Principals Update This morning I had the immense pleasure of sitting in the Year 8 assembly around Diversity. The assembly was led by Form Captains from each house within the year group, and 11 brave year 8 pupils presented to their year group of 186 pupils. Each form group collected information about the [...]
Principals Update This week we started some of our transition events for both incoming Reception and Year 7 pupils, kicked off by our Primary Earth Day event on Monday afternoon. The second transition event is this evening for incoming Year 7 pupils. They and their families will get to try on sample uniforms [...]
Principals Update 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 [...]
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 [...]
