Knaphill Federation of Schools

What a fantastic year we have had at Knaphill School. Thank you to all of our community for your invaluable support and kindness - we couldn’t have achieved all of the incredible things we have this year without you. Wishing our wonderful Knaphill School community a brilliant and safe Summer! ☀️

‘Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...’ – Matilda

Just a reminder that many supermarkets are offering meals during the Summer Holidays.

On Wednesday, Year 6 had a fantastic time celebrating all their hard work and successes. Good food, good fun and good friends were enjoyed by all. Thank you Year 6 for making this a wonderful year. We will miss you!

Last week, Year 5 had a fantastic day out at World Games Day. A huge thank you to all at Winston Churchill School for inviting us and for hosting such a brilliant event. Our children thoroughly enjoyed the variety of sporting activities on offer, which were all led by pupils at Winston. It was also wonderful to see old Knaphill faces! Thank you!

Wow - what a phenomenal Sports Day! From start to finish, all children were actively involved in a variety of fun-filled sporting activities. We were beyond proud of their sportsmanship and how they all reflected our Knaphill School values. It was amazing to see so many of our Knaphill community coming to support our children.

Photos to follow soon!

Wow! A huge thank you to Natalie and our incredible Knaphill Schools PTA for a truly fantastic Summer Fair! All who attended were blown away by the huge amount of activities on offer. Thank you to our Knaphill community for all of your support.

Amazing work Natalie and team!☀️💕

On Tuesday, our Year 5 children met their Year 2 buddies and went on a treasure hunt around the Junior School! They had a fabulous time and thoroughly enjoyed getting to know each other.

It was fantastic to see them reunited yesterday for our children’s move-up day.

Good Luck to our Year 6 children over the next two days as they visit their secondary schools. We know you will be great and we can’t wait to hear all about it on Thursday!

The Junior School had the unique experience of participating in a Bounce Fitness workshop on Thursday. The children (and some staff!) had a fantastic time during their workshops; it was wonderful to see the huge smiles on their faces throughout the day.

It has been quite the week for our Year 5 children!

On Monday, we met with the Year 2 children from the Lower School and taught them some playground games, ready for their move to the Junior School; yesterday we watched the amazing show of SIX the Musical at Winston and on Tuesday we had Ancient Greek Day!

On this day, we travelled back in time to Ancient Greece and participated in a variety of exciting activities. We played an Ancient Greek strategy game, solved a stomachian puzzle and took part in an interesting quiz. To top this all off, the children learnt about Greek armour and weaponry, took part in a theatrical performance and participated in an Athens Vs Sparta Olympic Games - it was very tense and exhilarating! It was a nail biting finale and, with only one mark in it, Athens took the glory!

We were extremely impressed with the children’s incredible Ancient Greek costumes! Well done, Year 5!

Our Year 5 children and adults were blown away today watching Winston Churchill’s School Production of SIX the Musical.

It was a truly magical performance filled with incredible singing; professional acting skills; wonderful choreography and phenomenal musicians. Seeing some of our former Knaphill students up on the stage made us unbelievably proud - what amazing talent!

We must not forget all the children and adults backstage and behind the scenes, who must have worked so hard to put together such a polished and professional performance.

Thank you so much Winston Churchill School for inviting us!

And the winners of the Knaphill Inter-House Football Tournament are...Year 5 & 6 FARAH!

A fantastic week of nail-biting matches and exhilarating penalty shoot-outs culminated in the grand-final between Year 5 & 6 Farah and Rowling today. Thank you and well done to all the Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 children who participated in the matches, our fantastic Knaphill cheer squad and, of course, our Sports Leads who make these tournaments possible. What a brilliant week of sportsmanship.

Please see our newsletter on Friday to read match reports written by some of our Sports Leads!

Last week, Year 6 ran an extremely successful Apprentice. After being given a small business loan from the school, each group bought and made products to sell on their stall. There was a brilliant turn out from Year 6 families as well as lots of support from all the staff and children at the school. We are so proud of the children's achievements today and are SO pleased to share that we have raised enough money to pay for every child in Year 6 to have a leavers' hoodie and to pay for the Year 6 BBQ. We certainly have some fantastic entrepreneurs in our school!

Year 5 had a fantastic time at Hindleap Warren! 💕

What a week Year 5 have had at Hindleap Warren!

We can't wait to share lots of photographs of their adventures next week.

🏕️ Family Camping 🏕️

Not long to go until our amazing PTA's family camping event on 20th to 21st May! It’s not too late to book your pitch or even book to join for just the day!

The PTA have lots of fun planned:

🪵 Forest school craft activities
🪵 BBQ
🪵 Campfire
🪵 Marshmallow toasting
🪵 Hot chocolate
🪵 Breakfast

If you would like to book your place, please complete the PTA's booking form here (please select ‘Other’ for tent pitches if you’d only like to attend for the day):

https://forms.gle/G2Eq7awaFzfc3nMu6

Thank you for organising Knaphill Schools PTA! 💕

The Year 6 team and all the staff at Knaphill School wish the Year 6 children the best of luck this week. We are so proud of you.

Breakfast is waiting…!

Last Friday, our amazing Girls’ Football team went to face the other group winners in the overall finals. They were incredible. Despite some less than favourable results, they showed true determination and spirit to keep battling until the end. We are immensely proud of them and of the parents who have supported us tirelessly through our vast improvements during this school year’s fixtures. Our support was the envy of the tournament.

Knaphill Girls Year 5/6 - League Winners!

On Thursday, our Year 5 & 6 Girls’ team headed to Hermitage for a play-off match to decide who would be League Winners and reach the League Champion Finals. The girls suffered an early setback, conceding two quick goals, but showed resilience to pull the match level. Despite this, they fell behind twice more, levelling each time. In the last few minutes, they showed true grit and desire to pull ahead and then scored a late free kick to put the game out of reach, in what was an incredibly enthralling match. The final score was 6-4 to Knaphill, who have now progressed to the Champion Finals this Friday.

Well done girls—a truly amazing performance.

Even more photographs of our wonderful Year 4 residential to Sayers Croft!

Year 4 had an amazing time on their residential trip to Sayers Croft before the Easter holidays. Thank you to all of the staff who made it possible for our children.

Year 6 have been engaging in politics and democracy over the last couple of weeks by forming their own political parties. Each class was given the opportunity to spend £30 on something that would benefit the children. The boys and girls of Year 6 campaigned for votes from parents and the party in each class that won the most votes would have their chosen investment bought. Children wrote speeches, slogans and leaflets whilst engaging the electorate in debate and discussion. Thank you to all the parents and families who supported the children throughout their campaigns and who voted for our three class winners: Reading Revolution from 6A; The Class of Calm from 6S; and AKSH from 6H. Well done, Year 6!

We are so incredibly lucky to have an amazing PTA Team! 💕

Thank you so much for organising another fantastic Easter Egg Hunt for all of our children. We even got a surprise visit from the Easter bunny! 🐰 ☀️

Knaphill Schools PTA

At Knaphill Junior School, we will be holding our very own Knaphill School Royal Variety Performance, as part of our Coronation celebrations. In order for our Royal Variety inspired show to take place, we are inviting children from Years 3 to 6 to audition, where some will be selected to perform in front of the rest of the school. The final performances will be taking place during the school day on Friday 5th May.

This is a wonderful opportunity for our children to show off their incredible talents and skills with the rest of the school. We look forward to seeing a variety of unique and interesting talents during the audition process: singers, dancers, comedy acts and magicians, are just some examples. Children may wish to audition as solo acts, or some may wish to duet or be part of a group performance.

The auditions will take place in the week commencing 17th April, during the school day. If your child would like to audition, please complete the Google Form to enable us to establish an audition timetable.

https://forms.gle/BiJWjNnCFqYSx5Vq5

Please could the form be completed by Friday 31st March.

On our World Book Day, the children poured through the gates in a variety of incredible book related costumes. To kick off the day with a BANG, children’s author Nick Arnold amazed us with his science experiments and life stories on how he became the author of the Horrible Science series. After lunch, the children excitedly awaited the news of who would win our Book Day costume certificates. The whole school enjoyed taking part in a variety of Book Day activities to celebrate our love of books, including their Paired Reading session. It was truly wonderful to see children across the Year Groups sharing their favourite stories with each other.

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go.” - Dr. Seuss

Our amazing Knaphill Running Squad have made the local newspaper! 🗞️

We are beyond proud of all of our children, parents and staff who took part in the Surrey Half Marathon event on Sunday. Six parents and teachers took on the challenge of the 5k race; 22 children completed the 2k children’s race and 6 runners in the half marathon – we are beaming with pride at how wonderful our school community have been in taking on such an incredible physical challenge.

A huge congratulations and a big thank you to the PTA for organising our team, and to our very impressive Knaphill School Running Squad for helping us to raise money for our school.

https://www.wokingnewsandmail.co.uk/news/pupils-run-their-socks-off-to-raise-funds-for-knaphill-schools-601315

If you haven’t already and you would like to donate, please sponsor our incredible team using the link below:

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/knaphillrunners23?fbclid=IwAR1bAxAhXq2sHJJzjqI7_pUJbVd8Vhj_A7FBdxZccKVj5JMf3es4GPy-HQc

Wow - what a week we had at Knaphill School to celebrate our World Book Week 2023!

Upon entering into the sweet delights of W***y Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, the children found themselves transported into a world of pure imagination. Each child was the eager recipient of a very special W***y Wonka envelope, as they took their seats inside the Chocolate Factory. The air was buzzing with excitement as the lucky few winners of the Golden Tickets were revealed. Mr W***y Wonka proudly awarded them with their prizes.

After leaving the Chocolate Factory, the children were summoned by Miss Trunchbull to complete a rigorous morning fitness regime. Once fully warmed up, the children took part in an array of Roald Dahl themed activities: crafting dreamcatchers to capture the BFG’s dreams; concocting potions and experiments with George and his marvellous medicine; creating their very own flavour of chocolate bar at W***y Wonka’s Chocolate Factory and performing poetry to bring Roald Dahl’s poems to life!

Keep an eye out for more photos during the week.

"Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world!"

- Roald Dahl

Year 6 had a fantastic time on their residential trip to Stone Farm. Living on a working farm in Devon for four days, the children were involved in all the day-day jobs: feeding the geese; feeding the kune kune pigs (Salt and Pepper); cleaning out the other pigs; milking the almost realistic cow (Daisy); giving the rabbits lots of cuddles; and taking the Guinea pigs out for exercise. Whilst at the farm, they took day trips out to the Eden project and Plymouth Aquarium, saw a falconry show, puzzled their way through a hay maze and even sang songs around the camp fire. The whole experience has been amazing—something that they will cherish forever.

For Children’s Mental Health and Well-Being Week, our Junior School children connected with people in our local community: Year 3 connected with the Year 3 children at Goldsworth Primary School by writing letters and becoming pen pals; Year 4 children connected with a local care home, sharing postcards they had made as well as flowers; Year 5 children connected with our very own Reception children, reading their own interactive story books to the children based on well-known fairy tales, but with a twist and Year 6 connected with the children at Trinity Pre-School, sharing their own picture books, reassuring the younger children about how much fun they will have starting school.

All of our children thoroughly enjoyed making connections with our local community and we received delightful comments back about how well our children represented Knaphill School. We continue to strive to be at the heart of our community and we look forward to continuing to make these wonderful connections and memories for our children.

Have a flick through our Spring 1 ‘English at Knaphill Magazine’.

Inside you will find lots of recommended reads; read and enjoy 'trailers' of some of our children's writing across Years 3-6 and see photographs of some of the things we’ve been up to, in order to inspire our reading and writing.

https://flipbookpdf.net/web/site/c1962aca2d2299afb3ed7101bc563134f7f4b4dc202302.pdf.html

If you missed last half-term’s instalment, use the link below:
https://www.flipbookpdf.net/web/site/3e38a7f899d9b00b58a2852066a1072ce0cdf633202212.pdf.html

We’d like to wish our whole community a wonderful half-term break!

Flipbook Flipbook

Just a reminder that the Online Safety Presentation, by Sharon Girling OBE will be taking place on Monday 16th January at 8.45am, in the Junior School hall.

It is a chance to gain a better understanding of Online Safety and supporting Internet use at home, including the use of Whatsapp, Snapchat and mobile phone use.

To allow Parents/Guardians of the Lower School to come to the Online Safety Workshop, Lower School children can be dropped off via the Lower School office from 8.35am.

Please fill out the Google Form below, if you would like to attend.

Online Safety Presentation 2023 On Monday 16th January, we would like to welcome parents and guardians from across the Federation to an Online Safety Presentation at 8.45am to help gain a better understanding of online safety and supporting Internet use at home. This presentation will take place at the Junior School hall and will....

Just like the Junior School, at Knaphill Lower School, we kindly ask that any parents and guardians, who have children in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2, to complete the survey below to share your opinions about our school and how we could improve. Please could the survey by completed by Friday 20th January.
https://forms.office.com/e/9t8MgZcNps

Thank you for your continued support.

Fill | Knaphill Lower School Parent Survey - Spring 2023

We kindly ask that any parents and guardians, who have children in Years 3 to 6, complete the survey below to share your opinions about our school and how we could improve. Please could the survey by completed by Monday 16th January.

https://forms.office.com/e/peah2h6T3x

Thank you for your continued support.

Fill | Knaphill School Parent Survey Spring