The main Common Entrance course starts in Year 6 as pupils follow an academic course leading to examination in eight subject areas. Teaching is, as far as possible, in specialist rooms and pupils will be setted in Maths and French. Academic standards are high and it is normal for pupils to pass successfully into the senior school of their first choice. Those pupils showing potential to compete for Scholarship awards are given any necessary extra tuition to cover the wider and deeper demands made at that level. Opportunities for involvement in the Arts abound at Kenton where Music, Art and Drama play an important role in school life.
Music is taught throughout the school, to all pupils.
Having learned to play the recorder in the junior school, pupils are acti vely encouraged to take up a musical instrument. Many may wish to join one of the two choirs, the recorder or the wind ensemble or, as more take up instruments, be part of the growing orchestra. Opportunities to sing or play music are many, both within an d outside the school. Drama plays an equally important part. In a School which boasts two stages and a separate drama room, all children are given the opportunity to perform on stage in front of the school, or in public.