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County Chess Finals Posted 12 Jun 2024

County Chess Finals

Sandown attended the County Chess Finals at Windlesham House, for the first time in our history.

School kids become citizen scientists Posted 25 Mar 2024

School kids become citizen scientists

Spring is the start of school visits to the nature reserve and first up were a group of year 4 children from Sandown Primary School...

Theatre Online visit Posted 29 Feb 2024

Theatre Online visit

Key Stage 2 enjoyed a visit from Theatre Online.

Wear Red - Kent Air Ambulance Posted 09 Feb 2024

Wear Red - Kent Air Ambulance

Sandown celebrated Wear Red Day. This was to raise funds for Kent Air Ambulance.

Time 2 Dance 2024 Posted 06 Feb 2024

Time 2 Dance 2024

Pupils performed at White Rock Theatre in front of a packed out audience.

Young Voices Posted 23 May 2022

Young Voices

A group of Sandown children went to perform alongside 8000 other school children at the 02 in London.

Dixie Duck Posted 22 Apr 2022

Dixie Duck

Meet Dixie Duck who took part in the St.Michael’s Hospice 'Follow That Duck' trail from Hastings Old Town to Bexhill over the summer.

Author visit - Nizrana Farook Posted 28 Mar 2022

Author visit - Nizrana Farook

On 28th March the author Nizrana Farook visited Sandown...

Careers Cafe 2022 Posted 09 Mar 2022

Careers Cafe 2022

On Wednesday 9th March 2022 Sandown held a Career Café day. Children were able to meet people from many different jobs to find out what...

World Book Day 2022 Posted 03 Mar 2022

World Book Day 2022

World Book Day 2022 was the best one yet! We had a great day celebrating books, reading and storytelling.

Time to Dance 2022 Posted 10 Feb 2022

Time to Dance 2022

Sandown took part in the annual Time to Dance event at the White Rock Theatre and smashed it!

Harry Potter Day Posted 03 Feb 2022

Harry Potter Day

We had a magical time celebrating 25 years of Harry Potter with our Harry Potter Day on Thursday 3rd February 2022.

St Michael's Hospice Christmas Badge Appeal Posted 17 Dec 2021

St Michael's Hospice Christmas Badge Appeal

Sandown helped to raise a whooping £952.82 for St Michael's Hospice Christmas Badge Appeal 2021.....

Thomas Taylor visit Posted 21 Oct 2021

Thomas Taylor visit

During storytelling week, Sandown had a visit from the author and illustrator Thomas Taylor.....

KS1 Storyteller visit Posted 20 Oct 2021

KS1 Storyteller visit

During storytelling week, KS1 had a visit from a storyteller called Tuup....

Storytelling week- The Hug Posted 19 Oct 2021

Storytelling week- The Hug

On Tuesday the 19th of October 2021, Sandown Primary hosted the Long Nose Puppets performance of The Hug....

Roald Dahl dress up day Posted 18 Oct 2021

Roald Dahl dress up day

On Monday 18 October 2021, we kicked off storytelling week with a Roald Dahl dress up day. Which story characters can you spot from the...

KS2 Harvest Festival 2021 Posted 04 Oct 2021

KS2 Harvest Festival 2021

On 04/10/21 we held our KS2 Harvest Festival assembly. All donated foods were given to Dom’s Food Mission to help families and people in need....

KS1 Harvest Festival 2021 Posted 29 Sep 2021

KS1 Harvest Festival 2021

On 29/09/21 we held our KS1 Harvest Festival assembly. All donated foods were given to Dom's Food Mission to help families and people in need....

Sandown gardens 2021 Posted 27 Sep 2021

Sandown gardens 2021

We are so lucky to have wonderful grounds at Sandown.

Moonlight and Memories Walk 2021 Posted 18 Sep 2021

Moonlight and Memories Walk 2021

Sandown staff walked in memory of our work friend Lorrie Csobonas.

Science week 2021 Posted 22 Mar 2021

Science week 2021

A fantastic Science Week at Sandown! Some of the questions the children explored were: What does a scientist look like? Can I be a Scientist?...