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St Helen's enjoyed their first sports days since 2019 and it was a great day! Congratulations to the St Martin De Porres - Red House, who won both the KS1 and KS2 days! A big thank you to the students of St Angela's and St Bonaventure's for their assistance in organizing the events, keeping scores and motivating the pupils.

The children have worked very hard, learning about different cultures, being artists and also writing for a range of genres and audiences.

The children from our school and Parish have been preparing to receive the Sacrament of Eucharist. On Friday 25th June, they made their First Confession after their class mass and on Saturday 26th June and Saturday 3rd July, the children received Jesus for the first time by making their First Holy Communion. Keep the children and their families in your prayers.

The year 6 pupils put together a wonderful assembly to remember their time at St Helen's, sharing their happiest and funniest moments with us. They also shared a dance form their upcoming production and a beautiful song they had prepared for the end of year mass.

The children in year 6 wrote to Blue Peter to tell them about all the work they have been doing around climate change and caring for the environment. Blue Peter were so impressed, they awarded them a Supersized Climate Heroes certificate and a badge for each of the pupils involved. Well done 6Y - continue the good work for our planet.

On Tuesday 22nd June, St. Helen’s was represented by the year 3 and years 5 & 6 quad kids teams in a borough competition. Each child took part in all of the four events; a vortex throw, standing long jump, short distance sprint and a long distance run. The year 5 & 6 team came 4th out of the 11 schools. Our year 3 team competing against year 4s won the event.

The children have been exploring their gross motor skills by engaging in activities that wake up and alert the body, organise and plan and then relax and calm. This helps to prepare the children to focus on learning.​

The pupils and staff in years 5 and 6 had such fun today in Southend. After all of their hard work and dealing with so much after the last year - this was a great treat for them all! They had fun on the rides and braved the high and fast rides too!

Last week, Mr Lewis from St Bonaventure's and Mrs Siaw & Ms McKenzie from St Angela's & visited all 7 of our fantastic Newham Deanery primary partner schools.