Parents

Weekly Parent Bulletin - Friday 16th October 2026

Dear Parents,

Thank you to everyone for the generous donations received for our harvest assembly. Volunteers from Hope4Food attended our assembly and thanked pupils for helping make a difference with these donations. We also enjoyed a variety of songs from all of our year groups.

On Tuesday evening the PTA held their annual AGM and appointed post holders for the year ahead. I'm pleased to announce Charli and Steph will be continuing as Chairs this year, supported by an excellent wider team.

Our firework event is rapidly approaching and there is a final opportunity for any stall holders to come forward. If you know any local small businesses that might like to attend, please put them in touch with our PTA team: avonwoodpta@gmail.com

With the event selling out the last three years, I'd also encourage any friends and family to secure tickets ASAP. You can buy tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/avonwoodprimarypta

Next week is STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Maths) Week at Avonwood. Mr Allen has worked with staff across the school to put together a brilliant set of activities. A reminder that parents are invited to attend our STEAM showcases in classrooms next Friday at 3pm.

Lastly, we bid farewell to Miss Marks next week. Miss Marks has been a Teaching Assistant at Avonwood for many years. She always has a remarkable knack for building relationships with SEND pupils with her warm approach and natural sense of fun. We wish her well with her new career in hospitality.

7 weeks into an eight week half term and I can definitely tell many of our pupils & staff are in need of the half term break... one more week to go!

Mr Jackson

Whole School Reminders

PTA Updates

Thank you to everyone that come along to our successful PTA AGM this week. We reviewed and appointed our committee positions ( Joint Chairs – Charlie and Steph, Treasurer – Stacey and Secretary – Anna). Without these wonderful people, our PTA wouldn’t be as successful as it is, so thank you! We were also able to add to our wonderful trustee committee – welcome to the PTA! Sadly, Gerry will be stepping down as trustee – thank you for all the help and support you have provided. Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday 17th November.

We need you! The Avonwood Fireworks event is a really big opportunity for the school to raise lots of funds to improve our school facilities but the PTA can't do it alone so we need your help! As before we are rewarding each volunteer with either a free refreshments, a free bounce or a priority ticket for your child's Christmas play. Please sign up for your slot using this link -

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094CACAC29A6FCC16-65890223-fireworks

Remember to buy your firework tickets online. Get them before they sell out! Purchase them online from the link below.

www.tickettailor.com/events/avonwoodprimarypta

If you don't already, please follow us on social media to keep up-to-date on all PTA news and reminders.

Mrs Grimley

Thank you for supporting our very own Mrs Grimley in her race last weekend, she has so far raised an impressive £9,270 and counting. If you can and would like to donate then please follow the link - Stars For Seren - GiveWheel

Mrs Grimley would like to offer a heartfelt thank you for your generous donations and kind messages.

Half Term Activity Challenge - Move in 7 ways in 7 days.

Is a physical activity log and we are encouraging them to try and do a different type of physical activity each day.
They can do more than one activity a day if they wish.
Family members also welcome to get involved.

Prize draw- anyone that completes 60 active minutes on each day of the half term is welcome to enter the prize draw to win some activity vouchers. Enter via the link below.

https://forms.gle/WjWkAnuU9FQHLcSLA

Messy Church Light Party

FACE Timetable fro October

Weekly Year Group Updates

EYFS

Phonics - Thank you to everyone who attended our phonics workshop yesterday! The children have been very busy and covered the following sounds: s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r. Please practice these sounds every time your child reads to you, the sound mat is at the front of the reading record. They have also learnt the CEWs ‘the’, ‘to’ and ‘into’ and need to be able to read these by sight and spell them. Thank you for your support in helping your child read and write 👏🩷
Reading - all children now have a phonics reading book. Please get your child to read their book as much as possible and write in their reading record. This has a huge impact on their progress in reading. Please also send in their reading record in their bags every day as we use them often.
Homework - please make sure children write the sounds on the back of the sheet themselves. They are very used to this now as we practice this every day.

Year 1

We had a wonderful time on our field trip today to Kings Park. The children consolidated all their Geography and Science learning this half term. A BIG thank you to all our parent helpers, we couldn't do wonderful things like this without you!
Polite reminder that parents are welcome into their child's class at 3pm next Friday to see our end of STEAM week project.
Keep all the fantastic reading happening at home. Please remember to record in your child's reading record, our class pom-pom jars are nearly full!

Year 2

In preparation for STEAM week, we kindly ask that all children come into school on Monday with 3 empty yoghurt pots. The children will be using them to plant rocket seeds as part of an investigation and will be taking them home to observe over the week.
Parents are invited into classrooms Friday after school to look at all the work we have produced linked to our STEAM topic on flowers.
We are so impressed with how much the children are completing their doodle maths now that we have added some fun rewards! After half term, there will be some small changes to the rewards to make it more manageable in class. Thank you for your support.

Year 3

A reminder to pay for the Forest School sessions that are taking place next half term.
A reminder that next week is STEAM week. Parents are welcome to join us in classes at 3pm next Friday to see what we have been learning and making.
Well done to Elm and Willow for all of their brilliant reading at home. You have all worked together to fill up our Pom Poms Jars - well done!

Year 4

None this week.

Year 5

None this week.

Year 6

A reminder that adults are welcome to come in at 3pm on Friday next week to see the children's STEAM week work and also to see our wonderful Fantastic Beast creations!