Downham C. of E. Voluntary Controlled Primary School

During half-term, Miss Boyd and Miss Proctor took part in The Smiles Foundation’s Educational Challenge to Romania

Tileagd - Smiles Foundation

We are very pleased to announce that the chicks in Class JA have begun to hatch and we have 8 chicks! This has been an exciting event for children (and staff) across the school as we all admire how amazing they are.  Nature really is a beautiful thing!

Chicks Hatching

We’re delighted to be taking part in the UK’s biggest school sporting event again this year – Lloyds TSB National School Sport Week, which runs from 27 June – 1 July 2011.  This is a fun week of sport and celebration, which uses the inspiration of London 2012 to help our young people take part in more sport. As a Proud Partner of London 2012, Lloyds TSB is also giving us the chance to win 20 tickets to an event at the London 2012 Olympics or Paralympic Games. To have the best chance of winning, we need you to make a pledge of support (a vote) for our school online. It’s simple to do, just go to http://www.lloydstsblondon2012.co.uk/In-your-community/National-School-Sport-Week/, search for us by school name or postcode –CM11 1NU– fill in your details and click the ‘Submit’ button. Your pledge of support could make all the difference. It did last year as we won the £1000 sports vouchers!  We just need 50 pledges of support to be in with a chance of winning tickets to London 2012. Even if we reach 25 pledges we’ll still be in with a chance of winning £500 of sports equipment vouchers.

Spring Term 2011 

Royal Wedding

Inter-Schools Maths Competition

Well done to James Cobley, Joseph Price, Rebecca Field and Elise Carvosso for representing Downham at the inter-schools maths competition that took place on Thursday 28^th April.  All children worked hard on the challenges they were given and were a credit to our school.  Thank you to Miss Proctor for accompanying the children.

 

Easter Egg Competition  

Congratulations to all who entered. 

   

We had so many entries to the Easter Egg Competiton this year.  We asked the children to decorate an egg.  The standard was very high, and it was very hard to judge. Congratulations to the winning entries, they were announced at the Easter service and all entries received a small prize.

 

Easter Egg Competition

 Comic Relief 

           A very Big Thank You

With your support we raised a fantastic £483.70 which includes the sale of red noses, and everyone came to school wearing red clothes.    The school council ran a poster competition to promote Red Nose Day and the winners were announced in last week’s assembly.  Well done to all our winners and to Lucy Stokes who was the overall winner.  Thank you to Miss Proctor and our school council for organising the fundraising activities.

Well done to Jack Mizen, Matthew McSweeney, Grant Clark and James Cobley for participating in the area final of the K’Nex Challenge after school on Tuesday.  This is a national competition organised by Young Engineers.  The children had to design and make a solution to a problem they were given on the evening.  Both teams worked well together and created good designs.  The children were presented with their certificates in assembly today 25th March.  Thank you to Miss Edwards for arranging for our school to take part.

Writing Competition

Some of our children have entered the ‘Rotart Young Writers’ competition this term.  We were commended on the high standard of all the entries.  Every child who took part will receive a certificate which will be presented members of the Rotary Club in an assembly.  We are delighted to announce that Downham pupils won 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd place.  In first place was Charlotte Josiah; second place was won by Amelia Armiger; third place went to Jai Felstead.  These three children will be presented with trophies in an assembly.  Charlotte and Amelia’s entries will now be entered into the regional finals.  Well done to all who took part.

Congratulations to our gymnastics team-Maddie, Jessica, Ella, Marney, Lucy and Evie who came 2nd in the Essex School Gymnastics Competition for the girls’ plate. There was less than one point between our team and the winning school. The competition was in two parts: vaulting and floor routine and was held after school on Monday at Sandon High School. Congratulations to Marney who also achieved first place for each of her individual performances, scoring 9.1 and 9.2. This is the first time that Downham have entered a team and to be awarded the second place trophy is a tremendous achievement. Our thanks to all their parents and grandparents for their support and encouragement with this activity.

One of our grandparents-Mrs Patey has kindly offered to help with the school gardening. She is looking for parents or grandparents who can spare a couple of hours on Monday mornings from 10am until 1pm to help her. If you are able to support us in this way, please leave your details at the school office with your Name, Telephone Number and E-mail Address. It will make a real difference to our school environment.

Thank you for joining Our wonderful VIP Afternoon, 

celebrating your special child's successes and school life.

VIP's

Autumn Term 2010

Christmas Bazaar

Thank you to everyone who supported our Christmas Bazaar this year

Tag Rugby and

Year 3 Primary Activities

Well done to the children who represented our school at these events.  

The teams played well and were presented with their certificates on Friday.

Bright Day for Brake

On Friday 26th November we held a Bright Day.  

This a non uniform day with a difference.  Everyone came to school wearing their brightest clothes. 

This was to raise money for Brake and to encourage us to wear clothes so we can be seen in these dark winter days.

Downham Welcomes Ray Parlour

We are very proud to announce that we won the Lloyds TSB National Schools Sports Week prize draw.  This week we were joined by Ray Parlour (Ex- Arsenal) and Frank Medcalf from Lloyds TSB to present us with our Sports Vouchers.  Ray very kindly offered to stay and pass on some tips to our Central Venue League Football players and sign autographs after school.  Thank you, Ray for visiting us and inspiring our children.  Thank you also to everyone who made a pledge for us and a big thank you to LLoyds TSB for our Sports Vouchers.

Shoebox Appeal 2010

Thank you to everyone who made a 'container of hope'.  51 boxes were collected today and will be distributed  by Blythswood Care to arrive on time for Christmas in Romania, Serbia and Hungary.  We support this charity each year and it is part of our work in the wider community. Mrs Audrey Pegrum MBE joined us in assembly to thank us on behalf of the eldery, adults and children who will receive our boxes.

Central League Football

Well done to the boys' and girls' teams that took part in this Month's Central League 7 Aside Football, which was held at Mayflower School.

CHARITABLE SINGERS

The Downham C of E Primary School choir, which will perform in Chelmsford next month. The choir at Downham will perform a song for Harvest for the Hungry on Sunday 17th October at 6pm in the Meadows shopping centre Chelmsford. 

Do come along and support them and don't forget to bring in your donations for the Harvest Boxes.

Harvest for the Hungry  

Mrs Wilson explained how we would be helping to collect food for 'Harvest for the Hungry' charity this half term.  Each class were given a box to fill with items of food such as flour, rice, pasta, sugar or tinned tomatoes. Some of our children will also be singing in the 'Harvest for the Hungry' choir at the Meadows, Chelmsford in October.