King David Schools (Manchester)
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King David Schools is founded on traditional Jewish values with a belief in respect, courtesy, self-discipline, diligence, and the pursuit of excellence.  More ...

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PRESERVE – Your Community, Your School, Our Children’s Future

We need to raise £1m which is a critical contribution to the school's funding shortfall.

King David Schools is founded on traditional Jewish values with a belief in respect, courtesy, self-discipline, diligence, and the pursuit of excellence. 

Our mission is to encourage each and every child within the wider campus, from nursery through to the 6th form, to reach the highest levels of academic achievement, creativity and personal development. Equally, our aim is to create a generation who will be knowledgeable, committed to their faith and values and who will become outstanding citizens within the Jewish and wider community.  The school has provided a fantastic secular and Jewish education and grounding in Jewish identity to c. 5,000 children over the last 30 years.  We want to ensure we

can provide the same to today’s pupils, who are the future of our community.

This campaign seeks to PRESERVE the school and the Jewish Ethos that runs through it for the pupils of today and tomorrow. 

Government funding cuts simply do not allow any school to deliver the high standard of education that King David aspires to deliver to all its students, never mind the strong Jewish ethos and education that is infused throughout the campus.

Most schools, faith or otherwise, are experiencing financial difficulties but our school has some very specific challenges:  

  • For the last two years the Government has provided teachers with a well-deserved increase in salary and pension contribution.  However they have unrealistically expected schools to be able to fund some of this from existing budgets and therefore there has been a shortfall in funding.  Kind David loses out more than many schools, because the funding the Government provide is not based on the actual increase in our staff costs, rather it is based on a national formula which means schools with high Pupil Premium funding (see more below) get a larger amount of the additional funding.
  • The primary school is not currently full and is losing a potential income of £292,000 as funding is done on a per pupil basis, whilst they cannot reduce the cost base as they still have the costs of operating a fully staffed classroom.
  • SEN provision – King David High School has the highest SEN rate of any mainstream school in Manchester and yet the Government provide funding for a tiny fraction of those pupils.  Spending on SEN support across the Primary and High School is over £375,000 more than the SEN funding that the schools receive.  We believe every child with SEN deserves the best support we can provide but the funding we received simply doesn’t allow for that.
  • Pupil Premium – government funding is heavily weighted to schools with a high Pupil Premium rate as there is additional funding of £1,000 - £1,500 for each such pupil.  Pupil Premium is 9% in the primary school (around 1/5th of the average in Manchester and 1/3 of the national average) and the high school has the lowest in Manchester.  To put in context that means the primary school gets c. £185,000 less funding then the average school in Manchester.  This means the school is fundamentally under-funded and yet seeking to deliver a first class education from a less than average funding base.
  • The High School runs a first class 6th form offering with a breadth of academic and vocational subjects that rivals colleges / independent schools despite having a much lower number of students per year – without financial support to facilitate this it would be necessary to reduce the subjects that can be offered.
  • The costs of operating a kosher kitchen have increased significantly.  The government provides free school meals up to Year 2 in the primary school and also for those entitled to Free School Meals in the high school.  The charity covers the shortfall to ensure that pupils entitled to a Free School Meal can have a kosher meal – that comes at a cost of £20,000 - £30,000 per annum.  
  • Jewish education, both formal and informal, is at the heart of the school for which it receives only partial funding.  Across the campus this represents an unfunded cost of several hundred thousand pounds.

If the school were not to exist, the impact for the future of Manchester’s Jewish community is unimaginable.  We therefore ask you please to give with your heart – every donation is valued and critical to the future of the school.

PRESERVE – Your Community, Your School, Our Children’s Future