King’s College School, Cascais

Access to the Inspired Global Group of Over 80 Premium Schools

King’s College School, Cascais students uniquely benefit from meaningful global connectivity with over 80 Inspired premium schools, across 23 countries, spanning 5 continents. 

Students can benefit from extraordinary curriculum collaborations as part of everyday school life -from student leadership events, competitions across the 80-strong school group and cultural festivals. At King’s College School, Cascais, every student learns about the world outside their school by experiencing it first-hand.   

Our students enjoy the opportunity to take part in Inspired Global Summer Camps, staying at some of world’s top boarding schools. The camps are a wonderful opportunity to travel, meet peers from other countries and learn new things from sports and fashion to a new language. 

For students wanting to experience life in another school, our Inspired Exchange Programme is available for stays from 4 weeks to a year. Every exchange offers students the opportunity to explore new places, improve language skills, make new friends, and experience new cultures. Exchanges are available in Spain, the UK, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, South Africa, Vietnam and New Zealand.

A 50-Year Heritage of Academic Excellence

For over 50 years, King’s College schools have characterised learning as interdisciplinary, with a strong emphasis on exploratory and practical learning and respect for the individuality of each and every child. Supported by this heritage, our new private school in Cascais will benefit from the group’s esteemed history of academic excellence, practical knowledge acquisition, skill development and personal support to allow our students to achieve the best academic results that they can, in order to take full advantage of all their future opportunities at university and beyond.

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Specialised Subject Teachers From Primary Onwards

Research shows that strong subject knowledge impacts on the effectiveness of teaching and learning. At King’s College School, students are taught by specialist teachers in the areas of Maths, English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Science, Music, Computing, Physical Education, Dance, Public Speaking and Drama. All our students, from the Primary years upwards, benefit from this team of specialist staff, who bring deeper and broader subject knowledge, and have greater insight into the subjects that they teach. 

Hand-Picked Teachers From the Inspired Group

With access to the very best teachers, hand-picked from around the world, King’s College School, Cascais students will experience best in-class teaching and the deepest learning, enabling them to fulfil their highest aspirations and achieve their true potential.

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Integrated technology for an extended learning experience

Embedding education technology tools in our curriculum can extend learning in powerful ways; besides having a major impact on their ability to access content, resources, and materials, it encourages collaborative work and engagement and incorporates different learning styles.

First-class campus with boarding facilities 

Our new campus, which will be completed during the 2023-24 academic year, will offer the highest quality modern facilities, ensuring students benefit from a learning environment that has been designed to cater to the ever-evolving needs of the classroom and beyond. They will also enjoy a huge range of co-curricular activities and enrichment, including a special Elite Sports Programme for student-athletes, and a Boarding House providing a home from home for up to 50 students aged from 13 to 18 years old. 

Elite & Student Sports Programme 

Coupling an outstanding international education at King’s College School Cascais with personalised full-time training programmes and the best local partners for each sport, our aspiring young sports students are provided with the best possible opportunities to succeed in their chosen field. Cascais is internationally renowned for the excellent Sailing and Surfing opportunities, excellent Golf courses, extensive Horse-Riding schools and top Tennis and Padel facilities.

Our scholarship agency partners work closely with universities across the U.S and Europe to generate scholarship offers, where available, completing the Student-Athletes’ pathway to higher education. 

Programme flexibility

The Elite and Student Sports programmes have been designed with the aim to allow students to attend tournaments and training, without having to neglect their academic endeavours.  This means students can participate in sports competitions while still undertaking their academic studies. Recorded lessons, virtual school and additional tutoring is provided for those who have attended competitions.

College Guidance and Scholarships

During the programme, students work with King’s College School, its sports academies and specialised agencies, giving them the best guidance and support to maximize their opportunities to attain sports scholarships at universities in the United States.

Specialist Coaching to Ensure Top University Destinations

One in three Inspired graduates go on to attend a Russell Group or Ivy League university – these are some of the most prestigious higher education institutions in the world. King’s College School, Cascais students will access Inspired’s specialist counselling to support them in accessing top US, UK and European universities. Over 90% of Inspired students go on to their first-choice university.

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Commitment to Excellence 

Our extensive experience in tracking student progress ensures that each student’s academic and personal development is constantly reviewed. These tracking systems allow us to intervene quickly, determining where and how extra support can be put in place, so students remain on-track to achieving their goals. We know that happy and well-supported students truly flourish and can achieve their best both in and outside the classroom - our students’ wellbeing is key to our commitment to excellence. 

Skills for Success

King’s College School is committed to supporting our students to develop the skills and learning character that they will need to succeed not only in their studies, but also in their exciting futures beyond education. Preparing our students to be able to grasp opportunities in their futures, including jobs that probably do not yet exist, requires us to spark their curiosity, encourage them to question and to become those out-of-the-box thinkers that employers crave.  Therefore, we plan lessons and offer opportunities to provide students with a toolkit of skills and abilities that will equip them confidently for life. No matter how the world changes, we are confident that King’s College School students can and will succeed in their greatest ambitions.

Innovative and Creative Teaching and Learning

We are dedicated to innovation in education, anchored in the latest cognitive science about how children learn best, which is developed through shared best practices from over 80 of the best schools in the world within the Inspired group. This dedication to innovation is critically driven by our teachers who always go that extra-mile to curate lessons that are thought-provoking and inspiring. 

Our integrated use of technology is firmly placed at the heart of our approach, be it through our students’ use of 3D printers for problem-solving in Science and Design Tech, or via interdisciplinary projects across subjects, such as Computer Science and History, by using computer programming to re-model parts of a historical battle. Our teaching is designed to stimulate students’ curiosity and encourage them to question beyond the bounds of their textbooks. Students are personally stretched to achieve their highest aspirations and graduate to be self-assured and capable individuals, who confidently take decisions for their future to ensure that not only are they successful – but that they are also fulfilled.