Downsides Future Stars Art Gallery 9th Jul 2024
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This afternoon it was time to let the art do the talking at the annual Downside Art Gallery. The quality and range of work was exceptional and once again just shows how talented Downside children are.

Year 2 & 3 sports day 30th Jun 2024
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Well done to all the Year 2 & 3 children who competed in their sports day on Thursday.

Year 2 Big Legal Lesson 13th Mar 2024
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This week we learned about the law through 'the big legal lesson'. This helped us to understand the British Value 'Rule of Law'. Here is some of our work.

Year 2 World Book Day 13th Mar 2024
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In Year 2 we celebrated World Book Day in lots of different ways. We explored new books, had a live author lesson, designed a reading den for our classrooms, created our own comics and lots more!

KS1 Computing Club 7th Mar 2024
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Our Year 1 and 2 computing club explored programming with cars and bee-bots this week. We compared the differences between them and tried to program them to enter other people's classrooms.

Year 2 Wormy Spaghetti 5th Mar 2024
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In our Literacy lessons, we are writing a character description for Mr Twit. We decided the best way to write about his behaviour was to act like him ourselves so we got messy eating our 'wormy spaghetti'.

Year 2 Family Learning 29th Feb 2024
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It was great to see some Year 2 children working with their parents during our Family Learning sessions.

Internet Safety Day 2024 10th Feb 2024
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On the 6th of February 2024 we celebrated Safer Internet Day across the school. This is something we do annually at Downside and here are some examples of our work this year.

Year 2 Quentin Blake watercolours 10th Feb 2024
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We have been learning about Quentin Blake during our Art lessons. We have been painting with control and using different amounts of water to change the tone of the watercolours.

Year 2 caring assembly 10th Feb 2024
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In RE we have been learning about how religious and non-religious people care for each other. We performed an assembly to our parents to show how different religions show they care.

Year 2 Great Fire of London Day (Part 2) 18th Dec 2023
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On Thursday the rest of Year 2 children had the opportunity to develop their knowledge of the Great Fire of London. Watch out for the rats!!!

KS1 Christmas Lunch 18th Dec 2023
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The children in KS1 enjoyed their christmas dinner on Wednesday.

Great Fire of London Curriculum Day 18th Dec 2023
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On Wednesday (13th December) the children from Jupiter, Mars and some from Saturn class had a fun and interactive day working with History of the Page to develop their understanding of the Great Fire of London.

All the children were treated to watch the annual pantomime (Oh Yes they were!!) 12th Dec 2023
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There was lots of fun, laughter and shouting whilst the children `Peter Pan Never Grow Up` on Thursday 7th December. Unlike the panto the photos are below- not behind you!!

Short Tail Trail 2024 12th Dec 2023
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We are delighted to working with Keech Hospice to bring alive the Short Tail Trail. Follow the website as we update you on the progress.

Food Bank Donations 12th Dec 2023
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Thankyou to all our amazing families who donated food to the food bank last Friday (8/12/23) we had more food donated than every. What a fantastic and generous community we are.

Year 2: Great Fire of London 12th Dec 2023
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As part of their Great Fire of London Topic the children made Tudor houses and then got to experience how they stopped the fire.

Year 2 Firefighter Come to visit 12th Dec 2023
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As part of their topic on the Great Fire of London the Year 2 children were visited by the Luton Fireservice.

Year 2 Bread Making 12th Dec 2023
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Year 2 had a fantastic day making bread at school.