Parents

Weekly Parent Bulletin - Friday 18th September 2026

Dear parents,

Today our Badgers and Hedgehogs completed their first full day at Avonwood! They have done so well during their transition these past two weeks, coming in with big smiles daily and looking so smart in their uniforms. We are so proud of them all!

On Tuesday evening. our PTA team held their first meeting of the new academic year. It was great to see lots of new faces keen to help raise funds and organise new community events.

We are approaching the time of year when families are reaching out to Avonwood with a view to their child starting with us in reception from September 2027. If you have any friends or family considering Avonwood, please encourage them to contact our front office team to book a tour. With the birth rate lower than ever, families have a greater chance than they might think of securing a space next year.

Lastly a reminder to book your parents evening slot when you have a moment. Both rounds of these are in person, hopefully enabling families to properly meet staff and discuss their children. These events combined with our 'Meet the Teacher' presentations on Monday will hopefully mean families feel well prepared for the academic year ahead.

Have a great weekend!

Mr Jackson

Whole School Reminders

PTA Updates

On Tuesday 15th September we had our first PTA meeting of the school year. It was so lovely to have some lovely new, enthusiastic faces come along to see what they can do to help our school community. We discussed successful bids from last year which included funding a new table tennis table for the playground, stable storage for all the wonderful OPAL play equipment, floodlights for the playground as well as a large contribution to the building of the new library that will be installed near the end of September. We can't wait to see how the children of the school benefit and enjoy all these new resources!

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Last date to get early bird tickets for the fireworks is 30^th September!

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/avonwoodprimarypta

If anyone has or knows of a small business who would like to run a stall at our firework event, please email us at avonwoodpta@gmail.com. Prices start at £30 for a stall.

Keep your entries coming in for the 'Red button' firework competition!

If anyone would like to show their support towards the PTA through a one of donation, you can use the following link.
https://superkind.org/campaign/support-avonwood-pta

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

Accessing online plaftfoms: MyLogin QR codes

We are starting to send QR codes home with children that allows to access some of our commonly platforms (Microsoft 365, EdShed, Times Tables Rockstars) via a single login. Please use the following link to launch the QR code scanner:

https://app.mylogin.com/login/avonwood-primary-school-bh7-6nb/magic-badge

Weekly Year Group Updates

EYFS

What a fantastic week and great first full day Hedgehogs and Badgers have had-we are so proud of them!

Please can children have a spare change of named clothes in their school bag everyday in case of accidents.
Please remember to send your child to school with a named waterproof coat every day.
Family trees- if you have completed a family tree with your child please could you return it to school early next week as we will be sharing these with each other during our topic time.

Year 1

None this week.

Year 2

Please sign up to parents evening if you haven't done so already. This will be an opportunity to discuss how your child has settled into year 2.
If you would like to become a parent volunteer to do 1:1 reading with our target readers, please make your interest known to your child's class teacher.
If your child would like to be a representative for either school or eco council, they need to prepare a poster explaining their reasons why. The deadline is Friday 25^th
We would like all children to bring in a palm size pebble the w/c 28^th September for our next writing unit.

Year 3

To make accessing homework easier, please use the following link to launch the QR code scanner. All children will have a magic badge in their bag to then scan and access the homework platforms. https://app.mylogin.com/login/avonwood-primary-school-bh7-6nb/magic-badge
A reminder that all children need to bring a cereal box into school ready for our DT day on Friday 9^th October.
A reminder that the deadline for entering the fireworks poster competition is the 30th September.

Year 4

Thank you for the huge turn out to our Year 4 parent presentation.
The children have now been sent home with a laminated copy of their computing QR code but also a laminated login slip with all their usernames and passwords. The children can use these to access all the online platforms to complete their assigned homework tasks.

Year 5

Thank you for everyone who has already brought in shoeboxes. Please keep these coming in as we have two projects coming up which use these!
A reminder to check your emails for your link to the online reading record. Remember to check your junk folders as it can often end up in there.
Homework: please support your child completing the weekly Doodle Maths, EdShed spelling and reading.

Year 6

A reminder that if you would like your children to complete the Level 1 and 2 Bikeability course, this is available to them the week beginning 5^th October in school. A letter was sent home with more details. Please sign up ASAP to ensure they are included in final group numbers.
Next week, we are planning to begin making some model Anglo-Saxon houses. If you have any spare cardboard at home (e.g. cereal boxes, corrugated card), please can children bring some in for Friday. You may have additional resources which your children could use to really bring the house to life too! The children will be working in small groups to do these so they can share out items to try to find.