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Category: Literacy

Inter-house Poetry and Reading Competition Winners

16th January 2026

Thank you to all those who spent time over their October half term to take part in the two inter-house competition. It was incredibly tough to choose our winners, but I am delighted to announce that the interhouse poetry competition winners are: Y5/6 – Dinore Y3/4 – Pola Y1/2 – Huxley EYFS – Jonah Similarly…

World Book Day

7th March 2025

This year, World Book Day was all about stepping into the world of books—literally! Instead of dressing up as words, we flipped the idea on its head and took our books’ places, immersing ourselves in their stories. From Foundation 1 to Year 6, children embraced the joy of reading in new and exciting ways, enjoying…

National Storytelling Week

11th February 2025

Last week, we took part in National Storytelling Week and we were so grateful for the incredible support from our parents in making the week such an enjoyable experience for the pupils in all classes. The children were so excited to hear the chosen story at the end of the day and it was a…

Inter House Poetry Competition

15th November 2024

We are thrilled to share the success of our recent Inter-House Poetry Competition, held in honour of Remembrance Day. The students poured their creativity and emotion into their poems and drawings, resulting in an impressive array of entries that truly captured the spirit of the occasion. We are so proud of all the students who…

What a Wonderful Wordy World Book Day

7th March 2024

What a day! Words upon words upon WORDS! The whole school has had a real blast this World Book Day! Each class has dressed to impress and shared their words and costumes with each other. It has been an honour to go to each class and hear the children share their words. I think we…

AIM High Writing Day

8th February 2024

A group of Year 2 Avon House pupils attended the inspiring AIM High Writing Day workshop by the author, storyteller and creator of Rastamouse Michael De Souza this week. They explored the construction of traditional nursery rhymes then developed and performed with flare, their own modern day rhymes. Every was full of excitement when they…

Read Together

13th September 2023

Our pupil shared reading programme – Read Together – started today, with the different years meeting their reading partner classes for the first time. It was such a beautiful afternoon to see stories being enjoyed and shared so animatedly outside.

World Book Day – Celebrating All Things Literacy

3rd March 2023

Our World Book Day celebrations started as soon as the children came through the school gates this morning. This year we asked the children to dress as a vocabulary word and the playground was buzzing with the sound of all the fabulous words being shared and the appreciation of the spectacularly creative costumes. Throughout the…

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.