Welcome
Welcome to Knaphill School
Knaphill School is a community junior school providing education for children aged between 7 and 11. This Website is designed to give you helpful information about our school. Please take a look at our key information page where you will find our policies on anti-bullying and child protection.
Knaphill is a friendly and caring school where everyone is committed to providing the best learning opportunities for our children.
Knaphill is a friendly and caring school where everyone is committed to providing the best learning opportunities for our children.
We are proud of our school and will be happy to show you around so that you can be fully informed before making the decision to apply for a place.
I look forward to meeting you.
I look forward to meeting you.
Kevin Davies
Headteacher
About Our School
Our Vision and Aims
The staff, Governors and children at Knaphill School believe that:
Our school should establish a happy, hard-working atmosphere based on sound interpersonal and productive relationships between pupils, teachers, parents and all other members of the school community.
Within that community our school should help children to develop into independent individuals who have a sense of their own worth, have the confidence to express themselves and are able to develop the traits of courtesy, self-respect, a responsible and caring attitude toward others and the environment, a community spirit based on Christian morals and principles, and respect for other beliefs and cultures.
Our school should provide a learning environment that fosters lively and enquiring minds with the capacity for reflection, curiosity, and a sense of awe and wonder, and helps to develop the flexibility and adaptability necessary to meet the demands of the modern world.
Our school should provide opportunities for all pupils to make progress against the five outcomes from Every Child Matters (Be Healthy, Stay Safe, Enjoy and Achieve, Make a Positive Contribution, Achieve Economic Well-being).
Our school should provide a rich, broad and careful differentiated curriculum taught through a variety of effective methods, which ensures that all children have the opportunity to achieve the very best of which they are capable, combining high standards and exciting learning across all areas.
Our school should provide other experiences and opportunities for the acquisition of skills and talents both within the curriculum and in extra-curricular activities.
Our school should actively encourage aesthetic awareness and expression through which children can express their understanding and interpretation of the world. We should provide stimulating opportunities for children through music, visual arts, dance, drama and creative writing.
Our school should ensure that physical education and health awareness are essential elements of each child’s school experience, so that they develop fitness, a healthy approach to life and an enjoyment of games and physical activities.
School Aims
The aims of our school are therefore:
1 To develop good working habits of independence, co-operation and perseverance.
2 To develop and foster a lively and enquiring mind.
3 To actively encourage an aesthetic awareness.
4 To promote courtesy, self-respect, consideration for others and a community spirit based on Christian morals and principles.
5 For the children to acquire the skills, concepts and knowledge appropriate to their stage of development.
6 To enjoy learning in an environment which promotes equal opportunities for all.
