Easter Monday lightness – with something heavy!

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Downlands College (some MSC heritage). Toowoomba school students have smashed the record for Queensland's heaviest pumpkin at this year's Royal Queensland Show giant pumpkin competition.

Downlands College year 10 and 11 agricultural science students grew and displayed an Atlantic giant pumpkin which weighed in at 368.5 kilograms at the Brisbane Showgrounds on Saturday.

They beat the previous Ekka record, set in 2015, by 107kg.

The college had two entries this year, and amazingly their lightest still weighed 337.5kg.

Last year, Downlands became the first school in the competition's 147-year history to win the top title.

• In short: Toowoomba students have beaten the previous Ekka heaviest pumpkin record, set in 2015, by 107kg.

• The Downlands College pumpkin weighed 368.5kg.

• What's next? The school aims to beat the national and world records which sit at more than 800kg and 1,200kg respectively.

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