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.. [...]

IT’S OFFICIAL: ST IVES JUNIOR IS OUTSTANDING Following last month’s OFSTED inspection, the whole school community of St Ives Junior School is celebrating the award of ‘outstanding’ in every single performance category. Offering his congratulations, the lead inspector Mr Paul Sadler said that in 23 years of inspecting, he had not come across a better [...]

Did you know that there is such a thing as china clay? It was first discovered by the Chinese and used to make very fine porcelain. Nowadays china clay can be found in all sorts of everyday objects such as toothpaste and paper. There is still a working pit in Cornwall and Year 5 went [...]

On Tuesday 8th November 2011, a great shock was in store for SIJS. Instead of year 3′s walking into school as usual, we were hit by a local Celtic tribe! All year 3s made a superb effort with costumes and spent the day, completing tasks as children would have done  over 2000 years ago. We [...]