March Edition of Salve!
The Island Free School is happy to announce that the March edition of Salve, our student newspaper, is now available. For the latest news articles written by our very own students please follow this link.
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Hampshire girls rugby tournament
The Island Free School girls Rugby teams travelled to Basingstoke yesterday (5 March) for their first competitive tournament against other Hampshire schools. They played spectacularly, battling bruises and injuries, working tirelessly to tackle the other teams. Some girls were thrown across the pitch, whilst others ploughed through the opposition, despite playing against year 8 classes.…
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World book reading day
On Thursday 5th March 2015 it was World Book Day. To celebrate, the students and staff were invited by The Island Free School Student Leadership Team to come into school dressed as a character from a book, in exchange for a monetary contribution. Costumes were encouraged to be as imaginative and creative as possible. The…
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Rugby Tournament
The Island Free School hosted the Isle of Wight year 9 and combined year 7&8 rugby tournament at our Rew Valley sports centre on Monday 2nd March. Teams from all Island Secondary schools participated in the day playing round robin matches against each other. Despite competing against mainly older teams our A and B teams…
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Bath rugby trip
Despite the early start, and some questionable map reading, 40 of The Island Free School’s rugby players arrived in Bath on Saturday for a day full of premiership fun. The students started their day with a 2 hour training session delivered by coaches from Bath Rugby, working on their passing skills and learning a few…
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Our R.E drop-down day: Judaism
On the last day of term we held our third RE Drop Down Day, this time the focus was on Judaism. We were fortunate to be visited by Mr and Mrs Alexander and Mr Lawrence from the Isle of Wight Jewish Society who spoke to the children about the Shabbat (Sabbath) and the history of…
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Mini Medieval Banquet
This half term one of the History Homework options was to research medieval food. These three students took it a step further and produced a mini banquet of pottage, bread, ginger cake and carrot pudding. All of Rosea thoroughly enjoyed the tasting session. Well done Lorna, Molly and Elana. Mrs Boyd commented – “A wonderful…
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Island Free School 14 – 0 Christ the King College
On a bitterly cold Thursday evening The Island Free School year 7 rugby team played Christ the King College in a floodlit game hosted by The Isle of Wight Rugby club. The Free school started well scoring an early try after a well worked ruck in centre field left space for Max Henley to score…
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Island championship success for X-country teams
On Monday boys and girls teams from the Island Free School competed in the Island Cross country championships held at Christ the King college. Nearly 200 pupils from all island state and independent secondary schools competed over a 3 kilometre course. We are delighted to report that the boys team came 4th overall and the…
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Hockey origins
On Saturday 24th January the year 7 boys hockey team played their first ever hockey fixture. Their opponents for this fixture were Ryde Private school. The boys played two 7-a-side matches and, despite losing both games, the boys played well and improved throughout the games. Both teams are now working hard to continue developing their…
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