Year 6 Aviation Careers Workshop 20th Nov 2024
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Year 6 students took part in an incredibly inspiring virtual workshop all about careers in aviation! We heard from a pilot, an engineer and an air traffic controller about their day-to-day roles at work and the skills needed for their jobs. The pilot was particularly impressed by our classes being named after aircraft!

Science Club-dissolving. 13th Nov 2024
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This week, in Science club, the children investigated the rate of dissolving using M & M's and Smarties.

Year 5 Roman trip to St Albans 13th Nov 2024
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As a part of our History unit of work: Romans, we visited the St. Albans Verulamnim. Throughout the trip, children asked some highly thoughful questions as they interacted with real and replica Roman items. They've had the best start to our topic.

Year 2 - Bread making 13th Nov 2024
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This week Chef Paul taught us how to make bread. We are going to be writing instructions in our next writing topic so it was extremely helpful to watch it being made and create our own shapes. We collected lots of lovely imperative verbs and adverbs to use so that our instructions are clear and can be followed easily.

Year 5 ZSL Whispsnade Sustainability Assembly 11th Nov 2024
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Children found out about deforestation and the problem it will cause in the future. They also learnt about the changes which can be made in order to reduce levels of global warming.

Yr 5 & 6 Athletics Team Crowned Zone Champions 4th Nov 2024
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On Wednesday 23rd October Year 5 & 6 children were crowned indoor athletics zone chamipons and will compete in the Town Finals in January 2025.

Year 2 - Anti bullying week 4th Nov 2024
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This week Year 2 completed anti-bullying lessons based on the theme of respect. We made our own class pledge.

Year 3 meet author Chrissie Sains 25th Oct 2024
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On Wednesday 24th October 2024, children in Year 3 enjoyed a Q& A session with Chrissie Sains, the author of 'An Alien in the Jam Factory'.

Year 4 & 5 Maths Curriculum Walk 24th Oct 2024
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The maths team had a fantastic time on their curriculum walk around Year 4 & 5 last week. They were impressed with the high quality of work. they saw.

Year R - Digital Literacy 24th Oct 2024
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This half term we learnt the very important rule that if something makes us feel sad or uncomfortable on our devices we T-A-G... Tell a grown up.

Year 3 Art 21st Oct 2024
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After weeks of building our skills up with chalk pastels, we completed our final piece today. We all drew the composition of the fruit bowl and then used chalk pastels to create a 3D effect using shading, smudging, hatching and cross-hatching.

Year 5 Art 21st Oct 2024
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Year 5 children are half way through their sculpture unit. They created an armature of a sea creature using plastic and cardboard, used modroc to cover and secure and finally used sheets of modroc to add texture. We can't wait to see the finished sculptures.

Year 5 reading 21st Oct 2024
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In Year 5, children enjoy using Oxford reading Buddy and reading good old paper copies of books.

Reception SEND Sports day 21st Oct 2024
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Some of the children in reception had an extra awesome sports day in the sunshine. Lots of fun and some amazing skills on show. Well done to everyone who took part.

Year 4 Maths 21st Oct 2024
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Children in year 4 have been learning to use column subtraction with exchanges and using efficient methods of subtraction.

Year 6 Spitfire Class at Dunstable Downs 21st Oct 2024
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Year 6 students have had the most amazing week exploring the beauty of Dunstable Downs. From hiking to orienteering, den-making to rolling oranges downhill... we have had hours of fun! Some of us were also lucky enough to see the paragliders in action.

Year 6 Tempest class at Dunstable Downs 21st Oct 2024
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Year 6 students have had the most amazing week exploring the beauty of Dunstable Downs. From hiking to orienteering, den-making to rolling oranges downhill... we have had hours of fun! Some of us were also lucky enough to see the paragliders in action.

Year 6 Stirling class trip to Dunstable Downs 21st Oct 2024
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Year 6 students have had the most amazing week exploring the beauty of Dunstable Downs. From hiking to orienteering, den-making to rolling oranges downhill... we have had hours of fun! Some of us were also lucky enough to see the paragliders in action.

Year 6 Lancaster Trip to Dunstable Downs 21st Oct 2024
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Year 6 students have had the most amazing week exploring the beauty of Dunstable Downs. From hiking to orienteering, den-making to rolling oranges downhill... we have had hours of fun! Some of us were also lucky enough to see the paragliders in action.

Year 3 Maths 20th Oct 2024
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This week in Year 3, the children have been learning how to add two 3 digit numbers together using the column method. To support their understanding, they used counters and Dienes to visually represent the addition.

Year 5 Maths 20th Oct 2024
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Our focus this week is: Multiplication. The children have been learning about what the following words mean: - multiples - common multiples - factors - common factors

Year 6 Maths 20th Oct 2024
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This week in maths, Year 6, children have been applying their knowledge of negative numbers and solving problems, including those involving temperature.

Year R Maths - WB 14th October 18th Oct 2024
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This week in maths we have been learning all about numbers 8 and 9. We have practised number formation using our number rhymes and have made number block characters 8 and 9. Our maths tables have activities focused on numbers 1-9.

Year 2 Maths - WB 14th October 18th Oct 2024
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This week we have been focusing on addition and subtraction. We started by counting forwards and transferred this skill to adding on a number line. Then we moved to counting backwards and subtracting by drawing our own number lines.

Year 1 - Information Technology (Autumn 1) 18th Oct 2024
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This half terms unit was 'Technology around us'. Year 1 have been working hard to log on to the Chromebooks and explore the mouse and keyboard this half term. They have been developing their understanding of technology in general and how it can help us.

Year 1 Maths - WB 14th October 18th Oct 2024
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This week we worked on our number bonds to 10.

Year 2 reading mornings 17th Oct 2024
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Every Thursday from 8:45 until 9:00 we open the doors to our wonderful parents so that they can hear us read. Here are some photos of us reading with our parents.

Year 2 - Open Classroom 17th Oct 2024
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This week, the whole school have enjoyed opening the classroom doors to parents. Have a look at some photos from Year 2 enjoying guiding their parents around the classroom, showing work and exploring their favourite educational apps.

Parent and Community coffee morning. 17th Oct 2024
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Our annual Parent Coffee Morning took place on Wednesday 9th October 2024 and was a huge success.The turnout was fantastic, and parents took away a lot of information and advice. All the agencies were highly impressed with the parent turnout and engagement.

Year 5 meet author Hannah Gold 16th Oct 2024
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Year 5 children joined the multi-award winning bestselling author, Hannah Gold for the official schools virtual launch of her highly anticipated new book: TURTLE MOON, her thrilling new illustrated animal adventure for kids.

Year 3 meets author Chrissie Sains 16th Oct 2024
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Year 3 loved meeting author Chrissie Sains virtually this week. They have loved reading her book, An Alien in the Jam Factory, this half term. It was lovely to ask Chrissie so many of questions.

Year R - Art 15th Oct 2024
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This week we have been learning how to paint mix to make brown. We have used the primary colours , red , yellow and blue and used this to paint a bear.

Year R - Literacy - Goldilocks 11th Oct 2024
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In our Literacy lessons this week we have been learning the story of Goldilocks and the the three bears. We have learned about the characters feelings and have use role play to retell the story.

Year R - Computing - Information Technology 11th Oct 2024
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This week in computing we learnt what a digital device is. We learnt new words such as 'device and machine'. We used these words to role play with digital devices in our focused learning time.

Year R - Maths 11th Oct 2024
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In maths this week , we have been learning to recognise and write numbers 6 and 7. In our outdoor learning lesson we learnt about size language - baby bear is the smallest , mummy bear is bigger and daddy bear is the biggest bear.

Year R - Science 11th Oct 2024
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In our science lesson we observed and noticed the changes to the ingredients when making porridge.

Year 2 - Computing - Information Technology 11th Oct 2024
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We completed our information technology unit this week. It was based around information technology in and out of school. During the unit we learnt the definition of a computer as well as information technology (IT). We thought about the IT we used in school and where we can find IT outside of school. During this lesson, we wanted to find out the benefits of using IT so we pretended to be a till in a shop. We had to match the codes to the products and the price list then finally add the numbers together when the customer chose what they wanted. It helped us to understand that we are lucky to use IT as it can do certain jobs much more quickly and accurately than humans.

Rockhopper digest the digestive system! 10th Oct 2024
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This week year 3 have been learning about the parts of the digestive system. Lots of fun was had seeing which foods our bodies absorb and excrete.

Marylebone get cooking! Yum Yum! 10th Oct 2024
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Children in Marylebone have been busy this week preparing and then baking their own yummy vegetable muffins.

Visit from Challney Boys and Girls- Internet safety and transition information. 9th Oct 2024
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Internet safety and transition information.

Year 5 & 6 Internet safety and Individual Liberty 9th Oct 2024
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Eco-gardening tidy up time. 6th Oct 2024
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It was great to get back out into the garden area with some old and new eco-gardeners. It was great to see the children getting stuck in, pulling out the old plants, repairing the slats, finding and saving lots of bugs. Great first week.

Year 1 trip to Woburn Safari Park 5th Oct 2024
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Year 1 visited Woburn Safari Park to support the learning in Science about humans and animals.This trip allowed the students to observe different animals and understand their needs for survival.

SEND support and provision 4th Oct 2024
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Look at some of the amazing ways that we support children SEND at Downside.

Year 2 - Art - Vincent Van Gogh 4th Oct 2024
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This week in Year 2 we started painting the background for our final piece inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's 'Starry Night'. We used wavy lines, broken lines and swirls as well as colour mixing to make different shades of blue.

Year 5 Trip to Whipsnade Zoo- PLASTICS: Impacts and Actions workshop 3rd Oct 2024
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The children learnt why the oceans are important, how litter from land-based sources reaches the ocean and ways they can make a positive impact on the environment. British values: understand that we have a responsibility to look after our environment.

Year 1 and 2 house meetings 3rd Oct 2024
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This week we voted for our house captains. This showed the British Value of Democracy as we got to vote for who we thought would do the best job for our house.

Year 2 - Music 3rd Oct 2024
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During music this half term we have been talking about pitch, tempo, rhythm and beat. Today we played the glockenspiel and talked about which notes had higher pitches and which had lower. We tried to play song at different tempos.

2024/25 Digital Leaders 30th Sep 2024
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Here are our wonderful digital leaders for this year.