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Year 6 have finished their Julian Opie self-portraits, simplifying themselves to essential lines and colour planes. This project has been inspiring and they have produced some fantastic work!

This morning The Ducks in our Nursery enjoyed an Easter Egg Hunt around the grounds - lots of helping each other and counting to make sure they found all 20 eggs!

It was Movie Night yesterday afternoon. Judging by the amount of popcorn consumed, it’s fair to say everyone had a great time! Thanks to our parent body, the Friends of St Ives, for organising it.

Year 2 enjoyed a fantastic trip to Knole House today as part of their Stuarts topic. They explored the house, parkland, artefacts and costumes. Don’t they look fantastic?

We have been overwhelmed by the generosity of our families who have donated so much for our Ukraine appeal. Thank you so much. Thank you too to the pupils in Years 5 and 6 who helped sort all the donations into categories this afternoon and load up the vans. Well done to Mrs Viner for getting us involved in this extremely worthwhile project.

Well done to Year 4 for a fantastic Shakespeare assembly this morning. So wonderful to see you all performing with such confidence and humour. We really enjoyed watching it and It was lovely to have so many parents here too!

Day 2 of our 3-day Shakespeare Festival and it really came alive today with a fantastic array of costumes and dressing up for our Shakespeare themed World Book Day! From Juliet to Richard III, Cleopatra to Puck, Titania to Shakespeare himself, there was an amazing collection of characters. Thank you to everyone for making such a brilliant effort.

The children have been exploring all things Shakespeare; finding out about his life, his writing and the history of The Globe theatre. They have performed lines from his plays and explored A Midsummer Night's Dream in detail, in preparation for performances in the forest. They have insulted each other in Shakespearian language - they possible enjoyed that most of all - and explored some of Shakespeare's forgotten words. There have been sessions in Pre-Prep on Will's Wellbeing and and even Fantasy Football for Prep pupils.

Day 3 involves workshops, a Midsummer Night’s Dream Forest School and a Shakespeare assembly from Year 4. What a fantastic festival!

World Book Day in Nursery. Everyone has dressed up and is looking fantastic!

Thank you so much to our parent body (FOSI) for organising a brilliant book swap today. All pupils from Nursery to Year 6 went home with new books to read - a fantastic way to recycle and get everyone reading!

Lots of smiley faces at lunch today as we celebrated Shrove Tuesday with delicious pancakes. It’s quite apparent from the photos which topping was the favourite! Thank you Chef Fernando and the team for spoiling us all.