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• Easter Bonnet competition

  Fri 27 Mar 2015

  Miss 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

  

• Homework Exhibition

  Fri 27 Mar 2015

  During 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.

  We hope you enjoyed seeing how hard the children have been working on their homework projects and we thank you for your support at home.

  

• Curriculum week

  Fri 27 Mar 2015

  What 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!

  

• Lewisham Primary Schools Gala 2015

  Fri 27 Mar 2015

  Year 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.

  

• Artsmark Award

  Fri 20 Mar 2015

  We 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.

  

• Red Nose Day

  Fri 06 Mar 2015
  On 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 2015

  On 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.

  

• Internet Safety workshop

  Mon 02 Feb 2015

  A big thank you to all the parents who attended the Internet Safety workshop this week.

   

  Tuesday 10th February is Safer Internet Day. The children will be creating an e-Safety book and promoting the safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology. For more information about Internet safety visit www.saferinternetday.org.uk/.

• Your Vote Matters

  Mon 26 Jan 2015

  Up to now, one person in every household has been responsible for registering everyone else who lives at that address. Under new government rules each person will be responsible for making sure they are registered to vote.

   

  You can register by following the link below:

  https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

  

• Target Setting Celebration Tea

  Mon 12 Jan 2015

  Congratulations to all children who met their targets last term and attended the Target Setting Celebration Tea.

   

  Keep working hard, and with excellent attendance, it might be you this term…

   

  Thank you for your comments...

   

  “This is a fantastic way of inspiring kids to do well.  Praises to all the staff” - Admire Kamara

   

  “ Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to celebrate our child’s achievement.  Well done to all the staff and children!” - Lucinda Himeur