Welcome to the Knights Templar Church of England and Methodist First School. We hope this website helps you sample a 'taste' of what happens in this school, but we do encourage you to visit our school to see for yourself what we offer your family.

We encourage and actively support parental involvement in the school, sharing the children's work with them and learning the way children learn. Prospective parents are welcome to visit the school, to meet members of staff and to see the facilities that we offer. An appointment can be made through one of the school secretaries.
The Knights Templar School is situated on a pleasant open site surrounded by the sea, the Quantock Hills and the fringe of Exmoor. The school cares for children up to the age of nine years and the school is promoted by two foundations, the Church of England and the Methodist Church. The building is on the edge of Watchet and was built and opened in 1990, and even in this short history their have been several major improvements to its facilities.

History of Knights Templar
The Knights Templar School was an amalgamation of two Victorian schools at the bottom of South Rd (now knocked down ) which were out grown by the community. The schools were five metres apart, one St. Decuman's the church school and the other the Watchet County School.

The decision to build a new school was made in 1988, a headteacher appointed from the St. Decumans, Mr Alan Woollam, and by 1990 a wonderful school was built. With community help the school had a larger and higher hall than normal,, a community kitchen and the plans to build a community indoor swimming pool , which was completed in 1994.

What should the school be called?
A competition was held but all suggestions didn't seem to fit until someone asked local historian, Hiliary Binding, if the land had any previous historical importance. To everyones surprise we struck gold when she discovered that the field was once known as the 'Templers' field in 1800. After further investigation she discovered that the field belonged to the Crusading movement, the Knights Templars, when the Crusaders were given the field around 1200 AD.

Yet again further investigation discovered the Crusaders were given the field by Reginald Fitz-Urze of Williton (land now owned by the Wyndham family) as a penance for murdering Thomas a Beckett (Arch-bishop of Canterbury ) in 1172 AD . With that historical information the school unanimously decided to name the school after the Knights Templars, a decision that also enabled us to use the crusading knight as an emblem.

The new school built has already had several extensions over the years now with ten classrooms (with several small extensions), a large playing field, an ICT Room, a Reception Playroom, an independent Children's Centre, an environmental field with orchard, garden and pond - the list is endless.