This year, our Eco-Committee selected Healthy Living, Marine and School Grounds as their Eco-Schools topics and we have had a truly action-packed year! Healthy Living We launched the Good Grub Club, providing pupils with the skills to cook a healthy meal. We grew and harvested healthy snacks in the Pod planters. We had an assembly on healthy eating, including vegan diets, seasonal eating and whole foods. We are in the process of putting together some PDP recipe cards, which w

For their last eco action of the year, our Eco-Committee would like to encourage everyone to take part in Plastic Free July. https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/ Thank you for all your support this year!

We have just been awarded a Gold Schools Games Mark for the 4th year running! Thank you to everyone who helped us work towards this.

Some of our children have been growing a variety of vegetables in our new pod planter this year. They have already picked some radishes. One of our Year 4 children was delighted to take some of them home and made this delicious looking salad with them! Great work!

It's that time of year again. Say goodbye to your lawnmowers for (at least) a month. No Mow May is here! At Parsons Down, we have dedicated areas in our school grounds that remain unmown during May and beyond - our roundabout, the back of the playing field and, of course, our wildflower meadow. Allowing natural wildflowers (such as, dandelions, daisies and clover) to grow during the month of May provides a great boost to our pollinators. Our Eco-Council would love it if our f

Harrison and Freddie enjoyed planting radish seeds in our raised beds. They made shallow holes in the soil with their fingers, dropped a small, round, radish seed in each hole, waited 4 weeks, watering the soil when it hadn't rained, and then pulled DELICIOUS radishes! They had to top and tail the radishes, wash the mud off them and then they were ready to eat. The perfect healthy, plastic free snack.

Just before the Easter holidays, we held our annual Infant School Easter parade. The hats on display were fantastic! We were also thrilled with the fantastic entries to this year’s PDSA Easter Plate competition. The creativity on display was exceptional! Our School Council had the difficult task of judging and awarded: KS1 Winner: Jasmine (Year 2) KS1 Runners-up: George & Christopher (Year 1) KS2 Winner: Nicola (Year 6)  KS2 Runners-up: Charles (Year 5) & Erica (Year 4) Both

We were delighted to welcome PC Caine and PC Downes from the Thatcham Neighbourhood Policing Team, who led an informative assembly. They spoke to pupils about the role of the police, staying safe online, anti-social behaviour, and basic bike and scooter safety.

On Tuesday 17th March, 27 pupils all tried their best in the Cross Country Championships representing our school. It was very brave of everyone who participated to run with lots of pressure and people spectating. There were 4 races overall, each race having around 400 people running in a 4.35 kilometre track. Rosie, Melissa and Theo all had an amazing run, with Theo getting 67th in the year 5 and 6 boys’ race, Rosie getting 26th in the year 3 and 4 girls race and Melissa gett

The Travelling Book Fair will be at Parsons Down between Wednesday 18th March and Wednesday 25th March 2026 from 3:15-3:30. As a school, we get a percentage from the book sales to spend on books. Last year, the money that was raised was used to purchase the new class books. We are grateful for any contributions you can make through purchasing a book and we will look to buy more books based on pupil voice with any money we have to spend. Thank you for your continued support wi

This morning, with some help from the office team, the Eco-Council sowed wildflower seeds on our roundabout. As you can see, the daffodils are now doing really well and we have some tulips coming on too! Well done eco warriors! Fingers crossed for a beautiful display of wildflowers this Summer!

Yesterday afternoon, we planted 5 fruit trees in the meadow area at PDP - one cherry, 2 apples and 2 pears. We're already looking forward to harvesting from them in a few years time! Thank you so much to George, a past PDP pupil, Mrs Dickie and some very helpful Twilighters, for their hard work digging and planting.