingsdale Foundation School, considering the academy’s prowess in music and performing arts, and recent granting…

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Kingsdale Foundation School: Leading the Way in Performing Arts

Kingsdale Foundation School, a secondary school with academy status, is not only one of the most sought after schools in its area overall, but is also one of the best for performing arts subjects. In 2005, Kingsdale Foundation School was named as a specialist status school in the subject of performing arts, because of its extensive state of the arts facilities for the subject, and also the…

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Architectural Innovation at Kingsdale Foundation School

The now highly sought after Kingsdale Foundation School was a very different place back in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Over the last decade, the school has undergone a complete renovation; physically and academically.

Kingsdale Foundation School was part of a government programme entitled ‘Building Schools for the Future’, which aimed to refurbish and regenerate every underperforming school…

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Kingsdale Foundation School: Over Subscribed and In Demand

Out of all of the schools in the entire county of Southwark, Kingsdale Foundation School is one of the schools most preferred and sought after by prospective students. There is fierce competition between hopeful young students and eager parents for a sought after place at Kingsdale Foundation School.

Kingsdale Foundation School now boasts a stimulating and inclusive learning environment, built…

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Prime Minister David Cameron Impressed By The Newly Renovated Kingsdale Foundation School

In recent years, Kingsdale Foundation School has transformed to an extent that it is barely recognisable from its 1998 self. Kingsdale is now held up as a paradigm of what is architecturally and educationally possible.

Far from being subjected to a standard refurbishment, Kingsdale was approached by an architectural scheme called School Works that sought to extend funding assistance in return for…

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Kingsdale Foundation School | A Transformation

Kingsdale Foundation School is a state school that has emerged as an inspiring and remarkable story, a story that demonstrates the true and tangible results of striving to achieve excellence.. In May 2011, Prime Minister David Cameron visited Kingsdale Foundation School, discussing its achievements with the press and noting that he thought the school “brilliant.”

Other VIP visitors have included…

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The Award Winning Design of Kingsdale Foundation School and How it Brought New Life to This Institution

In the late 1990s, Kingsdale Foundation School was in major need of assistance, which it applied to the School Works programme. This initiative was created to showcase how architecture in schools can influence overall academic achievement. Eager for a much needed physical transformatory boost, Kingsdale Foundation School volunteeredto participate in the pilot run of the programme and received £30…

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Inspiration Through Architecture At Kingsdale Foundation School

Unfashionable and outdated school buildings have, in recent years, become increasingly popular redevelopment projects.

Built in 1958, the original Kingsdale site was designed with pupil accommodation in mind, rather than providing inspiring and pleasant surroundings. Though many borough councils were afforded budgetary allowances to refresh schools, Kingsdale was exempt from improvements. In the…

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Unprecedented Rejuvination Success For Kingsdale Foundation School

The fortunes of Kingsdale Foundation School have been dramatically reversed, thanks to a scheme that set out to investigate the link between environment and academic progress. Kingsdale was seen as the perfect candidate for a transformation project.

Clearly in physical decline, the building, built in 1958, was no longer fit for purpose, crowding large numbers of pupils into dark, narrow corridors…

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Redevelopment Over Demolition For Kingsdale Foundation School

The dramatic reinvention of Kingsdale Foundation School is now an extremely well publicised project within both educational and architectural settings, and is held up as a prime example of just how much impact positive surroundings can have on academic success.

Transformed from a dark, imposing and uninspiring building, built in 1958, Kingsdale is now a shining example of the possibility for…

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Design And Performance In Equal Measure At Kingsdale Foundation School

Initially built in 1958 and designed to house 2000 pupils, the original incarnation of Kingsdale Foundation School would not have won any conceptual design awards. It was clearly created with function rather than style in mind, but following a dramatic wakeup call in 1998, a plan to revitalise and transform the building was put into action.

The team charged with revamping the institution clearly…

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