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Posted: 30th January 2025

Avon House came together to celebrate the year of the snake and the start of the 2025 Lunar New Year yesterday, with different activities taking place across the whole school. Activities included traditional Chinese calligraphy on special rice paper with instructions on how to write  ‘Luck’ and ‘Snake,’ dragon dancing using a costume created by Year 2, creating Lunar New Year coding projects on Scratch, making Chinese fans, lanterns and paper craft snakes, generating a Chinese music soundscape with instruments, enjoying a tasty Chinese lunch from our Thomas Franks catering team and of course, exploring the story of The Great Race and the Chinese Zodiac.  With a big thank you to our parent volunteers, whose time, effort and involvement helped to enrich our environment for all pupils to learn in.

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Closure of Avon House Preparatory School

It is with much sadness that we are announcing the closure of the school with immediate effect. Avon House was founded over a hundred years ago under the name Essex House and then in the early 1950’s was renamed Avon House School. The vision for the current school was that of Sheila Ferrari who bought the school in 1970, providing a family school for pupils from 3-11 years old.

We have explored a number of options to try and save the school from closure but in recent days it became obvious that was not meant to be. The school has struggled with financial pressures including the introduction of VAT on school fees and the rise in NI and pension costs.

We have always put our pupils at the heart of school life both academically and pastorally under the banner of ‘Celebrating and supporting every child’ and we know that many pupils who have journeyed through our school have gone on to great success.

We wish all our pupils and families the best for the future as they embrace new schools in the locality.