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In Science, Year 5 were tasked with designing a fair test to investigate which material was the most absorbent. The children had to select their own equipment & identify their control variables. We had a variety of different test designs & they had great fun working together & collecting data. We then compared our results & found felt to be most absorbent!

Last week also marked the start of Archery Club for our prep school children, which was really popular. It was harder than it looked, so the children had to concentrate & persevere to hit the targets! We’ll love watching them improve as the term goes on.

Year 4 enjoyed their first school trip of the academic year last week in Chichester. The children started the day by the coast, looking for evidence of a Roman tile making site which once provided tiles to Fishbourne Roman Palace. They found many real Roman tile treasures. After enjoying lunch in the beautiful Bishop's Palace Gardens, they discovered the remains of Roman Chichester, such as its gates & walls. The class then went to the Novium Museum for a hands-on Roman workshop. Here, they were shown the excavations of Chichester's Roman Baths, learnt about what a visit to them in Roman times would have been like, & were able to see & handle many Roman artefacts. They enjoyed dressing as Roman warriors. Their eyes were opened as to just how heavy and bulky the armour would have been to wear whilst fighting!

Our Reception children have settled in so quickly & easily. They’re so at home with everything on offer in the playground & are making full use of it all in the September sun!

Thanks to all the wonderful families who joined us at our Forest Fun Morning on Saturday. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! We look forward to seeing you at our next one on Saturday 11th March 2023 or at our monthly Toddler Tuesday Mornings, starting on Tuesday 11th October at 9.30am.

What a fantastic start to the academic year - lots of happy children back on site and we found out we’re a finalist for Small Independent School of the Year at the Independent School of the Year awards. What a great start to 22/23 for St Ives!

Well, that was a great Speech Day! Thank you so much to our guest speaker, Chemmy Alcott, for your incredibly inspiring and funny speech. We all loved hearing from you.

Wishing our Year 6 pupils a very fond farewell. We’re sad to see you go, but know you’ll come back and visit - St Ives pupils always do!

To the rest of our pupils, we wish you a wonderful Summer and we look forward to seeing you all again in September!

A highly entertaining (and emotional) Leavers’ Assembly this morning. Well done Year 6 - looking back on everything you’ve achieved and enjoyed during your many years at St Ives - shows us how truly ready you are to embark on your journeys at your senior schools. You’ve packed in so much….. now go & have fun at Chessington World of Adventures! 

Nursery are thrilled to have raised nearly £1,100 from their Bounce-athon last week. Well done to the children for bouncing so well and thank you to their parents, grandparents and friends for sponsoring them. Thanks too to D & F Business Ltd for paying for the bouncy castle and to Miss Floss and FOSI (Friends of St Ives) for their help. We couldn't have raised that much without them. The Nursery team are looking forward to spending it on a new Maths area in the playground.

We’re thrilled to announce we’ve been shortlisted at the Independent School of the Year Awards 2022! Kay Goldsworthy, our Head, has said “We’re delighted to have been shortlisted once again, especially when the competition in the independent education sector is so strong. This really is testament to everything we do for our pupils, who are so lucky to have such brilliant teachers, amazing opportunities and so much packed into every school year at St Ives.”

We look forward to September when the Independent School of the Year Awards judges announce the winners.