Parents

Weekly Parent Bulletin - Friday 6th June 2025

Dear parents,

I hope you all enjoyed a great half term break!

This week has highlighted the need for children to be ready for all weather! Please continue to send them in daily with caps, sunscreen applied but also with a suitable rain coat too.

Yesterday we recognised Global Environment Day with an assembly all about the little things we can all do to make a positive difference. Ideas included simple things like turning off lights, wearing a jumper rather than using heating and always using re-usable water bottles. This ties in well with our Victorian style Earth Charter day next Friday (13th June) when we'll be trying our best to go electricity free. Children are welcome to come in wearing victorian style fancy dress if they wish to.

I also have some lovely news to share - both Mrs Darch and Mrs Short are pregnant. Timing wise this has worked out well with both due in the autumn. This means we have been able to plan ahead to minimise disruption. This is the time of year when we pull together final staffing plans for September 2025, with more details to follow soon.

Tomorrow we are hosting our annual ResearchEd event for teachers and education leaders. Mr Jackson-Taylor has an incredible contacts book meaning we have some expert national guest speakers on stage at Avonwood tomorrow. Events like this aren't the norm at most schools, so hosting local and national education staff is quite a feather in the cap for Avonwood!

Lastly, a reminder our Head Boy Louie is holding an ice cream sale after school today with all proceeds going to a special charity - Chrons and Colitis UK. If you have a few pennies to spare, please head there after school and grab an ice cream.

Have a great half term!

Mr Jackson

Whole School Reminders

Walk to School Week Survey Request Plea!

Please can parents help with our BCP Walk to Help survey by completing the short survey found here. Completing this survey feeds into our work with BCP to lobby for things like cycle lanes, bike sheds and even EV charging points. If you can spend a few minutes completing the survey it would be much appreciated.

Class Photos

Please be advised that class photos have now been moved and will be held on Thursday 12th June.

New BCP Family Hub webpage

Dear Families,

Please see the link below the BCP new Family Hub webpage. A range of support is available for families living in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. By working alongside local communities, with other professionals and the voluntary sector, we aim to provide the right help at the right time for you and your family.

We provide help from pregnancy onwards and support families with children aged 0 to 19 (or up to 25 for those with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities).

Welcome to your online family hub

Avonwood Summer Fair - 21st June 4-7pm

It's only 2 weeks away from the great Avonwood Summer Fair! With loads of fun stalls, food and entertainment we look forward to seeing you all enjoying yourself (hopefully) in the summer sun!

Thank you so much to all of you who have so far volunteered to help but we are still looking for a few more people to help on the day just for half an hour. If you would like to support this event please sign up to one of our volunteer spots:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094CACAC29A6FCC16-56113654-summer

Winton and Glenmoor Summer Fair - 1st July

Flyer attached for our United Learning secondary school at Winton and Glenmoor. Details here.

Weekly Year Group Updates

EYFS

Welcome back to Charlotte Harris who returns from maternity leave. She'll be helping across the school, but you are likely to see her supporting in EYFS as an extra pair of hands for this half term.

Year 1

Monday 9th June - Optional skeleton dress up to launch our 'Humans' topic.
Friday 13th June - Forest School children to wear PE kit as we have PE in the afternoon. Thank you

Year 2

The children have all chosen a place to write an information text about in English. It would be helpful if the children could do some additional research at home to support them with their writing. If they find any facts to use in their text, they can bring them into school.
We are having a DT day on Wednesday 2^nd July where we are learning how to sew to make puppets. If there are any parents/grandparents who would be willing to come in at 1:15pm on this day to help for the afternoon with sewing, please let the class teacher know.
A reminder to look out for the letter about the Punch and Judy performance that was sent out before half term and to pay for this on ParentPay.

Year 3

Swimming continues on Monday 9th June. Please can all children from Willow arrive promptly at school as we depart at 8:50am.
A reminder that Greek Day is on Friday 13th June. We invite the children to come into school dressed as an Ancient Greek. We will also be having a special visit by Treehouse Theatre company, so we kindly ask for a £7 contribution to be made via parent pay.

Year 4

A reminder that over the next couple of weeks, children will be completing their Multiplication Times table Check. They will be with their class teacher and this will be done in a low stakes manner. The children have worked hard on their times tables this year and so are ready to show what they know!
Please look out for a letter detailing final reminders for the residential and final kit list over the next week. If you haven't yet paid the remaining balance, please do so ASAP.
We also have class photos next Thursday so please ensure children are dressed in full school uniform on this day.