Krishna Avanti Primary School

Spencefield Lane

Evington

Leicester

LE5 6HN

Tel: 0116 241 9880 www.krishna-avanti-leicester.org.uk

kapsleicester@avanti.org.uk

Principal: Mrs Mary Lawson BPhil.

Oct/Nov 2015 No 2

Diary Dates Saturday 31st October: Open Day at School Tues 3rd & Wed 4th Nov: Parents’ evenings Thurs 5th Nov: School Photographer Tues 10th Nov: Diwali lunch – non uniform day and Parents invited to school to see their own Year group presentations for Diwali at the following times: Yr 4: 8.15am, Yr 3: 9.25am, Yr 2: 10.35am, Yr 1: 11.45am, Reception :1.15pm

Wed 11th Nov & Thurs 12th Nov: Diwali – school closed for 2 days Fri 13th Nov: Govardhan Puja Festival in school – children to bring in offerings (fruits, flowers , sweets or savouries, fully vegetarian, no eggs, onion, garlic, mushroom and NO NUTS please)

Launch of New

Website!!! www.avanti

.org.uk/kaps

leicester

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Congratulations! to the following children who have

been awarded pen licenses for their

excellent hand writing skills:

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Autumn splendour at Krishna Avanti Primary School

Parent

“Star Walker” class of the week: MOON !!!

Tuesday 24th

June

Sports week –

England

Thursday 26th

June

Sports wee -

Spain

Friday 27th June

Sports week –

Italy

Message from our Principal:

Dear Parents and Carers

I hope all had a wonderful half term with some great family time. Thank you to all that have shared ideas

and highlighted areas where we can better work together to improve what we offer - your positive

collaboration is greatly appreciated and be assured, very soon various points will be actioned soon.

Next week is the opportunity for you to have up to ten minutes uninterrupted time with your child's class

teacher where you should leave knowing where your children currently is; what their targets are for

English and Mathematics; and the next steps/best ways for us to work together to reach those targets. If

you have not yet made an appointment, please do so before Monday via the school website in the

'Parents' section. It is important to remember to stick to the ten minutes so others following are not

delayed - minutes are strictly limited to ten minutes.

As mentioned in this newsletter, access arrangements in the morning appear to be much improved, so I

am told. Please do help by adhering to our requests that we do not park up; overtake; speed; access on

foot by the wrong gates etc... If you do, you will be challenged - we will keep children safe and I'd rather

we did that by positively working together rather than refusing entry to those ignoring our requests. Sadly,

Mrs Patel was verbally abused by a parent challenged for putting their children in danger. Thank you to

all of you whom are positively working with us.

Thank you for your continued support and I hope you enjoy the upcoming month and the celebrations

that I am so looking forward to - we can never stop learning.

Warm regards

Denham Kite,

Interim Principal

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

Key Dates

2015/16 2016/17 2017/18

Inset day (no school) 26/8/15 24/08/16 22/08/17

Children in school 27th & 28th

08/15

25th & 26th

08/16

23rd & 24th

08/17

Bank Holiday

(no school)

31/08/15 29/08/16 28/08/17

Avanti Conference

(no school)

Diwali

(no school)

Fri 16/10/15

Wed

11/11/15

Sun

30/10/16

Half Term

19/10/17

End of Summer Term

Full Term Dates are

Fri 15/07/16

Posted on

Fri 14/07/17

Our school

Fri 13/07/18

Website

Parking

Please park carefully and

Drive slowly in the school grounds.

Your co-operation is appreciated.

Dates for your Diary

Fri 1st May: Cinema Night - Paddington Bear 5.45 for 6.25pm

Mon 4th May: No school – Bank Holiday

Thurs 7th May: Yr 3 Bosworth Battlefield Trip

Tues 12th May: Yr 3 King Richard 111 Visitor Centre

Wed 13th May: New intake parents’ meeting 6.15pm

Fri 22nd May: Whole school and class photographs

25th – 29th May: Half Term holiday – no school

Wed 6th May: FOURS meeting 6 pm

Thurs 4th June: Yr 2 Conkers Trip

Sat 13th June: Summer Fayre 10 – 12 am

Tues 23rd June: Sports day (Thurs 25th if wet)

Fri 26th June: Yr 1 Twin Lakes Trip

Tues 7th July: Transition day

Thurs 9th July: Rathayatra in school

Fri 10th July: Last day of Term

Picture on the left:

One of the many

beautiful Rangoli

patterns submitted

for the Rangoli

competition, by

Prisha Patel from

Year 2 Swans

House points – Trophy

The winner of the Trophy for this

Term, with 2,845 House Points is:

WATER Well done everyone!

Month of Kartik In the lead up to Diwali, the Festival of Lights, our Chair of

Governors , Mr Pradeep Gajjar, shared an informative and fun

assembly with the children, telling the pastime of Lord Krishna

being bound up with ropes by Mother Yashoda. This pastime took

place on the Diwali day he explained. Through out this month

devotees offer lamps and sing prayers to Lord Krishna in His form

as a young child. It is said that any good activities we perform this

month will be multiplied 1000 times!!!

Payments

Any outstanding payments, please make without

delay. If you have queries regarding payments

please see Aavruti on Friday mornings 8-9am in the

Reception office.

COOL MILK: if your child has just turned 5, please

make sure you pay COOLMILK to ensure your child

does not have a delay in getting his milk to school.

Well done! to these Year 3 pupils who have been

awarded their Pen Licenses:

Above: Year 3 children outside the Cathedral in Leicester as part

of their visit, on the topic of King Richard 3rd.

Poppies

Next week, from Monday 2nd November, Year 4

children will be taking a selection of poppies

and other items for sale round to classes at

breaktime. Proceeds are for the Royal British

Legion for Remembrance Day.

Parentpay

Please ensure that you register with Parentpay

and save your log-in details. You could miss

out on important messages from school if you

are not registered with this system.

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Payments Payments are now due for the 2nd half of Autumn Term. If

you need a Bar Code for payments, please contact

Aavruti in the Office on Friday mornings.

Interfaith Event Representatives from our school performed an amazing

dance as part of a presentation at the Interfaith Event

held at County Hall on the 29th October. Amongst the

dignitaries present were Nicky Morgan – Minister of

Education and the Lord Mayor of Leicester. The dance

was expertly choreographed by Mrs Smita Vadnerkar of

Nupur Arts, on the theme of World War 1 – children sang

and danced to the Shanti Mantra.

Inter School Football Events On Friday 25th September , 20 of our pupils from Yr 2 & Yr 3 were

selected to take part in an inter-school competition held at

Goals Training Centre. See pictures above.

There are more Inter School Sports and Football events that

have been organised during the coming months for all our

Year groups. Further updates will follow as the year progresses.

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS Key Dates

2015/16 2016/17 2017/18

Inset day (no school)

26/8/15 24/08/16 22/08/17

Children in school 27th & 28th

08/15

25th & 26th

08/16

23rd & 24th

08/17

Bank Holiday (no school)

31/08/15 29/08/16 28/08/17

Diwali (no school)

Wed 11/11/15

Sun 30/10/16

Half Term 19/10/17

End of Summer Term Fri 15/07/16 Fri 14/07/17 Fri 13/07/18

On 5th November, School photographer will be in to

take individual shots of the children - also siblings in

school. Proofs will be sent out to parents for

purchase if they wish.

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Uniform:

Please

make

sure

ALL

items

of

clothin

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clearly

marke

d or

labelle

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your

child’s

name

– we

alread

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a

numb

er of

items

of lost

proper

ty at

Recep

tion.

Remin

der for Yr 4’s:

school

unifor

m is a

now a

white

shirt

instea

d of a

polo

shirt .

Any

new

unifor

m with

school

logo

should

be

ordere

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from:

www.

brigad

eunifo

rmdire

ct.uk.c

om.

We

have

sampl

e sizes

availa

ble to

try –

please

ask in

the

office

at

recept

ion.

P E: Physic

al

educa

tion is

a vital

part of

the

curric

ulum

and

wearin

g the

correc

t

footw

ear

helps

to

preve

nt

injury.

On

the

days

when

your

child

has

physic

al

educa

tion,

please

send

in a

pair of

trainer

s

(clearl

y

labelle

d with

your

child’s

name)

so that

they

can

chang

e into

them

as

neces

sary.

Thank

you.

Parking Safely & Responsibly We are pleased that the new parking strategy is

working well, with many parents choosing to drive

into the school grounds in the morning and drop their

children off.

A few concerns to be noted:

• If you need to park and bays are full, do not park

on the grass, go around until a space is available

• Use the zebra crossing at all times

• Maximum of 4 mph speed limit within school

grounds

• Drive cautiously especially when exiting through

the gate at the bottom of the drive

• Pedestrians should only use the small gates – not

the double gates which are for cars

Thank you to everyone for your continuing support.

Parking Safely &

Responsibly