In the Press

St Ives School’s swimming team excelled itself at the IAPS Swimming Finals at the London Aquatics Centre last weekend.  

A fantastic afternoon of tennis in our Mums Vs girls tennis tournament. Participants played doubles, Queen of the Court and Champion of Champions with the overall winners being the girls! Everyone had great fun.

The soggy weather couldn't dampen our spirits at our fantastic annual Summer Fair! Everyone had a wonderful time. Thank you so much to the Friends of St Ives (FOSI) for all their hard work, all the stall holders who came long and all the visitors who braved the weather.

Well done Year 6 on your wonderful stalls at Market Day. It's clear you put a huge amount of work into planning your stalls, from your products, presentation, merchandising, branding, promotion and customer service. Let's hope you've raised lots of money for your charities.

Hoorah for being allowed to wear pyjamas to school today to show support for Pyjamarama and raise money for the Booktrust to ensure every child has access to books and can enjoy stories as much as we do. A wonderful morning of story telling, book swapping and fund raising.

Swimming Captains Emily and Emma have qualified as individuals in the U11 50m and 25m Butterfly respectively.  This is an incredible achievement, with only the top twenty out of more than one hundred and fifty swimmers nationally, qualifying.  Our relay team has also qualified as one of the top small schools’ team, nationally.  The relay team is made up of Emma, Emily, Ella, Annabel, Poppy, Imogen, Livvy, Grace and Tamara.

In addition to this, our Year 6 swimmers recently qualified for the National Finals of the English Schools Swimming Association (ESSA) Primary Schools Relays to be held in Sheffield in June.  Having come third in the South East Regionals, and taking two seconds off their qualifying time, these girls rightly deserve their place in the finals. 

Kay Goldsworthy, Head Teacher, said “I am so proud of the whole team for working so hard.  This result is phenomenal.  We wish them all the best of luck for the finals in June”.

The festival started with an opening assembly with all the children arriving at school dressed up as their favourite Wizard of Oz character.  Everyone made a huge effort and there were so many variations on the Dorothies, the Lions, the Scarecrows, the Tin Men as well as Wicked Witches of the West!

For the next three days the children were tasked with various maths themed activities from a ruby slippers investigation, to junk modelling, to an inter-house Maths quiz, to learning how to play bridge, to a speed stacking challenge, as well as a baking extravaganza where the children had to design, bake, decorate and design packaging for Wizard of Oz themed biscuits.

The children also brought in their favourite board games for everyone to enjoy and were then set the challenge of creating a new board game which they had to present at a closing assembly.  All the pupils benefitted from three days of full Maths immersion.   

Kay Goldsworthy, Head Teacher at St Ives, said “Our first Maths Festival has been a huge success.  It has allowed us to really bring Maths to life and show the pupils how important it is in our daily lives and not just in the classroom.”

It's all been very quiet here today as the pupils have been raising funds for the Motor Neurone Disease Association by holding a sponsored silence. Pupils raised a whopping £3,007!! Thank you to the O'Donnells for the idea and to @mndassoc for their brilliant work.

Thanks so much to our Year 6 pupils and their families for giving us a beautiful bench as their leaving present. St Ives pupils will enjoy using it for years to come. We'll miss you when you leave at the end of term and please come back and visit!

Thanks very much to Cllr. Pat Blades, Deputy Mayor of Haslemere, for coming to open our new outdoor classroom today and thanks too to the parents of St Ives for raising the funds to buy and build it. The children are so lucky!