Yesterday the entire school had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day! WBD is a growing event in our annual school calendar and we hope to see it become even bigger next year. Please read below more details of our WBD celebrations specific to primary and secondary.

Last night, while still in WBD costumes, the senior staff welcomed our incoming Year 6 pupils and outlined our transition programme for them and their families. Although it was a virtual event, it was lovely to see the confidence shine with our newest pupils who were brave enough to ask questions about what starting secondary school will be like.

Finally, today is International Women’s Day. Imaging a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that’s diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can celebrate women’s achievements and raise awareness about discrimination. IWD belongs to everyone, everywhere.

Secondary Calendar

• Monday 11th March – 15th March: British Science week
• Monday 11th March – 15th March: Y8 Avanti Quest
• Monday 11th March: Reading Rampage Programme (selected students)
• Tuesday 12th March: Ice Hockey trip Y10 & 11 (6pm – 10pm)
• Tuesday 12th March: Reading Rampage programme (Selected Students)
• Tuesday 12th March: Student Leadership Inspire Event
• Thursday 14th March: Y9 Computing for Girls event
• Thursday 14th – 15th March: Y10 University of Oxford Residential
• Thursday 14th – 15th March: Scholastic Book Fair
• Thursday 14th – 15th March: GCSE Art EXAM (11L All Day)
• Monday  18th – 19th March: GCSE Art Exam ( 11H All Day)
• Wednesday 20th – 21st March: GCSE Art Exam (11K All Day)

Primary Calendar

• Thursday 14th March – 18th March: Primary in-school pop Book Fair

What a fantastic Reading week it has been! We have had competitions, dress up, story tellers and reading workshops. Next week the reading festival will continue with our Primary book fair.

Getting messy in the Nursery!

Thank you  so much for the PTFA who donated materials and hosted a gardening session for our Nursery pupils. We have been learning about the plant life cycle and how to care for them, so pupils were thrilled to share and apply their knowledge. Everyone enjoyed being outdoors and planting seeds for the garden. We look forward to observing the different stages of growth and seeing what blooms!

RRSA Article of the Week: This week we have focussed 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. 

Make a list of the clubs your school runs at lunchtimes and after school. Is there something for everyone? Do you have a great idea for a new club? Think about how you could share your views about clubs at your school. Share your ideas with your friends and teachers.

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

Easter bonnet competition

Holi Event

We will be holding a ‘festival of colours’ event on 22nd March. We would like all children to experience the traditions of Holi with a festival of colours event. As the event involves the throwing of powdered paint, we are kindly asking for all children to come in old clothes, preferably white to show all the colours. If your child is in uniform that day, they will unfortunately not be able to participate.

Primary School Calendar

March

20^th– Easter bonnet competition

– Nursery Easter parent/ carer workshop 2.00am- 3.00am

21^st -Reception Easter parent/ carer workshop 1.30pm- 2.45pm

22^nd End of Term (Last day of school for children)

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

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!

World Book Day

Thank you to all students and staff members who have been involved in the World Book Day activates. All World Book Day vouchers at the school are digital this year. Please find link attached. You will be able to print vouchers for your child to use to either receive their free £1 book or use as part payment towards a book of their choice. Please see the link below.

Library News

The Avanti Fields Library is proud to launch its online Library Catalogue ‘The Accessit Web App’, where students and staff can view our amazing Library collection and access their own library records.

Please save the following link to your favourites and don’t forget to watch the ‘How to use the Accessit Library Web App video’ on the home page.

https://uk.accessit.online/avn08

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.

Year 7/8 Girls Football

A successful football season for the girls as they made it through to the final in the 11 a-side competition after becoming East Leicester City Champions. Unfortunately we lost to Lancaster but the girls were incredible in their performances and achievements throughout the tournament.

KS4 Girls Football

A successful football season for the KS4 girls too as they made it through to the final in the 11 a-side competition after becoming East Leicester City Champions. Unfortunately we lost to Babington but the girls were incredible in their performances and achievements throughout the tournament.

Girls Futsal

Again both the teams (Year 8 and KS4) put in fantastic performances in the girls futsal tournaments. The KS4 girls got through to the final against Moat who we unfortunately lost out to just 1-0. The Year 8 team became joint first winners with Crown Hills who just pipped us to the finals on goal difference 14-11. But the girls should be immensely proud of their achievements with such incredible talent on the pitch.

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]

Disco Dandiya

Get those Garba gadgets out! Avanti Fields PTFA are excited to dance our way into our first major event of the year. After last year’s huge success, we’re proud to host Disco Dandiya night on Saturday 13th April at Avanti Fields School to celebrate Chaitra Navratri. Tickets on sale now – get yours booked early to avoid disappointment.

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/avanti-fields-ptfa

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.