Parental involvement is welcomed and valued at Kingsmead and is crucial to enriching the experience of the children at our school. We both support our families and  involve them in school life in many ways, some of which are listed below:

Coffee Mornings & Parent Workshops

Every term we run a series of Coffee Mornings and workshops for our families. These are led by school staff and the external agencies we work with. Our Coffee Mornings have been a great success, building a community amongst Kingsmead families. They have included visits from The Family Coach Service, the School Nurse and our Speech and Language therapist to name a few. Other recent sessions have focused on exploring our LEAP Empowerment Curriculum, Emotional Well-being, Supporting Behaviour at Home with an introduction to Zones of Regulation, an approach used at Kingsmead. If you would like to get involved just speak to the school office who will let you know the date of the next planned Coffee Morning.

Parent workshops play an important role in enhancing children's education by offering parents and carers invaluable insights and tools for effective collaboration with school. Every term, we provide a number of parent workshops focused on various different topics from Phonics and Reading, Maths, History to sessions run by our Specialist Teacher on supporting children with areas of particular difficulty. All our workshops are planned in advance and will be listed in  the Key Dates section of the school newsletter as well as in the School Calendar, which can be found in the Our News section of this website.

We have also run taster Dance and Drumming workshops for our parents too! 

Below are PDFs from some of our recent parent workshops.

Parent Carer Come To School Weeks

During these weeks, which take place twice a year, parents and carers are invited to attend lessons in their child's class, allowing them to see how we teach and how the children learn. There are a variety of subjects to choose from and everyone is encouraged to feedback after the session. Comments from those attending our  Parent and Carer Come to School Weeks  have been unanimously positive and the children are always very proud to have their parents in their classrooms and to be able to show off their achievements.  Thanks to all our teachers for making these weeks such a  successful feature of our school year.

Annual School Community Events

Every year at Kingsmead, the school community has the opportunity to come together at several vibrant and enjoyable events:

Summer Fair

Every year we hold a vibrant and well attended Summer Fair, with music, activities & performances and delicious food cooked by our school kitchen team, with donations of international dishes from families. Our steel pan groups, including the staff steel pan band, perform and a huge raffle is held, helping to raise funds for the school.

International Evening 

A highlight of the Kingsmead school calendar, International Evening is a really special event, where the whole school community comes together to celebrate our diversity. With great entertainment involving music and dance and wonderful dishes of food cooked and donated by our parents and carers for all to share, it is a fantastic example of how Kingsmead school champions and celebrates the range of cultures and heritage of our community. We are constantly overwhelmed by the generosity of our families, who help to create an incredible feast for all.

Family Support

Free Food Shops

Our weekly Free Food Shops were started during the Covid lockdown and have run ever since. We are extremely grateful to the Felix Project who enable us to offer a weekly selection of free food to our whole school community. This has been hugely popular with our families who come every week to top up their supplies.

Citizens Advice Schools Project

Kingsmead also works in partnership with East End Citizens Advice Bureau and every fortnight we offer space at school for Kingsmead parents and carers to book an advice session with a  dedicated CAB advisor. You can find out more information on the link below