Knaphill Lower School in the village of Knaphill, near Woking, in Surrey is a primary and nursery school for boys and girls. The age range of the pupils is 3-7. Click here to read the school prospectus.
Welcome to Knaphill Lower School
Choosing the right school for your child is one of the most important decisions that you will make. You will want to be assured that your child will reach its full potential in a happy, caring and nurturing environment which develops high self esteem in each child.
We have high expectations and are committed to providing a wide, challenging and balanced education which meets the needs of each child. Our staff are enthusiastic and dedicated to providing the very best standards in teaching and learning.
We value the opportunity to welcome you to our school. We are confident that you will find here, a community where standards of behaviour and respect for others are given high priority, and an environment where children are motivated, happy and eager to learn.
Knaphill Lower School was in February 2007 inspected by OFSTED and awarded the Grade of OUTSTANDING in every educational element:- achievement and standards, personal development and well being, teaching and learning, curriculum and other activities, care, guidance and support and leadership and management. It was, also, an accolade to be proposed, recently, for the project - Sustaining Success, Leading Edge School Development. Under the Department of Education and Skills we will progress the "Every Child Matters Agenda" and share the outcomes with other schools.
We look forward to welcoming your child and yourselves to our school and community.
Angela Kalfayan, Headteacher
CHILDREN'S FOOD FESTIVAL PUTS KIDS IN CHARGE OF THE DOUGH
If your children turn their noses up at everything you offer them at mealtimes, then the Children's Food Festival is for you - or rather for them. This celebration of food and cooking is designed to turn fussies into foodies and is devoted entirely to young people. Adults will have fun too, but this is one occasion where the kids are in charge of the dough. Click here for more information.
Girl Guides, Brownies and Rainbows in our area
We are all aware of the many benefits that joining a club such as Rainbows or Brownies can bring. To find out more about Girlguiding in St Johns, Knaphill or Goldsworth Park please click here. It's a contact point for parents which you can use to get in touch with all the units in our school's catchment area.
For details about a series of parenting courses that are just about to start on Thursday mornings at the Ypod Centre in Woking please click here.
Knaphill Lower Information Centre (KLIC) officially opened
Our new school and community resource - the Knaphill Lower Information Centre or KLIC - was formally opened on Friday, 17th October by our MP, Woking's Mayor and Mayoress, the Chairman of Surrey County Council, our Chair of Governors and our Headteacher.
Children's Page
There's a new area on the website where we showcase children's work. Click here to see examples of wonderful work that the children have produced recently.
Generation Green
We sent out a letter recently to all parents about a new ECO initiative (see General Correspondence link below). Our school need to earn 34,473 'leaves' to exchange for eco rewards! These include a choice of solar panels, wind turbines, etc. Children can earn 'leaves' by playing the eco games, and parents, carers and adults can help too by completing the online energy report, helping you to find out how energy efficient your home is. There is also advice on how to improve your energy efficiency.
Keep up-to-date with how we are doing to achieve our target by regularly checking the Generation Green website!
General Correspondence to Parents
Click here to go to a page containing general correspondence to parents.
Note: This is where you will find notices about upcoming events at the school or advice about changes that may affect you or your child. Other, more general, documents such as details of our admission policy may be found under the link lower down the page on the left marked 'Document downloads'.
Year Group Correspondence
These links will take you to pages where you can find out what's happening in your child's year group and download information:
Click here for Nursery information.
Click here for Reception information.
Click here for Year 1 information.
Click here for Year 2 information.
My School Lunch
Click here to go to a new Surrey County Council site and find out about school lunches and healthy eating in Surrey schools. There are details of a number of benefits to our school, our parents and our pupils:
Parents can:
Pupils can:
Knaphill On The News!
We're not 'in the news' ..., we were 'on the news'! On Monday, 17th December the BBC showed a short film they made about our Christmas production. They filmed us on Thursday, 13th December and the clip was shown twice on Monday - first at 12.30 and then again at 6.30 in the local 'London' news segment of the main news bulletin. Click here to watch the clip.
Diary dates
Spring Term 2010
January
26 Parents' Evening - 3.30 - 5.50pm28 Parents' Evening - 5.30 - 8.50pm
February
9 PTA meeting at Knaphill School 8pm15-19 Half Term
March
8-10 Book Fair/Readathon10 Book Character Day
15-19 Eco/Science Week
31 Last Day of Spring Term - school finishes at 2.30pm
Ofsted
We are delighted to be able to announce that following the OFSTED inspection on 26 February 2007 Knaphill Lower School has been awarded the Grade of OUTSTANDING in every educational element. Please realise that you can't get higher than this! You can read the full report by clicking here. The Inspector also commented on the excellent behaviour of our children in a school that places the child at the centre of everything.
Shopping and Surfing!
The PTA has registered with an online shopping portal called easyfundraising.org.uk This will provide a welcome boost to PTA funds but the size of the boost depends on how many of us use the portal. It is completely free to use. Once at the site online you'll need to register as a user, select the cause you're supporting (Knaphill Schools PTA) and then login to start shopping. Choose from over 500 retailers of the UK's best-known retailers including many popular names such as NEXT, Amazon, Debenhams, John Lewis and HMV, and when you shop using the links on the site up to 15% from every purchase you make is donated to the cause you've selected. (NOTE: there are some important suggestions on the site regarding Norton Internet Security and Browser setting) - so please register to buy online with easyfundraising and pass on the message to grandparents and friends!
As an added bonus the same site can give you access to a search engine powered by Yahoo! Every search which is linked to our cause will generate a donation to the PTA in a similar way to the shopping portal. We're yet to receive notification of the web address for this site but we'll let you as soon as we do!
Knaphill in the news
Eco-School
International partnerships
Knaphill Lower School is heavily involved in a number of international projects with schools around the world and has been given an International Award by the British Council. Under "eTwinning", which is part of the European Commission's eLearning programme, we manage a website called "Outdoor Action" as well as participating in the "Eye Spy On Europe" magazine project. Click on the links to find out more about each project, click on the map to find out about the schools we're linked with or click this link to see what we do with each school.
Click here to go straight to an update on our link with schools in Ecuador (February 2008)
Special events
Special visitors regularly come to the school; our children participate in cultural, sporting and educational events outside school; we celebrate many special occasions. Click here to see what we've done recently.
School Details
Knaphill Lower School
(LEA Maintained)
Chobham Road
Knaphill
Woking GU21 2SX
Telephone: 01483 473282
Fax: 01483 799096
E-mail: office@knaphill-lower.surrey.sch.uk
Headteacher: Mrs A Kalfayan BA (NPQH)