Latest News

Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Essex Library Winter Reading Challenge

  Wed 10 Jan 2024

  There is still time to complete the Essex Library Services Winter Reading challenge - make sure any books you enjoy you add a review to our school Reading Tablet!

  

• Advent Kindness Calendar

  Mon 11 Dec 2023

  If you haven't seen our Twitter account, this Advent calendar is a great way of showing our school's core value of Kindness every day during this special season of Advent. Lots of children are already taking part in school!

  

• World Childrens Day

  Sun 26 Nov 2023

  On Monday 20th November, we celebrated World Children’s Day.

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  World Children’s Day is UNICEF’s annual day of action for children, by children, marking the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

  

• Parish Council members meet with Heathlands School Council

  Fri 17 Nov 2023

  This week Brian Butcher and Harry Stone met with the Heathlands school council to discuss their roles with the parish council and answer the children's questions. This helped them understand more about democracy in West Bergholt and the importance of their roles as school councillors. Harry and Brian also asked our children about what they liked about West Bergholt and what they thought could be improved. 

  

• We Will Remember Them - Remembrance Day 2023

  Sun 12 Nov 2023

  On Friday, we held a Remembrance service at Heathlands to teach children about the importance of Remembrance Day. All classes created wreaths from poppies they had made in class and members of the school council laid the wreaths at the Orpen Hall where we said a prayer for those who had been, and still are, affected by wars around the world.

  

• Heathlands Fireworks Cancelled

  Fri 03 Nov 2023 FIreworks Committee

  Dear Families,

   

  It was a very difficult decision to cancel the Heathlands Fireworks Display. We have been monitoring ground conditions and the wretched weather for the past week but the safety risks and disruption to school operations became too high to allow us to proceed.

   

  The Heathlands Fireworks Display is a great school tradition and it brings the local community together. We really appreciate the messages of support received since the announcement was made.

   

  Since the decision to cancel was made we have been contacting suppliers, sponsors and advertisers to inform them and mitigate the financial impact. We have received significant gestures of Goodwill which will help to limit the impact. As the majority of tickets have been sold online we have been working out how the online sales platform can deal with ticket refunds and we will contact people who have bought tickets as soon as possible. Again, we appreciate the offer made by some to donate the ticket price to the PTA but we also understand in this current economic climate that the price of tickets for a family is not insignificant and we will communicate refund options as soon as possible.    

    

  It takes a massive team of people to organise and deliver the Heathlands Fireworks Display. We would like to thank all the volunteers and school staff who have offered to help this year. 

   

  Next year will be the 30th Anniversary of the Heathlands Fireworks Display and after this year's disappointment we would want to make it the best event ever. It is always hard work to organise but the money raised for the children and the bringing together of the local community make it all worthwhile. The Fireworks Team is a mix of both mum's and dad's and we have members stepping down year. If you would like to join the Fireworks Team for future HFD events please contact chair@heathlandsfireworks.co.uk and we can provide more details.

   

  Kind Regards,

   

  The Heathlands PTA Fireworks Team

• First Aid Friends Workshops for Heathlands

  Tue 26 Sep 2023

  Thank you to First Aid Friends who provided fantastic first aid workshops for all our children over two days in September. The workshops helped our children understand how to keep themselves and other people safe in an emergency.

  

• TRECK Assembly - Respect 25.9.23

  Tue 26 Sep 2023

  Thank you to Alissa, Belle and Florence from year 6 for their wonderful assembly teaching children about respecting their environment.