In the Press

In Forest School, Reception looked for minibeasts to understand who else lives in our woodland. They then used natural materials to recreate these creatures. Great work Reception!

Look at this incredible painting from this Year 5 pupil. She saw David Hockney’s The Pond @haslemeremuseum & decided to recreate it at home. She has spent weeks working on it & it’s huge! What talent!

As part of Anti-bullying week, we’ve been celebrating Odd Socks Day and appreciating that we’re all unique and equally special.

We’re really looking forward to meeting lots of prospective families at our last Open Morning of the term today.

Well done to our U11s Netball team for their great result at Portsmouth Grammar’s Bee Netball tournament yesterday. Having won all our matches in the group stage, we lost to St Swithuan’s in the final. Great fun & an excellent second place. Thank you to Portsmouth Grammar for a great tournament.

Year 5 went to see the moon this week! We travelled down to Chichester Cathedral where the international 'Museum of the Moon' exhibit was on show. The children spent time observing and sketching the installation and will learn more about the accompanying composition in their music lessons this week as the organist was in practising - the children loved hearing & seeing him play!

A huge thank you to FOSI (The Friends of St Ives) for all the tools they bought for Forest School. Reception & Year 3 loved using the hammers and hand drills on fallen dead wood. Everyone had a great time learning new skills. Thank you FOSI!

The joy of learning French when it involves practising numbers by learning a frog song and playing a lily-pad jumping game, followed by a story!

The atmosphere was electric as Year 4’s budding scientists enjoyed learning through discovery this week. There was great excitement as they worked out for themselves how to design a simple series circuit to light up a bulb. They then had to figure out how to make the bulb brighter and duller by adding more batteries or more bulbs!

Our youngest pupils in Nursery are also getting into the Halloween spirit by painting pumpkins and playing on the Halloween inspired table. Some have even been trying to terrify Mrs Bowler with spiders!