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ISA London North Art Competition Winners!
On Thursday, Avon House hosted the London North ISA Art Competition at the Marriott in Waltham Abbey. We are proud to announce that we won 1st place for last year’s Year 1 Tinga Tinga Inspired Art piece and a big congratulations goes to Nia (Year 3) who also won 1st place for her Sketchbook work!
Rights Respecting Schools Presentation by our RRS Council
The RRS Council had a very exciting week. They were invited to give a presentation to the Head Teachers Conference about what it means to be a Rights Respecting School. All eleven members of the Council worked hard to explain what UNICEF is, what children’s rights are and how important it is for children to…
A Visit from the Windrush Society
On Wednesday, Year 5 had a visitor from the Windrush Society. Windrush is the name of the ship that brought lots of people from Jamaica and other countries in the Caribbean to the UK to help increase the number of workers available to re-build the country after the devastation of World War 2. Our visitor…
A Visit from Zeon Richards
As part of our Black History Month celebrations, Year 6 were fortunate to have music executive Zeon Richards in to talk to them about ambition, careers and achievement. In his inspirational talk, Zeon spoke candidly about his passion for music from a young age, and how he used this as a driving force to get…
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…
Arsenal Women v Liverpool Women
Girls of the Prep attended an opening fixture of the Women’s Super League on Sunday 1st October – Arsenal Women v Liverpool Women. Played at Emirates Stadium, the match was a record attendance for the WSL at 54,115. This eclipsed the previous record of last season’s Arsenal Women against Tottenham Women, of which the school…
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…
Prep Sports Leaders
Monday saw the Prep Sports Leaders group deliver their first planned session to the Pre-Prep Ball Skills group at the Wells. The Sports Leaders had been tasked the previous week with planning a differentiated coaching session with the children from the Ball Skills group after school. The weather held and the skills being delivered varied…
School In A Bag – 20 Rucksacks Funded
‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.’ – Nelson Mandela Launching the 2023 Pankhurst charity day, Avon House had a visit from Luke Simon, the CEO of School in a Bag in our whole school assembly. He spoke passionately about the charity, the charity origins, the different places…
A Battery Boost
Sustainability Council is very proud of its Year 3KI representative, Aiden. Aiden has been focusing on boosting the school’s battery recycling collection, so he reached out to his neighbours and managed to collect over 100 used batteries in just one weekend! Aiden is a fine example of carrying out sustainability projects at home, not just…
