La Salette Catholic Primary School

Reception had their first assembly this month and gave a great performance in front of their families and the whole school. This is a big step for our youngest children to speak in front of an audience. The children had been learning about seasons and shared what they knew about each seasons. It was lovely to have so many parents attending to see this milestone.

Our girl’s football team played their first competitive match this week! It was a very close game with the score at 2-2 after regular time. In the last 5 minutes of extra-time the girls surged forward and scored the winning goal beating St. Mary’s 3-2. A brilliant performance.

Our Digital Leaders led a whole school assembly about how to stay safe on the Internet for Safer Internet Day. The theme was the growing influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Digital Leaders talked about how helpful AI can be to us, but also how images and videos can be created that are completely made up. It is increasingly difficult to tell the difference in the online world!

It was our Year 3 and 4 children’s turn to attend Havering Sports Partnership’s Athletics competition this week! Despite there being many larger schools taking part, La Salette came 3 out of the 10 schools represented. Most importantly, the children had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

Year 4 had a wonderful time at the O2 arena this week! The children had been working very hard to prepare for the O2 concert and I am sure many of the parents know the songs as well as the children do at this point! It is wonderful to see the children so confident and happy to perform! Thank you to all the families that attended the O2 performance. I think you will agree it was an incredible experience!

The whole school came together to celebrate Lent this week and to take time to reflect on what we can do during this season to prepare for Easter. We were reminded that we can give up something, do more of something and pray more or fast to show our faith.

As part of their geography fieldwork skill. Year 3 set off for a walk around our local area. The children had to note significant landmarks and buildings. It is hard to think that in the past Rainham was a small ferry port on the way to London, surrounded by farms and orchards!

Year 4 Visited the Victorian Ragged School Museum in Mile End this month. It was a great chance to experience what life was like in Victorian times for children attending school. It was a very different style of education compared to our modern system and it’s safe to say the children prefer our classrooms and teachers! It was a very wet day but didn’t dampen the experience. Thank you to our parent helpers.