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Year 3 Visit to BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir
This week started with a riot of colour and light for Year 3 when they visited BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Chigwell, as part of their RE topic of Hinduism. Guided by a passionate Mandir volunteer called Dhiya, they were treated to an interactive information session about the festival of Diwali and a performance from…
World Kindness Day
Well done to our Year 5 classes who spread a little joy today by drawing and making cards for residents in a local care centre. The residents of the care centre said that: “the beautiful pictures and letters have touched their hearts and made them feel loved and appreciated. The residents have been overwhelmed by…
Happy Diwali
Year 3 created rangoli patterns in the playground this afternoon, carefully working as a class to create large patterns outside their classroom ‘home’ door for everyone to see at home time. Avon House would like to wish everyone celebrating this weekend, a very Happy Diwali!
F2-Year 1 Inter House Connect 4 Final
On Wednesday, the F2-Y2 Inter-House Connect 4 Final took place with an excited six class finalists. The children all gave their best, concentrating their hardest as they played and some even tried to help their opponents to place their pieces in better positions! The grand final was between Hari in Kingfishers and Benji in Herons….
Black History Month
To the Avon House Community, Thank you for your support last night. The cultural food tasting event was a success with singing and dancing to compliment the whole event. Thank you to the working party, school caterers, staff and parents for your valuable contributions. Let’s hope that next year is bigger and even better!! Friday’s…
The Values of the Avon House Swan
At the beginning of the term, Mr Manning set the Prep a weekend homework to design new icons for our weekly awards. He was so overwhelmed with the responses that he had to get Mrs Mistry to help him decide a winner! “It was so encouraging to see how much the pupils know about our…
Prep Art Club
The Prep Art Club enjoyed taking part in Black History Month inspired graphic art this week. Drawing around their own hands and adding brightly coloured and bold geometric patterns within, the children talked about how geometric elements might symbolise unity, balance and continuity. Itai said, “My artwork was inspired by my family from Zimbabwe.”
A Record Breaking Harvest Collection
As it begins to turn colder with Autumn, Harvest celebrations are keeping us on our toes for certain! It was great to have your support this Harvest! We at Epping Forest Foodbank would like to say a HUGE thank you to all of your teachers, parents, carers, all of you wonderful students and of course…
Black History Month
October sees the start of Black History Month and I firstly wanted to say a massive thank you to our parents for taking part in the Heritage interviews. These have been incredible and very enlightening. We have been sharing these with our classes and there will be soon enough a world map display, displaying all…
Messy Marshmellows
During Monday’s Team Building & Problem Solving Prep activity, the children took on the legendary spaghetti tower marshmallow challenge! Working in teams, they had to build the tallest possible tower that could support a marshmallow. The children learnt that, in order to build a strong tower, they needed to create a sturdy base. It was…
