Forest School

Autumn Term – Year 2 Spring Term – Year 1 Summer Term – Reception During Forest School sessions, children are encouraged to work with others to carry out activities such as den/shelter building, role play, exploration, practical and creative skills and tasks. These sessions will be delivered by...

Mental Health

Here at Daubeney, We are very lucky to have a team of people working to support mental health and well-being. This team consists of DHML - Designated Mental Health Lead - Cheryll Gustave CWIS - CAMHS worker in school - Karolina Balciunaite WBF - Wellbeing Framework Partner - Claire Tregear EMHP -...

Physical Education

Intent The Blossom Federation believes that Physical Education (PE), experienced in a safe and supportive environment, is essential to ensure children attain optimum physical and emotional development and good health. We intend to deliver high-quality teaching and learning opportunities that...

Governors

Welcome to the Governing Body section of the website. My name is Will Emms and I am the Chair of Governors of the Blossom Federation of Daubeney, Sebright & Lauriston Schools and Children Centres. Our governors represent our wider school community: elected parent and staff governors, one Local...

Literacy

At Daubeney we are committed to raising standards in Literacy and follow the National Curriculum in order maintain accurate coverage across the year. In order to maximise opportunities to develop literacy skills, we make cross curricular links wherever possible. In Early Years we follow the Early...

Daubeney Village

Daubeney Village is an organisation of parents and staff. Its role is to encourage closer links between home and school and organise fundraising events to provide an opportunity for parents, staff and pupils to get together. How is money raised? Daubeney Village raises money through events. They...

Contact

Daubeney Primary School Daubeney Road Clapton London E5 0EG Telephone: 020 8985 4380 Fax: 020 8525 7639 Email: admin@daubeney.hackney.sch.uk The person who deals with queries from parents and members of the public: Debi Groves Other Key Contacts Executive Head Teacher: Robin Warren Head of School:...

SEND and Our Local Offer

Our SENDCO Welcome to the Blossom Federation SEND offer. From the moment I took over as SENDCO at Daubeney, my dedicated team and I have tried to create a personalised experience for you - and bring back, the element of working together to serve your child. Our inclusive curriculum is supported by...

Daubeney Loves Reading

Reading for Pleasure We have a rich reading culture at Daubeney. We are committed to creating an ethos and an environment that excites, enthuses and inspires children to read for their own enjoyment. We aim to develop a community of readers through high quality reading provision. The children have...

Ambassadors

Their role is to be helpful, polite, friendly, respectful and caring. They are smartly dressed and support the staff in maintaining discipline. They are responsible for promoting our school values and expectations of behavior, meet and greet visitors and escort them around our school and being a...

Year 3 - Kingfisher Roman Dig

The children in Kingfisher had a wonderful lesson today 23 April 2024 as they were archaeologists and had to dig up different Roman artefact. The children had to identify the objects and say who might used them, how it was made and what other purpose the artefacts may serve

Year 2 - Australia Wow Day

This week we've had lots of fun for our Spring 2 WOW Day. We took a virtual trip to Australia, making sure we had our passports and boarding passes ready! Once on the plane we were ready for take off! In the afternoon we made some delicious fairy bread using colourful sprinkles

Year 6 – History: WOW Day

We started off WOW Day by recapping all of our learning from this half term. We thought about how each lesson’s learning contributed to our understanding of just how devastating World War II was. We learnt about the impacts it had on Britain and wrote our responses to the overarching...

Year 5 - RE Day: Sikhism

Did you know that Sikhism started from a person called Guru Nanak who wanted to make a better religion that treats everyone fairly? We learnt this and lots more today. Have a look at our learning!

Year 3 Royal Airforce Museum

...today 31-01-2024 at the Royal Airforce Museum learning about levers, pulleys and gears....

Nursery visit Daubeney Bus

During polling day Nursewry visited the Daubeney Bus. They all explored the driving seat and the wonderful space upstairs and downstairs

Daubeney Book Corners

The Junior Literacy Team visited all the classes from Nursery to Year 6 to check out everyone's book corners and judge them for the competition. We saw very creative and colourful corners with themes such as space, oceans, jungles and even hot air balloons! We want to show off our book corners so...

Year 3 - Maths September 2023

The children in Year 3 Kingfisher and Toucan Class had an exciting Maths lesson today. The children worked in groups and pairs and had a peer tutor to guide them

Daubeney Primary School Nurture - Fairy Cakes

Baking fairy cakes for Nurture Graduation

Spring Book Fair 2023

Our Spring Book Fair was another great success! Lots of children came to buy some fantastic books to share with their families at home. Altogether you spent an amazing £1002.88 which equals £601.73 in rewards for us to spend on some great new books for the school. What books would like to see at...

Year 3 - Scientific Investigation

The children in Kingfisher class carried out a fair test in their Science lesson. They tested different surfaces to identify the one with the most and least friction, measuring the distance their car travelled

Science Exposé

During our science exposé workshop, Daubeney parents came in to share with us their fascinating careers, working in a science related (STEAM) sector. Children from different year groups enjoyed learning about and exploring careers from different fields. In the end, we all learnt that Science is in...

Year 5: Science - Air Resistance

Today for science, Year 5 tested air resistance by making parachutes and then allowing them to free-fall. They observed the parachute as it fell towards the ground. This was followed by, partner talk on why the parachute slowed down

Autumn Book Fair 2022

We had another fantastic Book Fair at Daubeney last week. It was great to see so many children excited about books. Altogether you spent an amazing £959.26 which equals £479.63 in rewards for us to spend on some great new books for the school. What book did you buy? Would you recommend it? Comment...

Year 5 - Science: Soluble or Insoluble?

Do you know what soluble and insoluble means? We learnt about what they are today. We used our new learning to carry out a fair test to see what substances are soluble and what substances are insoluble. We used salt, sugar, flour, hot chocolate powder and black pepper. Which ones do you think are...

Year 4 WoW Day - Ancient Egyptians

Today, 15-12-2022, the children in Year 4 enjoyed their activities around Ancient Egypt. Our first lesson was answering the Big Question, 'Were Pharaohs Fair'. Then we made our own Cartouches and build a sarcophagus, pyramid and a mummy

Year 5 - Factors and Multiples

Year 5's learnt about factors and multiples through fun activities which took place in the playground. They used dices to generate random numbers which were then investigated for factor pairs

Children's Centre - Summer Fair / Health Event - 4th August 2022

Year 5 - Science: Water Resistance

This week, we have been learning about water resistance. We learnt that water resistance is similar to air resistance but we can lessen water resistance by being streamlined. To test this out we made our own boats and tested them out in a paddling pool

Year 1 - 1A DT: Making a Chair

For DT we have been designing and creating our own chairs. We have been looking at how to make a structure strong. We discussed using stronger materials such as card and cardboard and resources to connect pieces together. The outcome was amazing and most of our chairs were strong and sturdy. Take a...

Year 1 - DT: Making a Chair

As part of our DT topic of 'How do you make a structure strong?', we thought carefully about designing a chair and then used resources from the classroom to make it! We worked hard to make each part of the chair and then thought about how we could secure them together

Year 5 - Science: Air Resistance

This week in science, we have been learning about air resistance and friction. To test this out, we made our own parachutes using tissue paper and string and tied different weighted objects to it to see how that affects the speed of falling

Nurture Group - Cross Curricular: Making a Chair Using Cardboard

Today we made a chair using cardboard. We worked as a team to make the legs, seat, back and spindle. We managed to make it stand for our teddy to sit on, unfortunately it did not stay standing when a child sat on it

Year 4 Outdoor Science Investigation - How does distance affect the volume of the sound?

Year 4 developed their scientific skills by investigating how sound is affected by the distance it travels. They made their prediction and also discussed how the investigation could be a fair one by considering the variables

Year 6 - 6M IntoUniversity

The children in 6M enjoyed a whole week of activities with the team from IntoUniversity. They discussed and learnt all about life at university, the courses on offer and activities provided by many different institutes. They children also discussed diversity and empathy and visited the Dialogue Hub...

The Junior Literacy Team Visit Everyone's Book Corners

The Junior Literacy Team visited all the classes from Nursery to Year 6 to check out everyone's book corners and judge them for the competition. We saw very creative and colourful corners with themes such as space, oceans, jungles and even hot air balloons! We want to show off our book corners so...

Year 5 - Science: Air Resistance

In Year 5, we have been learning about air resistance. We made parachutes ourselves and tested them!1

Message from Chair of Governors - 20th July 2021

Reception Duckling Class - Sharing

This week in maths, we have been learning about sharing! We have been talking about what equal means and how we can make sure things are 'fair' and the 'same'. We used gingerbread men to help us practice our sharing and we shared out counters

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 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

Oracy Parent Talk with Hannah Thompson

Events manager and globe trotter extraordinaire

Year 2 - Maths: Column Method Addition

To introduce ourselves to the idea of column method addition, we spent the lesson representing this using our dienes and working in pairs. We are beginning to look at what column method means

Year 1 Peacocks - DT Chair for a bear

In DT, we have been looking at how chairs are built. We have been looking at the features of chairs. Did you know chairs have ears? We used Lego to help us design our own chairs, and we used labels to help us know which parts we need. We are so excited to build our own chairs next week!

Year 1 Peacocks - Chair for a bear

We used our design ideas to make our final chairs! We had so much recycling to use, we made a lot of chairs! Have a look through!

Rainbow Class - Science & DT Learning

This week, our pupils became investigators as they explored different materials and their properties. They practised writing simple sentences about a variety of materials and matched these sentences to the correct picture descriptions. This helped them develop early writing skills, including...

Science - Measuring sound in decibels

Hearing is like a sound journey that travels through your ear all the way to your brain. Everything that makes a sound — like a drum, a bell, or someone talking — causes the air around it to vibrate (shake). These vibrations travel through the air like invisible waves. Sound waves enter your ear....

Rainbow Class - Transports: History

As part of our history learning, our pupils had a great opportunity to learn about different types of transport across land, water, and air. They were able to sort and match transports by gluing and sticking them into the correct categories, for example, a helicopter in the air group, a ship in...

Rainbow - Self-Portraits Drawings

As part of our learning about ourselves and our peers, we have been exploring self-portraits. This activity has helped us reflect on our individual identities, emotions, and physical features. We looked closely at our faces in mirrors and discussed what makes each of us unique — from the...

Year 4 - Science Experiment

The children in Year 4 had an exciting science lesson where they carried out a fair test to investigate factors that affect evaporation. They soaked three cloths in different amounts of water making them different in weight. Then hung them out to dry and recorded the weight every hour. The children...

Rainbow Class: Fun Learning

Our pupils were well engaged in the fun learning environment. Some pupils explored the safari animals and enjoyed the soft texture of the sand in the sandpit, supporting their sensory development. Other pupils were engaged in intensive interaction, demonstrating strong eye coordination and focus as...

Year 3 - Sports Festival

The Year 3s took part in a Sports Festival this week. The children participated in Dodgeball, Cricket, Dance, wheelchair Basketball and Netball. They were really impressive and was able to win a trophy at the end!

Rainbow Class - Exploring Plants & Tress (Science)

This week, the children in Rainbow Class explored the life cycle of plants and trees through a range of practical, sensory, and engaging learning activities. Using pictures and matching activities, children explored the different parts of plants and trees by matching, labelling, or writing the...

Rainbow Class - RE day - Exploring Christianity & Church

As part of our RE Day, our pupils were engaged in learning about Christianity and explored some of the important symbols associated with this faith. As a creative activity, the children carefully designed and decorated colourful crosses using tissue paper, helping them to deepen their understanding...

Rainbow Class - Attention Bucket & Singing

Pupils maintained their attention well during Attention Bucket activities, showing curiosity as they explored new and exciting items. They enjoyed choosing songs and demonstrated good listening skills by responding immediately with actions and movements linked to the music. The session supported...

Rainbow Class - Bubbles Fun

WOW! We had great fun popping the bubbles as they floated through the air in our class

Rainbow - Fun Attention Activity

Our pupils had a magical learning experience that captured their attention and fostered teamwork. Sitting eagerly on their chairs, they worked together to guess sensory toys that were shown to them from the attention bucket. Each toy sparked curiosity and excitement while helping the children...

Another successful summer fair at Daubeney!

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 - 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 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

Year 2 - Computing

...gan 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....

Mental Health - Playing and Socialising with Friends

8th March 2021 Children, staff and parents were all happy to return to school! During the lockdown, our Daubeney children took part in a Mental Health Questionnaire. Can you guess what the majority of the children said they missed the most? Playing and socialising with their friends. The teachers...

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 - 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 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 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...

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 4 - The Midnight Fair

Year 4 depicting parts of the story of The Midnight Fair in freeze frames

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 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

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!

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!

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!

Year 2 - Wow Day - 27th May 2021

To end our Australia topic, we went to Australia! We made our own passports and boarding passes then imagined we were on a plane! We spent the rest of the day outside doing fun things like splashing in a paddling pool and making fairy bread! Are you convinced to go to Australia? Watch our advert!

Year 5 and 6 Residential 2020 - Day 3

[menu name="year5-6-residential-2020"] Day 3 and things are not slowing down. The sun even poked its head through the clouds for a few glorious seconds. The children finished an exhilarating day of activities today with fried chicken, wedges and waffles with ice-cream for dinner. Oh,...

Year 3 - British Science Week 2021: Egg Investigation

In Year 3 we had the task to make an egg travel down a zip wire. The children were given pipe cleaners and straws to design a harness for the egg. the children were very inventive in their designs. We were learning about fair tests and how to introduce variables to the investigation

Year 3's Visit to Kew Gardens

On their recent visit to Kew Gardens, Year 3 observed the dry, arid space populated by spiky cactus plants & noted the distinct change of temperature & humidity as they walked into the tropical Palm House. Those with glasses couldn't not notice; their glasses steamed up as soon as they...

Year 2 - Planting Onions

In Science, we are learning about plants! Last week we learnt about what a plant needs to grow and live. This week, we refreshed our memories and put this to the test. In class, we planted some beans where we made some predictions of how they might turn out in different conditions. After that, we...

Year 3 - Boys Book Club

Today (6th March 2019) Year 3 started their first session in Boys Book Club. They shared their favourite book with the boys and completed a questionnaire about reading. Watch this space to see more

Year 3 - Chocolate Crazy, Learning Had

Wow! What a choco-tastic day of learning with MASTER Chocolatier Derek Smith the Year 3's have enjoyed. Where does the cocoa tree come from? Who invented the chocolate bar? What does a cocoa pod look and smell like? These were just some of the amazing facts we explored prior to creating our own...

Year 3 - Christmas Party Day in 3T

3T have had a fun-filled day of festive frivolities! In the morning, they enjoyed creative activities, board games, word searches (including one in Spanish!) and they even got a visit from the one and only Santa! Later, they played a game called 'minute to win it' in which they had to...

Year 3 - Windrush Generation

Year 3 have had a brilliant afternoon learning about the Windrush. The Windrush generation refers to the immigrants who were invited to the UK between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries such as Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados to help rebuild Britain post-war. The name comes from the...

Year 3 - WOW Day

Year 3 had a WOW day and we learnt about the Romans. We researched on the life of a Roman legionary and the weapons and armour they wore. We then used our research to design and create our own Roman shields. We then all went to the playground to be Roman soldiers for the afternoon. We threw...

Year 4 - SEAL- Odd Socks Day

Year 4 had a great SEAL session today discussing Odd socks day. We spoke about how we are different in some ways and all similar in other ways. We also spoke about accepting one another for who we are and having a growth mindset. We chose to wear odd socks today to show that it is OK to be...

World Book Day 2019

World Book Day was a great success! On Friday 8th March, everybody dressed up as their favourite book character. Well done for joining in! We saw some Harry Potters, Matildas, Greg Heffleys and even a Broccoli Boy! Congratulations to the winners of the costume competition who got to choose any book...

Year 5 - 5M True Artists

The children in Year 5M are absolutely proud of their artistic flair, when they took a photo of our recent butterfly activity. They used a close up zooming technique to capture the true beauty of a Monarch butterfly. The piece of art will be used as a display around the school and will be handed to...

Year 5 - Equivalent Fractions

Today (30th January 2019) the Year 5 children had a practical lesson to help them to find an equivalent fraction. The children used pizza fractions and blank fraction cut outs to show equivalent fractions. We played a game of 'Fair or NOT Fair' to identify whether the fractions were...

Year 5 - Fractions

Today (5th February 2019) the children in Year 5 added and subtracted fractions with unlike denominators. First, they had to identify the lowest common denominator, change the fractions to have like denominators then add the numerators. It was amazing to see the children understand the concept and...

Year 5 - Science and Maths

Today (30th April 2019) the Year 5 pupils used their science and maths skills (cross curricular links) to draw a bar graph in order to present their data from the friction fair test carried out last week. The children used their data, and constructed a bar graph to show the effects of friction on...

Year 5 - Scientific Experiment

Today (5th March 2019) the Year 5 children carried out a fair test to investigate the affects of different water temperatures on sugar. The children used hot, warm and cold water to test whether the sugar will dissolve at different times. They used different water temperatures but ensured...

Year 5 - Self and Peer Assessment

Today (1st February 2019) the Year 5 used their learning in our Balanced Argument unit and assessed their work. They first started with self-assessment, where they identified their strengths and what they did well in the unit. Each pupil then paired up with a friend to peer-assess their learning....

Year 2 - 2C Literacy Monsters

We have been writing about monsters from the book Flanimals for the past few weeks. Today we drew and labelled our own monsters! We even wrote some descriptions based on our drawings. Maggie wrote “Nacher Feary has crazy grass hair. When he sees a girl Nacher Feary his head goes pink and when...

Top Book Recommendations for KS1

On Wednesday 7th November, The Junior literacy Team led an assembly for KS1. We recommended books we like to read when were younger. Dejunet’s favourite book was ‘Eat Up Gemma!’ by Sarah Huges, which Miss Fergus loved when she was younger too! Kai, leader of the JLT, read a funny extract from his...

Year 5 - Solving Word Problems Using Fractions

Today, Thursday 9th November 2017, the children in Year 5 applied their skills and knowledge to solve word problems involving fractions. they used the steps to success and followed each step to help them solve larger fraction calculations. They worked in pairs, supporting each other and ensured...

Eco-Team Monitoring Air Quality

The Eco-team have been keeping busy with meetings to improve Daubeney primary school. One of them being monitoring our air quality. We know that London has some of the worst air quality in the whole of Europe and so we are measuring our air quality around Daubeney to find out how clean the air we...

2B Assembly - The Flower Man

Have you ever felt darkness and despair surrounding you? Watch our sharing assembly, you will feel inspired! ‘Love can’t not be stolen, it can be given away’ - The Flower Man written by 2B

Annual Instrumental Event

Daubeney performed their unique brand of rock n roll at the Annual Hackney Music Service Festival last Thursday. Needless to say we had a ball . We packed some chess boards to play whilst waiting our turn at the rehearsal. We also managed to make two trips to the park. With all that fresh air we...

April Book Fair

We had another very successful Book Fair at Daubeney! There was a fantastic selection of books and they were all half price! If you missed it, you missed out! The children bought lots of books to read at home and enjoy with their families. Well done to Queenie in 6F who helped to run the Book Fair...

Daubeney on You and Yours - BBC Radio 4

Following our wonderful participation at the national launch event of the BBC's new science initiative - Terrific Scientific and subsequently being featured on BBC Breakfast ; Daubeney, is honoured to have been invited by BBC Radio 4 to participate in their You and Yours episode - aired on...

Eco Team Workshop

Daubeney's Eco-team met a landscape architect today to discuss a special project for the hop garden! They discussed what they liked about it and how it can be improved. The children came up with a range of creative ideas which we can put into action soon. 'We enjoyed being outside in the...

KS1 Science Parents' Workshop

Today (4th October 2018) we had a fantastic parent workshop talking all about how we can do more science at home! The children got hands on with some every day objects such as fairy liquid, milk and eggs but found that these every day objects can be turned into scientific extravaganzas with the...

Summer Fair 2016

We all had an amazing time at the Daubeney Summer Fair. Ducks were hooked, faces were painted, balloons were bashed and 100’s of prizes were won! Thank you to everyone who came along to join in the fun and make it such a special day. We raised: £2560

Literacy Parent Workshop - January 2019

The parents and children thoroughly enjoyed our January workshop which was led by Phil McDermott, the amazing story teller. They were enthralled listening to Phil tell an entertaining story then they had the opportunity to work in pairs to create their own stories. The parents learnt about the...

November Book Fair

It was Book Fair time again at Daubeney! It was great to see so many children buying interesting books to read and share with their families and friends. Well done to Kai, Hussain and Dejunet from the Junior Literacy team for helping Miss Fergus to organize and run the Book Fair. A special thank...

Nursery - Going Global and Journeys

Our topic for Spring term is 'Going Global and Journeys'. Nursery will be learning about 'Transports' this half term and covering topics such as 'transports on land', 'transports on water' and 'transports in the air'. So far ..... the children have enjoyed...

Reception - Work Week 2019: Red Class Learn About Their Parents Professions

Red Class had a lovely time during Inspire Work Week. We had parents come in to talk about their professions. We learnt so much from them. We had an actor, a costume designer, an events planner and Adam's mum from the children's air ambulance charity. Many thanks to the parents that...

RRS: 'The Right to a Full and Decent Life' Assembly

KS2 were thrilled to enjoy a wonderful and entertaining assembly (in pursuance of Article 23 of the UNCRC - 'The Right to a Full and Decent Life') delivered by our local Revered, Clive Main. Reverend Clive had KS2 completely engaged and mesmerised as he skilfully explored the above Right...

Summer Fair 2015

All the fun of the fair!

Year 5 - Solving Word Problems

Today (17th January 2019) the Year 5 children worked in pairs and groups to solve a variety of mathematical word problems. They used their efficient methods and skills to help them solve the calculations. The Year 5 children are now encouraged to use their IXL maths program to continue practising...

Year 5 - Time Problems

The children in Year 5 today (18th October 2018) worked together in pairs to solve time problems based on a TV guide and its timings. Ask the children at home to create a time table for their daily routines and make up some questions

Message from Chair of Governors - 5th March 2021

Year 4 - Wow Day: Ancient Egypt

Today (23-01-2020) the children enjoyed their WOW day with a variety of fun activities around our topic Ancient Egypt. The children created their own Ancient Egyptian town, then made a funeral mask for the Great Tutankhamun, answered a quiz about ancient civilization and enjoyed answering their Big...

Year 2 - 2C Outdoor Sketching

We’re ending this week by doing some sketching of when we went to the park yesterday. Being outside helped us remember how we were feeling because we could breathe the fresh air. Look at how relaxed we are!

Year 3 Visit Kew Gardens

To further their knowledge & interest in their class topic of rainforests, Year 3 visited Kew Gardens. They were in awe of the exotic Palm House (built in the Victorian period, they noted), and especially by how hot and humid it was inside, just like the rainforest. Those wearing glasses...

Year 6 - Visit from Bola Abisogun OBE FRICS

Year 6 were lucky enough to have a visit from Bola Abigosun where he explained to the children what a surveyor does. The children were inspired to hear about someone from Kingsmead Estate who went onto finish university with a first class honours degree and receive an award from Prince Charles. The...

Autumn Book Fair 2019

We had yet another VERY busy and successful Book Fair at Daubeney! You spent over £1000 buying amazing books to read at home which means that we also get lots of free books for our school book corners. Well done to Halima, Tariq, Sarah and Xiomara from the Junior Literacy team for helping Miss...

Year 6 - Maths: Arithmetic Questions

Today in maths we did our arithmetic a little bit differently. Instead of working independently, we worked in pairs to work through arithmetic questions. We had to discuss the questions and agree on an answer. When we’d finished we had to compare our answers with another pair and any answers...

Year 4 - Sound Investigation

Today (22-01-2020) the children in Year 4 experimented with sound waves and vibrations. They used a drum and rice to notice the different vibrations and the reactions. The children carried out a fair test and recorded their results

Anti-idling Awareness

As part of Climate Learning Week some members of the Junior Road Safety team handed out Anti-idling leaflets to inform parents and students about the impact idling has on our health. We at Daubeney are committed to our students living a healthy life and so we would like to ensure our air is as...

Boys Book Club - 18th June 2019

Today (18-06-2019) the Boys Book Club explored the many online stories available which are suitable for primary school children. We used the iPads, and read a selection of stories. Next week we aim to read some classic fairy tales and hope to create our own fairy tale story in the session

Year 1 - Design and Technology: How do you make a structure strong?

1L had fun making their own chairs as part of our Design and Technology topic thinking about "How do you make a structure strong?" We used lots of materials to make the seat, legs and back of our chairs. Some of us even made arms!

Year 5 and 6 Residential 2020 - Day 2

[menu name="year5-6-residential-2020"] What an epic Day 2 at Youlbury. Not just because we started the day with a sumptuous breakfast of cereal and a fry up to compete with any Michelin star restaurant; not because of the lovely warm dry weather but because the Team Daubeney at Youlbury...

Ms Shaikh's Banana Bread Recipe

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a wonderful time playing, learning and creating at home! In my spare time I love to cook, so today I wanted to share one of my favourite recipes with you: banana bread! Hopefully my video will make it super easy to make some banana bread of your own, showing...

Nurture Group - Year 1: 'In the Driving Seat'

This week we played a Boxall game called 'In the driving seat' This game encourages attention and listening skills. This also lets us explore our feelings when behind 'the driving seat' for example a spaceship, racing car or a deck chair. The children really enjoyed this particular...

November Book Fair 2020

Yet another fantastic Book Fair at Daubeney! Of course it was a little bit different this year but it was great to see that children were still very eager to buy lots of books to enjoy reading at home and inspire their imaginations. We hope you have fun reading your new books! By Mei Foo 6FO,...

Message from the Chair of Governors - Will Emms

Year 3 - Outdoor Reading

Year 3 enjoyed a fun afternoon reading their favourite books in the Hop Garden. They found a cosy spot, got comfortable, and delved into their books. "Reading outside is so relaxing, I felt so refreshed" - Hussein "It's just a different feeling reading outside in the fresh air, I...

Year 3 Celebrate Wacky Day

Year 3 donned their most extravagant outfits and dyed their hair (and tongues!) every shade of the rainbow to celebrate all things wacky. They danced to some funky tunes, played on the climbing frame and even had a go at singing some songs themselves in the hop garden! Everybody had a whale of a...

Year 5 Discuss Current Affairs

Year 5 are off to an exciting start this term with finding out about current affairs. Classrooms were heated with the well-thought-out opinions from the students. We discussed a range of issues such as; Floods in Haiti, Refugee crisis and the US presidential elections. Our students were able to...

Year 6 - Posting Letters to America

Today, two of our Year 6 children took our responses to the local post office. They had to find an appropriate envelope and pay for that. Then they had to write the address we were sending it too, as well as the return address (in case it gets lost). They then had to choose normal air mail or...

Year 5 Planting Trees on Mabley Green

Year 5 children were excited and thrilled to have been invited to Mabley Green to plant 12 trees as part of our ECO project and also be a part of helping our local community become green. The children in pairs were each given a tree to plant and were taught skills like how to dig, levelling the...

Year 5 Residential 2018 - Day 3

Day 3 and things are not slowing down. The children finished yesterday with pasta bake and hot cocoa. The tiredness had set in and it was a very quiet night in the cabin. After an energising sleep, the children were woken up to the smell of fresh pastries baking in the oven. They had enough choice...

Year 5's Air Resistance Experiments

Year 5 carried out an air resistance experiment based on our Science topic of Forces. We developed a question as a class of whether two parachutes of different surface areas would land at the same time if dropped from the same height. We used plastic bags, cellotape and strings to create our...

Year 6 - Air Raid in 6S!

In 6S we have been learning about World War II. So far we have learned about the outbreak of the war and we are reading Goodnight Mister Tom to immerse ourselves into the topic. One of the things we learnt about was air raid drills. There would be a very loud siren and everyone in school would have...

Year 6 - Cultural Cooking

Year 6 were inspired by the book ‘Oranges in No Man’s Land’ by Elizabeth Laird and went on to study and explore various aspects of Lebanese culture. The following pictures show the children using their culinary skills to make hummus

Year 6 - Daubeney Alumni

On Monday 8 th October some past pupils from Daubeney, who are now Year 7s at Cardinal Pole, visited Year 6 to discuss life at secondary school. They talked about their timetable, uniform, homework and gave us advice on how to prepare for secondary school. We were told that the expectations in Year...

Anti-Idling Campaign

Daubeney students were out early this morning handing out leaflets and informing parents and students about our anti-idling campaign. We are committed to our students living a healthy life and so we would like to ensure our air is as clean as possible. Read our leaflet to find out more information...

Year 1 - 1S Painting Van Gogh's 'Chair'

Year 1 - Chair For A Bear Project

As part for our chair for a bear project, Year 1 went on a teddy bear’s picnic to Hackney Marshes. We had lunch and had lots of fun!

Rainbow Class: RE Day - Lego Church

As part of our Religious Education learning about Christianity, pupils explored the significance of the Christian cross through a hands-on block-building activity. Using colourful blocks, the children carefully designed and created their own cross while developing their problem-solving, creativity,...