Summer School

"As I enter a new phase of my life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.” 
Kapil Dev
Summer school 2026: Monday 24th - Friday 28th August

At Kings Langley School, we offer a week of summer school for our New Year 7 students to support their transition into secondary school alongside a series of other events. This is offered to all students and is always in the final week of the summer holidays, so that it leads beautifully into the new school term. The week encompasses a wide range of activities which have been organised to address and fulfil our planned intentions. 

We have a broad set of intentions and aims to cover and achieve from students’ well-being to embracing the school’s ethos and culture. The key intentions are:

  • For students to enjoy their first experiences at Kings Langley School

  • To ensure that students feel safe and comfortable with the staff and inside of the school building

  • To design activities and situations which encourage students to make new friends and build good relationships

  • To share and encourage students to embrace our core values and ethos of character

  • To help give students an understanding of the expectations of KLS school and KLS lessons

  • To identify any key weaknesses of individuals for numeracy and literacy 

We plan a series of activities depending on the numbers of students attending and linking to the specialisms of the staff who are signed up to run the week. Our primary foci are to ensure that students feel comfortable entering a much larger building; can confidently find their way around the different areas and build good relationships with staff and their peers, particularly within their form groups. To accomplish these, we include “Getting to know you” activities; team building games and school tours. We put students into friendship groups to begin with and ensure where a sole student comes from a primary school they are introduced to a group of others quickly. We make opportunities within the week for the whole cohort to mix and work in their form groups.

Our programme always includes sporting activities as these enable large groups to work together and encourage good character virtues such as team work; leadership; and kindness. There is an additional session on “The KLS Student” which looks at character traits that we would want a great student to have including stickability; self-regulation and empathy. This activity is designed to be creative and we encourage students to think “outside of the box”; and then present their ideas in small groups.

Students all receive a starter pack which includes the expected standard equipment they need for lessons, and we supply break time snacks and lunch. We encourage students to make their own rolls, which often leads to a learning moment on how to apply butter to bread and can lead to some quite interesting filling combinations! Students also receive a school logoed water bottle to avoid use of plastic cups and starts great recycling and environmental discussions. 

This year the students were treated to the activities of:

  • Pizza and bread making

  • School tour followed up with the school location challenge later in the week

  • Character activities

  • An introduction to our computer systems and platforms

  • Art session

  • Plenty of team games and physical activities

  • Reading activities  

 We asked students for feedback and we received some great feedback:

  • "Very good fun and I would do it again" CJ
  • "Thank you for the teachersr for giving up their own time to teach us" SR
  • "Coming to summer school made me more confident for school" AC
  • "It was really good for making new friends and it made it easier to come to school knowing more people and where things are" JB
  • "It was amazing - I loved it" GG
  • "I liked that you gave us a tour of the school to get us more comfortable for the first day of school" AH