Year 3 HSBC Workshop 7th May 2025
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Last week year 3 were given lesson from the team at HSBC on how to help themselves and their parents look for the best deal when shopping and how to save money!

Year 4 Tower of London Visit 5th May 2025
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Year 4 children had a great day visiting the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London and having a whistle stop tour of some of the London sights. It was amazing to see a mix of the old and the new

Year 5 Cambridge Mosque visit 5th May 2025
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Year 5 have started their unit of work on Islam. As a part of this, they have been lucky enough to visit the Cambridge central mosque.

Science - Healthy living week 24th Apr 2025
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During spring term we have been learning how to keep ourselves healthy . We explored healthy foods by looking at a balanced diet and finding out where we get our food from. We looked at why exercise is so important to keep us healthy and created our own exercise circuits during outdoor learning. We learnt all about how to keep our teeth clean and what happens when we visit the dentist. We also looked at how we can keep our bodies clean.

Ramadhan Food Packs Donation 25th Mar 2025
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Year 6- STEM day 25th Mar 2025
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This week, the girls had to don their 'technology hats' in order to write codes for satellites using Micro:bits whilst the boys were busy investigating and exploring different structures using K'nex, spaghetti and marshmallows!

Year 6 Trip to RAF Hendon 25th Mar 2025
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So much fun was had this week at the RAF Museum in Hendon, where our students learnt more about the events of World War Two and the planes which fought in battle.

Inspirations Day 2025 24th Mar 2025
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Year 6 students recently enjoyed an afternoon meeting individuals from a variety of professions and had the opportunity to ask questions they had prepared relating to the range of careers.

Year 6- Mandir learning 24th Mar 2025
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As part of their learning about Hindu traditions and beliefs, children visited a local Mandir to develop their knowledge around how and where Hindus worship.

World Book day- Dress the Door 24th Mar 2025
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As part of world book day 2025 the children had to dress their classroom door linked to their favourite book or their class book. The designs were amazing and it was a tough job selecting a winner.

Science club- Liquid Races 24th Mar 2025
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This week, in Science club, the children learnt that all liquids have a property known as viscosity. A thin liquid like water has a low viscosity and flows easily, whereas a thicker liquid like ketchup has a higher viscosity and so flows more slowly.

Science Masterclass- Downside science Detectives are on the case! 24th Mar 2025
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A team of four children worked collaboratively to help solve a crime through a series of activities and challenges as detectives in a 'Science Masterclass' at Challney Boys High School.

PGL March 2025- Zip Line 20th Mar 2025
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PGL March 2025- Survivor 20th Mar 2025
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PGL March 2025- Sensory Trail 20th Mar 2025
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PGL March 2025- Rock Climbing 20th Mar 2025
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PGL March 2025- Laser Tag 20th Mar 2025
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PGL March 2025-High Ropes 20th Mar 2025
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PGL March 2025- Giant swing 19th Mar 2025
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PGL March 2025- Down time and group photos 19th Mar 2025
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PGL March 2025- Camp Fire 19th Mar 2025
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PGL March 2025- Balloon Splash 19th Mar 2025
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George's Marvellous Medicine 14th Mar 2025
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This week we have been reading George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl. We are going to write instructions for a medicine to make Grandma kind. We have been creating mixtures to help us with time phrases, adverbs and imperative verbs. We had lots of fun doing it too!

Computing buddies 12th Mar 2025
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More photos from our weekly computing club with digital leaders and year 2 children.

Safer Internet Day 2025 12th Mar 2025
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The whole school enjoyed celebrating safer internet day again this year based on the theme of scams. Our digital leaders even held assemblies.

Year 5 Pizza demonstration 5th Mar 2025
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Chef Paul - Pizza making demonstration for Year 5. He taught the children about the key ingredients needed to make pizza dough, demonstrated how to make pizza dough and then spoke about to dos and don'ts of making Pizza.

Mental Health Week-"Our Voice Matters" 5th Mar 2025
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Science club-Snap circuits 5th Mar 2025
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Today in Science Club, students used Snap Circuit kits to recall and extend their knowledge of electrical circuits. The children initially followed diagrammatic instructions to build circuits using a range of components before trialling their own circuits. As you can tell by the photos, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!

Year 6 photography workshop 4th Mar 2025
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30 children from Downside were invited to take part in a photography workshop on the Ridgeway trail, as part of its 50th anniversary. The workshop took place close to Ivinghoe and was led by Lillian from Sharp Shots Photography club. All children learnt to use a digital camera and tried their best to record a section of the Ridgeway - although the fog was pretty thick! Some of the children's photos will be shown in an exhibition later in the year. More details can be found here: https://sharpshotsphotoclub.co.uk/ridgeway-50-photos-project/

Rockhopper and Humboldt visit to Wardown Park Museum 4th Mar 2025
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Year 3 have been visiting Wardown Park as part of their Local area work. As part of History, they attended a workshop at Wardown museum learning about the history of hat making. As part of their Geography fieldwork, they then looked at physical and human features of the park.

Year 5 & 6 Athletics County finals success 4th Mar 2025
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The Year 5 & 6 indoor athletics finished 3rd overall at the COUNTY finals on Friday 28th Feb 2025. We are so proud of their determination, perserverance and skill. Well done to all the children and for those in Year 6 we look forward to seeing you continue your athletic journey at high school.

Year 3 & 4 County finals Bronze success 27th Feb 2025
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On Wednesday 26th Feb 2025 the Year 3 & 4 Indoor Athletics competed against the top 12 teams in the COUNTY and finished a very impressive 3rd place overall.

Is yeast alive? 25th Feb 2025
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Quentin Blake drawing 13th Feb 2025
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This half term in Art lessons we created our own character in the style of Quentin Blake.

Year 2 Charity Bake Sale 12th Feb 2025
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As part of our RE unit, we raised money for charity by holding a bake sale for our parents and other children. We learnt that all religions can give to charity and show that they care.

RE - Caring assembly 7th Feb 2025
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We performed an assembly to our parents to show how different religions care for each other.

Year 4 science club 28th Jan 2025
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In Science Club today, Year 4 were busy investigating the density of different liquids to see whether it affected an object’s ability to float.

Rockhopper cook up delicious samosas! 28th Jan 2025
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Rockhooper having been busy in the kitchen this week, chopping, mixing and cooking some amazing samosas. They were given 10 out of 10 from Mr Martin.

Year R - Computing - Information Technology 23rd Jan 2025
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In our computing lessons this week we have been learning how to use an app to create a piece of artwork.

'Computing Buddies' - Beebots 21st Jan 2025
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This week in the digital leader's computing club, they helped the year 2 children to program bee-bots. They had competitions and attempted to program the bee-bots to move around obstacles!

'Computing buddies' - Scratch Jr 14th Jan 2025
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This week in the digital leader's computing club, they have been helping the year 2 children to program simple animations on scratch junior.

Winter walk 13th Jan 2025
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This term we are learning about winter and have been on our winter walk to see how the tree has changed in this season. We learnt that the leaves have all died and trees are bare in winter.

Healthy living workshop 13th Jan 2025
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We took part in a healthy living workshop with our chief Paul. We had 3 stations where we got to taste and smell fruit and vegetables , look and feel vegetables and cut and grate them.

Great Fire of London Day 2024 13th Dec 2024
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Year 2 children had a fantastic Great Fire of London Day, hosted by an external company called History Off the Page. The event allowed them to reinforce their understanding of the Great Fire of London, their current history topic, through a range of enjoyable and engaging hands-on activities.

School council conference 10th Dec 2024
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On the 9th December, 6 of our school councillors attended the School Council Conference, along with 34 other Luton primary schools. We had the opportunity to share Downside's views about what makes Luton great and what we can do to make Luton even better, to members of Luton Borough Council. This is to help the council with their goal of making Luton a 'child-friendly town' by the year 2040. It's amazing to know that the children of Luton can make an impact, and that Downside have been able to play their part in shaping the future of Luton!

Year 2 - Burning houses 6th Dec 2024
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This week we burnt our houses that were made in the style of those from the Great Fire of London. This showed us how quickly the fire was able to spread due to the fact that the houses were extremely close together and made from flammable materials. All of this helped us with our information report writing.

Year 3 Rockhopper Church Visit 2nd Dec 2024
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Rockhopper visited St Mary’s church as part of their learning about the features of a Church in RE. All the children were given the opportunity to make a Christingle. Thanks to everyone at St marys.

Year 1 Family Learning 1st Dec 2024
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In our final Family Learning session with Year 1, the children made healthy couscous salad

Year author meeting with Peter Brown 30th Nov 2024
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Year 3 enjoyed a Q & A session with Peter Brown, author of the Wild Robot. The children also followed a step by step drawing tutorial to create the Wild Robot!