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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.

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 coaches as the St Helen's player who embodied fair play the most.

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 were going to play in their first ever football match with St. Helens winning all six matches on the day earning five points for our school.

We have had a very busy month of December, with lots of exciting activities taking place.

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.

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 forward to the panel.

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 spent two days helping the Street artist ‘Otto Schade’ to create a beautiful elephant mural in the local area. The children worked hard to scrape the old paint off the wall before painting it black.

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 as the Mayor of Newham and representatives from the local branches of the British Legion.

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 voted by staff. They will be working hard this year to organise events and represent the school.

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 Margaret's Church, as well as bringing in our small change for our collection boxes to send to CAFOD for the work they do around the world. The School Council will be taking our donations to the food bank this week.