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On Tuesday, Upper One marked the Armistice with their class assembly. They led the school and their parents in a thoughtful reflection upon the significance of this date for everyone. It was a moving assembly that gave us an insight into the history of children’s individual families. As is fitting, during the assembly two minutes silence was observed.

On Monday 3rd November, our school took four teams across to Woodlands Hutton school for an ISA Cross Country Relay Competition. The teams were mixed and all the children ran extremely well, trying their hardest throughout and consequently, were delighted with the results they achieved. Our U11’s girls’ team came 1st, U11’s boys’ team finished in 2nd placed, U9’s girls’ team came 4th and the U9’s boys’ team achieved to come 2nd place.   The children were amazing and their hard work and determination has paid off. Well done.  

Canon John Harvey visited 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. During his homily Fr John recounted the story of St Ursula and her friends and their unfailing faith. He focused on God’s love and protection of us all and reiterated the Gospel’s message: ‘Do not be afraid!” Thank you to Lower Two and all of the members of staff who made today’s mass such a special event, it was lovely to see so many parents, grandparents and friends [...]

The children from Kindergarten and Reception class took part in a Baptism celebration in the school hall.  The children all had a role to play; we had a Priest, Altar Servers, Choir Master, organist and the family of baby Mary.  It was a wonderful celebration and the children were a great credit to themselves throughout the service. 

One of our Upper Two pupils has been competing in France this week, representing Great Britain in France’s U11s Tournament National Competition. The tournament concluded on Thursday, with her reaching the final of the main draw as the only remaining GB player after winning all of her matches. The final was a tense three set battle where unfortunately she lost out on the top spot and finished second as runner up. We are incredibly proud of her outstanding achievement.

On Tuesday 14th October, the girls football teams from Lower and Upper One competed in a District U9’s football tournament. The children played very well, managing to win five matches and drawing once in the final game. They showed great resilience throughout the tournament and were crowned joint District winners. In the afternoon, we returned with the Lower and Upper Two girls Football team, to play in the District U11’s football tournament. The girls again played incredibly well managing to win all their matches and were crowned District champions. They now go through to the county finals in November. [...]

We took a swimming team of boys and girls from U1, L2 and U2 boys to the ISA regional swimming gala on Thursday 10th October. The Children had a wonderful time and swam exceptionally well. The boys team came 3rd, the girls team finished in 4th place and over all we came 4th. A brilliant result especially as there were twenty schools competing.

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, [...]