AVON VALLEY SCHOOL
MESSAGE FROM THE HEAD TEACHER
Fortnightly News
May 11th 2018
Dear Parents and Carers
With the GCSE exams starting next week and the Year 11s on the cusp of leaving school, it is time to
look to the future and, in the next couple of weeks, I will be leading an assembly with Year 9 around
the appointment of the school’s prefects for next year. The students who choose to apply for prefect
posts need to complete an application form and will be interviewed for the positions by the
Achievement Leaders from each house. At the same time, I will be completing an interview process
with Year 10 students for the posts of senior prefects including the prestigious positions of Head Boy
and Head Girl. If you have a child in Year 9 or 10 please do encourage them to apply for these posts.
The opportunity to take on extra responsibility in the upper school gives students the chance to give
something back to the school and to develop greater independence.
Today I was impressed to hear that Blayne Bennett, a Year 7 student from Phoenix House, has been
so inspired by the work that he has been doing around the topic of homelessness in his PSHE
lessons with Miss Vella that he has set out and single handedly raised over 1000 pounds for ‘Help
the Homeless’ in Rugby. It is always pleasing to see our students determined to do something to help
others less fortunate than themselves and, alongside this major achievement, we have had several
other groups of Year 7 students from Miss Vella’s class ‘changing the world’ by raising funds for
charities of their choice by running
events in the school foyer.
Speaking of charity, we are currently
one of the three choices in the Tesco
‘Bags of Help’ initiative and we would
greatly appreciate your support when
you pop into the local Tesco to do your
shopping. Please do vote for us and
help us to secure this funding which will
benefit both our students and the local
community. We would love to be the
most popular choice as this would
trigger a £4000 grant to put towards
our community garden scheme!
Alison Davies
Head Teacher
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