This morning I had the pleasure of working with our incoming Head Boy and Head Girl to hear their plans for how they will lead the student body for next year. Not to give anything away, as they are keen to lead the launch in August, but it is exciting to hear how inclusive they are in their plans. They truly embody our vision to inspire spiritually compassionate changemakers.

Yesterday I had the privilege of being in the audience when Mr Arnell, Principal of Avanti House Secondary School, announced that they have been shortlisted for the World’s Best School prize in the category of ‘supporting healthy lives’. You can watch his announcement video here. Please join me in sharing your support for Avanti House by voting here.

Next week, we are excited that some of our Year 9 students will be heading to Plas Gwynant in Wales for a Geography residential. Thank you in advance to Mr Clarke for your commitment to running this opportunity. Where appropriate, we will try to update our social media to share throughout the week, but this will dependent on the service connection.

Secondary Calendar

• Tuesday 7th May – 26th June GCSE Exams
• Monday 17th June – Friday 28th June: Year 7 & 8 GL English & Maths Progress Tests
• Monday 17th June – Friday 21st June: Year 9 Plas Gwynant Trip
• Thursday 20th June: Y10 DT trip: DMU exhibition
• Friday 21st June: Year 11 Prom (7:00pm – 11:00pm)

Primary Calendar

• Tuesday 18th June: Reception Induction (5:00pm – 6:00pm)
• Thursday 27th June: Reception parent/ carer workshop (1.30pm – 2.45pm)
• Thursday 27th June: Pre-school Induction (5:00pm – 6:00pm)

Pre-school Graduation Ceremony 

As mentioned in the Primary Calendar, we will be holding a Graduation Ceremony for our Pre-school children who will be moving to Reception next year. The Graduation Ceremony will take place on Thursday 4th July 2024, 5pm-6pm at Avanti Fields School.

Children will need to be dropped off to their class at 4.45pm via the normal entry gates and parents will need to sign in at the office.

Please ensure your child comes dressed in their school uniform for the ceremony.

We kindly request that a maximum of 3 people per family attend the event.

We look forward to celebrating with you all!

RRSA Article of the Week: Article 31

Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.

We will be focusing on Sports Day and how we felt, taking part in a special whole-school event. You may want to ask your child about their favourite sport, or their favourite activity during Sports Day. Was it the egg and spoon race, or relay race? Did they enjoy the parent races? What is their favourite memory.

Here is an activity you can do at home.

How do you like to spend your free time? Think about what your ideal weekend would be like. Where would you go? What would you do? What activities would you participate in? What rights would you enjoy? Create a comic strip showing your dream weekend and share it with your class.

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

Primary School Calendar

June

27th- Reception parent/ carer workshop 1.30pm- 2.45pm

-End of Year reports

July

4th- Pre-school Graduation 5.00pm- 6.00pm

17th- End of 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

Summer Holiday Camps

At Premier, our Holiday Camps are designed to help your children get active, introduce them to new and exciting activities, and create a fun-filled experience they will remember forever.

We have so many different opportunities.

• Our amazing HAF offer (holiday and food camps)
• Our brilliant school funded holiday camps
• Our fantastic parent funded holiday camps

Throughout the summer we have many different holiday camps running throughout Leicester Please see links below for further information.

Abbey Mead Primary Summer HAF Letter For Parents

Falcons Primary Summer HAF Letter For Parents

Parks Primary Summer HAF Letter For Parents

Summer Multi Venue (003)

Summer Multi Venue

The City Of Leicester College Summer HAF Letter For Parents

Summer Term Parent / Carer webinar Information

We would like to invite you to attend a webinar series specifically tailored to parents and carers of adolescents. In collaboration with the Schools and Colleges Early Support Service, we have organised:

Understanding the adolescent brain webinar on Wednesday 12th June

Anxiety in adolescence: how can parents and carers help webinar on Wednesday 17th June

Managing teen behaviour that challenges webinar on Wednesday 19th June

Weathering the storms of strong teen emotions webinar on Monday 24th June

Supporting young people who experience panic webinar on Wednesday 26th June

Transitioning to secondary school webinar on Tuesday 2nd July

How to support your young person with low mood webinar on Thursday 4th July

Supporting your young person with anxiety before they get their exam results webinar on Monday 8th July

Please see link below for further information on Summer Term Parents/Carers Webinar.

Summer-Term-Parent-and-Carer-Webinar-Information

National Scientific Thinking Challenge

This year 120 year 10 pupils participated in this digital national challenge. All students receive a certificate for entering. The students in the top 10%, 25% or 40% of entries are awarded gold, silver and bronze, respectively. Well, done to all pupils! Certificates will be handed out in science lessons and the following in assembly:

Gold: Dhiaan N, Anshh D, Meisha P, Prarthana S

Silver: Jai P, Vedant M, Vibhish S, Maya P, Didhiti P, Rudra K, Ria M, Shayan P, Pranav S, Saachi R, Vansh P, Anaiya D, Serena V, Harvin S.

Bronze: Diljot K Mann, Kyana P, Greemy H, Tithi P, Heer S, Vir P, Shivani K, Krishi J, Diya K P, Anjali G, Jiya B, Akshar R, Kayan M, Jush B

Lost Property Display

We  have arranged lost property display on Monday 17th June between 3:30 to 4:00pm outside of Reception area. Students are welcome to claim their lost properties form the display. Any left over properties will stay with school in designated lost and Found room (in Admin office) until Friday 21st June, After that any left over lost properties will be donated to charities.

Holocaust Centre Trip – Year 9

This is polite a reminder that the Holocaust centre trip will be taking place on the 26^th June 2024 . Can all parents ensure that the payments have been made for this by the start of next half term. A reminder letter has been handed out. If there are any issues with this please contact Mr. Fairclough  [email protected]

Avanti Fields Art Department Exhibition: Summer 2024

Welcome to our first Avanti Fields online Art Exhibition. Over the final weeks of the Summer Term the Parent bulletins will feature an Exhibition of our student’s Art work. Each week we will showcase work from a different year group. We are proud to begin our series of online exhibitions with the work of our Yr11 GCSE students. This exhibition features at least 2 pieces of work from each Yr11 GCSE student. Over 2 years our GCSE Students produce at least one coursework unit, culminating in a final piece on the theme of Our World or Journeys. You will also see work from their Exam projects. Students begin their Exam for Art in January by responding to a theme given to them in the Art Exam paper. Over the following 10 weeks the students will produce a sketchbook of work culminating in a final piece produced over a 10 hour period around Easter time. The results of which can be seen here. The exam themes this year included Space, Gardens, Shopping and Celebrity. You might like to guess which pieces relate to which theme and what inspired the artists? The diversity of our student’s work can be seen in their personalised responses to given themes, the range of media used and the range of ability of the students. We are proud to enter the work of all our GCSE students for the exhibition and celebrate the diversity of outcome, experience and ability. Well done to all our Art students for their efforts. We hope you enjoy viewing the work.

Coming next week …. A selection of Yr10 Artwork from their ‘Our World’ project.

Every week we will upload exciting Art works from our Year 11 GCSE  students keep checking.

Thank you

Mrs Winter, Mrs Marshall, Mrs Walshe, Mr Westwood and the Art Students of Avanti Fields.

Community Activities @ Avanti Field

We have some exciting new classes starting in June – 

Circuit Training with Faye Alexander, Monday’s from 24th June- Absolute beginners 6pm – 6.45pm. Advanced 6.45pm – 7.30pm. 1st class Free

‘Children’s Garba’ (5-15yrs) From Sun 2^nd June. 1^st Class only £1

‘Fitness Class’ Adults From Wed 5^th Jun, 1^st Class FREE

‘Unity Flow Yoga’ Sat 10am – 11am From 8^th June,  1st Class FREE

‘Unity Strong Yoga’ Mon 6.30-7.30pm From 10^th  June,  1st Class FREE

Most existing classes are either Free or £1 for your first trial class.

We are investing to bring you these opportunities, the feedback we have had from participants has been amazing not just from a physical and mental health point of view but also from the increased social interaction it has brought,  please consider giving them a try, you have nothing to lose!

To register for any of the classes please email [email protected]. Limited spaces available on all classes.

*** Unique ‘Parkour Ninja’ Class coming soon’***

Details on flyer, we are taking registration/interest for this class currently that will run on Sunday’s. We anticipate these sessions to get full very quickly so if your child is interested please register early!

For further information on activities and register an interest in upcoming classes please contact [email protected].’

Summer Mela 

‘PTFA are organising a Summer Mela on the 23^rd June, it is a free event with lots of activities and will be held outside this year (weather permitting), Hot Potato Food Truck will also be there to provide tasty food for you to buy, please Save the date. If you are interested in a stall at the Mela or want to help the PTFA on the day please email [email protected].

The PTFA are proud to announce a production of Poetry, music and comedy. The performers are from India and first time in the UK after successful shows in the USA. Part of ticket sales will go to the school. Prices are from £7.50. 26^th July. 8pm. Doors open at 7.00pm.  A show not to be missed!

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.