It has been an amazing week of enrichment activities in the secondary phase of Avanti Fields. We have organised the Reading Rampage programme in English, British Science Week activities and the Y10 University of Oxford residential in Science, student leadership inspire event, ice hockey trip in PE, Y9 Computing for girls event in Computer Science and the Y8 Avanti Quest residential to Belgium. Thank you all of you and members in your team who have planned and organised these wonderful experiences for our students!

For our primary pupils, they have had the Scholastic book fair come to Avanti Fields. Next week we have an amazing array of Easter and Holi themed activities lined up. As well as a dinosaur workshop!

Secondary Calendar

• Monday  18th – Tuesday 19th March: GCSE Art Exam (11H All Day)
• Wednesday 20th – Thursday 21st March: GCSE Art Exam (11K All Day)
• Tuesday 19th March: Form/Class Photos
• Thursday 21st March: Y9 Parents Consultation Evening (School Finish at 12:45pm)
• Friday 22nd March: Gaura Purnima Celebration (traditional dress non uniform)
• Friday 22nd March: End of Term (school finish 3:30pm)

Primary Calendar

• Monday 18th March: Reception: Dinosaur workshop
• Wednesday 20th March: Easter bonnet competition
• Wednesday 20th March: Nursery: Easter parent workshop (2:00pm – 3:00pm)
• Thursday 21st March: Reception: Easter parent workshop (1:30pm – 2:45pm)
• Thursday 21st March: Year 1: Easter bonnet parade
• Friday 22nd March:
• Friday 22nd March: Holi event (students encouraged to wear white non uniform)

Scholastic Book Fair

The book fair has arrived at Avanti Fields, don’t forget to pop in if you haven’t already. Remember to bring in your £1.00 voucher!

RRSA Article of the Week

Week focus: Article 2 

All children have the rights set out in the UNCRC, and individual children and young people shouldn’t be discriminated against when these rights are realised. This covers both direct and indirect discrimination.

Here is an activity you can do at home:

Draw a picture of a woman or girl that you look up to. This might be a member of your family, someone at school or someone you have learned about. Bring your picture in and share it 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

Easter clubs and provision

Please find attached opportunities for Easter camps across the City during the holidays. If you are interested in booking your child onto these camps, please visit www.empwrsports.co.uk for further details.

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

Gaura Purnima celebration

We are celebrating Gaura Purnima Festival on Friday 22nd March. Students are welcome to come in traditional dress for the day, appropriate to the festivity. Students not wishing to come in traditional clothes should wear school uniform. Students who have PE on the day may choose to NOT bring their kit if they want to remain in their traditional clothes.

Our festival celebration will have students spend time in the worship hall where they will get to bathe a baby Krishna, and will be learning about the traditions and meaning behind Gaura Purnima celebrations.

Girls in Computing event – Thursday 14^th March 2023

The Girls in Computing event, run by Jaspal Singh (Director of Academic ICT and digital technologies – Nxt Gen Innovators), was aimed at encouraging girls to think about choosing Computing/IT as a GCSE option and/or as a career. It was an inspiring event which encouraged the year 9 girls to really think about their options for GCSE and potentially choose a career in the field of computing and technology, which they may previously have never considered. The event was fun packed with much ‘food for thought’, group challenges and competitions.

Students feedback:

Dhriti Lakhani – 9 Water

“I liked the event as everyone had a chance to participate and complete new challenges. It has also encouraged me to pick computer science as one of my options for GCSE.”

Yashani Teli – 9 Water

“I think that the Girls in Computing event was an incredible experience and I really enjoyed it. If I had the opportunity to do it again, I would. The visitors were really nice, and the activities were unique and fun. Thank you so much for inviting me”.

Uniform Guideline – Brigade

Parents Direct Ordering Web 2024

Please find attached our updated 2024 flyer which includes how to order details for parents, size and how to measure guides and our new updated summer 2024 summer order deadlines.

We ask that you please forward the flyer to all your parents, highlighting the new deadline dates for 2024.

Please also ensure a copy is given to new intake parents and ask them to register with us as soon as possible so they don’t miss out on any early order promotions or important information.

Also included on this digital version of the flyer are hyperlinks to the following:

• A link to our website (front page)
• A link to register your email address with us or alternatively hover you phone camera over the QR code (you may have to zoom in to increase the size of the QR code) to access the registration portal.

We recommend all parents register with us as soon as possible to ensure they do not miss out on important dates or promotions

• On the bottom of the back page you will find another link to our website, a link to our customer service support email address and an-other link to our customer support FAQs (frequently asked questions) support.

Because our service to parents is online only, our aim is to ensure that the ordering process is as simple and hassle free as possible with minimum returns.  Therefore, we have included/added the following to our website:

• A short video on how to order online
• A short video showing parents how to correctly measure their child
• Tailored size guides for the majority of our online products

We ask that you please ensure all your parents receive a copy of the flyer and are aware of the above as soon as possible.  Furthermore, we ask you to please add the flyer to your uniform section of your website with a link to our website.

Avanti Fields Talent Show

You are invited to attend the Avanti Field’s talent show in the main hall on Thursday 11th April 2024. The show will commence at 18:00 and doors will be opened from 17:30. The cost for the show is £3.50 payable on ParentPay and you will get 4 tickets for the price of 3! All money raised will be reinvested into your child’s education and activities. Refreshments will also be available to purchase courtesy of the PTFA. We hope to see you there!

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.

⭐️EXCITING NEWS⭐️

We are excited to announce our early bird special offer for the Garba & Disco Dhandiya event…. Limited time only all tickets £4

Get yours booked 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.