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Pupils enjoyed a truly inspiring visit from GB athlete Frederick Afrifa from Sports for Schools today. Frederick is a 400m sprinter, regularly competing on the world stage. He shared his athletic journey with us, starting with his first coach who told him to “keep moving forwards”, a mantra he still uses today. We loved meeting you Frederick Afrifa and will be following your progress to Paris 2024.

A great photo of our U8 Netball teams after their two matches against Barfield School last Thursday, enjoying a win and a draw. A very determined group of netballers who are loving playing against other schools!

It’s World Mental Health Day today.  At St Ives we understand the importance of mental health and wellbeing.  We have a recently appointed Wellbeing Champion in Mrs Cooper who we describe as our Worry Box and Friendship Bench in human form.  She is always available to talk to the children who may be worrying or struggling with anything.  We also cover wellbeing as part of the curriculum in PSHE where children are taught about mindfullness, yoga and learning to recognise when to press pause and slow things down.

We’re really looking forward to our Open Morning this Friday when we’ll be welcoming lots of prospective families to St Ives.  Slots are currently all full, but we have another Open Morning on Friday 12th November.  Please call Hayley Dibb, our Registrar, on 01428 643734 to book a space.

Thanks so much to the Royal School for inviting our Year 6 pupils to their Performing Arts morning.

Year 1 braved the torrential rain in Forest School on Friday and created wonderful sculptures of woodland animals using natural materials found on the forest floor to celebrate World Animal Day .  Great work Year 1!

Years 2-6 enjoyed a competitive afternoon of inter-house cross country yesterday.  The course is renounced for its killer hill and the recent rain has ensured our forest is suitably muddy to make the run a real challenge for everyone!  With house spirits high, the children gave it their all and the screaming of team support could be heard across the valley.  Excellent individual and team running from all year groups with the results as follows:

1st - Winchester (Blue)

2nd - Windsor (Red)

3rd - Canterbury (Yellow)

4th - Chichester (Green)

On World Teachers Day 2021, we want to thank our fantastic bunch of teachers for everything they do!  As so perfectly put by Malala Yousafzai - “Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.”

Well done to this gutsy gang who ran Guildford High School’s cross country competition yesterday afternoon in the driving rain! Despite the cold, everyone ran really hard and Mrs Woodward is very proud of the teams’ positive attitude.  Not a single whinge or whine despite all getting drenched.  The giant cookies made it all worth it!  Thank you to Guildford High for a great competition.