Thank you to the Friends of Downs View for the funds for our new sensory room.

The pupils have already been using it from the off. We now have a wonderful magic carpet, touch and light sound machine and a waterless bubble tube.

We have been really pleased with how it looks and becoming more familiar to how to use it to its full capability. We hope to have the switches and I-pads working alongside it soon.

Once again many thanks for this incredible resource for all the pupils at the Link college. They love it.

Announcing our coffee morning for Macmillan Cancer Support

We’re delighted to be hosting another Coffee Morning for Macmillan on Friday 25th October 2024. At Downs View, we’re very passionate about Macmillan and have organised a number of fundraising events over the years. We’re extremely proud to have raised over £9,000 since we first started in 2015.

We had an extremely successful event last year, raising over £2,500. This year we want to smash that target through cake sales, raffles and other events on the day.

So, please do let us know if you’d like to donate a prize for the raffle. Or if you’d just like to donate, you can do this via this page or the QR code.

Thank you

Cake & Coffee!

Year 11 had a cake and coffee morning today at college with parents coming in to enjoy the cheese cake they had made in cooking and some scones with cream and strawberries . This was time to look at work photos and say goodbye as they will be transitioning to year 12 in September. 

We have a new swing!

I am very happy to say that we have a new swing in the garden behind room 8. This was installed over the Easter holiday and has been a very popular addition to the college grounds with students in room 8, which is Dan’s class and with students from some of the other classes around the college. Using the swing has supported students with self- regulation, choice making, communication and interaction and collaboration. It is also a lot of fun and is a great addition to Downs View Link College. 

Our new classrooms are now in!

Over the Easter holidays on a very misty and drizzly day the new classrooms were lifted into place. Due to their positioning they had to be craned over the existing building so it needed to be done when there were no pupils on site. The classroom has been constructed in York in different parts and traveled to Brighton to be joined together.  It was a long day for the site team but all parts of the classroom were successfully fitted together. They are now working to finish all the internal fixtures and to construct a decking area. 

New promotional film on working at Downs View School and Colleges

We’re delighted to have just finished filming our new promotional video showing what it’s like to work at Downs View.

A big thank you to all our staff and student ‘stars’ from our school and colleges who appear in the film. It’s also been great to work with Neil Pringle who produced the video – he really helped to capture the essence and ethos at Downs View. We hope you like it.

If you’re interested in working at Downs View, check out our ‘Working at Downs View’ page on our website or get in touch with hr@downsview.brighton-hove.sch.uk  

Macmillan Coffee Morning

A huge thank you to everyone involved in raising funds and awareness for our Macmillan Coffee Morning in October.

We raised an incredible £2,789 meaning we smashed our target of £2k as well as raising well over £1k more than last year.

We ran a number of events in the lead up to and during the day including a Downs View Bake Off, sponsored swimathon, Coffee Morning and playground opening…with our grand finale being the raffle.

We’re absolutely delighted to have smashed original target in that we’ve raised £2,789 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Raffle ticket sales made up over half of that amount – and that’s large down to the amazing prizes donated by local businesses, parents and carers.

So, a heartfelt thank you from all of us at Downs View School and Link College. We couldn’t have done it without you all.

Macmillan Coffee Morning

On the 20th October, we’re running a Macmillan Coffee morning to help raise funds and awareness for Macmillan Cancer Support…and you’re all invited!

We have some amazing prizes in our raffle – a huge thank you to all our local businesses and friends that donated prizes.

Tickets are still on sale at £1 per ticket or £5 for a strip. Just contact Abi at the school at abihill@downsview.brighton-hove.sch.uk.

Prizes include: an iPad, fourball voucher at East Brighton Golf Club, £50 Amazon voucher, 2 tickets to show of your choice at Concorde 2, £30 Donatello voucher…and many more! See our poster below for the full list.

We’ve also set up a fundraising page with all proceeds going to Macmillan. Just click here to donate.

We’ll be running a series of events during the day and we’ll keep you posted by listing them here.

And, if you fancy baking something for the event, then please send it in to the school/college office on the morning of the 20th October. Don’t forget to please label clearly what they are and if they contain nuts, nuts products or other allergens. We’re looking for sweet, savoury, gluten free…you name it, just bake!

We’re looking to smash last year’s total of £1429 so we’re hoping as many of you as possible will want to be involved.

On that day, we’ll also be launching the new school playground that we had fitted over the summer, so please do come along to see it and enjoy a cuppa and a cake at the same time.

We’ll keep you posted!