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Father Matus visited the school today to celebrate mass for the Feast of our school's Patron Saint, St. Ursula. The children in Lower Two led our liturgy, reading, serving and singing beautifully. It was the first time that Father Matus had celebrated mass at our school and during his homily he used the analogy of a Scalextric car racetrack to explain that God has a plan for us all and we can choose the 'speed' at which we go. He talked to the children about St. Ursula's courage and explained that although St Ursula is an inspiration to us all, [...]

On Tuesday 20th October Kindergarten and Reception took part in the sacrament of a baptism. Following the RE scheme of work from Branch One, Creation and Covenant. Family members were invited to school to join the children for this meaningful occasion. For the afternoon, the hall was transformed into a church, creating a fitting setting for the service. The symbolic act carried out by our wonderful Priest in Kindergarten, helped the children recognise the importance of this special event. The Alter Servers supported the Priest from Kindergarten as he remained at the Font. As part of their learning, the children [...]

On the afternoon of Tuesday 13th October, we took our U11 girls’ football team to compete in the U11’s District Football Tournament. The girls played very well managing to win two of their four matches, but unfortunately, this was not quite enough to qualify for the latter stages of the competition.

On Tuesday 13th October, we took two U9 girls’ football teams to compete in the U9’s District Football Tournament. Both teams played very well throughout the competition but unfortunately, the A team narrowly missed out on qualifying for the latter stages. However, our B team managed to make all the way to the final. Unfortunately they were narrowly beaten, but the girls should feel extremely proud of their achievement in finishing as runners-up.

Our school community have been bringing in cereal boxes and other food for Harvest Festival, all of which will be donated to the Brentwood Food Bank. Today, we created a domino trail using cereal boxes in the school hall. The whole school community piled into the hall and watched the very successful domino trail! Earlier in the term we 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. We had an amazing 197 cereal boxes, [...]

What an incredible day the children had at Little Easton Manor, filled with exciting team- building activities, quality time together and, of course, delicious food! The day began with Lower Two taking part in a fun orienteering activities using iPads and QR codes, which gave them the opportunity to explore the beautiful grounds, while Upper Two enjoyed a cooking class where they made their own pizzas. The classes then swapped activities so that everyone had the chance to experience both. This was followed by an exciting team- building race, where the children worked together to inflate ducks. There was lots [...]

Intermediate and Transition children enjoyed a fantastic day at Little Easton Manor this week, filled with exciting activities, creativity and team work. The day began with a Fairy Tale Hunt around the manor grounds, where the children worked together to discover clues linked to familiar fairy tales. At each station, the children collected letters and completed an activity to help them solve the final puzzle. The children particularly enjoyed building The 3 Little Pigs house out of sticks! Next the children enjoyed a pizza making session with the manor’s head chef, creating their own delicious pizza with a variety of [...]

We took a swimming team of boys and girls from Upper One, Lower Two and Upper Two boys to the ISA regional swimming gala on Thursday 8th October. The Children had a wonderful time and swam exceptionally well. The boys team came 5th, the girls team finished in 3rd place and over all we came 3rd. A brilliant result especially as there were twenty schools competing. At the moment, we are unsure whether any of our children have qualified for the National Finals, as we are still awaiting confirmation of the overall individual results.

On Wednesday 7th October, we took two girls’ teams and two boys’ teams to compete in the District Table Tennis Competition at Shenfield School. The children played incredibly well throughout the competition and produced some fantastic results. Our girls’ teams finished 1st and 2nd, while our boys’ teams achieved an excellent 2nd and 3rd place. It was a brilliant performance from all four teams, and the children should be extremely proud of their achievements.

On Tuesday 6th October, we took eight teams across to Old Brentwood’s for the District cross country competition. All the children ran extremely well. The children produced some wonderful results with 7 children going to the county finals. Our best team result was the Upper two girls who finished in second place.