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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 [...]

Year 3 have been fortunate to be given the experience of grappling alongside 2 outdoor education explorers specialists this term, Amy and Ali, to compliment our EXPLORERS and ADVENTURERS theme based learning. The unit will take us through the geographical knowledge of map and atlas work, compass directions as well as the historical aspects of [...]

Year 6 launched the New Year with a bang, making cakes under the expert tuition of Mrs Smith. Following a design process of- ‘evaluate, design, make and modify and evaluate’ pupils set themselves aspirational targets and created their celebration cakes over three learning packed days.  The making process began with the fruit cake base, and was then [...]

Four shows in three days! This year’s Christmas performance of ‘Stable Manners’ has received great reviews from parents and carers. Back in Bethlehem, the animals are all keen to inherit Neddy’s stable, only for the angles Gabriel and Luke to decide that Neddy’s place is the ideal location for Jesus’ birth. As preparations continue against [...]

Not all children have the opportunity to become published authors, however at SIJS, the dream has become a reality.  We have published a book of Cornish tales entitled ‘Hwedlhow Kernow’ which features pupils stories all with a Cornish link.  From giants and mermaids, to the story of An Gof, the Cornish blacksmith, children at SIJS [...]

During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces in the UK and around the world. The aim of which is to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men. On Movember 1st, the male staff members started [...]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet and Julius Caesar! Three plays on three consecutive days saw year six pupils develop their acting skills under the skilled tuition of Richard, himself a Shakespearean actor. Each class showed great resilience and stickability in learning their lines, and remembering their stage directions, as well as terrific teamwork to recreate their [...]

Our SIJS Celts have been on the move! On Monday 14th November, year 3 archeologists were dropped of at Newmill in search of roundhouses, and evidence of life 2000 years ago. We trecked across the desolate moorland, through puddles of mud and bundles of prickles, but our first discovery was not from the Iron Age.. [...]