Dear Parents and Carers, 

It was wonderful to welcome all of our new families to St Helen's last term, and of course to see all families back.  We are looking forward to an exciting year ahead and to working with you all. 

Please do remember we are always here to listen and help; if you have any questions, would like support and advice, or just a chat, come and find us on the playground or call into the front office. 

Our main communication platform is ARBOR - please make sure you download this app for your phone. If you are new to St Helen's, the office staff will help you get set up with this. You will need login details - which you may have received as an email. When you set up your App, please make sure that your settings allow for notifications as well as emails. We send emails and In-App messages for all communications and information that we need to share - so please check you App / emails daily. Make sure your emails are marked as safe, so that they don't go to your junk/spam folder. In case of emergencies, we may use our texting service - this is not free and so we don't use this method if communication unless it is important. Please remember to not reply to our texts. 

You are always welcome to join us on a Friday morning for our school masses - these take place in the chapel each week at 9:00am. 

Class assemblies take place on - 

You are also welcome to stay and join us for our weekly whole school exercise session - Wake Up Wednesday. This takes place on the playground at 9am every Wednesday - if raining, we do this in class! 

We will send you regular updates and reminders of events taking place and they can also be found here  -

Go to our website, select News & Events and then select Calendar of Events - click here. This page is updated on a regular basis, as and when events and visits are booked. You will also be notified of all events through the ARBOR In-App messages and emails. 

We have planned for a range of workshops throughout the year - please come along to any that are interest to you. Click here to see our planned Workshops for Parents. Our resident Student Social Workers, will also be running a variety of workshops throughout the year too - we will communicate detail to you. 

You can keep up to date with the themes for our Assemblies and Prayer and Liturgy focus by reading the latest Religion Newsletters here - October and November 

At the bottom of this page, you will be able to click on the links to see what has been happening in each year group this term. 

With blessing and prayers 

Miss Doherty xx