25 November 2021 Year 6 STEM In STEM, Year 6 have been learning about forensic science by doing latent fingerprinting. They were great at finding so many prints around the Science Lab, not so great at clearing up the mess left behind! Great work Year 6!
23 November 2021 Weekly Forest School 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!
18 November 2021 Magnificent Art from Year 5 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!
15 November 2021 Odd Socks Day As part of Anti-bullying week, we’ve been celebrating Odd Socks Day and appreciating that we’re all unique and equally special.
12 November 2021 Open Morning We’re really looking forward to meeting lots of prospective families at our last Open Morning of the term today.
11 November 2021 U11s Netball 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.
11 November 2021 Year 5 Trip to Chichester Cathedral 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!
10 November 2021 Thank you FOSI (The Friends of St Ives) 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!
09 November 2021 Reception French 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!
04 November 2021 Year 4 Science 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!