Weekly Updates

Friday 14th November 2025

Parental Communications this week

	Communication description	Recipients
Year 7
Year 8	Medical information / Dietary requirements survey	Email to all year 8 parents
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11	GCSE Art deadline reminder	Email to parents of Year 11 GCSE Art

If you have not received a communication noted above that you are an intended recipient of please contact enquiry@knbs.co.uk

West Heath Primary Outreach

This week we have once again welcomed students from West Heath Primary School to KNSB to take part in Technology, Spanish and Science lessons. It was wonderful to see their enthusiasm and excitement at learning something new and being supported by Year 9 students too. This is a valuable part of our Outreach Programme, which is going from strength to strength this year. We will be welcoming the second group of Year 6 students early December for the same programme, and some of our Year 9 boys will be heading to West Heath School in April for a whole day Spanish-themed event. Watch this space for updates!

International Men’s Day Assemblies and Movember

This week, our boys have had assemblies on the theme of International Men’s Day which is on the 19^th November. They will be doing activities in form time as well to support this important topic, and here you can see Mr Davies and Mr Copes delivering the assembly which the boys were so engaged with.

As a school, we are also raising funds for Movember to support men’s mental health. On Thursday 20th November, there will be a bake sale during breaktime (these will be shop bought with their ingredients listed). Some of our male members of staff have also put themselves forward to do a charity leg wax! This will be the second half of both KS3/KS4 lunchtimes on the same day. Children will be able to make donations to purchase cakes and be spectators for the waxing…

INSET Day 21^st November – Reminder

School will be closed to all students on Friday 21^st November to allow for staff INSET to take place.

Advance Notice INSET Day Monday 5^th January

School will also be closed to all students on Monday 5^th January for our KEVI Conference. School will open again for all staff and students to begin the spring term on Tuesday 6^th January.

Year 11 Period 6 and Non-Examined Assessment (NEA) Focus Week

Next week, we will be running our NEA Focus Week, offering targeted after-school support for selected students in Year 11 who are completing coursework in Art, iMedia, DT, Drama and Music Technology. From Tuesday to Thursday, staff will be on hand from 3:00–4:30pm to provide guidance, feedback and dedicated time to help students strengthen and finalise their work. This supportive intervention is designed to give students the space, resources and encouragement they need to meet GCSE standards and feel confident in their progress. We look forward to seeing their hard work pay off.

Library opening times

Our library is now open for students to use for quiet activities such as homework, reading, Sparx revision, chess/draughts, at the following times weekly: