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Easter Bonnet competition
Fri 27 Mar 2015Miss Gray teamed up with Miss Phillips and our Parent Reps to bring you all an Easter Bonnet competition and a chocolate raffle. We want to thank Father Stuart, all the children, parents, teachers and governors who took part in our celebrations and the competition!
Congratulations to all winners below for their amazing bonnets!
Gold - Sapphire
Silver - Sayari
Mulberry- Lewis and Maria
Apple - Chenai
Beech - Freddie
Chestnut - Kabeena
Rowan - Talia
Cedar - Kira and Aveline
Oak - Reece
Elm - Evie P
Willow - Emily Holmes
Sycamore - Sujeeth
Ash - Taofeek
Cherry - Joe
Maple - Kieran
Palm - Maurisha
Holly - Shageena
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Homework Exhibition
Fri 27 Mar 2015During Parent's evening on Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th March, children's homework projects were displayed in the Middle Hall.
Year 2 created iconic London buildings including a spinning London Eye!
Year 3 made their own inventions and created 'The Journey of Food'.
Year 4 were given the homework title, 'The Future', children worked together to create their own human sized time machine with lights inside.
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Curriculum week
Fri 27 Mar 2015What a brilliant curriculum week we have had! This week each class has spent the week learning through different Disney animations. They have put their drawing, filming and computing skills to the test and they even made their own animations in a workshop. Each year group chose a different Disney Animation upon which all classes have produced amazing work. We have enjoyed the different activities including using iPads to create fantastic eBooks. Please keep a look out for our amazing work around the school, on the website and in the blogs. Walt Disney watch out!
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Lewisham Primary Schools Gala 2015
Fri 27 Mar 2015Year 5 and 6 pupils competed in the Lewisham Primary Schools Swimming Gala against swimmers from 21 other schools. Shageena made it into the Backstroke final, finishing 8th and Luke qualified for three finals, winning Gold in the Butterfly. Mikee, Pravin, Violet, Vethuja and Aiysha also took part in individual events and relays.
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Artsmark Award
Fri 20 Mar 2015We are delighted to announce that Downderry Primary School has been awarded the Artsmark status for our broad, balanced and high quality arts provision. Some our strengths highlighted by the Arts Council include:
- Integration of the arts into your creative curriculum and using arts-based approaches to support pupils to access learning. The extent to which pupils choose creative approaches and demonstrate arts skills in their home learning indicates the quality and impact of arts teaching
- A strong relationship between the arts and ICT, developing pupils’ skills in both subject areas. Your use of ICT in assessing progression in the arts and celebrating pupils’ achievements with a wide audience is also notable
- You have strong music provision and pupils are clearly enthusiastic about opportunities to learn instruments
- Use of visual arts to create a stimulating and high quality learning environment
- A range of arts partnerships enabling pupils to work with local artists as well as to access the
- cultural offer of London
Thank you for all staff, pupils and parents for their support in the arts.
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Red Nose Day
Fri 06 Mar 2015On Friday 13th March we will be supporting Red Nose Day. Please join us by wearing red, making your face funny for money, and bringing a £1 donation to be collected at the gate. Throughout the week, classes will also be making and decorating yummy treats to sell at breaktimes. All money raised will be donated to Comic relief. -
Meet The Mayor
Mon 02 Mar 2015On Friday 27th February some Year 5 pupils, accompanied by our learning mentor, Anita Sewell, went to the Town Hall chambers in Lewisham to meet with the mayor, Steve Bullock. Children posed some challenging questions on how to improve our local area. The children had a wonderful time and found the visit very interesting.