News

2007 Y11 Mock exam timetable published

Mock exam timetable available now...

Junior Maths Challenge

 

Intermediate Maths Challenge

Students who represented the school and certificates achieved.

Coin trail for Tsunami appeal

Secondary school raises £150 for tsumami victims

Miss Gates' Seattle Class

Susanna Gates from the Tresco base spent a term on in a Seattle elementary school as part of an exchange. She was particularly worried when nearby Mount St. Helens started to erupt and the children had to practise earthquake drill!

Tresco Students Netting

Not many schools in the country could boast as part of their curriculum catching and cooking fish!

Computers for schools vouchers

Vouchers now being collected

Music Department News

Photos and reports from trips organised and run by members of the music department, and gigs performed by school bands.

Education Maintenance Allowance Forms

After a long delay we finally recoieved these forms and distibuted them to YEar 11 students.

Leading Edge Update

A report on the progress made in the Leading Edge Partnership Project run in conjunction with Penryn College. This website, the trip to the Cornwall Music festival and the upcoming production of Joseph are all the result of this partnership and funded by it.

Western Eye

Five Islands School weekly newsletters

House S Retain Trophy!

Following an amazingly close competition, including loads of penalty shoot-outs, House S have just managed to cling on to the House Football trophy.

Five Islands School Out of "Special Measures"

After a week of gruelling inspection by Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Schools (known as HMI) the Five Islands school has been taken out of the "Special Measures" category (indicating underperformance) that it has been in.

Confusion over Year 10 trip

There seems to be a little confusion over whether this yearly trip will go ahead.

ICT Teacher at Carn Thomas

Following the deaprture of Miss Rule, I know that a number of parents are anxious to know about arrangements for the teaching of ICT at the Secondary base.

Video Link With Shetland Islands

Primary pupils of St Agnes will hold a live video conference with Baltasound junior school

Western Eye 7th October 2005

school weekly newsletter

Website Down On 14th Dec

This website will be unavailable on Wednesday 14th December during the afternoon/evening.

Pupil Exchange Programme

Isabelle Belveze, from the College Andre Albert, recently visited the school for three days to meet staff and pupils and progress the application for this Programme. She visited Carn Gwaval, Carn Thomas and Tresco giving power point presentations. We hope to hear in March if the application is successful.

Black History Month

In October the Five Islands School celebrated Black History Month. The highlights of the month included a visit by Usifu Jalloh who spent a week here running West African drumming, dance and storytelling workshops. He visited all bases teaching high energy drumming routines which pupils performed for their parents and other pupils. Pupils also learned about African culture, customs, geography and history.

Lunch at Tresco Base!

Children at the Tresco Base cooked lunch for their parents last week. They wrote the menu, place name cards and waited on their parents/grandparents. Lovely!

Screen Printing at Tresco Base

Following on from the African theme in school, parents and the wider community were invited to Tresco Primary Base for a day to learn screen printing methods. They made a collaborative banner and then produced their own banner using the methods learnt. Everyone enjoyed the day.

Careers Convention Photos

See new photos in careers section

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Western Eye - 2nd December 2005

School Newsletter

Western Eye 12th December 2005

school newsletter

Mundesley boarding house inspection report

Mundesley's recent inspection report is now available for you to download

School Marathon Results

School marathon finishing times have now been posted.

School events calendar published

 

The Western Eye

School Newsletter

2007 GCSE Timetable published

 

Trip To Canada

Primary staff visit Niagara Falls, Canada, to study teaching in literacy.

Change Of Date For End Of Term

Please note that contrary to the published end of term date there will now be no school on Monday 31st July 2007. The end of term will be on Friday 27th July with the new school year starting on Tuesday 4th September.

Outstanding OfSTED report published

The results of our recent OfSTED inspection are now available for you to read.

Ofsted Inspection Report May 2007

The Ofsted inspection report is now available.

2007 Ofsted Inspection Report

Inspectors' report from the May 2007 Ofsted inspection.

Boat Schedule For Secondary Off-Island Pupils

We have booked boats to bring the secondary off-island pupils across to Carn Thomas on a daily basis for the first three weeks of term.

TES News Article

Five Islands School is featured in an article in the TES.