[1][2] In September 2008 St Ivo Academy was designated a Specialist Humanities School.

[3] The St Ivo Entomology and Natural History Society was founded in 1957 and existed under the guidance of biology master Henry Berman until c2007.

Members exhibited the society's animals on an annual basis at the Amateur Entomologists' Society exhibition in London: held at Holland Park School until the mid 1970s, then at Hounslow Civic Centre, and later at Kempton Park Racecourse.

In addition, the animal collection was a regular feature at local fairs and was sometimes exhibited to other Cambridgeshire school classes.

[6] The society was known amongst pupils as "ento" or "ent soc", and members wore a small yellow badge with a picture of a two-spot ladybird, Adalia bipunctata.