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On Tuesday 24th June, Lower Two went to ‘The Essex Schools Food and Farming Day’ at ARU Writtle. This is a yearly event organised by the Essex Agricultural Society, it was the first time, as a school, we took part in this event. The children enjoyed walking around each zone, led by our Farmer Steward (Mrs Benton Senior), they found out how their food is produced, the role played by farmers in Essex and the many related jobs within the industry. In addition, Lower Two took part in the Scarecrow competition. We designed and made a futuristic scarecrow at school [...]

Michael, Erin, Marco, Ruby, Liz and Ava from the Brentwood Catholic Youth Service led Upper Two on their retreat day on Thursday at Walsingham House in Navestock. The day’s theme was ‘You are God’s Work of Art’ and focused on each child’s uniqueness, their memories of their time at the school and their first day in Year 7. The children had lots of fun working with the team and thinking about themselves as ‘Pilgrims of Hope’.

The Ursuline Preparatory School descended onto the Town Gate Theatre, Basildon for two nights on Tuesday and Wednesday for the bi-annual school production, Peter Pan. Everyone had been working on this mammoth project from the summer of last year to put on two amazing performances.  They showed true professionalism and steady confidence on the stage. All children in Lower Two and Upper Two gave exceptional performances showing character development, dynamic and energetic dancing, stage presence and comic timing-holding the audience in their hands! Children in the Pre Prep Department charmed everyone with their singing and beautiful smiles, Intermediate gave delightful [...]

On Monday 16th June, two children from Upper One and Two respectively participated in the ISA National Athletics competition held at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. They both performed incredibly well, managing to finish in 5th place and also winning the event and being crowned U11 boys ISA National long jump champion. This is the second time we have won the event having previously won it in 2023 which is quite an achievement.

On Wednesday afternoon Reception class had a special visit from a beekeeper, who happened to be the Grandad of one of our children. Bee Keeper Jeff and one of our parents came to see us in the forest area of the school - St. Angela’s Garden - where the children listened intently to a story and then were treated to a very informative talk and demonstration from beekeeper Jeff about the life cycle of a bee, the roles of the various bees, the parts of a hive and then finally tried on a beekeeper’s hat. Some super questions were raised [...]

Transition had a fantastic day at Chatham Dockyard as we explored many ships and exhibits aspart of our History work on The History of Ships. We went back in time to find out how they built ships in Nelson’s time through a holographic experience which brought everything alive- did you know that it took 3500 trees to build one wooden warship? Next we went to the Ropery which makes ropes for ships and for the film industry including all the ropes for the film Paddington in Peru! The children learnt how to make rope and then met a Pirate who [...]

During the Brentwood Art Trail, students from Intermediate to Upper Two were able to focus on their drawing skills using a range of different pencils and colouring equipment. Sue Mills, from Curly Cloud, taught each class a range of different techniques including drawing with both hands at the same time! As the session progressed, they were able to create their own patterned nature drawings experimenting with detail, pattern and form.

On Friday 9th May, Pre-Reception, Reception and Kindergarten classes were treated to a wonderful visit of discovery from Zoolab, who provided a wonderful selection of fantastic beasts for your children to examine, investigate, handle and learn how to care for. Our mini zoologists posed some super enquiring questions of Okan, the Zoolab ranger, and learnt plenty of fascinating facts and new vocabulary to support their topic of minibeasts.

Before our May Procession service today we took time to celebrate the news that a new pope has been chosen and Mrs Macdonald led the school in prayer for Pope Leo XIV, that he will lead God’s people with wisdom and humility. Mrs Price and members of Intermediate led our special liturgy in honour of our Blessed Mother Mary in which the children were reminded of her perseverance, care and joyfulness and her bravery in saying yes when God asked her to be the mother of Jesus. During the week the children have all been busy preparing paper flowers on [...]

On Thursday, to celebrate VE Day, the children and staff came to school dressed in red, white, and blue to mark the occasion. We shared a special lunch together, that was beautifully decorated, creating a lovely sense of community and remembrance. During the lunch, the children observed a two minute silence, sang songs, enjoyed music from the era, and proudly waved their flags to honour this important moment in history.