School Council
Daubeney School Council are a hardworking and enthusiastic group of children from years 3-6. They are the voice of their peers. They are elected every academic year by their peers in a democratic fashion of campaign, speech and voting. The School Council is made up of three committees. Admin...
Year 5 - School Tasking (Session 2)
Are Jaffa Cakes a biscuit or a cake? We learnt about how the law can relate to things that we love, like Jaffa Cakes!
Year 5 - IntoUniversity: What is a University?
We visited Hackney Downs IntoUniversity who taught us about what a university is! We learnt about who goes to university, what you can study there as well as the different locations you’ll find universities! We can’t wait to go back to learn more in the Summer term!
Year 5 - British Science Week Workshop
We learnt about the states of matter through fun experiments during British Science Week! We had fun learning using dry ice! We even attempted to make our own ice cream!
Year 5 - Big Draw (Spring)
Do you know who Pablo Picasso is? We learnt about him and discussed the similarities of his surrealist portraits. We then created our own portraits inspired by Picasso!
Year 3 Kingfisher - Shadow puppets
The children in Year 3 enjoyed their Science lesson today using torches to make a shadow theatre. They had so much fun
Year 5 - Cardinal Pole Visit
We visited the secondary school Cardinal Pole and took part in an experiment using a bunsen burner and different metals!
The Nest - Making Flap Jacks - March 2025
Nurture had fun making Flap jacks this week
The Nest - Arts and Crafts - March 2025
Please add these photos to the Nurture page under the heading. This week in Nurture we have been cooking , doing arts and crafts and having a fun time finding the Evil Pea from the story Supertato! Thank you
Rainbow Room - Spring Books
Children explored the vibrant season of spring through two delightful books: "Hooray for Hoppy! " and " Five Little Ducks". Both stories brought the joys of spring to life, focusing on farm animals and changing weather. Hooray for Hoppy! by Linda L. Harkins follows a playful...
Rainbow Room - Dino Pegs Counting
The children had a wonderful and engaging math session, where they had fun learning by using Dino Number Cards and pegs for counting. In this activity, they observed the numbers on the Dino cards and then counted out the corresponding number of pegs to match the number on each card. This...
Rainbow Room - Harp Sounds
Today, during the SEND Music Session, the children showed great focus and curiosity as they explored the harp’s sounds. With guidance from adults, they carefully interacted with the strings, producing soft, delicate tones. The supportive environment allowed them to experiment with different...
Year 5 - Science: Models of the Solar System
We learnt about how and why the model of the solar system has changed over time from the Ancient Egyptians’ God Ra, to the Ancient Greeks’ Geocentric model, to Nicolaus Copernicus’ Heliocentric model
Year 5 - World Book Day 2025
Have a look at what we dressed up as this World Book Day! Do you recognise the characters we are dressed up as?
Year 5 - School Tasking (Session 1)
We are learning about the law! We had a group of visitors from LSE come to teach us about the law through fun activities in the style of Taskmaster!
Year 5 - Literacy: Power of Play (Harry Potter)
Should Harry go to Hogwarts? To help us write a balanced argument formal letter, we took part in some drama activities that got us thinking about why Harry should or shouldn’t go to Hogwarts
Reception - World Book Day
Last week, we celebrated World Book Day! Have a look at our costumes!
Reception - Spring so far
Have a look at what we have been upt o during Spring so far!
Rainbow Room- Old McDonald Song
As part of the Singing Group Intervention, children from the Rainbow Room participated in an interactive session centered around their favorite song, "Old McDonald Had a Farm," using farm animals to make the activity more engaging. The adult sang a line of the song and paused, allowing...
Year 3 Toucan - Great Gases
We attended a science workshop about Great Gases, where we explored the properties and effects of liquid nitrogen, observed how electricity moves, and examined the way heat rises
Year 3 - Toucan: World Book Day
World Book Day was on Friday, March 8th, and the children in Toucan Class dressed up as various book characters
Year 3 - Informal Letter Practise: Mother's Day Cards
In today's lesson, we practiced writing a Mother's Day card since the occasion is coming up. This ties into our focus this week on writing informal letters
Rainbow Room - Spring Hyacinth
Mr. Patryk has recently noticed that spring is beginning to appear in his garden and during his visits to the local park. However, there was one particular flower that caught his attention. Which flower is it? It's the wonderful Spring Hyacinth, which the children in the Rainbow Room were...
Rainbow Room - Displays: Spring
We invite you to take the opportunity to explore our new and vibrant displays, which beautifully highlight the incredible learning and growth of the children in the Rainbow Room. These displays serve as a celebration of the creativity, curiosity, and dedication that our students have invested in...
Rainbow Room - Colours Alphabet
Today, the children had a fantastic time during their phonics session, which skillfully combined learning with lots of fun! The session focused on colours, giving the children the opportunity to not only name various colours but also practice their phonics skills by identifying the first letter...
Year 5 - School Tasking (Session 3)
Tort Law. Gross Negligence. Trespass. These were only some of the law terms that we learn about and discussed in this week’s School Tasking session run by our LSE law students!
Rainbow Room - Easter Chicks
The children from the Rainbow Room coloured an Easter chick using pastel crayons. Next, they used pastels and felt-tip pens to decorate their Easter eggs, creating a variety of marks, such as lines, dots, and other patterns, based on their personal choices
Rainbow Room - Ducks in Water
As part of the Indentiplay activity, children were introduced to ducks and bowls—one filled with water and one empty. The activity began with an adult modeling the actions. For example, the children observed the adult placing a duck into the water while saying, "Ducks in the water."...
Tenerife adventures III
Early start to head to school where we had the chance to visit the school’s facilities and learn about how schools work in Spain. One of the Year 5 groups we are working with celebrated their sharing assembly so we watched them performing Le Petit Prince story in Spanish. After exploring the Canary...
Rainbow Room: Actions Words & Colourful Semantics
As part of our ongoing support, some Year 4 pupils in the Rainbow Room took part in an activity to name and match different actions. They learned that action words are called verbs and often end in -ing. For example, they looked at phrases like "watching TV" and "eating food."...
Year 4 Maths - Peer Tutoring
Year 4 classes are working together to improve their mathematical skills. Peer tutoring is a great way to make sure concepts are embedded in the minds of everyone
Rainbow Room - Incy wincy spider song
Children from the Rainbow Room were engaged in listening to their favorite spring song, "Incy Wincy Spider," sung by an adult. They practiced remembering the sequences and actions related to the song, while also following simple instructions such as putting the spider on the tube and letting it go....
Rainbow Room - Learning Preposition (Interactive Game)
Children in the Rainbow Room explored prepositions through an interactive game displayed on the screen. They matched prepositions with various objects in familiar settings such as a park, living room, or kitchen. The children were introduced to phrases like "on top of the TV," "above...
Year 6 Hawks - British Science Week Workshop - Dry Ice experiment
The highlight of this spring term was the British Science Week . This year’s theme was ‘Adapt and Change’ the 6 Hawks enjoyed science workshop whereby they learnt about state of matter and even attempted to make ice-cream. The children had the opportunity to explore different hypothesis and the...
Year 6 - Hawks & Eagles: Science - Circuit and Voltage Experiment
Before the experiment, we begun the lesson by recapping our prior knowledge: scientific symbols for circuits, the difference between circuits and voltage as well as our hypothesis. We began our learning by understanding the difference between electricity and circuits and how voltage equals power....
Year 4 – Science
Year 4 Hornbills made telephones using paper cups and they could hear their peers speaking through the telephones. We had lots of fun in Science today
Year 4 – Hornbills: Wow Day
Year 4 Hornbills designed and built their settlements for Wow Day. Some groups built villages, towns and one group decided to build a city along the banks of the River Thames
Nurture Group – Trip to the park
Nurture trip to the park, enjoying the sunshine
Parent Communication - 4th April 2025
Today brings our Intrepid Explorers half-term to a close, Autism Awareness Week to a grand finale and concludes the Spring term for the 2024-2025 academic year. There have been many successes and lots of highlights to reflect upon this term which we’
4th April 2025
Rainbow Room - Autism Awareness Week Celebration
In celebration of Autism Awareness Week at our school, the pupils in the Rainbow Room participated in meaningful and enriching activities with great enthusiasm. A highlight of the week was the creation of their unique "Autism Puzzle." Each pupil carefully selected tissue paper colours...
Year 2 - Eid Cards
Today, Ayyad spent his time creating Eid Mubarak cards, pouring his creativity into each design with vibrant colors and imaginative details. Filled with excitement for the upcoming celebration, he also wrote heartfelt messages inside, sharing his warm wishes with his family
Year 3 - Natural History Museum Trip
Benjamin took part in his class trip to Natural History Museum. He was eager to explore looking at different animals from around the world, insects, dinosaurs and fossils
Tenerife adventures II
On Monday we spent the day in our partner school, CEIP César Manrique. We played games with another year 5 group in the morning and we went to visit the town hall where the mayor of Puerto de la Cruz greeted us in the afternoon! It made us feel very welcomed and fortunate. We then spent the...
Tenerife Adventures
What a weekend we have had! Friday was an exciting day travelling in which we had the opportunity to get to know a bit better the rest of the group and their adults. On Saturday we had a fantastic day at Las Teresitas beach where we played games and had a swim in the Atlantic sea! Sunday was a...
Year 5 - Science: Day and Night
How do we have day and night? What purpose does the sun play in giving us daylight? Why is it dark at night? We investigated this in this lesson!
Year 5 - Maths: Percentages as decimals
We have gotten pretty good at understanding what percentages are and in this lesson, we spent our time learning about how decimals have equivalent percentages
Year 5 - Computing Workshop
Today, Mr Power from Sebright taught us about coding by using these mini computers called microbits! We learnt how to set them up and made our microbits show our name and even sing us a song!
Year 3 - Playground Play
On a sunny day, Benjamin joined his peer and LSA in a game, where they threw and passed the ball to each other. This activity helps Benjamin understand and respond to others' requests and wants, supporting his social interactions
Rainbow Room - Easter Bunnies
Today, the children created their own Easter bunnies using paper plates and cotton. They explored the texture of the cotton by touching it with their hands. They also used black paper to make whiskers, googly eyes for the eyes, and pink paper to create ears
Year 3 – Toucan: Shadow Puppet Show
In today's lesson, we reviewed what we learned last week and explored how shadows are formed. We experimented with creating shadows using torches and other light sources. Using cut-out shapes, we put on a puppet show featuring moving shadows. During the show, we experimented with the size and...
Year 3 - Volcano Eruptions!
Year 3 is using 360-degree video to explore volcanic eruptions as part of our CC lesson on volcanoes
School Council off to a Great Start!
The School Council of 2024-25 is off to a great start! Their dedication to working for the betterment of their peers and splitting into focused committees shows a strong commitment to addressing different aspects of school life. The committees are; Admin Committee, Journalist Committee and Junior...
Year 3 – Learning Geography through Spanish
As we continue developing our Content and Language Integrated provision, pupils in Year 3 have explored the Canary Islands and its volcanoes. They can now label the different parts of a volcano, and name and describe the three states of a volcano in Spanish and English, as well as recalling...
Year 3 Kingfisher - Maths: Equivalent Mass
The children in Kingfisher enjoyed their math lesson identifying equivalent mass
Year 3 Kingfisher - World Book Day
Kingfisher celebrated World Book Day on Friday 7th March 2025
Rainbow Room - Caterpillar Painting
Children have been exploring the world of caterpillars and had the opportunity to use wooden pegs to create prints in their paintings, repeating the colors found in our social story, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar. on the caterpillar " They followed the color patterns from the...
Year 3 - Kingfisher - Mental Health Workshop
The children in Kingfisher class had an exciting workshop today talking all about children’s mental health
Year 4 - Wow Day
We designed our own games working in teams and then presented our ideas to the Dragons whom we wanted to invest in our projects
Rainbow Room - Numerical Hearts
We had fun exploring numbers on heart shapes in the tuff tray, matching them to develop our numerical understanding. We also practiced counting and number recognition with interactive actions like jumping
Rainbow Room - Dots Heart Painting
We've been exploring various art techniques, and our focus has been on dot painting. We painted hearts using cotton buds and purple and pink colors. Additionally, we explored different patterns within dot painting to enhance the creativity
Year 3 and 4 Dodgeball
The children in Year 3 and 4 enjoyed their Dodgeball session today competing against each other. The children focused on the skills that were taught in their PE lesson and had a fun time playing
Year 3 - Wow Day
The children had a fun day continuing their learning all about linkages and levers. As part of our Wow Day activities they made a moving dragon, a snapping crocodile and a scissor dragon
Year 3 - Kahoot in ICT
The children had a fun session today in their ICT lesson using Kahoot and answering questions based on our Science topic - Animals and Humans
Year 1 - Parrot Class: DT
We've been busy making chairs in DT. First we looked at lots of different examples of chairs, like sofas, rocking chairs, deck chairs and swivel chairs. Then we designed our own chairs before making them out of lots of different materials. We used lots of tape and glue so that it was strong and...
Spanish Champions at the BFI
Yesterday a group of Spanish Champions was at the BFI Southbank for the day. In the morning the presenter took our pupils on an exciting journey to practice Spanish in a fun and interactive way using short films, and in the afternoon, we got to enjoy a film in Spanish
Rainbow Room - Heart Size Matching
The children were carefully comparing hearts of various sizes, picking up each one and sorting them in order, distinguishing between the small and large hearts as they arranged them on the tuff tray
Rainbow Room - Big and Small Hearts Stamping
The children in the Rainbow Room have been exploring different sizes of hearts, creating colorful heart stamps using heart-shaped cutters. They’ve enjoyed experimenting with various sizes to see how each heart looks by adding a fun and creative twist to their stamping activity
Year 5 - Trip to Suleymaniye Mosque
Year 5 spent the morning learning alot about Islam at Suleymaniye Mosque. We learned about the different features of a mosque, how Muslims pray and how to treat a Quran
Year 3 Kingfisher - Show and Tell
The children today had another fun session in their weekly Show and Tell Session. They shared their favourite animals and gave some amazing facts about them
Year 2 Maths Arrays 2025
This week in Maths, year 2 have been learning about making arrays to help us with multiplication. We were able to recognise how many counters were in each column and each row and used this to help us work out the answer
Year 5 - DT: WOW Day
After recapping what we learnt this half term in DT, we spend the rest of the day creating our own wells that involved a pulley system
Year 2 - Safer Internet Day
Today we took part in Safer Internet Day, thinking about the theme of 'Too good to be true?'. We discussed scams and things we may see when we are online that are often too good to be true, such as free items, free gems or access to exclusive itmes. We explored what we should do if we see...
Rainbow Room - Valentine's Day Phonics
The children in the Rainbow Room were actively engaged in a fun Valentine's Day Phonics activity, where they focused on learning the sounds of letters in various words featured on Valentine’s Word Hearts. They worked on matching these words with corresponding word puzzles, helping them to...
Rainbow Room - Heart Tree
The children in the Rainbow Room have excitedly designed their very own Valentine's Heart Tree, engaging in a creative activity that involved using a variety of textured papers. They explored different types of paper, including both hard and soft textures, to give their artwork an added sensory...
Year 5 - Science: Water Resistance
We learnt about water resistance by carrying out an experiment where we tested out dropping chunks of plasticine into water to see what shape was the most streamlined and had the least water resistance
Year 5 - Science: Air Resistance
We learnt about air resistance by making parachutes to test how the size of the parachute changes the speed of falling
Year 5 - Numbers Day
To celebrate numbers day, we dressed up as numbers and also did some fun activities during our maths lesson!
Year 5 - Mental Health Workshop
We took part in a mental health workshop where we learnt about what mental health was. We discussed how to have good mental health as well as how to handle situations that can cause us to have bad mental health
Year 5 - Maths Challenge
On Monday, four Year 5 children were invited to go to Guildhall to take part in a maths challenge lead by the students of Christ’s Hospital. The children took part in 5 challenging activities for 8 minutes each. Well done to all who took part!
Year 3 – Learning Science through Spanish
Children in Year 3 have had the chance to build up and consolidate their science knowledge through Spanish. They can now name a range of vertebrates and invertebrates and describe their characteristics in two languages!
Reception - Numbers Day
On Friday, we really enjoyed dressing up as our favourite numbers for Number Day. We talked about where numbers are used and why we use them
Rainbow Room: Speech & Language Intervention
Today, children in the Rainbow Room were visited by Hannah (SLT), who conducted an intervention using Click Clack to support the development of requesting skills. This was done through the use of a core board and picture exchange books
Rainbow Room: Heart Painting
For Valentine's Day, the children in the Rainbow Room created heart paintings to enhance their fine motor skills. They painted with brushes, added pipe cleaners, and finished with glitter for a sparkling touch. After their had presented their heart painting to their peers
Year 3 - RE Day - 6th February 2025
The children had a great RE day on Thursday 6th February as they explored Judaism. the children learnt about the core beliefs, traditions, festivals and ended the lesson creating a piece of art
Year 4 - The Midnight Fair
Year 4 depicting parts of the story of The Midnight Fair in freeze frames
DT Wow Day - Spring 2025
Over spring, we have been super busy working through our DT topic. Each year group had a specific task and have worked hard to plan a product and then create the product/prototype
Football Boot Competition
During Spring, we entered into a football boot competition where the children were asked to design a pair of football boots. We had over 100 entries! They have now been collected and will be going through the voting panel. Each class will have 1 winner plus 1 whole school winner. Watch this space!
Year 1 Parrot Class - Paddington!
This week we've been having lots of fun with Paddington! We made marmalade sandwiches and then wrote a set of instructions on how to make marmalade sandwiches. We used imperative (bossy) verbs and connectives to write instructions. Later on, we also wrote a list of things Paddington will need...
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Finds Fractions of Amounts
The children used concrete, pictorial and abstract methods today in class to find fractions of amounts
Rainbow Room - Spring Flowers Painting (Mother's Day)
The children were fully focused on the activity, using forks dipped in vibrant paint to create colorful patterns and lines. With great care, they pressed the forks onto the paper by experimenting with colours and lines formations to represent flower petals and stems. Their concentration was great...
Rainbow Room - Mother's Day Card
The children from the Rainbow Room showed great creativity as they thoughtfully prepared for the upcoming Mother's Day celebration. They painted beautiful flowers in bright spring colours on their cards, added happy face stickers, coloured in the hearts inside the cards and with the help of an...
Year 4 Hornbills - World Book Day
Hornbills had fun getting dressed up to celebrate World Book Day. We discussed our favourite characters and why we chose to dress up as them. We then put them in the 'Hot Seat', asking them questions and answering in role of the character. Can you name all the charcters we're dressed as?
Rainbow Room - Money (Coins)
The children were engaged in a hands-on math activity exploring money, focusing on 1p coins. They independently counted the coins from 1p to 10p and placed them into money bags, reinforcing their counting and money use skills in a practical context
Year 4 Hornbills' Trip to Ministry of Stories
Hornbill Class had an amazing time at the Ministry of Stories. We worked with an author and an illustrator to create the opening of a story as a class. We then had the opportunity to get creative and add our own ideas to finish the story. Our story was published for us to take home. We were so...
Rainbow Room - Phonics Game
The children were actively practicing phonics through an interactive game that made learning fun. They matched words to pictures, reinforcing letter sounds, word formation, and pronunciation. They also listened to an adult pronounce the initial sounds and independently matched them in the game....
Rainbow Room - Blocks Play
Ayyad and Benjamin were having an absolute fun as they transformed the room into a colourful and exciting mess, using blocks to build towers of all shapes and sizes. Each tower was uniquely crafted with different colored blocks, making every creation stand out even more. It was a joy to witness...
Rainbow Room - Number Lines
The children in the Rainbow Room were eagerly engaged in an exciting activity involving numbers on a number line. They had the opportunity to listen carefully as an adult would say a particular number out loud. Their task was to identify the number and then locate it on the number line. To make the...
Year 5 - Literacy Power of Play immersion lesson
Today we used drama to re tell the beginning of the story 'The Black Hole'. We practised moving and manipulating our bodies into shapes and characters before making freeze frames of the story, focusing on the mood and emotions of the character
Year 5 - Geography: Mapping Skills Day
Today is Mapping Skills Day! We utilised our wonderful library to immerse ourselves into our topic - learning all about Turkey through maps and atlases. After that, we learnt about thematic maps and what the purpose of them is. In our third lesson, we created our own map of Turkey and included...
Reception - Week 1 of Spring 2!
This week we have been really busy! We have been reading Handa's Surprise, so we had activities based around this story! In Numeracy, we have been looking at capacity and ways to measure capacity
Rainbow Room - Garden
Today, children from the Rainbow Room explored flowers, vegetables, and herbs in the garden. They were also engaged in observing different types of flowers and trees, focusing on their appearance and texture. The children enjoyed using garden tools, such as rakes, to tend to the soil. Some children...
Rainbow Room - SEND PE: Throwing & Catching Bean Bags
As part of their SEND PE session, the children from the Rainbow Room engaged in an exciting and interactive activity focused on developing their throwing and catching skills. Using soft bean bags, children practiced various techniques, improving their hand-eye coordination and motor skills
Rainbow Room - Our Body: Identity Play
As part of the science activity, we incorporated an identity play where children were asked to use a doll to identify and name different body parts. This activity aimed to help them become more familiar with the human body
Rainbow Room - Science (Our Body)
The children were actively participating in a science lesson focused on learning about the human body. They engaged in a body parts memory game that helped them learn the names of various body parts. In this game, they matched the names of body parts with their corresponding pictures, such as the...
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Concrete Maths
The children in Kingfisher class started their Fraction unit with a practical lesson. They used concrete resources to solve various fraction of amounts. The children using their resources have now understood how to find a fraction of an amount
Year 2 - Role Play Marshmallows Story
Today we watched a short video called Marshmallows. We thought about the characters in the story and explored adjectives we could use to describe them at different points in the story. We were able to tell our partners the key points in the story and began predicting what we thought would happen at...
Year 2 - DT Wow Day
Year 2 had such a fun filled day for our Spring 1 Wow Day! We have been learning all about vehicles with wheels and axles, so what better than to make our own car prototype! We made our basic shape using a chassis, 2 axles and 4 wheels. We then thought back to our design from the week before and...
Year 2 - Division
Today we began thinking about using division and how this means we are sharing out items equally between groups. We were able to identify how many groups we would need, as well as how many cubes we needed to share out. We double checked our answers by counting each group and making sure they were...
Rainbow Room: Surprise Day
As part of our wonderful learning journey, we were pleasantly surprised with a special treat! We were given colouring sheets and stickers as a reward for our incredible determination and effort in our learning. It was such a fun and exciting way to celebrate our hard work!
Rainbow Room: Drawing & Painting Pigs from Social Story
As part of their reading activity, the children from the Rainbow Room explored the classic story of "The Three Little Pigs." To enhance their learning, the children participated in an Attention Bucket Activity, where they used paper rolls and pink paint to create their own representations of the...
Rainbow Room - Chalk Butterflies Drawing
As part of our captivating social story, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," children immersed themselves in a artistic experience. They enthusiastically engaged in colouring and drawing their own spring butterflies, using chalks. With each stroke, they brought their imaginations to life, crafting...
Year 2 - RE Day - Spring 2025
This half term’s RE day was focussed on forgiveness. Our question was ‘What does it mean to say sorry?’. We spent time identifying why it might by difficult to say sorry and thought about other ways we could we were sorry. We discussed religious views on being honest, truthful and...
Year 3 - Maths: learning about time
In our math's lessons, we’ve been learning about time—hours, minutes, and seconds. To put our knowledge of converting minutes to seconds into practice, we created a circuit in the KS1 playground. We timed each other to see how long it took to complete the course—and had lots...
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Chalk Art
The children in Kingfisher had fun today using chalk to draw images from our text
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Art
The children in Kingfisher class enjoyed their outdoor art session inspired by Anthony Goldsworthy. the children used mostly natural resources to create their art work
Rainbow Room - Chalk Drawing
The weather outside has been nice, allowing our pupils to have a great time participating in outdoor learning. They engaged in small group interactions, creating their own chalk drawings. Using a variety of chalk colour and the space available at the playground to create own chalk drawing. The...
Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive
We had a chill evening last night and enjoyed our hot chocolates. Bedtime went surprisingly well. The children were in their cabins by 9 but it did take a little longer to settle! This is to be expected though, it’s all very exciting. This morning was an early start though, everyone up at 6 and...
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Online Reading
Today, 17th June 2025, Kingfisher class had the opportunity to read online (CCBC Newsround) as part of their reading session. The children enjoyed the child friendly news reports and CBBC is a great website for children's news which can be accessed from home. They also had the opportunity to...
Reception - Our own Ducklings!
This week, we have been so lucky to hatch our own eggs! We have been learning about the lifecycle of a Duck and we saw it for ourselves. We received 5 eggs and we watched them hatch into Hatchlings. They are now growing into Ducklings! They are super cute
Reception - Number bonds of 5
This week, we have been learning our Number bonds of 5! Have a look at the facts we have learnt. Next week, we are learning about Number Bonds of 10!
Rainbow Room - Attention Bucket Fun
Children had a fantastic time exploring messy and creative play during the Attention Bucket Stages. They engaged in a variety of activities, including: Shaving Foam Painting Rainbow Room Experiment (oil, salt, and paint painting) Star Stamping Sticky Animals with Clay Fun
Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive
If the start of the day is a sign for the rest of the week, we are in for a spectacular time! The coach was right time, right place and to top it off there was no traffic on the way. We arrived around half 11 which means there was plenty of time for everyone to settle into their cabins, unpack,...
Spanish - Transition session 2025
Earlier on this week, a group of Year 10 students from Urswick school visited Year5 classes for a special transition session, focussing on developing dictation and reading aloud skills – key foundations for success in secondary school. A wonderful opportunity to build bridges between KS2 and...
Year 3 - Creating Drawings using Chalk
In today’s lesson, we took our learning outdoors and used chalk to create drawings on the KS2 playground. Around our artwork, we wrote adjectives inspired by our fortnightly focus book, Chalk
ArtBytes Celebration Event 2025
Three Year 5 children had the wonderful opportunity to attend a celebration event of Art at Saatchi Gallery. The three children were voted the top 3 winners of the school in our ArtBytes competition. After accepting their awards, we were lucky enough to have a guided tour around the exhibitions. We...
Rainbow Room- Attention Bucket ( Glitter Fun ) )
The children had a great time using paper cups as shakers to sprinkle different colors of glitter onto large sheets of paper. After that, the children used cotton buds to create mark-making with the glitter on the paper
Kingfisher Outdoor Poetry Session 2025
Kingfisher Class enjoyed the sunshine and the Hop-garden reading a selection of poems from the Whole Class Reader (I heard it in the playground by Allan Ahlberg)
Rainbow Room - Senses Book
Children were engaged in looking at the pictures of different senses in the books about senses
Rainbow Room - Our Body and Senses
WOW! Look at those wonderful displayed which demonstrates our learning about our body and senses as part of PHSE and Science
Rainbow Room - Our Body and Senses
As part of our PHSE and Science curriculum, students have the opportunity to learn about their bodies by naming and identifying various body parts through worksheets, interactive games, and coloring activities. They are encouraged to identify familiar body parts on their own bodies, such as eyes,...
Reception - Summer so far...
Have a look at some of the things we have been up to in Reception so far!
Rainbow Room: Buttons Maths
Children were actively engaged in a math activity that involved using buttons for counting. They placed the buttons on circles numbered from 1 to 10 and then recalled the names of the numbers. Additionally, the children used a whiteboard to practice simple addition. They placed buttons under the...
Year 2 Maths - Measuring: June 2025
Year 2 had fun learning how to measure objects around the classroom and identifying units of measure. Year 2 used scales to measure mass of items around the classroom, identifying the units used
Year 2 - Trip to Hackney Marshes
Year 2 visited Hackney Marshes to explore what plants grow in our local environment
Year 2 - Research: June 2025
Year 2 used chromebooks to research information and facts about the rainforest to inform their writing
Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive
It has been an absolute scorcher in sunny Essex today and we have had a good one. To all the staffs surprise we had to wake up most of the cabins at 7 this morning to some really cool music, which they loved. Everyone has made an amazing effort in all the activities today and we are so proud of the...
Year 3 Art - Andy Goldsworthy
In today's art lesson, we have been learning about Andy Goldsworthy. Today, we went outside and took pictures of our sculptures. We used buttons as rocks and wooden sticks to create our artwork
Year 2 - Mapping Day
Year 2 enjoyed Mapping Day to start our Geography learning. We had lots of fun looking at maps, globes and using compasses to understand directions. We identified features of maps and made a plan view map of our playground, before making a 3D version from corrugated card
Reception - Yellow Team Trip 2025
I hope you are well. Please can the attached photos be uploaded on the highlights, title 2025 Yellow Team trip to Victoria Park
Year 3 Toucan - WOW Day 2025
The Year 3 Toucan class had an inspiring Wow Day, drawing creativity from the artist Andy Goldsworthy. They ventured into the playground to craft natural sculptures using leaves, twigs, and other found materials. Back in the classroom, they painted tree-themed canvases in an artistic style inspired...
Year 3 Kingfisher - Wow Day 2025
The children in Kingfisher had a lovely Wow Day creating pieces of art inspired by Andy Goldsworthy
Year 5 and Year 6 - Movie screening 2025
Our Year 5 and Year 6 children had a fantastic time watching the animated film Vivo. The movie, set in the vibrant Cuba, was a wonderful opportunity for children to explore intercultural understanding through music and storytelling
Year 3 - Rumpelstiltskin
This week, Year 3 have been exploring the story of Rumpelstiltskin in their literacy lessons through the Power of Play sequence. They've thoroughly enjoyed their first week—acting out scenes, building a fairy tale world, and bringing their imagination and drama skills to life
Year 3 - Angles
This week, we began learning about angles by using maps and toy animals, giving directions using degrees and compass points. In our maths lesson, we also created origami to explore different types of angles, as well as shapes, edges, and vertices—setting the stage for our upcoming sequence on...
Year 3 - Kingfisher in The Power Of Play
The children had an exciting literacy lesson led by the specialist literacy lead from the National Theatre. The children used the story of Rumplestilskins and enjoyed the many role- playing activities
Year 3 - Kingfisher - Andy Goldsworthy Art Project
Today (02-07-2025) the children in Kingfisher class were super excited to complete their art project inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. The children had their canvas prepared last week and used twigs to paint their image. They added leaves and on Friday will add a setting sun to complete the project
Year 3 Kingfisher - ICT: Google Slides
The children in Kingfisher enjoyed their third Google Slide session where they made their own presentation. they included images, changed the writing style and added information about their topic
Rainbow Room - Human Life Cycle
In our Science and PHSE lessons, the children explored the fascinating journey of human growth stages from infancy to adulthood. They participated in an engaging activity where they arranged a series of pictures, each one depicting a different stage of the human life cycle, Some children...
Year 6 – Euros 2025
One-off lesson about the 2025 Women’s Euros, covering countries, present tense verbs, multiple-choice quiz to learn about this year’s competition and reading comprehension in Spanish
Reception - Let's have fun!
Have a look to see what Reception have been up to! We have been going to Forest School, building Lego, practicing for assembly and much more!
Rainbow Room- Weather Patterns
Children participated in learning about various weather phenomena they encounter in their daily lives, such as sunshine, rain, and clouds. They had a great time using colorful lollipop sticks to match different colours to weather cards. This activity helped them visualize and demonstrate different...
Rainbow Room - Weather learning
Children were matching the names of the weather using weather cards and word cards. Some children were able to recognize the weather names by saying them or pointing to them with an adult
Year 3 - Kingfisher Art Project 2025
The children were so excited today as they started their art project inspired by Anthony Goldsworthy. The children prepared their canvas for next when we created our art piece
Rainbow Room - Sun Catchers & Rainbow Clouds
We have been exploring the different types of weather we experience during our outdoor playtime, particularly in the playground where we have noticed changes in the weather while playing. The children had a wonderful time creating sun catchers using paper plates and triangles from orange paper ....
Rainbow Room- Patterns Arrangements
We had an amazing time exploring different pattern arrangements using colorful lollipop sticks. There was an opportunity for us to challenged ourselves to try memorize the colours sequences as we carefully placed the lollipop s sticks on the paper, matching each stick to its corresponding colour in...
Rainbow Room - Shapes ( Maths )
As part of their math learning, children engaged in exploring 2D shapes by learning their properties, including their appearances. They were introduced to a fun shape memory game where they matched the shapes on cards to those on a template. Some children even named the shapes, such as circles,...
Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive
This was the last day of the 2025 residential and probably the most organised day of the week for residential. The kids were well behaved today and were really well at getting ready to go back to Hackney. We had a really nice week and a week that will create memories forever and will also be in the...
Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive
Survive and thrive, Daubs ‘25 Well believe it or not, today was even hotter! Everyone has dealt with it well though and are staying hydrated and being reminded to wear sunscreen! No campfire last night as we were informed it may have sent the whole place on fire so probably best not to have done...
Year 2 - Plants: June 2025
Year 2 planted our own bean plants and took care of them in the classroom under different conditions to investigate what plants need to grow and be healthy
Year 2 - Healthy Foods: June 2025
Year 2 have been learning about food groups, identifying healthy food choices and sharing our favourite recipes
Rainbow Room - Dotted Butterflies Painting
Children were exploring butterflies from the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" during their learning activities. They discussed the various colors and patterns they noticed on the butterfly in the story and created their own representations of the butterfly by painting it on cardboard...
Rainbow Room – PSHE: Family Relationships
Children participated in their PHSE session, where they learned about different families and family members. They were introduced to Makaton signs such as "mum," "dad," "family," "brother," and "sister," and did an excellent job repeating these...
Parrot Class - Farm trip
Parrot class went to visit Hackney City Farm. We looked lots of different farm animals and discussed their habitat and diets. We had a wonderful day!
Summer so far
Have a look at some of the activities that Reception have been up to in Summer so far!
Rainbow Room – PHSE: Family & Friendships
Children drew pictures of their families using simple shapes. Some children said, "I am drawing my mummy," or pointed and said, "Look at my dad," to identify their family members. Therefore, some children used family names like mum, dad, brother, or sister. In addition children...
Planting Sunflower!
We enjoyed learning about how plants grow and what they need. After this, we planted our own sunflowers to take home and look after
Year 5 - IntoUniversity: Astronomy
What is it like to study at university? What kinds of classes do they have? We explored the types of lessons university students might have by learning about astronomy. We took part in a variety of activities and worked with a team!
Year 3 Toucan - What I Want to Be When I Grow Up
Toucan class absolutely dazzled everyone with their assembly on 'What I Want to Be When I Grow Up.' They presented it to KS2 and their parents with incredible confidence and flair, earning well-deserved applause!
Year 3 Kingfisher Class Celebrating VE Day
The children in Kingfisher class had an amazing street party as part of our VE Day celebrations
Year 3 Kingfisher - Testing Frictional Force
The children in Kingfisher carried out a fair test to determine which surface will have the most frictional force. They built a ramp and tested different surfaces to test how far their car would roll and see which surface had the most and least frictional force
Rainbow Room - VE Day Celebration
Children had great street party to celebrate VE Day
Year 3 – Kingfisher: The Roman Armour
The children in Kingfisher explored the Roman army today in their History lesson and focused on the equipment and armour used by the Roman soldiers. They used their knowledge to create an information poster all about the different pieces and their uses
Year 2 – Los instrumentos musicales
This half term children in Year 2 are learning about musical instruments -their names in Spanish and English, which families they belong to, what they look like, how they’re played and what they sound like
Rainbow Room - Adventure Playground
We had so much time in the Adventure Playground!
Rainbow Room - Adventure Playground
We have fun at Adventure Playground by participating in fun activities
Skateboard Club
The skateboard club had an amazing time today when they were treated to skate at the Daubeney Fields Bumps, the children absolutely loved the experience and were coached on how to safely skate on a downhill slope. It was amazing to see the young skateboarders and their skills
Rainbow Room- Requesting with Coreboard
Children in the Rainbow Room participated in a requesting and sharing intervention using click-clack cars. They were also supported in their communication with a core board during this activity. In this session, children used pictures on the cardboard to request an object or action from an adult....
Reception - Forest School: May 2025
Receptions first visit to forest school. Exploring the pond and making nature books
Rainbow Room - Learning Prepositions
Activity: Where is the Monkey? In this activity, children listened to an adult reading a story about a monkey while looking at illustrations. They were tasked with finding out where the monkey was hiding by identifying the prepositions and naming the objects that the monkey was hiding behind,...
Year 3 – Kingfisher: Literacy
The children in Kingfisher were super excited today. They continued their learning around journals. They did something amazing today and created a whole class journal making sure all the features were included
Year 3 Kingfisher - Sharing Assembly
The children in Kingfisher were excited to share their learning in front of a live audience. They put on quite a show, sharing all the amazing learning they did last term
Year 4 Maths - Fractions and Decimals
"Today we had so much fun enjoying our learning. We now understand how to work with hundredths as fractions and decimals. Some parts were challenging but we love challenges in Hornbills class."
Rainbow Room: The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Matching Game and Life Cycle)
Children were learning about the caterpillar's life cycle by matching pictures in the correct order. They also played a memory game by naming pictures from a story and placing them on a matching game board
Rainbow Room - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Children listen to an adult read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," where they learn the days of the week and the fruits the caterpillar eats. They match the fruits with the corresponding days and arrange them on a caterpillar model
Rainbow Room - Playdough Caterpillars
The children were remembering the numbers on the caterpillar cards and used green playdough to position it on the caterpillar to represent numbers when counting from 1 to 10 by counting both forwards and backwards
Rainbow Room - Insects Hunt
Children enthusiastically engaged in play with the insects found in the sand, eagerly observing and identifying various species. Their excitement peaked as they played with butterflies, spiders or bugs. We took the opportunity to discuss the distinctive characteristics of these insects such as...
Parrot class - VE Day celebration!
Parrot class had a lovely time celebrating VE day. We made flags and hats to celebrate and even had lunch outside
Year 3 Kingfisher - Science Investigation
The children in Kingfisher class had an interesting lesson investigating magnetic and non-magnetic objects. The children used magnets to explore objects around the class and test to see whether they were magnetic or non-magnetic
Year 2 - Great Fire of London WOW Day
To finish our learning about the Great Fire of London, we spent the morning making our own Tudor Houses. We thought about the designs we wanted to make with timber beams and worked collaboratively with a group. In the afternoon we watched as all the houses burned down just like in 1666!
Year 5 - 3D Shapes - May 2025
We recapped the 3D shapes and their properties then drew our own 3D shapes on isometric paper
Year 2 - Computing: June 2025
We have been learning about making music on Purple Mash as part of our computing learning
Year 2 - Australia: June 2025
Year 2 have been identifying similarities and differences between Australia and Great Britain, such as both being an island, having a head of state and being part of a democracy
Year 2 - Australia WOW Day
We had lots of fun making our own boarding passes and passports this lesson before boarding our plane to Australia. We then had some delicious fairy bread!
Football Boot Competition Winners 2025
We have our winners of our Football Boot Competition! We had over 100 entries for the boot competition and it was very hard to decide the winners
Team Point Winners!
In Daubeney Primary School, students are awarded points for working as a team, meeting the Golden Expectations and always aspiring to achieve their best. This year, YELLOW TEAM amassed the most points. On Wednesday 25th June 2025, Reception and KS1 Yellow team will be spending the day at Adventure...
Year 5 - Reading at Daubeney Fields
During SATS week, we enjoyed the outdoors by reading our whole class reading book at Daubeney Fields!
Year 5 - Maths: Regular and Irregular Polygons
We learnt about regular and irregular polygons by creating flash cards and testing ourselves with them! We even played games with them with our partners
Year 5 - History: Experiences of the Windrush
We learnt about what life was like in the Caribbean then discussed the journey. Finally, some of their experiences when people of the Windrush generation arrived in the UK. We freeze framed our interpretations and discussed their thoughts and feelings
Year 5 - Hackney School of Food - May 2025
We visited Hackney School of Food and made Jerk Chicken, Rice and Peas!
Year 5 - ELWP Circular Economy Workshop
East London Waterworks Park came to visit us and teach us about the benefits of circular economy. We created our own circular economy designs for the park, which may be turned to life!
Whole School Art Exhibition - May 2025
On Monday and Tuesday, we held our Whole School Art Exhibition where we celebrated the art of all the children at Daubeney. Each year group were given an artist as inspiration and were asked to create a self-portrait based on this artist. The results were amazing! If you would like to purchase your...
Reception - Hackney School of Food - May 2025
On Tuesday, Cygnet Class enjoyed their first trip to Hackney School of Food. We made our own dough, chopped our own toppings and watched our pizzas bake! We had so much fun learning different kneading and cutting techniques
Maths Team Trip to Museum of Brands
We enjoyed a lovely day out to the Museum of Brands in West London, where we learnt about market research and unique selling points. We then designed and priced our own chocolate bars!
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Exploring the Zones of Regulations
Kingfisher had an interesting workshop today learning and exploring the Zones of Regulations. Their workshop was lead by a doctor in this field and they completed their own booklet demonstrating their knowledge and understanding surrounding the Zones of Regulations
Spanish - Eurovision Inspired Language Learning!
Today, in our Spanish lessons we have used the excitement of Eurovision as a fun and engaging context for language learning. Students practiced using numbers in context, casting their own votes and expressed opinions about some of the performances. They enjoyed listening to songs in a range of...
Rainbow Room - Preposition Learning
Children were learning about prepositions by completing matching activities and sticking tasks with the support of an adult. They also participated in a game called "Find the Ball," which encouraged them to identify and name the prepositions related to a hidden ball in a picture. During...
Year 1 - Family phonics workshop 2024/25
Thank you to all the parents that attended the Family Phonics Workshop this year. We hope that this has been useful and that you are feeling confident in supporting your child with reading and phonics now. Here are a few photos to highlight what we have been doing
Year 3 Kingfisher - RE Day 2025
The children in Kingfisher had an exciting Religious Education Day learning all about signs, symbols and their meanings. They created their own special sign and symbol to represent their family. Then they learnt all about Christian symbols, Buddhist symbols and the importance of the signs. In the...
Parent Art Workshop - REC/KS1
On Wednesday, we hosted an Art Parent Workshop for our Reception and KS1 cohorts. The children and their carers enjoyed taking part in a range of different art activities including bracelet making, collaging, painting, air dry clay and making paper plate fish! We look forward for our next workshop!
Daubeney Art Exhibition!
On Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th May, we are holding a whole school art exhibition, and you're invited!! It is taking place in the KS1 hall at 3.45! Come along to see your child's artwork, have a few snacks and take part in a few activities
Year 3 – Toucan: Magnetic and non-magnetic materials!
Year 3 Toucan class have been exploring magnetic and non-magnetic materials. They went outside the classroom to make predictions about which items they thought would be magnetic, then tested their ideas and recorded the results
Reception – Ducklings: Trip to Hackney School of Food!
Ducklings class enjoyed our trip to Hackney School of Food. We made dough, and cut the toppings to make little pizzas! We then sat in the sunny garden and eat them. What a nice morning!
Year 2 - Spanish: Lectura rítmica. Iniciación a la lectura musical
At Daubeney we incorporate musical reading into our Spanish lessons as it is a very effective strategy that helps long term memory retention, fits a wide range of learning styles, improves students’ pronunciation and intonation, and it is fun!
Year 2 trip to the Science Museum
We had so much fun on a trip to the Science Museum recently. We explored a range of aeroplanes and thought about how they had changed over the years. We discussed the materials they were/are made from and looked at miniature versions that were used in the design process. We then had a great time...
Kingfisher - in the Library
Kingfisher class had a fantastic time today reading in our new library
Year 5 - Science: Soluble or Insoluble
Do you know what soluble or insoluble means? Today, the children in year five learnt the meaning of these two words. We learnt about what it means for a substance to dissolve and we even did an experiment to test out what we know
Kingfisher - ICT in literacy
The children in Kingfisher class researched information about the Stone Age. They collected facts and made notes in their books. They will use the notes to help them write full factual sentences
Year 3 - Literacy: Autumn 2 2024
The children in Year 3 had the opportunity to read a selection of non-chronological reports and critiqued them based on the key features of a non chronological report
Year 3 - Literacy: Stone Age
The children in Year 3 enjoyed their Literacy lesson today reading a story about the Stone Age. They looked at different shelters in the Stone Age period and made their own simple shelters
Year 2 Maths - Subtract across 10
This week we have been learning new skills in Maths to help us with our arithmetic. We focused on subtracting across 10 today, identifying how many counters we need to take away to get down to 10, and then working out how many we still needed to subtract, using our number bonds to help us
Year 2 Maths - Addition across 10
This week we have been learning about adding across a multiple of 10. We have been using our number bonds to help us and thinking carefully about the steps we need to take. Ask us how we would work out number sentences such as 35+8!
Year 2 Literacy - Man on the Moon immersion
This week we introduced our new Literacy topic of non-chronological reports. We are going to be focusing on the topic of astronauts and space, and so are using the book 'Man on the Moon, a day in the life of Bob' as our long burst text. We retold the story as a whole class using our...
Year 2 - Geography WOW Day: Climate
For the end of our Geography topic, we had lots of fun making a climate scene. We chose either a polar or a tropical climate and thought carefully about which animals and plants you would find there. We worked collaboratively to make beautiful dioramas and could explain where our climate could be...
Year 2 - Farm trip 2024
We had lots of fun visiting Hackney City Farm recently. We explored and identified all the animals we could find living in a farm habitat and discussed what they each needed. We loved seeing and stroking all of the animals, especially the goats and the little piglets!
Sewing and knitting Club
Today Mr Matvad joined the club and had a knitting lesson. The children enjoyed their club making a range of different items
Reception - Library Trip
24/10/24 Reception visited Homerton Library. We really enjoyed looking at all of the books and we are excited to use our new library cards. We also enjoyed listening to a story read by the librarian
Reception - Halloween Week
This week, we really enjoyed focusing on 'Batfink' for Drawing Club. We have been enjoying a lot of Halloween activities this week and we are looking forward to dressing up day on Friday!
Year 5 - RE: Autumn 1 2024
What impact do beliefs have on actions? This is of big question of the year. This half term, we focused on “What inner forces affect how we think and behave?” We explored these topics and stories: temptation, Adam and Eve, Jonah and the Whale, and forces of good in the world
Year 5 - Literacy: Himalayas Research
Do you know where the Himalayas are? We will be creating adverts for the Himalayas so to get us ready, we spent the lesson researching the Himalayas. We wrote down lots of facts so that we can use them to persuade our audience
Year 5 - Geography: WOW Day
Do you know how you would prepare to climb Mount Kilimanjaro? We finished our Mountains topic by celebrating our learning. First, we answered the overarching question, then we made a to do list for people planning to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Finally, we designed and created our own backpacks and...
Year 4 - Autumn Wow Day
Year 4 had a fantastic Wow Day focusing on our geography topic Japan and Earthquakes! We used our arts and crafts skills to create our own Japanese cities using recycled materials. We then destroyed them to show how they would look in the aftermath of an earthquake
Year 3 - WOW Day: Amazon Rainforest
The children in Year 3 had a fantastic WOW day making their very own Amazon Rainforest
Creative Hub - Autumn Displays 2024
The children all through Daubeney have been getting very creative this half-term to show off what they have been learning. Displays in school are a great way for the children to show what they have been working on this half-term, in a fun and creative way. It is a great 'snapshot' of our...
Celebration of ‘Día de Muertos’
Day of the Dead is a holiday for celebrating death and life. Pupils across school explored this fiesta through a range of texts, videos – including a short movie, games and discussions
International School Partnership
A very exciting partnership project has just started between Daubeney and C.E.I.P. Cesar Manrique in Tenerife, Spain. We have had the chance to visit their facilities, meet up with staff and children, and we are looking forward to exchange Christmas cards very soon!
Year 3 - Kingfisher Hackney School of Food: November 2024
The children in Kingfisher had a wonderful session today baking their own bread and cooking their own soup in the Hackney School Of Food kitchen
Year 1 - Parrot Class visit St Barnabas Church
We went to visit the church as part of the RE curriculum. We had a look at all the key features of a church and discussed why people visit the church and the kind of ceremonies and events that takes place. Have a look to see what fun we had!
Year 2 - Features of reports
We have been learning all about non-chronological reports lately in Literacy. We looked at an example and were able to identify key features, such as headings, subject specific language, third person and fact boxes
Celebrating Black History Month Through Music
This year at Daubeney, we are thrilled to share a special video highlighting our Black History Month music lessons. With a focus on promoting diversity in the world of classical music, we’ve partnered with the renowned London Symphony Orchestra to bring this vision to life. In the video,...
A Musical Collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra
We were delighted to welcome musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra for an inspiring visit. During their time with us, our Year 6 students worked together to create a unique piece of music inspired by Mars from Gustav Holst’s The Planets. This visit is part of our ongoing partnership...
Year 5 – Spanish: La música y los instrumentos musicales
Children in Year 5 are currently exploring a range of different music related vocabulary, music genres, a range of musical instruments and high frequency words that will allow them to use their musical skills and relate them to language learning
Year 5 - History: Democracy
Do you know the origins of democracy? We learnt about this in the lesson and we even role played Dikasteria. We held a court that had a jury who helped to decide the fate of the accused
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Spanish
The children had a fun Spanish lesson today learning Spanish through interactive games
Year 5 - We love our new library!
We love our new library and we love spending time exploring the books in here!
Year 5 - Science: Separating mixtures
In this lesson, we learnt about 4 different processes of separating mixtures: evaporating, decanting, filtering and sieving. We made our predictions on the evaporation experiment then conducted a carousel activity of the other 3 processes
Year 5 - History: Hierarchy in Ancient Greece
Do you know what the four levels of society there are? We learnt about that this lesson by discussing with our groups and creating a information poster for it
Year 3 - Kingfisher researches The Stone Age
The children in Kingfisher used their Chromebooks and their ICT skills to research facts about the Stone Age. They included their facts in their non- chronological report that were writing in our Literacy lesson
Year 1 - Parrot Class: The Three Little Pigs
This week we have been reading the story 'The Three Little Pigs'. We've been creating our own story puppets and acting out the story. We've also been describing the characters in the story using adjectives. What words can you use to describe the big bad wolf?
Year 1 - Parrot Class: Daubeney Olympics
We've been busy learning about the Olympics as an historical event that happened in the past, in London!!! We made our own Olympic gold medals and had a mini Olympics in school
Kingfisher - Explores Using the Inverse Operation
The children in Kingfisher used the inverse operation today to check their calculations
Kingfisher - Making Stone Age Tools
Today in our History lesson the children in Kingfisher made their own Stone Age tools
Junior Literacy Team 2024-2025
Meet the new members of the Daubeney Junior Literacy Team! They are very eager to share their passion for reading and writing with everyone at Daubeney. The team will be supporting Ms Lester in promoting Literacy across the school through assemblies and events. They will also be in charge of...
Daubeney Library
Look at our amazing brand new library! We are so excited to have our own library at Daubeney. Each class had the opportunity to go and explore the wide range of books. From fiction and poetry to non-fiction topics such as science, history, geography and RE, there is something for everyone. What did...
Year 3 - Kingfisher studies Rocks
The children in Kingfisher class today identified the properties of different rocks. They were able to identify the properties and explain various vocabulary they used
Reception - Odd Sock Day
On Friday 15th November, it was Odd Sock Day in celebration of Anti-Bullying Week
Reception - Let's get started Autumn 2!
We have had a great start to Autumn 2 in Reception! We have been learning about 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in Numeracy. We visited the new Daubeney Library, and we loved it! We have been taking part in great learning and having lots of fun at the same time as you can see!
Portuguese Spotlight Prize Winners
Last June, Maielly and Sueni were entered into a Portuguese Spotlight competition organised by Stephen Spender Trust. They translated a poem from Portuguese into English together, and individually created a visual representation of the poem. At Daubeney, we are delighted to announce that they are...
Year 3 - Religious Day
The children enjoyed their day learning all about stories from Christianity and Buddhism and how these stories make us stop and reflect
Year 3 - Horniman Museum
The children in Year 3 had. Wonderful time exploring the Amazonian galleries in the Horniman museum as part of their learning
Year 2 - Week 2 Computing: Online Safety
For this topic we have been learning all about keeping ourselves safe when we are using online devices such as computers, tablets and phones. We discussed how to search and filter information, alongside exploring how Purple Mash is a safe site to search on. We learnt about emails, and how we can...
Reception - Our Family and more!
This week, we have been talking about our families and how they might be different to our friends. We also have been having lots of fun taking part in Drawing Club and making most of the sun outside!
Reception - Week 4
This week, we have been reading 'The Three Little Pigs'. We have been creating our own pig noses and investigating different materials that we could use to build a sturdy house
Reception - Colour Sorting
This week in Maths, we have been colour sorting! We have explored different objects which are different colours and used our fine motor skills to sort them!
Year 3 - Kingfisher Literacy 2024
The children today have a fun lesson in Literacy where they designed their own front cover for the book they are reading - The Great Kapok Tree
Year 5 - Trip to Bank of England Museum
Today we spent our morning at the museum! We learnt lots of money related facts and we even got to see some real money! This helped see our recent maths learning of place value and rounding in action!
Year 3 - Brazil travel leaflet
The children were excited today to create a travel leaflet all about Brazil. In their CC lessons they have been learning all about Brazil and the rainforest
Year 6: Urwisck Transition Session. Phonics
Children in Year 6 hosted a small group of ex-Daubeney students from Urswick Academy this morning. Year 11 students have shared the importance of learning phonics through a series of activities and games in a lesson they delivered. This transition session has also given our children at Daubeney the...
Drama club - Autumn 2024
Mr Matvad was invited to be a special guest today 23-9-2024 in the after school drama club. The children today discussed what makes a good story teller and what key skills they needed to become interesting storytellers. The club had a wonderful time telling stories and acting out different scenes....
Year 5 and Year 6 - First Two Spanish Lessons
Busy first couple of Spanish lessons for children at Daubeney! Yr5 and Yr6 explored different memory techniques for retaining information, while learning new words, and explored the mile-long list of cognates that English and Spanish share. And you, could you work out the meaning on any of the...
Reception - Self Portraits
We have been learning about ourselves and what we look like. We used photos and mirrors to paint self-portraits. We discussed our features and how they might be different to our friends
Reception - Hop Garden
Today, we ventured over to our Hop Garden. We used our magnifying glasses to look at all of the fruit and vegetables that has been growing. We also went on a mini-beast hunt and visited the pond to see if we could see any wildlife
Year 6 - Mapping Day 2024
Year 6 started off their geography learning this year with Mapping Day. They used compass points to create sentences about their playground, created different routes using a local map of the area and finally drew their own maps of Homerton. We had a lot of fun looking at all of the roads and places...
Year 5 - Our second week in Year 5
This week was full of exciting activities, from Mapping Skills Day to a practical maths lesson. We even created posters and researched the author of our new whole class reader, Michael Morpurgo. Have a look at our fun week!
Reception - Our First Week
We have loved our first week in Reception at Daubeney! This week, we have been exploring our new classrooms! We have been reading in our garden themed reading are, making Play-Doh faces, playing in our home and our doctors' surgery, as well as exploring our maths and writing areas. We have been...
Year 3 - Mapping Day
The children in year 3 enjoyed their mapping day where they learnt all about co-ordinates, using a compass for directions, map symbols and they ended their sessions by drawing their own map of our local area
Year 2 - Science in the Hop Garden
We have been learning about habitats all around the world recently, so we decided to take a look in our own garden to see what lives and grows there. We were able to identify a range of plants in our garden habitat, such as clover, ivy, lily pads, carrots and much more! We also saw some common...
Year 5 - Reading for Pleasure
We love reading in Year 5! We enjoy building positive habits of reading and we always look forward to when we get to do this in and out of school!
Year 5 - Maths: Subtraction
We practiced subtraction today in maths and even completed some word problems! Look at our amazing work!!
Year 5 - Maths: Rounding
In this lesson, we recapped rounding and discussed the steps to do it. We then put our knowledge into a real life situation by rounding the average salaries of jobs that we might be interested in
Year 5 - Maths: Place Value
We have been learning about numbers up to 1 MILLION! In this lesson, we imagined that we were teaching Mr O’Flynn how to find a number on a number line
Year 5 - Maths: Comparing calculations
We are pretty confident at using greater than, less than and equal to signs but how do we use them when we aren’t comparing numbers but whole calculations? This was the focus of this lesson!
Year 5 - Literacy: Punctuation Posters
Do you know what the different punctuation marks mean? We spent the lesson recapping them and creating posters that will go up on our display board to help us with our learning
Year 5 - Literacy: Adverts
Today, we started our new topic on adverts. We started the lesson off by watching some ads and discussing the purpose of those adverts. We then learnt about the features of written ads so that we are equipped to make our own next week!
Year 5 - Geography: Physical Landmarks of Tanzania
From lakes to mountains, Tanzania has a wide variety of physical landmarks. We learnt what these were and how they are different to Human or Man Made landmarks. We then created a leaflet about the different landmarks you can find in Tanzania
Year 5 - Geography: Jane Goodall
Do you know who Jane Goodall is? We learnt that she is a zoologist who dedicated her life to learning about chimpanzees in Tanzania. We learnt lots of things about her and we put our new-found knowledge into practice by creating a comic of the key events of her life!
Year 5 - Geography: Human Geography
We learnt that human geography means things to do with people. We spent the lesson researching what the economy, trade, culture and food is like in Tanzania! We then created a presentation to show what we have learnt
Year 2 - World of the Story
As part of our immersion into the story of The Magic Bojabi Tree, we investigated the setting of the book. We thought about where the mountains were located in relation to the trees, and identified where lion's rock would be, given that it was a long journey from the bojabi tree. We mapped it...
Year 2 - Maths Partitioning
For this maths lesson, we took our learning outside. We worked in partners to partition a number into its tens and ones. We then wrote out number sentences down on our whiteboards and thought about other ways we could partition the number
Year 2 - Maths Number Lines
We practised ordering numbers by creating a human number line. Each child had to find their place on the number line and think about what number comes before and after them
Year 2 - Mapping Skills Day
We had lots of fun learning about how to use maps today. We explored directions and practised giving a partner directions around the room. We then discussed bird's eye view maps and used one of our school to navigate our way around the school grounds. We finished by creating a map of the UK,...
Year 2 - Jigsaw Week 3
In week 3 we explored our rights and responsibilities as children. We discussed our right to learn, our right to play and our right to be safe. We also discussed responsibilities we may have in the classroom or at home, such as tidying up and being in control of our own behaviour. We thought about...
Year 2 - Geography: Hot or Cold?
We learnt about the position of the equator in this lesson, identifying that it is an imaginary line in the middle of the earth. We also located the north and south poles on the globe. We discussed the earths position in relation to the sun and explored how countries along the equator are closer to...
Year 2 - Continents and Oceans
We learnt all about the 7 continents and 5 oceans recently. We used an atlas to help us locate places and identify countries in each continent as well as the oceans that are nearby
Year 2 - Computing Week 6
For this lesson we focused on the work of William Morris and explored repeated patterns. We identified that lots of pattern work contains flowers and leaves, and we thought about what pattern we could make. We used 2paint a picture to create our repeated patterns, and experimented with size,...
Year 2 - Computing Week 5
For this week's computing lesson we looked at the artwork of Piet Mondrian. We thought about how he used lines and blocks of colour to create his pieces and then we created our own!
Year 2 - Compare Numbers
We worked with a partner to compare numbers using the greater than and less than symbols. We were able to identify the number, represent it using dienes and then select the correct symbol to compare them
Year 2 - Character Puppets
We made our own character puppets to help us explore character feelings and emotions, with characters from The Magic Bojabi Tree. We thought about how each character was perceived by the other animals versus how they actually might feel and want to be seen
Reception - Week 6
This week we have been so busy! We have been learning about measurement in Maths. We have been comparing objects to see which is taller, shorter and longer. We have also enjoyed Drawing Club this week, focused on the Colour Monster. We drew our own colour monster, traps and maps! Last but not...
Year 3 - Geography - The Amazon Rainforest
The children in Year 3 had a fun lesson today where they visited the Amazon Rainforest and shared what they saw, heard, tasted and how they felt living in the rainforest as part of a tribe. Then they went to a clearing where they saw the effects of deforestation and shared their feelings. Our next...
Year 3 - Geography
The children in Kingfisher gave great speeches to the president of Brazil urging him to solve the problem around deforestation
Reception - Week 5
This week in Reception, we have been taking part in 'Drawing Club' based on the animation 'Trapdoor'. We have been creating our own monsters through art and creativity. We have also been learning about patterns. We have been learning how to continue 2 and 3 way patterns, as well as creating our...
Year 2 - Parakeet School of Food trip
We had so much fun going to the Hackney School of Food. We learnt all about cooking in a big kitchen and followed recipes to make delicious food, thinking about the skills we need to use to make them. First we made pumpkin scruffins, followed by a fancy fruit salad. They were both scrumptious!
Year 5 - Literacy: Greek Drama
In today’s literacy lesson, we did some drama activities to help us come up with brilliant ideas for our comics that we will create next week. We are becoming superb drama practitioners!
Year 2 - Numbers Day - Spring 2025
Year 2 had lots of fun dressing up for numbers day! So many children were very creative with their outfits! We had a great time playing lots of maths games today
Year 3 - Trip to Stepney Farm
Today, Year 3 visited Stepney Farm, where they observed various animals and identified which ones are vertebrates and which are invertebrates, linking to their science topic for this term. They also discussed what these animals might eat if they lived in the wild
Rainbow Room: Picture Sequences Activity
Children have been practicing understanding picture sequences through exercises with three-part images. This activity helps them interpret the flow of events, grasp cause and effect, and recognize the order of actions. By observing the arrangement, they develop skills in logical thinking and...
Year 5 DT: Moving Dragons
In this lesson, we learnt about levers and what input and outputs are. We created our own moving dragons using card and split pins!
Rainbow Room: Display Boards
The children in the Rainbow Room were involved in a range of fun and engaging activities, which were highlighted in our recent displays. In particular, we focused on the Chinese New Year Celebrations and Growth Mindset Learning
Year 4 - Science - Experimenting with electrical circuits
Year 4 had fun experimenting with electrical circuits in science. We were able to make the bulb light up using foil instead of wires. This is because foil is made of metal which is an insulator
Year 3 Kingfisher - Science - Spring 2025
The children in Kingfisher discussed the terms vertebrates and invertebrates. Their activities allowed them to identify which animals belong to vertebrates and invertebrates. The children also did some research using their Chromebooks to find facts about the topic they are learning
Rainbow Room - Click Clack Cars with Coreboard
As part of Speech & Language Intervention, the children explored playing with Click Clack Cars by letting them roll down the platform. They were introduced to key vocabulary related to the activity, such as "Stop," "Next," "Go," and "I want a car."
Rainbow Room - Attention Bucket with Maths
As part of the Attention Bucket, the children had the opportunity to engage in a creative activity where they used 2D shapes to design and create their own shape stamps. Children worked together to figure out how to combine and position different shapes so this helped them practice spatial...
Year 5 - Literacy: Scene descriptions
To immerse ourselves more into the book Midnight Fair, we spent the lesson discussing our thoughts and ideas on different scenes from the book and recording them in our groups
Year 5 - Literacy: Midnight Fair Power of Play
During this power of play lesson, we imagined what it would be like to be at the fair. What did the fair look like? How could we describe the world of the book. After, we created a story map of the story from our discussions
Year 5 - Energy Sparks Workshop
Is our school energy efficient? This is what the Year 5s learn about during their workshop run by Energy Sparks
Year 3 - Stepney City Farm
The children in Year 3 were super excited to visit Stepney City Farm. They fed some of the animals and had a chance to see a variety of different animals. The children discussed habitats, food for the animals, nutrients, vertebrates and invertebrates, the skeleton of animals and their habitats now...
Year 5 - DT: Gears - Spring 2025
We made gears! We used corrugated card, cardboard and pins to create this. We learnt that one wheel moves the other in the opposite direction
Year 3 Kingfisher - Literacy - Spring 2025
The children in Kingfisher class enjoyed their Literacy lesson today making a treasure map as their character Nelly made in the book they are reading
Rainbow Room: Shapes Learning
Today, the children learned about 2D shapes by drawing them on the whiteboard, which helped develop their fine motor skills and ability to form shapes through drawing. Afterward, they played a shape-matching game, naming familiar shapes like circles, triangles, and squares
Excellence in Music Award 2025
The Daubeney Music Department and our star pupil, Noah, have just received a prestigious award from the Mayor of Hackney, Caroline Woodley. On Tuesday night, Mr. Logan, Mr. Brian, and Noah attended a ceremony at the Hackney Empire to accept our certificate and a bursary worth £2,700. So, how did we...
Year 5 - Science: Friction - Spring 2025
To learn about friction, we carried out an experiment where we tested the distance that toy cars went on different surfaces
Year 5 - Maths: Multiplying 2 - digit numbers
To begin our topic of multiplication and division, we learnt about multiplying 2-digit numbers. As this was completely new to us, we worked in partners and practiced the method on large grid paper
Year 3 - Kingfisher Literacy - Spring 2025
The children in Kingfisher had an exciting Literacy lesson making a ship that Nelly used to sail the open seas. They have been reading Nelly and the Quest for Captain Peabody and was inspired by the ship Nelly made
Rainbow Room - PE Session
Today, as part of the PE session (Sensory Circuits), the children had the opportunity to engage in an enriching activity where they practiced walking along the bench. They were encouraged to make their own decisions about the direction they wanted to take, fostering independence and enhancing their...
Year 3 Kingfisher - Open and closed questions
The children in Kingfisher explored open and closed questions using the text they are reading in class
Year 3 - Playtime - Using climbing frame
During playtime, Benjamin displayed great confidence as he climbed up and down the climbing frame by demonstrating his independence and growing physical abilities
Year 3 - Kingfisher-Measurement
The children in Kingfisher class had a fun math lesson measuring their friends and objects around the classroom
Reception & Year 4 - Hockey and PE
KS1 work on they throwing and catching with the bean bags, While the year 4 was able to complete a games base in hockey. Both year groups done amazing and improve so much though the past couple of weeks
Rainbow Room - PE: Throwing & Catching Ball
As part of the PE session, children were participating in activities to develop their throwing and catching skills using a ball
Year 4 - Phonics Activity
Today, Anas and Mete practiced phonics with puzzles. They examined each puzzle to determine what it represented and identified the starting sound by matching it with laminated sound letters. Both of them also practiced saying the sounds of the letters from the puzzles as part of their phonetics...
Year 6 - Day 2 of Into Uni: Eagles Class
Today we had another brilliant day, we created portraits using watercolours and collage. We explored how the time you have to create an image changes the detail and content - what you think is important enough to include. We also continued to learn all about our three famous individuals - Jean-...
Year 2 - Money
To finish our money topic, we explored finding amounts of change. We worked with a partner to pretend to buy classroom items. The shopkeeper told the buyer how much it would cost, the buyer used appropriate coins to pay for it, and then the shopkeeper had to work out how much to give back
Year 4 - RE Day
During RE day, Hornbill class learnt about the life of Saint Francis. We were inspired by his poem 'Canticle of the Sun' and worked collaborative to write our own class poem 'The World, My World'. Listen to us perform our poem
Year 4 - Numbers Day
Hornbill Class enjoyed doing a variety of maths activities to celebrate Numbers Day. We got creative with our number-inspired outfits and had fun playing 'Who Wants to be a Mathionaire'
Year 4 - Number Day (Part 1)
Today, Mete and Anas had a fantastic time participating in a fun and engaging learning activity that was all about numbers. The activity was designed around Valentine's Day, using heart-themed cards to make it even more exciting! They explored different quantities of hearts on each card, and their...
Year 4 - Hornbills - Working with circuits and electricity.
They wanted to investigate whether a piece of foil can replace the wires in a circuit
Year 2 - World of the Story
We explored the world of the story of ‘The Midnight Fair’ by imagining the setting. We used masking tape to mark out the different areas of the fair, thinking about where rides, food stalls, and games would be relative to each other
Year 2 - The Midnight Fair Characters
Today we took on the role of one of the characters in ‘The Midnight Fair’. We thought about the way they would stand, the way they would move and the way they would talk. We imagined something they would say and then stood in a circle facing outwards to deliver the line with emotion and...
Year 2 - The Midnight Fair
This lesson, we used watercolours to paint a scene from the story. We used bursts of colour to show how the lights of the fair twinkled in the night time and thought about the places we would see if we were there
Year 2 - Science Recycling
This week we discussed recycling items from around the classroom and at home. We identified various recycling bins that we may have for different materials such as paper, metal, glass and fabric. We learnt about the recycling process and why this is a better option than throwing things away in the...
Year 2 - Science Hop Garden
We went to visit our very own garden this week for Science to take part in a survey. We made a tally chart to record how many trees, plants and animals we could see and then discussed how this is useful to know. We also discussed what we can do to look after our environment
Year 2 - Role on the wall
We started a new book this week called ‘How to Live Forever’. We began by exploring the characters of the story and identifying adjectives to describe how they are seen by others on the outside and how they feel or want to be seen on the inside
Year 2 - Role on the wall
To continue our Book Fortnight, we explored the characters in more detail. We used role on the wall to discuss and write down a variety of adjectives for how the characters are seen by others on the outside, and how the characters actually feel or want to be seen on the inside
Year 2 - Making Equal Groups
To start our multiplication topic, this week we focussed on making equal groups. We used cubes to make towers representing various sentences such as 3 groups of 4. We talked about how groups we would need and how many cubes there would be inside each group. We could then work out the answer to the...
Year 2 - DT Exploring Wheels
To begin our Design and Technology topic, we brought in lots of vehicles and explored their features. We learnt about wheels, and how they are attached to an axle. We identified loose axles and fixed axles, discussing how these are attached to a chassis. We had lots of fun trying our vehicles out...
Year 2 - Making 3D Shapes
We used nets of 3D shapes to create a range of everyday objects such as boxes, bean tins and tents. We thought carefully about how each edge matched up and were then able to identify how many faces, edges and vertices each shape had
Year 2 - Lines of Symmetry
In Maths, we looked again at 2D shapes and thought about where we could identify lines of symmetry. We used mirrors to check if we were right!
Year 2 - Jigsaw
For this week’s Jigsaw lesson, we had a go at learning a new skill. We worked in partners to spend time learning how to count to 10 in Mandarin or count in twos in French and then presented this to the class. We thought about how learning something new can be difficult, and how it takes...
Year 2 - Identifying Shapes
Year 2 explored a range of 2D and 3D shapes recently, thinking about how many sides, vertices, faces or edges each of them has. We discussed similarities between some shapes and also identified differences
Year 2 - Exploring Money
To start our new maths topic of money, we spent some time identifying coins and notes. We discussed their values and compared their worth. We also began adding some coin values together using our addition skills to help us
Year 2 - Computing in DT
We spent time this week using Purple Mash designing our very own cars. We thought about where we wanted to place the wheels, the shape of the chassis and the colour or pattern of the body. We had lots of fun being creative with our designs!
Year 2 - Computing
To continue our coding topic, we wrote an algorithm for The Princess and The Frog. We made each character move, and used the collision detection again, this time to turn the frog into a prince! We also explored debugging an algorithm that had mistakes
Year 2 - Computing
This half term in Computing we began our coding topic. We used Air Traffic Control on Purple Mash to code a variety of objects to move in different ways. We also identified the collision detection coding block and used this in our code
Year 2 - Changing Materials
In Science, we took part in an experiment about changing the shape of materials. We made a prediction first, as to what material would be the most changeable and which would be the least. We then chose various items and tested to see whether we could squash, stretch, twist or bend it. We recorded...
Year 2 - Book Fortnight
As part of our whole school Book Fortnight, we read the story ‘The Midnight Fair’. We explored various points of the story and used freeze frames to imagine what the characters were doing and what they would be feeling
Rainbow Room - Number Day (Part 3)
The children engaged in an maths activity where they rolled a dice and matched the numbers with corresponding number cards. This helped them recognize numbers and improve their counting skills. They also counted cubes by matching the quantities to number cards as they were exploring quantities in...
Rainbow Room - Number Day (Part 1)
Today, children had a fantastic time participating in a fun and engaging learning activity that was all about numbers. The activity was designed around Valentine's Day, using heart-themed cards to make it even more exciting! They explored different quantities of hearts on each card, and their...
Rainbow Room - Number Day ( Part 2 )
The children in the Rainbow Room enjoyed a fun math activity for Number Day, playing "Follow the Leader" with heart-shaped numbers around the classroom. They listened for numbers called by the adult, finding the matching ones with some support. Some children confidently named the numbers,...
Kingfisher - Design and Technology
The children worked well today to create a moving linkage using a lever. They made flags that moved when a lever was pulled. The children enjoyed their Design and Technology session and are looking forward to their next session
Year 5 - Literacy: Greek Myth Story Maps
What Greek myths do you know? We read some Greek Myths and created story maps of them! Have a look!
Year 5 - Trip to the British Museum
We have been learning loads about Greek Myths (Literacy) and Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses (History) this half term. At the British Museum, there are so many artefacts related to those topics. We spent the day exploring the museum and furthering our learning
Year 6 Winter Concert
The Year 6 cohort were delighted to share their original winter compositions with their families in their last festive concert at Daubeney. We hope you enjoy listening to them
Reception - St Barnabas Church Trip
Have a look at our photos from our RE trip to the local church. We listened and re-enacted the Christian Christmas story
Reception - It's Christmas
Have a look at what we have been doing over this festive period!
Reception - Autumn 2
Have a look at our photos from Autumn 2!
Year 1 - Parrot Class: RE Day - Christmas
During RE day we discussed why Christians celebrate Christmas. We acted out the Christmas story using props and costumes. We also created a lovely advent wreath and discussed what each candle on the wreath represents. Take a look at our lovely work!
Forest School - Animal Dens
Exploring, making animal dens, using natural resources to make christmas cards and decorations
Year 5 - RE: Autumn 2 2024
This half term’s RE day was dedicated to Christmas! We learnt about how Christmas is celebrated around the world as well as the different Christmas stories that are told to Christian children everywhere! We ended the day by making Christingle candles using actual oranges!
Year 3 - Science
The children in year 3 started their topic today around Animals and Humans. They discussed what they knew and shared their facts. We created a mind map of our learning
Year 3 - WOW Day
The children today enjoyed their activities and ended their unit of learning around the Stone Age
Year 5 – Partner school in Spain. Christmas cards
Last week, in our Spanish lessons, pupils from Kiwis and Robins classes created Christmas cards for our partner school in Tenerife, Spain. All pupils have written individual bilingual messages to wish them Feliz Navidad . A small group of children will be visiting the school next year, so they also...
Winter Resources
Winter Resources for Parents and Carers These resources are specially designed by the therapists at Beacon House to support regulation, connection and rest during December. Download them for free here and share with family and friends so everyone can access what they need during this busy holiday...
Year 3 - Religious Education Autumn 2 2024
The children in Year 3 studied the significance of light in different religions. They had many different activities to further develop their understanding of light in religion
Year 5 - History: Gods and Goddesses
In this lesson, we explore the gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece. We already knew the names and powers of some because of the book we are reading called “Who Let the Gods Out”. Some of us were already experts. To show our learning, we designed trading cards for each of our favourite...
Year 3 - Built a Stone Age Village
The children in Year3 had a fantastic Literacy lesson. As part of our Power of Play project the children built a village where they would be living in during the Stone Age. This week they will write a travel guide for visiting the Stone Age
The Nest - Stratford Discovery Centre
The nest visited Stratford discovery centre!
Year 2 visit our new school library
We visited our brand new learning resource centre in school and loved the new space! We explored how the books are organised and enjoyed choosing a book to read with our friends!
Year 2 - Column Addition
This week we have been learning a new method in maths called column addition. This helps us to add together two 2-digit numbers easily
Year 2 - Captain Robert Falcon Scott
This week in History we learnt about the explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. We discovered that he was part of a British team that were trying to be the first people to reach the South Pole. His expedition was called Terra Nova, and they set off in 1910, finally reaching the South Pole in January...
Rainbow Room - Singing Intervention (3 Speckled Frogs)
The children were engaged as the adult sang the familiar song "3 Speckled Frogs." They joined in singing along and followed the song's phrases to count the frogs from 1 to 3. As they sang, the children placed the frogs into a red container with water. Additionally, the children used a...
Rainbow Room - Identiplay Learning (Cars & Instruments)
As part of Identiplay, children had the opportunity to engage in interactive play with adults and peers using a variety of objects. They explored musical instruments by mimicking different sounds, to foster auditory skills and musical creativity. Also, children played with cars by demonstrating...
Rainbow Room - Letters of name
During phonics activities, children in the Rainbow Room eagerly explored the letters in their names, focusing on identifying each letter individually. They practiced matching the letters in the correct order, reinforcing their understanding of sequencing, and actively listened to the sounds each...
Reception - Spring 1 - Week 3
This week, we have been having lots of fun! We have been fossil hunting in our Investigation Area. We have also been using our fine motor skills to create lovely images using hammers and pins. We have also been reading 'Monkey Puzzle' this week and have been doing fantastic writing, as well...
Rainbow Room - Peers Reading: Library
Children have joined their peers from different classes in the school library to take part in the peer reading by looking at illustrations and words from the books to develop new vocabulary from reading
Rainbow Room - Maths: Counting Blocks
Children in the Rainbow Room were engaging in a fun and interactive exploration of numbers. They began by identifying the numerals on the dice, carefully rolling the dice on the floor and saying the saying number name aloud. After each roll, children counted the blocks in various number orders as...
Year 3 - Toucan - Learning about the Human Skeleton
Learning all about the human skeleton and making factual posters about what they have learnt
Year 3 - Multiplication and Division - Spring 2025
The children in Year 3 worked exceptionally well today consolidating their learning and methods to solve multiplication and division problems
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Kahoot - Spring 2025
The children were super excited today as they played Kahoot in class at the end of their IT lesson. The children answered questions based upon their learning from their Spanish sessions. It was fun!
Year 3 - Coding in Kingfisher Class: Spring 2025
The children had a fun lesson today learning about coding. They planned a route and used the BeeBots to follow the code
Rainbow Room - PE Session
As part of the SEN PE sessions, the children engaged in an activity where they practiced walking on a beach by making choices about their directions as well they developed their physical skills such as coordination, balance, and body awareness
Year 3 - Design and Technology
The children in Year 3 Kingfisher enjoyed their Design and Technology lesson where they used their knowledge about linkages and levers to make their own example. The children used card and split pins to make a lever which moved a waving hand around a pivot point. Next week they will create another...
Rainbow Room - Maths
In the Rainbow Room, children engaged in hands-on learning by practicing counting from 1 to 5 and 1 to 10 with colorful domino cards and small counters. As they matched the dots on the dominoes to the correct number of counters, they reinforced their understanding of numbers and sequence....
Rainbow Room
The children in the Rainbow Room engaged in the "Attention Bucket" activity, focusing on looking at objects from the bucket. They showed great attention as Mr. Namo demonstrated each item, and they eagerly shared their objects with familiar adult and peers. This activity helped support...
Year 3 - PE
The children in Year 3 enjoyed their PE lesson playing hockey and learning different skills needed to master the game
Rainbow Room - Chinese New Year
The children in Rainbow Room had a wonderful learning experience making Chinese New Year arts and crafts. They made lanterns, colourful and creative snakes, blossom trees and a selection of traditional social stories were read to them
Year 3 Science - The Human Skeleton: Spring 1 2025
The children in Year 3 studied the human skeleton. They discussed the main parts and the functions of the various bones. They also had an opportunity to make the human skeleton in class
Reception - Week 1: Spring 2025
We have enjoyed our first week back at school! We have been talking about our holidays, practising our numbers and our phonics
Year 3 - Linkages and Levers
The children in Year 3 discussed and identified what a linkage and lever is. They used pictures to help explain the terms and created an information poster to explain what a linkage and lever is
Parrot Class Trip - Hackney School of Food
Parrot class went to the Hackney School of Food and we had so much fun making cheese scones and rainbow slaw. We were very confident using all the kitchen equipment and following step by step instructions. Chef Tom was super impressed with us!!
Year 6 – Spanish: Phonics
Considering the greater emphasis on the explicit teaching and assessment of phonics in Secondary, and with the idea of continue helping children to become successful language learners in the future, at Daubeney we consistently complete a range of different activities that help us consolidate our...
Year 5 - History: WOW Day
To end our Ancient Greek topic, we spent the morning answering the overarching question “What influence did the Ancient Greeks have on our modern day society?” After that, we created our own Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses inspired masks as well as Ancient Olympic like olive wreath
Year 3 - Design and Technology - Spring 2025
The children in Year 3 started their Cross Curricular topic today on Linkages and Levers. They wrote what they knew about the topic and later used their Chromebooks to research information about Linkages and Levers
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