🎨🥁🍞 From designing imaginary civilizations to drumming up rhythmic masterpieces — Year 5A has been on a creative roll (quite literally in Food Tech too)!

This term, our girls have been exploring their hobbies and interests across the curriculum — letting their curiosity lead the way. In English, they built entire worlds with words. In Music, they brought energy and expression through percussion. And in the kitchen? Let’s just say their delicious rolls could win hearts and taste tests alike!

At Downe House Riyadh, we’re proud to nurture creativity, independence, and joy in learning. With computerized assessments around the corner, our girls remain focused, confident, and excited for what lies ahead.

Here’s to developing passions, embracing challenges, and making every lesson an opportunity to grow! 💚✨

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Tiny feet, big energy! 🏃‍♀️💫

Our Early Years students gave it their all on Sports Day—running, jumping, giggling, and cheering like champions! 🌟 From sack races to team relays, the field was full of joy, confidence, and a whole lot of pink! 💖

Here’s to building strong bodies, brave hearts, and lifelong memories—one race at a time. 🥇✨

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The end of the academic year is always bittersweet

As the final term winds down, the pace remains relentless, with end-of-year reports, submissions, system clean-ups, classroom closures, feedback cycles, and resource resets. Yet through it all, one group remains unwavering: our teachers.
They are the quiet force behind every student’s success, showing up each day with energy, care, and purpose to nurture independence, resilience, and emotional strength in their students. They are the unsung heroes, the timekeepers, the invisible capes in every child’s story.
This afternoon on the lawn at Downe House Riyadh, we came together not just to celebrate the close of the year, but to honour the spirit of solidarity, trust, and gratitude. With hugs, heartfelt words, laughter, and a few tears, we saluted those setting sail for new adventures and those heading off for a well-deserved summer break.
While our educators take time to rest and recharge, another team quietly steps up — our admin, operations, and admissions teams. Behind the scenes, they’re hard at work over the summer: driving renovations, managing maintenance, and welcoming new families through ongoing enrolment sessions. Their mission? To ensure everything is in place for the triumphant return of our heroes in six weeks.
To every member of our academic and support teams: your dedication is the heartbeat of this school. We are deeply grateful.
Here’s to rest, renewal, and the road ahead.

Flour, sugar, butter... and a whole lot of love.

At Downe House Riyadh, building community isn’t just a tagline, it’s something we bake right in.
This week, three generations came together in our Baking Workshop with the amazing team from Bread Ahead, learning how to make the perfect doughnut. What started as a cooking class quickly turned into a shared experience, filled with laughter, storytelling, flour-dusted hands, and sweet moments.
This wasn’t just about baking. It was about connection—between parents, students, grandparents, and staff—united through the universal language of food. At Downe House Riyadh, we believe in intentionally creating opportunities like this where joy, learning, and community blend.
And we’re just getting started.
We’re excited to announce that we’re expanding our culinary offerings and relocating Cooking to our new Arts Corridor, because we believe cooking is not just a life skill. It is an art form that brings people together, nourishes creativity, and tells stories across cultures and generations.
Here’s to building community, one delicious moment at a time.

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