Friday 22nd May 2026
Safeguarding Information
There are two safeguarding bulletins that are being shared across the Trust that we would like to draw your attention to. One is focused on Online Grooming and the other relates to Minecraft, a game that we know is popular with many of our students. Please click here to access these documents:
Year 10 PPEs – Follow Up from Year 10 Parent Information Evening
Due to the Year 6 transition day taking place on Wednesday 1st July, and to support the setting up of this day, we have had to make some amendments to the end of the Year 10 PPE timetable. A new timetable has been given to students, and you can access this here: **. Students have also received a copy of their individual timetables this week.
The four changes are as follows:
- Maths (calculator) has moved from the morning of Wednesday 1st July to the afternoon of Friday 26th June
- GCSE PE and Cambridge National have both moved from the afternoon of Friday 26th June to the middle examination slot on Monday 29th June (this exam will start at 11.30am)
- Psychology has moved from the morning of Monday 29th June to the afternoon of Thursday 25th June
- The French and Spanish Writing originally scheduled for the afternoon of Tuesday 30th June has been bought forward slightly to 11.30am on the same day.
For all scheduled morning exams, students are expected to arrive to school at normal time and go to their form rooms. Exams will begin from 8.30am and tutors will escort students down to their exam room.
For all scheduled afternoon exams, students will go directly to their exam room after lunch. These exams will start at approximately 2pm. Given the length of most exams, they are likely to finish beyond the normal school finishing time.
Any parents that were unable to make last week’s meeting can access the PowerPoint presentation here:
During the first week after half term, we will conduct a thorough equipment check to ensure that students are fully prepared for their upcoming PPEs. It would be helpful if parents could support their child in ensuring they have all equipment required. This includes black pens, ruler, rubber, pencil, protractor, scientific calculator, highlighters (optional); a transparent pencil case is required for exams and a transparent water bottle for those wishing to take a drink of water into their exam.
In addition, click below to find:
- a copy of all the subjects studied at GCSE
- the exam boards that we register with
- a list of resources for students to use in preparation for their PPEs here
Year 10 Interview Day Tuesday 14th July 2026 Reminder
Thank you to those who have contacted us offering to support our Year 10 interview day event on Tuesday 14th July 2026 following our appeal in last week’s communications. We are grateful for your offers, and slots are filling up quickly. If you are still able to support this event but have not yet been in touch, please do so via enquiry@knbs.co.uk with ‘Y10 Interview Day’ as the subject.
Year 11 End of Year Celebration
We are excited to announce that we will hold our annual in-school end of Year 11 celebration event on Tuesday 14th July. Last year, our 2025 leavers enjoyed a lovely afternoon filled with pizza, ice-cream, glorious sunshine, music, a photo booth, a bouncy castle assault course and a spontaneous staff versus student football match. We hope to organise an equally enjoyable for this year’s cohort. We appreciate that the cost of the Prom may reduce accessibility to some students and therefore we will ask for a voluntary contribution of just £5 to our in-school event, meaning everyone can attend. We hope that your son will join us for our end of year event to celebrate what will have been undoubtedly a challenging time.
Year 11 Adapted Timetable
Please click here: ** to find details of the Year 11 amended timetable for after May half term. Students may have slightly adapted timetables, which may result in them arriving to school later than usual or having an early finish on certain days, the details of which can be found on the linked document on the bottom line. Year 11 students have been used to this layout of timetable for the previous two exam weeks so if there are any questions in the first instance, they may be able to help. However, if there are any additional questions, please do not hesitate to make contact.
Dates for your diary:
Tuesday 9th June 2026 – Year 9 DTP/ MEN AWCY Vaccinations
Wednesday 8th, 9th & 10th July – Planned network outage
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