Today is the ‘National Offer Day’ for incoming Year 7 pupils and their families. We want to take this opportunity to congratulate and welcome our incoming cohort to Avanti Fields School. Detailed information regarding our transition programme will be shared with all applicants on Monday 4th March.

This week school staff attended the AST planned Ethos INSET day which focussed on how we can create spaces for meaningful dialogue. Staff had opportunities to practice active listening, understand what it takes to build trust quickly within a small group of people and begin thinking about how our training can be used to launch ‘sanga’ sessions for our pupils.

Next week has our annual World Book Day activities planned for both Primary and Secondary pupils on Thursday 7th March. I am looking forward to seeing the literary costumes that our students come dressed in!

Secondary Calendar

• Monday 4th March – 8th March: Assemblies: World Book Day (remote)
• Monday 4th March – 8th March: Assemblies: National Careers Week
• Thursday 7th March:  World Book Day events and dress up (character from a book)
• Friday 8th March: STEM Roadshow (P1 -P2)

Primary Calendar

• Monday 4th March – 8th March: Reading week
• Wednesday 6th March: Stay and Read parents workshop 2:15 – 3:00 pm
• Thursday 7th March: Primary story teller
• Thursday 7th March: World Book Day dress up

Attendance Matters

Let’s make every day count! Attending school on time and regularly is highly important for your child’s development as it allows them to access our full curriculum.

We have a short half term this term (4 weeks) full of new and exciting learning. Please bring your child into school everyday to ensure they do not miss out!

RRSA Article of the Week

This week we focused on: Article 31

Every child has the right to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts.

Here is an activity you can do at home

Article 31 says that every child has the right to take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. This includes museums and galleries. Create an artwork of your own, inspired by objects and patterns from around the world. Bring it in and show your teacher and peers.

Article of the Week – Rights Respecting Schools Award (unicef.org.uk)

Summer clubs

Please register if you have an interest in Summer, breakfast club/ Afterschool clubs by Friday 8^th March. We will then send out a confirmation of place via email and assign you a payment on Parent Pay.

Interest forms to complete if you would like your child to attend:

Breakfast club (Nursery, Reception and Year 1):

https://forms.gle/2ewZJsvBRWNYRjxw8

Afterschool clubs (Reception and Year 1 only):

https://forms.gle/qwHGrkpt4fTWTVry6

Please note: Allocation of clubs are on a first come first serve basis. If you child has a place you will receive an email confirmation of place by 11^th March. You will then be assigned payment via parent pay and be expected to make payment for the club by the Monday 20^th March. Failure to make payment on time will mean you lose your child’s place in the allocated club.

Primary School Calendar

March

Wk bg 4^th March: Reading Week

Stay and read parent workshop – 6th March, 2.15-3.00pm
World book day dress up – 7th March
In school pop-up book fair – 14th, 15th, 18th and 19th March (7.30-7.55am and 2.45- 3.15pm)

We have an abundance of exciting events taking place throughout the academic year. 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

Hand, foot and mouth disease

Hand, foot and mouth disease is a common infection that causes mouth ulcers and spots on the hands and feet.

It’s most common in young children – particularly those under 10 – but can affect older children and adults as well.

Hand, foot and mouth disease can be unpleasant, but it will usually clear up by itself within 7 to 10 days. You can normally look after yourself or your child at home.

The infection is not related to foot and mouth disease, which affects cattle, sheep and pigs.

Symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease

The symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease usually develop between 3 and 5 days after being exposed to the infection.

The first symptoms may include:

• a high temperature (fever), usually around 38°C to 39°C (100.4-102.2°F)
• a general sense of feeling unwell
• loss of appetite
• coughing
• abdominal (tummy) pain
• a sore throat and mouth

Mouth ulcers

After 1 or 2 days, red spots appear on the tongue and inside the mouth.

These quickly develop into larger yellow-grey mouth ulcers with red edges.

The ulcers can be painful and make eating, drinking and swallowing difficult. They should pass within a week.

Spotty rash and blisters

Soon after the mouth ulcers appear, you’ll probably notice a rash made up of small, raised red spots on the skin.

These typically develop on the fingers, the backs or palms of the hand, the soles of the feet, and occasionally on the buttocks and groin.

The spots may then turn into small blisters with a grey centre.

The spots and blisters can sometimes be itchy or uncomfortable and typically last up to 10 days.

What to do if you or your child has hand, foot and mouth disease

If you have hand, foot and mouth disease, the best thing to do is to stay at home until you’re feeling better. There’s no cure for it, so you have to let it run its course.Please seek medical advice.

World Book Day

Thursday 7th March, KS3 students are welcome to dressed up a character form a book to celebrate the joy of reading.

Please see the poster attached with the bulletin. World-Book-Day-competitions-l

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Scholastic Book Fair

All Secondary student are invited to attend The Scholastic Book fair on Thursday 14th March and Friday 15th March at break time in the library. All students can use their £1 World Book Day Voucher which will be available in the library to collect. Can we ask parents to send students into school on these days with CASH to Purchase Books. There are a great range of books available and every book bought helps the school receive rewards towards purchasing more amazing books for our students!

Year 9 National Space Centre trip

7th February 2024

We took 12 year 9 students to the National Space Centre in Leicester. The event was to look at how Mathematics is used in a space context. There were students from 7 other schools in the City of Leicester.

The students had a brief introduction about the day and then getting to know each other. They then undertook a maths trail inside the centre, looking at the all the presentations on offer at the National Space Centre. The students had an informative time looking at all the props used by astronauts in space. This was certainly an eye opener for all the students there! Some of the skills here were how young learners from different schools worked together to complete the Maths trail.

The students then had to work together to produce a space ‘house’ that would hold resources for visiting astronauts on a space station. Students had to make their model with jelly babies and match sticks! Students were in inter school groups – so it was great that our students performed well students from other schools. Some of our students were in the winning space ‘house’ group.

After lunch, students took part in an activity based on how countries looked after scare resources in terms of recycling and costs. This was an activity based on other schools competing. Our students did really well, and they seemed to enjoy the experience of trying to allocate valuable resources in a competing world, taking into account populations, cost of resources, timelines to name a few ideas to consider.

After that, students were given the opportunity to attend a lecture from a university professor. The lecture was based on Einstein and his ideas on motion. This was quite a difficult type of learning – a new experience really, however quite a bit of maths concept was covered. This included.

• Speed, distance, time including graphs.
• Pythagoras Theorem
• Motion in 2D plane
• Velocity and average speed
• Equations of motion.

All our students were a credit to the school and themselves and I know they had a lovely day out exploring maths in a space context.

Celebrating Mathematical Minds of Avanti Fields School

8 of our students from year 10 recently participated in the prestigious Regional Maths Feast event, marking a significant milestone in our commitment to excellence in mathematical education. This annual competition draws the brightest young mathematicians from Leicestershire, challenging them with problems that test their numerical agility, logical reasoning, and creative thinking.

Our school’s strategy was to foster a collaborative environment where students could learn from each other, sharing insights and strategies. This approach proved invaluable, as it not only prepared our team for the wide range of problems, they would face but also helped them develop vital soft skills such as teamwork, communication, and time management.

The competition was fierce, with schools from across the nation bringing their best and brightest, our school emerged as a strong contender. We are proud to announce that our team achieved emerged VICTORIOUS, securing top positions in several categories. This achievement is a testament to the hard work of our students and the guidance of their teachers.

Talent Show

The school is pleased to announce that we will be having an all- school talent show on April 11th if anyone interested in performing should sign up with Ms.Olusanya. More information regarding Purchasing tickets will be available soon.

Govinda’s Menu Update

Govinda’s is making a small change to their menu on Ekadashi days. The school menu on these days will now provide a selection of Ekadashi and non-Ekadashi meal options for all secondary pupils.

We are now a two months into our successful launch of numerous evening and weekend ‘activity’ classes at Avanti Fields. We are supporting the coaches to build sustainable classes so they continue and are going to be offering more classes from April this year. We have had some great feedback from the participants so far and would encourage you all to try a class out if you have not done so already. There are a variety of classes to suit all ages and abilities including Dance, Yoga and Sports. Special Offers of £2 trial classes are available for Pickleball, Indoor Tennis and Multi Sports. If  there are any classes you would like to see or coaches you can recommend.  For more information please contact [email protected]

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.