St. Andrew's School, Woking

Just a final reminder that we are entering two teams in the annual Rotary Club Swimathon taking place this Sunday 2nd October at Pool in the Park. A big thank you to our children and parents who have volunteered to represent St. Andrew’s and raise funds for local charities.

Please donate here and reference St. Andrew's so that our teams can see your support:

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/wokingswimathon

Today are our Harvest Festival assemblies. All contributions will go to Woking Foodbank. Our thanks to all our families for their generous donations for such a worthy charity.

Smiling faces from our 3rd XI mixed football team following their thrilling 5-3 win yesterday!

Congratulations to our new Pre-Prep School Councillors for the Christmas term. We look forward to hearing them share the views of our Pre-Prep.

Year 3 have enjoyed learning about different cultures and celebrating the European Day of Languages this week.

Our Nursery children really enjoyed tasting different foods as part of our celebration of the European Day of Languages today.

Despite the rain, Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed their visit to Hever Castle today!

We are delighted to once again be entering two teams in the annual Rotary Club Swimathon taking place next Sunday 2nd October at Pool in the Park. A big thank you to our children and parents who have volunteered to represent St Andrew’s and raise funds for local charities.

You can donate here: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/wokingswimathon

Some of our Year 5 budding scientists enjoying their Science challenge at Bradfield College - including seeing if maggots prefer the light or dark!

Year 8 have been getting creative in their drama lessons this week. They've started a T.I.E. (Theatre in Education) project for Pre-Prep that links with their mentoring programme. Looks great fun!

Our children in Years 7&8 conquered their fears with an intrepid adventure to Wildwood!

On Friday we celebrated International Dot day - the chance to encourage our children to be creative, courageous and to work together.

Year 3 enjoyed a lovely interactive visit to Butser Farm last week. Here are some of the highlights.

HRH Queen Elizabeth II 1926 - 2022
Our thoughts are with the Royal Family at this very sad time and we send our heartfelt condolences.

Julie, our wonderful external PSHCE provider, delivered our annual Mentor training this morning. Year 8 can’t wait to get started with this fantastic opportunity and responsibility.

Year 7 are ready for their next step at St. Andrew’s and Year 8 are taking on their new responsibilities - the badges have been handed out!

Our Pre-Prep children are enjoying the start of the new term and being back together with their friends.

A warm welcome back to the Christmas term at St. Andrew's! We wish all in our community a happy and fulfilling term ahead.

Wow - what a year! Our annual Prize Giving was so incredibly special once again. Our thanks to Mr Adam Williams (Headmaster, Lord Wandsworth College) for such an inspiring speech and congratulations to all our children and our new Heads of School. Enjoy the summer everyone!

Ice creams in the sunshine - what a lovely way to end the term!

Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed their end of year fun day!

House swimming finally happened and it was worth the wait! Congratulations to all our swimmers and to our overall winners - Hearts!

It was the perfect day for Senior House Tennis yesterday!

Nothing like a whole school BBQ in the glorious sunshine!

Always wonderful to watch the Senior House Drama - such talent! Well done to all involved.

Another hotly contested House Tug of War competition this afternoon!

Congratulations to five of our girls who have donated their hair to make wigs for The Little Princess Trust. What a fantastic thing to do!

We were treated to a wonderful production of scenes from Treasure Island by our Year 8 children today. Our thanks to all involved both behind the scenes and on the stage!

Wow! What a fantastic Sports Day on Saturday! The atmosphere was amazing - helped by the wealth of enthusiastic supporters! Congratulations to our overall winners, Clubs!

Despite the slightly unpredictable weather, Year 8 had a great time watching 'Legally Blonde' at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre yesterday.

The Year 7s are enjoying their visit to Hampton Court Palace - looking at the life of the Tudors and Henry VIIIth.
They even watched a game of Real Tennis!

Despite the weather, everyone had a fantastic morning at the House Charities Summer Fair! Thank you so much to our parent helpers for your invaluable support.

Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed performing their topic celebration assembly on 'The Great Fire of London'. The children were 'On Fire' this morning with wonderful narration and enthusiastic singing!

I'm not sure the spectators were expecting to get as wet as the competitors in our House Swimming today! Sadly the event had to be postponed part way through and has been rescheduled for next Wednesday.

We were very lucky with the weather for another fun-packed Pre-Prep Sports Day. Thank you so much to all our families who joined us to enthusiastically support our children.

Year 6 have had a fun packed morning on the last day of their residential taking part in fencing and the giant swing activity.

Our Year 7 & 8 golfers had a great afternoon taking part in the St. Andrew's Golf Competition at Hoe Bridge Golf Club yesterday.

Year 6 have taken part in a mixture of vertical challenge, archery and canoeing today after a high energy passport to the world yesterday evening.

Year 2 had an amazing time at Painshill Park - such brilliant weather to explore the park and play games on the grass!

Lots of fun and excitement for Year 6 yesterday evening with wacky races indoors and a passport to the world challenge!

Our Year 8s have had great fun mentoring our younger children at breaktime in Pre-Prep.

Year 6 ready have enjoyed another fantastic day with groups taking part in orienteering and low level ropes.

The Nursery children and their parents had a wonderful day at Bocketts Farm last Friday. Highlights included a bumpy tractor ride, animal handling, meeting some baby goats and jumping on the bouncy pillows!

This afternoon Year 6 followed a sensory trail where they had one of their senses hindered and had to follow a series of tasks in the dark. before moving on to indoor wall climbing - learning about different routes up a wall and seeing who can climb the quickest!

Today Year 6 enthusiastically took on the 'capture the flag' task and then had great fun playing cat and mouse in a tunnel trail activity.

Year 6 enjoyed a great evening around a campfire - participating in singing challenges and story telling.

Year 6 have arrived in Portsmouth ready for their sailing to the Isle of Wight!

Year 4 have been planning pop up stories to read to Year 2. Who will be the protagonist? What adventures will they have?