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Your Voice Matters
The theme of Children’s Mental Health week is ‘Your Voice Matters.’ As part of RRS, it links to article 12, ‘You have the right to an opinion and for it to be listened to and taken seriously.’ This is something we are very passionate about at school and have fully embraced this week; promoting the…
AIM High Writing Day
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…
Stratford and East London Music Festival
Congratulations to the Avon House Choir who performed at the Stratford and East London Music Festival on Monday, held at St Mary’s Church, South Woodford. Twenty seven children from Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 represented us and tried their hardest at this very competitive event, with six other choirs present from other schools in…
U11 Swimming Gala v Daiglen
On Friday 2nd February seven boys and seven girls were chosen to swim in some races against Daiglen school during their weekly swimming lesson at Loughton Leisure centre. All individual races were over 25m, featured three pupils from each school, divided by gender and all four strokes were showcased. Our boys team of Arvin, Keerit,…
Book Club Awards
This term’s Book Club children have achieved an award for attending at least 10 reading session at lunchtime with Mrs MacDonald. They have been awarded a poetry book for all their hard work and we hope they all enjoy reading this.
Sustainability Council Make Things Happen
The Sustainability Council gave an entertaining update in assembly on Friday of all the things they have been busy with over the last 2 months! We collected 6.5kiograms of rubbish during our Litter Pick at lunchtime We have already collected 800 batteries for recycling this year (a school record) and have bought a battery recycling…
A Visit to a Gurdwara
On Wednesday 31st January, Year 5 went on a trip to a Gurdwara in Barking. The building was amazing, built with marble. The Guru Granth is a holy book and it takes about 48 hours to read all of it! That’s a long time. After that, we went into the langur hall which is where…
A Live BBC Science Lesson
On Wednesday, Year 6 took part in a BBC Live Science lesson which focused on the adaptations and classifications of sharks. This thirty-minute live lesson, hosted by Steve Backshall, had learning activities for the children to engage with too. One of the tasks required them to correctly identify a shark using a dichotomous key. There…
ISA London North U11 and U13 Netball Tournament
Today Avon House hosted the London North U11 and U13 Netball National Qualifying tournaments at Redbridge Sports Centre. Our squad got off to a flying start winning their first 3 matches in the group stages without conceding a goal. We drew our final match 1-1 and finished top of our group. We then played St…
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!
