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This week we launched the exciting new initiative of ‘Playground Leaders’. Our enthusiastic Lower Two pupils have all received training on some traditional playground games and are now taking it in turns, at lunchtime, to lead anyone who wants to play in some fantastic fun activities. We have had games such as ‘chase the dragon’s tail’, ‘Duck-Duck-Goose’, throw and catch challenges, obstacle courses…….and we are only on day 3! The infants have embraced the new scheme as enthusiastically as the Lower Two children. We look forward to seeing what other fun will be had in the weeks ahead [...]

Our school community have been bringing in cereal boxes and other food for Harvest Festival, all of which has now been donated to the Brentwood Food Bank. On Friday 3rd October we created a cereal box domino trail in the school hall. The whole school community piled into the hall and watched the very successful domino trail! Later that day we also had a whole school assembly based on the Harvest festival whereby we all enjoyed singing the Harvest Samba. We always appreciate the amazing support that our school community give us for these charitable events. [...]

Lower Two were invited to take part in a Harry Potter-themed day at New Hall School. The magical experience began with a Sorting Ceremony, during which House Captains were chosen. Throughout the day, the children took part in a variety of exciting activities, earning points for their houses along the way. These points were then totalled to decide the winner of the Quidditch Cup. The children enjoyed a Herbology lesson, where they planted snake’s head fritillary bulbs and decorated their own pots. They also visited ‘Hagrid’s farm’, where they had the opportunity to handle or stroke a variety of animals, [...]

The children thoroughly enjoyed Fun Day on Monday. The event had originally been scheduled for the end of last term but was postponed due to the extreme heat. Fortunately, the sun still shone on the day, but the temperature was just right. A perfect temperature for bouncing, sliding, and making the most of all the exciting equipment.

The Ursuline Preparatory School has made it into The Independent Schools Magazine (September 2025 issue). Please click here to access this issue. We are on pages 16 and 65.

On Tuesday 16th September, two football teams from Transition headed to Brentwood Town Football Club to take part in the district U7s football tournament. Despite the challenging windy conditions, the children approached every match with energy, determination, and big smiles.

At the Prep we raised the awareness of ‘Safeguarding’, through a whole school assembly. The assembly went through the key aspects of what they need in order for all children and young people to grow and develop. The well – being wheel was also introduced;  The children were issued with the ’Ursuline Preparatory School Child Friendly Safeguarding policy’ that they took home to read with through with their parents.

Congratulations to everyone who completed the Library Summer Reading Challenge this year. We were very pleased with the huge number of our pupils who took part in the scheme, in which the children read between 2 and 6 books of their choice and completed associated activities to show their love of reading. Well done!

The end of term was busy as normal and quite sad as we said goodbye to a wonderful class of individuals that we have seen blossom and develop into well rounded individuals ready to go forward to their next phase of their education.  The school enjoyed their end of term especially watching the photographs that Mrs Macdonald had retrieved from the archives.   The leavers mass attended by the parents and  celebrated by Cannon John was a very special and emotional service.   The traditional and final event of the hat throwing was witnessed by most of the school as a vast [...]

Children from both Upper One and Transition were presented with their Diocesan Citizenship Award from Bishop Alan at Brentwood Cathedral this morning. Both children were nominated for the award for their outstanding fundraising for Tommy’s and GOSH respectfully. They were joined by their mums, Mrs Wilson and Mrs Macdonald who were all very proud to watch them receive their special award and enjoyed listening to the nominations from all of the Catholic primary and secondary schools in our diocese. It was a moving ceremony and we are very proud of the contribution they have made to our school community. [...]