Just before half term, we celebrated Safer Internet Day at school. The theme this year was called All fun and game and focused on Exploring respect and relationships online.

Please take a look at some of our work.

Brentwood Cathedral will be hosting a ‘Be a Cathedral Chorister for a Day’ opportunity for boys in Years 4 to 6 on Saturday 29th January 2022.  The day will begin at 10.30 with a welcome for families and will end with Choral Vespers at 4 pm, an opportunity for everyone to hear the boys sing. Covid measures will be observed and masks provided.  We hope the day will be of interest to all boys who enjoy singing, whatever their prior musical experience.  We will be holding a similar day for girls later in the year.  For more details and to register a place, please visit www.cathedralbrentwood.org or telephone 01277 265288.

St Thomas' Church Christmas Bazaar will take place on SUNDAY 28TH NOVEMBER, 12.00 TIL 3PM. 

We are thankful to the School for their support in running stalls and agreeing to distribute Draw tickets nearer the time. We would appreciate any donations of new and complete gift items and unopened bottles. We hope to see you at the Bazaar which is a great family and Parish event, with bargains galore! All the money raised will go towards the Church Restoration Fund

OAP coffee and breakfast morning every Wednesday 10am - 12noon. 15% discount on all prices.

Come join, relax and meet new friends.

Please see below for other upcoming events.

St Thomas of Canterbury Primary School will be celebrating the Harvest Festival this year by donating food supplies for the Thurrock Foodbank over the Autumn term until November 11th 2021.

We are accepting non – perishable food that is in date which will help to feed the less fortunate people in our community who struggle to feed themselves and their families without the support from Thurrock Food Bank.

The food must be completely sealed and unopened. Here is a list of items we appreciate and are looking for: biscuits, tinned fish, tinned meat, rice, sponge puddings, long life fruit juice, mashed potatoes, tea/coffee, pasta sauce, tinned custard and tinned spaghetti. We are also looking for toiletries e.g. soap, deodorant and shower gel. The charity already has a large stock of beans and tinned pasta so these items will not be necessary.

Please allow your children to bring in these items into their class from next week (Monday 27th September) where they will be collected by the charity in the forthcoming weeks. The last collection date will be 11th November.

In April 2020 the charity fed 6,660 suffering people. We are hoping to exceed this target with your help this Autumn.

Kind Regards,

School Council

Little Amal: The Walk – July to November 2021

This is to alert you to a travelling international festival of art and hope taking place in support of refugees: The Walk.  Little Amal, a 3.5 metre-tall puppet of a 9 year old Syrian refugee girl, will walk across the European continent to shine a light on the stories of millions of young refugees.  Amal arrives in England on 18 October and concludes her journey in Manchester on 3 November 2021.  In preparation for Amal’s arrival there is an education programme for schools with creative learning projects and a variety of resources and events available on the website  Education - The Walk (walkwithamal.org)

Cardinal Vincent is very keen to ensure that the Catholic community in England and Wales gives this maximum support by engaging with the activities and raising awareness.

Thank you to all the children aided by you their creative parents/carers who took place in our Numeracy Day on Wednesday. The children were delighted by the opportunity to dress up and shared enthusiastically what their costumes showed with me. Mrs Harris our KS 2 Maths Subject Leader wrote:

As soon as the pupils arrived on Wednesday, there was a buzz in the air. Staff and children alike were dressed for the day in their Maths’ themed shirts. The amount of creativity and variety of the shirts was truly amazing. The pupils experienced a wide variety of Maths’ related activities such as exploring shapes in everyday objects, creating their own clocks and talking about time, solving problem involving money, real life problems involving temperature and weather and many more. All over the school, there was an atmosphere of fun and the amount of mathematical talk was incredibly beneficial to the pupils’ growing understanding of Maths. Thank you to all of the staff who worked so hard to make the day such a success. Thank you also to the parents for supporting the day by helping their children to design their shirts.