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

Headteacher’s Weekly Memo – 5th December 2025

Dear Parent/Carer

Behaviour

Teaching staff have identified the following students for demonstrating the behaviour for the week “Patience”

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 – Lottie, Maeve, Arthur

Year 1/2 – Maggie, Amelie, Albie, Emily
Year 3/4 – Layla-Jo, Johan, Harley, Erica
Year 5/6 - Well done to you all for demonstrating good, positive behaviours.

Examples of good work from Chrizette and Theodora

 

Attendance Matters

As you all know students strive when they are in school. Reception 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!

 

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.

 

Additional Maths support coming soon

Times Tables Rock Stars is an award-winning maths learning platform where children can practise their times tables like a rock star! The programme takes the worry out of learning times tables and has a proven track record of boosting children’s fluency and recall in multiplication and division. Your child will be sent home with login details next week, if they do not already have it. This is the same as last year. Please encourage your child to interact with the platform.

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

On Wednesday the 10th of December we would like to invite Reception and Year 1/2 parents and carers to a 'Parents Phonics Workshop'. This will be an opportunity to learn about our new Phonics and early Reading scheme which we have brought in this year.

 

Timings for Wednesday 10th December:

Reception parent workshop: 9.00 - 9.45am

Reception parents, please drop off your children as usual and then come to the office where we can sign you in and lead you to the hall.

Year 1 and 2 parent workshop: 2.30- 3.15pm

Iceni parents, please come to the office where we can sign you in and lead you to the hall. Once the workshop has finished you will be led back to the office to sign out and will be able to collect your children as usual.

Miss Rice

Swaffham Christmas Tree Festival – St Peter and St Pauls Church
Here are a few pictures of our school tree with decorations made by the children. Please pop along and look at some of the wonderful trees on display this year.

 

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 also consider the winter weather and pathways being icy.
•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 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 & class parties
Have a great weekend!

Kind Regards

Mr James
Headteacher