Swaffham Newsletter

Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul
The main October services in Swaffham parish church
will be as follows (see our website at https://www.
swaffhamparishchurch.org/ for further details).
Sunday 3rd
9.30 am Harvest Festival Sung Eucharist
6.00 pm Evensong
Sunday 10th
9.30 am Sung Eucharist
Sunday 17th
8.00 am Holy Communion
(traditional language)
9.30 am Sung Eucharist
Sunday 24th
9.30 am Sung Eucharist
Sunday 31st
9.30 am Sung Eucharist for All Saints
3.30 pm All Souls Service
There will also be a Book of Common Prayer traditional
language Holy Communion on Wednesdays 6th, 13th,
20th and 27th October at 10am. Church is now open
again daily for private prayer and for visitors from 9
a.m. until 4 p.m. outside services.
St. Martin’s Voices Concert on Friday 15th October 7
pm in St Peter & St Paul’s Church.
The night before lockdown in March 2020, members
of St Martin’s Voices gathered in a dimly lit St Martinin-the-Fields
in London for one final time to record the
music for a service led by the Archbishop of Canterbury,
broadcast to the nation on the BBC. The service opened
with the hymn ‘Lord of all hopefulness’.
This hour-long concert, directed by Andrew Earis,
reflects on themes of love, hope, joy and peace drawn
from this much-loved hymn, and includes music drawn
from over four centuries of choral masterpieces,
including works by Thomas Tallis, Hubert Parry, John
Stainer, Amy Beach, Ola Gjeilo and James MacMillan.
Tickets £10 available from www.smitf.org/tour or from
church (01760 622241). There will be refreshments
afterwards, with an opportunity to meet the singers,
who have been contributing hymns and anthems for
Church of England online services around the country
throughout lockdown.
Mothers’ Union
The Swaffham branch of the Mothers’ Union usually
meets on the 2nd Thursday of the month. This month’s
meeting is on October 14th at 10.00am in the Baptist
Church Rooms, when the speaker will be Major
Bennetts, Salvation Army. Enquiries to Julia on 720041.
Swaffham Baptist Church
Swaffham Baptist Church welcomes you to join us on
Sunday Mornings at the new time of 10.45am followed
by refreshments.
The Church is situated on Station Street, Swaffham and
car parking is available in the old station yard close by.
Look out for details of future events on our notice board
or website:- www.swaffhambaptistchurch.org.uk
We offer a warm welcome to all at our weekly services.
Heartwood CE VC Primary
Heartwood is a year old this month!
We have had a wonderful start to the new
school year, welcoming lots of families
old and new to our school community.
Our new pupils have settled well with new friendships
forming!
In the past year we achieved so much as a community
and made many new partnerships. We look forward to
another exciting year where our curriculum strengthens,
and we can offer a wide range of rich experiences for
our pupils.
We have opened our doors to offer our quality provision
to children aged 0-3 years. Come along to Heartwood’s
Little Forest Explorers on a Monday and Story time in
our school library on a Wednesday at 2:40pm. Call the
office for more information 01760 721357
PRIMARY & NURSERY SCHOOL
In September 2020, Swaffham CE VC Infant and Nursery school
became Heartwood CE VC Primary & Nursery School.
We are a wonderful and caring school community.
We adopt the Danish Hygge approach (pronounced Hue-gah) to
living well that focuses on being in the moment and embracing
the feelings of warmth, simplicity and togetherness.
We plan opportunities throughout the school day to come
together as a school family. This begins by starting the day
having breakfast together, chatting and sharing stories.
Our school environment is calm, neutral and we use a wide range
of natural materials for the children to experience and use.
Nursery
school from
3 years old
Learn to Love - Love to Learn
Telephone: 01760 721357
Email: head@swaffham.norfolk.sch.uk
Website: www.heartwood.norfolk.sch.uk
TNHA News
Firstly, we hope everyone had a lovely
summer holiday (despite the weather
being a ‘little hit and miss’). TNHA’s doors were
open during August for our summer school aimed
at getting to know some of our Year 6 students
before they joined us in September. They spent
time in the nature area, preparing bug habitats for
the winter, visited the Swaffham Museum learning
about Howard Carter and Tutankhamun, finishing
the week with afternoon tea (which the students
prepared). There were many friendships made,
some excellent learning and most importantly lots
of happy faces. We were also pleased to provide a
base for summer activities for FSM students aged
5-16 years in partnership with Norfolk County
Council and Norwich City FC Community Sports
Foundation.
August inevitably brings excitement and nerves as
students receive their GCSE exam results all over the
country. Here at TNHA we opened our doors early
and students arrived eager to open their envelopes
containing their grades being the culmination
of 11 years of work, the last two of which have
been significantly disrupted by the impact of the
covid pandemic. We saw some truly outstanding
results from students and perhaps most pleasing
was seeing our students become the incredibly
talented young adults that they now are. They have
shown not only resilience but the determination to
succeed and they have all demonstrated the wider
skills that will enable them to be successful in
their futures. Our students should be proud of the
grades and everything else that they have achieved
through their formal education but they should
equally be proud of the way that they have faced
and overcome the challenges with which they
have been presented. We wish all our students the
very best and look forward to seeing them achieve
further success in their futures. Many of the
students met up again at their prom, delayed until
early September due to the pandemic however
this did not dampen their enthusiasm. Lynford Hall
saw a wonderful array of vehicles deliver our VIPs
dressed in their formal attire on the evening ready
to celebrate together. We are delighted that they
enjoyed their evening marking this exciting phase
in their young lives.
As one group leaves us we welcome a new cohort
being our new Year 7 students who have settle in
amazing fashion into TNHA life. We have been very
impressed with how smart they all look all wearing
their uniform with pride. Students have spent
time together as a tutor group getting to know one
another, learning more about their academy and
completing a ‘treasure hunt around the site’. Each
form group has been working on creating a motto
and emblem which they feel best represents them.
They have also taken part in their first 'Challenge
Cup' which involved them competing to gain the
highest scoring words created from a boggle grid.
Well done Year 7!
With students at the heart of everything we do here
at TNHA we are excited to launch our new student
leadership and student voice teams. These students
will be an integral part in driving our academy
forward, sharing the students’ voice, supporting
students and implementing new exciting student
led ideas. In addition, they will learn important
life skills such as teamwork, communication,
organisation and leadership to support them when
they leave us. We are looking forward to their
ceremony at the end of the month when parents
and carers are invited to the presentation of their
unique student leader badge and tie. Our student
leadership team will meet regularly to discuss any
ideas or issues raised by the student body and look
at ways to continue to improve the academy. We
look forward to working closely with them this
academic year.
Finally, looking forward to September 2022, we
are delighted to invite all parents and carers along
with their child/children in Year 5/6 from our local
primaries to our Open Morning and Open Evenings.
These events are designed to give a flavour of life
at TNHA where we are truly ‘determined to be the
best that we can be’.
Open Evening: Tues. 5th October 2021 (6pm to
8pm)
all welcome no appointment necessary
Open Mornings: Wed. 6th, Thurs. 7th & Friday 8th
October 2021 (9am to 11am)
by appointment - Tel.01760 721480
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