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A Visit to a Gurdwara
On Wednesday 31st January, Year 5 went on a trip to a Gurdwara in Barking. The building was amazing, built with marble. The Guru Granth is a holy book and it takes about 48 hours to read all of it! That’s a long time. After that, we went into the langur hall which is where…
A Live BBC Science Lesson
On Wednesday, Year 6 took part in a BBC Live Science lesson which focused on the adaptations and classifications of sharks. This thirty-minute live lesson, hosted by Steve Backshall, had learning activities for the children to engage with too. One of the tasks required them to correctly identify a shark using a dichotomous key. There…
ISA London North U11 and U13 Netball Tournament
Today Avon House hosted the London North U11 and U13 Netball National Qualifying tournaments at Redbridge Sports Centre. Our squad got off to a flying start winning their first 3 matches in the group stages without conceding a goal. We drew our final match 1-1 and finished top of our group. We then played St…
Adventurous Early Years Explorers
Early Years ICT Explorers Club were out and about this week, using iPads to take pictures of their Lego figures on adventures in different parts of the school grounds. Everyone wanted to hear the exciting adventure stories told by the children as they worked!
A Galaxy Far Far Away
In the last few weeks, Year 1 have been experimenting with different apps and computer games and investigating what we need to do to make them work. We have used lightbot, Incredibox and even protected a galaxy far far away through a Star Wars game. In each of the game we had to give the…
A Visit to City Hall
On Thursday 25th January, the School Council team had an educational visit to City Hall. We learnt about how The City of London is run and even got the opportunity to sit in on the London Assembly meeting! It was a brilliant and interesting day had by all. We look forward to using our knowledge…
ISA STEAM Competition
Over the Christmas break, children in the Prep were set a task to create a STEAM project in the hope of being selected to be put forward for the ISA competition. After viewing many entertaining entries (including soft toys being launched into the sides of houses and eggs being smashed) the winners were decided. Congratulations…
Can You Solve It?
One of our Tuesday’s club is called ‘Can You Solve It?’ Amongst many puzzles and problem solving scenarios, the children were asked to investigate how many interlocking cubes were needed to create a small structure from a given diagram. The children were asked to predict the number of cubes used and then check with their…
U9 Tag Rugby v Loyola
Monday afternoon saw our Year 4 team take on Loyola at The Wells. Loyola just pipped Avon House by two matches to one in 3 hard fought matches. Having the slope, wind, and sun in your favour proved the deciding factor in all 3 matches. Tyler and Gabriel proved to be our two most valuable…
U11 ISA London North Table Tennis
The boys and girls table-tennis teams applied themselves very well last Thursday at the ISA Table Tennis competition at Kings School, Harpenden. The standard was particularly high with nationally ranked players in both the boys and girls competitions. Easton and Tanure were the best performers in their respective competitions, while everyone else won at least two…
