Downderry Primary School
Downderry Primary School is a primary school in Bromley for ages 3 to 11.
Practise what Downderry Primary School is teaching this term
Daily maths in the order Downderry Primary School teaches it, where its maps give one. English keeps to the usual order for their year. Start with a free five-minute class.
At a glance
- Type
- Community school, run by the council
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Pupils
- 477
- Who it's for
- Boys and girls
- Address
- Downderry Road, Bromley, BR1 5QL
- Phone
- 02086 985768
The school's websiteResults and performanceFull register entryMap
The school
- The school's motto is Trying your Best Equals Success If you Believe you will Achieve.
Source: Downderry Primary School website. Checked 11 November 2026.
How it teaches
- Maths is taught using high quality resources from White Rose Maths and Times Tables Rock Stars.
- Phonics is taught through the DfE validated programme My Letters and Sounds.
Source: Downderry Primary School website; Downderry Primary School website. Checked 11 November 2026.
Admissions
- Reception open mornings are for children starting Reception in September 2027.
- Children born between 1st September 2023 and 31st December 2023 can start Nursery in January 2027.
- Children born between 1st January 2024 and 31st August 2024 can start Nursery in September 2027.
Source: Downderry Primary School website. Checked 11 November 2026.
What each year group is learning
From Downderry Primary School's curriculum maps.
ReceptionAutumn
- Maths
- Counting objects, actions and sounds. Reciting numbers in order up to ten
- Reading
- Engaging in story times. Looking at books independently
- Writing
- Writing some or all of their name
- Art
- Exploring colour and colour mixing
- Music
- Remembering and singing entire songs
- PE
- Finding different ways of moving
- RE
- Learning about Harvest Festival and Diwali
- PSHE
- Seeing themselves as valuable individuals. Managing basic hygiene independently
- Other
- Learning about talking about family members
Year 1Autumn
- Maths
- Writing numbers 0-20 and beyond
- English
- Reading and knowledge of letter sounds and word building
Year 2Autumn
- Maths
- Writing to entertain and inform in English
- Geography
- Comparing London to Edinburgh as capital cities. Asking geographical questions and using maps. Comparing streets in London
- Computing
- Planning a sequence of movements in Scratch Jr
- Design and technology
- Designing and making Tudor houses. Designing and making a baked treat
Year 3Autumn
- Maths
- Times tables and corresponding division facts. Reading scales and number lines accurately
Year 4Autumn
- Maths
- Fractions and decimals. Properties of shapes. Written methods for all four operations. Number facts
- Science
- Living things and their habitats. States of matter and the water cycle
- History
- When the Roman period was and its major events. Comparing how people lived in the past with today
- Art
- Retelling stories by creating comic strips
- Music
- How music was created during the Roman era
- PE
- Athletics and cricket
Year 5Autumn
- Maths
- Place value, ordering and comparing numbers to one million. Rounding numbers appropriately. Calculating using negative numbers. Fractions, decimals and percentages, including comparing them. Using the four operations when calculating with fractions
- Computing
- Game development. Cryptography
- Art
- Creating typography through drawing and design
- RE
- Hinduism. Christianity
- PSHE
- Physical and emotional changes as humans age
- French
- Greetings, counting to 60 and describing people, places and objects
Year 6Autumn
- Maths
- Number, place value and rounding. Securing calculation strategies. Fractions, decimals, percentages and ratio. Measures and properties of shape. Data handling
- English
- Reading poetry such as Flanders Field. Reading the biography of Anne Frank
- Science
- Light
- History
- Understanding how daily life was affected locally during World War 2
- Computing
- Switched-On Computing scheme, computational thinking and toy makers
- Design and technology
- Designing and constructing a helicopter
- Music
- Understanding staff and musical notation. Listening to and exploring Motown, Pop, Jazz styles
- PE
- Net games and invasion games
- PSHE
- Being part of a community and respecting ourselves and others
- French
- Learning a range of French skills. Notre école and Notre monde topics
Read on 11 November 2026 from the school's Curriculum Overview page. The maps: Reception Autumn Term 2026 Overview, Year 1 Autumn Term 2026 Overview copy, Year 2 Autumn Term 2026 Overview, Year 3 Autumn Term 2026 Overview, Year 4 Autumn Term 2026 Overview, Year 5 Autumn Term 2026 Overview, Year 6 Autumn Term 2026 Overview.
What each year learns
- Year 4 mathsWhite Rose Maths
- Year 6 mathsWhite Rose Maths
- Year 1 mathsWhite Rose Maths
- Year 2 mathsWhite Rose Maths
- Year 3 mathsWhite Rose Maths
- Year 5 mathsWhite Rose Maths
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School details: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education, URN 100679. Checked 9 November 2026.
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Help your child with what Downderry Primary School is teaching this term
Daily maths in the order the school teaches it, English in the usual order for their year, with a weekly view of what they have mastered.