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Young Musician of the Year

Posted: 6th May 2025

An exciting start to the term last week, with the Avon House Young Musician of the Year. As auditions took place with Mr Jackson, Deputy Director of Music at Forest School, during the day. The grand final was held after school, with performances that included clarinet, drums, recorder, piano and a Vaja!

All of our pupils who auditioned should be very proud of the time and effort they’ve put into learning, practicing and performing their instruments. But as always there can only be a single Pre-Prep and a Prep winner.

A big congratulations to Dhillon who won the Pre-Prep prize and to Maggie who won the Prep Prize.

A big thank you to Mr Jackson for his time during the day and inspiring feedback to our pupils.

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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.