Every Wednesday this term a small group of students have been attending a cookery course at ‘At Sarah’s House’ in Ventnor as part of their enrichment programme. On Wednesday 25th March, those students held a tea party for family members, to showcase their talents and celebrate their progress over the last couple of months. Some…
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This terms reward trip saw 10 students travel to the Warner Brother Studios, the home of Harry Potter World. The students, picked from a lottery of those with 100% attendance for the term, spent the day exploring the sets of the films, learning how to cast spells and got to go on the newly opened…
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Students have studied the Jewish Feast of Passover, when Jews remember their release from slavery in Egypt. Pupils learnt about the story of Moses, and studied the Ten Plagues that Jews believe were sent by God, before writing and recording radio broadcasts. The best from each of the four in school are available for you…
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Anyone driving past The Island Free School this weekend may have seen an eerie green glow through a window or heard the cries of, ‘Off with her head.’ As the sun set the school was transformed into Wonderland for the first Island Free School production. A cast of 35 took on Lewis Carrol’s classic tale…
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The Island Free School entered 80 students into the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Young Designers Competition, in which their brief was to design a mobile shop. With 357 entries to judge, across four age categories, the adjudicators described the standard as “phenomenal”, and awarded The Island Free School students with 6 shortlisted entries…
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The Island Free School students spent a sunny Friday afternoon competing in an inter-house cross country event, The Bonnie Challenge. They tackled the steep incline of Ventnor Downs and ended in a glorious home straight, with views over the Island’s magnificent coastline. Mia Basile and Thomas Crews each took a first place victory in the…
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Pupils and staff from The school have spent the past few weeks rehearsing and performing in the Isle of Wight Music, Dance and Drama Festival. On Friday 13th of March the entire school performed Adele’s Someone like you in the Making Music class. The entire school sang accompanied by 8 cellos and 20 violins. Other…
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On Tuesday 10 March, 15 of our girls travelled to Ryde School for an inter-schools Netball tournament. Each team played 4 matches, with our A-team winning 2 matches and B-Team winning one match by an outstanding 10-1. Despite just 4 practice sessions the girls played phenomenally, and placed 3rd overall.
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On Tuesday, the 10th of March our boys rugby team travelled to Basingstoke to take part in a large tournament. In our first three games against Test Valley, Hampshire Collegiate School and Brookfields School we out matched them with 6 tries to 0, 5 tries to 0 and 6 tries to 0 respectively. These victories…
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Today, 12 students competed in the duologue class in the Island Music and Drama Festival. In total there were 19 pairs of students and our students performed brilliantly. They showed great characterisation and performance skills and deserved the positive comments of the adjudicator. Ella Gregory and Millie Jackman came an impressive third and Polly Whitfield…
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