With the new school year about to start, and many new families joining our school, now is a good time to tell the story of King's Shenzhen since its founding back in 2019.

Founding Principles

One of the many things that makes The King's School Shenzhen unique is its extremely close connection to its sister school in the UK, The King's School Canterbury. While some other international school groups have chosen to rapidly expand into new countries by opening multiple schools in quick succession, King's takes a more deliberate approach. By making sure that our new school is well-matched to its location, has ample funding to support its long-term growth and development without any external investment, and is able to offer the best possible education to students, we ensure that our school in Shenzhen is not just going to survive. It's going to thrive. 

Campuses

Our journey in Shenzhen began with the opening of our Pre-Prep campus in 2019. Next to Shenzhen's famous Evergreen Resort, our youngest students enjoy not only the first-rate indoor facilities that you would expect from a world-leading school, but also excellent outdoor facilities, including an artificial grass play area, a natural grass sports field, a shaded garden with a sandpit, and a rooftop garden. 

Our state-of-the-art main campus for Prep and Senior School opened last year, with a stunning range of facilities on offer, including various kinds of specialised classrooms, an auditorium, a black box theatre, workshops for robotics and AI, sports courts and pitches, catering and boarding facilities, and a swimming pool. Our school is built to scale, so we are able to accommodate our fast-growing body of students without compromising on the quality of their education.

The 2023-2024 School Year

As a fast-growing school with many new students joining us each year, KSS naturally continues to recruit accomplished and talented teachers. For the 2023-2024 school year, we have several excellent new teachers joining us, including from King's Canterbury.

After a careful selection process, Mrs. Carrie Cameron has been chosen to fill the position of Head of Prep at King's. Mrs. Cameron has over twenty years of experience in education, and has an impeccable reputation in her field. She has been recognised as an outstanding practitioner at authority level, been voted employee of the year by staff, pupils, and parents at her previous school, and has had her S.T.E.M. development work be recognised by Education Scotland for best practice. In her previous role at King's as Deputy Head – Pastoral Care, she was in charge of the House system, academic support, and Pastoral Care, working together with homeroom teachers and tutors to ensure that every student enjoyed the care and support they needed to excel in their curricular and co-curricular activities, thereby allowing them to flourish and become the best versions of themselves. Carrie and her team's dedication to Pastoral Care resulted in King's being awarded the title of '2022 China School Awards Finalists: Pastoral Care' by the British Chamber of Commerce in China. 

Our new Deputy Head of Prep is Mr. Matt Kenney, a qualified teacher who has published several articles in well-known academic journals. He will be supported in this role by our Assistant Heads of Prep, Mr. Stephen Pearce and Ms. Sarah Hall, who are both experienced and enthusiastic teachers, and who will be responsible for Grades 1-3 and Grades 4-7 respectively. The combined efforts of our fantastic new leadership team have enabled King's to further perfect our syllabus by creating detailed teaching plans for each subject and each grade. King's is committed to employing scientific teaching methods and appropriate teaching materials to ensure that our students gain a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter and become highly-effective learners.

The quality of our core faculty has always been one of the key strengths of KSS. All of our teachers have professional qualifications and backgrounds in education, with an average of over 11 years of experience in the field, and over 80% of our foreign teachers are from the UK. Our Prep School faculty includes graduates from top universities in China and across the world, including from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia, University of London, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Southampton, University of the Arts London, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Sun Yat-sen University. 

Many excellent new teachers are joining King's for the start of the new school year, and no doubt our students and parents will get to know them all very well in due course. 

Among our new teachers is Mr. Wharton, who has rich experience in education and is the author of two children's books. He will be using his distinctive style of teaching in class 1A this year. Class 5A's new homeroom teacher is Mr. Hyde, who holds a doctorate degree and used to be a university lecturer. Before teaching, he had a successful and exciting career in engineering. Now, he enjoys incorporating elements of engineering, through project-based learning, research and problem-solving into the classroom to help provide children with an engaging, active learning experience. A new yet familiar teacher is Ms. Cookson, who is joining us from The King's School Canterbury, and who will teach PE and psychology. With her diverse professional background and experience at King's Canterbury, she is well placed to support each and every one of our students, and to help them develop their confidence and the skills that they will require in their lives.

Our new Senior School computer science teacher, Ms. He, has a master's degree from the University of Hong Kong, and has previously been an examiner for the Cambridge International Examinations. Building on her extensive knowledge of educational theory and her rich background in education, she is able to use heuristic teaching methods to encourage her students and unlock their full potential, helping them to stand out amongst their peers in their university applications. 

Now, with the foundations for our school firmly in place, and with our student body and faculty growing rapidly, we are ready to take the next step on our journey. We'll see you there!