Downs Junior News Today

The city’s only public air raid shelter is opening this weekend as part of the Fringe.

An underground air raid shelter museum now has a new accessible entrance.

Two infant schools and a junior school look likely to have their admission numbers cut from September 2024 after a public consultation.

Westdene Primary School in Barn Rise The scheme is also intended to improve safety outside schools and encourage active forms of travel, such as walking, cycling and scooting. Nine schools took part in the trial and there are currently four schools running the scheme in Brighton and Hove. Westdene Primary would join Brunswick Primary, St Luke’s Primary, Downs Infant, Downs Junior, St Nicolas CE Primary in closing the road outside school gates. The school is closing Barn Rise for the f...

Goldstone Primary School in Laburnham Avenue, Hove TWO popular primary schools have won their fight against cutting pupil numbers. Goldstone Primary School and Downs Infant School appealed to the schools adjudicator when they were ordered to reduce their intake from September next year by Brighton and Hove City Council. The schools criticised the quality of the council’s consultation process, highlighted the adverse financial implications and said that the move would limit parental choi...