In the Press

This week, St Ives School in Haslemere is celebrating receiving their Eco-Schools Green Flag Award with Distinction.  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.

This week the children at St Ives School in Haslemere have been enjoying a 3-day Natural Wellbeing Festival teaching them how to look after their wellbeing.  The festival was based around the ideas of connecting with nature, connecting with others and connecting with oneself, allowing the children to explore these areas through multiple activities, with the aim of teaching them how to manage their wellbeing, both now and in the future. 

This week, the pupils at St Ives School in Haslemere are celebrating some phenomenal LAMDA results from their recent exams.  Every single pupil who took LAMDA exams, whether it be in Verse & Prose, Acting or Musical Theatre was awarded a Distinction!  As if this isn’t impressive enough, it’s even more so when you learn that over 74% of the whole school entered these exams. 

This week St Ives School is Haslemere is celebrating being a finalist at the School Travel Awards for the ‘My Best School Trip’ Award.

This week the pupils at St Ives School in Haslemere enjoyed a three-day Sports Festival.  The objective of the festival was explore the world of sport in an array of different areas, from understanding the commercial side of sport, to sports psychology, to sports science, to the health benefits to the sheer enjoyment of playing and learning new sports.

This week St Ives School in Haslemere received the positive news that it has been regarded as ‘Double Excellent’ by the ISI after their Inspection of the school in January 2023. 

This week St Ives School in Haslemere was transformed into Hogwarts for a three-day Harry Potter festival.  The objective of the festival was to enhance the children’s learning of the wonders of magical storytelling and this theme was brought to life in all areas of the curriculum for the three days of the festival. 

This week the pupils at St Ives School in Haslemere celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week with a number of initiatives both on and off curriculum around this year’s theme of ‘Let’s Connect’ in association with Place 2 Be and BAFTA Kids.

Pupils at St Ives School in Haslemere celebrated Epiphany in Gallic fashion this week by learning about the Fête des Rois and the ancient French tradition of celebrating the end of the festive season with a special cake, the Galette des Rois (King’s cake).

The children had learnt all about the King’s cake in their French lessons and were really excited about tasting one at lunchtime.  According to tradition, each cake has a charm or ‘féve’ hidden inside it and the youngest person around each table has to hide underneath it and call out to the person cutting the cake who should receive which piece.  Some of our younger pupils were so surprised to find themselves hiding under the table screaming out their friends’ names at the tops of their voices (all in French, of course!).  The children who found the charms in their slices were thrilled to find them and were delighted to be named king or queen for the day, donning their special crowns!  They even became special helpers in their afternoon lessons.