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Friends of Avening School
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2026 Challenge COMPLETED! Congratulations to Evie 2026 Challenge COMPLETED!

Congratulations to Evie D from the Kestrels who completed her challenge by designing 26 spirograph drawings!

Raising super funds, one swirl at a time.

⭐️ SUPERHERO STATUS GRANTED ⭐️

Well done and thank you!

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If you’ve recently completed your challenge, or are working on a daily one, we’d love to hear from you.

Drop us a message here, or email us and we’ll announce your super success!

Don’t forget, money raised by each child will be combined per class, and classes will be awarded their fundraising total at the end of the challenge. Collectively, the children will then decide how to spend their reward, choosing a GROUP PRIZE FOR THEIR CLASSROOM! 🌟🌟🌟

Each class has it’s own fundraising page, where your sponsors can directly donate to your child’s class total. QR codes can be found on the letters which were sent home yesterday, and the links for each page can be found in our bio.

Feel free to share your class link with friends and family.

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⭐️ Deadline for fundraising is extended to Friday 27th MARCH ⭐️
2026 Challenge COMPLETED! Congratulations to Till 2026 Challenge COMPLETED!

Congratulations to Tilly from the Kestrels who completed her challenge by drawing 26 portraits of school staff… including Harold the Giraffe!

⭐️ SUPERHERO STATUS GRANTED ⭐️

Well done and thank you!

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If you’ve recently completed your challenge, or are working on a daily one, we’d love to hear from you.

Drop us a message here, or email us and we’ll announce your super success!

Don’t forget, money raised by each child will be combined per class, and classes will be awarded their fundraising total at the end of the challenge. Collectively, the children will then decide how to spend their reward, choosing a GROUP PRIZE FOR THEIR CLASSROOM! 🌟🌟🌟

Each class has it’s own fundraising page, where your sponsors can directly donate to your child’s class total. QR codes can be found on the letters which were sent home yesterday, and the links for each page can be found in our bio.

Feel free to share your class link with friends and family.

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⭐️ Deadline for fundraising is extended to Friday 27th MARCH ⭐️
Thank you to this week’s STAR BAKERS, Otto & Mon Thank you to this week’s STAR BAKERS, Otto & Monty from the Kestrels 🌟🌟

They hand decorated their bakes with forest creatures, inspired by this year’s World Book Day theme.

We’d love to sell more treats from young bakers, so if you’d like to take part in Cookies & Donuts one week, let us know and you could be Star Baker! 🌟🧑‍🍳👩‍🍳👨🏼‍🍳

Parents and families are of course welcome to bake too ♥️
Such a fabulous spread of treats on offer at Cooki Such a fabulous spread of treats on offer at Cookies & Donuts this week!

Including Astrid’s Sourdough rolls with sun-dried tomatoes and olives… we were totally spoilt 😋💚

Thanks so much to everyone who bought something.

We were lucky enough to have some bakes made by Otto & Monty from the Kestrels. They hand decorated their cookies with forest creatures, inspired by this year’s World Book Day theme.

We’d love to sell more treats from young bakers, so if you’d like to take part in Cookies & Donuts one week, let us know and you could be Star Baker! 🌟🧑‍🍳👩‍🍳👨🏼‍🍳

In a bid to reduce plastic packaging, we’re aiming to offer more homemade goodies. Parents and families are of course welcome to bake too 💚♻️
The night before World Book Day… Children retur The night before World Book Day…

Children returned to school this evening dressed in their pyjamas and cuddling their favourite toys, for Bedtime Stories.

Celebrating the joy of books, listening to stories together and reading to each other.

FOAS were delighted to provide cookies and hot chocolate for the evening. Thank you to Katy, Laurel and Astrid for serving tonight’s treats.

We can’t wait for an exciting World Book Day tomorrow!
@worldbookdaysocial @book_tokens @go_all_in_2026
Grab your glue, sticky tape and scissors and let y Grab your glue, sticky tape and scissors and let your imagination soar as we celebrate Easter!

Rabbits, Eggs, Footballs, Lego... anything goes. The only rule is that it must sit on your head.

Parents are invited to watch over the school wall as the children parade their creations towards the hall for the Easter Celebration Assembly on the morning of Friday 27th March (time TBC).

FOAS will be providing prizes again for some of the most imaginative bonnets! Prizes were awarded last year for creativity, sustainability, ingenuity and colour - so let’s get creative!!

If you still have your bonnet from last year’s parade, you are of course more than welcome to wear it again ♻️

We can’t wait to see your creations!!

📅 Friday 27th March
🕖 Morning Parade and Assembly 
📍 School Playground and Hall
🌟 Prizes Awarded for Winning Bonnets!
Another quiztastic evening! Humongous thanks to e Another quiztastic evening!

Humongous thanks to everyone who joined us at the FOAS quiz on Friday. A brilliant night with excellent questions from Alex Adcock as always, and fabulously hosted by Jo Harris 🌟

Thank you both for making it such a fun evening.

Congratulations to all our raffle winners, and to everyone who donated or helped us gather the brilliant prizes.

Thanks to the raffle, ticket sales, food and drink purchases, everyone has helped to raise over £700 for Avening School!

🌟 A fabulous total - thank you so much 🌟

Congratulations to Steph and her winning quiz team! 🥳 A gripping finish of tie-breaker questions!

🌟 Thank you to Ana at S&P Global for your kind contribution to our £100 Quiz Prize 🌟

Thanks again to Sam for running the bar for the evening, to Annabelle and Katy for the delicious chilli, and to everyone who helped in the kitchen. A fantastic effort all round ♥️
Uniform Sale this Wednesday 🌟 ALL ITEMS ARE FR Uniform Sale this Wednesday

🌟 ALL ITEMS ARE FREE! 🌟

Pop along and grab some uniform essentials.

📅 Wednesday 4th March
🕖 3.15pm
📍 School Playground
🌟 All Items FREE (donations welcome)
Thank you so much Avening Social Club for loaning Thank you so much Avening Social Club for loaning us your tables and glassware at the FOAS Quiz last night.

We couldn’t have done it without you! ♥️
The wonderful @countryqualitymeat kindly donated s The wonderful @countryqualitymeat kindly donated some fabulous mince for the FOAS Quiz last night.

Thank you so much for your generosity. Quizzers were treated to some delicious chilli, which on its own raised over £100! 🌟

A fantastic fundraiser for our school.

We’re so grateful for your support ♥️
The first round of challenge certificates and badg The first round of challenge certificates and badges were awarded during assembly this afternoon ♥️

Well done to everyone who has taken part so far. You’ve helped to raise an incredible £729.83!!

So excited to hear more of your fundraising stories - keep going superheroes! 🌟

For those children who are still working on their challenges, certificates and badges will be awarded every Friday during celebration assembly 🥇
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Don’t forget, money raised by each child will be combined per class, and classes will be awarded their fundraising total at the end of the challenge. Collectively, the children will then decide how to spend their reward, choosing a GROUP PRIZE FOR THEIR CLASSROOM! 🌟🌟🌟

Each class has it’s own fundraising page, where your sponsors can directly donate to your child’s class total. QR codes can be found on the letters which were sent home yesterday, and the links for each page can be found in our bio.

Feel free to share your class link with friends and family.

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⭐️ Deadline for fundraising is Friday 27th MARCH ⭐️
2026 Challenge COMPLETED! Super-duper high five t 2026 Challenge COMPLETED!

Super-duper high five to Barnaby from the Eagles for completing his challenge of 26 burpees!!

We’re exhausted just watching. Amazing work! 💪

⭐️ SUPERHERO STATUS GRANTED ⭐️

Well done and thank you!

———————-

If you’ve recently completed your challenge, or are working on a daily one, we’d love to hear from you.

Drop us a message here, or email us and we’ll announce your super success!

Don’t forget, money raised by each child will be combined per class, and classes will be awarded their fundraising total at the end of the challenge. Collectively, the children will then decide how to spend their reward, choosing a GROUP PRIZE FOR THEIR CLASSROOM! 🌟🌟🌟

Each class has it’s own fundraising page, where your sponsors can directly donate to your child’s class total. QR codes can be found on the letters which were sent home yesterday, and the links for each page can be found in our bio.

Feel free to share your class link with friends and family.

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⭐️ Deadline for fundraising is extended to Friday 27th MARCH ⭐️
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