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Newsletter 13
School Clubs
Christmas Concert
Children and staff are working very hard to prepare a
programme of songs and readings for our Christmas Concert at
the Brentwood Cathedral on Friday 16 December.
The children have been busy learning and practising the carols
for the Christmas concert. They have all been given a word
sheet to learn the words. The words have been put on FROG
under each year group site and also the school website,
under ‘Resources: Other’. The song backing tracks are also
there, for the children to have fun singing along to, which will
greatly help their learning. We encourage all children to access
these over the weekend and leading up to the concert.
It is expected that all children will take part as every child will
contribute to the concert’s success.
On the day of the concert we are going to walk to the Cathedral
at 9.30 am for the final rehearsal. In the evening, all children
are to arrive at the Cathedral Hall at 6.00 pm.
Children need to wear full school uniform. Coats will not be
needed and should be left with the parents. The concert will
last approximately one hour. There will be a retiring collection
at the end of the concert in aid of the Brentwood Catholic
Children’s Society.
The concert promises to be a beautiful evening. We are looking
forward to sharing the joy, love and peace of Christ’s birth with
you at this wonderful occasion.
DVD & Audio CD
The concert will be recorded and, as in previous years, the DVD
(£7) and the audio CD (£5) will be available to purchase. Orders
can be placed from Monday 12th December. It is advised that
orders are placed before the concert on Friday. Orders will still
be accepted after this date, but we cannot guarantee we can
provide the DVD before the end of term.
Christmas Fun Day
Thank you to the Parents’ Association for organising another
wonderful event for the children. The Parents’ Association
have worked very hard to make the day a success.
Thank you to those parents who have already sent in their £5.
If you have not yet sent your £5 please do so on Monday.
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9 December 2016
Please note that clubs will finish this Friday. The
exceptions are: Basketball, the last sessions are on
Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th December, and Year 3
after school swimming, last sessions Monday 11th and
Tuesday 12th December.
Also, choir and orchestra will continue next week in
preparation for the Christmas concert.
Parents’ Association Christmas Shopping Event
Thank you to Mrs Bailey
and all members of the
Parents’ Association for
organising the most
successful shopping event
last Friday. Children
enjoyed shopping and they
all agreed that the choice of
items on offer was excellent.
We are very sad to hear that Mrs Bailey is ill. We
wish her a quick recovery.
Vacancy
We are looking to employ a Teaching Assistant. This is a
temporary post with a possibility of it being full time
employment. Please contact the school office for further
details. Application forms can be downloaded from the
Catholic Education website: www.catholiceducation.org.uk.
Closing date 9 January 2017.
Reconciliation Service
Thank you to Father Patrick, Father Dan and Father
Foster for leading our Reconciliation Service this
afternoon.
Dates for the Week
12 December Last day to order school lunches for the
week beginning 19th December.
14 December Christmas Lunch
16 December Christmas Concert
9.30am Leave school for the Cathedral
10.00am Rehearsal at the Cathedral
6.00pm Children to arrive at Cathedral hall
7.00pm Concert at Brentwood Cathedral
21 December Carols by Candlelight 2.30pm
21 December Last day of term, School Closes at 3.30 pm
FLASH MOB - CHRISTMAS EVE 7pm MASS
Fr Martin & Fr Patrick have once again invited the ‘Flash
Mob’ Choir/Orchestra to sing and play at the 7pm Mass at
Brentwood Cathedral on Christmas Eve. This is a lovely
experience and all children are welcome to take part. You
can either bring your instrument or come and sing. If you
are planning on bringing an instrument and would like
music to practise, please see Mrs Romhany next week. If
3A 93.1%
you can, turn up early for a rehearsal, 6.20 pm for
3B 95.0%
instrumentalists and 6.30 pm for singers. A lovely
opportunity for the children to sing and play carols together. 3C 93.3%
Attendance
4A 94.3.%
4B 99.4%
4C 98.4%
5A 97.3%
5B 99.0%
5C 95.5%
6A 96.0%
6B 96.5%
6C 97.0%
Year 6 Netball Report
Cross Country Report
On 30th November, the Year 6 Netball Club girls visited St. Thomas’ for On Thursday 1st December a team of boys and girls travelled
our first netball match. We were all excited and confident. Once we
to Pages Wood in Upminster to take part in the ‘’Campion Day’’
arrived, we did a warm up and some drills to prepare for the match.
Cross Country event. This was our first experience of entering
1st Team - Report by Evie Antoniou and Anna Lees
the competition against unknown opposition. We were using
Having won the toss up, St. Helen’s started well, and continued to
this event as a warm up for our district competitions in the New
dominate the first two quarters which resulted in a 15-1 lead. St.
Year.
Thomas’ fought back and scored another goal, but our excellent
attacking play led to more goals for St. Helen’s. St. Thomas’ reached The course was very hilly with a mixture of mud, grass and
gravel paths underfoot. The children showed great effort and
their shooting circle on a few more occasions, but brilliant defending
and interceptions, along with successful passing, helped our shooters determination and out of approximately 40 runners in each race
the final positions were:to score lots more goals. With minutes left to play, St. Helen’s were
3rd
Mabel Cowley
2nd
eager to get the score past 30 goals, and thrillingly the final score was a Owen Romhany
Oscar Pain
5th
Charlotte Grundy 3rd
32-2 win for St. Helen’s.
GS Caitlin Murphy, GA Evie Antoniou (Captain), WA Isabelle Freire
Daniel Miller
7th
Isabelle Freire
5th
(VC), C Anna Lees, WD Lucy O’Hare, GD Emily Rokoczynski, GK Alice Ryan Carroll
13th
Amelia Hennelly 12th
Saville, Reserve Maria Thompson
Henry Silvester
14th
Tabby Howard
13th
Player of the match : Anna Lees
Ellen Dooley
17th
2nd and 3rd Teams - Report by Emma-Lee freeman and Ellen Dooley I am delighted to say that both the boys and girls won their
St Helen’s 2nd and 3rd teams played alternate quarters against the 2nd team competitions. Excellent effort all round. Well done to both
St Thomas’ team. At the end of the first quarter, it was 8-0 after some the teams.
excellent shooting. St. Helen’s continued to play well and the score was
Boys
Points Girls
Points
11-1 at the end of the 2nd quarter. The 2nd team returned and passed
1st
St
Helen’s
28
St
Helen’s
22
well to maintain an 18-1 lead. After the final quarter it was a 28-4 win
2nd Ardleigh Green Juniors 29
St Josephs’ Upminster 31
for St. Helen’s.
St Josephs’ Upminster
29
GS Lucy Manders, GA Emma-Lee Freeman (C) / Emma Weal (VC),
3rd
Ardleigh Green Juniors 38
WA Nancy Furnival/ Sofia Hutchison, C Mabel Cowley/ Megan
James Oglethorpe Primary 58
4th St Marys Primary
70
Gazzard, WD Ellen Dooley/Eloise Hussey, GD Maria Thompson/Molly
5th James Oglethorpe Primary 92
St Josephs Stanford
88
Brisbourne (C), GK Charlotte Grundy(VC) /Rose Francis
6th St Josephs Stanford
107 St Marys Primary
117
Players of the match : Emma-Lee Freeman (2nd team), Sofia
7th La Salette
146 La Salette
147
Hutchison (3rd team)
20 MINUTE DASH
3A
Whole Class
3B
Annie Jeveons
3C
Sean Atafo
4A
Amelia Hennelly
4B
Frankie Hoy
4C
Sophie Harlow
5A
Regan Clarke
5B
Angus Wright
5C
Oscar Monzon-Yates
6A
Keira Lambourne
6B
Finlay Kelly-Cosgrove
6C
Evie Antoniou
Christmas Lunch and Film
On Wednesday children and staff are going to enjoy a
traditional Christmas lunch.
In the afternoon we will watch a film, which has got a PG
rating. Many members of staff have watched it and see it as
suitable for the children. The title of the film is usually kept
as a surprise. If anybody would like to get any more
information regarding the film please contact the office.
St Helen’s Got Talent
This week St Helen’s Got Talent auditions will be for 5C,
Thursday lunchtime in the library. Children must bring
anything they may need for the audition.
If children are in another club, they may audition first and
then leave to attend their regular club.
DECEMBER 2016
Best Performance
Boy
Y 3 Tobias Samuel = 21
Girl
Aurelia Waterfield
Isabella Patrick
Ava Gambazza = 21
Tabby Howard = 35
Emma Griffiths
Niamh Mulqueen = 45
Molly Brisbourne = 53
Y 4 Oliver Ives = 32
Y 5 Marco Yuen = 52
Y 6 Max Parry = 49
Most Improved
Boy
Girl
Y 4 Ben Askew
Ioanna Lambri +21
Rayan Nair +16
Y 5 Neil Sakthievel +13
Niamh Mulqueen +9
Y 6 Rudy Proctor
Molly Brisbourne +11
Danielus Jablonskis
Richard Thompson +10
This is an inter-house event with a trophy for the house with the
most ‘’most improved’’ swimmer. The results are as follows are:-
1ST
2ND
3RD
4TH
MARK
MATTHEW
JOHN
LUKE
228 POINTS
211 POINTS
184 POINTS
165 POINTS
Football Report
Running Club
Report by Daniel France and Daniel Miller
Each week a trophy will be given to a boy and girl who are our stars
On Thursday 1st December, our school football team travelled to
of the week for things like: improvement, hard work, good teamwork.
Kelvedon Hatch School to play against their football team. Within a few
Last week’s winners were
minutes, they had scored. However we didn’t give up and Daniel
Jake Huet and Aisling
France equalised, which gave us the hope to carry on. Then in the
O'Leary. This week the
second half, Daniel Coombs and Alex O’Neil mad their debut and
trophies were awarded to
impressed the team with their hard work. Soon after, Daniel Miller, our
Cade Parks and Niamh
Captain scored two well worked goals which gave St Helen’s the wellMulqueen.
deserved win. Keep this up boys!
Community News
Photograph of the Week
Orla, Hannah, Niamh and Holly showing
their French homework. Well done girls.
Year 6 trip to Liddington Hall 2017
Current Year 5 Pupils
SERVICE OF NINE LESSONS & CAROLS
On Sunday 18th December at 4pm in BRENTWOOD
CATHEDRAL, there will be a wonderful SERVICE OF NINE
LESSONS & CAROLS in preparation for Christmas. The Master
of Music, Mr. Andrew Wright, will be conducting the
BRENTWOOD CATHEDRAL CHOIR and the Cathedral Organist,
Mr. Stephen King, will accompany the Choir. Bishop Alan will
be presiding and there will be Mince Pies and Mulled Wine
afterwards in the Cathedral Parish Hall. We do hope you can
join us for this very special Christmas Service.
Newsletter
Thank you to those who returned the deposit and permission slip for the Please note that the next newsletter will be sent on
Year 6 trip to Liddington Hall in October 2017.
Wednesday 21st December not Friday 16th December.
The first instalment of £80 if due by 31st January 2017. Payments can
be made by cash, cheque or on ParentPay.
Mrs B.M. Laraway, Headteacher