Science and Sustainability
Science We recognise the importance of Science in every aspect of daily life. As one of the core subjects taught in Primary Schools, we give the teaching and learning of Science the prominence it requires. Our vision for science is, “to ensure that children are given a science curriculum, which...
Mission, Vision and Aims
Mission Statement The Blossom Federation is made up of three primary schools - Daubeney, Sebright and Lauriston Schools - plus Daubeney Child & Family Hub and Sbright Children's Centre. Collectively, we serve over 1,200 Hackney children and families and are proud of our provision in supporting...
Computing
If you would like to know more about this area of the curriculum, please talk to Joel Power. Computing in EYFS We understand how important it is that children develop their technology skills and we will continue to use a range of technology to support and enhance learning in other areas of the...
Humanities - History & Geography
Intent To deliver a broad and balanced curriculum, which includes ensuring children are able to access cross curricular subjects like Geography, History and RE regularly. To have a deeper understanding of the world that we live in by learning in a cross curricular, creative and experiential way. To...
Physical Education
Intent The Blossom Federation believes that Physical Education (PE), experienced in a safe and supportive environment, is essential to ensure children attain optimum physical and emotional development and good health. We intend to deliver high-quality teaching and learning opportunities that...
Religious Education
Intent Across the Blossom Federation, our RE curriculum provides children with an understanding and appreciation for beliefs, cultural practices and values. The Blossom Federation follows The Hackney Education agreed syllabus and lesson plans where available. We hold six designated RE days at the...
Year 5 - First Week
How was your summer? We spent the first day of Year 5 learning our new routines, finding our new seats and starting some new learning. We can't wait to experience more new things in Year 5
Year 4M - Can you SEE sound?
The children in Year 4M had fun investigating sound today (27-03-2023). They carried out an experiment to answer the question, 'Can you see sound?' It was a fun lesson
Year 1 - Anasi stories!
Year 1 have been looking for Anasi stories! We've heard and read lots of tales of Anansi and were inspired to write our very own! We had a go at writing them and then we did some story telling, sharing our wonderful stories to the rest of the class. Have a listen!
Year 5 - RE Day: What can we learn from the past?
Do you know about the difficult past for Jewish people? We learnt about the struggles, prejudice and tragedies they have experienced throughout history and discussed why it is important to learn about the past
Reception - Spring Term
Now look through the eyes of the teachers.... This term we have been learning about Space, Africa, Easter and many other topics! We have also been helping Gavin to plant Tulips in our playground! We have read stories such as 'Monkey Puzzle', 'Handas Surprise' along with non-fiction...
Year 4 - Spanish - Spring Term 2
Excellent effort from students in Year 4 this half term who have had the opportunity to learn about a range of famous Spanish-speaking painters – including Pablo Picasso, Frida Khalo, Wilfredo Lam, Joaquín Sorolla and Salvador Dalí, and different art styles/movements. Students can now use a range...
Year 3 - Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) – Volcanoes
This half term students in Year 3 have covered volcanoes as part of their Geography curriculum. In our Spanish lessons students have really enjoyed learning about the Canary Islands and its volcanoes. CLIL provides the opportunity to diversify methods of classroom teaching and learning. Students...
Year 4 - Telephone Science
The children in 4M had fun making their own telephones. I wonder how is it possible to hear each other- what makes the sound travel?
Golden Achievers - 17th March 2023
Massive congratulations to this week's Golden Achievers!!!
Year 5 - Science: Day and Night
Do you know why we have day and night? We learnt about that today and we showed our learning through discussions and written work!
Year 5 - Maths: Perimeter
Today Year 5 had fun with a variety of 2D shapes. The aim of this lesson was to understand what perimeter means, measure accurately using rulers and calculate the total length of the chosen 2D shape
Year 5 - Literacy: Conscience Alley
Should Harry Potter stay with the Dursley's or go with Hagrid to Hogwarts? What do you think? Would you trust going to a new school with someone you've just met? We debated this by doing a conscience alley and had some amazing arguments!
Year 6 - Spring Term 2 – Spanish
This half term Year 6 students at Daubeney have learnt to talk about holidays – they have learnt how to use the immediate future ‘voy a + infinitive verb’ to talk about when and where they are going to go, how they are going to get there and who they are going to go with. Great...
The Secret Life of Reception - Spring
Have a look at Reception through the eyes of Reception! Reception have really enjoyed Spring Term! We have been learning about measuring, patterns, adding and shapes. We have also been baking, having Valentine parties and so many other things!
Spanish Champions Help at Parents' Evening
Spanish Champions working! Earlier on this week, at parents' evening, some members of the team helped parents with their Spanish language, as well as informed them about how we learn at Daubeney. HUGE gracias!
Year 4 – El Loro Tico Tango
Fantastic start of the term for Year 4 students at Daubeney. Students will be learning to express opinions using ‘ me gusta’ and ‘ me gustan’ this half term. We will be reading the story of a parrot called Tico Tango together, and discovering different animals and fruits...
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1A's RE trip to the church
Take a look to see what a wonderful time we had at The Immaculate Heart of Marys and St Dominics church last week!
Year 5 - Science - Life Cycle Wheels
After recapping last week’s lesson on human life stages, we looked more in depth into each of the following areas: physical changes, mental changes and independence. For each of the human life stages, we considered how each of these areas would change. In partners, we took our whole class...
Year 5 - Literacy: Biography research (Computing)
For our literacy topic, we are learning to write biographies. As we are reading Floella Benjamin's Coming to England, we decided to write about her. We did research using a range of sources, such as fact files and the internet
Year 5 – Spanish/Music joint project
As part as a pioneering joint Spanish and Music project, students in Year 5 have revisited vocabulary and structures we originally learnt in the Autumn term. Students are now able to express their musical preferences and justify their opinions using music specific vocabulary, such a timbre ,...
Year 2 – Spanish: Story telling and learning a second language
Language learning begins with listening and speaking, so storytelling is a fabulous tool for teaching any language, whether that is a first or a second language . At Daubeney we learn new Spanish words and phrases in KS1 from stories. Stories teach us grammar and syntax in the most natural way....
Year 1 A - Story Seekers Project
We had a brilliant telling session from Miss Gustave a few weeks ago. We were inspired by Miss Gustave's story and then came up with our own Anansi stories. Have fun listening to our stories!
School Council - Junior Road Safety Officers
The School Council, Junior Road Safety Officers met with Max Moorock, Road Safety Officer from the London Borough of Hackney. The JRSOs updated Max on their plans and were happy to take tips from Max on how to help our Daubeney family stay safe on the streets
Year 5 - Geography WOW Day: Turkey
To end our topic of learning about Turkey, we created some art inspired by Turkish ceramics and appreciated Turkish food with a celebration at the end of the day. We learnt that blue is a prominent colour in Turkish culture and we evaluated the food that we ate and thought about what we liked about...
Year 4 - Wow Day
The children in Year 4 had a fun filled Wow Day. They designed and built settlements along a river they created, using their knowledge from our learning this term
Reception - Yellow Class Easter Bonnet Parade
We loved making our Easter hats this week! We used coloured card, gems, googly eyes and tape to make our bonnets, and some of us made our own bonnets at home!
Spring Book Fair 2023
Our Spring Book Fair was another great success! Lots of children came to buy some fantastic books to share with their families at home. Altogether you spent an amazing £1002.88 which equals £601.73 in rewards for us to spend on some great new books for the school. What books would like to see at...
Year 5 - Spanish - Spring Term 2
Students in Year 5 have really enjoyed the story of ‘ Raúl, la rata que viaja en el tiempo’ . Students have learnt some hobbies and free time activities through the story in which we could also read about how people lived in England during the Tudor period. Students have further developed the use...
Year 3 - Spanish - Spring Term 2
What a fun half term for Year 3 students at Daubeney! Students can now understand a wide range of body parts and use them to make descriptions including masculine and feminine forms of colours. Adjectival agreement is one of the most challenging grammar points covered in this key stage, very well...
Year 2 - Spanish - Spring Term 2
Another successful half term for Year 2 students who love learning vocabulary from familiar stories
Year 4 - ICT and Literacy
Today, 9-03-2023, the children in Year 4 used their Chromebooks to research facts about river pollution. In Literacy, they will be writing a letter to our Council representative about this issue
Year 1 - 1A World Book Day 2023
1A had a brilliant day dressing up as our favourite book characters!
Year 2 - Spring 2 Week 2 Computing
This week we started a new topic, learning about effective searching. We explored the difference between the internet and the world wide web, thought about different browsers that you can use and identified search engines to help us find information we need. We used this knowledge to search for...
Year 5 - WOW Day: Pulleys, Levers and Gears
What are mechanisms? Why do we use pulleys? Where can you find a real life example of gears? These are all questions we considered today when ending our DT topic with our fantastic WOW Day! After writing our reflections on what we learnt. we worked in small groups to make wells that included a...
The Nest - Our Trip to Pizza Express
This week we went to Pizza Express and we were lucky enough to make our own pizzas. Emmanuel the chef gave us his secret ingredients to a perfect pizza. "It was the best day" "The pizza tasted delicious and scrumptious " "I am going to save some for my sister"
Safer Internet Day 2023
This week we all participated in Safer Internet Day on Tuesday 7th February. The theme this year is 'Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online.' We had lots of wonderful activities that enabled children to think about how they use the internet and what the...
Year 4L Science at Cardinal Pole Secondary School
Year 4L had an amazing Science lesson in Cardinal Pole Secondary School today 9-02-2023. The children used Bunsen burners to test the different effects of different solutions and made their own sparkles
Year 4 - Wow Day: Building Board Games
Today 9-02-2023 the children in Year 4 created and built their own board games with electronic components. The children used various electrical components and played the game to ensure it works. After evaluating their game the children pitched their game to the CEO (their teacher) to make and...
Family Phonics Workshop - 9th February 2023
Today we had a great time learning phonics outdoors! We went through all of phase 2 and 3 sounds. We had to read words outside on the ground and find the matching picture. Parents had a wonderful time doing this with their child. Take a look to see what fun we had
Year 6 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023
Extremely busy term for Year 6 students who have worked really hard at Daubeney. Students have developed the ability to use context and previous knowledge to estimate new words, to identify words in written form through dictation using their phonics knowledge, and to work with a partner in dialogue...
Year 5 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023
Year 5 students at Daubeney have worked really hard this term. They have made great progress and are now able to create sentences using a range of different buildings and shops in town. They can also engage in a dialogue and ask and understand directions. They have also had the opportunity to...
Year 5 - Safer Internet Day 2023
Today is Safer Internet Day! Do you know how to stay safe on the internet? What would you do if you found a page that told you you had won £1000? We discussed what we would do in these situations and made posters about it!
Year 4 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023
Outstanding effort from our Year 4 students this half term! Students in Year 4 have enjoyed revisiting food items in Spanish and learning how to share their opinions on food. Students can now talk about what food and drinks they like to have, using a range of positive and negative opinion phrases...
Year 3 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023
This term year 3 students have been introduced to new language structures that enable them to talk about their birthdays, and their favourite colours, months of the year or days of the week. Students have enjoyed role-play tasks, asking and answering questions from memory, and of course, singing...
Year 2 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023
At Daubeney, students in Year 2 learn through songs, games, storytelling and role play. This half term, students have really enjoyed learning the story ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?’ in Spanish. Students can now name a range of animals and describe them using colours, as well as use...
Reception - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023
Reception students love singing the numbers up to ten with Rosita! This term students have used this great number knowledge to count libros (books), pinturas (colouring pencils), gomas (rubbers), lápices (pencils), tijeras (scissors), sacapuntas (pencil sharpeners) once they learnt those new words
Year 6 - DT: Frames and Structures
As part of their DT unit, Year 6 researched shelters, planned out the materials they would use and annotated their design. They included measurements in order to make the most of the materials they had. They then used their maths skills to measure, and saws to safely cut the wood before putting it...
Year 5 - RE Day: Sikhism
Did you know that Sikhism started from a person called Guru Nanak who wanted to make a better religion that treats everyone fairly? We learnt this and lots more today. Have a look at our learning!
Year 2 - 2L Spring 1 WOW Day
We had so much making our own cars, from choosing the wheels and axles to designing the chassis. We measured how far they travelled on a range of surfaces and enjoyed racing against each other!
Year 2 - Science Plant Hunt
As part of our Science topic we went on a plant hunt in the hop garden this week! We had fun exploring and identifying a range of plants that grow right here in school!
Junior Mental Health Team - Mindful Colouring Sessions for Children's Mental Health Week
JMHT have been delivering mindful colouring sessions to celebrate Children's Mental Health Week
Year 5 - World Book Day 2023
Who is your favourite book character? Can you spot them in Year 5? Can you spot any characters you know?
Year 5 - Maths: Angles in real life
aving focused on angles for the last few weeks, we thought it was time to take our learning into the outside! We took our protractors with us to investigate different types of angles that we could see in the playground
Reception - Yellow Class - World Book Day 2023
Reception loved dressing up for World Book Day! Which characters do you recognise?
Year 4 - 4L World Book Day 2023
4L had fun celebrating World Book Day! Can you guess which characters we are?
Nursery - World Book Day 2023
Nursery are having an amazing time celebrating world book day today! They came dressed as their favourite book characters, and the children have been so excited to share who they are. We have some superheroes, princesses and even a big scary Gruffalo!
Year 2 - Computing Week 6
This week we made our own race course with a range of characters. We thought about how the options for the turtle were different from other objects and programmed each of them to move. We had fun exploring how we can create and change algorithms of our own!
Year 5 - Science: Geocentric vs. Heliocentric
Do you know what geocentric or heliocentric means? Today, we investigated the different theories of our solar system and we learnt that different people in the past had different opinions on what space looked like! Have a listen to some of our questions to different significant people in history
Year 4 - Cross Curricular: Rivers
Today, 1-03-2023, the children had a triple cross curricular session using the Chromebook to research information about rivers. This is also our topic in our cross curricular lesson. The children applied their reading skills to locate and record facts about rivers
Year 4 - Maths Club
On Wednesday, 22-02-2023 the Year 4 Maths had a full house. The children enjoyed playing Times Tables Rock Stars, Hit the button, MTC games, Maths on Purple Mash and many more maths games. Every Wednesday the children in Year 4 have the opportunity to develop their fluency in their TimeTables
Year 5 - Science: Planets
Do you know an easy way to remember the order of the planets? Do you know what spherical bodies are? These are things we learnt about today in Science!
Year 5 - Literacy: Curiosity Collage
This week, we have started reading a new book called Quest. We made predictions about the book yesterday and today we created a curiosity collage, which had all our brilliant ideas that we want to include in our writing next week
Year 5 - Geography: Mapping Skills Day
What are the 8 points of a compass? What are thematic maps? What about a topographical map? On this Mapping Skills Day, we learnt that maps can tell us a lot of information, including how much rainfall a place may get. We ended the day by making our own maps out of salt dough
Year 3 - A Bear Searching for His Hat
Year 3 pupils were mesmerised as they had a special visit from a Bear who is searching for his hat. We know that the hat is red, pointy and shiny and Bear teally misses his hat. Year 3 promised to help Bear search for his hat. Have you seen Bear's hat? He really wants it back!
History and Art
We painted a scene from the Great Fire of London last week. We thought about the colours you would use for the fire and how to create the silhouettes of the buildings in front
Computing Week 2
In Computing we explored pictograms as part of our Questioning topic for this half term. We discussed what types of homes we lived in and made a pictogram to show the answers
Golden Achiever’s - Friday 23rd June 2023
Golden Achiever’s photos of Friday 23rd June 2023
Year 5 - Art: Final Pieces
Over the last 2 lessons, we have been working on our final pieces of art for the topic inspired by 1960s Popart! To start, we had to sketch our own portraits. We had to decide what part of our faces to begin sketching and work from there. To complete our final art pieces of the topic, we received...
Year 4M IntoUniversity
The children in Year 4M enjoyed their activities with the IntoUniversity team learning all about different careers. They explored careers like product designing, engineering and palaeontology. The children identified the skills they were using in different careers and completed some fun activities
Mr Logan’s Weekly Update Video - 30th June 2023
Dear Parents and Carers, I hope you enjoy this week’s video update. Comments are always welcome. Have a great weekend
Hispanic Week
We have thoroughly enjoyed learning about different Hispanic cultures and traditions this week. Students in Yr2 designed their own Mexican sombrero , listened and danced to some Mexican folk music; and students in Year3 had the opportunity to learn about Peru’s history. Maybe one day we can all...
Digital Leader Trip
Yesterday, our Digital Leader team had lots of fun visiting the Apple store in Stratford City. There they had the opportunity to code and create with Swift Playgrounds using an iPad. The children experimented with code and designed an app using the About Me playground. They had a great time...
Year 4 Outdoor Art
The children in Year 4 had a wonderful art lesson outside today. They used our outdoor area to inspire them to use black and white tones. The children enjoyed learning outdoors and are looking forward to more outdoor lessons
Year 2 – Art lesson - Pablo Picasso
Something different this week for Year 2 students who have had the opportunity to learn about Pablo Picasso’s life and art style. Students have designed their own abstract portraits inspired by the work of the Spanish artist. Very creative and interesting pieces of work!
Year 5: Maths - Decimal sequence
Outdoor learning? Year 5 truly love learning outdoors ! The learning outcome for maths: was to understand decimal sequences. This was achieved through fun and exciting ways; some children jumped to identify patterns and others played Hopscotch. Overall, the cohort had an amazing time at Daubeney...
Year 5 - Computing: Blog Publishing
In computing last week, we spent time publishing our writing. But because we wrote a few blog posts, we decided to type them up as if they were on a blog. We learnt about how to include photos by copy and pasting, change the colour and font of the text as well as what layout would look best for a...
Year 5 – Spanish - Antonio Gaudí. Trencadis technique
As part of a series of cross curricular lessons, year 5 have explored the famous Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi’s life and work, and created their own artwork inspired by the architect. Trencadís is an artistic method popularised by Gaudi. It is a mosaic-like effect, achieved by cementing together...
Mr Logan’s update video - 24th July 2023
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Mr Logan’s Weekly Update Video - 21st July 2023
Please watch my final video of the year. Wishing everyone a great summer holiday. We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 6th September
Daubeney Primary School, Nurture - Picnic
Enjoying the Whole School Family Picnic Day with friends and family
Daubeney Primary School Nurture - Fairy Cakes
Baking fairy cakes for Nurture Graduation
Year 2 Poetry
This half term year 2 are exploring poetry in Literacy. We have looked at poems by Michael Rosen and watched videos of him reciting some of them. We read through some of his work, chose our favourite poem and then performed to the class
Eco Team Trip
Today we went to the Leaside Trust Center! We learned about the Running Out of Time campaign and we got to meet the runners! The Running Out of Time campaign aims to raise awareness about Climate Change. The runners have been taking part in a relay from Ben Nevis in Scotland to the Big Ben in...
Year 2 Art Wow Day
For our end of topic wow day this half term, we spent the day creating mini masterpieces for our art exhibition! We displayed a range of skills that we had learnt such as mixing primary colours to make secondary colours, creating tones of colours by adding black or white, and creating an image to...
Year 2 Art - Collaging
Last week year 2 had fun collaging a piece of work in Art. We thought about what image we wanted to make, colours we would need, and where we would be placing the pieces
Year 2 - Computing Summer 2
This half term our topic has been presenting ideas. We have looked at a range of ways to present the story of Goldilocks. We read an e-book, took a quiz and explored concept maps. Last week we made our own quizzes, thinking carefully about the types of questions we wanted to include. We chose from...
The Nest - Putting Sand in the Reception Playground
Team work. Working together to help put sand in the Reception Playground
The Nest - 70's Art Inspired Disco
Enjoying the 70's art inspired disco
2L RE day trip
Last week 2L went on a trip to East London Mosque to learn more about the religion of Islam. We visited various parts of the mosque, learning about the environment and layout, and we also learnt about some actions that would be seen when Muslims are praying. We discussed why there are separate...
Year 5 - RE Day: Women in Religion
For our last RE Day of the year, we thought about how women are valued and treated in different religions. Although history has shown us that women weren't treated equally, religions usually teach to treat everyone equally
Year 5 - Art: 1960's Inspired Collages
Year 5 learnt about 1960's fashion, music and art. They were given an array of different pictures resembling the 1960's; Year 5 had to select images, cut and then piece together their very own collages which turned out brilliant
Year 4 - Outdoor learning
Spending time outside is proven to have a positive effect on children’s physical and mental health. At Daubeney we are making the most of this sunny day and have taken our Spanish lesson outside. Great opportunity for them to take ownership of their learning and enhance teamwork skills
Computing Week 3
This week we explored binary trees and worked collaboratively to think of questions that could be used to classify a range of avatars. We then tested our binary tree to make sure each question worked well and we could identify each avatar by asking yes/no questions
Year 5 - Literacy: Instructional text
For their short burst genre, Year 5 were introduced to instructional texts. First, they learnt about different features which was then followed up by a practical task (Origami-style ships)
Year 2 WOW Day
For our Summer 1 WOW Day, Year 2 made Tudor houses as we have been learning about the Great Fire of London. We then explored how the fire would have taken hold very quickly and we watched as it burned from house to house!
5S: sharing assembly - Windrush
Class 5S performed their lovely sharing assembly to their peers. They produced, acted and directed a play based on Floella Benjamin and her experiences during Windrush (history topic). It was absolutely amazing!
Wow Day Year 4
The children in Year 4 had a wonderful wow day invading Britain as Anglo Saxons and Vikings. They made their own swords and shields and designed it with their own creative style
Year 4 – Spanish - Summer Term 1
Year 4 in action! Students in Year 4 have worked incredibly hard this very short half term, and enjoyed learning about Costa Rica’s fruits and animals. We will continue reading Tico Tango’s story after a well-deserved break
Reception - Forest School
Forest school Reception, making nature necklaces
Spanish Music Project
The school band and class 5MC have been working on our own arrangement of the Mexican classic , La Cucuracha. Linking music to Spanish language lessons is a special project that Daubeney is part of , in collaboration with other Hackney Schools and the Hackney Music Service. We hope you like our...
Year 5 - History: Windrush and Hackney
What is the link between Hackney and the Windrush generation? Today, we investigated this by looking at images and maps of bombs sites in Hackney. We also reminded ourselves of the experiences of Windrush generation after they arrived in the UK by watching some videos. Finally, we learnt about the...
Year 5 – Spanish: Eurovision
The international song contest is an engaging and competitive way to get students thinking about how languages relate to one another, as well as a great opportunity to consolidate geographical and of course, language knowledge. Students have enjoyed listening to some of the songs, and giving and...
Science and JIGSAW
In Science we have been learning about taking care of the environment and trying to recycle items that we already have at home. We brought in empty jars to recycle them into dream jars! We had lots of fun adding the coloured paints and glitter, and watching the magic happen!
History and Computing
As part of our Great Fire of London topic, we used 2Create on Purple Mash to design our own tudor houses. We thought carefully about the features of the houses such as wooden beams, thatched or tiled roofs and white exterior
Year 4 Story Telling with Phil McDermott
The children in Year 4 had a great story telling session with Phil McDermott today (2-02-2023). There was so much laughter as Phil told stories that grabbed their imagination and it was full of humour. We loved the stories and the funny facial actions used by our story teller
Computing Week 4
This week we used 2Question to follow a binary code in order to find out the names of each avatar. We carefully answered yes or no to each question to find the correct names. We then used our debugging skills to find the errors in a binary tree and fix them so that each step worked correctly
Year 5 Sky colour role play
Year 5 have been completely immersed in the book 'Sky colour'. They have made predictions, created a blurb and today they acted out scenes from the story. Have a look at the fantastic acting
Year 5 – Los planetas
What a great start to this final term! Students in year 5 are learning new vocabulary and grammar structures while learning about space. Students have revisited days of the week and discovered the origins of the words, many of them coming from planets in both, English and Spanish
Year 5 - Computing Week 2
We've spent another week familiarising ourselves with the 2Design and Make program. This lesson focused on changing the shapes of our vehicles. We did a few challenges as a class
Reception - Old MacDonalds Farm
On Thursday, we visited Old MacDonalds Farm for our end of year trip. We had so much fun! We started off by looking at the animals where we saw pigs, goats, cows, meerkats, alpacas, tortoise, donkeys and rabbits! After lunch, we went on lots of different rides and played in the outdoor and indoor...
Reception - Hackney School of Food
On Wednesday, we had the chance to visit Hackney School of Food. We made our own pizzas from scratch, where we mixed ingredients to make the dough. We then used our fine motor skills to cut up our vegetables for our toppings and mixed together a tomato sauce! We rolled out our dough to make our...
Math - Adding decimals with different decimal places
Year 5 learnt about adding decimals with different decimal places. A strategy we consolidated was column method which was utilised to solve an array of mathematical problems. They completed their tasks outside whilst enjoying the lovely weather
Year 5 - Art: Evaluation (Outdoor Lesson)
As an introduction to our new topic, we looked at some art from the 1960s and even investigated Andy Warhol’s art. We talked about what similarities and differences we noticed about a style of art called pop art. As a class, we evaluated a piece of art together. We discussed the colours,...
Student Council go to London Buddhist Centre
The Student Council have been working relentlessly this year and as a bit of a special treat and a way to learn more about different cultures, they were invited to go to the London Buddhist Centre with the Year 6s. They learnt about the Buddhist way of life and enjoyed a fantastic morning of calm...
Year 5 - Literacy: Art
To help us really understand the experiences of the main character Marisol, in the book Sky Color by Peter H Reynolds, we created our own art inspired by pictures from the book!
Mr Logan’s weekly update video
Please see my first update video of the summer 2 half-term. I hope you find it informative and useful. Kind regards,
Family Phonics Workshop
Today we went through all of phase 5. We looked at split digraphs and created a 'spelling snake'. We made our snakes really long by reading the words and matching it with the correct snake. Do you recognise these split digraphs? a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e. Take a look at what we had
Ducklings in Reception
This week, we have been so lucky to play host to 10 ducklings. We have watched them hatch from their eggs in their incubator, to scurrying for food as a duckling. We have enjoyed watching these ducklings and have very much loved having a cuddle!
Year 6 - Outdoor Descriptive Writing
Today Year 6 enjoyed using the outdoor setting of Daubeney Fields as their inspiration for descriptive writing! We used all 5 senses and figurative language to create descriptive sentences and paragraphs!
Year 5 - Chicks
The chicks have arrived! We are so lucky to have a set of beautiful chicks and they spent their first day out of the shell in the bustling 5C classroom. We even made time to let them out for a wonder and a cuddle!
Year 4M Science Experiment at Cardinal Pole Secondary School
The children in Year 4M had an amazing Science lesson at Cardinal Pole Secondary School today, 2-02-2023. They were able to use the amazing facilities of their science lab. The children were taught by a secondary science teacher and had a fabulous session where they used Bunsen burners and...
Year 3 - Spanish - Mi color favorito
Students in 3P have enjoyed revisiting colours and learning how to ask an answer questions about their favourite colour in today's lesson
Nursery - Observing the Changes in the Environment
In Nursery we have been observing the changes in the environment using shapes. The children looked through their shaped windows to see what Autumn changes they could observe. "The leaves are falling down" said one child with another commenting "The leaves on the tree are green and...
Year 2 RE Day - Autumn 1 2022
For Autumn 1 RE day, Year 2 learnt about Hinduism and explored what is important to Hindus. We learnt about Ganesh and Krishna, and thought about our own role models in our lives
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 7
This week we completed our final lesson in our art topic for computing this half term. We explored surrealism and then used eCollage on Purple Mash to make our own artwork using drawings and clip art
Year 5 - WOW Day: Tanzania
In Year 5 we have been learning all about Tanzania! We celebrated by making posters about the Massai Tribe who live in Tanzania and then we made bracelets inspired by their culture
Nursery - Spooky Dress Up Day
Nursery children dressed up in their Spooky outfits today. They listened to the story ‘Pumpkin Soup’ and have been exploring different pumpkins
Year 6 WOW Day - The UK!
Today we completed our learning for our Autumn 1 topic - the UK! We sketched our favourite landmarks in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We then created sculptures of our favourite landmarks. Which landmarks have you visited in the UK? Do you have a favourite landmark? Why?
Nursery - Jobs and People in Our Community Who Help Us
In Nursery we have been talking about different jobs and the people in our community who help us. Children talked about what they wanted to be when they grow up and took part in imaginative play
KS1 Sewing Club
KS1 Sewing club have worked very hard during Autumn 1 with Miss Joan. They have had fun learning to sew and exploring the different patterns they can create to make their own personalised bookmark
Nursery - Dressing Up Area
The children in Nursery have LOVED using our new dressing up area! There has been lots of singing, dancing and laughter!
Year 5 - 2 Step Word Problems
Year 5 used a range of strategies to solve 2 step word problems. They had to read the question carefully and chose the correct operation
Year 5 - RE Day: Buddhism
Today, 13-10-2022, the children in Year 5 had fun and exciting lessons, learning all about the Buddhist faith. They discussed the main beliefs, the importance of The Four Noble Truths, looked at the Eightfold Path and teachings of Buddha
The Secret Life of Reception - Autumn 1 2022
The children of Reception have been given their own camera to capture those moments that we miss... the Secret Life of Reception! Each term, we will upload the next in the series of 'The Secret Life of Reception' and see what fabulous learning has been going on. They have been taking...
Year 2 WOW Day - Autumn 2022
For WOW day, Year 2 explored cold polar climates and hot tropical climates. We chose one and then worked as a group to make a diorama, thinking carefully about the plants and animals that you would find there. They look awesome!
World Mental Health Day 2022
It was World Mental Health Day on Monday 10th October. To celebrate mental health at Daubeney parents were invited to a “Child Anxiety” parent workshop. Children in KS1 and KS1 attended assembly around Mental health day. The children learnt about how children are supported with their...
Year 1 - 1A Computing: Harvest Festival
This week we've been using the Chromebooks and linking it in with our RE topic - Harvest festival. We used Purple Mash to create a harvest basket, full of delioucious fruits and vegetables. We've been using the programme to drag and drop and select colours on paint
Year 2 Act Out Varmints
This week Year 2 explored our Book Fortnight story, Varmints, by using talk partners and role play. We thought about what the characters may have been feeling at each point in the story and explored the meaning of the book
Year 4 - ICT and History - Ancient Egyptian Gods
Today, 10-11-2022, the children in Year 4 were excited to use their Chromebooks to research factual information about different Ancient Egyptian Gods. They located facts and recorded them in their books
Year 4 - 4M School For Food
Today, 10-11-2022, the children in Year 4M had an amazing experience at the School For Food. They made their very own Spanish Paella. The children were so excited to cook the dish themselves and they could not wait to eat the delicious paella
Year 4 - 4M Reading - 'I Survived'
The children in 4M enjoyed their reading session today, 10-11-2022, where they continued reading their whole class reader, 'I Survived'. The children were excited to finish the story finding out what happened in the end
Year 4 - 4L Visit Hackney School of Food
4L had a fantastic time at Hackney School of Food on Thursday 10th November. We learnt some useful cooking skills such as how to hold a knife correctly to chop vegetables and how to use a stove. We then cooked a tasty vegetarian paella and learnt about its history from Spain as well as the...
Year 4 - ICT and Science - The Human Digestive System
Today, 9-11-2022, the children in Year 4 used their Chromebooks to further research the human digestive system, learning key facts and information. They also completed an activity, labelling the digestive system and a quiz
Therapy Dog
Research has shown many benefits to therapy and reading dogs in school settings. Daubeney School has introduced the access to a dog promoting emotional well-being, curiosity and engagement as an additional provision for pupils with high additional needs at school. Although there is a risk in...
Year 2 - National Outdoor Learning Day
Year 2 spent time in the Hop Garden doing some outdoor maths as part of National Outdoor Learning Day. It was raining a little and a bit cold, but the children enjoyed it
School Council - New Committee Meetings
Our new School Council cohort met in their new committees and they began with a bang! This year the councillors have decided to have three committees; Journalist Committee, Admin Committee and the Junior Road Safety Committee. They were very excited and began straight away planning for the coming...
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 1
This week we learned how to use the search bar on Purple Mash to find resources on the site. We spoke about it being a safe search bar, and how search bars on the wider internet might not be safe. We used the filter option to make sure we found relevant resources. We completed an emotions activity...
Year 5 - Factors and Multiples
Year 5's learnt about factors and multiples through fun activities which took place in the playground. They used dices to generate random numbers which were then investigated for factor pairs
Year 4 - Outdoor Maths
Today, 3-11-2022, the children enjoyed their math lesson in the playground. They continued with their focus for this week, addition and subtraction
Year 2 - 2S Forest School - Making Autumn Storm Jars
Free play and making Autumn storm jars
Year 2 - 2L Forest School - Making Forest Creatures
Making forest creatures with clay and natural resources
Year 2 - 2L Forest School - Making Autumn Storm Jars
Making Autumn storm jars and free flow
Year 4 - RE Day: Judaism
Today, 13-10-2022, the children in Year 4 has fun and exciting lessons, learning all about the Jewish faith. They discussed the main beliefs, the importance of a synagogue, looked at different Jewish festivals and coloured in their own stained glass image
Year 4 - Science and ICT: Classifying Living Things
Today, 12-10-2022, the children in Year 4 used their Chromebook and explored classifying living things. They completed a range of fun activities on Purplemash learning all about classifying animals
Family Phonics Workshop
A big thank you to parents who attended our first family phonics workshop this half term. It was so lovely to see parents engaging in various phonics activities. We went through all of phase 2 sounds and had an excellent time playing table tennis phonics and snap! We look forward to seeing you...
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 3
This week we used 2Paint on Purple Mash to create a piece of art using impressionism as our theme. We created our own individual paintings and explored the way they made us feel
Be Internet Legends Online Safety Assembly
Today Years 3-6 took part in a national live assembly from Google and Parent Zone, as part of their Be Internet Legends Scheme. They had lots of fun learning about the 5 pillars of online safety - smart alert, strong, kind and brave
Year 4 - Reading: Non-Fiction Text About Earthquakes
Today, Wednesday 21st September 2022, the children in Year 4 had the opportunity to read a selection of Non-fiction text about earthquakes. This helped the pupils to gain a further understanding of how earthquakes occur as they will be learning more on this topic in their Geography lesson later...
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 2
This week we discussed our online safety agreement, talking about how to keep ourselves safe when using a device and who we should ask for help. We practised logging in to the chromebooks using our individual usernames and passwords, and then logged in to LGFL to access Purple Mash. We then had...
Year 4 - Roman Numeral Clock
Today, 29-09-2022, the children in Year 4 had a fun Maths lesson where they made their own Roman numeral clocks. They have been learning about Roman Numerals this week and used their Design and Technology skills to create a Roman Numeral clock
Year 5 - Mapping Skills Day
To start our new geography topic, we refreshed our memories and learnt some new things about maps and how to use them. To end the day, we created our own maps of the playground and we made sure we had a clear and easy to read key as well!
Year 5 - Literacy Roleplay
This week we are doing our moderation writing task, which means we are showing what we know and remember from our learning in Year 4 to our new Year 5 teachers. To start off, we discussed and roleplayed the story of The Three Little Pigs but we put a twist on it and told the story from the...
Year 5 - Practising Handwriting
Year 5 have been practising their handwriting. Many children are excited to achieve a pen license
Year 5 - Numbers to 1000000
Today in maths, we reviewed our understanding of place value and learnt about numbers up to 1000000. We practiced by reading place value charts and making our own representations
Year 2 - 2L's First Week Back!
We had lots of fun in our first week back! We created beautiful self portraits, made some collaged flowers, and explored our new classroom
Year 2 - 2L Mapping Skills Day
For mapping skills day, we had lots of fun learning about directions and following maps. We explored maps that used a bird's eye view and practiced drawing our classroom using a key. We also painted the United Kingdom and spoke about each of the countries and their capital cities
First Week in Reception - Yellow Class
We have had so much fun during our first week at Daubeney! We have made lots of new friends, explored the school and enjoyed getting to know our new adults! We have been writing and decorating our names, building in the sand, drawing pictures of ourselves, cooking dinner in the Monster Cafe,...
Year 5 - Literacy: Himalayas Fact File
Today we created a fact file all about the Himalayas as part of our ‘Hook into a Book’. We looked at pictures of the mountains and discussed Mount Everest. We are very excited to begin our new book ‘King of cloud forest’ by Michael Morpurgo
European Day of Languages
This week we are celebrating European Day of Languages. Students in Yr5 and Yr6 have had the opportunity to learn about some loanwords or ‘borrowings’. These are words which are now English words that come from other languages. As well as being a great chance to celebrate the diversity...
Year 2 - Art in Literacy
This week we have been focusing on the book 'The Magic Bojabi Tree' in Literacy. We have had lots of fun using role play and oracy to understand the story, and today we used water colours to paint a scene from the book
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 6
This week we explored the art work of William Morris and discussed how they use repeated patterns and rotations. We then used 2Paint to make our own repeated pattern piece of art. We thought about the design we made and the size of the pattern as well as the option to rotate our designs
Year 6 - Land use in the UK
Year 6 have been learning about the different ways land is used in the UK! Today they have made posters about the different countries in the UK and compared their different forms of land use. Did you know that most of the land in the UK is used for farming?
Year 1 - 1A Geography WOW Day
For geography WOW day we have been creating landmarks in London out of junk box modelling. We've enjoyed painting, sticking, cutting and drawing. We've also learnt that London is a very busy city with wonderful things to see including the Big Ben, London Bridge, Buckingham palace, London...
Daubeney Reading Champions
We are the Daubeney Reading Champions! Our role is to promote reading at Daubeney and share our ideas with other schools in Hackney. We had the opportunity to attend the Reading Champions launch at Hackney Town Hall and got to meet Councillor Bramble, the deputy mayor, who presented us with our...
Year 5 & 6 - PE Trips
Well done to the year 5/6 for trying their best at rugby and dodgeball
Year 4 - ICT and Geography: Information About Earthquakes
Today, 10-10-2022, the children in 4M used their ICT session to research information about earthquakes. They also used their Purplemash program to answer different questions and quizzes based on earthquakes and how it is formed
Year 4 - ICT and Geography
Today, 11-10-2022, the children in 4L had their computing session where they used their ICT skills to learn more about our Geography topic, 'Earthquakes'. They researched information and completed activities on PurpleMash all about Earthquakes
Year 4 - Concrete Maths
Today, 11-10-2022, Mr Matvad and his Maths group used concrete resources to help us add and subtract 4 digit numbers. We created our own place value chart and used this to help us solve different calculations. Tomorrow we will be adding and subtracting with exchanging
Year 5 - Maths Outdoor Learning
Year 5 improved their mental addition and subtraction in maths by using a range of strategies to answer one step problems. This included compensation, adjustment and finding connections between numbers
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 4
This week Year 2 learnt about pointillism art and how it is different from last weeks art technique. We explored some art work from Georges Seurat and Paul Signac before we created our own masterpieces using the chromebooks
Year 3 - Computing - Coding
Year 3 have started learning about coding this term in Computing. They have now learnt what an algorithm is and how to make virtual objects move using the coding symbols and instructions. They are super excited about computing lessons and always look forward to it each week!
Year 2 - Geography and IT: Exploring Earth
This week for our Geography lesson we were exploring the Earth! We used atlases and Google Earth to identify the North and South Poles, as well as the equator. We had fun identifying countries around the world and discussing what the climate is like in each place
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 5
This week we used 2Paint on Purple Mash to explore the art work of Piet Mondrian. We discussed how they used lines and colour to produce their art work, and then had a go at making our own versions
Year 4 - ICT and Geography: Human Geographical Features in Japan
Today, 6-10-2022, the children in Year 4 used their Chromebook to research information about the Human Geographical features in Japan. They used the information along with the notes from the lesson to create a poster identifying many Human features found in Japan
Year 4 Timetables Club - 5th October 2022
The children in Year 4 enjoyed their first Timetables club today, 5-10-2022, where they practiced their times tables and their fluency. Every week they will be practicing and each week will assess their learning using the assessment tool on their Purplemash program
Year 5 - Literacy Outdoor Learning
Year 5 were set the task of building dens suitable for the Himalayas. Ashley who sets off on a long arduous journey across the Himalayas would have had a similar experience when trying to find shelter in the evenings. The children had to work as a team and think about the properties of the...
Year 5 - Persuasive Arguments
Year 5 spent some time using a word processor to type up their persuasive arguments about climate change! This is their final piece of work based on the book the whole school has been reading - Varmints
Reception - Mini Rabbit Cake Baking
Last week, Reception focused on a story called 'Mini Rabbit Not Lost' and it was about a little rabbit who got lost when he was searching for berries for his cake. We decided to make our own cake. We figured out what ingredients we needed, measured them out, mixed everything together and...
Year 5 - Hackney School of Food
This week, we went to Hackney School of Food where we learnt about knife skills, kitchen safety and how to create a healthy and balanced meal. We did everything ourselves! We cut our own vegetables, prepared a sauce by grinding up ingredients in a mortar and pestle and even made our own meatballs...
Reception - Chinese New Year and Ordinal Numbers
This week, we have been learning about Chinese New Year. We have been reading a story called 'The Great Race' which explained about the chinese zodiac. We made fans, red envelopes, dragon masks, lanterns and used chopsticks for our wooly noodles. We also used the Great Race story in...
Year 5 - Spanish - Mi ciudad
This half term our students in Year 5 are learning to describe cities using a range of adjectives and naming their different buildings. These are some pictures of 5C students. Games are always a great way to get students talking in Spanish!
Year 2 Moderation Immersion
We used role play to act out the story of Marshmallows. We thought about how each of the characters were feeling throughout the story and how we could describe their actions and emotions
Year 2 - Science: Material Sorting
Year 2 thought about the properties of various materials that they could find around the classroom. We discussed what each item was made from, and how that affected it's use. We also discussed how we could sort the items in various ways, giving reasons each time
Year 2 - Coding Week 2
This week we started our coding topic! We had lots of fun trying to make planes take off from their runways and adding code blocks to detect any collisions. We had to think carefully about the algorithm we made and how we could debug if there were any problems!
Year 2 - 3D Shapes
This week we made 3D shapes using nets. We had to cut and stick carefully in order to make the correct shape. We then discussed the shape we had made and thought about what 2D shapes we could see on their faces
The Nest - Pizza Making
Today we made cheese and tomato pizza's and they were delicious!!!
Year 2 - Coding Week 3
This week we continued our coding topic. We created an algorithm to instruct characters to move when they are clicked and to stop when they collide. We also explored how to change the character image once they collided!
Family Phonics Workshop - Spring Term 2023
It was so lovely to see parents and carers taking part in our family phonics workshop yesterday. This half term we will be focusing on phase 3 phonics and looking at digraphs and trigraphs. Parents had a wonderful time playing phonics bingo and reading with their child. Take a look to see what fun...
The Nest - Literacy and Maths
Our week of fun literacy and maths in The Nest
Mr Logan Meets the School Councillors of 2022/23
School Council, Admin Committee invited Mr. Logan to meet with the School Councillors of 2022/23. The committees introduced themselves, updated Mr. Logan about what they had been up to since coming into post and informed him about their future plans. They were all mesmerised listening to Mr. Logan...
Year 1 and Year 2 - Spanish Children's Stories
This half term students in Year 1 and Year 2 are learning key vocabulary and some simple grammar structures through familiar stories. 2L students have enjoyed learning the main characters from 'Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?' this week
The Nest - Movie and Christmas Presents
Thank you for our presents Bob! We loved them!
Year 5 - Science: Soluble or Insoluble?
Do you know what soluble and insoluble means? We learnt about what they are today. We used our new learning to carry out a fair test to see what substances are soluble and what substances are insoluble. We used salt, sugar, flour, hot chocolate powder and black pepper. Which ones do you think are...
Year 2 - IT in Cross Curricular: Designing our own Vehicles
Today Year 2 had some fun designing their own vehicles with wheels using Chromebooks, as part of our Design and Technology topic. We thought about the shape of the vehicle and how we could decorate it too. We learnt about the job of engineers to plan, design, test and make various items including...
Christmas in Reception
We have had a fun-filled week of different Christmas and winter activities! We have been making Christmas cards, decorating biscuits, making tree decorations and had an end of the year party! We were also lucky enough to go on a school trip to see 'Whiskers First Winter' which we loved!
Year 5 - Maths: Fractions of Quantity
This week in Year 5 has been full of fractions. We've spent time multiply unit and non unit fractions with integers, multiplying mixed numbers with integers and finding the fractions of a quantity. Here is us recapping some work and learning some new things!
Year 6 - 6MC - IntoUni Week
We have spent a week with IntoUni! We learned about inspirational people such as Malala Yousafzai and Martin Luther King Junior. We also visited the Wallace Collection in Central London and Cambridge University! "It was one of the best into uni sessions we had and we had lots of fun with the...
Year 4 - 4M: ICT Online Safety
On Monday (5-09-2022) the children in 4M had their first computing session and focussed on online safety. They completed a few activities using PurpleMash and answered a quiz all about online safety
Year 4 - ICT: Spreadsheets
The children in 4M enjoyed their ICT session today learning all about spreadsheets. They were able to use a spreadsheet and make a pattern that they have programmed to count in various multiples. Next week, we will be looking at creating more patterns and sequences using spreadsheets
The Nest - Making Sandwiches
We watched a video on how to make a Jam sandwich and then tried it all by ourselves. "it taste delicious"
Year 5 - DT: Moving Dragons
Did you know that this last weekend was Chinese New Year? It is a celebration that takes place all around the world and celebrates the new year according to the lunar calendar. To celebrate this, we made moving dragons in DT, using cardboard, paper and split pins. It contains a lever and by moving...
Year 5 - Computing: Friction and Functions
It's week 4 of coding in Year 5 and we are working on some more complicated things like friction and functions. We know that friction stops us from sliding all over the place and made use of this knowledge to stop the football on our screen from sliding off. Then we created a function where the...
Year 2 - Coding Week 4
This week we continued our coding topic and learnt about using a timer to run a block of commands after a delay. We had fun making a magician's rabbit disappear and then reappear!
The Nest - The Hackney School of Food
We joined our class to go to The Hackney School of Food to make Cheese and Spinach Scones and Rainbow Slaw
Year 5: Science - Magnetism and Decanting
If you lost a bunch of paperclips in sand, how could you get it back? What if you spilt a bunch of oil onto your glass of water, how could you get that out? Today in science, we talked about two methods of separating materials: magnetism and decanting. We carried out 2 different experiments to test...
Year 5 - Persuasive Argument
Year 5 have been identifying the features of a persuasive argument. They will use this to write their own argument persuading people to contribute to the fight against climate change. The children have become very passionate about the fight against climate change and have come up with some amazing...
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 3
This week is the final week in our online safety module. We explored our digital footprint and discussed how everything we do online leaves a trail behind us, like taking barefoot steps on a beach
Reception - People Who Help Us
This week we have been learning about the people who help us in our community. We have been looking at police officers, fire fighters, carers, recycling collectors, teachers and others. We are looking forward for the police and the fire fighters to come in next week!
Autumn Book Fair 2022
We had another fantastic Book Fair at Daubeney last week. It was great to see so many children excited about books. Altogether you spent an amazing £959.26 which equals £479.63 in rewards for us to spend on some great new books for the school. What book did you buy? Would you recommend it? Comment...
Family Phonics Workshop - Session 3
Thank you to all the parents and carers that attended our third family phonics session today. We focus on oral segmenting and blending and the children had a great time feeding 'Metal Mike' all the words. We revisited all of our phase 2 sounds and then practised reading CVC words by segmenting and...
Eco Team Waste Audit
We have conducted a waste audit of our school! It was loads of fun and we found out how much we waste as well as if we are using our bins correctly! We can’t wait to share our results next term!
The Nest - Parent Workshop
We invited our parents in to make Christmas decorations with us
Year 3 - Stone Age Blogging
This term Year 3 are learning all about the Stone Age, Iron Age and Bronze Age. In computing this week, Year 3 were learning about blogging so the children got the opportunity to produce a blog about what they have learnt in History so far. Children got to post their blogs and read and comment on...
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 2
This week we continued our internet safety topic and learnt about using emails as a way to communicate with other people. We learnt how to reply to a message and send an attachment too!
Year 4 - Trip to the British Museum
4L had an amazing time at the British Museum on Thursday 24th November. We saw some amazing Ancient Egyptian atrefacts including mummies! We learnt some fascinating facts about heiroglyphics which links to our history topic. It was like going back in time!
Year 2 - 2L One Kind Word
This week we took part in thinking of 'one kind word' as part of anti-bullying week. We had fun exploring all the kind words we could use and showed off our odd socks today too!
Junior Mental Health Team - Anti Bullying Week 2022
JMHT have been delivering art therapy for Anti Bullying week. We have been celebrating differences, friendships and reaching our with kind words
Reception - Yellow Class - The Extraordinary Gardener
This week we started our reading groups! We really enjoyed our first reading sessions. We have also been reading 'The Extraordinary Gardener' and have been making different types of flowers. We have been practicing our phonics with different games, learning Spanish and building different...
Year 2 - Spanish: Number Knowledge
In Year 2 we have started the week reinforcing our number knowledge and making links between figures and words using a tangram. Students really enjoyed this hands-on activity and the competitive element of it
The Nest - Baking Cookies
Today we had lots of fun baking cookies! We used flour, butter, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla essence. "it tasted delicious" "yummy" "it is crunchy" "ten out of ten"
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 4
This week we started our new topic of Spreadsheets. We learnt how to colour individual cells in our rows and columns, and also how add an image to a cell. We then explored adding a value to an image, and using the counting tool to say how many items we had in a certain area
Year 6 WOW Day - WW2
To complete our cross curricular topic - WW2 - we researched and created different bomb shelters used to protect people. We learned about Morrison shelters, Anderson shelters and Underground shelters! Then we created miniature versions of them! Have a look below! What do you know about WW2 bomb...
The Secret Life of Reception - Autumn 2 2022
Take a look at what we have been learning about this half-term through the eyes of many 4 / 5 year olds! Reception have really enjoyed taking their own photos of their time in Reception at Daubeney! This half-term, we have had so much fun! We have been learning about numbers 1 - 5, shapes, patterns...
Year 4 WoW Day - Ancient Egyptians
Today, 15-12-2022, the children in Year 4 enjoyed their activities around Ancient Egypt. Our first lesson was answering the Big Question, 'Were Pharaohs Fair'. Then we made our own Cartouches and build a sarcophagus, pyramid and a mummy
Year 5 - WOW Day: Ancient Greece
We created vases inspired by ancient Greeks using recyclable items. First, we created the base and structure of the vase which was then followed by decorating the vase. This was a great way to end our topic on Ancient Greece where we learnt about how and where they had an influence on modern society
Year 2 - Spanish Christmas Cards
This term in Year 2 we have learnt numbers, colours and shapes through Cubism and Pablo Picasso's art. Today we have decorated our own Christmas cards inspired by his work
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 5
This week we continued with our topic of Spreadsheets. We made a magic square using our coloured cells and identified and used the 'total' buttons this week. We then explored ways in which numbers could be placed inside the square to make the totals the same around the outside
Year 5 - RE Day - Islam in the Middle Ages
Year 5 spent the day learning about Islam in the middle ages. They focused on the foundations of the religion such as the 5 pillars. Furthermore, they learnt about innovators of this era and the crusades
Year 4 - History and Art: Pyramids in Egypt
The children in 4M had a wonderful session on Wednesday 7th December 2022, creating a sunset image of the pyramids in Egypt
School Choir Trip to Homerton Hospital
The school choir, led by the inimitable Kari Stewart, performed in the Foyer of Homerton Hospital spreading joy and Christmas cheer. The children sang their hearts out and did the school proud. Here are some ot the hits we sang:
The Nest - Fruit Kebabs
This week we made fruit kebabs! We talked about healthy eating and the benefits of each fruit that we used. "The pineapples were the sweetest" Fun Fact - did you know that bananas contain a natural chemical called 'seratonin' which makes people happy?
Year 2 - 2L Christmas Prep
This week 2L have been making lots of Christmas decorations! We decorated Santa faces for our hoop, made a paper wreath and even made our own baubles. We then decorated the tree with our creations!
Family Phonics Workshop - Session 4
This week we enjoyed singing the Blossom Phonics song. We sang the alphabet song and joined in with the actions. We played a game of 'I spy' and practiced our oral segmenting and blending skills. We then read CVC words using our phase 2 phonics sounds. We look forward to our following...
Year 4 - Controlled Experiment
The children in Year 4 had a fun controlled experiment, learning all about our digestive system. The children were able to identify the parts and the functions of the digestive system. They had fun learning all about how our food becomes waste
