On Wednesday I had the pleasure of delivering an All 果冻传媒 Australia assembly to our two Reception classes, Buttercup and Daisy. The assembly links in with the Understanding the World early learning goal and it was lovely to be back in the classroom with young people again.

Members from our School Stakeholder Committee (SSC) we are looking to form a Business Collaboration Committee with the aim of developing closer links between businesses and the school.

We would welcome your thoughts to add to the list of benefits this could bring and objectives we can achieve:

• Work Experience Opportunities
• Guest Speakers for Careers Events
• Participation in careers events
• Donations &听Sponsorship – Awards, Hardship Fund, Breakfast Club, Youth Club, 听Sports teams, Sports Club (please add more you can think of)
• Hiring of our facilities for Events & Meetings

If you would like to join the committee please let us know, we want a committee that not only represents stakeholders of the school but also external members that can help us achieve our objectives. Please complete this expression of interest form:听

Advance Notice

The final INSET day for Avanti Fields will be on Friday 24th May. Please be reminded that the school will be closed for staff training.

Secondary Calendar

• Tuesday 7th May – 26th June GCSE Exams
• Wednesday 22nd May: Final Y11 assembly
• Friday 24th May: INSET day (school will be closed for students)
• Monday 27th May – Friday 31st May: Half term (School will be closed)

Primary Calendar

• Tuesday 21st May: Pre-school: Sports Day
• Wednesday 22nd May: Reception: Sports Day
• Thursday 23rd May: Year 1 : Sports Day
• Friday 24th May: INSET day (school will be closed for students)
• Monday 27th May – 31st May: Half term (School will be closed)

National Thank A Teacher Day

National Thank a Teacher Day is fast approaching on Wednesday 19th June!

As always, we will be celebrating all the amazing teaching and support staff in our schools – from the lunch supervisors to the classroom assistants and librarians. They deserve the spotlight for everything they do to keep the school running smoothly.

Why not show your appreciation via our Thank A Teacher form. We will share your kind words with staff on the day:听

Alternatively, you could send them a free personalised limited edition e-card. Simply visit the Thank a Teacher UK to send one for free.

Sports day

A reminder to all parents that next week pupils will have their class sport day events. Please ensure your child comes to school in their P.E uniform for that day.

Please sign in at the school office 5 minutes prior to your child鈥檚 sports day event to come and join in the fun!

21^st May- Nursery Sports day 2.00pm- 3.00pm

22^nd May- Reception Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

23^rd May鈥� Year 1 Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

Visit to the temple

Year 1听 visited the ISKON temple over two weeks to learn more about Hinduism and a way of life. What a fun day they had!

RRSA Article of the Week: Article 24

Every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must provide good quality health care, clean water, nutritious food, and a clean environment and education on health and well-being so that children can stay healthy. Richer countries must help poorer countries achieve this.

The focus surrounding this Article is Mental Health Awareness Week, which occurs every year in May. It is an ideal time for us all to think about mental health, tackle stigma, and discuss how we can create school environments that protect our mental wellbeing. I will specifically be focusing on the core principle 鈥� we are incredible human beings- and how we can nurture all parts of ourselves to live our greater purpose.

You may want to talk about how we look after our physical, social, emotional and intellectual wellbeing e.g. by partaking in hobbies, spending time with our friends, doing things with our family etc.

Here is an activity you can do at home. Watch this video then make a poster to give people ideas of who they could talk to if they are feeling worried. Link this to Articles 12 and 24.

Primary School Calendar

May

21st- Nursery Sports day 2.00pm- 3.00pm

22nd- Reception Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

23^rd 鈥� Year 1 Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

24^th – Staff Training day, school closed

27^th– 31^st – Half Term

June

27^th– Reception parent/ carer workshop 1.30pm- 2.45pm

-End of Year reports

July

4^th– Nursery Graduation 5.00pm- 6.00pm

17^th– End of Term

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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 鈥� Avanti Fields School

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Mental Health Awareness Week

Mental Health Awareness Week has started this Monday, the 13^th and is taking place till 19^th May 2024. The theme is Movement: Moving more for our mental health.

• Regular physical activity can make us happier and healthier.
• When we鈥檙e active, our bodies release feel-good hormones, which can reduce anxiety鈥痑nd stress and help us sleep better.
• By building movement into our working day, we can positively impact鈥痯roductivity and focus.

Please see 鈥淓mpower half hour 鈥減oster with suggested activities attached and听鈥�10 keys to happier living鈥� with some simple great tips for improving your mental health.

Additionally, to celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week 2024, MHFA England has been launching a new podcast, 鈥極ff the Top of Your Head鈥� during this week.

• their Chief Executive, Simon Blake has been having conversations about wellbeing and mental health in the workplace and beyond.
• Across the week, they will be broadcasting a series of podcasts about the importance of movement for our mental health giving up practical tips
• Guests including Gem Tylor, Disabled Content Creator, Dr. Julia Jones, Neuroscientist and author, and Michael Gunning, Professional athlete and Stonewell Ambassador
• Tune in from Friday 10 May on Spotify, iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts for expert insights on enhancing mental health through movement.听For more information, please see the link:

MHFA England have been uploading new episode to their website, which you can access for free. Keep an eye out for new episodes by checking the link below

Summer Term Parent / Carer webinar Information

Please see link below for further information on Summer Term Parents/Carers Webinar.

Brigade Uniforms

Date:听听听听 Saturday 1^st June 鈥� Midnight Monday 3^rd June

Offer:听听听 15% Discount on all orders

Code:听听听 FINAL24

For further information please see link below:

Parents Direct Ordering Web 2024

鈥楥ommunity Activities @ Avanti Fields

We are continuing to increase and replace our Community Activities at the school and have some exciting classes starting soon. Many are free or 拢1 for your first class. To find out more, register for an existing class or register an interest in upcoming classes please email community.afl@avanti.org.uk.鈥�

PTFA Community Garden

As you know, the PTFA secured more than 拢27,000 of external funding from Severn Trent to create a dedicated community garden space at the school that can be enjoyed by all – pupils, families, staff and local communities too.听 It’s a haven not just for wildlife, but a space where people of all walks of life and gather and enjoy our natural environment.

But the work doesn’t stop at the awarded cash.听 We now need to make our community garden looking as beautiful and populated as possible.

And that’s where we need your help!

We’re inviting anyone and everyone to join us for a special session on Sunday 19th May at 10am till 1pm – and help us plant our produce, flowers and herbs.

We want to get it all spruced up and make it a fun and energetic morning for all ages and of all abilities.

Please do join us at this exciting event – we’ll even provide some delicious light refreshments for all volunteers on the day. And don’t forget to tell your family and friends too – all are welcome!

Let’s grow together!’

Summer Mela听

鈥楶TFA are organising a Summer Mela on the 23^rd June, it is a free event with lots of activities and will be held outside this year (weather permitting), Hot Potato Food Truck will also be there to provide tasty food for you to buy, please Save the date. If you are interested in a stall at the Mela or want to help the PTFA on the day please email avantifieldsptfa@gmail.com.

Communications 鈥� Wherever possible please use the contact form on our website to get in touch. This is detailed on the website at /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)听

Email: attendance.afl@avanti.org.uk
Phone: 0116 326 6813 (Option 1 to leave a voicemail)听

Please remember to state your child鈥檚 full name, tutor group and reason for absence. If your child is unwell, please could you give a brief description of the symptoms.听

All education research highlights how crucial it is to a child鈥檚 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.听听听

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.听听听

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.听

Yesterday we wished all of our Year 11 students the best of luck in their upcoming GCSE examinations. They opened the exam series with a Religious Studies on Thursday morning. Mr Gajjar and Mrs Kholia shared the below prayer with our pupils to wish them every success in the next few weeks:
鈥楳y dear Lord Krishna (or a name of God relevant to you) I pray to You that as I enter the exam, that You will fill my heart with perfect peace that only comes from You. Please also give me clarity of thought, and prompt my mind to remember all the things that I have studied. Give me the wisdom and the ability to transfer my thoughts to paper. I express my gratitude to all my teachers and to my parents who have supported me on this journey. Now I will focus on completing my exams as a loving offering unto You.鈥�

I want to take this opportunity to thank Mrs Skegro for her support of the PRE department since October. Today will be her last day on site, but she will continue working with the team remotely one day a week for the remainder of the academic year. I have had the pleasure of seeing the PRE team flourish under Mrs Skegro’s guidance and know that her impact will have a lasting impact on Avanti Fields pupils.

And it has been wonderful seeing the primary team continue to enrich the curriculum for our youngest learners. On Wednesday our Year 1 pupils attended a sea life trip and on Friday next week, the second Year 1 class will have an opportunity to visit the temple. It is through these experiences that we bring their learning to life!

Advance Notice

The final INSET day for Avanti Fields will be on Friday 24th May. Please be reminded that the school will be closed for staff training.

Secondary Calendar

• Tuesday 7th May – 26th June: GCSE Exams
• Tuesday 14th May: Y10 Career Speed Networking

Primary Calendar

• Monday 13th May: Y1 CLS workshop
• Tuesday 14th May : Parents Evening (3:00 -5:30Pm)
• Thursday 16th May: Parents Evening (3:00 – 5:30pm)
• Friday 17th May: Y1 Bluebell trip to the temple

Sea Life Centre

Year 1鈥檚 went on an amazing trip to the sea life centre as part of their topic. It was a great day, full of great facts!

RRSA Article of the Week: Article 6 and Article 24

Every child has the right to life. Governments must do all they can to ensure that children survive and develop to their full potential.

Article 24 (health and health services) – Every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must provide good quality health care, clean water, nutritious food, and a clean environment and education on health and well-being so that children can stay healthy. Richer countries must help poorer countries achieve this.

We will be focusing on Earth Day. Focus on what we do as a school, and what we do at home, to help our environment and the planet. Focus on our core principle 鈥� we care for and respect all life. Please make links to Earth day, and the different activities children took part in on Earth Day.

Here is an activity you can do at home. Watch or read Marli鈥檚 Tangled Tale by children鈥檚 author Ellie Jackson about the impact of plastic waste on a family of puffins or read one of the other books in the series.

Consider the impact of balloons and other plastic waste on wildlife in the sea,

how could we prevent this?

Primary School Calendar

May

14^th / 16^th – Parents evening 3.00pm- 5.30pm

21st- Nursery Sports day 2.00pm- 3.00pm

22nd- Reception Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

23^rd 鈥� Year 1 Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

24^th – Staff Training day, school closed

27^th– 31^st – Half Term

June

27^th– Reception parent/ carer workshop 1.30pm- 2.45pm

-End of Year reports

July

4^th– Nursery Graduation 5.00pm- 6.00pm

17^th– End of Term

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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 鈥� Avanti Fields School

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NHS – Healthy Together

Please see link below from NHS – Healthy Together news letter.

Healthy Together- Preparing for Primary School- Leicester City (1)

Supporting your child when they start school letter- Healthy Together- Leicester City

Mental Health Awareness Week

Particularly important for our Year 11 pupils, but also for any member of our school community, we want to promote Mental Health Awareness Week, taking place from 13 鈥� 19 May 2024. The theme is Movement: Moving more for our mental health.

Research has shown that regular physical activity can make us happier and healthier. When we鈥檙e active, our bodies release feel-good hormones, which can reduce anxiety and stress and help us sleep better. By building movement into our working day, we can positively impact productivity and focus. Please see 鈥淓mpower half hour 鈥減oster with suggested activities attached.

Wellbeing Support and Exam Stress Management Strategies

Tests and exams can be a challenging part of school/college life for young people and their parents or carers. We are aware that exams have the potential to exacerbate feelings of anxiety and stress amongst students. Supporting young people through exams is all about reducing stress, optimising wellbeing and putting good study processes in place.

Parents/carers play a vital role in helping their young people maintain a positive outlook in the run-up, during and after exams are over.

There is a range of advice and guidance for students and parents to help alleviate or lesson the anxiety they have about sitting exams, including:

• : 听
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• Mental wellbeing school timetable:

If you feel that your child needs any support in managing exam stress, please contact the school via the contact form on the website so that we can work together to support them to achieve the best outcomes.

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鈥楥ommunity Activities @ Avanti Fields

We are continuing to increase and replace our Community Activities at the school and have some exciting classes starting soon. Many are free or 拢1 for your first class. To find out more, register for an existing class or register an interest in upcoming classes please email community.afl@avanti.org.uk.鈥�

PTFA Community Garden

As you know, the PTFA secured more than 拢27,000 of external funding from Severn Trent to create a dedicated community garden space at the school that can be enjoyed by all – pupils, families, staff and local communities too.听 It’s a haven not just for wildlife, but a space where people of all walks of life and gather and enjoy our natural environment.

But the work doesn’t stop at the awarded cash.听 We now need to make our community garden looking as beautiful and populated as possible.

And that’s where we need your help!

We’re inviting anyone and everyone to join us for a special session on Sunday 19th May at 10am till 1pm – and help us plant our produce, flowers and herbs.

We want to get it all spruced up and make it a fun and energetic morning for all ages and of all abilities.

Please do join us at this exciting event – we’ll even provide some delicious light refreshments for all volunteers on the day. And don’t forget to tell your family and friends too – all are welcome!

Let’s grow together!’

Summer Mela听

鈥楶TFA are organising a Summer Mela on the 23^rd June, it is a free event with lots of activities and will be held outside this year (weather permitting), Hot Potato Food Truck will also be there to provide tasty food for you to buy, please Save the date. If you are interested in a stall at the Mela or want to help the PTFA on the day please email avantifieldsptfa@gmail.com.

Communications 鈥� Wherever possible please use the contact form on our website to get in touch. This is detailed on the website at /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)听

Email: attendance.afl@avanti.org.uk
Phone: 0116 326 6813 (Option 1 to leave a voicemail)听

Please remember to state your child鈥檚 full name, tutor group and reason for absence. If your child is unwell, please could you give a brief description of the symptoms.听

All education research highlights how crucial it is to a child鈥檚 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.听听听

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.听听听

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.听

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 religious and ethnic backgrounds of their class and shared this during their presentation. Quotes were taken by other members of their form group around what diversity means to them and why it is important to celebrate, recognise and respect those with different backgrounds to our own. It was truly an assembly with the Avanti Way at it’s core.

This week a number of our Year 7 pupils have been in Swindon for their Avanti Quest residential. I look forward to hearing their stories and adventures next week.

And adventures abounded this week in our primary phase. On Monday we had a “Pets in Primary” event with a number of staff pets coming to say hello to our pupils. And today was the first of two Year 1 trips of pupils to visit the ISKCON temple in Leicester as part of their PRE curriculum.

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate and introduce our incoming Head Boy and Head Girl for the 2024-25 academic year. As our Year 11 pupils begin their GCSE exams, our Year 10 pupils step up to become the next round of leaders. A big well done to Priyan K (Head Boy), Meisha P (Head Girl), Rudra K (Deputy Head Boy) and Maya P (Deputy Head Girl) – I know you will be excellent leaders in the year to come.

And finally, I want to say a very big thank you to our PTFA. They do a fantastic job of supporting the school and it is very much appreciated by the staff and departments you have supported. Please read more below around their fundraising support.

A reminder: Monday 6th May the school will be closed (May Bank Holiday)

Advance Notice

The final INSET day for Avanti Fields will be on Friday 24th May. Please be reminded that the school will be closed for staff training.

Secondary Calendar

• Monday 6th May: Bank Holiday (school closed)
• Tuesday 7th May – 26th June: GCSE Exams
• Tuesday 7th May: Career Providers Access assembly
• Wednesday 8th May: Alternative Post-16 Parent Information
• Wednesday 8th May: HPV, Measles, Rubella and MMR Vaccination for Year 8
• Thursday 9th May: Year 7 Parents consultation Evening (Secondary school Finish at 12:45pm)
• Thursday 9th May: Reading Rampage Programme (selected students only)

Primary Calendar

• Monday 6th May: Bank Holiday (school closed)
• Wednesday 8th May: Y1 Sea life trip
• Tuesday 14th May : Parents Evening (3:00 -5:30Pm)
• Thursday 16th May: Parents Evening (3:00 – 5:30pm)

What a busy few weeks we have had! Last Friday Reception pupils visited Stonehurst farm, this week we have had pets in the Nursery, a special cooking week for some of our pupils and Snowdrop class have been to visit our local ISKCON temple!

Sports day

As stated in the academic calendar week beginning 20th听May is Primary sports day events. If you would like to attend the event, please sign in at the school office on time to join in the fun!

21st- Nursery Sports day 2.00pm- 3.00pm

22nd- Reception Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

23rd听鈥� Year 1 Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

鈥楳orning鈥� Nursery Parents information only:听If your child attends 鈥榤ornings鈥� only you will need to complete the following form to confirm your attendance for sports day: 听This is a parent and child event therefore, parents are required to stay during the whole event.

The deadline to submit the form is 13th听May 2024. Failure to which unfortunately,听 can prevent you听 to attend the said event.

RRSA Article of the Week: Article 24

Every child has the right to life. Governments must do all they can to ensure that children survive and develop to their full potential.

Article 24 (health and health services) – Every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must provide good quality health care, clean water, nutritious food, and a clean environment and education on health and well-being so that children can stay healthy. Richer countries must help poorer countries achieve this.

Here is an activity you can do at home. Take a look at recent Earthshot Prize winners. What would you like to invent to solve today鈥檚 environmental challenges?

Primary School Calendar

May

6th听– Bank Holiday- school closed

14th / 16th – Parents evening 3.00pm- 5.30pm

21st- Nursery Sports day 2.00pm- 3.00pm

22nd- Reception Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

23rd听鈥� Year 1 Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

24th听– Staff Training day, school closed

27th- 31st – Half Term

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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 鈥� Avanti Fields School

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Junior Maths Challenge

Well done to all students who participated in the Junior Maths Challenge at the end of April. Approximately half of the students who participated in the challenge have achieved either a bronze, silver, or gold

听Lord Lieutenant’s听 Young Person’s Artist of the Year Award

Huge congratulations to Maya Parmar who was nominated as a finalist (one out of just four) for the Lord Lieutenant鈥檚 Young Person鈥檚 Artist of the Year Award. We attended an awards evening where her work was recognised and she was a runner up and won 拢100 amazon vouchers.

Eco Warriors

Student Leaders are currently working on achieving the ECO flag for the school. To do this they have to do various projects to show that they are thinking about the environment. One of the projects that they want to do is to create a series of sculptures that have been made out of recycled materials, to raise awareness of how much single use plastic we actually use. We will be starting this after half-term.

To do this we are going to need plastic bottles, and lots of them. Any size. Also, nail varnish to paint on the bottles as apparently that will work better than acrylic. We are hoping to decorate an elephant for each of the houses so any shades of green, purple, blue, red, silver or gold will be very, very helpful

If you are able to donate anything that will be greatly appreciated.

Wellbeing Support and Exam Stress Management Strategies

Tests and exams can be a challenging part of school/college life for young people and their parents or carers. We are aware that exams have the potential to exacerbate feelings of anxiety and stress amongst students. Supporting young people through exams is all about reducing stress, optimising wellbeing and putting good study processes in place.

Parents/carers play a vital role in helping their young people maintain a positive outlook in the run-up, during and after exams are over.

There is a range of advice and guidance for students and parents to help alleviate or lesson the anxiety they have about sitting exams, including:

• : 听
• 听:
• :
• :
• Mental wellbeing school timetable:

If you feel that your child needs any support in managing exam stress, please contact the school via the contact form on the website so that we can work together to support them to achieve the best outcomes.

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Brigade Uniforms

We are pleased to be able to offer all parents the following discount;

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Garba For Fitness

‘We would like to draw your attention to an amazing opportunity to do Garba for Fitness and Enjoyment whilst learning traditional authentic garba moves with trained instructors from the Soni School of Garba Dance (find out more about SSGD here ). Although these classes are for fitness and enjoyment, they will follow the SSGD syllabus so if you wanted to achieve grade 1 status this will be available (with a certificate). Classes start on Friday 10^th May, 7pm to 8pm at Avanti Fields School, Leicester LE5 1FY. Your first class will only be 拢1 and thereafter as block of 10 classes is only 拢40 (Providing you give 48hrs notice if you can鈥檛 make a class that session will be added to the end of your block, so you don鈥檛 lose out). You can also do ad hoc classes as and when you are available. To book yourself onto the classes please email community.afl@avanti.org.uk . Limited spaces available so book your space early to avoid disappointment. Please feel free to share with friends and family and come as a group.

We also have some exciting new classes coming soon! To register interest in these please email community.afl@avanti.org.uk.

Many Thanks

Community @ Avanti Fields School’

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PTFA Fundraise for the school

Thank you to everyone that has supported the PTFA, we have raised money to help fundraise for the school, money has gone to good causes helping our children to prosper. The attached poster shows where the money has gone so far, these are items that are not in the school budget. Cameras for our children’s to use, new books for the library and so much more. We had no garden, and a lot has gone on behind the scenes to create an area to grow our own vegetables. Sheds were purchased to store the equipment, green house storage for the exotic items. Our children can now learn to grow their own. Over 拢38k has been invested for our children’s future. We want to grow this further, just support us by attending the events and enjoying yourselves, all contributions go to the school. We need more volunteers, and any contributions are welcome.

If you would like to help the PTFA raise money for the benefit of our pupils please email avantifieldsptfa@gmail.com.

Communications 鈥� Wherever possible please use the contact form on our website to get in touch. This is detailed on the website at /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)听

Email: attendance.afl@avanti.org.uk
Phone: 0116 326 6813 (Option 1 to leave a voicemail)听

Please remember to state your child鈥檚 full name, tutor group and reason for absence. If your child is unwell, please could you give a brief description of the symptoms.听

All education research highlights how crucial it is to a child鈥檚 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.听听听

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.听听听

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.听

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 before purchasing, do a food tasting and school tour. It is always exciting getting to meet future pupils of Avanti.

Today, we also had our Reception pupils visit a local farm, and earlier in the week, Year 7 and 8 pupils competed in the Junior Maths Challenge.

Advance Notice

The final INSET day for Avanti Fields will be on Friday 24th May. Please be reminded that the school will be closed for staff training.

Secondary Calendar

• Monday 29th April &听 Tuesday 30th April : Religious Studies Paper 1 revision session (3:30 to 4:30pm)
• Monday 29th April – 3rd May : Year 7 Avanti Quest – Swindon
• Thursday 2nd May : National Thinking Challenge (P3/P4 science lessons)
• Monday 6th May: Bank Holiday (school closed)

Primary Calendar

• Monday 29th April: Pets in the primary
• Friday 3rd May: Snowdrop class trip to the temple
• Monday 6th May: Bank Holiday (school closed)

Earth Day

Thank you to everyone for joining in with our Earth Day celebration. Children joined in by dressing up, litter picking, planting and importantly making a pledge to save the planet. We had an amazing Earth Day event afterschool and all funds raised will contribute to our forest school development.听

Parents Evening

Parents evenings will take place on the 14^th听May and 16^th听May.

We have decided to have our parents鈥� evenings face to face so that you can see your child鈥檚 learning environment and some of their pieces of work.听

Each parents meeting will last no longer than 10 minutes to ensure everyone gets the same amount of time. The parents evening meeting will cover the following-
How has your child has progressed since the last meeting?
What have we noticed they are excelling in?
What are your child鈥檚 next steps and how you can support this at home?

Please click on the following link below to book in a slot by 6^th听May:

Please ensure when you book in the slot you have inputted the correct class.

RRSA Article of the Week: Article 24

Every child has the right to life. Governments must do all they can to ensure that children survive and develop to their full potential.

Article 24 (health and health services) – Every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must provide good quality health care, clean water, nutritious food, and a clean environment and education on health and well-being so that children can stay healthy. Richer countries must help poorer countries achieve this.

Here is an activity you can do at home. Take a look at recent Earth shot Prize winners. What would you like to invent to solve today鈥檚 environmental challenges?

Primary School Calendar

May

6^th听– Bank Holiday- school closed

14^th / 16^th – Parents evening 3.00pm- 5.30pm

21st- Nursery Sports day 2.00pm- 3.00pm

22nd- Reception Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

23^rd听鈥� Year 1 Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

24^th听– Staff Training day, school closed

27^th– 31^st – Half Term听

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 鈥� Avanti Fields School

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Stress awareness month

Please refer below link for further information on stress awareness month.

Stress awareness month- Secondary Schools (for students)

Wellbeing Support and Exam Stress Management Strategies

Tests and exams can be a challenging part of school/college life for young people and their parents or carers. We are aware that exams have the potential to exacerbate feelings of anxiety and stress amongst students. Supporting young people through exams is all about reducing stress, optimising wellbeing and putting good study processes in place.

Parents/carers play a vital role in helping their young people maintain a positive outlook in the run-up, during and after exams are over.

There is a range of advice and guidance for students and parents to help alleviate or lesson the anxiety they have about sitting exams, including:

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• Mental wellbeing school timetable:

If you feel that your child needs any support in managing exam stress, please contact the school via the contact form on the website so that we can work together to support them to achieve the best outcomes.

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Pilgrimage to Ayodhya opportunity

‘Hare Krishna! Jai Sri Ram!

We’re are thrilled to announce that the next family-friendly spiritual pilgrimage (yatra) to India, for 2024 is confirmed!

After last year’s incredibly successful spiritual retreat in Rishikesh, Dev Prayag and Vrindavan, this year, the Jani family yatra will be going to Chitrakoot, PrayagRaj, Varanasi (Kashi Vishvanath) and finally end in Ayodhya for Diwali, to have darshan of beautiful Ram Lalla! We’ll bathe in Ganga, Yamuna, Saryu, Triveni Sangam and go on exciting Cable car and boat rides!

*We have senior monk, spiritual leader and scholar on the Mahabharata & Ramayana, HG Govind prabhu with us on this pilgrimage!*

听22nd Oct – 2nd Nov 2024!听 – during the Oct half term holidays.

*Places are limited!

For more info or to sign up, please use the Google form link听

Contact听07872469754听or email听contactkishorijani@gmail.com听if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Jani Family’

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PTFA Fundraise for the school

Thank you to everyone that has supported the PTFA, we have raised money to help fundraise for the school, money has gone to good causes helping our children to prosper. The attached poster shows where the money has gone so far, these are items that are not in the school budget. Cameras for our children’s to use, new books for the library and so much more. We had no garden, and a lot has gone on behind the scenes to create an area to grow our own vegetables. Sheds were purchased to store the equipment, green house storage for the exotic items. Our children can now learn to grow their own. Over 拢38k has been invested for our children’s future. We want to grow this further, just support us by attending the events and enjoying yourselves, all contributions go to the school. We need more volunteers, and any contributions are welcome.

If you would like to help the PTFA raise money for the benefit of our pupils please email avantifieldsptfa@gmail.com.

Communications 鈥� Wherever possible please use the contact form on our website to get in touch. This is detailed on the website at /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)听

Email: attendance.afl@avanti.org.uk
Phone: 0116 326 6813 (Option 1 to leave a voicemail)听

Please remember to state your child鈥檚 full name, tutor group and reason for absence. If your child is unwell, please could you give a brief description of the symptoms.听

All education research highlights how crucial it is to a child鈥檚 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.听听听

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.听听听

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.听

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 鈥� 6pm for members of our community. I look forward to joining some of you at the festival. Further details are provided in the Community Updates section below.

Can we kindly remind parents to provide the school at least 48 hours notice prior to any medical or dental appointments for their children. The admin team have begun to notice a trend of ‘last minute appointments’. This has meant that parents have arrived at school and requested to pick up their child straight away. For our admin team, they then have to leave their posts to manually collect the pupil, rather than having their classroom teacher already notified of the upcoming absence and sending the pupil down. Should you have a known absence for your child, can you please complete the following form via our website: /avantifields/absence-requests/

Advance Notice

The final INSET day for Avanti Fields will be on Friday 24th May. Please be reminded that the school will be closed for staff training.

Secondary Calendar

• Monday 15th – Friday 26th April: Year 11 GCSE Spanish Speaking Exams.
• Tuesday 23rd April: Year 10 Parent’s Consultation Evening (secondary school will finish at 12:45pm)
• Wednesday 24th April: Year 9 COP Debate: (9Earth/9Fire/9 Water)
• Thursday 25th April: UKMT Y7/Y8 Junior Maths Challenge
• Thursday 25th April: (Year 7 2024-25 class) Transition Evening

Primary Calendar

• Monday 22nd April: Earth Day dress up
• Monday 22nd April: Earth Day event
• Friday 26th April: Reception: Farm Trip

Earth day

Don鈥檛 forget it is Earth Day dress up on Monday 22^nd听April. Pupils are encouraged to wear something green, blue, flowery or even a home-made costume that represents something about our beautiful world!

We are also very excited to be holding our afterschool Earth Day event on Monday 22^nd听April at 3.00pm. All classes have been working on creating earth day stalls to raise money towards our school鈥檚 forest school project. At the beginning of the academic year the pupils helped to plant small saplings in the soon-to-be forest school area and yesterday we had a specialist design company come to visit the site to provide example forest school space designs!

Please come along to support the continued development of this space and help fundraise for this project!

RRSA Article of the Week

Article 24

Every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must provide good quality health care, clean water, nutritious food, and a clean environment and education on health and well-being so that children can stay healthy. Richer countries must help poorer countries achieve this.

We will be reflecting on World Water Day which was on the 22nd of March, and why children think the right to clean water is such an important right.

You may want to talk about possible reasons including:

• Our bodies are made up of over 60% water and we need clean water to keep them working properly and to stay alive.
• Pollution of our oceans, rivers and waterways can have a serious impact on all living things.
• Water is important to generate power in some places and it is a better for the environment than burning fossil fuels.

Here is an activity you can do at home. Each year World Water Day identifies a theme. Take a look at the World Water Day website to find out what this year鈥檚 theme is. Make a poster or display to promote it and decide on one action that you will take. Can you link the them to Articles 24 and 27?

Primary School Calendar

April

22^nd听– Earth Day celebrations- dress up and afterschool fundraising event.

May

6^th听– Bank Holiday

14^th / 16^th – Parents evening 3.00pm- 5.30pm

21st- Nursery Sports day 2.00pm- 3.00pm

22nd- Reception Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

23^rd听鈥� Year 1 Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

24^th听– Staff Training day, school closed

27^th– 31^st – Half 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 鈥� Avanti Fields School

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Earth Day Event

Please see the invitation and registration links for Earth Day at Krishna Avanti and Avanti Fields. These are aimed at prospective families, as well as the existing AFS Primary students.

Earth Day is approaching, and we have two exciting events lined up in Leicester, especially for 3-4 year olds!

Bring your child for some fun and enriching activities. Meet the Avanti family, and experience life at our beautiful schools.

Register on Eventbrite to reserve your FREE space!

Earth Day Celebration at Krishna Avanti Primary School Leicester on 19th April:

Earth Day celebration at Avanti Fields School on 22nd April:

Stress awareness month

Please refer below link for further information on stress awareness month.

Stress awareness month- Secondary Schools (for students)

MARS Balloon House Competition

Well done to the following pupils that are finalists in this competition, their experiment will be sent into space in June!

• Anay 9Aether
• Krish 9Aether
• Rudra 9Cosmos

Year 7 Avanti Quest Residential – PGL Swindon

We are getting excited for our Year 7 pupils to go on their Avanti Quest residential from Monday 29/04 to Friday 03/05. We held our parent briefing evening this week and both staff and pupils are excited for the adventures to come.

Talent Show

I want to say a massive thank you to Miss Olusanya for her organisation of the inaugural Talent Show! Miss Olusanya led a fantastic team of staff and student helpers to make the evening happen. It was fantastic to see the wide range of talents displayed by our secondary pupils; singing, dancing, poetry composition and reading, martial arts displays as well as a number of pupils who displayed their musical and theatrical abilities. It was truly an inspiring evening and was lovely to see our students shine. And although as principal I shouldn鈥檛 have favourites, I would like to put out a special shout out to Jai Ganesh, Heet and Gavinjit for their rap about the school.

“I’m up in DT, making stuff like Mr Maker, switch to food tech baking stuff like I’m a baker. Go up to Maths, I do equations on my calculator, if you ain’t tryna stack the paper then I’ll see you later. Finally break, then ima go get a snack. I like the fresh air, it gets the stress off my back,听pull up my pants because I ain’t tryna sag, tuck in my shirt and look smart and attached.

Now let’s go to history, we’re learning about a mystery, it’s about Jack the ripper, how he put people out of their myseries, he was sick in the head, he didn’t feel no sympathy, he snuck into houses and hurt them with a brutal injury.

Yeah, we up in PE, yeah we’re gonna shoot some hoops. Slap my Jordans on, yeah you know we don’t were dupes. Feeling kinda hungry, can’t wait to eat some food, and we’re learning everything, football, rugby, tennis too.

Finally lunch, yeah imma go get a munch, feeling kinda hungry so imma go get a bunch. When you bite into the pastry, you always hear the crunch, and the food so tasty, knocks you out like a punch. Finish my food, heading straight to the MUGA, hang out with my mates ’cause you know we love each other. It’s as if we’re brothers from another mother and if one gets in trouble, you know we’ll always back each听other.

Lunch is now over, I’m going straight to English, I don’t want to read the tempest, I’m just waiting for it to finish. I need to pattern up because I turned into a menace, I need to pass my GCSE to fly to Venice.

School is now over and it almost broke my shield, teachers are like therapists, they always get me healed. The teachers are the best and I’m saying that for real, and every day is the best day at Avanti Fields.”

Ramanavami Festival Celebration

Dear Parents,

You are invited to the Ramanavami celebration on Sunday 21st April. The event starts at 2:00pm with an hour long drama production starting at 4:00pm followed by a feast. This is being held at Avanti Fields school.

Please see the information below.

Pilgrimage to Ayodhya opportunity

‘Hare Krishna! Jai Sri Ram!

We’re are thrilled to announce that the next family-friendly spiritual pilgrimage (yatra) to India, for 2024 is confirmed!

After last year’s incredibly successful spiritual retreat in Rishikesh, Dev Prayag and Vrindavan, this year, the Jani family yatra will be going to Chitrakoot, PrayagRaj, Varanasi (Kashi Vishvanath) and finally end in Ayodhya for Diwali, to have darshan of beautiful Ram Lalla! We’ll bathe in Ganga, Yamuna, Saryu, Triveni Sangam and go on exciting Cable car and boat rides!

*We have senior monk, spiritual leader and scholar on the Mahabharata & Ramayana, HG Govind prabhu with us on this pilgrimage!*

听22nd Oct – 2nd Nov 2024!听 – during the Oct half term holidays.

*Places are limited!

*Early bird prices end on April 1st! But a special concession is provided for Avanti staff and parents to extend the offer听until April 15th! Don’t miss out!*

For more info or to sign up, please use the Google form link听

Contact听07872469754听or email听contactkishorijani@gmail.com听if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Jani Family’

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Communications 鈥� Wherever possible please use the contact form on our website to get in touch. This is detailed on the website at /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)听

Email: attendance.afl@avanti.org.uk
Phone: 0116 326 6813 (Option 1 to leave a voicemail)听

Please remember to state your child鈥檚 full name, tutor group and reason for absence. If your child is unwell, please could you give a brief description of the symptoms.听

All education research highlights how crucial it is to a child鈥檚 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.听听听

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.听听听

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.听

A very warm welcome to the summer term!听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 new staff who have joined us for the Summer term; Ms. Corrigan 鈥� cover supervisor, Ms. Gangani 鈥� primary teaching assistant, Ms. Sayed 鈥� secondary teaching assistant, Mrs. Lord 鈥� secondary academic mentor (joined near the end of the Spring term).

A save the date reminder for this term: INSET Day 鈥� Friday 24^th May. The school will be closed to pupils to allow staff their final INSET training day to review school priorities and work on strategies to improve whole school wellbeing.

Finally, I want to say a massive thank you to Miss Olusanya for her organisation of the inaugural Talent Show! Miss Olusanya led a fantastic team of staff and student helpers to make the evening happen. It was fantastic to see the wide range of talents displayed by our secondary pupils; singing, dancing, poetry composition and reading, martial arts displays as well as a number of pupils who displayed their musical and theatrical abilities. It was truly an inspiring evening and was lovely to see our students shine.

Advance Notice

The final INSET day for Avanti Fields will be on Friday 24th May. Please be reminded that the school will be closed for staff training.

Secondary Calendar

• Monday 15th – Friday 26th April: Year 11 GCSE Spanish Speaking Exams.
• Wednesday 17th April: Year 9 COP Debate: (9Aether/9Air/9Cosmos)
• Tuesday 23rd April: Year 10 Parent’s Consultation Evening (secondary school will finish at 12:45pm)

Primary Calendar

• Friday 19th April: Art Workshop
• Monday 22nd April: Earth Day dress up
• Monday 22nd April: Earth Day event

It has been a busy first week back!

We have welcomed some new starters in Pre-school who have joined in with learning about animals and making under the sea habitats!

We have had Jungle Jo come to see Reception and Year 1 to share more of her wonderful creatures and her scientific knowledge of the animal kingdom.

We have also had a visit from some of the PTFA members who are supporting the school鈥檚 gardening project. This week Year 1 and Reception joined in the planting!

RRSA Article of the Week

Miss Savadia鈥檚 Rights Respecting Ambassadors were hard at work today, creating posters for World Water Day 2024. Can you make a poster about why having clean water is an important right to have? Bring it to Miss Savadia by 15.04.24 and we will display them around our classes!

Article 24

Every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must provide good quality health care, clean water, nutritious food, and a clean environment and education on health and well-being so that children can stay healthy. Richer countries must help poorer countries achieve this.

We will be focusing on World Water Day which is on the 22nd of March, and why children think the right to clean water is such an important right.

You may want to talk about possible reasons including:

• Drinking dirty, unsafe water can cause serious illnesses.
• In some communities, children miss out on their education because they must spend time collecting water.
• A good water supply is important for good sanitation and flushing our toilets.

Here is an activity you can do at home.

Take a glass of water. It looks ordinary but is actually very special because we all need water to stay alive. Think about all the times water is important to you in your day, like on a hot day after you have been playing. Draw pictures of you or your friends enjoying water.

Primary School Calendar

April

8^th– School open- pupils back to school

22^nd – Earth Day celebrations- dress up and afterschool fundraising event.

May

6^th – Bank Holiday

14^th / 16^th – Parents evening 3.00pm- 5.30pm

21st- Nursery Sports day 2.00pm- 3.00pm

22nd- Reception Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

23^rd 鈥� Year 1 Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

24^th – Staff Training day, school closed

27^th– 31^st – Half 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 鈥� Avanti Fields School

听

Earth Day Event

Please see the invitation and registration links for Earth Day at Krishna Avanti and Avanti Fields. These are aimed at prospective families, as well as the existing AFS Primary students.

Earth Day is approaching, and we have two exciting events lined up in Leicester, especially for 3-4 year olds!

Bring your child for some fun and enriching activities. Meet the Avanti family, and experience life at our beautiful schools.

Register on Eventbrite to reserve your FREE space!

Earth Day Celebration at Krishna Avanti Primary School Leicester on 19th April:

Earth Day celebration at Avanti Fields School on 22nd April:

Potential Gujarati Lessons Opportunity听

As part of our community clubs and activities provision at Avanti Fields School, there may be a potential opportunity for your child to sign up to Gujarati classes after school or on Saturday mornings. The cost of the classes will depend on the number of students signed up for the classes.

Please complete the form by FRIDAY 19.04.24 if you are interested for your child to participate in Gujarati classes delivered by external Gujarati teachers. There will be limited spaces and these will be on a first come first serve basis so please complete the form immediately if interested.

Further details and next steps will be shared once the initial interest form has been completed.

Brigade Uniform Order

Offer only applies to orders placed online between 00:01 on 13/04/24 and 23:59 on 14/04/24.

Offer only applies to order placed via the 鈥樷�� area of our site

Offer cannot be claimed on orders placed prior to, or after the above period

Offer does not apply to 鈥楧irect to School (DS)鈥� customers

Offer only applies to orders placed on

Talent Show

On 11th April 2024 we held our first Talent Show at Avanti Fields . The show had been organised by Ms. Olusanya and with the support of PTFA team. We are delighted to share the highlights of the show.

We are now a two months into our successful launch of numerous evening and weekend 鈥榓ctivity鈥� classes at Avanti Fields. We are supporting the coaches to build sustainable classes so they continue and are going to be offering more classes from April this year. We have had some great feedback from the participants so far and would encourage you all to try a class out if you have not done so already. There are a variety of classes to suit all ages and abilities including Dance, Yoga and Sports. Special Offers of 拢2 trial classes are available for Pickleball, Indoor Tennis and Multi Sports. If听 there are any classes you would like to see or coaches you can recommend.听 For more information please contact community.afl@avanti.org.uk

Pilgrimage to Ayodhya opportunity

‘Hare Krishna! Jai Sri Ram!

We’re are thrilled to announce that the next family-friendly spiritual pilgrimage (yatra) to India, for 2024 is confirmed!

After last year’s incredibly successful spiritual retreat in Rishikesh, Dev Prayag and Vrindavan, this year, the Jani family yatra will be going to Chitrakoot, PrayagRaj, Varanasi (Kashi Vishvanath) and finally end in Ayodhya for Diwali, to have darshan of beautiful Ram Lalla! We’ll bathe in Ganga, Yamuna, Saryu, Triveni Sangam and go on exciting Cable car and boat rides!

*We have senior monk, spiritual leader and scholar on the Mahabharata & Ramayana, HG Govind prabhu with us on this pilgrimage!*

听22nd Oct – 2nd Nov 2024!听 – during the Oct half term holidays.

*Places are limited!

*Early bird prices end on April 1st! But a special concession is provided for Avanti staff and parents to extend the offer听until April 15th! Don’t miss out!*

For more info or to sign up, please use the Google form link听

Contact听07872469754听or email听contactkishorijani@gmail.com听if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Jani Family’

听

Disco Dandiya

‘Last opportunity to book –听Not long to go鈥�.听听Don鈥檛 Miss Out鈥� SPECIAL OFFER for the Garba & Disco event this Saturday (13th April) Tickets are only 拢4 (No Booking Fee) Get yours booked to avoid disappointment! No limit on the amount of tickets you can book. Click on link below:-听

**THERE WILL BE TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR**

We hope to see you and your friends and family there and thank听you for your support. All proceeds will be used on school projects to benefit pupils.

Communications 鈥� Wherever possible please use the contact form on our website to get in touch. This is detailed on the website at /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)听

Email: attendance.afl@avanti.org.uk
Phone: 0116 326 6813 (Option 1 to leave a voicemail)听

Please remember to state your child鈥檚 full name, tutor group and reason for absence. If your child is unwell, please could you give a brief description of the symptoms.听

All education research highlights how crucial it is to a child鈥檚 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.听听听

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.听听听

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.听

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鈥檝e opened and closed the term at the same time, all while putting some amazing opportunities in place for our pupils. This week our Reception pupils attended a dinosaur workshop and we had the joy of seeing the Year 1 Easter bonnet parade.

Today the entire school has celebrated Gaura Purnima and Holi. As we observe the birthday of Sri Chaitanya called Gaura Purnima, the day of the golden, full moon. This year’s celebration had both a classroom discussion and a visit to Worship Hall. Students and staff听 participated in the听 ceremonial abhishek (bathing) of Sri Chaitanya, accompanied with kirtan. And all members of our school community enjoyed a special festival day lunch.

I want to take this opportunity to thank Mr Clothier for his work within the PRE department since October. Mr Clothier joined us to cover Miss K.P. Patel鈥檚 sabbatical and has seamlessly joined the team, become a role model for our pupils and built some fantastic relationships along the way. We wish Mr Clothier all the best in his next steps. In the same vein, I want to wish Miss Devalia all the best as she begins her maternity leave after the Easter break.

Advance Notice

The final INSET day for Avanti Fields will be on Friday 24th April. Please be reminded that the school will be closed for staff training.

Secondary Calendar

• Monday 8th April: First day of summer term
• Wednesday 10th April: Y11 Geography field work trip
• Thursday 11th April: Talent show

Primary Calendar

• Monday 8th April: First day of summer Term
• Tuesday 9th April: Primary workshop – Jungle Jo

What a brilliant end to the term! We have finished the week by exploring the Festival of colours; Holi and celebrating Gaura Purnima, the birthday of Sri Chaitanya through the tradition of bathing Gaura Nitai and having a special celebratory food for lunch.

Book fair

We have raised a total of 拢645.55 from the fair, to which the school will benefit from new books from Scholastic! We hope you have all enjoyed this experience and this has inspired our pupils to keep reading!

Easter bonnet competition

All pupils joined in the Easter bonnet Parade. There were so many amazing hats to choose from, we hope you enjoyed making them at home with your loved ones. Well done to the winners this year!

RRSA Article of the Week

Article 2听

All children听have the rights set out in the UNCRC, and individual children and young people shouldn鈥檛 be discriminated against when these rights are realised. This covers both direct and indirect discrimination.

Here is an activity you can do at home:

.听Thomas talks about what his friends are good at and says that girls and boys should work as equals and have the same chances in life. What are you really good听at? Share this with your friends. Can girls and boys be good at the same things?

Primary School Calendar

April

8^th– School open- pupils back to school

22^nd – Earth Day celebrations- dress up and afterschool fundraising event.

May

6^th – Bank Holiday

14^th / 16^th – Parents evening 3.00pm- 5.30pm

21st- Nursery Sports day 2.00pm- 3.00pm

22nd- Reception Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

23^rd 鈥� Year 1 Sports day 1.45pm- 2.45pm

24^th – Staff Training day, school closed

27^th– 31^st – Half 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 鈥� Avanti Fields School

Easter clubs and provision

Please find attached opportunities for Easter camps across the City during the holidays. If you are interested in booking your child onto these camps, please visit for further details.

Stress Awareness Month

Please see the Stress Awareness Month news letter link below:

Stress awareness month- Secondary Schools (for students)- final

Reading Rampage 2024

Reading Rampage 2024 is well under way with our Year 7 students having the opportunity to take part in author talks as well as a range of challenges. Authors during the live talks were very impressed with the high standard of questions being asked by the Avanti Fields students!

There have also been many challenges set up through the programme for students to really be involved in the programme and gain a more detailed insight into the books they are reading. We have had some impressive alternative book covers which the authors themselves have been impressed with. SJ Willis, the writer of 鈥楤ite Risk鈥� stated, 鈥淲ow this is FANTASTIC! Congratulations to the artist鈥� and Dee Benson, the author of 鈥楪low Up Lara Bloom鈥� commented, 鈥淭his is fantastic! Really captures the essence of the story.鈥� Other comments were also made from the author and illustrator of 鈥楩inn Jones Was Here鈥� with both saying that the book cover 鈥渞eally sums up the book beautifully鈥�. Well done to our students!

Students are encouraged to continue to check Google Classroom for updates on challenges and parents are able to view some of the great things that our students are involved in by following Avanti English on X (formerly Twitter) @AFS_English

Finalist – Lord Lieutenant’s Award for Young people 2024

I am delighted to announce that Maya Parmar been selected as a finalist for the Lord-Lieutenant鈥檚 Award for Young People 2024 for Young Artist of the Year category. She is one of sixteen young people selected across four award categories, chosen by a panel of judges from over 70 nominations which were received from the public. She is invited to an Awards Evening hosted by His Majesty鈥檚 Lord-Lieutenant Mike Kapur. Please congratulate her if you see her on this incredible achievement.

Oxford Unlocked Residential

On Thursday 14th March year 10 pupils had an enrichment opportunity to visit St Edmund Hall at Oxford University. Over the course of two days, they had an action-packed programme to give them an insight into university life and entry requirements to raise aspirations. The pupils were a credit to the school and share some of their insights below:
鈥淭he student finance, A-levels information and all of the other events were all very helpful and gave me a better insight for college, university and beyond. Personally, the activities were all very fun and educative. I am very grateful for this opportunity which has cleared some questions about higher education and doing it in a fun way.鈥�
Dhiaan N
鈥淎 few of my highlights from the trip was that I loved the city and campus tour because I really got to see what the university had to offer. I also really enjoyed the evening activity with our groups because it was quite interactive and fun. The Q and A also really helped as I got a better understanding of the university and the degrees that they offer and what A-Levels I would have to take in order to study those degrees.鈥�
Greemy H
鈥淭he trip itself was inspiring and really insightful, the information given was helpful and above all, the experience was amazing.鈥�
Vibhish S
鈥淚t was a very valuable and informative experience, as well as lots of fun. The maths taster session was very interesting and the q and a session with student ambassadors were engaging and extremely helpful. I have learnt a lot of new things about university experiences that I will take away with me.鈥�
Meisha P

Avanti Fields Talent Show

You are invited to attend the Avanti Field’s talent show in the main hall on Thursday 11th听April 2024. The show will commence at 18:00 and doors will be opened from 17:30. The cost for the show is 拢3.50 payable on ParentPay and you will get 4 tickets for the price of 3! All money raised will be reinvested into your child’s education听and activities. Refreshments will also be available to purchase courtesy of the PTFA. We hope to see you there!

Uniform Guideline – Brigade

Parents Direct Ordering Web 2024

Please find attached our updated 2024 flyer which includes how to order details for parents, size and how to measure guides and our new updated summer 2024 summer order deadlines.

We ask that you please forward the flyer to all your parents, highlighting the new deadline dates for 2024.

Please also ensure a copy is given to new intake parents and ask them to register with us as soon as possible so they don鈥檛 miss out on any early order promotions or important information.

Also included on this digital version of the flyer are hyperlinks to the following:

• A link to our website (front page)
• A link to register your email address with us or alternatively hover you phone camera over the QR code (you may have to zoom in to increase the size of the QR code) to access the registration portal.

We recommend all parents register with us as soon as possible to ensure they do not miss out on important dates or promotions

• On the bottom of the back page you will find another link to our website, a link to our customer service support email address and an-other link to our customer support FAQs (frequently asked questions) support.

Because our service to parents is online only, our aim is to ensure that the ordering process is as simple and hassle free as possible with minimum returns.听 Therefore, we have included/added the following to our website:

• A short video on how to order online
• A short video showing parents how to correctly measure their child
• Tailored size guides for the majority of our online products

We ask that you please ensure all your parents receive a copy of the flyer and are aware of the above as soon as possible.听 Furthermore, we ask you to please add the flyer to your uniform section of your website with a link to our website.

Inspection Rating – Govindas

A very big well done to the Govinda’s catering team. We have again achieved a 5 rating for our food hygiene.

We are now a two months into our successful launch of numerous evening and weekend 鈥榓ctivity鈥� classes at Avanti Fields. We are supporting the coaches to build sustainable classes so they continue and are going to be offering more classes from April this year. We have had some great feedback from the participants so far and would encourage you all to try a class out if you have not done so already. There are a variety of classes to suit all ages and abilities including Dance, Yoga and Sports. Special Offers of 拢2 trial classes are available for Pickleball, Indoor Tennis and Multi Sports. If听 there are any classes you would like to see or coaches you can recommend.听 For more information please contact community.afl@avanti.org.uk

PTFA Spring Newsletter

Disco Dandiya

Get those Garba gadgets out! Avanti Fields PTFA are excited to dance our way into our first major event of the year. After last year’s huge success, we’re proud to host Disco Dandiya night on Saturday 13th April at Avanti Fields School to celebrate Chaitra Navratri. Tickets on sale now – get yours booked early to avoid disappointment.

EXCITING NEWS

We are excited to announce our early bird special offer for the Garba & Disco Dhandiya event鈥�. Limited time only all tickets 拢4

Get yours booked to avoid disappointment!

Communications 鈥� Wherever possible please use the contact form on our website to get in touch. This is detailed on the website at /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)听

Email: attendance.afl@avanti.org.uk
Phone: 0116 326 6813 (Option 1 to leave a voicemail)听

Please remember to state your child鈥檚 full name, tutor group and reason for absence. If your child is unwell, please could you give a brief description of the symptoms.听

All education research highlights how crucial it is to a child鈥檚 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.听听听

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.听听听

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.听

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 event in Computer Science and the Y8 Avanti Quest residential to Belgium. Thank you all of you and members in your team who have planned and organised these wonderful experiences for our students!

For our primary pupils, they have had the Scholastic book fair come to Avanti Fields. Next week we have an amazing array of Easter and Holi themed activities lined up. As well as a dinosaur workshop!

Secondary Calendar

• Monday听 18th – Tuesday 19th March: GCSE Art Exam (11H All Day)
• Wednesday 20th – Thursday 21st March: GCSE Art Exam (11K All Day)
• Tuesday 19th March: Form/Class Photos
• Thursday 21st March: Y9 Parents Consultation Evening (School Finish at 12:45pm)
• Friday 22nd March: Gaura Purnima Celebration (traditional dress non uniform)
• Friday 22nd March: End of Term (school finish 3:30pm)

Primary Calendar

• Monday 18th March: Reception: Dinosaur workshop
• Wednesday 20th March: Easter bonnet competition
• Wednesday 20th March: Nursery: Easter parent workshop (2:00pm – 3:00pm)
• Thursday 21st March: Reception: Easter parent workshop (1:30pm – 2:45pm)
• Thursday 21st March: Year 1: Easter bonnet parade
• Friday 22nd March:
• Friday 22nd March: Holi event (students encouraged to wear white non uniform)

Scholastic Book Fair

The book fair has arrived at Avanti Fields, don鈥檛 forget to pop in if you haven鈥檛 already. Remember to bring in your 拢1.00 voucher!

听

RRSA Article of the Week

Week focus: Article 2听

All children听have the rights set out in the UNCRC, and individual children and young people shouldn鈥檛 be discriminated against when these rights are realised. This covers both direct and indirect discrimination.

Here is an activity you can do at home:

Draw a picture of a woman or girl that you look up to. This might be a member of your family, someone at school or someone you have learned about. Bring your picture in and share it with your friends and teachers.

Easter bonnet competition

Holi Event

We will be holding a ‘festival of colours’听event听on 22nd March.听We would like all children to experience the traditions of听Holi听with a festival of colours听event. As the听event听involves the throwing of powdered paint, we are kindly asking for all children to come in old clothes, preferably white to show all the colours.听If your child is in uniform that day, they will unfortunately not be able to participate.

Primary School Calendar

March

20^th– Easter bonnet competition

– Nursery Easter parent/ carer workshop 2.00am- 3.00am

21^st -Reception Easter parent/ carer workshop 1.30pm- 2.45pm

22^nd End of Term (Last day of school for children)

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 鈥� Avanti Fields School

Easter clubs and provision

Please find attached opportunities for Easter camps across the City during the holidays. If you are interested in booking your child onto these camps, please visit for further details.

Library News

The Avanti Fields Library is proud to launch its online Library Catalogue 鈥楾he Accessit Web App鈥�, where students and staff can view our amazing Library collection and access their own library records.

Please save the following link to your favourites and don鈥檛 forget to watch the 鈥楬ow to use the Accessit Library Web App video鈥� on the home page.

Gaura Purnima celebration

We are celebrating Gaura Purnima Festival on Friday 22nd March. Students are welcome to come in traditional dress for the day, appropriate to the festivity. Students not wishing to come in traditional clothes should wear school uniform. Students who have PE on the day may choose to NOT bring their kit if they want to remain in their traditional clothes.

Our festival celebration will have students spend time in the worship hall where they will get to bathe a baby Krishna, and will be learning about the traditions and meaning behind Gaura Purnima celebrations.

Girls in Computing event – Thursday 14^th听March 2023

The Girls in Computing event, run by Jaspal Singh (Director of Academic ICT and digital technologies –听Nxt Gen Innovators), was aimed at encouraging girls to think about choosing Computing/IT as a GCSE option and/or as a career. It was an inspiring event which encouraged the year 9 girls to really think about their options for GCSE and potentially choose a career in the field of computing and technology, which they may previously have never considered. The event was fun packed with much ‘food for thought’, group challenges and competitions.

Students feedback:

Dhriti Lakhani – 9 Water

“I liked the event as everyone had a chance to participate and complete new challenges. It has also encouraged me to pick computer science as one of my options for GCSE.”

Yashani Teli – 9 Water

“I think that the Girls in Computing event was an incredible experience and I really enjoyed it. If I had the opportunity to do it again, I would. The visitors were really nice, and the activities were unique and fun. Thank you so much for inviting me”.

Uniform Guideline – Brigade

Parents Direct Ordering Web 2024

Please find attached our updated 2024 flyer which includes how to order details for parents, size and how to measure guides and our new updated summer 2024 summer order deadlines.

We ask that you please forward the flyer to all your parents, highlighting the new deadline dates for 2024.

Please also ensure a copy is given to new intake parents and ask them to register with us as soon as possible so they don鈥檛 miss out on any early order promotions or important information.

Also included on this digital version of the flyer are hyperlinks to the following:

• A link to our website (front page)
• A link to register your email address with us or alternatively hover you phone camera over the QR code (you may have to zoom in to increase the size of the QR code) to access the registration portal.

We recommend all parents register with us as soon as possible to ensure they do not miss out on important dates or promotions

• On the bottom of the back page you will find another link to our website, a link to our customer service support email address and an-other link to our customer support FAQs (frequently asked questions) support.

Because our service to parents is online only, our aim is to ensure that the ordering process is as simple and hassle free as possible with minimum returns.听 Therefore, we have included/added the following to our website:

• A short video on how to order online
• A short video showing parents how to correctly measure their child
• Tailored size guides for the majority of our online products

We ask that you please ensure all your parents receive a copy of the flyer and are aware of the above as soon as possible.听 Furthermore, we ask you to please add the flyer to your uniform section of your website with a link to our website.

Avanti Fields Talent Show

You are invited to attend the Avanti Field’s talent show in the main hall on Thursday 11th听April 2024. The show will commence at 18:00 and doors will be opened from 17:30. The cost for the show is 拢3.50 payable on ParentPay and you will get 4 tickets for the price of 3! All money raised will be reinvested into your child’s education听and activities. Refreshments will also be available to purchase courtesy of the PTFA. We hope to see you there!

We are now a two months into our successful launch of numerous evening and weekend 鈥榓ctivity鈥� classes at Avanti Fields. We are supporting the coaches to build sustainable classes so they continue and are going to be offering more classes from April this year. We have had some great feedback from the participants so far and would encourage you all to try a class out if you have not done so already. There are a variety of classes to suit all ages and abilities including Dance, Yoga and Sports. Special Offers of 拢2 trial classes are available for Pickleball, Indoor Tennis and Multi Sports. If听 there are any classes you would like to see or coaches you can recommend.听 For more information please contact community.afl@avanti.org.uk

Disco Dandiya

Get those Garba gadgets out! Avanti Fields PTFA are excited to dance our way into our first major event of the year. After last year’s huge success, we’re proud to host Disco Dandiya night on Saturday 13th April at Avanti Fields School to celebrate Chaitra Navratri. Tickets on sale now – get yours booked early to avoid disappointment.

EXCITING NEWS

We are excited to announce our early bird special offer for the Garba & Disco Dhandiya event鈥�. Limited time only all tickets 拢4

Get yours booked to avoid disappointment!

Communications 鈥� Wherever possible please use the contact form on our website to get in touch. This is detailed on the website at /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)听

Email: attendance.afl@avanti.org.uk
Phone: 0116 326 6813 (Option 1 to leave a voicemail)听

Please remember to state your child鈥檚 full name, tutor group and reason for absence. If your child is unwell, please could you give a brief description of the symptoms.听

All education research highlights how crucial it is to a child鈥檚 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.听听听

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.听听听

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.听

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.

Last night, while still in WBD costumes, the senior staff welcomed our incoming Year 6 pupils and outlined our transition programme for them and their families. Although it was a virtual event, it was lovely to see the confidence shine with our newest pupils who were brave enough to ask questions about what starting secondary school will be like.

Finally, today is International Women’s Day. Imaging a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that’s diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can celebrate women’s achievements and raise awareness about discrimination. IWD belongs to everyone, everywhere.

Secondary Calendar

• Monday 11th March – 15th March: British Science week
• Monday 11th March – 15th March: Y8 Avanti Quest
• Monday 11th March: Reading Rampage Programme (selected students)
• Tuesday 12th March: Ice Hockey trip Y10 & 11 (6pm – 10pm)
• Tuesday 12th March: Reading Rampage programme (Selected Students)
• Tuesday 12th March: Student Leadership Inspire Event
• Thursday 14th March: Y9 Computing for Girls event
• Thursday 14th – 15th March: Y10 University of Oxford Residential
• Thursday 14th – 15th March: Scholastic Book Fair
• Thursday 14th – 15th March: GCSE Art EXAM (11L All Day)
• Monday听 18th – 19th March: GCSE Art Exam ( 11H All Day)
• Wednesday 20th – 21st March: GCSE Art Exam (11K All Day)

Primary Calendar

• Thursday 14th March – 18th March: Primary in-school pop Book Fair

What a fantastic Reading week it has been! We have had competitions, dress up, story tellers and reading workshops. Next week the reading festival will continue with our Primary book fair.

Getting messy in the Nursery!

Thank you听 so much for the PTFA who donated materials and hosted a gardening session for our Nursery pupils. We have been learning about the plant life cycle and how to care for them, so pupils were thrilled to share and apply their knowledge. Everyone enjoyed being outdoors and planting seeds for the garden. We look forward to observing the different stages of growth and seeing what blooms!

RRSA Article of the Week: This week we have focussed on: Article 31

Every child has the right to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate听to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts.

Here is an activity you can do at home.听

Make a list of the clubs your school runs at lunchtimes and after school. Is there something for everyone? Do you have a great idea for a new club? Think about how you could share your views about clubs at your school. Share your ideas with your friends and teachers.

Easter bonnet competition

Holi Event

We will be holding a ‘festival of colours’听event听on 22nd March.听We would like all children to experience the traditions of听Holi听with a festival of colours听event. As the听event听involves the throwing of powdered paint, we are kindly asking for all children to come in old clothes, preferably white to show all the colours.听If your child is in uniform that day, they will unfortunately not be able to participate.

Primary School Calendar

March

20^th– Easter bonnet competition

– Nursery Easter parent/ carer workshop 2.00am- 3.00am

21^st -Reception Easter parent/ carer workshop 1.30pm- 2.45pm

22^nd End of Term (Last day of school for children)

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 鈥� Avanti Fields School

Scholastic Book Fair

All Secondary student are invited to attend The Scholastic Book fair on Thursday 14th March and Friday 15th March at break time in the library.听All students can use their 拢1 World Book Day Voucher which will be available in the library to collect. Can we ask parents to send students into school on these days with CASH听to Purchase Books. There are a great range of books available and every book bought helps the school receive rewards towards purchasing more amazing books for our students!

World Book Day

Thank you to all students and staff members who have been involved in the World Book Day activates. All World Book Day vouchers at the school are digital this year. Please find link attached. You will be able to print vouchers for your child to use to either receive their free 拢1 book or use as part payment towards a book of their choice. Please see the link below.

Library News

The Avanti Fields Library is proud to launch its online Library Catalogue 鈥楾he Accessit Web App鈥�, where students and staff can view our amazing Library collection and access their own library records.

Please save the following link to your favourites and don鈥檛 forget to watch the 鈥楬ow to use the Accessit Library Web App video鈥� on the home page.

Year 9 National Space Centre trip

7th February 2024

We took 12 year 9 students to the National Space Centre in Leicester. The event was to look at how Mathematics is used in a space context. There were students from 7 other schools in the City of Leicester.

The students had a brief introduction about the day and then getting to know each other. They then undertook a maths trail inside the centre, looking at the all the presentations on offer at the National Space Centre. The students had an informative time looking at all the props used by astronauts in space. This was certainly an eye opener for all the students there! Some of the skills here were how young learners from different schools worked together to complete the Maths trail.

The students then had to work together to produce a space 鈥榟ouse鈥� that would hold resources for visiting astronauts on a space station. Students had to make their model with jelly babies and match sticks! Students were in inter school groups 鈥� so it was great that our students performed well students from other schools. Some of our students were in the winning space 鈥榟ouse鈥� group.

After lunch, students took part in an activity based on how countries looked after scare resources in terms of recycling and costs. This was an activity based on other schools competing. Our students did really well, and they seemed to enjoy the experience of trying to allocate valuable resources in a competing world, taking into account populations, cost of resources, timelines to name a few ideas to consider.

After that, students were given the opportunity to attend a lecture from a university professor. The lecture was based on Einstein and his ideas on motion. This was quite a difficult type of learning 鈥� a new experience really, however quite a bit of maths concept was covered. This included.

• Speed, distance, time including graphs.
• Pythagoras Theorem
• Motion in 2D plane
• Velocity and average speed
• Equations of motion.

All our students were a credit to the school and themselves and I know they had a lovely day out exploring maths in a space context.

Year 7/8 Girls Football

A successful football season for the girls as they made it through to the final in the 11 a-side competition after becoming East Leicester City Champions. Unfortunately we lost to Lancaster but the girls were incredible in their performances and achievements throughout the tournament.

KS4 Girls Football

A successful football season for the KS4 girls too as they made it through to the final in the 11 a-side competition after becoming East Leicester City Champions. Unfortunately we lost to Babington but the girls were incredible in their performances and achievements throughout the tournament.

Girls Futsal

Again both the teams (Year 8 and KS4) put in fantastic performances in the girls futsal tournaments. The KS4 girls got through to the final against Moat who we unfortunately lost out to just 1-0. The Year 8 team became joint first winners with Crown Hills who just pipped us to the finals on goal difference 14-11. But the girls should be immensely proud of their achievements with such incredible talent on the pitch.

Talent Show

The school is pleased to announce that we will be having an all- school talent show on April 11th if anyone interested in performing should sign up with Ms.Olusanya. More information regarding Purchasing tickets will be available soon.

Govinda’s Menu Update

Govinda’s is making a small change to their menu on Ekadashi days. The school menu on these days will now provide a selection of Ekadashi and non-Ekadashi meal options for all secondary pupils.

We are now a two months into our successful launch of numerous evening and weekend 鈥榓ctivity鈥� classes at Avanti Fields. We are supporting the coaches to build sustainable classes so they continue and are going to be offering more classes from April this year. We have had some great feedback from the participants so far and would encourage you all to try a class out if you have not done so already. There are a variety of classes to suit all ages and abilities including Dance, Yoga and Sports. Special Offers of 拢2 trial classes are available for Pickleball, Indoor Tennis and Multi Sports. If听 there are any classes you would like to see or coaches you can recommend.听 For more information please contact community.afl@avanti.org.uk

Disco Dandiya

Get those Garba gadgets out! Avanti Fields PTFA are excited to dance our way into our first major event of the year. After last year’s huge success, we’re proud to host Disco Dandiya night on Saturday 13th April at Avanti Fields School to celebrate Chaitra Navratri. Tickets on sale now – get yours booked early to avoid disappointment.

Communications 鈥� Wherever possible please use the contact form on our website to get in touch. This is detailed on the website at /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)听

Email: attendance.afl@avanti.org.uk
Phone: 0116 326 6813 (Option 1 to leave a voicemail)听

Please remember to state your child鈥檚 full name, tutor group and reason for absence. If your child is unwell, please could you give a brief description of the symptoms.听

All education research highlights how crucial it is to a child鈥檚 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.听听听

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.听听听

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.听

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 attended the AST planned Ethos INSET day which focussed on how we can create spaces for meaningful dialogue. Staff had opportunities to practice active listening, understand what it takes to build trust quickly within a small group of people and begin thinking about how our training can be used to launch ‘sanga’ sessions for our pupils.

Next week has our annual World Book Day activities planned for both Primary and Secondary pupils on Thursday 7th March. I am looking forward to seeing the literary costumes that our students come dressed in!

Secondary Calendar

• Monday 4th March – 8th March: Assemblies: World Book Day (remote)
• Monday 4th March – 8th March: Assemblies: National Careers Week
• Thursday 7th March:听 World Book Day events and dress up (character from a book)
• Friday 8th March: STEM Roadshow (P1 -P2)

Primary Calendar

• Monday 4th March – 8th March: Reading week
• Wednesday 6th March: Stay and Read parents workshop 2:15 – 3:00 pm
• Thursday 7th March: Primary story teller
• Thursday 7th March: World Book Day dress up

Attendance Matters

Let鈥檚 make every day count! Attending school on time and regularly is highly important for your child’s development as it allows them to access our full curriculum.

We have a short half term this term (4 weeks) full of new and exciting learning. Please bring your child into school everyday to ensure they do not miss out!

RRSA Article of the Week

This week we focused on: Article 31

Every child has the right to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate听to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts.

Here is an activity you can do at home

Article 31 says that every child has the right to take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. This includes museums and galleries. Create an artwork of your own, inspired by objects and patterns from around the world. Bring it in and show your teacher and peers.

Summer clubs

Please register if you have an interest in Summer, breakfast club/ Afterschool clubs by听Friday 8^th听March. We will then send out a confirmation of place via email and assign you a payment on Parent Pay.

Interest forms to complete if you would like your child to attend:

Breakfast club (Nursery, Reception and Year 1):

Afterschool clubs (Reception and Year 1 only):

Please note:听Allocation of clubs are on a first come first serve basis. If you child has a place you will receive an email confirmation of place by 11^th听March. You will then be assigned payment via parent pay and be expected to make payment for the club by the Monday 20^th听March. Failure to make payment on time will mean you lose your child鈥檚 place in the allocated club.

Primary School Calendar

March

Wk bg 4^th March: Reading Week

Stay and read parent workshop – 6th March, 2.15-3.00pm
World book day dress up – 7th March
In school pop-up book fair – 14th, 15th, 18th and 19th March (7.30-7.55am and 2.45- 3.15pm)

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 鈥� Avanti Fields School

Hand, foot and mouth disease

Hand, foot and mouth disease is a common infection that causes mouth ulcers and spots on the hands and feet.

It鈥檚 most common in young children听鈥� particularly those under听10 鈥� but can affect older children and adults as well.

Hand, foot and mouth disease can be unpleasant, but it will usually clear up by itself within 7 to 10 days. You can normally look after yourself or your child at home.

The infection is not related to foot and mouth disease, which affects cattle, sheep and pigs.

Symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease

The symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease usually develop between 3 and 5 days after being exposed to the infection.

The first symptoms may include:

• a high temperature (fever),听usually听around 38掳C听to 39掳C (100.4-102.2掳F)
• a general sense of feeling unwell
• loss of appetite
• coughing
• a听听and mouth

Mouth ulcers

After听1 or 2 days, red spots appear on the tongue and inside the mouth.

These quickly develop into larger yellow-grey听听with red edges.

The ulcers can be painful and make eating, drinking and swallowing difficult. They should pass within a week.

Spotty rash and blisters

Soon after the mouth ulcers appear, you鈥檒l probably notice a rash made up of small, raised red spots on the skin.

These typically develop on the fingers, the backs or palms of the hand, the soles of the feet, and occasionally on the buttocks and groin.

The spots听may then turn into small听听with a grey centre.

The听spots and blisters can sometimes be听itchy or uncomfortable and typically听last up to 10听days.

What to do if you or your child has hand, foot and mouth disease

If you have hand, foot and mouth disease, the best thing to do is to stay at home until you鈥檙e feeling better. There鈥檚 no cure for it, so you have to let it run its course.Please seek medical advice.

World Book Day

Thursday 7th March, KS3 students are welcome to dressed up a character form a book to celebrate the joy of reading.

Please see the poster attached with the bulletin.

Scholastic Book Fair

All Secondary student are invited to attend The Scholastic Book fair on Thursday 14th March and Friday 15th March at break time in the library.听All students can use their 拢1 World Book Day Voucher which will be available in the library to collect. Can we ask parents to send students into school on these days with CASH听to Purchase Books. There are a great range of books available and every book bought helps the school receive rewards towards purchasing more amazing books for our students!

Year 9 National Space Centre trip

7th February 2024

We took 12 year 9 students to the National Space Centre in Leicester. The event was to look at how Mathematics is used in a space context. There were students from 7 other schools in the City of Leicester.

The students had a brief introduction about the day and then getting to know each other. They then undertook a maths trail inside the centre, looking at the all the presentations on offer at the National Space Centre. The students had an informative time looking at all the props used by astronauts in space. This was certainly an eye opener for all the students there! Some of the skills here were how young learners from different schools worked together to complete the Maths trail.

The students then had to work together to produce a space 鈥榟ouse鈥� that would hold resources for visiting astronauts on a space station. Students had to make their model with jelly babies and match sticks! Students were in inter school groups 鈥� so it was great that our students performed well students from other schools. Some of our students were in the winning space 鈥榟ouse鈥� group.

After lunch, students took part in an activity based on how countries looked after scare resources in terms of recycling and costs. This was an activity based on other schools competing. Our students did really well, and they seemed to enjoy the experience of trying to allocate valuable resources in a competing world, taking into account populations, cost of resources, timelines to name a few ideas to consider.

After that, students were given the opportunity to attend a lecture from a university professor. The lecture was based on Einstein and his ideas on motion. This was quite a difficult type of learning 鈥� a new experience really, however quite a bit of maths concept was covered. This included.

• Speed, distance, time including graphs.
• Pythagoras Theorem
• Motion in 2D plane
• Velocity and average speed
• Equations of motion.

All our students were a credit to the school and themselves and I know they had a lovely day out exploring maths in a space context.

Celebrating Mathematical Minds of Avanti Fields School

8 of our students from year 10 recently participated in the prestigious Regional Maths Feast event, marking a significant milestone in our commitment to excellence in mathematical education. This annual competition draws the brightest young mathematicians from Leicestershire, challenging them with problems that test their numerical agility, logical reasoning, and creative thinking.

Our school’s strategy was to foster a collaborative environment where students could learn from each other, sharing insights and strategies. This approach proved invaluable, as it not only prepared our team for the wide range of problems, they would face but also helped them develop vital soft skills such as teamwork, communication, and time management.

The competition was fierce, with schools from across the nation bringing their best and brightest, our school emerged as a strong contender. We are proud to announce that our team achieved emerged VICTORIOUS, securing top positions in several categories. This achievement is a testament to the hard work of our students and the guidance of their teachers.

Talent Show

The school is pleased to announce that we will be having an all- school talent show on April 11th if anyone interested in performing should sign up with Ms.Olusanya. More information regarding Purchasing tickets will be available soon.

Govinda’s Menu Update

Govinda’s is making a small change to their menu on Ekadashi days. The school menu on these days will now provide a selection of Ekadashi and non-Ekadashi meal options for all secondary pupils.

We are now a two months into our successful launch of numerous evening and weekend 鈥榓ctivity鈥� classes at Avanti Fields. We are supporting the coaches to build sustainable classes so they continue and are going to be offering more classes from April this year. We have had some great feedback from the participants so far and would encourage you all to try a class out if you have not done so already. There are a variety of classes to suit all ages and abilities including Dance, Yoga and Sports. Special Offers of 拢2 trial classes are available for Pickleball, Indoor Tennis and Multi Sports. If听 there are any classes you would like to see or coaches you can recommend.听 For more information please contact community.afl@avanti.org.uk

Garden Project Volunteers

Communications 鈥� Wherever possible please use the contact form on our website to get in touch. This is detailed on the website at /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)听

Email: attendance.afl@avanti.org.uk
Phone: 0116 326 6813 (Option 1 to leave a voicemail)听

Please remember to state your child鈥檚 full name, tutor group and reason for absence. If your child is unwell, please could you give a brief description of the symptoms.听

All education research highlights how crucial it is to a child鈥檚 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.听听听

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.听听听

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.听