Community
St James Church
High Wych Primary school is a Voluntary Controlled Church of England school. We have strong links with St James Church, where our school community worship several times a year. We hold our Harvest Service, Christmas Service and Easter Service in the church, as well as additional class visits, usually linked to our RE Curriculum and an end of Year service for Year 6 pupils.
We are privileged to have Reverend Alison visit each week to lead our Collective Worship. Reverend Alison is additionally involved in many of our school activities and events. Our school is in the Diocese of St Albans and we have an active association with the Diocesan Board of Education.
Easter Service at St James Church
We celebrated our Easter service at St James Church. The whole school community, from Nursery through to Year 6, took part in our Easter Service which was attended by our parents. Our children (with Reverend Alison) lead the service with songs, readings, prayers and an ensemble by our school choir. See Galleries for more photos.
Harvest Festival
Pupils enjoy growing a variety of vegetables in the school allotment each year. We donate a selection to a local charity (including fruit grown on our school trees) where staff provide nutritional home cooked meals for their club members. The non-perishable items brought in by the classes are given to food banks and sunflower heads are harvested to make bird food.
Allotment
The children grow a variety of produce to support our curriculum, some are also offered to local charity. Each year we celebrate their hard work with a display of colourful produce at the Harvest Festival.
Van Hage and Harlow Garden Centre have both kindly donating a selection of seeds in the past.
Scarecrow Festival
Every year the village is full of a wonderful assortment of scarecrows
Pupils make a contribution to the festival each year by creating designs to support the annual theme. Members of the committee visit school to help the pupils produce their creations.
Festival Of Light
Eco Council made lanterns for the Festival of Light at Great St Mary's church in Sawbridgeworth.
Climate Justice
The children created artwork to support Climate Justice and displayed them in St James' Church to share with the community.
HILS (Hertfordshire Independent Living support) Christmas Cards
The children created a selection of Christmas cards for Hertfordshire Independent Living Service. The children learnt about the importance of remembering those that may not have family around them and designed beautiful, festive cards to give to an elderly member of the community who might be spending Christmas alone.
Christmas Shoeboxes
Thank you letter from FSCI (524KB)
Harvest Festival
This year we will be celebrated Harvest differently. We did not go to church but held a celebration via Videolink within school. We collected for Harlow Foodbank. In school the students saw the Foodbank’s new video - showing how all donations are sorted and distributed, finding their way to those affected by poverty in Harlow. The Foodbank has a bigger job this year. They aim to support all those affected by the Coronavirus this winter.
Remembrance Day
Yr2 created a poppy wreath made from thank you notes. We visited the church where we learnt about the local soldiers and then placed our wreath next to the war memorial.
High Wych WW1 Community Commemoration Event
Children of all year groups produced a variety of work for display in the Memorial Hall and St James Church.
Community Events November 2018
Commemoration Services and Festival of Remembrance (275KB)
St James High Wych Flower Festival
The children created a display to celebrate the work of Katherine Johnson and her colleagues Dorothy Vaugn and Mary Jackson. Katherine, (born August 26th 1918), was an American mathematician whose calculations of mathematics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. unmanned spaceflights.
Sawbridgeworth Schools & Town Council Art Project
St. James and the Scallop Shell
The High Wych School logo was designed using the scallop shell which is the emblem of St. James.
The children created a collage as our contribution to the art project. Please look out for our work which is displayed in Bakers Walk.
Messy Church
Hertfordshire Independent Living Service - Christmas Card Project.
Children in school made an extra special Christmas card this year, they took part in the annual HILS project. The children learnt about the importance of remembering those that may not have family around them and designed beautiful, festive cards to give to an elderly member of the community who might be spending Christmas alone.
Yr5 Choir
Yr5 members of the choir visited Orchard Lea Retirement Village to sing Christmas carols to the residents.
Thank you letter "The residents thoroughly enjoyed it as always and look forward to the next one."
Remembrance Day
Year 2 made poppies on Remembrance Day. They met the vicar and our local historian in the churchyard for a short service and placed their poppy wreath under the memorial cross.
