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On Thursday 22nd March, students from SIJS took part in a mega challenge in support of Sport Relief 2012. All pupils and staff completed the mile challenge around the school grounds in less than ideal conditions but spirits were not to be dampened. Everyone took to the mile with great enthusiasm, completing it in a [...]

On a beautiful, sunny spring morning Year 3 put on their Stevie Super Scientist hats and visited the St Ives harbour beaches in search of beach habitats and to learn more about beach zones. We began our day sketching the local environment, taking into account how a beach is made up of a splash zone, [...]

Following the excitement of World Book Day, year 3 have been totally inspired by the tales of the BEAST QUEST, and the creatures in Roald Dahl’s books. After much hassling from our young authors, we created our own creatures, linking to the scientific classification explored during our ‘Habitats’ learning. We hope you enjoy our factual [...]

Year 3 Year 3 started off the morning by testing our science knowledge against other children around the world on the World Science Day website. We also used our science skills to make great observations as we went on a habitat hunt around the school. It’s amazing what creatures live right on our doorstep! We [...]

Year 3 Amazing Mazes! World Maths Day saw Year 3 embarking on a day of practical maths, learning about measuring, decision-making, shape and space and problem solving among many other key life skills. Our aim of the day was to design and make mazes which will link to our habitats learning as they are going [...]

World Book Day brought year 3′s together in their love of both Roald Dahl and Beast Quest. During the day we shared our favourite books, characters and different plots and genre, as well as diving into the realms of both Adam Blake and Roald Dahl. Class 1 Class 1 were on a quest to explore [...]

Once again The Write Stuff has produced some outstanding stories. Please click the following links to read each year group’s Gold Commitment Stories. YEAR 3 | YEAR 4 | YEAR 5 | YEAR 6

Over the course of this term SIJS will be taking a step back in time each and every Friday afternoon when not a teacher will be in sight, replaced instead by characters from throughout history! The first  ‘Historical Fun Friday’ was a great success as the children learnt about a wealth of different historical figures, [...]

Leopards, macaws, rabbits, explorers – Year 5 transformed themselves into a wild and wonderful array of characters to launch our new IPC topic: What a Wonderful World. The hall was converted into a learning hub with laptops, atlases, information book and a host of materials which the year fives used to create information maps about [...]

DAY 1 The Great Art Quest, the aim of which is to develop pupils’ understanding and responses to the works of art they see, is well and truly up and running. The first stage of Year 6’s great art quest began with a visit to the Barbara Hepworth Museum, led by Craig Johnson our resident [...]