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Adventurous Early Years Explorers
Early Years ICT Explorers Club were out and about this week, using iPads to take pictures of their Lego figures on adventures in different parts of the school grounds. Everyone wanted to hear the exciting adventure stories told by the children as they worked!
A Galaxy Far Far Away
In the last few weeks, Year 1 have been experimenting with different apps and computer games and investigating what we need to do to make them work. We have used lightbot, Incredibox and even protected a galaxy far far away through a Star Wars game. In each of the game we had to give the…
A Visit to City Hall
On Thursday 25th January, the School Council team had an educational visit to City Hall. We learnt about how The City of London is run and even got the opportunity to sit in on the London Assembly meeting! It was a brilliant and interesting day had by all. We look forward to using our knowledge…
ISA STEAM Competition
Over the Christmas break, children in the Prep were set a task to create a STEAM project in the hope of being selected to be put forward for the ISA competition. After viewing many entertaining entries (including soft toys being launched into the sides of houses and eggs being smashed) the winners were decided. Congratulations…
Can You Solve It?
One of our Tuesday’s club is called ‘Can You Solve It?’ Amongst many puzzles and problem solving scenarios, the children were asked to investigate how many interlocking cubes were needed to create a small structure from a given diagram. The children were asked to predict the number of cubes used and then check with their…
U9 Tag Rugby v Loyola
Monday afternoon saw our Year 4 team take on Loyola at The Wells. Loyola just pipped Avon House by two matches to one in 3 hard fought matches. Having the slope, wind, and sun in your favour proved the deciding factor in all 3 matches. Tyler and Gabriel proved to be our two most valuable…
U11 ISA London North Table Tennis
The boys and girls table-tennis teams applied themselves very well last Thursday at the ISA Table Tennis competition at Kings School, Harpenden. The standard was particularly high with nationally ranked players in both the boys and girls competitions. Easton and Tanure were the best performers in their respective competitions, while everyone else won at least two…
Young Voices at the o2
In a spectacular showcase of musical prowess and harmony on Monday 15th January for the first time representatives from the Avon House choir in Years 4, 5 and 6 performed at the O2 Arena, as part of the Young Voices Choir event. Nothing could prepare us for the sight, sound and energy of 8,500…
Miler Of the Week
As part of the Daily Mile, we will now be announcing the ‘Miler of the Week’ in Friday assemblies. The Miler of the Week can be awarded to a pupil for many reasons, from achieving a personal best fastest lap to showing perseverance to improve their fitness levels. It gives us great pleasure to announce…
New School Hall Floor
Year 2 Herons made sure the School Hall floor repaint that took place over the Christmas holidays was up to scratch as they took part in their gymnastics lesson this morning. The children took part in various gymnastic techniques which worked on their balancing and coordination skills.
