Junior School

Staff vs Year 6 Netball

On Friday, a team of staff played netball against Year 6 pupils during lunchtime. It was a slightly more active lunchtime than staff are...

U11 Boys and Girls Football Competition

Following on from last week's busy schedule of football competitions, a team of U11 boys and girls represented Parsons Down in the...

Sports News

We’d like to say many congratulations to our under 11 girls’ football team who represented the Partnership in the Under 11 County Cup...

Young Photographer of the Year 2022

Young Photographer Of The Year Competition 2021

The Young Photographer Of The Year Competition this year is eco themed again! It is open to children in Years 5 and 6 and the deadline is...

Junior Bake Off 2021

Ultimate STEM Challenge: A Home For Nature

The Ultimate STEM challenge is back and this year it aims to immerse pupils in the theme of biodiversity! The decline of biodiversity has...

Year 5s - Your Chance To Be A Librarian!

Hello all Year 5s! I am currently recruiting new librarians for next year. If you are hard working, have great organisational skills and...

Young Photographer of the Year 2020

The Newbury Weekly News have launched this year's Young photographer of the Year competition - open to all children aged between 9-18....

Newbury District Primary Schools' FA - District Trials

To all our budding Year 5 footballers, the time has come to register for the District Primary Schools' FA Trials...

Reading Well - Books to Help You Feel Better

The Reading Well for children booklist is targeted at children in Key Stage 2 and includes a wide range of reading levels to support less...

Key Stage 2 Cross Country

Last Thursday we hosted our first inter house competition. We started with a Partnership cross country event which involved a challenging...

Shiny New Books!

We have just received delivery of some lovely, shiny new books for the Junior Library! These books were purchased using the £205.30...

Key Stage 2 ICT Suite

Wednesday was a really exciting day as the West Berkshire ICT technicians arrived to set up our new ICT suite. We now have 20 band new...

Free Books For Schools!

The Sun newspaper is offering primary schools the chance to claim a set of free Collins Big Cat books for schools worth over £600. We...

Eco Assembly

This week, we formally launched the Eco-Schools programme at Parsons Down Junior School in a special assembly (the Infant School assembly...