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Soccer Aid
Avon House’s first ever Soccer Aid event was a scoring success! The pupils did not let the weather dampen their spirits as they participated in football skills-based activities throughout the day including highly competitive rounds of ‘beat the teacher’ and nail-bitingly close penalty shoot outs! Inside the classrooms, pupils were tasked with designing a mascot…
ISA Digital Art Competition Success
The annual ISA Digital Art Competition is a national celebration of young artists, who use their creative and technical skills to produce digital work. This year’s competition features two Avon House pupils among the judges winning selections. A huge congratulations to Magnolia and Theia for their hard work with their pieces, ‘Alien in Space’ and ‘Pirate…
Passover
This week, Year 2 were very lucky to have a speaker, Mr Grant, come in to speak to us about Passover. We have been learning about Judaism during our RPS lessons, and the children showed an impressive understanding of Passover at the start of the session! Mr Grant took the children through the foods on…
Sunflower Sale
Mr Reed held his Annual Sunflower Sale after school on Wednesday and Thursday this week. The proceeds this year, which to date stand at around £120, will be going towards buying food from a local supermarket which some of the children will be involved in and then delivering to the Foodbank in Loughton. A big…
U9 Football Tournament at Frentford FC
On Wednesday 24th April, 7 boys from Years 3 & 4 played in an U9 Football tournament at Frentford FC. 16 teams took part. In the group stage we won 1 match but lost 2 placing us 3rd in our group. We then went on to the plate competition where we won 2 of our 3…
Blue Peter Badge
I was awarded a Green Blue Peter badge for sending in photos and artwork about the environment, conservation and nature. I also had to answer some questions to tell Blue Peter how I help to look after the environment, why being green is important to me and how I recycled 1000 old household batteries. Last…
Performance Assembly
The Summer Term Performance Assembly held on Friday 19th April, was once again a vibrant showcase of the amazing talents and creative expressions of Avon House. Pupils from across the school in Year 1 to Year 6 participated, sharing their excellence artistic endeavours. The termly Performance Assembly provides a platform for our pupils to shine…
All Rise for the Magistrate
On Thursday, pupils in Years 5 & 6 had an audience with Dawn Roache, a friend of Avon House and a Magistrate (Justice of the Peace). She spoke to Year 5 about the dangers of social media and to Year 6 about the consequences of Cyber Bullying. These sessions were full of practical examples and…
London Pulse Netball
On Monday 15th April, 11 girls from Netball Club, along with Mrs Gleadell and Miss Ioakim went to the Copper Box in Stratford to watch London Pulse v Saracen Mavericks. It was a really close match with some superb netball played by both teams. London Pulse narrowly beat the Saracen Mavericks 45-43. It was a…
The Wind in the Knighton Woods
For this term’s WOW Day, Year 2 were introduced to our new text, The Wind in the Willows, as well as exploring a woodland habitat. We began the day by reading the first chapter of the book, where we were introduced to Mole, Rat, Badger and Toad. We then walked to Knighton Woods and investigated…
