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• Ancient Greek Day

  Fri 24 May 2019

  Last Friday Year 3 celebrated Ancient Greek Day. The children looked amazing in their costumes. There were lots of exciting activities and the children had fun whilst learning! Thank you to our parents in supporting the children with our events and special days at school.

  

• Outdoor Classroom Day and London History Day

  Fri 24 May 2019

  This week we combined Outdoor Classroom Day with London History Day by encouraging children to get outdoors in the local environment. The theme for London History Day this year is ‘Celebration and Local Culture'. Lessons took place outside of the school, in and around Downham, learning about the wonderful area in which we live.

   

  Examples of the children’s learning along with a film looking at what school was like at Downderry in the 1950s can be found in the Curriculum section of our website.

  

• Bottle Cap Collection

  Fri 24 May 2019

  A huge thank you to all who brought in bottle caps for our bottle cap art project! The response was incredible and we managed to collect enough bottle caps to create our mural! The collection is now over at Downderry, but please remember to recycle your bottle caps at home!

  

• Bird Box Project update

  Fri 10 May 2019

  Our Blue tit’s eggs have now
hatched and we have 8 chicks! Mum and dad are busy
bringing the chicks insects and
bugs.

   

  You can watch the chicks
grow and develop at: www.downderryprimaryschool.com/the-birdbox-project/

  

• Food Hygiene

  Fri 10 May 2019

  Following a recent Food Standards agency inspection, Chartwells at Downderry have been award a rating of 5 out of 5 and an excellent review from the local authority visit.

  

• Win £5,000 for your school

  Fri 10 May 2019

  Visit nationalbooktokens.com/schools for a chance to win a massive £5,000 of National Book Tokens for your school – enough to buy hundreds of new books! You’ll also be in with a chance of taking home £100 of National Book Tokens just for you.

• Eco-Ambassadors

  Fri 03 May 2019

  Well done to Gabriel and Nathaniel who have been litter picking the neighbouring area on their way to school this week. Downderry is immensely proud of their community service, they are great ambassadors for our school and community!

• Gymnastics

  Fri 03 May 2019

  This week, we had success in the Lewisham Gymnastics Championships. Our team of Elijah, Yann, Pamela, Selin and Lilly-Mae from year 4, along with Elijah from year 3, won the bronze medal after each performing a vault and two floor routines.

   

  Pamela also won the overall best girl award and the best vault award. It was an amazing achievement.

  Well done!

  

• Ramadan

  Fri 03 May 2019

  This year Ramadan falls from Sunday 5th May – Tuesday 4th June. Please notify the school office if your child will be fasting, what their fast will involve (e.g. are they abstaining from drink as well as food) and on which days.