Rt. Hon Damian Hinds served as Secretary of State for Education from 8 January 2018 to 24 July 2019. He was elected Conservative MP for East Hampshire in May 2010. Avanti House Secondary school, located in Stanmore moved into its permanent building after years of temporary accommodation. The school was fortunate to have the [...]
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Message from the Hub Board Chair (Dr Molly Warrington) Welcome to the first of what we propose will be regular newsletters. The Hub Board has now held two formal meetings (one at Avanti Gardens and one at Avanti Hall) and you should soon be able to find the minutes of these meetings on each school’s [...]
The planning application for the permanent site for Avanti Fields School will be submitted by the contractor (BAM Construct UK) in the next few weeks – please note that the application has to be submitted by the builders (BAM construct UK) and not by Avanti Schools Trust. Trustees are confident that the application will be [...]
Dear pupils, parents/carers and staff, The Trustees and Senior Leadership team of the Avanti Schools Trust are delighted to welcome the students, parents and school staff from the south-west Steiner schools at Bristol, Exeter and Frome into the Avanti family of schools. You will all know that Avanti currently runs secondary and primary schools in [...]
As we get closer to the date of transfer we feel it would be helpful to set clarify how we anticipate the schools will operate during the spring and summer terms of 2020 and how we intend to undertake the promised curriculum review. Post transfer and pre-curriculum review New names for each school When the [...]
The AST Board of Trustees, subject to formal agreement with the Department for Education, has agreed to become the ‘incoming trust’ for the three SW Steiner Academies (Bristol, Frome and Exeter). The Chair of the AST Board, Professor Mike Younger, states: ‘I am pleased to report that the AST Board has decided to progress ahead [...]
Avanti Schools Trust and Hertfordshire County Council Hertfordshire County Council has announced that Avanti Schools Trust has been chosen to run the new non-faith primary schools and secondary school in Bishops Stortford. Avanti Schools Trust (AST) is delighted to have been selected as the Multi-Academy Trust that, in partnership with Hertfordshire County Council, will maintain [...]
The Secretary of State for Education has approved Avanti Schools Trust (AST) as the sponsor in principle for three all-through academies in the SW region (Bristol, Frome and Exeter). The Department for Education (DfE) has asked AST to undertake a listening period before the end of the current academic year to allow parents and staff [...]
From the moment we walked through the door on our first day at Avanti House Primary School we were immediately greeted with a smile by one of our mentors. We were made to feel welcome by all members of staff and the children as we were taken on a tour around the school. For the [...]
