This week we had our AST film crew in working with our primary pupils and staff to continue to promote our ‘Outstanding’ early years and primary provision. In the next few weeks we will be able to share the finished product with you all.

Some of our Year 7 students attended a Peter Pan pantomime in Loughborough this week and had a fantastic time. We are looking forward to taking another group of students next week.

Opening School Facilities

In October we shared that we have been working with Think Active to secure a stream of funding to further open up our school facilities to the wider community. I am pleased to announce that we were successful in our bid and will be launching a wider community offer of activities from January 2024.

From January, we will be offering:

• Football
• Indoor tennis
• Badminton
• Multi sports sessions
• Fitness classes
• Yoga
• Bollywood dance
• Boxercise
• Bhangra Blaze
• Zumba
• Garba
• Bharat Natyam
• Bhangra classes

We are pleased that our bid will also include opportunities for those with reduced mobility by offering Walking football and Pickleball.

Super Mums Club has joined us to offer exclusively for mums Indoor cricket, Badminton, Volleyball and Yoga.

In addition to all of the above, we will also have Gujarati lessons starting.

There will be an opportunity to sign up for trial/taster sessions which will be in the first 2 weeks of January and these will be priced at only £1 or £2, sign up and more details will be provided next week and there will be an opportunity to meet with some of the coaches and sign up at our Launch Event on Tuesday 12th December 6pm to 8pm.

If you are interested in running any classes for the community, or know someone that is, please get in touch with our admin team via email to [email protected]. This includes anyone who is looking for venue hire of classrooms, dance/sports halls, and dining facilities.

Secondary Calendar

• Monday 4th December : Y7 Peter Pan Trip (Loughborough)
• Tuesday 5th December: Y9 Book Talk CLS
• Wednesday 6th December: Y 11 Gateway visit
• Thursday 7th December: Christmas Jumper Day
• Thursday 7th December: Reading Rampage Launch event
• Friday 8th December: Y11 1:1 Careers guidance

Primary Calendar

• Christmas activities beginning in December
• Thursday 7th December: Christmas Jumper Day

Christmas class parties:

All children will be having a class party on the 15th December.

Please can we ask for ethos friendly party food donations for the day for example:

Cakes

Crisps

Doughnuts

Cucumber and carrot sticks

Samosas

Dhokra

Mini pizzas- pre- cooked

Primary School Calendar:

We have an abundance of exciting events taking place next week. Please ensure you keep up to date with the Primary school calendar to ensure you do not miss out on anything: Calendar – Avanti Fields School

Key events coming up:

December

12th– Nursery Christmas parent/ carer workshop 2.00pm- 3.00pm

-Whole school Christmas card workshop, Santa’s Grotto and Fayre 3.00pm- 4.00pm

13th– Reception Christmas Carol performance and Christmas parent/ carer workshop 1.00pm- 2.45pm

15th– End of Term (Last day of school for children)

Christmas Jumper Day

Christmas Jumper Day – Thursday 7th Dec

Students pay £1 towards charity all money going to save the children.

1. Students must wear school uniform on the bottom half, with a Christmas jumper on the top.
2. Students can wear a plain t-shirt underneath but jumpers must be kept on around school.
3. Students do not need to wear their blazers.
4. They can accessorise with xmas accessories
5. If students are wearing anything else that does not comply with the rules they will be issued a C2 by their form tutor

Football Team

Another success for our girls football team who won the East Leicester City competition this week, which sees us into the semi finals! We entered a Year 8/9 league with a team made up of year 7 and 8 and still the girls dominated. We beat Crown Hills 2-1 and City of Leicester 2-0 with goals from Keah and Priyanshi. Our centre mid Jeevan stayed strong in her position and would not let the ball into our half. The girls in defence didn’t see much action but they kept their positions and as a team the girls were incredible.

Careers Provision Feedback

To gain an insight into the awareness of careers at Avanti Fields school we require all pupils to complete the short Future Skills Questionnaire by Friday 8th December 2023. The link has been sent through school email to each pupil.

Christmas Jumper Day

Christmas Jumper Day – Thursday 7th Dec

Students pay £1 towards charity all money going to save the children.

1. Students must wear school uniform on the bottom half, with a Christmas jumper on the top.
2. Students can wear a plain t-shirt underneath but jumpers must be kept on around school.
3. Students do not need to wear their blazers.
4. They can accessorise with xmas accessories
5. If students are wearing anything else that does not comply with the rules they will be issued a C2 by their form tutor

Coding Games Masterclasses

Thursday 21st December 2023

🎮Would you like to make video games but don’t know where to start?
👾Would you like to learn the fundamentals of programming?
🎮Would you like to learn how coding is used in the real world?

Join our FREE Coding Games Masterclass over the Christmas holidays to learn more and create an awesome arcade-style game!

This session is designed for students aged 11-16.

To register go to: Christmas Coding Games Masterclass! 🎮 (mailchi.mp)

Leicester City  area holiday camp programme:

Please find below information regarding our holiday camp programme running in January in the Leicester City area. We would really appreciate it if you could pass this information (FLYERS ATTACHED ABOVE) to all your parents/careers.

We are pleased to inform you that we are running a selection of Holiday Activity Camps in Leicester this January through the Holiday Activities and Food Programme 2023 funded by Department for Education for eligible children to attend for FREE!

The Government have rolled out the programme nationally to support families who receiving benefit related free school meals to take part in and it will enable children to get active as well as receive a healthy lunch each day!

Premier Education are the UK’s leading provider of sport and physical activity for schools and the Holiday Activity programme will give children the chance to try different sports, make friends, have fun and be active. Children will be able to take part in sports such as Dodgeball, Archery, Football, Tennis and much more throughout the week! In addition to this, the programme includes some fantastic health & wellbeing activities each day as well as some great arts & crafts!

Lunch and snacks will be provided each day however we would encourage children to bring their own drinks, preferably water, as well as suitable clothing to take part in the physical activity! Children can bring their own packed lunch if they would prefer.

Leicester City venues we are running are…

• Abbey Mead Primary School , LE4 5HH
• Linden Primary school, LE5 6AD

Dates:              2^nd January – 5^th January

Times:                     9:00am – 3:30pm

Ages:                       5-11 years old only, boys & girls of all abilities

To book your child’s HAF place, follow the below steps: 

1. Visit families.leicester.gov.uk and click ‘Holiday Activities and food programme’
2. Click ‘search for a programme provider’ and chose your venue of choice
3. Click ‘Complete the Holiday activities and food programme registration form’ and complete the simple steps!
4. Bookings go live on 20^th November 2023. Your place will be confirmed once the bookings have closed on 5^th December 2023 and Leicester City Council have been able to confirm your eligibility!

Please see the flyers and letter below for further information

Abbey Mead HAF Letter

Christmas Abbey Mead Flyer

Linden Primary School HAF Letter

Christmas Holiday Camp Linden Flyer

PTFA  – Annual General Meeting

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

21st January 2024

To be held at Avanti Fields School, Hamilton at 3:00pM

Please email your request to attend meeting and nomination for a  committee role to  [email protected]

The deadline for nominations is Thursday 18th January 2024.

please see the link below of meeting letter

PTFA AGMupdated letter

Parent Teacher Friends Association (PTFA)

 PTFA  

Garden Project Volunteers

Communications – Wherever possible please use the contact form on our website to get in touch. This is detailed on the website at https://avanti.org.uk/avantifields/contact-us/. The appropriate member of staff will pick up the message and get back to you as soon as possible.

Absence

To report an absence to the school, parents should contact us by 8:00am (primary) and 8.30am (secondary) 

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0116 326 6813 (Option 1 to leave a voicemail) 

Please remember to state your child’s full name, tutor group and reason for absence. If your child is unwell, please could you give a brief description of the symptoms. 

All education research highlights how crucial it is to a child’s academic progress and wellbeing they attend school , on time, all of the time. Therefore, a reminder that it is important that families organise events or holidays outside of school time to ensure that their child is at school as often as possible.   

The school works closely with the Education Welfare Officer at LCC, and we do seek to ensure that any requests for authorised absence are dealt with on a case-by-case basis, in a sensitive manner. However, the school can never authorise a family holiday or a trip abroad to visit family members during term time.   

This academic year, families will have two weeks at the October half-term, three weeks at Christmas and two weeks at Easter for extended family holidays. Please do ensure that if booking holidays, they fall within the holiday periods.