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.

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.

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

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.

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.