Hello and welcome to our website.

We hope you find it informative, and that it helps give you a ‘flavour’ of all the exciting opportunities our school has to offer.

Our aim is to make our school ‘An outstanding school for the local community.’ We work hard to ensure our children receive the best possible education within a caring environment. We give our pupils skills which they will be able to use throughout their educational career and on into later life – academic skills, as well as the skills to be a responsible, tolerant, caring citizen with an understanding of the wider world and our role in sustaining its resources. As a Church of England school we have strong links with our local churches and we value highly the Christian principles of honesty, respect for others, kindness and forgiveness.

Downton CE VA Primary School sits in the heart of the lovely rural village of Downton. We have close links with Salisbury, The New Forest and local coastal  areas, and we try and make the most of these fabulous resources within our varied programme of trips and visits. We pride ourselves on our creative and exciting curriculum, our excellent teaching and the positive ethos of our school, frequently commented upon by visitors. We welcome parents into school and value your opinions, working alongside you to do our best for each individual. We pride ourselves in knowing each child well, both as a learner and as a person.

We are proud of the academic, sporting, musical and personal successes we achieve with our pupils, but most of all we are proud of our pupils themselves; they are our most valuable ambassadors, and living proof of what our school does best.

We look forward to meeting you,

Christina Evans
Headteacher

Our Mission Statement

Our school aim is that every child should develop their full intellectual, physical, emotional, social and spiritual potential.

The following positive values act as the foundations of the daily life at school:

• respect for God and an understanding of the Christian faith;

• respect for truth, reason and imagination;

• respect for self, family and others;

• responsibility towards self, community and environment;

• commitment to hard work and perseverance;

• commitment to tolerance, compassion, integrity and honesty;

• commitment to co-operation and competition;

• commitment to enjoyment through learning;

• commitment to parental and community involvement in the life of the school.