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

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.

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.

Mental Health Week-"Our Voice Matters" 5th Mar 2025
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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.

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.

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!

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 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.

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.

Year 4 Multisport festival 28th Sep 2024
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Children in Year4 enjoyed their afternoon of basketball, dodgeball, benchball and netball. They had lots of fun and it was a pleasure to watch the children develop their skills.

Marylebone get chopping! 25th Sep 2024
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Marylebone children learnt about and then used a range of techniques to chop and grate their fruit and vegetables to eventually make their own muffins. Yum Yum!

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.

Town Finals 2024 6th Jul 2024
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We are delighted to share that on Tuesday 2nd July Downside Primary were crowned Luton Schools Athletics champions. (for the first time ever!!!) The team had 26 children finish in the top 8 positions 16 medals in total 6 gold medals 4 silver medals 6 bronze medals (3 children also came 4th) It was a brillant way to finish 2024 and we are so proud of all the children who competed and they all showed the usual determination, positivity and skill (DPS) that you would expect from Downside children. WOW! WOW !

Year 3 & 4 Quad Kids COUNTY finals 30th Jun 2024
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We are so proud of our amazing Year 3&4 Quads kids team who finished 3rd overall in the county. The children had to sprint 60m, run 400m, throw a vortex and perform a long jump. All of the children were amazing and we are so proud of their achievement.

Year 4 and 5 Sports Day 2024 26th Jun 2024
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It was a hot day but the children had lots of fun competiting at the 2024 sports day. Keep your eyes out for the results

Year 4 trip to The Tower 8th May 2024
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Year 4 children had a great day visiting the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London. Watch out for the Raven!!!

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.

KS2 Christmas lunch 18th Dec 2023
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On Thursday the KS2 children enjoyed their christmas lunch- brussels, turkey and lots of bad cracker jokes!

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.

World Ocean Day 12th Dec 2023
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Year 4 joined with the rest of the school to create amazing art work to promote World Ocean Day

Year 4 Trip to the Gurdwara 12th Dec 2023
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Year 4 children had an interesting visit to the Gurdwara.

Year 4 Greek Day 12th Dec 2023
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Year 4 enjoyed their Greek Day where they were given the opportunity to make bread, crafts and have a Greek Banquet.