The Downs Primary School & Nursery
Welcome toThe Downs Primary School
Headteacher: Ms J Allen - It is my great pleasure to warmly welcome you to the website for The Downs Primary School and Nursery. The Downs is an inclusive primary school in the heart of Harlow. We have a dedicated staff team who ensure that the needs of each individual child are met, enabling every child to make the best possible progress.
Latest News
- 04 Feb 2020
The Downs Wins Award for Young Carer Support
The Young Carers in Schools programme helps primary and secondary schools improve outcomes for young carers and celebrates good practice through the Young Carers in Schools Award.
- 03 Feb 2020
3PR - A Safer Environment for All
We have been working with 3PR to try and make parking safer around the school.
- 28 Jan 2020
Culture Week at The Downs
All the children at The Downs spent the week last week celebrating different cultures around the world. Please ask your children about what they learned. Attached below is a sheet of some facts about the different culture to help you think of some good questions.
- 23 Jan 2020
Our New Canvases
We have several beautiful new canvas prints around the new building.
- 09 Jan 2020
Hoax School Nurse Text
We want to make you aware of an incident that has been reported. A primary school (not The Downs) received information from a parent that someone purporting to be a School Nurse contacted them by text to ask questions about their child.
- 20 Dec 2019
Autumn Term House Winners
Unicorn win the house competition for the Autumn Term! Well done Unicorns!!!
- 14 Feb 2020
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Well done to Alice in Nursery, Pearl & Albie in YR, Finley & Vikram in Y1, Laibah & Ryan in Y2, Zoe & Mia B in Y3, Ray & Nathan in Y4, Ribaha & Nancy in Y5 and William & Amy in Y6. Their writing has been chosen to be displayed as a great example for their year group! https://t.co/2XRqio1Ii9
- 14 Feb 2020
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The Downs played the first half of their fixtures in the Terry Coxhead Cup. They started off well beating Pear Tree Mead 4-3. They then suffered a1-0 defeat to Holy Cross who appear to be our bogie team this year. They went back to winning ways with a 7-0 victory over St Luke's. https://t.co/HKAsjJays6
- 14 Feb 2020
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Acorn Class have been learning the skill of printing this week just in time for Valentine's Day! https://t.co/RMGqjUKFu4
- 14 Feb 2020
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The children in Acorn Class have continued to embed their learning about China by self selecting and making their own noodles and chopsticks using open ended resources as well as making their own Chinese lion mask! https://t.co/af2s0XkFr6
- 14 Feb 2020
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Unicorn had their house assembly this week. It was led by Amber-Mae and Damien. They talked about ways to get house points and celebrated being in the lead - again! https://t.co/XQ3Fp1SOrV
- 14 Feb 2020
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Amazing effort with homework by Armands in Year 6 which depicts the amazing diversity of landscapes in South America. Well done! https://t.co/WXAb0UGZcI
House Points
Dragon
5279
pointsGriffin
5016
pointsLion
5384
pointsUnicorn
6003
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