At St Ives we fully understand how children excel and thrive in the nurturing, encouraging atmosphere of this well-established school. St Ives provides small class sizes and outstanding pastoral care, indivduaility is cherished and celebrated. Our dedicated and perceptive teaching team ensure that children are appropriately challenged and progress at a pace right for them.

Our varied curriculum allows plenty of opportunity to discover and develop each child's ability and talents in Sport, Art, Music, Drama, Languages and Technology as well as reaching her full academic potential.  We are priveleged to have wonderful grounds and offer Forest School as part of our curriculum.

As a preparatory school we prepare children for their senior school education.  We get to know them extremely well and are able to develop a clear picture of which senior school will be best for your child.  We are proud of our outstanding record of guiding our pupils into their first choice entry of senior school and of the many scholarships awarded to St Ives children.

Choosing the right school for your child is an important task, but after a visit to our school you will soon discover why St Ives pupils are going places.