Parents

Weekly Parent Bulletin - Friday 3rd July 2026

Dear parents,

I’m writing this from a lovely setting in the New Forest where I’ve enjoyed the past 3 days out on the Year 4 residential. Spending quality time with the children, learning new skills and having adventures has made for the best experience. Where I often get stuck behind my desk, it’s been a brilliant reminder of why I love my job!

I have to say the Year 4’s have been brilliant company. They have been so polite and respectful to the Fresh Air Club staff team - with many compliments about what super children we have at Avonwood. Shout out to our Avonwood staff who gave up their time and energy to make this happen too. There aren’t many professions where staff volunteer their time for free and stay away from their own families, including the significant responsibilities that come with trips like this... all to give our pupils experiences that will last a lifetime. #TeamAvonwood

On Monday morning I hope we will be celebrating an England victory in the World Cup. Avonwood will be open as normal, so please send your child in to celebrate / commiserate with their friends. I'm going 1-1 with a win on penalties... it's coming home!

Next week is supposed to be another warm week of weather, but within the realms of normal British summer temperatures. This week has worked well with all the simple adaptions in place, so we will continue with these until the end of term. This means PE kit can be worn daily. In addition, bottles with iced water and pocket fans are fine to come into school. Caps continue to be an essential daily item for all children.

Have a great weekend!

Mr Jackson

Whole School Reminders

PTA Updates

FANd Raising

As lots of parents said they would like to help the school buy fans and other cooling equipment for our children we have set up a donation page below. Please donate if you wish to: https://superkind.org/campaign/avonwood-pta-avonwood-fandraiser

PTA meeting

Our last PTA meeting of the year is July 7^th 7:30 at The Way Outback. We would love to see you there.

Summer Fair and Raffle

Our new-style Summer Fair will run from 3:15–5:00pm on Friday, 10th July. There will be performances from some of our pupils, as well as stalls and games run by our Year 5 pupils. Each year group will also have a stall that they have helped to organise and will hopefully be able to volunteer to run alongside their teachers. More information about how they can help will be shared very soon.

You should already have received tickets for our amazing raffle, with prizes including family days out, afternoon teas, hampers and other fantastic goodies. Please follow the instructions on the envelope to enter. Additional tickets will also be available to purchase on the day.

Both cash and card will be accepted, and many of the games and stalls will be priced between 50p and £2.

We look forward to seeing you there!

MHST - "Behaviours thet challenge us" Information Session

Updated Uniform Information for September- Our new House PE T-shirts.

This year the children who are part of our school council have requested that our PE tops reflect the colours and names of our 'Houses' for team points. Therefore, Stevensons will begin to phase out the 'old' design PE tops and the new ones will become available in the coming weeks. If your child is not sure of what house they are in, then please ask the class teacher in the first instance or ask at the office and they can inform you. This will be a phased change so we are not expecting parents to buy new if the old ones still fit and parents can still hand down PE tops from older siblings to younger siblings.

Red - Congo | Blue - Tongass | Green - Amazon | Yellow - Kinabalu

Adoption and Kinship Reform

The Government is currently consulting on proposals to reform adoption and kinship support in England. Improvements to support for children and young people who are adopted or growing up in kinship care are both needed and welcome. If you would like to lobby your local MP to engage in this discussion, there are details for how to do this below:

Ask your MP to join our parliamentary drop in | Adoption UK Charity

Pop-Up Bookshop

!! PLEASE COMPLETE BY FRIDAY 10TH JULY !!

The Pop-Up Bookshop reading challenge 10,000 Hours Of Fun Reading ended on Friday 26th June. If you haven't yet submitted your child's time online please complete this by Friday 10th July so Pop-Up Bookshop can deliver the correct amount of certificates and prize bookmarks which will be distributed soon.

Submit your child's reading time online: https://popupbookshop.net/go-all-in-campaign/

Donate sponsorship online: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=TQVK58UQ6TGHE

Cash sponsorship should be handed to the school office - please mark envelope: 'Pop-Up Bookshop - 10K Hours'

Vanessa Marsh

07932 325193

www.popupbookshop.net

www.greatbigread.co.uk

@popupbookshopuk | @greatbigread

Weekly Year Group Updates

EYFS

Summer Fair - A reminder that the Summer Fair is next Friday the 10th of July after school.

Reading records/books - From next week we will begin to collect in all of the phonics books, library books and reading records ready to sort and pass onto the children's new teachers in year 1.

Year 1

Due to the warm weather, please ensure all children are coming to school with a school hat (named) and suncream applied.

Forest School Friday will take place again next Friday, therefore, please ensure your child is in non-uniform and wearing sensible footwear.

Year 2

Thank you to everyone who had paid for Jamie's Punch and Judy puppet show. Please remember to bring a picnic blanket or chair for yourself.

Year 3

None this week.

Year 4

Next week on Thursday we will be making cushions for our DT day. We would really appreciate any parent helpers for this day so please let us know on the door if you are happy to help. We also ask that if any parents have stuffing from old cushions/sponges/soft material that they bring it in so we can use it to stuff our cushions. Thank you!

Year 5

None this week.

Year 6

End of year performance date - we are performing the end of year play to parents on Thursday 9th July. Doors will open at around 13:30 with the aim to begin the show at 13:45. Due to limited space, each child will be entitled to two guests (free of charge - tickets have been sent home). Siblings will be watching our dress rehearsal so will not need to attend the official show.
Year 6 will be visiting Avonbourne to bake scones on Friday 10^th July. Letters will go out today with a list of ingredients each child will need to bring in on Friday. Please ensure these are appropriately wrapped and that a labelled container is also brought in to hold 6 scones. Thank you in advance.