Last half term, members of the Year 3 and Year 4 UNICEF Club were expanding their knowledge about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aligned with the United Nations Rights of the child. In a proactive move, they wrote letters...

Our Year 6 students recently had an incredible opportunity to enhance their rugby knowledge and team work skills with a training session from New Zealand born, former All Blacks and Harlequins rugby union player, Nick Evans. This enriching experience allowed...

William Blake’s tiger may have ‘burned bright’ in his famous poem, but today, ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’ descended on Downsend to give Little Downsend’s Year 1 children a fun-filled morning. The children worked with a Drama specialist to...

We’re thrilled to announce that Downsend Junior School earned the Silver Rights Respecting School Award! UNICEF UK has granted us this recognition for significant progress in embedding children’s rights within our school policy, community, and culture through daily practices and...

In our latest edition of our New Teacher Feature, we’d like to introduce you to our Interim Head of Senior School, Marc Broughton. Find out who inspired Marc to go into teaching, what is his favourite British Literary period and...

Welcome to our Friday Teacher Spotlight Series. Today we meet Craig Moore, our Head of Cricket. We will chat about rugby, and books and see what happened at The Wimbledon Tennis Championships in 2013.

Welcome to our latest instalment of the Teacher Spotlight Series where we meet with our Head of Netball, Emma Magee, super-talented Northern Ireland international netball player and attacker currently playing for Leeds Rhinos.

Welcome to our latest instalment of the Teacher Spotlight Series. This week we’d like to introduce you to Marcus Bell, our Head of Footballl and also Y11 Tutor, a Manchester United supporter who joined Downsend from Shanghai with a pit...

Meet Thomas Hyam, one of our fantastic teachers and our Head of Rugby. He combined his education with his main sport of Rugby at Exeter College where he played academy rugby, helping their side win several major national competitions, including...