We are delighted to share our Ofsted report with you. As you know we had a team of inspectors visit us on February 8th and 9th and the report below is a summary of their findings. The main headline is that: ST. HELEN’S IS A GOOD SCHOOL The report certainly identifies our strengths an...

We were honoured to be invited to take some of the children to Porters, the Mayor’s house, to participate in the Commonwealth Flag of Peace ceremony. All children in Year 5 helped towards this by creating the 56 flags of the Commonwealth countries so that we could wave and parade with them on the ...

Science week has been an amazing success. Every class produced fantastic work, investigations, experiments, results and conclusions regarding a variety of Science topics. The variety of work was so pleasing and the chatter from each class as they visited the rest of the school was incredible. My tha...

Laudate Si is a letter from Pope Francis asking us to look after our common home. The children were asked to colour in the poster and write on the banner how they could help protect our Earth. The KS1 corridor now has Laudate Si monitors that ensure we look after our school too!...

This morning, Year 6 visited St Alban's church in Westcliff to take part in Women's World Day of Prayer. The Mayor joined us at the service and the children read and sang beautifully. They enjoyed squash and biscuits after the service before being offered the chance to eat a cake! Year 6 said they e...

The children in Key Stage 1 took part in a Service in school where they received the ashes. The children in Year 3 took the responsibility of looking after the youngest members of our school and all the children thoroughly enjoyed the Service. Our preparations for Easter have begun!...

Enjoy a lovely week off. Please remember we are back on Tuesday, 21st February. Please book your lunches. Thank you. Have fun together!...

Strike days have been announced by the NEU. These dates are Wednesday 1st February, Wednesday 1st March, Wednesday 15th March and Thursday 16th March. This is the situation for the first day - WEDNESDAY 1ST FEBRUARY. There will NOT be school on Wednesday 1st February for the following classes:...