On 18th June 4 of our Year 6 students represented St Philips at the Good Shepherd celebration held at Worth Abbey. This is a celebration of Catholic education in the diocese and is an important part of our school calendar.

Year One have been learning about The Gambia as part of their Globetrotters topic. When Mrs Bridges visited The Gambia during the Easter holidays, one of the schools she visited wrote letters to the children at St Philips. The St Philips children then wrote a reply and they were posted. Mansa-Colley Bojang School then emailed a photo to let us know they had received the letters. We are hoping to create links so that old library books can be sent out to the school so they can build their own library.

We were able to offer Year 1 and 2 parents the opportunity to share our splendid broad bean harvest earlier this week. The allotment is looking really good at the moment with carrots and broccoli growing well.

Many of our Year 3 children celebrated their First Holy Communion at the Cathedral last week.

The allotment is looking good at the moment – Yr 2 are going to harvest the bumper crop of broad beans tomorrow and plant some purple sprouting broccoli!

As part of ‘Green Week’ Stagecoach bus company bought one of their double decker buses to school. Following an assembly looking at ‘green’ issues and how catching a bus is more environmentally friendly than using the car,  all the children had a chance to have a good look round the bus, sitting in the drivers seat and the coveted back row!