In the Press

A wonderful afternoon of Halloween fun and chaos at our Prep & Pre-Prep Halloween parties.  Lots of brilliant games, fabulous costumes, delicious party food and the children's very favourite inter-year contest of 'turn your teacher into a Mummy' competition!  Thank you to our amazing parent body (FOSI) for organising.

This morning our Ducks in Nursery enjoyed learning loads of new skills in their PE lesson.  Mrs Woodward introduced them to a series of circuits which consisted of bunny hops, shooting balls, fast feet, step ups, shuttle runs and star jumps.  The children rose to the challenges brilliantly and worked so hard to remember what they were doing at each circuit.  Well done Ducks!

A huge thank you to Nerys Pearce from Sports for Schools for inspiring us so much this afternoon.  Nerys put everyone through their paces during several exercise drills and explained how sport has been so important to her all her life.  Becoming paralysed, after a road traffic accident in her 20s, has driven her to 'push forward' even more.  Since her accident, she has competed in powerlifting, swimming, athletics, rowing and wheelchair basketball at the Invictus Games, winning 10 medals!  Nerys explained that on good days and bad, we need to challenge ourselves to be the best version of ourselves.  We've been left completely in awe of her positivity and her overwhelming message to 'push forward'.

Yesterday St Bartholomew’s church in Haslemere was full of joy as children from Reception to year 6 took part in our Harvest Festival.

The orchestra opened the service with Morning Has Broken and each year group from years 3 to 6 spoke confidently.  The children were in fine voice with a varied selection of music including Pre-Prep choir performing The Singing vegetables and Chamber choir doing a lovely arrangement of All Things Bright and Beautiful.

The morning ended with a whole school song celebrating Harvest with reception on their maracas.

A big thank you to our parents who donated food so generously and to FOSI for displaying it beautifully in the Church.  This has already been donated to Haslemere food bank.

This morning Years 4 and 5 were lucky enough to see the Welsh Guards perform at St Catherine’s School.  They were treated to a colourful display of costumes and magnificent marching music with instruments including trombones, trumpets, drums, clarinets and a piccolo.  It concluded with a very familiar arrangement of You’ve got a Friend in Me from Toy Story which the children really enjoyed.  There was the opportunity to ask lots of questions at the end and everyone was very inquisitive about the instruments, how to read music and march at the same time, medals, red tunics and bearskin hats.  Thanks so much to St Catherine's for having us.

We're so proud to have received our Eco School Green Flag with Distinction this year.  It proves our continued commitment to environmental learning in all areas of the curriculum.  

This is the highest level of award and is only given to those schools which the Eco-Schools judges believe have gone 'above and beyond' the requirements for a Green Flag.

What a delight to open The Haslemere Herald this morning and see these happy little faces smiling back at us! Well done Reception Class of 2023.  Miss Tapp and Mrs Hayden are so proud of how quickly and easily you've settled into Big School!

On World Mental Health Day we're reminding ourselves of all the tools we learn at St Ives to keep our wellbeing in tact.  We're especially drawing on our recent 3-day Natural Wellbeing Festival when we were introduced to many new concepts such as forest bathing and sensory grounding, both of which we loved practising and can see how they will give us a sense of calm when life feels busy and overwhelming. We also understand the value of connecting with others, being part of a community and giving back, which we also enjoyed with our visit to the residents of Redcote Care Home and our litter picking with Love Haslemere Hate Waste.

Our Reception pupils are loving their topic on 'People Who Help Us' & have enjoyed special visits from a builder, a vet & even their very own headteacher, Mrs Goldsworthy! The children have loved learning what these jobs involve & how important they are in helping communities thrive. Thank you so much to our visitors - we've loved welcoming you!

In Sport this week, Year 2s tested out their Rugby skills and showed lots of potential.  They improved their ball carrying and passing skills, remembering not to pass the ball forwards!  We finished with a game of tag style rugby, looking for spaces to run through and changing direction with the ball.  Well done Year 2!