Principals Update A very warm welcome to the summer term! I hope you have all taken time for your hobbies and interests and connected with family and friends. I would like welcome back Miss K.P. Patel who is returning from her sabbatical and re-joining the secondary PRE team. We also have a number of [...]
Principals Update As we head towards the Easter holidays, I want to recognise what a busy half-term we have had. With only 4 weeks, it has felt like we’ve opened and closed the term at the same time, all while putting some amazing opportunities in place for our pupils. This week our Reception [...]
Principals Update 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 [...]
Principals Update Yesterday the entire school had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day! WBD is a growing event in our annual school calendar and we hope to see it become even bigger next year. Please read below more details of our WBD celebrations specific to primary and secondary. [...]
Principals Update Today is the 'National Offer Day' for incoming Year 7 pupils and their families. We want to take this opportunity to congratulate and welcome our incoming cohort to Avanti Fields School. Detailed information regarding our transition programme will be shared with all applicants on Monday 4th March. This week school staff [...]
Principals Update The Spring term is interesting this year because we have a 6-week block and then a 4-week block. I hope that everyone enjoys the week's break to catch up with family and friends (and hopefully we may get a bit of sunshine along the way). When we return, there will be [...]
Principals Update This week I would like to focus on school attendance, and more specifically, the impact of family holidays during term time. On Friday 24th November our attendance was 94%. In the three weeks leading up to Christmas, our whole school attendance dropped to 90%. Since our return, which has now been [...]
Principals Update This week I attended an AST leadership planning day to discuss the upcoming few terms, as there will be some changes at Trust level. It was reassuring to hear that school-based priorities and a number of core Trust improvement priorities will be unaffected. For summary, please see below the following timeline [...]
Principals Update We started our week by celebrating the Sri Rama Mandhir opening within the school. Our worship hall was open during break and lunch for students to visit and pray, take part in an arti ceremony, watch highlights and live streams from Ayodhya, as well as listen to and sing devotional songs. [...]
Principals Update This week we have held the first of our secondary parent evenings for Year 8 students and parents. For secondary parents, we use an online system to keep strictly to a 5 minute timing with each family to discuss the progress of their child. Next week we have our Y11 parent [...]
