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The procession of the Blessed Sacrament

As we welcome everyone back for the new school year, we have the opportunity to reconnect as a school community and celebrate our faith together through the launch of our annual Mission Week.To begin ...

French Trip 2026

Our annual Year 4 trip to France offers pupils an unforgettable cultural experience. Crossing the English Channel by ferry, the children travel to Boulogne to visit our partner school, École Notre Dam...

Archery Tournament

In June, we welcomed St. Joachim's for our 4th inter-school Archery tournament. St. Helen's once again delivered an exceptionally strong performance, winning 151 points to St. Joachim's 51. Well done ...

Arts Week - Powerful Women

This year's Arts Weeks celebrated the theme of Women Power, inspiring children to explore the strength, courage and achievements of powerful women. Each year group learned about both a fictional heroi...

Year 6 Memories

The Year 6s shared their favourite memories of their time at St Helen's at the end of their Leavers' Mass. They celebrated their time together at St Helen's, the friendships made, the opportunities th...

STEM Project - at St Angela's & St Bonaventure's Schools

This month, 4 pupils from Year 5 visited St. Bonaventure's and St. Angela's to take part in the trust's annual STEM project. Our students successfully completed exciting secondary school-style science...

Brentwood Citizenship Award

This year Nellie in year 4 was nominated for this award. She attended the ceremony with her best friend.Nellie is a kind, thoughtful and responsible member of our school community. She consistently sh...

Festival of Voices

This year for our annual concert at the Hackney Empire we celebrated a Jubilee Year. Our year 5 pupils sang with children from 6 other primary schools and lifted the roof with an amazing performance.

French Day 2026

This half term we celebrated all things French for our annual French Day. To mark the event, the children dressed up in French colours, learned about Francophone countries and significant French peopl...

Sir David Amess Children's Parliament UK

KS1 Swap Day with St Joachim's

It was a very exciting day as we travelled to our new friends, St Joachim’s. We are learning about belonging and we learnt how our schools belong to a Trust, as part of our focus for the Citizenship F...

Young Voices 2026

We’re proud to be part of largest children’s choir concerts in the world, bringing together primary schools from across the UK in a truly electrifying experience. Through these unforgettable events, c...

Holocaust Memorial Day

The School Choir were invited to perform at the Newham Holocaust Memorial Day. They sang a song with a strong message to fit the theme this year of "Bridging Generations,” highlighting the importance ...

Archery Tournament

On Tuesday 11th November, children from our archery club made the short journey to St Joachim’s for our third inter-school archery tournament. Having previously lost one and won one, this match carrie...

European Day of Languages

Friday 26th September was the European Day of Languages. The children celebrated by learning new songs, playing French playground games, practising tongue twisters in French and finding out which lang...

Hot Potato Team Competition

Congratulations to our Year 1 and 2 hot potato team who came in 3rd place in one of the first competitions of the year. The children showed great focus and team work to secure their medals. The childr...

Wild Flowers - Science and Forest School Project

This half term Key stage 2 prepared an area and planted wildflower seeds in a bid to make St Helen’s a wildlife sanctuary. We would like to thank our partners at Buglife for donating the wildflower se...

Pupil Representatives 2025

We have our new student representatives for the new school year. We have new Head Boys and Girls, House Captains, Prefect and a new School Council.These children will be leading examples to the rest o...

Netball Tournament

Congratulations to our Year 5 and 6 mixed netball team. They competed against 8 other schools from the local area and came in first place winning the final on sudden death free throws. The team showed...

Brentwood Citizenship Awards July 2025

Jonathan was nominated to receive the Brentwood Citizenship Award. Jonathan is a truly exceptional student in Year 2. His natural leadership skills shine through in everything hedoes, and he consisten...

KS2 Sports Day 2025

On Monday the 14th July Key Stage 2 took part in their Sports Day! All the children gave their all, supported their classmates and had a wonderful day. Thank you to children from St Angela’s who suppo...

KS1 Sports Day 2025

On Tuesday the 15th July Key stage 1 had their Sports Morning! Children from Reception, year 1 and year 2 had an amazing morning and it was fantastic to see so many parents taking part in the events w...

Speed Strike Fundraising Event

On Thursday 19th June St Helen’s took part in the Speed Strike Event. Children from Reception to Year 6 took part and have raised an estimated £1700 for the school! Children had a lot of fun trying to...

International Evening 2025

Our annual International Evening was once again a wonderful evening of celebrating. We are so grateful to all the families who brought delicious food for us to share and the children really enjoyed th...

Gardening at St Helen's

Gardening club have been hard at work preparing the vegetable garden! Children are re-seeding, weeding and clearing the beds. We have also planted lots of wild flowers to encourage bees and insects to...

Geography Focus Weeks

The theme this year was ‘Protect Our Species’ and children throughout the school have been learning about various endangered species around the world. Each year group also had fun raising money in ord...

VE Day 2025

Children from Years 5 & 6, took part in a special celebration for VE Day. We heard readings about how WWII and the Blitz affected East London and we remembered all of those who fought in the battle. C...

Chess Semi Finals

On Sunday 11th May both teams from St Helen's (Under 9s and Under 11s) took part in the semi final of the National Primary Schools Chess Championship. All of the players used their skills and knowledg...

Easter Celebrations

As we prepared for Easter at the end of term, each phase prepared to retell the story in various ways. Children in Reception retold the story of Holy Week to Easter in their assembly, KS1 put on a pro...

Art Club Exhibition

The Art Afterschool Club have been working hard this term to create their pieces of work for their exhibition. On the last day of the club, they invited their parents to come along to showcase their a...

Drama Club Performance

Some of the year 5s and 6s put on a wonderful performance of Macbeth at the new drama space opening at the Beckton Globe. The children devised their own pieces and responded to different feedback to t...

Citizenship

As part of our citizenship week project, year 2 have been researching people who help us in our local area. We have also been researching charities to help our local community. We took a trip down to ...

Young Voices 2025

Young Voices is the world's largest children's choir concert, offering primary school children an unforgettable musical experience, fostering a love for music, and empowering them to discover their vo...

Maths Focus Weeks

Maths Focus Weeks this year focused on real-world application of maths through fundraising for charity. This was linked to our Gospel value of Option for the Poor. All classes used their maths lessons...

Chess Tournament

On Saturday 8th February, our Chess Teams took part in a tournament in Orpington. The children played very well, using all of their skills and knowledge.Here are the results from the Orpington NPSCC Z...

Basketball Competition

The children got to experience playing in a basketball match for the first time against Britannia Village school. We played three matches winning 10-0, 4-2 and the final 2-0. Elio was voted by the coa...

Sporting Events

Football - Our year 5 and 6s had the opportunity to represent St Helen's in the first of a series of events against children from Britannia Village and Royal Wharf school. The majority of the players ...

Festive Activities

We have had a very busy month of December, with lots of exciting activities taking place.Click here to see what we have been up to.

Carol Singing at Stratford Station

Our School Choir raised over £600 for charity with their Carol Singing event at Stratford Station. We raised money for HCPT, a charity that takes children to Lourdes at Easter.You can read more about ...

Newham Pupil Parliament

Our pupil representatives took part in their first day at Newham Pupil Parliament held at the Old Town Hall in Stratford. They listened to some debates, as well as preparing their own arguments to put...

Newham Street Art Project

The local residents wanted to prevent fly tipping on our streets and together with Newham Council, decided that creating an art mural would be a good way to do this. A few children from St Helen's spe...

Remembrance

The Head Boys & Girls, along with the School Council, represented our school at the annual Remembrance Day Service at the Memorial in East Ham. We joined pupils from schools across the Borough as well...

Harvest & CAFOD

During the month of October, we were thinking about how to help others in our community and around the world. For our Harvest Assembly, we collected some food to donate to our local food bank at St Ma...

St Helen's Pupil Leadership Teams

We have appointed our new teams of various leaders for the year. Our School Councillors were voted for by their classmates and the Prefects, House Captains and Head Boys & Girls were nominated and vot...

Visit from Timothy Campbell MBE

We were delighted that Tim was able to visit us in July. Tim is an ex pupil of the school and was in Miss Doherty's class back in the 1980s when they attended St Helen's. Tim was the first winner of T...

Goodbye Year 6

In July we said goodbye to our year 6 pupils. At their memories assembly, the children shared their favourite memories of their time at St Helen's. We are so proud of all of them and wish them well on...

First Holy Communion

This weekend, pupils from St Helen’s received the Sacrament of the Eucharist as they made their First Holy Communion. They children have been preparing for this special day, and we hope they had lovel...

Girls Football

Our girls football team represented West Ham at the Schools Premier League Finals. The girls played so well and had an amazing season this year, making it to the finals. We are so proud.

A.I.M High Writing Day

Some of the year 3 and 4 children took part in an AIM High Writing Day with the poet, Neal Zetter. They wrote about all sorts of crazy poems about colours, food and the world around us. Neal was very ...

Music Events

This month has been a very busy one for the Music Department. Our school choir performed at the St John Bosco camp fundraiser where they helped to raise over £5,000 for the camp that will happen in th...

Chess Champ

We are delighted to share the fantastic news about one of our pupils in year 5 - Maxwell. He represented Essex in the EPSCA (English Primary Schools Chess Association) National Finals held in Northamp...

National PE & Sports Week 2024

As part of our PE focus week, Miss Cascayan planned warm up mornings for us. Every morning throughout the week, we gathered on the playground and did a warm up session and same dancing too. Movement a...

Action Jackson - Ambassador for Happiness

Year 6 enjoyed participating in a workshop led by Action Jackson. In this workshop they learnt how to achieve their dreams and manage stress. The children enjoyed discovering the power of positive thi...

Battle of the Bards Workshop

The Drama Club have been working very hard during the Shakespeare focus week to devise their own performance pieces based on various Shakespeare plays, such as; Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth.The ...

World Book Day 2024

On World Book Day, we wore our pyjamas to school and enjoyed listening to stories throughout the day.Click on this link for photos please.

Art Competition

This year St Helen's will be taking part in the RA young artists' summer competition. Students from the age of 4 could create an artwork with no specific theme. The students could choose any media and...

YES! (Youth Ensemble Scheme)

At the beginning of March, our String, Flute and Recorder ensembles had the pleasure of a recital from an innovative contemporary string quartet Modulus Quartet and composer Nicholas de Carlo present ...

London Youth Games Athletics Finals

On March 19th 2024, the St Helen’s Athletics Team took part in the London Youth Games Finals.Boys and girls from Year 3-6 competed against the best 11 schools from across London in a variety of track ...

Children’s visit to Clapton CFC

On Saturday 16th March some children from the KS2 football teams went to watch Clapton CFC Vs Hackney Wick with both teams chasing promotion in the Eastern Counties league.The entertaining game finish...

World's Largest Dance Convention

Elijah and Ava (and ex pupil Angel) performed at the world's largest dance convention called 'Move It' this weekend at the Excel centre. They performed for the dance wear brand named Shades. We are su...

Belonging Day

Part of our citizenship week, we had a belonging day where St Joachim's Y2 pupils came to visit St Helen's for the day. We did lots of fun activities such as blindfolded tag and blindfolded obstacle c...

Cycle Training

Earlier this term, some Year 6 pupils had the opportunity to increase their cycling skills. Children had varying levels of ability with some learning how to cycle safely on the local roads and others ...

International Women’s Day

To celebrate International Women’s Day, out school council made origami flowers for all of the female staff in school. The flowers had inspirational quotes written on them that the children had resear...

Netball

Our netball team had success at their competition by winning all of their matches! Another trophy for our cabinet.

London Youth Games - East London Finals

Our athletics team took part in the next round of the London Youth Games. This round was the East London finals, and we were competing for Newham against schools from across East London. We won the co...

Citizenship weeks

In January during our Citizenship focus weeks the pupils discussed about equality. They took part in a Charity fair organised at St' Joachim's where they had the opportunity to meet several charities ...

Peer Walking Session

Year 5 and Reception did a peer walk with our parents and carers to the local park. We enjoyed the fresh air and exercise and spent time walking and talking with our buddies. It was lots of fun and ev...

Year 5&6- Basketball Event

Some of the year 5 & 6 pupils took part in a basketball event and also had the opportunity to watch a professional game between Phoenix and Portsmouth. It was so exiting to see and love match and meet...

NEWHAM KS2 Year 5/6 CHAMPION FINALS

On the 17th of January, St Helen's were crowned Newham Champions in the Borough finals for athletics. The Year 5 & 6 Athletics Team have bene training rigorously in preparation for this event and thei...

Young Voices 2024

On 16th January, the choir took part in the largest school choir in the world with Young Voices. The choir had been learning a range of songs from different eras and genres to perform in the huge conc...

Visiting our Neighbours

The School Council visits the Nuns in the convent as part of their Citizenship Week activities. The children wanted to visit the elderly and planned some activities for them. The School Council are al...

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