Happy Easter

Holi

During this week the festival of Holi was celebrated by millions of Indian people. This celebration includes spraying colour at each other, praying and seeing friends for parties. Unfortunately, the bad weather in England stopped some of the celebrations happening because the weather was too cold. However, I was still able to enjoy seeing pictures of my friends’ and family’s celebrations in India!

Avonmore’s Eggcellent Egghibition!

 

To bring round the cheerful Easter spirit, students at Avonmore have been taking part in decorating eggs in the most creative ways possible to make a colourful display in the hall. Our pretty EGGhibition really brightens up the stage eggs in an EGGtraordinary way. That’s EGGsactly what we need!

Year 6’s trip to the Bank of England

On Thursday 14^th March year 6 went to the Bank of England. We went on the Tube and got off at Monument and walked for a few minutes. Finally we got to the Bank of England. The doors were huge and they were really heavy for security reasons. When we went in there was a museum and it was enormous.  After we went to a room that was like a cinema. We met a man called Richard. He talked about what money is and how we use it.  We watched a few clips about how we use money and then Richard asked us a few questions. When that finished we went into the museum and I actually touched real gold!!!! After we had a booklet full of questions and when we answered them.  We came back to school with only the items in our pockets that we had left with and no extra coins! This trip was so fun!!!!!!    

 

 

Scouts go to Gala

Last Saturday, some students in year 5 went to a swimming gala. There were two other children who also attended.  We won the swimming gala by 25 points! We swam at Harrow, Porchester pools. We are known as 48^th Kensington. The other groups that went are 20^th Fulham and 9^th Chelsea. One of Avonmore’s students came 1^st in Front Crawl qualifiers and the final. Also, someone came 3^rd in breaststroke in the qualifiers and 5^th in the finals. As well, another student came 2^nd in breaststroke in the qualifiers as well in the finals. They came 3^rd in Front Craw in the qualifiers. We are undefeated for 6 years.

Avonmore Art

In Avonmore we have a new art history timeline display stretching from ancient Egyptian art to the present day! Here is a list of some of the periods it covers: Egyptian 320-332BC, Greeks 500BC, Aztec 1300-1519AD, Renaissance 1300-1600AD, Neo-Classicism 1750-18760AD, Romanticism 1800’s, Pop art 1960’s and Contemporary art-present day. There is also many many more. In year 6 we have been looking at Andy Warhol’s work: his most famous piece of work is Marilyn Monroe in silk screen. What styles do you like the most? What is the name of your favourite artist?

And then there were 6...

Over night there were more hatchlings....

It's Spring!!

Nursery have some very recent visitors to welcome to the world....

Special Delivery from Buckingham Palace

We interviewed a boy who received a letter from the Queen and we asked him some questions. We asked why he received the letter. He responded that because he had sent a letter last year expressing his pride in attending this school because of such well-behaved children Buckingham Palace had responded. They said thank you for the letter and appreciated hearing about our fabulous school.  Next, we asked him how he felt, and he was feeling like a famous person! The person who sent him the letter was the Queen’s Lady-in Waiting, Susan Huffy. Therefore, we are very lucky because the Queen receives so many letters and she was generous enough to actually send a reply.

The Artistic Way For Year 5

On Friday 8^th February 2013 Year 5 visited the William Morris Society. William Morris was an English textile designer in the 19^th century. First, we went to the downstairs area in the house because people were living upstairs (like William Morris was). So, first we had to spilt up into 2 groups- one was doing the stained glass paintings and the other was doing silk paintings. I did silk paintings first. There are positives and negatives about silk paintings. Let’s start with the positives. The positives are that you get to use stencils to paint and/or draw, and the negatives are that you cannot rub the pencils out. I think we did a good job of making silk paintings. Before we did the stained glass windows we had a chocolate cookie. Some people were absolutely crazy for the cookies! After we ate the cookie we made stained glass windows. We had to follow the outline of it so we could draw it like William Morris. We made our favourite letter (or initials) on a transparent plastic paper and the outline was underneath. Most people did the first letter of their name. After we made the outline with rub-able pen we decorated it and the last thing we did was have lunch. Then we returned to school.

Transition

I interviewed three people on their thoughts about secondary school and I asked them a few questions such as: what will you miss the most about Avonmore? Their answers were all quite similar: they all said that they would miss their friends. Others said that they would miss the calmness of our school, and all the fun activities. Another question I asked was: list three words to explain your experience at Avonmore? They said memorable, educational and enjoyable.