News and Events

As a part of the Advent appeal, the families at St Francis’ supported the NEWway Homeless project in Newham this year by collecting small items of toiletries, socks, gloves, hats, etc. to donate. We collected 15 boxes that were donated to this very worthy cause. At St Francis’ the children know that a small change …

A group of children from St Francis’ have joined with children from the other Catholic primaries schools to investigate programming and robotics. It is great to see their focus and great co-operation in mixed school groups and to have expertise from St Bon’s to guide and support them.

The pupils in year 4 had the pleasure of meeting entertainer and magician Stephen Mulhern when visited his former primary school, St Francis’! Stephen treated pupils to a special performance to pass on his secrets of becoming a star of stage and screen. His visit was to celebrate the launch of Virgin Media’s Christmas Stars …

For Black History Month the children at St Francis’ celebrated by exploring books, inspirational people and movements across the world that changed how we live today. This year’s theme was “Commemorating the struggle while celebrating the triumph”. Our focus this year was as follows: Early Years and Year 1 will be studying Black History through …

We had our annual Sports Day for the KS1 children. It was a morning filled with activities and fun for the children, staff and parents. After a short briefing from the coach the future Olympians were ready for their competitions. As you can see they were focused and determined. Next stop,  The Olympics 2032!

For their People Who Help Us topic, the children in Nursery and Reception had a visit from the men and women of our local fire brigade. The children were given an opportunity to explore the fire truck and even have a go with the fire hose! I think I see some future fire fighters in …

On Wednesday, 27th February 2019, the world renowned Watoto Choir visited St Francis’ Catholic Primary School. We were treated to a fantastically inspirational concert and the children at St Francis’ were honored to be able to spend some time getting to know the Watoto Choir a little bit better. This was a day we will …

As a gold reward visit, a few very lucky children were chosen to attend the Bloomsbury Big Top Christmas Spectacular sponsored by the Variety Club. To say it was spectacular, would be an understatement! We were entertained by the Rock Choir, had a chance to do some juggling, learned some magic tricks, had our face …

On Friday, 9th November we joined our fellow Deanery Schools and other Newham Schools to take part in the 100th Armistice Day in Central Park, East Ham. Armistice Day marks the day World War One ended, at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, in 1918. A two-minute silence is held at 11am …

The Winter Reading Challenge launches in all Newham Libraries this Saturday 1st December. The aim of the challenge, similarly to the Summer Reading Challenge is for children to read x3 books of their choice from 1st December until 11th January, collect stickers in a special reading log Christmas card and to review the books they …