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YEAR 6 TO YEAR 7 TRANSITION – SCHOOL LEADERS BRIEFING
WELCOME TO DOWNLANDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL – TOUR FOR YEAR 6
Due to the fact that visits are probably not going to be possible before we break up for the summer, I thought it might be nice to give you a personal guided tour. Please don’t panic about the size of Downlands and the potential for getting lost, each tutor group will...
DOWNLANDS @ 60
DOWNLANDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL CELEBRATES IT’S 60TH ANNIVERSARY It makes you wonder what the residents of Hassocks and in particular Dale Avenue and Windmill Avenue, thought in 1955 when it was proposed to build a new school right on their doorstep. ‘Photographs –...
HEADTEACHER MARK WIGNALL, DESCRIBES DOWNLANDS’ ETHOS & VALUES
Welcome to Downlands! Downlands is proud to be a community school. Our aim is to work in partnership with our community to educate our youngsters to become caring, kind, active, responsible and successful citizens able to make a social, environmental and economic...
“SUDDENLY EVERYONE WANTS TO BE IN SHOWBUSINESS” BUGSY MALONE AT DOWNLANDS
There were splurge guns, there was fabulous music, there were corny jokes, there was sensational singing and dancing and there was romance! All 160 students who were involved in the 2020 drama production of Bugsy Malone were superb. Auditions began back in October and...
TODAY A READER, TOMORROW A LEADER
At Downlands, we love to read. Every day at 2pm we Drop Everything and Read (DEAR time) for 10 minutes. Teachers and students alike read together. Our vision here is to create a learning culture in which pupils leave Downlands confident and highly literate citizens,...
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARD WINNERS
The Duke of Edinburgh award can be “a game-changer, raising young people’s aspirations and opening doors to employment whilst bringing people together”. We are proud at Downlands of our flourishing Duke of Edinburgh programme and every year more and more students...
Our Communities
All students at Downlands belong to one of 4 Communities, all named after areas of natural beauty in Sussex
- Beacon
- South Downs
- Weald
- Wolstonbury