We had the most amazing collection of beautiful Easter bonnets, they were all so wonderful. Well done to all the children that took part in the competition, we so enjoyed looking at all your fabulous creations. Enjoy wearing your bonnets over the Easter holiday!...

Thank you to all our wonderful kitchen ladies who have cooked up some lovely Easter treats for the children today....

Thank you to all the Year 4 children and staff for a very moving performance of the Easter story. It has given us all a great deal to reflect upon. It was a joy to listen to all the wonderful singing....

On Wednesday we had a super morning at the Hot Cross Run at St Thomas More school. We came 3rd overall , which is a marvellous result! Medal winners on the day were Luana and Abigail (gold and silver respectively) from year 5 and Nathaniel and Tiwa from year 3 (silver and bronze respectively) wit...

Thank you to Year 6 for a wonderful St. Patrick's Day assembly. It was a joy to see all the children together again in the hall....

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...