Yesterday we celebrated the final festival of the year – Ratha Yatra. We had the pleasure of welcoming the CEO Designate, James Biddulph, to our school for the festivities, and he was treated to our special lunch menu and also enjoyed watching the lunchtime garba and taking part in the chariot festival with our Year 7 pupils.

Following our festival day event, we then celebrated our Pre-school graduates. It was a lovely afternoon where the children sang two songs, were presented with their graduation certificates, and provided a final time for parents, teachers and children to come together.

Earlier in the week, on Wednesday, we welcomed our incoming Year 7 pupils to school for their transition day. I had an opportunity to welcome their parents at the end of the day. As part of the welcome, we shared a detailed letter of a few updates to our procedures for next year. I would like to thank Mrs Kurth and Mrs Trivedi for their organisation of the event and ensuring that all of our visiting students had a fantastic experience.

Next week, we will be sending all of our current parents (and our new incoming parents) a letter with information to prepare them for the new year, as well as confirming the key dates for next academic year. Please do take the time to read through it, as it details a number of operational changes, including updates to our behaviour policy.

With only 8 school days remaining, we have it packed with enrichment and reward experiences for all of our leaners. Please do read the calendar updates of the bulletin to see what we have planned.

Secondary Calendar

• Tuesday 9th July – Friday 12th July: Athena STEM residential 2024 for Girls (Science)
• Wednesday 10th July: HPV,MMR and Meningitis vaccinations : Y8 – Y10
• Thursday 11th July: Y10 CPR training
• Friday 12th July: Y7 afternoon movie
• Friday 12th July: Y8 morning movie
• Monday 15th July: Sports Ambassadors 12h charity event
• Monday 15th July: Y9 STEM DAY (Aircraft workshop) – selected students
• Monday 15th July: KS3 Retirement Home visit
• Tuesday 16th July : Winning House celebration day
• Tuesday 16th July : KS3 Silent Disco
• Wednesday 17th July: End of summer term (pupils dismissed at regular time of 2:45pm)

Primary Calendar

• Tuesday 9th July: Primary Parent attendance assembly ( 10:00am – 10:30am)
• Thursday 11th & Friday 12th July: Primary PE enrichment days
• Tuesday 16th July: Class Parties

Summer Reading Challenge – Leicester Libraries

Summer Reading Challenge 2024

Dear all,

Marvellous Makers is this year’s summer reading challenge with Leicester libraries.

The challenge encourages children to use their local library and maintain their reading habit through the long summer break and aims to mitigate the dip in performance associated with a long break from reading, that many children experience in the new school year.

Starting Saturday 29 June until the 15 September, children aged 0 to 15 years can sign up to take part and complete the six-book challenge.  A prize of £100 of books will be awarded to the Leicester school with the highest percentage of children finishing the challenge (numbers recorded by Leicester libraries staff).

 In Leicester, we also have a challenge for adults to promote good role modelling.  Adults, you can participate by reading six books for a chance to win £30 worth of books!

Leicester libraries’ offer is enhanced with a range of free activities for the whole family, all designed to promote reading for pleasure and the joy of sharing books and stories.

To support schools, there is a short film and assembly presentation to use to encourage your pupils to take part in the challenge.

For further information about our full programme of activities please visit leicester.gov.uk/summerreadingchallenge.

We hope you will join us in encouraging your children to keep reading this summer.

Leicester Libraries

Pre-school Gradutation

It has been an exciting but emotional week this week as we got ready to say goodbye to some of our Pre-school children. This week they attended their Graduation event, and it was an opportunity to celebrate their wonderful achievements. We wish all Pre-school children all the best and hope they continue to thrive in their new Reception classes!

Autumn 2024-25 Primary clubs

The form to register your interest in afterschool and breakfast club for the new academic year closes on the 7th July, please complete if you still wish for your child to attend any clubs.

Please click on the links below to register your interest in the clubs. Please ensure that you click the correct class name for your child’s NEW class 24-25. For example, if your child is currently in Reception please click on the new Year 1 class in which they will begin in August.

Please note: Pre-school pupils are only eligible to apply for breakfast club.

Afterschool club form (school- led clubs and external Mrdanga club):

https://forms.gle/qCFd7NpwT2peuLnv7

Please note: There are a maximum of 12 places for Mrdanga club. Once you have booked you will be contacted for payment this will be directly from the club company. This is at a charge of £50.00 for the term.

Afterschool club (external providers):

Tuesday Dodgeball –

https://www.premier-education.com/parents/venue/courses/28190-887454/

Wednesday Gymnastics –

https://www.premier-education.com/parents/venue/courses/28190-887458/

Breakfast club form:

https://forms.gle/LYhuANsFuuCXovAZA

We will contact all parents and carers the Wk beginning 8th July to confirm if your child has secured a place for any school-led/ Mrdanga clubs.

IMPORTANT: If your child secures a place at a club, you will be expected to make payments within the first two weeks of the term. We will send you correspondence on how to make payment in the new academic year. Failure to pay could mean your child losing their place.

Please click on the link below to access Primary charges:

https://avanti.org.uk/avantifields/parent-handbook/

End of term events

11th/ 12th July

Primary enrichment days- We have booked in specialist coaches over the two days for pupils to learn specific sporting skills such as Archery. Please ensure your child comes to school wearing P.E kit for both of these days.

16th July

Class parties- each class will have their own party in the afternoon. If you would like to contribute any food/ drinks towards this event, please ensure it is ethos friendly and is packaged so that we can check for ingredients and allergies. Please bring all contributions on that day of the party.

RRSA Article of the Week: Article 22

If a child is seeking refuge or has refugee status, governments must provide them with appropriate protection and assistance to help them enjoy all the rights in the Convention. Governments must help refugee children who are separated from their parents to be reunited with them.

The focus surrounding this Article is World Refugee Day. World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. It falls each year on June 20 and celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution. Children will learn about possible events that might lead to children and their families becoming refugees such as natural disasters, family disputes or problems, changes in weather and droughts/famine which leads to a lack of food and water.

Here is an activity you can do at home. Watch this video explaining what a refugee is. Can you create your own film or a simple PowerPoint presentation to help other children in your school understand what it means to be refugee?

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

Primary School Calendar

July

11th/12th- PE enrichment events

16th- Class parties

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

NHS – Healthy Together

Please see link below for NHS – Healthy Together news letter for further information.

Healthy Together Newsletter- Primary Schools (Leicester City)- Edition Five

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:

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

Sports Awards Winners

We held our third annual sports awards evening and are pleased to share the winners from each category:

Endeavour KS3 – Pia M
Outstanding Performance KS3 – Diya P
Most improved performance KS3 – Rishi G
Sportsmanship KS3 – Sarenna S

Endeavour KS4 – Leandro P
Outstanding Performance KS4 – Shayan P
Most improved performance KS4 – Harvin S
Sportsmanship KS4 – Dhvanee V

Managers’ Players:

Year 7/8 Netball – Keah P
Year 9 Netball – Sia R-T
Year 7/8 Girls Football – Keya B
Year 9/10 Girls Football – Sia N
Year 8/9 Girls Futsal – Leah D
KS4 Girls Futsal – Divya C
Girls Indoor Cricket – Nirali M
Year 7/8 Football – Dilan C
Year 9 Football – Neel P
Year 10 football – Omid A
Year 11 Football – Krit S
Year 9 Cricket – Shiv R
Year 9 Futsal – Anay P
Year 10 Cricket – Yuvraj S
KS4 Futsal – Harvin S
Year 7 Girls Futsal – Heer J
KS3 Boys Badminton – Upananda D
KS4 Boys Badminton – Jayal M
KS4 Girls Badminton – Vaibhavi P
Year 8 Indoor Cricket – Sahil M
KS4 Basketball – Rares C

Special Awards:

Leadership & Volunteering – Anshh D
Coaching & Education – Prarthana S and Krit S
Best Sports Ambassador – Rianna D and Anaiya D
Sportsman of the Year – Yuvraj N
Sportswoman of the Year – Priyanshi P

The Avanti Award – Anaiya D

 Year 10: Sports Ambassadors Sports Charity Event

The Year 10 Sports Ambassadors are going to be taking part in a sponsored 12 hours of sport charity event. This will involve them coming into school on Monday 15^th July from 7am-7pm and taking part in various sports for 12 hours where there will be someone doing sport at all times. The sports ambassadors have decided to raise money for Macmillan Cancer charity and have set themselves an initial target of £500 which they hope to exceed. Please donate generously using the following link:

https://www.justgiving.com/page/vershika-kotecha-1719844115983?utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=page%2Fvershika-kotecha-1719844115983&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=pfp-share

AFS INSIDER

Avanti Fields school is proud to present its very own Monthly Student Newspaper. The newspaper will be launched in the new academic year and promises to have some very exciting columns. It will engage  students and  encourage their creativity, improve general knowledge, journalist skills and reading. As well as help build self-confidence, independence, responsibility and commitment. The project will be headed by Miss T – SEND department  and Ms Rampersad from the Admin Office. The newspaper will be managed by selected students and the news per the student’s interest. Some of the columns will include, sport, hobbies, interviews, competitions, international and local news and columns promoting equality and diversity.  An application form will be printed and available in the admin office for interested students to complete from 24/06/24. The closing date for this is 12/07/2024.

1. The following are the  pre-requisites:
2. Commitment for the whole academic year
3. Sometimes  to stay in afterschool (twice a month)
4. Parental Consent

We look forward to our first edition of AFS INSIDER and your child’s participation.

 Library Updates

Library will be closed Monday 15^th – Wednesday 17^th to allow stock take and reset for next year.

 HPV, MMR & Meningitis Vaccination

‘ There would be a mop up session for administering HPV, 3 in 1 teenage booster + Meningitis ACWY and MMR vaccination on  Wednesday 10^th July , for year 8 to year 11 pupils who were consented and have missed their vaccine doses in the previous session. ‘

 GCSE Art work Collection

Ex Yr11 2022/23 Art Students

If you have a student who was in Mrs Winter’s Art GCSE class last year please remind them that we have 3 afternoons when they can collect their GCSE Art work from Mrs Walshe in reception. All students have received an e mail with details of this. The dates are as follows … please e mail [email protected] for further questions or queries regarding the collection of work.

Wed 10th July 3-4pm

Mon 15th July 3-4pm

Wed 17th July 3-4pm

Many thanks, Mrs Winter

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.

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.

Y 10 GCSE Avanti Fields Summer Art Exhibition

This week we are proud to share with you a selection of work from our Yr10 GCSE Artists who are currently working on their Our World projects, taking inspiration from the natural environment. Alongside this we are showcasing work from our Yr11 artists each week until the end of term. These pieces focus on various themes from their GCSE coursework and Exam including Gardens, Shopping and Space.

We hope you enjoy,

Avanti Fields Art Department.

Year 9 Art Students Summer Exhibition

The following artworks are a selection of student work from Yr9 artists at Avanti Fields this year. Yr9 students have studied the work of local artist Tim Fowler when responding to local architecture as well as creating ceramics in the style of artist Lucy McLauchlan and taking inspiration from more traditional artists such as Georgia O’Keefe when learning about colour and abstraction. Their final project of the year is all about Heroes, where our students are encouraged to personalise their learning about Portraiture by drawing their own Hero. We hope you enjoy.

Year 8 Art Students Summer Exhibition 

After school Ceramic/ Pottery club Artifacts

Science Tutoring Starting in September

Reshma’s Academy, an external provider of tutoring, is going to start Science Tutoring in September for all Secondary years. There is an offer to all those that sign up by the end of July of only £15p/h. To register your interest or find out more information please complete the form on this link.

https://forms.gle/P38Jc2qkepFFKxQV8

Community Activities @ Avanti Field

We have a number of classes for the community to participate in on evening and weekends.

Most exsisting 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 aspect with lots of new friendships being made,  please consider giving them a try, you have nothing to lose!

To register or find out more information for any of the classes please complete the form on this link:-

https://krishnaavantips.wufoo.com/forms/z1nqh0i70d8s885/

Limited spaces available on all classes.

For further information on activities please contact [email protected].’

PTFA  Summer Newsletter

Please see link below for PTFA final Summer News letter for further information about activities took place and exciting upcoming Events.

FINAL PTFA SUMMER 2024 NEWSLETTER

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.