Educational Visits

Children from year 6 in St Joachim’s and St Helen’s started the year by coming together for a camping experience near Lewes in East Sussex.

Year 3 studied the Islamic faith learning about their beliefs and how they pray. On Tuesday 10th March, we visited a Turkish Mosque. We had such a warm welcome from the Iman who also spoke to us about what they believe and how they act out their faith through their actions in everyday life. It was interesting to go inside another persons place of worship and see how they follow a faith.

Children were looking at a large map of London during that time looking at what buildings were harmed during the fire. They also designed their own monument to commemorate the Fire.

Year 4 visited the local Sikh Gurdwara to apply their recent learning on the Sikh faith. The children had a presentation, learnt about Gurus, traditions, the 5Ks and the faith’s history/ developments over the last 500 years.

Selected artists and writers from years 3 and 4 had the opportunity to attend the Marvellous and Mischievous ​exhibition at the British Library. They learnt about characters in stories who were either marvellous or mischievous.

Year 4 are learning all about Shell Structures as their Design and Technology Unit and therefore went to the Museum of Brands to look at the history of how packaging has changed over time.

Today, Year 6 visited the Houses of Parliament as part of our Citizenship focus weeks. Throughout our educational visit, we got to experience all the events that take place in the Houses of Parliament as well as visit the historic ‘House of Lords’ and ‘House of Commons.’

On Monday 20th January over 120 children from St Helen’s enjoyed Treasure Island, the PwC Pantomime 2020, at the Peacock Theatre.

Year 5 visited City Hall in Central London to understand more about the job of the Mayor of London. We went on a tour of building and learnt a lot about how London is run. We even caught a glimpse of the Mayor, Sadiq Khan!

On the 7th of December, a small group of children had the opportunity to visit the Stratford Circus Theatre with their parents. They watched a wonderful performance of, "We're Going on a Bear Hunt."