On Wednesday this week, it was the celebration of the Ramanavami Festival, a festival that celebrates the birth of Lord Rama. On Sunday, the school will be hosting an event between 2pm – 6pm for members of our community. I look forward to joining some of you at the festival. Further details are provided in the Community Updates section below.

Can we kindly remind parents to provide the school at least 48 hours notice prior to any medical or dental appointments for their children. The admin team have begun to notice a trend of ‘last minute appointments’. This has meant that parents have arrived at school and requested to pick up their child straight away. For our admin team, they then have to leave their posts to manually collect the pupil, rather than having their classroom teacher already notified of the upcoming absence and sending the pupil down. Should you have a known absence for your child, can you please complete the following form via our website: https://avanti.org.uk/avantifields/absence-requests/

Advance Notice

The final INSET day for Avanti Fields will be on Friday 24th May. Please be reminded that the school will be closed for staff training.

Secondary Calendar

• Monday 15th – Friday 26th April: Year 11 GCSE Spanish Speaking Exams.
• Tuesday 23rd April: Year 10 Parent’s Consultation Evening (secondary school will finish at 12:45pm)
• Wednesday 24th April: Year 9 COP Debate: (9Earth/9Fire/9 Water)
• Thursday 25th April: UKMT Y7/Y8 Junior Maths Challenge
• Thursday 25th April: (Year 7 2024-25 class) Transition Evening

Primary Calendar

• Monday 22nd April: Earth Day dress up
• Monday 22nd April: Earth Day event
• Friday 26th April: Reception: Farm Trip

Earth day

Don’t forget it is Earth Day dress up on Monday 22^nd April. Pupils are encouraged to wear something green, blue, flowery or even a home-made costume that represents something about our beautiful world!

We are also very excited to be holding our afterschool Earth Day event on Monday 22^nd April at 3.00pm. All classes have been working on creating earth day stalls to raise money towards our school’s forest school project. At the beginning of the academic year the pupils helped to plant small saplings in the soon-to-be forest school area and yesterday we had a specialist design company come to visit the site to provide example forest school space designs!

Please come along to support the continued development of this space and help fundraise for this project!

RRSA Article of the Week

Article 24

Every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must provide good quality health care, clean water, nutritious food, and a clean environment and education on health and well-being so that children can stay healthy. Richer countries must help poorer countries achieve this.

We will be reflecting on World Water Day which was on the 22nd of March, and why children think the right to clean water is such an important right.

You may want to talk about possible reasons including:

• Our bodies are made up of over 60% water and we need clean water to keep them working properly and to stay alive.
• Pollution of our oceans, rivers and waterways can have a serious impact on all living things.
• Water is important to generate power in some places and it is a better for the environment than burning fossil fuels.

Here is an activity you can do at home. Each year World Water Day identifies a theme. Take a look at the World Water Day website to find out what this year’s theme is. Make a poster or display to promote it and decide on one action that you will take. Can you link the them to Articles 24 and 27?

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

Primary School Calendar

April

22^nd – Earth Day celebrations- dress up and afterschool fundraising event.

May

6^th – Bank Holiday

14^th / 16^th – Parents evening 3.00pm- 5.30pm

21st- Nursery Sports day 2.00pm- 3.00pm

22nd- Reception Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

23^rd – Year 1 Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

24^th – Staff Training day, school closed

27^th– 31^st – Half Term

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

Earth Day Event

Please see the invitation and registration links for Earth Day at Krishna Avanti and Avanti Fields. These are aimed at prospective families, as well as the existing AFS Primary students.

Earth Day is approaching, and we have two exciting events lined up in Leicester, especially for 3-4 year olds!

Bring your child for some fun and enriching activities. Meet the Avanti family, and experience life at our beautiful schools.

Register on Eventbrite to reserve your FREE space!

Earth Day Celebration at Krishna Avanti Primary School Leicester on 19th April:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/krishna-avanti-earth-day-celebration-2024-tickets-867502381977?aff=oddtdtcreator

Earth Day celebration at Avanti Fields School on 22nd April:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/avanti-fields-school-earth-day-celebration-2024-tickets-866630644587?aff=oddtdtcreator

Stress awareness month

Please refer below link for further information on stress awareness month.

Stress awareness month- Secondary Schools (for students)

MARS Balloon House Competition

Well done to the following pupils that are finalists in this competition, their experiment will be sent into space in June!

• Anay 9Aether
• Krish 9Aether
• Rudra 9Cosmos

Year 7 Avanti Quest Residential – PGL Swindon

We are getting excited for our Year 7 pupils to go on their Avanti Quest residential from Monday 29/04 to Friday 03/05. We held our parent briefing evening this week and both staff and pupils are excited for the adventures to come.

Talent Show

I want to say a massive thank you to Miss Olusanya for her organisation of the inaugural Talent Show! Miss Olusanya led a fantastic team of staff and student helpers to make the evening happen. It was fantastic to see the wide range of talents displayed by our secondary pupils; singing, dancing, poetry composition and reading, martial arts displays as well as a number of pupils who displayed their musical and theatrical abilities. It was truly an inspiring evening and was lovely to see our students shine. And although as principal I shouldn’t have favourites, I would like to put out a special shout out to Jai Ganesh, Heet and Gavinjit for their rap about the school.

“I’m up in DT, making stuff like Mr Maker, switch to food tech baking stuff like I’m a baker. Go up to Maths, I do equations on my calculator, if you ain’t tryna stack the paper then I’ll see you later. Finally break, then ima go get a snack. I like the fresh air, it gets the stress off my back, pull up my pants because I ain’t tryna sag, tuck in my shirt and look smart and attached.

Now let’s go to history, we’re learning about a mystery, it’s about Jack the ripper, how he put people out of their myseries, he was sick in the head, he didn’t feel no sympathy, he snuck into houses and hurt them with a brutal injury.

Yeah, we up in PE, yeah we’re gonna shoot some hoops. Slap my Jordans on, yeah you know we don’t were dupes. Feeling kinda hungry, can’t wait to eat some food, and we’re learning everything, football, rugby, tennis too.

Finally lunch, yeah imma go get a munch, feeling kinda hungry so imma go get a bunch. When you bite into the pastry, you always hear the crunch, and the food so tasty, knocks you out like a punch. Finish my food, heading straight to the MUGA, hang out with my mates ’cause you know we love each other. It’s as if we’re brothers from another mother and if one gets in trouble, you know we’ll always back each other.

Lunch is now over, I’m going straight to English, I don’t want to read the tempest, I’m just waiting for it to finish. I need to pattern up because I turned into a menace, I need to pass my GCSE to fly to Venice.

School is now over and it almost broke my shield, teachers are like therapists, they always get me healed. The teachers are the best and I’m saying that for real, and every day is the best day at Avanti Fields.”

Ramanavami Festival Celebration

Dear Parents,

You are invited to the Ramanavami celebration on Sunday 21st April. The event starts at 2:00pm with an hour long drama production starting at 4:00pm followed by a feast. This is being held at Avanti Fields school.

Please see the information below.

Pilgrimage to Ayodhya opportunity

‘Hare Krishna! Jai Sri Ram!

We’re are thrilled to announce that the next family-friendly spiritual pilgrimage (yatra) to India, for 2024 is confirmed!

After last year’s incredibly successful spiritual retreat in Rishikesh, Dev Prayag and Vrindavan, this year, the Jani family yatra will be going to Chitrakoot, PrayagRaj, Varanasi (Kashi Vishvanath) and finally end in Ayodhya for Diwali, to have darshan of beautiful Ram Lalla! We’ll bathe in Ganga, Yamuna, Saryu, Triveni Sangam and go on exciting Cable car and boat rides!

*We have senior monk, spiritual leader and scholar on the Mahabharata & Ramayana, HG Govind prabhu with us on this pilgrimage!*

📅 22nd Oct – 2nd Nov 2024!  – during the Oct half term holidays.

*Places are limited!

*Early bird prices end on April 1st! But a special concession is provided for Avanti staff and parents to extend the offer until April 15th! Don’t miss out!*

For more info or to sign up, please use the Google form link https://forms.gle/3Aj79vCeRRgeFpjK6

Contact 07872469754 or email [email protected] if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Jani Family’

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.