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• Football Festival

  Fri 02 Oct 2015

   On Thursday, upper key stage 2 teams played in a football festival at Whitefoot Lane Playing Fields. Our teams showed all the qualities we had hoped they would display, including team spirit, determination and resilience. Our boys team finished fifth while our girls team finished second, losing out on first spot by just one point.

  

• MacMillan Coffee Afternoon

  Fri 02 Oct 2015

  A massive thank you for supporting this year’s MacMillan coffee afternoon, raising funds in the fight against cancer. Downderry raised a record £810 for the charity.

• Jeans for Genes

  Fri 25 Sep 2015

  Thank you for supporting ‘Jeans for Genes’ earlier this month by wearing your jeans to school and bringing in a donation. We managed to raise £204.45. To find out how your money raised will be spent please visit www.jeansforgenes.org

• Our new Prefects

  Fri 11 Sep 2015

  Thank you to all pupils who applied to be a prefect, there were many!  Congratulations to the following year 5/6 pupils Maurisha, Reece-dan, Sonny, Skylar, Harry, Banushanth, Rosa, Luke O, Sanjay, Pranavi, Lilly-Rose, Aiysha, Alyssia, Ava, Courtney and Kobisan.

  We wish them well.

• MP Heidi Alexander visit

  Wed 09 Sep 2015

  Downderry Primary School were incredibly lucky to begin the new year with a visit from our local MP Heidi Alexander. Heidi delivered a motivational assembly to the children, talking about the responsibility of head pupils and members of school council representatives. Heidi also discussed her role as a Labour MP and answered the children's challenging questions. To finish the inspiring assembly, Heidi announced the names our of new Head Boy and Head Girl Alex and Maurisha. 

  

• 100% Attendance Winners

  Fri 17 Jul 2015

  Congratulations to the following children who achieved perfect attendance and punctuality this year(2014-1015):

   

  Christelle Kamembe               Jade Hitch

  Camari Archer                      Abisan Satheeskumar

  Phrianthan Baskaran           Samira Da Cruz

  Courtney Back                      Benite Kabembe

  Daniel Irving                       Charlotte Avenell

  Eugene Wouadji                    Taofeek Raji-Dabiri

  Robby Dell                           Aleesha Asafo-Agyei

  Oluwafolahanmi Oluokun      Fardin Srabon Rob

  Bishman Karnan                  Tobi Ajeneye

  Maksymilian Smaga              Junior Makaba

  Movishaa Ketheeswaren         Isaac Ajeneye

  Cassie Watt                           Hareena Maheswaren

   

  Abishan's name in Year 5 was drawn from the hat for the special prize of a television.

• Summer Fair

  Fri 10 Jul 2015

  We would like to thank all parents, carers, children, friends and family that attended and donated items for our sensational Summer Fair last Saturday. It was a brilliant success with many activities and performances from the children, which everyone thoroughly enjoyed! We would like to give a special thank you to all the Parent Reps that devoted their time to support in the preparations for the fair and running of the day itself.

   

  We raised a record breaking £1,133.20! This money will be used for things such as the 100% attendance gift vouchers and year 6 leavers prom to support and praise the children in our school.

   

  The bake off winners will be announced in next week's newsletter so look out for your name if you entered!

  

• Sports Day

  Fri 03 Jul 2015

  It was was the hottest day of the year weather wise, and competition wise, Downderry's annual Sports Day returned, and it was a scorcher!

  The house teams were out in full spirit, as were all the fantastic supporters. It was a great day of inflatable races, space hoppers, beanbags and more. All the children tried their hardest and we had some great running results! It was great seeing the children representing their house and the school in such a superb manner. Another successful Sports Day.

  The support, from both the pupils and spectators, was fantastic, so a MASSIVE thank you to everyone.

  

• International Week

  Mon 29 Jun 2015

  International Week has been brilliant! Our children and staff have learnt a great amount about different countries around the world and shared their own experiences from their countries and cultures. 

   

  Pupils from Sedgehill School came in and shared their experiences with our children, which they loved!

   

  J'dai McCrobie (pictured), Cedar class, researched Jamaica independently at home and shared the information with her class.

   

  On Wednesday our International Food Festival was a fantastic success. Thank you to all those parents, family and friends who came along

  to share in tasting some delicious food from around the world! 

   

  Thank you also to the local businesses who contributed:

  Pizza Hut,

  Favourite Chicken,

  Sponge Kitchens,

  Caribbean Express,

  China Noodle Express,

  Biedronka, Polish Shop.

   

  All food donations were greatly appreciated and we raised £312, which will help subsidise future curriculum visits and events.

   

  You can see photographs and videos from Internationl week in the "Curriculum" section of our website:

  http://www.downderryprimaryschool.com/international-week/

  

• Young Carers Week

  Fri 12 Jun 2015

  As part of Young Carers Week we held an "ice pole" sale at break times. We raised a total of £73.90. The money raised will go towards supporting Young Carers Lewisham.