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Year 5 Residential to Normandy
Our Year 5 trip started on Tuesday at 06:20, when we said our goodbyes and set off. The coach journey was long, but we found lots of ways to entertain ourselves, such as books, travel games and loud chants of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (the boys’ rows chorused in football songs)! Twelve hours later, the…
Year 3 Residential to Gilwell Park
In a two day and one night filled adventure, Year 3 embarked on their first residential trip to Gilwell Park in Epping Forest this week, creating memories that will last a lifetime. Arriving at school on Thursday morning with bags packed and anticipation building, the children boarded the school buses with giggles and chatter filling…
Building Bridges
A few children from the Prep School spent a week researching, painting pictures of, designing and building new bridges to span the River Thames. After a trip into London to look at existing bridges, they painted the ones they’d seen and made prototypes of their ideas out of rolled newspaper. After this, the children sketched…
Year 2 Visit to Hyde Hall
On Tuesday, Year 2 had an exciting and educational experience at RHS Hyde Hall. Despite some rainy weather, we enjoyed lots of hands-on activities which reinforced our learning about habitats in Science lessons. For the indoor part of the day, children were able to get a close up look at some organisms that had finished…
Year 2 5-a-side Football Tournament
On 9th May, 7 budding footballers from Year 2 travelled to Barnet Power League for a 5-a-side competition. After 5 matches in the group stages, the boys finished in very respectable 3rd place. They went forward to the quarter finals where unfortunately they were beaten by Southbank International School. It was a great afternoon of…
ISA Band Competition Winners!
We are delighted to announce that our Strings Group came first in ISA’s Band Competition 2024 for large instrumental ensemble! This win is a testament to the pupils’ dedication and pursuit of excellence. Even though the majority of pupils in the group have just taken, or are working towards, Grade 1, the overwhelming sense of…
A Visit to the British Library
On 7th May, members from the Diversity Council and our House Captains were given a fantastic opportunity to attend a workshop held at The British Library. We took part in a workshop which focused on sacred texts. The children were engaged throughout the workshop; taking part in group activities, sharing ideas and demonstrating knowledge and…
Soccer Aid
Avon House’s first ever Soccer Aid event was a scoring success! The pupils did not let the weather dampen their spirits as they participated in football skills-based activities throughout the day including highly competitive rounds of ‘beat the teacher’ and nail-bitingly close penalty shoot outs! Inside the classrooms, pupils were tasked with designing a mascot…
ISA Digital Art Competition Success
The annual ISA Digital Art Competition is a national celebration of young artists, who use their creative and technical skills to produce digital work. This year’s competition features two Avon House pupils among the judges winning selections. A huge congratulations to Magnolia and Theia for their hard work with their pieces, ‘Alien in Space’ and ‘Pirate…
Passover
This week, Year 2 were very lucky to have a speaker, Mr Grant, come in to speak to us about Passover. We have been learning about Judaism during our RPS lessons, and the children showed an impressive understanding of Passover at the start of the session! Mr Grant took the children through the foods on…
