Continents and Oceans 2nd Sep 2025
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Straight back to work for Year 2 on the first day back! We explored atlases and globes to locate the world’s continents and oceans. We also had the chance to look through some amazing non-fiction books all about the ocean and the creatures that live there.

Year 6 Leavers Play 20th Jul 2025
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In the usual tradiiton the took themselves, their friends and family down memory lane!

Year 6 Legoland Trip 20th Jul 2025
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Year 6 enjoyed an amazing (albeit hot!) day at Legoland, in celebration of the end of this academic year and the end of their time at Downside. The children faced their fears on the rides, made memories to last a lifetime with their friends and screamed... a lot!

Spitfire: Year 6 Legoland Trip 20th Jul 2025
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Year 6 enjoyed an amazing (albeit hot!) day at Legoland, in celebration of the end of this academic year and the end of their time at Downside. The children faced their fears on the rides, made memories to last a lifetime with their friends and screamed... a lot!

Lancaster Class: Year 6 Legoland Trip 20th Jul 2025
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Year 6 enjoyed an amazing (albeit hot!) day at Legoland, in celebration of the end of this academic year and the end of their time at Downside. The children faced their fears on the rides, made memories to last a lifetime with their friends and screamed... a lot!

Honey sandwiches 14th Jul 2025
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Over the last couple of weeks we have been learning about bees and the fact that they make honey. The children were really excited to try it and make honey sandwiches. A couple of quotes from the children were... 'it was the best sandwich I've had' and 'they were really yummy'..

The Great Science Share at Whipsnade Zoo 8th Jul 2025
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The year 4 science club attended The Great Science Share at Whipsnade Zoo on June 17th.

Year 3 Judaism Assembley 8th Jul 2025
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The Year 3 children put on a informative assembly about Judaism to their families this week. Thanks to everyone who attended and well to all the children.

Year 3 King Class Art Open Classroom 8th Jul 2025
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It was lovely to welcome the parents in to look at the amazing art that King class had created over the year.

Singing Spectactular 8th Jul 2025
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The choir had a great time at Singing Spectacular where they joined with several other schools to perform to an audience of family and friends. The children were exemplary and showcased both talent and enthusiasm.

Year 4 Whipsnade Trip 3rd Jul 2025
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Year 3 Synagogue Trip 3rd Jul 2025
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Whipsnade Zoo Community Take Over 3rd Jul 2025
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PGL June 2025- General Photos 29th Jun 2025
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PGL June 2025- Laser Tag 29th Jun 2025
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PGL June 2025- Zip Line 29th Jun 2025
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Look forward, hold on tight and ZIP!

PGL June 2025- Survivor 29th Jun 2025
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Make a shelter, make a camp fire and survive the day.

PGL June 2025- Rock climbing 29th Jun 2025
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Can you get to the top!

PGL June 2025- Rifle Shooting 29th Jun 2025
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Take aim and fire!

PGL June 2025- Problem Solving 29th Jun 2025
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Team work, makes the dream work!

PGL June 2025- Nightline 29th Jun 2025
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Blinfolds on and trust your team mates to help you out.

PGL June 2025- Jacobs Ladder 29th Jun 2025
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Work together to get to the top of the ladder. Alot harder than it looks!!!

PGL June 2025- Big Swing 29th Jun 2025
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1,2, 3 Pull the blue cord- WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reception trip to Wendover woods- Coral Class 16th Jun 2025
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Reception children have been on an adventure at Wendover woods looking for the Gruffalo! Lots of fun exploring the woods playing, investigating, creating and making memories.

Reception trip to Wendover woods- Emerald and Opal Class 16th Jun 2025
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Reception children have been on an adventure at Wendover woods looking for the Gruffalo! Lots of fun exploring the woods playing, investigating, creating and making memories.

Reception trip to Wendover woods- Ruby class 16th Jun 2025
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Reception children have been on an adventure at Wendover woods looking for the Gruffalo! Lots of fun exploring the woods playing, investigating, creating and making memories.

Brillant club Graduation 2025 11th Jun 2025
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A final celebration in school to mark the end of Brilliant Club 2025. We shared a wonderful Mexican meal, all thanks to our wonderful cook Ms McCarthy.

World Oceans Day 2025 8th Jun 2025
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The children had lots of fun exploring their creativity to celebrate World Oceans day and learnt what they can do to improve our oceans.

Reception Oceans Day 2025 7th Jun 2025
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The reception children had lots of fun learning about keeping our ocean's safe. They learnt a poem about the sea, made bookmarks for the book fair competition linked to the oceans and outside the children had to try and clean up the 'sea' by getting the rubbish out of the water. TThis week the children have also been learning about snails and they explored the sand and made spirals of sea snails.

Year 6 R.E. Christian Creation Story 3rd Jun 2025
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This week in RE, Year 6 pupils recalled the Christian Creation Story and produced artwork as a group to show what Christians believe God created on each day. Check them out in action!

Year 6 explore fossils in science 3rd Jun 2025
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Year 6 students took a closer look at a large range of fossils in today’s Science lesson and it was amazing to think they were formed tens of thousands of years ago!

Dentist Visit 23rd May 2025
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We had a visit from the dental nurses who taught us how to keep our teeth clean and healthy . We learned that we need to brush our teeth for 2 minutes in the morning and before bedtime.They kindly gave us all a new toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste to take home.

Year 6 end of SATS chocolate treat. 22nd May 2025
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To celebrate the end of SATs and the children's incredible efforts throughout the entire year, we spent the day designing and making our own chocolate bars! Although a little messy, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and were very impressed with the finished products

Year 1 science leaf detective 22nd May 2025
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This week the Year 1 children have been learning how to be leaf dectectives in their science lessons. They had a TREEmendous time!!!

Year 3 VE day 15th May 2025
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Year 6 visit to the Mandir 2025 13th May 2025
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Year 5 Cambridge Mosque visit 2025 13th May 2025
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Year 4 visit to the Gurdwara 13th May 2025
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Year 3 trip to St Marys church 13th May 2025
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Year 5 Brillant Graduation 13th May 2025
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On the 8th May 2025, our 14 Brilliant Club participants were lucky enough to graduate at Oxford University. As a part of this, they were given a tour of the central Oxford University campus.

Wardown Park trip 12th May 2025
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We took a trip to the museum at Wardown Park where we learnt all about minibeasts. We read a lovely story about how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly and then made our own butterfly wings.

DT: Fruit kebabs 12th May 2025
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In our DT lesson we have been learning new skills such as chopping, cutting , slicing and peeling . We used the skills we have learnt to make our own fruit kebabs. We had a choice of blueberries , oranges , strawberries , bananas and grapes to make our kebab .Then we cut the fruit , placed it on the skewers and ate it all.

Year 3 HSBC Workshop 7th May 2025
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Last week year 3 were given lesson from the team at HSBC on how to help themselves and their parents look for the best deal when shopping and how to save money!

Year 4 Tower of London Visit 5th May 2025
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Year 4 children had a great day visiting the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London and having a whistle stop tour of some of the London sights. It was amazing to see a mix of the old and the new

Year 5 Cambridge Mosque visit 5th May 2025
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Year 5 have started their unit of work on Islam. As a part of this, they have been lucky enough to visit the Cambridge central mosque.

Science - Healthy living week 24th Apr 2025
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During spring term we have been learning how to keep ourselves healthy . We explored healthy foods by looking at a balanced diet and finding out where we get our food from. We looked at why exercise is so important to keep us healthy and created our own exercise circuits during outdoor learning. We learnt all about how to keep our teeth clean and what happens when we visit the dentist. We also looked at how we can keep our bodies clean.

Ramadhan Food Packs Donation 25th Mar 2025
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Year 6- STEM day 25th Mar 2025
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This week, the girls had to don their 'technology hats' in order to write codes for satellites using Micro:bits whilst the boys were busy investigating and exploring different structures using K'nex, spaghetti and marshmallows!