Parents

Weekly Parent Bulletin - Friday 6th March

Dear parents,

It's been a pretty magic week at Avonwood!

World Book Day/Week seems to bring such joy to the school. From photo competitions to reading cafes, fancy dress through to door book covers, potato characters to inspiring author visits... even a pre-loved book fair. Thank you for your efforts and support this week, to the staff for putting their hearts into this and to Mrs Gilder for being the brains of this operation. It's been a busy and brilliant week!

On Tuesday night (10th March) next week we have the latest PTA meeting at The Way Outback pub in Southbourne. The meeting starts at 7:15pm and we are always keen for new parents to come along. As well as listening to and approving bids, we also discuss fundraising ideas. We hope to see you there.

After only 2 weeks of being back at school, our lost property is starting to overflow already... please come and take a look to see if any of your missing things are there.

On Friday 20th March we recognise Comic Relief. Children are welcome to wear appropriate non school uniform (no bare midriffs etc), including a red item of clothing if they have one. If you can afford to donate to this charity, we have set up a link - Comic Relief Red Nose Day 2026 - to accept donations of £1 in lieu of the non uniform.

Have a great weekend!

Mr Jackson

Whole School Reminders

PTA Updates

👋Just a reminder that our next Avonwood Quiz Night will be held on the 24th April at 7:15pm in the school hall. Get your team together, friends and family are also welcome to have their own teams too. Tickets are £5 per person and teams are maximum 6 people. Please pay using this link. Remember to add your team name as a reference. Thanks https://pay.collctiv.com/avonwood-quiz-79589

We will be holding our next PTA meeting on Tuesday 10^th March 7:15pm at The Way Outback, Southbourne. We look forward to seeing you there.

Whole School Updates

OPAL

Thank you for all the donations so far. We now have a vision of the different areas and the children will have an assembly on Monday to introduce OPAL. Next week we would like to collect the following donations:

* Small world toys such as farm and zoo animals and minibeasts

* Jugs (different sizes) and sieves

* Diggers

* Beach toys such as buckets and spades

MHST online parent/carer webinar on supporting healthy sleep for children and young people

📅 Live Webinar: 10th March
🎥 Recording Available: 13th March (World Sleep Day)

Link for information for phones and online safety

See link below for more information on this -

Children, phones and online safety | NSPCC

Mothers Day Workshop with Cook Stars

Reading Competition

A big thank you to everyone who entered the reading competition, we had a total of 75 entries. Winner will be announced on Monday!

Weekly Year Group Updates

EYFS

None this week.

Year 1

Wow - what a fantastic Book Week we have had! Thank you to all that were able to attend our Reading Cafe yesterday and for the efforts with children's World Book Day costumes. The children have certainly enjoyed a week full of book fun including our author visit, a Storybox session, creating potato characters and classroom door book covers!
Beaulieu Trip - A letter regarding our Beaulieu trip was sent earlier this week. If you did not receive this, please contact the office.
Year 1 Car Wash Morning - staff cars only (13/03) - Letter to follow next week
Year 1 Phonics Screening Check (PSC) Presentation - This presentation will inform you about the Year 1 PSC that is administered to every child in the Summer Term. This presentation will take place on 20/03 at 9:15am

Year 2

The children looked fantastic in their costumes yesterday, thank you for helping create these.
The £1 book token was given to the children to yesterday. They can either purchase a book for a pound or put it towards buying a more expensive book. These vouchers expire on 15^th March
Times Table Rock Stars log ins wont be sent out until Summer term, as we want the children to be confident using Spelling Shed first.
Letters went out this week about our Great Fire of London Tudor day, please make payments via Parent Pay.

Year 3

Please send in newspaper by Thursday 19^th March to be used in our exciting volcano project.
A reminder that our Year 3 sleepover is happening very soon on Thursday 19th March! Please read the letter that was sent out yesterday - If your child will struggle to sleep on a roll mat, they may bring an inflatable single airbed with them.

Year 4

Year 4 will be hosting auditions for the talent show on Friday 13^th March. If your child would like to audition, they need to be ready to perform their act on this day. A reminder that they can only form groups with children from their house.

Year 5

None this week.

Year 6

Next week is mock SATs week for Year 6. We will be sitting past papers each morning Monday-Thursday in a format which will be as close a replica as possible to what SATs week will be in May. This will give the children the opportunity to experience what it is like to sit all papers across four days and to get used to which adults will be in the room to support.
On Friday next week (13th), we will be holding the Year 6 'Avonwood's Got Talent' auditions. Children are able to compete alone or in groups with anyone else in their House. Entries should be no longer than 3 minutes long and children must ensure that they bring in any resources they may need for their act. Houses will then vote for the act they would like to put through to the final to represent their House on Thursday 26^th March.
On Wednesday 18th March, Year 6 have a Viking day with the Ancient Technology Centre who will be coming into school to lead the day. A letter has been sent out regarding this. Please check on Parent Pay for payment information.