Year 1

...o this confidently in school. Book Bags Please ensure your child brings in their Book bags every day. Your child will receive a reading record and their reading Books will be changed on an allocated day each week. Breakfast Please ensure your child has breakfast before coming to school as it can a...

Year 5

...bag labelled with their name. Book bags Please ensure your child brings in their Book bags every day. They must also have their reading record inside their Book bags every day. Water bottles Children are allowed to bring in water bottles with water. Fruit juices and squash are not allowed. Water bot...

Year 3

...luding trainers or plimsoles. Book bags Please ensure your child brings in their Book bags every day. Home reading Books will be changed every Friday. Water bottles Children are allowed to bring in water bottles with water. Fruit juices and squash are not allowed. Water bottles also need to be made ...

Daubeney Loves Reading

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Reception

Meet the Teacher EYFS Team Yearly Overview Welcome to Reception! Important information PE is on Monday. Please send your child to school in their PE kit. Please bring in your book bag on your book bag day. Please bring in a water bottle with your child’s name clearly labelled. Please bring a spare...

Year 2

...Friday in Autumn 2 half-term. Book bags Please ensure your child brings in their Book bags every day. Water bottles Children are allowed to bring in water bottles with water. Fruit juices and squash are not allowed. Water bottles also need to be made from plastic and not glass and they are clearly l...

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 Children & Family Hub

Daubeney Children & Family Hub is just down the road from Daubeney Primary School. The centre shares its state of the art facilities with Daubeney Nursery which is a high quality and beautiful environment for children to learn. The centre is run by our Children’s Centre Manager – Suzanne...

Religious Education

Intent Across the Blossom Federation, our RE curriculum provides children with an understanding and appreciation for beliefs, cultural practices and values. The Blossom Federation follows The Hackney Education agreed syllabus and lesson plans where available. We hold six designated RE days at the...

About our Curriculum

At The Blossom Federation of Daubeney, Sebright and Lauriston Schools, we shape our curriculum to ensure all pupils have access to a rich, exciting, experiential curriculum, which celebrates the rich diversity of our schools. Drawing on the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage and...

Humanities - History & Geography

Intent To deliver a broad and balanced curriculum, which includes ensuring children are able to access cross curricular subjects like Geography, History and RE regularly. To have a deeper understanding of the world that we live in by learning in a cross curricular, creative and experiential way. To...

Computing

If you would like to know more about this area of the curriculum, please talk to Joel Power. Computing in EYFS We understand how important it is that children develop their technology skills and we will continue to use a range of technology to support and enhance learning in other areas of the...

Assessment

Assessment Policy and Procedures Why Assess? We assess to be sure that all children across the Blossom Federation can make as much progress in their learning as they possibly can. By assessing children’s achievements in their work, further progress in their learning can be planned for. Assessment...

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 -...

Nursery

EYFS Team Welcome to Daubeney Nursery! In the nursery, we plan exciting activities every week based on our observation of children’s needs, interests, and stages of development across the seven areas of learning to enable the children to achieve and exceed the early learning goals. We hope you...

School Uniform

...k shorts Uniform Price List Book Bag - £4.00 PE T-Shirt £4.00 (Red, Green, Yellow and Blue) Cardigan £10.50 V Neck Sweatshirt £7.50 Reversible Jackets - £16.50 Tie - £3.00 Year 6 Blazers - £15.00...

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...

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....

Starting Reception in September

... all of the subsequent trips. Book Bags Before your child starts school, they will be given their own Book bag. We don’t assign homework but will change their Books regularly. We will also occasionally give out home learning packs and activities too. PE Kit Every child in the school is in a team c...

Year 4

...luding trainers or plimsoles. Book bags Please ensure your child brings in their Book bags every day including their reading records. Reading records will be checked every Friday. Water bottles Children are allowed to bring in water bottles with water. Fruit juices and squash are not allowed. Water...

Year 5 Sky colour role play

Year 5 have been completely immersed in the book 'Sky colour'. They have made predictions, created a blurb and today they acted out scenes from the story. Have a look at the fantastic acting

Year 5 - Literacy: Art

To help us really understand the experiences of the main character Marisol, in the book Sky Color by Peter H Reynolds, we created our own art inspired by pictures from the book!

Year 4 - ICT and Geography: Human Geographical Features in Japan

Today, 6-10-2022, the children in Year 4 used their Chromebook to research information about the Human Geographical features in Japan. They used the information along with the notes from the lesson to create a poster identifying many Human features found in Japan

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 4

This week Year 2 learnt about pointillism art and how it is different from last weeks art technique. We explored some art work from Georges Seurat and Paul Signac before we created our own masterpieces using the chromebooks

Nursery - World Book Day 2023

Nursery are having an amazing time celebrating world book day today! They came dressed as their favourite book characters, and the children have been so excited to share who they are. We have some superheroes, princesses and even a big scary Gruffalo!

Spring Book Fair 2023

...o share your ideas....... Books would like to see at the Book Fair next time? Comment below to share your ideas....

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 2

This week we discussed our online safety agreement, talking about how to keep ourselves safe when using a device and who we should ask for help. We practised logging in to the chromebooks using our individual usernames and passwords, and then logged in to LGFL to access Purple Mash. We then had...

Year 5 - Literacy: Himalayas Fact File

...art of our ‘Hook into a Book’. We looked at pictures of the mountains and discussed Mount Everest. We are very excited to begin our new Book ‘King of cloud forest’ by Michael Morpurgo....

Year 5 - Literacy: Artwork Inspired by Poetry

...Phee" in the Book "The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry" Here is the poem: Mrs McPhee Who lived in South Zeal Roasted a duckling For every meal. 'Duckling for breakfast And dinner and tea And duckling for supper,' Said Mrs McPhee 'It's sweeter than sugar, It's clean as a nut, I'm sure and I'...

Year 1 - Computing - Week 3

For week 3 of computing in Year 1, we used Chromebooks to practise our Maths skills, sequencing numbers from 1-100. We thought about how to navigate a website to get to the page that we need and how to accurately use the touch pad

Year 1 - Computing - Week 2

In Week 2 of computing, Year 1 used Chromebooks to design their own version of an Alberto Giacometti sculpture, as part of our Cross Curricular Art topic. They used 2Paint on Purple Mash and thought about the colour and shape of the lines they needed to use

Year 6 - ICT and Science in 6M

Today, 22-6-2022, the children in Year 6M used their Chromebooks to complete their Scientific activities on Purplemash. Then they used their research skills to retrieve information about our Science topic. This term in Science we will be looking at Scientist and Inventors

Year 2 - Art in Literacy

This week we have been focusing on the book 'The Magic Bojabi Tree' in Literacy. We have had lots of fun using role play and oracy to understand the story, and today we used water colours to paint a scene from the book

Year 4 - ICT and Literacy

Today, 9-03-2023, the children in Year 4 used their Chromebooks to research facts about river pollution. In Literacy, they will be writing a letter to our Council representative about this issue

Year 1 - Forest School - World Book Day 2023

Reception - Yellow Class - World Book Day 2023

...n loved dressing up for World Book Day! Which characters do you recognise?...

Year 4 - Cross Curricular: Rivers

Today, 1-03-2023, the children had a triple cross curricular session using the Chromebook to research information about rivers. This is also our topic in our cross curricular lesson. The children applied their reading skills to locate and record facts about rivers

Year 4 - 4L World Book Day 2023

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Year 5 - Literacy: Curiosity Collage

This week, we have started reading a new book called Quest. We made predictions about the book yesterday and today we created a curiosity collage, which had all our brilliant ideas that we want to include in our writing next week

Reception - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023

Reception students love singing the numbers up to ten with Rosita! This term students have used this great number knowledge to count libros (books), pinturas (colouring pencils), gomas (rubbers), lápices (pencils), tijeras (scissors), sacapuntas (pencil sharpeners) once they learnt those new words

Year 4 - 4M World Book Day 2023

Year 2 - IT in Cross Curricular: Designing our own Vehicles

Today Year 2 had some fun designing their own vehicles with wheels using Chromebooks, as part of our Design and Technology topic. We thought about the shape of the vehicle and how we could decorate it too. We learnt about the job of engineers to plan, design, test and make various items including...

Autumn Book Fair 2022

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Year 4 - ICT and History - Ancient Egyptian Gods

Today, 10-11-2022, the children in Year 4 were excited to use their Chromebooks to research factual information about different Ancient Egyptian Gods. They located facts and recorded them in their books

Daubeney Reading Champions

We are the Daubeney Reading Champions! Our role is to promote reading at Daubeney and share our ideas with other schools in Hackney. We had the opportunity to attend the Reading Champions launch at Hackney Town Hall and got to meet Councillor Bramble, the deputy mayor, who presented us with our...

Year 4 - ICT and Science - The Human Digestive System

Today, 9-11-2022, the children in Year 4 used their Chromebooks to further research the human digestive system, learning key facts and information. They also completed an activity, labelling the digestive system and a quiz

Year 1 - 1A World Book Day 2023

1A had a brilliant day dressing up as our favourite book characters!

Year 5 - World Book Day 2023

Who is your favourite book character? Can you spot them in Year 5? Can you spot any characters you know?

Year 2 Act Out Varmints

...This week Year 2 explored our Book Fortnight story, Varmints, by using talk partners and role play. We thought about what the characters may have been feeling at each point in the story and explored the meaning of the Book....

KS1 Sewing Club

KS1 Sewing club have worked very hard during Autumn 1 with Miss Joan. They have had fun learning to sew and exploring the different patterns they can create to make their own personalised bookmark

Year 1 - 1A Computing: Harvest Festival

This week we've been using the Chromebooks and linking it in with our RE topic - Harvest festival. We used Purple Mash to create a harvest basket, full of delioucious fruits and vegetables. We've been using the programme to drag and drop and select colours on paint

Year 4 - Science and ICT: Classifying Living Things

Today, 12-10-2022, the children in Year 4 used their Chromebook and explored classifying living things. They completed a range of fun activities on Purplemash learning all about classifying animals

Year 5 - Persuasive Arguments

Year 5 spent some time using a word processor to type up their persuasive arguments about climate change! This is their final piece of work based on the book the whole school has been reading - Varmints

Year 3 - 3HC World Book Day 2022

3HC dressed up in their favourite book character! We are celebrating world book day that took place yesterday

Year 5 - Literacy: Art-ish

Sun-ish, tree-ish, butterfly-ish, fish-ish. What do you do when your drawing looks ALMOST like the thing you meant to draw? We made art inspired by the book "Ish" to show us that even if it isn't perfect, we can all do art!

Boys Book Club - 7th June 2021

...Monday 7th June 2021 the Boys Book Club met and enjoyed a relaxing reading session in our Hop garden....

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...

Junior Literacy Team 2021/2022

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 Miss Fergus in promoting Literacy across the school through assemblies and events. They will also be in charge of...

Year 6 - 6M Book Corner

Our book corner in 6M is a lush 'Garden Of Knowledge' and the children are very excited to read their favourite books while relaxing in the garden under the tree

Boys Book Club - 19th July 2021

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Boys Book Club - 12th July 2021

Today, 12-07-2021, the boys in our book club enjoyed reading online. They researched areas that they were interested in and used the internet to gather more information about the subject. They then created a quiz for Mr Matvad based on the information they read

Boys Book Club - 5th July 2021

...nday, 5th July 2021, the Boys Book Club met for their second reading and Lego session. The boys looked at construction and inventions from the past and then used Lego to recreate them....

Boys Book Club - 28th June 2021

...day, 28th June 2021, the Boys Book Club met in our special Daubeney Bus and had a chance to explore encyclopaedias. The boys then used Lego to create different objects they saw in the Book....

Year 4 - 4S Loves Reading

4S students displaying their love for reading! They have the opportunity to promote and encourage others to read by recommending books to their peers

Boys Book Club - 24th May 2021

...n?......r example created by the Boys Book Club members..... I cannot go to school today Said little boy Bl...

Year 5 - Outside Classroom Day

For Outside Classroom Day, Year 5 became factors and multiples for maths. We also planted seeds - just like the main character Joe in 'The Extraordinary Gardener'! We can't wait to see our plants grow and grow and GROW! "It was great, I really enjoyed Outside Classroom Day!" - Utku "I really...

Year 4B - Outdoor Learning

Today for Outdoor Learning Day, 4B enjoyed a change of scenery and did our guided reading session in the Hop Garden. Some of us sat on the climbing frame and shared books that we were reading with our classmates and some children even had the opportunity to read with Miss Bennett today

Year 4 - Geography and ICT

Today, the children in Year 4 used the Chromebooks to research information for their non-chronological report on Mt Fuji in Japan. The children gathered relevant facts and created a report. They used their ICT skills to help them and produce some interesting reports

Boys Book Club - 10th May 2021

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Year 4 - Atlas

The children in Year 4 today 5-5-2021 enjoyed their Geography session as they had an opportunity to study our Junior School Atlas books. The children were able to transfer their knowledge when using keys to read a map, identifying lakes, rivers, mountainous areas, deserts and main roads. They also...

Nurture Group - Year 1: Book - The Colour Monster

We created our own Colour Monster for our display. Each colour represents a feeling

Boys Book Club - 26th April 2021

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Nurture Group - Year 1: Cooking

This week in Nurture we have been reading the book Owl Babies. We were lucky enough to do some 'cooking' and make some owls on toast. We were able to practise our cutting skills. We also developed our language and maths skills by practising doubles

Nurture Group - Reception: Cooking

This week in Nurture we have been reading the book Owl Babies. We were lucky enough to do some 'cooking' and make some owls on toast. We were able to practise our cutting skills. We also developed our language and maths skills by practising doubles

Boys Book Club - 19th April 2021

...day 19th April 2021, the Boys Book Club enjoyed reading a story online and answering the comprehension questions....

Year 3 - Outdoor Learning Day

In Year 3 we got our coats on and went outside for some outdoor learning! We used outdoor resources to solve maths problems in Mabley Green. After, we went to Daubeney Fields and linked it to our whole class book for literacy

Year 5 - Literacy: Advertisements

Have you heard about Joe’s Plants? We have been reading The Extraordinary Gardener in Year 5 and we created advertisements based on the book

Year 5 - Literacy: Roleplay

Do you know what the most important things to consider when you are doing roleplay? We discussed them today in Year 5 and then used our new skills to roleplay the book "Ish" by Peter H. Reynolds, a lovely book about a child who learns to love their unique style of creating art

Reception - World Book Day 2022

Reception had a lovely day dressed as our favourite book characters!

Year 1 - Iggy Peck Architect

Our book focus for two weeks is Iggy Peck Architect by Andrea Beaty. We used role play and hot seating to explore the story and the characters, and we also had a go at making our own structures out of items from around the classroom!

Year 5 - World Book Day 2022

What a fun filled day of dress up and book related activities! We all came in as some of our favourite book characters (whether good or evil) and created a book cover and blurb about them. We spent the afternoon designing our bookmarks that we will use to remind us that reading is fun!

Year 4 - 4S World Book Day 2022

...4S really enjoyed their World Book Day. Great costumes of their favourite characters as they celebrated reading with fun and engaging activities. The passion for reading is unbelievable and it is great to see!...

Year 4 - 4B World Book Day 2022

4B celebrating how much we love books! Can you guess who we all are?

Year 3 Science and ICT

The children in Year 3 used their Chromebooks today 13-09-2023 to research information about plants which is part of their Science unit. Next week we will be learning more about plants and what they need in order to grow

Year 2 - World Book Day 2022

Year 1 - Forest School - 1L World Book Day

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Year 1 - 1L World Book Day 2022

Today we had lots of fun dressing up as our favourite characters from some fabulous books. We discussed who we were and explored some of the stories. We made our own bookmarks and designed the front covers of our books!

Year 1 - 1A World Book Day 2022

Year 1 - Forest School - 1B World Book Day

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Year 1A - Book Fortnight - The Extraordinary Gardener

We really enjoyed reading the book 'The Extraordinary Gardener' By Sam Boughton as part of our book fortnight. We have been planting cress, writing instruction on how to plant a seed, acting out the story and doing observational drawings of plants. Take a look at what fun we had!

Year 1 - Forest School - 1A Exploring the Woods

...e woods and celebrating World Book Day by reading and making Stickman....

Year 5 - Reading Art

This half term our whole class reading book is "The Time-Travelling Cat and the Tudor Treasure". In our reading sessions we predicted what we thought the book would be about and made some art inspired by the title of the book, time travel. We created our own ideas of time machines!

Year 5 - Greta and the Giants Roleplay

We are learning about the book Greta and the Giants for the first two weeks of this half term. To help us understand the story more, we acted out the story and even made props inspired by Greta and her friends. We will be writing a blog based on the book

Junior Mental Health Team - Compliment Booklet

... Matvad received a Compliment Booklet today with loads of lovely, kind and caring messages. "This really made my day, I am so happy." We would like to thank the JMHT for an amazing project that they themselves created for Daubeney. "This inspired me to share a compliment with so...

The Junior Literacy Team's Top Tips

Check out the Junior Literacy Team's top tips for filling in your reading records as well as some amazing book recommendations! Comment below and share what you are reading at the moment and your top tips for reading at home

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...

Year 5 - Reading: Art

We are starting a book called The Firework-Maker's Daughter by Phillip Pullman in Year 5 this half term and to get us really excited, we created our own art inspired by fireworks! Have a look at our creative work!

Year 4 - 4B Sharing Assembly: Egyptian Cinderella

In 4B, we have been learning about the Ancient Egyptians so for our sharing assembly, we read a book called the Egyptian Cinderella and acted out the story. We had great fun learning more about the Egyptians

Year 4 - 4K Sharing Assembly: The Hunter

4K sharing assembly was held on 18/11/21 and was inspired by our focus book 'The Hunter.' The children worked so hard to present and act out the story with great confidence. A huge thank you goes to all the parents who came to watch us perform

Year 2 - Computing Summer 2

This half term our topic has been presenting ideas. We have looked at a range of ways to present the story of Goldilocks. We read an e-book, took a quiz and explored concept maps. Last week we made our own quizzes, thinking carefully about the types of questions we wanted to include. We chose from...

Year 3 - Literacy Autumn 2 2023

Toucan class in year 3 had a fantastic day role playing scenes from our book SPEAK UP!

Year 6 - Geography: Physical Geography

We started the lesson by recapping what we learnt last week, first by looking at our floor book and second by completing a recap quiz as a class. We discussed the difference between physical and human geography. We played a game as a class where we had to figure out if the landmark was a physical...

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 - Senses Book

Children were engaged in looking at the pictures of different senses in the books about senses

Year 2 - World Book Day 2025

Year 2 - Research: June 2025

Year 2 used chromebooks to research information and facts about the rainforest to inform their writing

Year 5 - Reading at Daubeney Fields

During SATS week, we enjoyed the outdoors by reading our whole class reading book at Daubeney Fields!

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

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...

Reception - Forest School: May 2025

Receptions first visit to forest school. Exploring the pond and making nature books

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...

Year 5 - World Book Day 2025

...t we dressed up as this World Book Day! Do you recognise the characters we are dressed up as?...

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...

Reception - World Book Day

...ast week, we celebrated World Book Day! Have a look at our costumes!...

Year 3 - Toucan: World Book Day

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Year 3 Kingfisher - World Book Day

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Year 2 - World Book Day

Year 4 Hornbills - World Book Day

...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: 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

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

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Year 2 - Book Fortnight

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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

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 2 - Literacy: Vlad and the Great Fire of London role-play

We start the summer term by reading and exploring a new book, Vlad and the Great Fire of London. We spent the lesson talking about the book then did some freeze frames of different parts o the story

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 - 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...

Spanish - Little Linguists Team

...ived their Language Challenge Booklets, filled with exciting activities to complete throughout the year as they explore new languages and cultures. We can't wait to see their progress!...

Year 2 - Literacy: All About Me Posters

This year, we have had the amazing opportunity to publish our own book. To inspire us to write, we started the process by creating posters all about us to show people the best parts of ourselves

Rainbow Class: RE - Learning about Islam

As part of our RE learning, pupils have been exploring Islam. They were actively engaged in matching key vocabulary words with corresponding images, such as mosque, hijab, prayer mat, Ramadan etc . This supported their understanding of important religious concepts and symbols. Pupils explored the...

Rainbow Class: Body X-Ray Art Fun

As part of our Science and PSHE learning, pupils explored the human body using simple, visual books showing body parts and organs. This was supported by looking at X-ray images of hands, arms and feet, helping pupils understand what is inside the body. Adults used clear language, repetition and...

Year 2 - World Book Day 2026

...e a look at our amazing World Book Day outfits!...

Year 2 - Literacy: How to Live Forever Characters

To help us discover the different characters of the book “How to Live Forever”, we took part in some role play activities. Have a look at how we acted as each of the characters!

Year 4 - Hornbills: Reading

The children in Hornbills are always excited every Tuesday morning when they visit our library. The children are allowed to take books from the library to read in class as part of their independent reading session

Rainbow Class - Reading Fun

Pupils demonstrated strong engagement during reading by independently choosing books from the reading corner and they were looking at the illustrations from it to develop their comprehension skills. Some pupils were able to verbally describe the images to adults with limited support

Year 4 - Science

The children in Year 4 are enjoying their Science learning this term which is all about the states of matter. They discussed the different states of matter and how they change. They also used their Chromebook to research facts and information about the topic

Year 1 Peacocks - World Book Day 2026

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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...

Rainbow Room - Exploring and Learning about Materials

Our pupils have been diving deeper into their science learning this week as they explored a variety of living materials in our investigation tray. The pupils were encouraged to observe, touch and discuss both familiar and unfamiliar items, allowing their natural curiosity to guide their...

Rainbow Class - Shaped Rockets

🚀Zoom Zoom Rockets! 🚀 This week, our pupils were fully engaged in exploring rockets — wow! It has been an exciting journey of discovery, imagination, and hands‑on learning. In our school library, children enjoyed looking through books about spaceships and rockets. They focused on the...

Rainbow Class: Writing and Phonics

Our Rainbow Class pupils have been very busy and dedicated as they practised their handwriting. They worked on writing simple CVC words in their learning books and explored mark‑making through dot‑to‑dot activities to develop fine motor skills and correct pencil grip for accurate letter formation....

Year 4 - Literacy and Art 2026

The children had a fun Literacy lesson today drawing a setting from the book they were reading in class

Year 4 - Literacy

The children in Year 4 were excited today to start reading our whole school book called, Greta and The Giants. The children were inspired by the character Greta and made their own placards to protest against climate change

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

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

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 5 History – Gods and Goddess Fact Cards

Year 5 had lots of creative fun making their own God and Goddess Fact Cards ! They used their historical knowledge along with their creative skills to produce some wonderful fact cards. These will be used in lesson to help us learn more about Ancient Greek Mythology and with our class reading book...

Year 3 Kingfisher - World Book Day

Parrot Class - World Book Day

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Duckling Class - World Book Day 2024

...n Friday, we celebrated World Book Day. We dressed up as our favourite characters from our favourite Books. This included Alice in Wonderland, Muhammed Ali, Kings and Queens, Paddington and many more! We had so much fun!...

Year 5 - Sacred text workshop at the British Library

On their R.E. day, Year 5 students attended a workshop on sacred texts at the British Library. Furthermore, they got to witness various holy books, unique clothing, and objects associated with a certain faith

Year 3 - ICT and Science

The children today, 19-12-2023 used their Chromebooks and their program Purplemash to discover more about our Science topic Rocks and Soil

Year 3 Literacy in the Stone Age

The children in Year 3 had fun today creating ancient paper which they had to travel back into the Stone Age and teach the people how to make. They will use their papers to create a diary entry all about their experience during the Stone Age which is based on the book we are reading

Duckling Class - Library

We enjoyed our last weekly visit until after Christmas to the library. We loved looking at the different books and enjoyed listening to a story

Duckling Class - Library Visit

This week was Group 2s first week at the Library. We enjoyed our walk to Homerton library, we listened carefully to the library rules and then we explored the children's section. We founds lots of books that we would like to read and we were able to bring some of them back to school!

Year 6 - History: The Blitz

To start the lesson, we recapped our learning by doing a recap quiz as well as having a quick flip through the floor book. Then, we learnt lots of information about what the Blitz was and how it impacted people in London. Our task was to collectively film a news report as a class. We divided the...

Spanish - Dia del libro – World Book Day

...t his most famous novel.......ries now taking part in World Book Day Celebrations that encompass everything from reading and writi...

Duckling Class - Our first trip!

Today (16/11/23), was our very first school trip! Group 1 of Duckling Class visited Homerton Library! We enjoyed looking through different books from fiction to Non-fiction, and we enjoyed reading them to each other. We were lucky enough to be able to take books back to school! We are so excited...

Year 1 Protest - Speak Up

Year 1's were inspired by reading the book 'Speak Up' by Nathan Bryon to go on a protest. We went on a protest to convince Mr Logan why we should have a library in our school. We thought of lots of reasons why having a library at our school will benefit us. We enjoyed making placards as...

Year 2 - Spanish - La oruga glotona

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is one of Eric Carle’s best books, and it can be used as a fantastic resource for us to learn the name of some fruits and other food items, days of the week and the words for caterpillar and butterfly in Spanish. Excellent lesson today!

Boys Book Club - 29th March 2021

...ay (29th March 2021) the Boys Book Club met and read a text called The Submarine. They enjoyed answering the questions and reading the story....

Year 2 - Geography and Computing

We learnt about the equator and the north and south poles this week. We explored why these places are either really hot or really cold, and compared their distance to the sun. We used atlases and Google Earth on chromebooks to identify countries that are close to the equator and polar regions and...

Year 5: cross curricular - Human geography in Tanzania

Year 5 spent their afternoon researching human geography in Tanzania. They used Chromebooks to search for settlement patterns, main trade, economy and tourism. All the information was collated, and in their groups, they presented their findings to the class. It was a fun opportunity for kids to...

Year 6: Science - Discovering new animals

After completing the recap quiz as a class, we looked through our floorbook to remind ourselves of what we learnt and made last week. Then, we learnt about vertebrates and invertebrates and how they are different. We learnt about specific types of vertebrates and invertebrates and what makes them...

Year 2 - Art and literacy

Year 2 have been exploring the story of The Magic Bojabi Tree as our long burst writing focus this half term. This week we created scenes from the book using watercolours, thinking about the setting of the story and the animals we would include

Junior Literacy Team 2023/2024

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...

Robin class - World Book Day 2024

Can you guess who we've dressed up as?

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 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

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

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

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

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 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 5 - We love our new library!

We love our new library and we love spending time exploring the books in here!

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

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 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 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

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

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 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 6 - Literacy: Performing Poetry

In today’s reading lesson, we learnt a bit about how poetry can be performed. Joseph Coelho explains that our voice, emotions and body language is important to help the audience understand the point of our poems. We picked some poems from his book “Overheard in the Tower Block” to perform

Hispanic Week – Afternoon film screening

A selected group of children have enjoyed the Madrid-set film, Ferdinand. Based on Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s 1936 children’s book The Story of Ferdinand, this animation film follows an adorable flower-sniffing bull named Ferdinand. Ferdinand is a beautiful film when it comes to...

Year 2 - Literacy: Extra Yarn

To start off our Summer 2 literacy work, we read the book 'Extra Yarn' as part of our whole school book fortnight. We spent time exploring the narrative by working together to retell the story using the main points. We then imagined what it would be like to be one of the characters, and...

Year 5: Art - Textiles

Year 5 made Mexican inspired mood-boards for art. They sketched their ideas into their sketchbooks and it turned out amazing

Duckling Class - Forest School: Summer 2024

This week, we enjoyed Forest School with Miss Clare! We made our own bubble wands using sticks and pipe cleaners. We also had our own small sketch books to sketch, paint and collect leaves and flowers. We had so much fun!

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...

Nurture Group - Reception and Year 1: The Gruffalo

Today we read the book 'The Gruffalo' and used clay to make our favourite characters

Year 3 - 3G: Poetry

In 3G today the children published and performed their poems. All of the poems were inspired by the book Look Up! Look Up! The children have been learning about features of poems this week and have included some of them in their work

Boys Book Club - 22nd March 2021

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Reception Trip to Hommerton Library

Reception went to Homerton Library! We had an amazing time listening to stories, looking at books and talking about the illustrations. We learnt that a library is a quiet place to enjoy reading and a place to borrow books from. Here's what the children have said about the trip; Ayesha "I...

World Book Day 2019

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World Book Day 2018

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World Book Day - Author Visits

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Top Book Recommendations for KS2

On Monday 10 th December, the Junior Literacy Team hosted another amazing assembly; this time for KS2. We recommended some fun and interesting books for children in Year 3 – 6. Here are some of our recommendations: Dork Diaries by Rachel Renee Russell The Boy in The Dress by David Walliams Tom...

Top Book Recommendations for KS1

...Julia Donaldson Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burgular by Emily MacKenzie Have you read any of these Books? What were your favourite Books when you were younger? The Junior Literacy Team enjoyed the assembly as much as the KS1 children! - By Kai Foo Sherwin, 6F, Junior Literacy Team Leader...

Religious Education Day in Year 5

Today, Thursday 2nd of November 2017, the children in Year 5 explored Buddhism. They discussed the significant beliefs and values from the faith and the teachings of Buddha. the children enjoyed learning about the religion and created their own front page for their topic books

Red Class - World Book Day 2018

Reception - Yellow Class: The Three Little Pigs

Yellow Class did a book focus on the well known story 'The Three Little Pigs'. The children enjoyed role playing the story, making the 3D houses and trees and painting the pigs for our display. They did some really good writing around the story. This was focusing on the how the characters...

Year 1 - 1L World Book Day 2019

...d a fun day celebrating World Book Day! We loved dressing up as our favourite Book characters and we made our own Bookmarks and front covers!...

Reception - Yellow Class: 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy

We had a fabulous week focusing on the story 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy. The children learnt all about onomatopoeia words. We pointed out many of them in the story and we thought of some of our own onomatopoeia words, which we then put into our literacy writing. As part of the...

Reception - Yellow Class World Book Day 2019

We dressed up as characters from our favourite stories. We had a fabulous, fun day

Reception - Yellow Class Visit the Library

Yellow Class have been on their first trip to the local library. We walked all the way there and the children were so sensible and grown up. Mrs Addai and all the grown ups who accompanied us on the trip were very proud of all the children. The librarian read us a story called 'Handa's...

Reception - Red Class World Book Day 2019

Reception - Red Class Visit Homerton Library

Red class had an amazing time visiting the Library. We enjoyed walking to the library. It was great fun walking through all those colourful autumn leaves and we even spotted some pumpkins on the way. When we finally got there, the children sat beautifully listening to a story about a cow that laid...

Poem by Maelle

Maëlle in 4P was so inspired by books that she wrote this fantastic poem at home and wanted to share it with everyone at Daubeney

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'....

Parents' Day 2017

Parents’ Day will be on Monday 20th March 2017 from 11am – 7pm. The school will be closed for children but it would be advisable for them to attend the appointment with their parents. All parents will be allocated a 10 minute slot in which time the teacher will discuss their...

World Book Week in Nursery

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Year 1 - 1P World Book Day 2018

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Nursery Reads 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy

This week nursery have been reading the book 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy. We have enjoyed acting out the story and using a range of story props. We also received an invitation from Owl to join Baby Bear for a picnic on the moon. So........... nursery made some jam sandwiches for our...

Year 3 - Boys Reading Club - 20th March 2019

Today (20th March 2019) was a fun session for the year 3 boys reading club with Mr T.J. The boys read a book all about super heroes and enjoyed the special powers each hero had. During the session, a very special visitor came in, Mr Fahy, who helped the boys with their activity. They had to give...

Year 3 Literacy - Gregory Cool

We have been focusing on the text Gregory Cool. The book is about a young boy who travels to the Caribbean island of Tobago, to spend the summer with his grandparents. Upon his arrival he realizes, the lifestyle in Tobago is much different from the lifestyle in London. We are using this book to...

Year 3 Celebrate World Book Day 2019

...rite Books to celebrate World Book Day. Can you guess who they are?...

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 3 - World Book Day 2019

...had a blast celebrating World Book Day. Take a look at their amazing costumes below!...

Year 3 - Trip to the Polka Theatre

Year 3 have just been on a school visit to the Polka, theatre in Wimbledon to watch 'Chocolate Cake' based onthe poem written and performed by Michael Rosen. The show was really funny. The best bit 'was when Michael ate the chocolate cake in a funny way when he shouldn't have'...

Year 3 - Reading Club

Today (13th March 2019) the Year 3 reading club met with Mr TJ and Mr Matvad and read a story which linked with our British Science Week. The book was called 'I have an Idea' and showed many great inventions from past to present. The Year 3 boys will be meeting every week, on Wednesday to...

Year 3 - George's Marvellous Medicine

Year 3 had a very exciting lesson as they were introduced to the story of George’s Marvellous Medicine. The class had to make a medicine to turn Grandma into something evil! They wrote a set of instructions to make their medicine using ingredients that George used around his house. When they...

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 - Boys Book Club

...d 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 1 - 1P World Book Day 2019

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Year 3 - 3G: A Good Book

Members of 3G proving you can always find time for a good book

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 2 - Conscience Alley

Over the next two weeks in literacy, we will be learning about how to write an excellent informal letter. Today, we read a book called “The Day the Crayons Quit”. It is about a boy, called Duncan, and how his crayons quit and left him because they were not happy with how he was treating...

Year 2 - 2C Trip to the Library

This week, we got to go to the Homerton Library! We met the librarians who told us all about the library and what we could do there! Did you know that you can borrow books, read books and even use the computers to find out new things? We also found out that to borrow books and use the computers you...

Year 2 - 2C Traction Man and Our Favourite Toy

This week we read a book called Traction Man is here and it is about a helpful action figure who saves the lives of characters like the dollies and spoons. Today, we brought our favourite toy to school and drew a scene where our favourite toy and Traction Man go on an adventure. We made sure to...

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...

Year 1 - World Book Day 2017

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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...

Our Book Corners

We love reading in our creatively decorated book corners. Each class has a wide selection of books to choose from and we enjoy reading different genres. We can sit and share books with our friends as well as take books home to read with our families

Nursery - World Book Day 2019

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Year 4 - World Book Day 2017

... Book corner!...

Blue Class - World Book Day 2018

Blue class are celebrating world book day! they have dressed in their favourite character from their favourite book!

Black History Month 2017

Black History Month is celebrated annually for the remembrance of important people and events in the history of the African heritage. During the month of October, this is a time when communities and schools give special attention to learning about the contributions and history of black people. When...

Autumn Book Fortnight

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April Book Fair

...e had another very successful Book Fair at Daubeney! There was a fantastic selection of Books and th......e in 6F who helped to run the Book Fair with Miss Fergus and well done to Elisabeth in 4C who bought......and children that visited the Book Fair. Thanks to everyone's efforts, we have earned lots of reward...

Alex Milway Visits Year 4

Year 4 were joined by the Author and illustrator Alex Milway . He told us all about his books where the characters are mythical creatures and even created some new characters based on our ideas!

6S - Re-Creating London Skyline

In year 6 we have started a new book called 'The London Eye Mystery'. To immerse ourselves in the story, we have re-created the London skyline using our artistic skills. Have a look at some of the magnificent pieces of artwork we created. Mr Swarbrick even had a go

400 years of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare

... 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 celebrated this special anniversary with our KS2 pupils. We made th...

2K - 'Me and You' by Anthony Brown

As part of our literacy unit on Traditional Tales, we have been reading the book 'Me and You' by Anthony Brown. We based our assembly on this amazing book and retold the story by creating a short trailer and rehearsed the story line. We had lots of fun practising and trying to portray the...

Boys Book Club - 12th February 2019

Today (12th February 2019) the boys were excited to use the iPads to read a story. We used the website Find a book from Oxford Owl , where you can register for free and there a many different books you can read online, different genres, ages and it has the option of a story being read to you. Try...

Boys Book Club

... (22nd January 2019) the Boys Book Club members met for their first session. Our first activity was to complete a survey to establish our views on Books, reading and reading for pleasure. Our session then began with reading genres that we usually enjoy. So we decided to read a range of comic Books a...

Boys Book Club - 12th March 2019

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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...

EcoACTIVE Awards

Eco-Team went to the Science Museum for the EcoACTIVE Awards. We had a really exciting day and our project scrapbook won £100 pounds to help our school become more Eco-friendly! Thank you to all who supported the team with all their hard work so far this year!

Nursery - World Book Day 2017

...avourite characters for World Book Day. They enjoyed spotting their characters in Books and read even more than they usually do. Hao-di said, "I am a very scary pirate! There are lots of Books about me! Let's find them all!" Take a look at the photos and see if you can guess which...

Nursery - World Book Day

...derful time celebrating World Book Day! The children and staff dressed up in their favourite Book characters and enjoyed reading and talking about their favourite Books. Take a look at our photographs to see all the fantastic costumes....

November Book Fair

...ure you come next time!......ergus to organize and run the Book Fair. A special thank you to Salma, Kemari and Kelicia in Year 6 ......ayed to help out and keep the Book Fair open until 5pm so that the children in after school clubs di...

Literacy September Parent Workshop

We had a great turn out for our first literacy parent workshop of the term. KS1 parents had the opportunity to learn some fun ways to support their children with reading at home. Their children also attended and it was great to see parents and children enjoying reading together by discussing the...

Literacy

In Literacy we have been reading the book called Flaminals. We had so much fun creating our own monsters this week! Which one is your favourite monster? Why?

Junior Literacy Team Meet SLT

On Thursday 7th March, the Junior Literacy Team were invited to meet with Mr Logan, Mr Dharma, Ms Lucey, Ms Gustave, Ms Bibi, Ms Corpe and Ms Cenac (Senior Leadership Team). We discussed ways to encourage reading and writing throughout the school – even in Nursery! It was a great opportunity to...

Guitar and Ukulele

We have had a lot of success teaching ukulele to our Reception class. They have been working from a book called Ukulele Magic and can play a song called "Thumb Brush Strum."

First Week in Year 6

It has been a busy but exciting first week back for our new Year 6s. They have had to demonstrate incredible resilience as their first task was to complete a round of assessments. The children met this challenge with grit and determination and were still smiling at the end. We have spent time...

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...

Boys Book Club - 19th March 2019

The boys book club met today on the 19th March 2019 and enjoyed reading their favourite books in our cosy book corner. The boys then began to identify someone who would like to read their book - recommending their book with persuasive language

Creative Arts - Art and Design Technology

At Daubeney, the children are given the opportunity to have a broad, balanced and exciting curriculum. Art is taught through our cross-curricular lessons with a special focus during Art weeks throughout the year. We will inspire, engage and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and...

Christmas Number 1

Tell your Ma, tell your Pa, tell the whole wide world….we at Daubeney are proud to make an attempt at a Christmas number 1 single. The epic tale began last Christmas when two young girls, Iris Roberts and Mia Kaur came forward with their own stellar composition for our Christmas carol...

Boys Book Club - Reading to Our Nursery Pupils

Today (26th March 2019) the boys book club pupils were super excited as they got to go to our nursery to read for our young stars. Each boy in the book club read a story to a nursery pupil and then discussed the story. Another bonus was when they were allowed to play with the nursery children for...

Boys Book Club - Poetry in the Garden

... 26th February 2019, the Boys Book Club made the most of the sunny day and enjoyed their session in our lovely Hop Garden. The boys read a selection of poems, then had the chance to recite some poems to their peers. It was a fun session filled with laughs and enjoyment. We were inspired by poems wri...

Boys Book Club - 5th March 2019

The boys book club today (5th March 2019) read a selection of short stories and had the opportunity to focus on their comprehension skills. The boys read their text then answered questions about the text. In our session, the boys were encouraged to make some questions of their own. Can you make up...

Boys Book Club - 5th February 2019

Today (5th February 2019) the boys read a very interesting extract called 'The Storm'. It was a story filled with similes, personification and metaphors, which made the story come alive. We sat in the book corner, all cosy, protected from the storm. We invited Mr TJ from City Year to join us and...

Boys Book Club - 30th April 2019

Today (30th April 2019) the boys in the book club enjoyed reading stories online. The boys used iPads and searched for famous stories and read the stories. There are many free websites that cater for children's stories. We particularly enjoyed Oxford Owl where you can sign up for free and enjoy...

Boys Book Club - 29th January 2019

... (29th January 2019) the Boys Book Club enjoyed a cosy session reading in the hall. We had a fire-place lit for us courtesy of YouTube and read some of our favourite Books. It felt like we were in a living room, with a real fire place roaring as we enjoyed reading our Books. Hopefully next time we c...

Boys Book Club - 23rd April 2019

Today (23rd April 2019) the boys book club enjoyed a story all about Saint George and his amazing adventures. The boys were encouraged to research more information about St. George and learn more facts about the interesting character

Year 3's Black History Month

In honour of Black History Month, the Year 3 students went on a trip to Sutton House. We were given a Black History Month activity trial where we learned all about famous historical black leaders. We had alot of fun, and we each got an educational booklet to take home

Year 4 - World Book Day 2018

...r 4 had an exhilarating World Book Day, dressing up and partaking in a range of activities! Take a look at their creative costumes......

Boys Book Club - 15th March 2021

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Nursery Love to Dress Up!

Daubeney nursery dressing up everyday, children can choose accessories to match their outfits. We have been role playing and retelling stories using masks and props. If you look carefully you will see even Spiderman loves a good book!

Year 1 - 1L World Book Day 2020

1L had an amazing time celebrating world book day today! We came dressed as our favourite book characters, we made our own bookmarks and finger puppets as well as designing our own book front covers! We worked together to make a big book themed art piece too!

World Book Day in Year 2

Year 2 had a great time dressing up as our favourite book characters. We did lots of talking (mostly about different books) and lots of different activities. What a fantastic day!

Reception - Blue Class: World Book Day 2020

Blue class dressed up in their favourite book character today (6th March 2020). It was really nice to see them happy and cheerful. Blue class carefully listened to the stories they bought into school throughout the day inside and out

Nursery - World Book Day 2020

Boys Book Club - 2nd March 2020

Today (2nd March 2020) the boys enjoyed a clam and relaxing reading session. They listened to soothing music while reading their favourite book. We also had the opportunity to discuss the book by Vanessa Taylor called 'Baller Boys', which was dedicated to Mr Reece, who was and will always be part...

Boys Book Club - 24th February 2029

...(24th February 2029) the Boys Book Club met and read the story 'Cool Clive' by Michaela Morgan. The boys were very interested in the story and especially fascinated to see how the character wanted to be as cool as his friends. They then created their own 'COOL' front cover for a story they would lik...

Year 4 - Graphic Novels

Today (4th February 2020) the children enjoyed reading a selection of comics and discussed what they liked about comics. They also discussed what makes a comic interesting and identified the features of a comic. As part of our genre, this week children will be looking at comics and next week will...

Boys Book Club - 27th January 2020

Today (27th January 2020) the boys book club watched and read a story from the myths and legends website , which is a free website with many interesting myths and legends. Every session before the boys book club start we read a story and have fun discussing it. Today the boys selected their...

Boys Book Club - 20th January 2020

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Baller Boys Author Visit

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Boys Book Club - 13th January 2019

... (13th January 2020) the Boys Book Club members met for the first session in Spring term. The boys read their favourite genre, Comic Books and next week during our Book club meeting (every Monday afternoon) we will be creating our own comic Books....

Year 1 - 1S Jolly Christmas Postman Artwork

In 1S, we have been very busy with all things Christmas and have absolutely loved reading the story of the Jolly Christmas Postman! During Art, we sketched one of our favourite pages from the book - 1S are incredible artists, they were concentrating very hard on their artwork as you can see in this...

Autumn Book Fair 2019

...ther VERY busy and successful Book Fair at Daubeney! You spent over £1000 buying amazing Books to r......Fergus to organise and run the Book Fair. A special thank you to all the adults that helped out and ......r details on the next Daubeney Book fair....

Year 1 - 1S Sharing Assembly

We had our first assembly of Year 1 last Thursday! We loved reading the book 'Dear Zoo' and acting it out on stage! After reading the story, we were inspired to think about pets we might like to have, from fire breathing dragons, to bush babies and finger monkeys...! In literacy we have...

Year 2 - No Pen Day in 2P

We had a fun day today! We read our favourite books, played lots of different maths games and using our amazing vocabulary to describe different landmarks in the UK. At first, some of us weren’t sure how we’d be able to do anything without using pens but we soon realised that there are...

Year 2 - No Pen Day in 2C

Have you ever not used pens in school? That’s what we did today! We spent a whole day doing learning without using pens! We did lots of things we enjoy like reading books, learn about landmarks in the UK by playing a game and we even played games in maths that made us think a lot! Are you...

Year 4 - 4M Non Fiction Session

Today (8th November 2019) the children in 4M explored many different non-fiction texts. During our guided reading session, each group read a selection of non-fiction books and recorded key facts and information they learnt. It was fun reading non-fiction books, we learnt many new facts about...

Year 2 - 2C The Lion and the Mouse

For the first two weeks of the half term, we are looking at the picture book "The Lion and the Mouse". To help us get excited and fully understand the story we have been role playing the story and painting a picture of one of the main characters, the lion. Take a look at our photos!

Hello to 3G

Hi 3G, I wanted to check in with you all and I hope you are doing ok? I can see that so many of you have been doing lots of your home learning which is great. Do not forget to look after yourself in other ways too, exercise is very important as is your mental wellbeing. Remember the breathing...

Mr Gumpy's Motor Car - Picture Book Story for Younger Pupils

Reception - Stay and Read Sessions in Blue Class

Blue class have really enjoyed parents staying for Stay and Read. Children have listened to stories that adults have read and shown a great interest in books. Big thank you to all the parents who have attended our stay and read sessions

1L Look Up!

Our literacy focus for the first two weeks of Autumn 2 has been a book called Look Up! We enjoyed reading the book, acting it out, hotseating characters from the story and learning lots of facts about space! We even drew our own space pictures! I wonder what you will see when you look up?

World Book Day - 2021

Year 6 WOW Day

We have been studying World War 2 and for WOW Day we had a range of different activities to celebrate all of our learning. We learn about Anderson shelters and rationing and then we had to design our own ration books as well as build our own Anderson shelters in class. Take a look at our marvellous...

Boys Book Club - 14th December 2020

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Boys Book Club - 7th December 2020

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Boys Book Club - 30th November 2020

Today 30 November 2020 the boys discussed our story and started to answer the comprehension questions about the story. They focused on using the text to support their answers

November Book Fair 2020

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Boys Book Club - 23rd November 2020

Today 23 November 2020 the boys book club met and read a story ’George the giant tortoise’. We used our reading stems to discuss the story and looked at answering questions about the story

Boys Book Club - 16th November 2020

The Year 4 boys met today 16-11-2020 and enjoyed reading a selection of books which were their favourite books. We had many different genres and discussed which books we enjoyed most

Year 5 - Publishing Poetry

Today, we published the poetry we had been writing which was all about what were appreciate in our lives! This was limited to a whole school book we studied called Look Up!

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Chapter 13 has been added. This is the last chapter is the book. I hope you enjoyed it. If you want to continue with the series, the next book is called The Reptile Room! Who is your favourite character and why? What do you predict will happen next?! Does anything about this story frustrate you?...

Year 4 - Recommended Books

Check out the wonderful Year 4 pupils recommending books for you to read. Do comment and let us know if you enjoyed reading the recommendations or have your own books to recommend for Year 4

Year 3 - Recommended Books

Check out the wonderful Year 3 pupils recommending books for you to read. Do comment and let us know if you enjoyed reading the recommendations or have your own books to recommend for Year 3

Junior Literacy Team 2020/2021

I am excited to introduce the new members of the Junior Literacy Team! They are eager to share their passion for reading and writing with everyone at Daubeney. Watch this space for book reviews, book recommendations, literacy tutorials, competitions and more!

Summer Reading Challenge

The Hackney Libraries Summer Reading Challenge encourages children aged 4 to 11 to enjoy the benefits of reading for pleasure over the summer holidays, providing lots of fun as well as preventing the summer reading ‘dip’. Although public library buildings are closed, libraries will continue to...

Virtual Assembly - 30th June 2020

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Virtual Library

Here is an amazing virtual library filled with fantastic books that can read at home for free. Browse around and choose any book to read. All you have to do is click on the book cover to open the link. Enjoy!

Virtual Assembly - 3rd June 2020

Coping with Change Worried about Coronavirus? Try reading Everybody Worries - A picture book for children who are worried about Coronavirus

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 1 - Story Narrating: The Lion and The Mouse

Year 1 have been reading the wordless book The Lion and The Mouse this week as part of our Whole School book fortnight. We thought about what was happening on each page and explored how we could tell the story ourselves

Junior Literacy Team 2019/20

Meet the Daubeney Junior Literacy Team - An enthusiastic group of children in KS2 with a love of reading and passion for writing! They will be supporting Miss Fergus in promoting Literacy across the school through assemblies, events and competitions. They will also be in charge of keeping all book...

Year 4 - World Book Day 2019

Year 5 - Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPAG)

Today (25th April 2019) the Year 5 children were focusing on their Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPAG) objectives and looked at combining sentences using connectives. They were given a range of sentences and had to connect them using suitable connectives. Can you spot any connectives in your...

Year 6 Spanish Champions Visit The Urswick School

Our Year 6 Spanish champions visited a Spanish Year 7 class at The Urswick School on Tuesday. It was a fantastic opportunity for them to know what Spanish is like in KS3, to see Spanish textbooks and to work with Year 7 children, helping each other and sharing their experiences and impressions

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?

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 5 - World Book Day 2019

The children had so much fun today (8th March 2019) dressing up as their favourite book characters. There were many amazing costumes and the children celebrated the day by reading some of their favourite books and talking to their peers about books that they recommended

Year 5 - World Book Day 2018

...e today dressing up for World Book Day. There were some amazing costumes, even Mr Matvad and Mr Martykan came dressed up! Check the cool invisible man in our photos....

Year 5 - World Book Day

5M had a wonderful day dressing up as our favourite book characters, even our teacher came as ZORRO. We enjoyed reading stories and creating our own stories, where we rediscovered our love for books

Year 5 - The Night Sky

Year 5 had the opportunity to have a parent in to teach them about Art. Children were able to create a backdrop of the night sky from an image from our theme book - The heart and the bottle. We used paint and various different materials to create our own star to put in the night sky. We hope to...

Year 5 - Story Time in 5M

The children were excited today to begin writing their own story based on the book we are reading in class. The children used many features of writing today like; similes, personification, fronted adverbials and varied sentence starters. Each day this week the children will be writing a part of...

Year 5 - Role Play: 'Welcome' by Barroux

The children in 5M were excited today (1st November 2018) when we read the story 'Welcome' by Barroux, a great book discussing issues of migration and kindness. The children got the opportunity to role play scenes from the story and then we put all the scenes together to make the story come...

Year 5 - Publishing Our Biographies

The year 5 pupils were focused while they published their biographies. They used their drafts in their books, along with notes they made and began to publish the biography. On Thursday the children will do their 'Hot Task', where they will write a biography on a different person using notes...

Year 5 - Literacy and Art

Our whole school focus book this term, 'Where's Elephant' is an amazing book about an elephant who falls victim to deforestation. The children in year 5 were excited to draw the before and after effects of deforestation. They captured the colour and size of the jungle and then showed the same...

Year 5 - Leaflets

The Year 5 children were busy today (18th October 2018) publishing their leaflets. They used the key features of a leaflet and their frame, along with their information in their books, which they were writing this week. Ask your children over the half-term holiday to create a leaflet on any topic...

Year 5 - Imaginary Worlds and Words

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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 5 - Book Corner

The children in 5M were extremely proud of their book corner today (3rd April 2019) when they re-packed the booked corner ensuring their learning space is a space that not only looks good, but has a welcoming feel to read books for pleasure. 5M would like to welcome anyone to come along and read in...

Year 5 - Beast Quest!

The children in Year 5 are loving our new selection of fiction books. The latest craze is Beast Quest by Adam Blade. In this series, two young children bravely taken on mythical and magical beast. Their quest leads them to amazing destinations and incredible adventures. If anyone is interested in...

Year 5 - Author Karen McCombie Visits for World Book Day

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Year 4 - Guided Reading

The children in Year 4 enjoyed a free choice reading session today where they selected some of their favourite books to read. Some children read the Harry Potter series which I'm sure Mr Swarbrick would love to read

Boys Book Club - 14th May 2019

Today (14th May 2019) the boys in the book club had a rather relaxed and quiet session where they each found a book they liked and read. The boys discussed the books with each other and asked their friends what they thought they liked/disliked the book

Boys Book Club - 2nd July 2019

Today (2nd July 2019) the boys in the reading club decided to sit in front of the classroom fan and relax while reading a selection of thriller stories. The children enjoyed reading the stories which made them use their prediction skills to predict the ending and in addition they enjoyed the...

Year 3 - First Day in 3T

Although new experiences can be really scary and nerve-wracking, the new 3T have shown that they are real troopers and have settled into Year 3 life wonderfully! In 3T, the tables are named after famous artists, such as Picasso and Frida Kahlo. After finding out a little about each artist, 3T...

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 2 - 2C Comics

This week, we have been learning about comics and we even drew one of our own based on the book Journey by Aaron Becker. We learnt that comics have lots of pictures and lots of thought and speech bubbles. An amazing comic will also have onomatopoeia. Do you know what an onomatopoeia is? Our...

Junior Literacy Team visit the Nursery

On Tuesday 18th June, the Junior Literacy Team visited the Nursery to read stories to the children. The team sat in the 'Reading Jungle', the Nursery's book corner and read books including Curious George and even a book by Mo Farah called 'Ready Steady Mo'. The children loved...

Boys Book Club - 18th June 2019

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Boys Book Club - 11th June 2019

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Boys Book Club - 21st May 2019

Today (21st May 2019) the Boys in the book club were treated to a selection of myths and legends, stories with witches, dragons, wizards and adventures. After reading some stories we got a chance to watch a myth using the Myths and legends website, which is free and has loads of amazing myths to...

Boys Book Club - 7th May 2019

Today (7th May 2019) the boys book club discussed the importance of having a good front cover. So we decided to use this session to use our art skills to design and draw our own front cover. The boys had fun designing their front covers and coming up with amazing titles for their books

Maths Family Workshop

This workshop had a focus of using stories to teach mathematics and helping children develop mastery. The parents had the opportunity to learn strategies to help with the mastery of concept: everything from basic counting to doing algebra. The book we focused on was "One is a snail, ten is a...

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,...