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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...

Admissions

Daubeney is moving to a two form entry sized primary school. There are currently two classes of Reception children and this will continue for the academic year 2023 and beyond. It is currently three form entry primary school in Years 5 & 6 although it retains three classes of Year 2 children....

Governors

...nd staff governors, one Local Authority nominee and co-opted members from the wider community. They have a mix of skills, experiences and backgrounds to help provide the best possible support to the School. We are actively recruiting new members. School governors have a responsibility for supporting...

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...

Phonics & Early Reading

At Blossom Federation we have devised our own phonics programme based upon the principles of Letters and Sounds. We use a range of resources and strategies to tailor the phonics provision to meet the needs of our pupils. It aims to build children's speaking and listening skills in their own right...

Year 3 - 3T's Charles Dickens Assembly

3T's assembly last week was all about reading, and in particular about our class author of the term, Charles Dickens. We acted out one of Dickens' stories, Great Expectations, and explored the messages it contained. 3T decided that it demonstrated that everyone deserves a second chance,...

Baller Boys Author Visit

To celebrate World Book Day (5th March 2020), Daubeney had a very special visit from Venessa Taylor, author of the book ‘Baller Boys’ which is based on our late Coach Reece and his football team. The children got to learn about the characters, hear an exclusive extract from the story and take part...

10 amazing websites for reading activities

Check out these 10 amazing websites for lots of fun reading activities to do at home including videos of authors reading, free ebooks, phonics and much more!

Ruth Miskin Training - YouTube

10 Minute Challenges - Authorfy

Big Cat eBooks

Elevenses with The World of David Walliams - The World of David Walliams

Free eBook library | Oxford Owl

Lexia Core5 Reading

Oliver Jeffers - A Book A Day

Reading Zone Live

ReadingWise

storyonline.net 

Storytime Online - World Book Day

The Reading Realm

Summer Reading Challenge

E-library | Hackney Council

Summer Reading Challenge

Year 6 - Reading

Year 6 are avid readers and read at every opportunity they have. Why don’t you comment with your favourite author or a book recommendation?

Aspiring Authors in Year 5

Well done to these two young aspiring authors, who spent their free time last weekend beginning to write a novel. They thought carefully about their title and front cover. They were inspired by their favourite books and began writing their first three chapters. We are very proud and can’t...

Venessa Taylor Author Visit

KS2 had the amazing opportunity to meet 'Baller Boys' author Venessa Taylor. She ran an exciting workshop with each year group which involved fun activities, hearing her read a chapter of the book and answer the children's questions. Some lucky children even got signed copies of the...

Year 3 Meets a special Author

It was an amazing experience today 12-3-2024- when the children met the author of Baller Boys vs The Bulldozers, Vanessa Taylor. They had a session with the author and discussed her latest book

Sav Akyuz Author Visit

KS1 had the amazing opportunity to meet 'Bear Moves' author Sav Akyuz. He ran a fun, interactive workshop with Year 1 and 2 children full of energy and laughs. After giving a brief introduction to his work as a writer, and illustrator, he created an imaginary character with the help of the...

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!

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...

Year 5 - Professional Authors

The children in Year 5 were totally focused today when they began to publish the very first story in Year 5. This term, the children have been reading a story and used the ideas from the story to create their own narrative with an interesting ending. All published work will be available on parents...

Year 5 - Young Authors Publishing Session

5M today (Tuesday 2nd October 2018) were extremely focused and engaged in their publishing session. Excited, they all prepared their pages with pictures from the story in order to publish their own version of the story. The children cannot wait for the whole story to be published and ready for our...

Philip Womack visits Year 6

To meet a real life author was something that the Year 6 children were thrilled to experience. Philip Womack did not fail to deliver, as he presented an exciting and engaging session on supporting the Year 6 children to create their own mythical stories based on his book; 'The Broken King'....

400 years of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare

On the 23 April many countries across the world celebrated the International Day of the Book, organized by the UNESCO to promote reading and to honour the authors Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare who died on this date. This year, we commemorate 400 years since their death and we...

Alex Milway Visits Year 4

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Andrew Weale visits Red Class

We were very lucky that the childrens author Andrew Weale visited Red class

Blue Class met Andrew Weale

Blue Class met the author Andrew Weale today. He read them two stories, and a poem! They helped him retell his stories through rhyme and singing songs

London Eye Mystery

Year 6 were delighted to visit London’s South Bank as part of our study of Siobhan David’s London Eye Mystery. The London Eye Mystery is a children's mystery novel by English author Siobhan Dowd. It tells the story of how Ted, a boy with Asperger syndrome, and his sister Kat, solve...

Nursery - World Book Day 2018

Nursery had a blast dressing as characters from their favourite books on Friday. The nursery was awash with a range of characters, from dinosaurs to farmers to the ever-elusive Wally. The children also had ample time to explore stories; they acted them out, snuggled up in the book corner with a...

Reception Meet Author Andrew Weale

Reception met the author Andrew Weale . He read his amazing stories to us

Year 4 Trip to the Ministry of Stories

Year 4 participated in a story making workshop at the Ministry of Stories, designed to inspire a love of writing. Each pupil had the opportunity to draft and write, creating characters, setting and plot. They then evaluated and edited, assessing the effectiveness of their writing. At the end of the...

Work Week in Nursery

Nursery enjoyed trying out different jobs in nursery this week! We had doctors curing ill people, vets treating poorly animals and a mini-teacher or two reading to their 'class'. Bea said, "I want to be a rock star or a zoo keeper- or both!" Levi reported that he wanted to be...

World Book Day - Author Visits

To celebrate World Book Day, Daubeney were visited by authors Tolulope Ogunmefun, Karen McCombie and Andrew Weale. The children enjoyed a very entertaining performance of Tolulope's book 'The Frog and His Dancing Shoes', an interactive workshop with Andrew Weale and an inspirational talk about how...

Year 1 - Hilda Offen

Year 1 had an exciting visit from the author Hilda Offen . The children were eager to look at her books and were even more surprised when they found out she wrote and illustrated her own books. Hilda very kindly passed around storyboards and books of her work. The children got to experience being...

Year 2 - Hilda Offen

We had a fantastic visit from our author Hilda Offen! We were lucky enough to see some of her fantastic books. She also showed us some of her drawings. Some of us also got to dress up as one of Hilda's characters!

Year 3 Author Visit

Year 3 had a special author coming in to visit as part of Literacy Festival Week. We had a visit from Roland Chambers who wrote ‘Nelly and the Quest for Captain Peabody’. He told us about all the books he has written and gave us lots of top tips to write interesting stories. Year 3 had...

Year 5 - Author Karen McCombie Visits for World Book Day

The Year 5 children were delighted to meet an author today (27th February 2018), Karen McCombie , who came in today and spoke to children about writing books. They were introduced to new writing techniques and were amazed to learn what it takes to write a book. The children are enjoying their World...

Year 5 - Favourite Book and Author

The children in Year 5 today (24th April 2019) shared some of their favourite books and authors. They recommended books to their peers and suggested why they thought their friends would like the books. It was interesting to see the various books chosen by the pupils. Even Mr Matvad shared his...

Year 3 - Ministry of Stories

Year 3 had the exciting opportunity to work on a 12 week project. Working alongside a professional author, the children first took part in fun drama and oracy activities to spark their imagination, inspired by their history topic on the Stone Age. These creative sessions helped them develop...