As a school, we entered the schools’ section of the Chale Show with produce grown by gardening club. We were delighted to win the best secondary school entry. We were awarded £50 and a collection of seeds and gardening equipment that will be used in gardening enrichment next year. Well done gardeners and thank you…
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On Thursday 21st July The Island Free School celebrated two very important and successful whole school events – Speech Day and the Summer Show. This year, both events were held at our Rew Valley site and saw year 7, year 8, staff and family members come together to celebrate the huge amount of talent we…
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On Wednesday the 20th of July, The Island Free School held our first ever Wimbledon tournament. 48 Year 7 and 51 Year 8 pupils took part in the all-day event and most of them were playing on full court for the first time. All pupils gave an excellent performance throughout the day trying to knock…
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Yesterday the year 7 Nurture boys completed the last day of their most recent project: Inventing their very own Ice cream flavour to be sold at Crave ice cream shop. They decided on custard cream flavour which was a huge success and is now on sale at Crave in Ventnor. Thank you to Chris and…
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In STEM club, we have been making a remote controlled land yacht out of materials that you can get from any shops on the high street. We used a remote control, servo and radio receivers, a plastic pipe, some wood, an old kite and a lot of gaffer tape. Mr Jones and Mr Teague have…
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On Wednesday 13th July, pupils and staff participated in not one, but two whole school events! The Bonnie Challenge was the first adventure to tackle, with year 8 pupils walking up the notoriously steep but beautiful, sunny hillside, in order to line the finish and cheer on the year 7s. In their house groups, year…
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On Tuesday 5th July a group of year 7 & 8 pupils went to Cowes Enterprise College to take part in an inaugural Physics festival to showcase a number of the Engineering companies on the island. Many of them had interactive activities for the pupils that included boat building, making and testing rockets as well…
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Well done to Oliver K, Curtis P and Henry N who held a cake sale today in order to raise money for the local scout hut which had been vandalised. This is an excellent example of the independence and caring nature of our pupils. They raised £101 and we are very proud of them.
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Overall an exceptional day with every pupil giving their all and representing the school exceptionally. Every pupil represented the school wonderfully with behaviour and attitude perfect all day. Lots of medals were won for pupils to wear proudly. Overall rankings came in as year 7 boys and girls both finished third respectively and third overall,…
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On Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th July fifteen Year 7 students visited Platform One College of Music in Newport. Over the two days students were split into three bands and learnt to play two songs that would be performed during the final day at P1. Monday morning was spent rehearsing and in the afternoon students…
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