Serving God and others in Love, Faith and Hope
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School
Sporle Road, Swaffham, Norfolk. PE37 7HL
01760 721330 Email: info@sacredheartschool.co.uk

Headteacher’s Memo – 12th December 2025

 

Dear Parent/Carer

 

Behaviour

Teaching staff have identified the following students for demonstrating the value for the week ‘Hope’.
•Reception – Vivienne has been trying very hard with her phonics learning in class
•Iceni –Jet - Well done for showing hope and aspiration in completing your learning tasks this week. We are so proud of you!!
•Walsingham – Erica - In maths she was hopeful that she would get on the extension work showing great Growth Mindset and positivity in lessons.
•Cere – Tom Musk – who spoke up in his class assembly. We hope this level of confidence sets the bar for others to aspire to – well done Tom!

 

Secret Students

 

A student is chosen anonymously and randomly at the start of each school day. The class teacher will then monitor the positive behaviour of the secret student throughout the day and that student is named if they have demonstrated our school values throughout the day.

The secret students who were celebrated in our celebration assembly this week were:

Reception – Skylah, Rena, Adam, Amalia
Year 1/2 – Jet, Delilah, Riley
Year 3/4 – Layla -Jo, Christian, Harley
Year 5/6- Marianne

 

Well done to you all for demonstrating good, positive behaviours.

 

Attendance Matters

As you all know students strive when they are in school. Year 3 and 4 were this weeks’ best attenders - Well done!
Friends of Sacred Heart

We’re still looking for enthusiastic volunteers to join our new Friends of Sacred Heart group. Please contact the school office if you are interested and help us make a difference with fundraising, school events and more!

For communication, the FOSH have a Facebook group that they would like to make all parents aware. Please use the QR code to access this.

 

What's on in Swaffham?

Please see the attached flyers for locations of Family Hub events as well as primary-age clubs or activities happening in and around Swaffham.

For the most up-to-date information, we recommend joining the Family Hub Facebook group where events and locations are regularly posted.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/brecklandfamilyhubs/
We also suggest following the Swaffham Library Facebook page. They host fantastic activities during the holidays and throughout the year, and it's a great place to find out about local services and professionals offering support.

https://www.facebook.com/SwaffhamLibraryNorfolk/events

 

Breakfast Club

We are delighted to introduce our Breakfast Club, running every school day from 8:10 AM to 8:40 AM. This is a great way for your child to start the day in a calm and positive environment. Initially this will be by invite only but feel free to express an interest with the main office so that we can extend this to more students as we expand this provision.

The sessions will be free of charge and will be run by Mr Greenwood and Miss Patel.

What’s on the menu? To begin with, we’ll be serving toast to all children who attend.

Year 6s will be working on Maths and/or English.

 

Details:
•Time: 8:10 AM – 8:40 AM
•Location: Y5/6 Classroom

Maths homework

To support your child's Maths learning we have set them up on an interactive platform called MyMaths. This should help your child to structure their maths work and enable you to see how they are progressing. Coming home this evening, is a letter detailing their username and password. Please go to www.mymaths.co.uk and follow the instructions on your letter to help your child to log-in, initially using the school username and password where you will find games and activities on the dashboard which can be completed at any time. They will then need to log in to their portal and complete activities set for them by their teacher, this may be a lesson to watch and then a homework activity.

Please find engagement statistics – we need these figures to increase so if there any barriers to homework – please do let us know so that we can help.

Last week’s figures

 

This week’s figures

 

Year 6 Booster sessions

Year 6 students are invited to attend booster sessions for both English and Maths after school on Wednesday and Thursday from 3:30-4:30pm.

Phonics - Supporting your child at home.

Thank you to all the parents who joined us in school for our phonics workshops this week.

We would like to signpost you to the 'For Parents' area of the Little Wandle website for further resources to help you support your child with phonics at home. Here you will find some useful videos and information packs which demonstrate how to say the sounds and how we teach writing the letters. You can search via the Little Wandle website or alternatively click on the link via our school website under 'Our Phonics Curriculum' area.

www.littlewandle.org.uk

 

Miss Rice

Notices

•Please can you be reminded that children bringing in scooters and bicycles should walk them when they pass the main school gates for safety reasons.
•Please can you ensure that your child/ren come to school in full school uniform, if you need help with this, we have been donated lots of uniform or can assist in getting funds to help support you with this.
•School photos are now available follow this link: https://orders.online.bentleypics.com/parentinvite?schoolCode=603324
•Please can parents of KS2 be reminded to bring a fruit or vegetable snack for break time please. We do have some fruit, but this funded for KS1 and reception children only.
•We are a ‘nut-free’ school, to that end, please do not send your child in with nuts for packed lunch or use peanut butter for sandwiches.
•Head lice and nits - NHS

Dates for the diary:

Wednesday 3rd December - Y3/4 class assembly 9.30am
Wednesday 10th December - Y5/6 class assembly 9.30am
Tuesday 16th December - EYFS, Y1/2 nativity play performance 2pm
Wednesday 17th December - EYFS Y1/2 nativity play performance 9.30am
Thursday 18th December - Sacred Heart Whole-School Christmas Fete 2-4pm
Friday 19th December - Christmas lunch, Christmas jumper & class parties

Term date reminder: Children return on Tuesday 6th January

Have a great weekend!

Kind Regards
Mr James
Headteacher