Blog Category: Whole School Community

The Faith in Action team would like to launch our 2023 Advent Appeal for BCCS (Brentwood Catholic Children's Society). Envelopes are coming home today. If you are able, please fill them with coins and return to the school office before the end of term so that we can help children in our community…

The National Service of Remembrance is held on the 2nd Sunday in November.

To mark this event please see a prayer written by one of our Year 5 pupils.

A raft of new members have signed up for the Pokemon TCG club this year, learning about deck-building, strategy, and how to defeat a troublesome opponent.

We are still waiting to find the first challenger to defeat the St Ursula's Gym Leader, Mr Groome.

Chess Club has carried its popularity forward from last year and we are pleased to announce that ten of our club members are entering the qualifying event for the English Chess Federation’s National Schools Chess Championships which will be taking place a couple of weeks after half term.

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Our 'Faith in Action' pupil led group meet regularly with Mrs Hall to explore their faith and ‘live it out’ through service and reflection. We hope to encourage everyone in our school community to do the same!

Make your own prayer stones!

Please join them by making your own prayer stones and…

Today we not only said goodbye to our Year 6's but also to some members of staff who are moving on.  Also the school said a huge farewell to Mrs Barrett who has worked in the kitchen for 48 years and probably served food to some of our parents when they went to this school.  We wish everyone who…

From the 9^th May 2023, Emerade 300 and 500 microgram adrenaline pens have been recalled. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency instructs any patients or schools who use the Emerade 300 or 500 pens to contact their GP to obtain one of the other brands (including schools who have…

Our Super Scientists visited Campion School this week and did a rock salt seperating experiment.

Who knew if you separate rock salt from sand using a filtration system you can obtain salt crystals.

Chess Club continued this week with children starting to learn some different openings and recording their moves. We are now at our maximum capacity of 30 children, and starting to get more competitive! After half term, we will be starting up a cup competition, but for now, our league table is up…

Back in November, our school made a pledge to create wild spaces to help improve the state of butterflies and moths in the UK. We have since been made aware of the Butterfly Recording Survey. 

If you would like to help by recording and logging the butterflies that you see, please read the…

This week saw the launch of Chess Club! Over the next few weeks, they are going to be learning notation to write down moves and record the progress of a game, as well as exploring different openings and strategies to win.  This week, they looked at how to set up a game, the moves that different…