This week (and next week for primary) I have had the pleasure to present Principal Commendations to our pupils as part of our rewards system. The newly introduced R4 can be awarded for the following reasons:

• Excellent commitment to the Avanti Way
• Significant contribution to the life of the school
• Exceptional representation of Avanti Fields at a co-curricular event (e.g. finals, county representation)
• Representation of Avanti Fields within the wider community
• Sustained and/or outstanding commitment to learning (e.g. placing/winning external competitions)
• Volunteering within the school or wider community

Please join me in congratulating the pupils below for their commendations!

As parents, I would encourage you to use the website contact form if your child has done something exceptional outside of school. We love to hear about it and want to recognise when our pupils have gone above and beyond.

Parent Survey Feedback

The final area where parent comments were common (3 responses referenced) is around recruitment/retention. From last academic year to this one, we retained all of our primary teachers, and only had 4 secondary teachers move to other school settings. With that in mind, we have made additional SLT appointments this year, some of which were internal, that we have not been able to permanently backfill. This has meant that a small number of secondary lessons are currently timetabled to long-term supply/contract teachers. We have provided these staff with comprehensive planning documents and also additional SLT support to ensure that teaching and learning remains a priority.

We will be running a second parent survey in the Summer 1 term and will be organising for parent town hall events in the new year. Please do look out for these opportunities to provide you feedback to the school.

PTFA Raffle has launched!

Ticket booklets for our big PTFA raffle have now been handed out. We are now encouraging parents to help their children with ticket sales. Should you be attending any events over the Christmas holidays, please have your child ask for additional ticket books to sell. This could be for family, friends, work colleagues, neighbours …

Additional prizes, such as £50 Amazon vouchers have also been added to the prize pool.

Secondary Calendar

• Tuesday 10th December: Christmas Carol trip (English / Drama)
• Thursday 12th December: Christmas Jumper Day
• Friday 13th December: Rise Awards presentation
• Friday 13th December: Last day of Autumn Term

Primary Calendar

• Tuesday 10th December: Pre- School: Parents Workshop (2:00pm – 2:45pm)
• Tuesday 10th December: Primary: Christmas Fayre (3:00pm – 5:00pm)
• Wednesday 11th December: Y2: Assembly
• Wednesday 11th December: Reception: Christmas Carol performance and Parent Workshop (1:00pm – 2:45pm)
• Thursday 12th December: Christmas Jumper Day
• Friday 13th December: Last day of Autumn Term

Leicester Family Hub Christmas Stay & Play timetable:

Early Help (Children’s Centre’s and Family Support) / Social Care and Early Help Division / Social Care and Education Department / Leicester City Council

Attendance celebration

This week Ms Thakore and Miss Savadia held our first Attendance Assembly of the year! We celebrated an incredible 76 children who have had 100% attendance for the entire Autumn Term and even celebrated our Reading Champions, who have been working so hard to ensure they read at-least 5 times a week! We are so proud of all of our superstars, and can’t wait to celebrate even more children next term!

Christmas Cards 

As we approach the festive season, we know many of you would like to send Christmas cards to each other.

As part of the Avanti Way, we want to uphold our core principle of:

Strengthening connection. In Strengthening connections, we believe all life is interconnected and therefore strive to care for and respect all life- human, animal and plant- living in a way that causes the least possible harm.

With the above in mind, we are asking all pupils who would like to send cards to their peers and teachers to send a single card addressed to the whole class, rather than individual ones. This may even be a home-made card! Teachers will share and display these cards in their classrooms wishing all pupils a Merry Christmas.

We want to thank you in advance for supporting in making our world a better place to live in.

Enterprise Week

As part of our school’s enterprise week (Wk bg. 2^nd December), all children will be participating in an enterprise challenge! Each year group will have a budget of £20.00 to buy resources to make and sell products at the Christmas fayre on the 10^th December, I do hope you will be able to come along to that fayre to explore the different stalls. All money raised at the Christmas fayre will support with school resources! May the best year group win!

Pre-school: This week pre-school have enjoyed decorating the Christmas trees in school and making chocolate moulds as part of our melting and freezing learning in science. What a fun week!

Reception: This week Reception have been making their own Sweet Houses, inspired by Hansel and Gretel. Can you have a go at drawing your own sweet house? Which shapes will you use? 

Year 1: This week Year One children have been busy baking treats for enterprise week. We are ready to sell our treats at the Christmas Fayre. Don’t forget to visit our stall.

Year 2: This week Year 2 have been channelling their inner Kandinsky! Exploring shapes, colours, and creativity—just like the master himself!

Stars of the week

All pupils who were a star of the week joined the ‘top table’ for lunch. A huge well done to: ……..

RRSA Article of the Week

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

Week 6 focus: Human Rights Day

Article’s you could explore which link to this topic: 4, 41

Article 4 (implementation of the Convention)

Governments must do all they can to make sure every child can enjoy their rights by creating systems and passing laws that promote and protect children’s rights.

Article 41 (respect for higher national standards)

If a country has laws and standards that go further than the present Convention, then the country must keep these laws.

This week, we spoke about how on the 10th December 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. This important moment in human history is now remembered on that date every year and is known as Human Rights Day.

All children have the same human rights as adults. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child sets out the additional rights that all children have until the age of 18.

Children’s rights are human rights so we can celebrate them alongside the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Here is an activity you can do at home:

What does it mean when we say that rights are universal, unconditional, inherent, indivisible and inalienable? UNICEF UK resource, ABCDE of Rights, might help. Pick one concept to create a poster for display, to share what this means to you as children and young people in your school community.

Primary School Calendar:

December

10^th– Pre-school Christmas parent/ carer workshop 2.00pm- 3.00pm

-Whole school Christmas Fayre 3.00pm- 4.00pm

11^th– Reception Christmas Carol performance and Christmas parent/ carer workshop 1.00pm- 2.45pm

• Year 2 learning assembly 15am

13^th– End of Term (Last day of school for children)

January

6^th– School open- pupils back to school

28^th/ 30^th – Parents evening 3.00pm- 5.30pm

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

Premier Education Christmas Holiday Camps at Avanti Fields

 Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE)

We are delighted to announce that from 1st December 2024, Avanti Fields School is an officially licensed centre of The Duke of Edinburgh’s award (DofE)! We listened to your feedback, which is that many parents/carers and students would like to do the DofE Award at our school, and from September onwards undertook the necessary steps to become a licensed centre. The DofE Award is an opportunity for young people to learn new skills, volunteer to enrich society, and go on an expedition that will test their outdoor camping skills! The Award is going to be launched to Year 9 students at the end of January – all information about enrolment, how the award works and equipment needed will be explained then.

Christmas Jumper Day

Students who wish to take part in Christmas Jumper Day need to bring £1 towards charity for save the children. Students who do not wish to take part needs to come in normal school uniform.

1. Students must wear school uniform on the bottom half, with a Christmas jumper on the top.
2. Students can wear a plain t-shirt underneath, but jumpers must be kept on around school.
3. Students do not need to wear their school blazers.
4. They can accessorise with Xmas accessories.
5. If students are wearing anything else that does not comply with the rules, will be issued a C2 by their form tutors

Lost property display

We  have arranged lost property display on Monday 9th December between 3:30pm to 4:00pm outside of Reception area. Students are welcome to claim their lost properties from the display. Any left over properties will stay with school in designated lost and found room until Friday 13th December, rest unclaimed lost properties will be donated to charities.

Exciting News from the Drama Department!

Homework help

Discover Bhagavad Gita

The College of Vedic Studies, who do courses at Avanti Fields school, will be hosting its flagship course in January, Discover Bhagavad Gita. In just two hours a week for four weeks you can learn the main principles and lessons from this famous book, and in doing so keep up with what your children have been learning at school!  This is the most popular Bhagavad Gita course in the whole of Leicester and has been attended by hundreds over the last few years.

Please see the details and link below to find out more and sign up. If you have any questions feel free to send us a message on 07845812255.

Discover Bhagavad Gita

Thursdays, starting 16th of January

4 weeks, each session 2 hours. Each session recorded in case you miss any.

Location: Avanti Fields school

https://www.covsleicester.co.uk/bhagavad-gita-course

Maths Tuition

To register interest, please complete the form on this link:-

https://forms.gle/rLAHcx1euPr7gkuC7

Benefits of Maths Tuition:

• Experienced GCSE & A-Level Maths Teacher
• Build your child’s confidence
• Learn in a small group environment
• Tailored learning specific to students at Avanti (working with the Maths department)
• Provides instant feedback
• Classes held at Avanti Fields School

Classes starting in January 2025.

Community Activities @ Avanti Field

Community Activities @ Avanti Fields

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

 We are excited to  introduce New Circuit Training Class

Suitable for all abilities

Ladies & Men welcome

Starts Monday 9th December @ 7.15 pm

To register for a trial class in December for only £1 email [email protected]

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.

PTFA AGM meeting Notice

In order for the PTFA to continue and flourish, we are in need of a much bigger team that represents all year
groups in the school, including the Primary phase.

You are all invited to the PTFA AGM to be held at the school on Sunday 19th January 2025 at 3pm.

please see link below for any further information.

PTFA AGM Letter 2025 Notice

Please get in touch with us at [email protected].

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.