PSHE - Jigsaw

Intent One of the integral features of the Blossom Federation curriculum. The backbone of PSHCE is our JIGSAW programme. Jigsaw connects the pieces of Personal, Social and Health Education, emotional literacy, social skills and citizenship, carrying out a mindful approach to PSHCE which brings...

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 -...

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....

Ambassadors

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

Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL)

Introduction to OPAL OPAL stands for Outdoor Play and Learning and is a programme endorsed and supported by Sport England . OPAL's mission statement is "To ensure that every schoolchild has an amazing playtime every day with no exceptions." We aim to: improve well-being develop self-regulation...

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...

Privacy Notice

We hold personal data about pupils to support teaching and learning, to provide pastoral care and to assess how the school is performing. We may also receive data about pupils from other organisations including, but not limited to, other schools, local authorities and the Department for Education....

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...

Daubeney Village

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

Free School Meals

Our Catering Team works very hard to prepare a delicious and varied diet. As School Meals are universally free in London thanks to the Mayor of London, we expect all children to have a hot meal during the day. Pupil premium and free school meals If your child is eligible for ‘free school meals’ and...

Maths

...e relationships between them and the patterns within those numbers. By providing frequent and varied opportunities to build and apply this understanding - such as using manipulatives, including small pebbles and tens frames for organising counting - children will develop a secure base of knowledge a...

Year 1

Class Teachers Meet the Teacher Phonics Screener Meeting Pupil Survey Survey Link PE Day - Friday Please ensure your child brings their PE kit and suitable footwear to school every Friday in a bag. At home, please allow your child to practice getting changed by themselves to help them to be able to...

Assessment

...earning as they possibly can. By assessing children’s achievements in their work, further progress......eaching, assessing then planning. By interpreting the evidence in a range of children’s work, teac...

Music

...and perform in bigger groups. By the end of a child’s music journey, it is our intention that they have the confidence and curiosity to know how to be individually and collaboratively creative in their next music journey. Music in the EYFS The development of children’s artistic and cultural awar...

Nurture Group - The Nest

The Nest is a place for children to have the opportunity to grow in confidence and become engaged, successful learners in their classrooms and the school community. Nurture is an environment where adults and children work closely together; a place where mistakes and accidents are discussed; where...

Forest School

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

Ofsted

The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. Following a recent visit by Ofsted’s inspectors (October 2023), we are...

PE and Sports Premium

Across the Blossom Federation, we have prioritised PE and sport in our budget to enhance children’s participation, involvement, and attainment in PE. We are committed to ensuring our children understand the importance of being active, to have a healthy lifestyle and to enjoy sports and games...

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...

Spanish

Pupils at our school learn Spanish and enjoy the benefits of starting to learn a foreign language at an early age. Learning a foreign language provides an opening to other cultures, fosters pupils’ curiosity and deepens their understanding of the world. It helps them to develop communication...

SEND and Our Local Offer

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

Pupil Premium

The Government believes that the Pupil Premium, which is additional to main school funding, is the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and their peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who...

Science and Sustainability

Science We recognise the importance of Science in every aspect of daily life. As one of the core subjects taught in Primary Schools, we give the teaching and learning of Science the prominence it requires. Our vision for science is, “to ensure that children are given a science curriculum, which...

Computing

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

Humanities - History & Geography

...new resources (e.g. Daubeney’s History Learning Timeline) Impact By the end of a topic all children will be able to know and talk about what they have learnt. They will be able to talk about the essential pieces of knowledge as well as the process of learning using key vocabulary. children will...

Physical Education

...ent with both objects and adults. By creating games and providing opportunities for play both indoors and outdoors, adults can support children to develop their core strength, stability, balance, spatial awareness, co-ordination and agility. Gross motor skills provide the foundation for developing h...

School Uniform

Daubeney is a ‘uniform school’ this is supported by the SLT and the Governors. We believe that a school uniform is important: It looks smart Wears well Contributes to a sense of belonging and community Gives a common purpose Makes children feel equal to their peers in terms of appearance Fosters a...

School Council

Daubeney School Council are a hardworking and enthusiastic group of children from years 3-6. They are the voice of their peers. They are elected every academic year by their peers in a democratic fashion of campaign, speech and voting. The School Council is made up of three committees. Admin...

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...

Safeguarding

At Daubeney we are passionate about and committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff and visitors to share this commitment. We are fully committed to ensuring that consistent effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support...

Resources for Parents

Behaviour at Home Hello and welcome to these mini presentations about understanding and managing behaviour at home. These presentations seek to help us to understand where misbehaviour may come from as well as providing us with some practical ways of managing misbehaviour. They also provide us with...

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...

Year 5

Class Teachers Residential 2025 Parent Meeting Spelling test Spellings will be handed out on a Friday and the test will be the following Friday. Times tables tests Times tables will be handed out on a Friday and the test will be the following week. This is timed so please try to practice using a...

Year 6 – Eagles Class: Into University

Monday We learnt about what liberal arts are and the subjects that make it up. We took part in a carousel activity about psychology, philosophy, classics and social sciences. At each activity, we learnt about what that subject means and then completed an activity that relates to our learning. An...

Spanish Champions at Tate Modern

A group of Spanish Champions had the chance to visit the Tate Modern this week, where they explored various works of art by Hispanic artists. Amongst these artists was Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born visual artist and sculptor. Her work took the form of a long crack in the floor in 2007, and today...

Year 4M Science Experiment at Cardinal Pole Secondary School

The children in Year 4M had an amazing Science lesson at Cardinal Pole Secondary School today, 2-02-2023. They were able to use the amazing facilities of their science lab. The children were taught by a secondary science teacher and had a fabulous session where they used Bunsen burners and...

Year 5 – Mexican textiles

As we start a new Content and Language Integrated project at Daubeney, children today had the opportunity to revisit their historical, geographical and cultural knowledge of Mexico through a range of different sources. Students were introduced to los rebozos, and a range of different textiles –...

Year 5 - Geography: Mapping Skills Day

What are the 8 points of a compass? What are thematic maps? What about a topographical map? On this Mapping Skills Day, we learnt that maps can tell us a lot of information, including how much rainfall a place may get. We ended the day by making our own maps out of salt dough

Year 5 - Literacy: Conscience Alley

Should Harry Potter stay with the Dursley's or go with Hagrid to Hogwarts? What do you think? Would you trust going to a new school with someone you've just met? We debated this by doing a conscience alley and had some amazing arguments!

Year 2 - Science: Week 5

This week we finished off our topic of 'environment' by recycling household items that we had brought in. We made a whole range of new items out of something old that would have gone in the bin! Lava lamps, jewellery boxes, jet packs....the ideas were endless!

Year 4 Story Telling with Phil McDermott

The children in Year 4 had a great story telling session with Phil McDermott today (2-02-2023). There was so much laughter as Phil told stories that grabbed their imagination and it was full of humour. We loved the stories and the funny facial actions used by our story teller

Year 1 A - Story Seekers Project

We had a brilliant telling session from Miss Gustave a few weeks ago. We were inspired by Miss Gustave's story and then came up with our own Anansi stories. Have fun listening to our stories!

Year 5 - Geography WOW Day: Turkey

To end our topic of learning about Turkey, we created some art inspired by Turkish ceramics and appreciated Turkish food with a celebration at the end of the day. We learnt that blue is a prominent colour in Turkish culture and we evaluated the food that we ate and thought about what we liked about...

Computing Week 3

This week we explored binary trees and worked collaboratively to think of questions that could be used to classify a range of avatars. We then tested our binary tree to make sure each question worked well and we could identify each avatar by asking yes/no questions

Year 5 - History: Windrush and Hackney

What is the link between Hackney and the Windrush generation? Today, we investigated this by looking at images and maps of bombs sites in Hackney. We also reminded ourselves of the experiences of Windrush generation after they arrived in the UK by watching some videos. Finally, we learnt about the...

Year 5 - Literacy: Instructional text

For their short burst genre, Year 5 were introduced to instructional texts. First, they learnt about different features which was then followed up by a practical task (Origami-style ships)

Year 2 - Maths: Time

This week we have been focusing on time in our maths lessons. We started by making our own clocks, thinking carefully about where the numbers go and what each hand measures. We then used them to show a range of times including o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to

Family Phonics Workshop

Today we went through all of phase 5. We looked at split digraphs and created a 'spelling snake'. We made our snakes really long by reading the words and matching it with the correct snake. Do you recognise these split digraphs? a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e. Take a look at what we had

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 2 - Jigsaw: Week 1

This half term our Jigsaw topic is 'Change'. We began the topic by thinking about how a range of animals change from babies to adults. We discussed how some animals are born with the same features as their respective adults, and also thought about how some baby animals are completely...

Year 2 - Beach Trip 2024

This week year 2 had the best time at the beach! We travelled by coach to Margate and spent the day in the sun! We went into the sea, played football on the beach, painted pictures, buried our legs in the sand, there was so much to do!

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 2 - Character Puppets

We made our own character puppets to help us explore character feelings and emotions, with characters from The Magic Bojabi Tree. We thought about how each character was perceived by the other animals versus how they actually might feel and want to be seen

Year 5 - Literacy: Adverts

Today, we started our new topic on adverts. We started the lesson off by watching some ads and discussing the purpose of those adverts. We then learnt about the features of written ads so that we are equipped to make our own next week!

Year 5 - Geography: Jane Goodall

Do you know who Jane Goodall is? We learnt that she is a zoologist who dedicated her life to learning about chimpanzees in Tanzania. We learnt lots of things about her and we put our new-found knowledge into practice by creating a comic of the key events of her life!

School Choir Trip to Homerton Hospital

The school choir, led by the inimitable Kari Stewart, performed in the Foyer of Homerton Hospital spreading joy and Christmas cheer. The children sang their hearts out and did the school proud. Here are some ot the hits we sang:

Year 2 - Maths Number Lines

We practised ordering numbers by creating a human number line. Each child had to find their place on the number line and think about what number comes before and after them

Year 2 - Mapping Skills Day

We had lots of fun learning about how to use maps today. We explored directions and practised giving a partner directions around the room. We then discussed bird's eye view maps and used one of our school to navigate our way around the school grounds. We finished by creating a map of the UK,...

Year 2 - Continents and Oceans

We learnt all about the 7 continents and 5 oceans recently. We used an atlas to help us locate places and identify countries in each continent as well as the oceans that are nearby

Year 2 - Spanish Christmas Cards

This term in Year 2 we have learnt numbers, colours and shapes through Cubism and Pablo Picasso's art. Today we have decorated our own Christmas cards inspired by his work

Year 2 – Art lesson - Pablo Picasso

Something different this week for Year 2 students who have had the opportunity to learn about Pablo Picasso’s life and art style. Students have designed their own abstract portraits inspired by the work of the Spanish artist. Very creative and interesting pieces of work!

Year 3 - Mapping Day

The children in year 3 enjoyed their mapping day where they learnt all about co-ordinates, using a compass for directions, map symbols and they ended their sessions by drawing their own map of our local area

Year 5 - WOW Day: Ancient Greece

We created vases inspired by ancient Greeks using recyclable items. First, we created the base and structure of the vase which was then followed by decorating the vase. This was a great way to end our topic on Ancient Greece where we learnt about how and where they had an influence on modern society

Year 6 - Art WOW Day 2024

We began this week’s lesson by recalling wood blocking techniques and how we would replicate that using polystyrene. We also looked back at our designs for our polystyrene printing pattern. For our WOW day we found out that we were going to do some of the techniques that we had learned about. First...

Year 5 - Hackney School of Food

This week, we went to Hackney School of Food where we learnt about knife skills, kitchen safety and how to create a healthy and balanced meal. We did everything ourselves! We cut our own vegetables, prepared a sauce by grinding up ingredients in a mortar and pestle and even made our own meatballs...

Reception End of Year Trip 2024

We went on a trip to Cedar’s Nature Centre in Waltham Abbey. The coach took us to the park where we went straight to the little zoo. We had a talk from a zoo keeper about different animals and got to stroke a few. We went on a minibeast hunt around the parkland, seeing if we could spot pond...

Year 5 - DT: Moving Dragons

Did you know that this last weekend was Chinese New Year? It is a celebration that takes place all around the world and celebrates the new year according to the lunar calendar. To celebrate this, we made moving dragons in DT, using cardboard, paper and split pins. It contains a lever and by moving...

The Nest - Making Sandwiches

We watched a video on how to make a Jam sandwich and then tried it all by ourselves. "it taste delicious"

Reception - Old MacDonalds Farm

On Thursday, we visited Old MacDonalds Farm for our end of year trip. We had so much fun! We started off by looking at the animals where we saw pigs, goats, cows, meerkats, alpacas, tortoise, donkeys and rabbits! After lunch, we went on lots of different rides and played in the outdoor and indoor...

Year 5 - Art: Final Pieces

Over the last 2 lessons, we have been working on our final pieces of art for the topic inspired by 1960s Popart! To start, we had to sketch our own portraits. We had to decide what part of our faces to begin sketching and work from there. To complete our final art pieces of the topic, we received...

Year 6 – DT: Design

We began recapping our previous lesson and we shared our research on different types of shelters. We began this week’s learning by considering the different factors needed when building a structure. We thought about what the purpose of our structure would be, how it would be used and the...

Year 3 Non chronological Reports

Today 30-11-2023 the children completed their non chronological reports in literacy about The Stone Age. The children extended their learning by researching facts about The Stone Age to add to their Did You Know section

Year 2 - Computing Week 2023 - Week 7

This week was our final lesson on creating art. We looked at some of the work by William Morris and thought about the patterns he made, how he used symmetry and rotation, and how he repeated patterns. We made our own repeated patterns in two different ways, they look amazing!

Reception - Duckling Class: Anti-bullying Week - celebrating Kindness Day!

This week, it is Anti-Bullying Week! We started this week off by celebrating ‘Kindness Day’. We talked about what it means to be kind, how we can show kindness and why we should show kindness. After our circle time, we drew pictures of ourselves and our friends being kind to each other!

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 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...

Year 2 - Computing A2W3

This week we continued our Online Safety topic, and were introduced to emails. We discussed how emails can be a quick and easy form of communication, but we have to be aware of who we are talking to and how we conduct ourselves. We used 2email to start a conversation with Barnaby Bear, and were...

Spanish - Dia del libro – World Book Day

World Book Day was first created in 1995 by UNESCO and originally aimed at promoting reading, publishing and copyright. Since then however, it has grown bigger than anyone could ever have hoped for, with over 100 countries now taking part in World Book Day Celebrations that encompass everything...

Year 6 - Trip to Museum of London Docklands

Last week, we spent the day at the Museum of London Docklands. Here, we learnt more about how the East End was affected by World War II. We also spent time exploring the rest of the museum, which was about the Docklands

Year 2 - British Science Week 2024

Year 2 have enjoyed British science weeks by carrying out experiments, visiting a science exhibition and welcoming real life scientists to our school

Year 2 JIGSAW Spring 2 week 2

Computing This week year 2 were using a search engine to find answers to a range of questions relating to dinosaurs. We discussed our online safety agreement before using Google Chrome to search for our answers. We explored the images tab and also discussed how search engines work by giving us the...

Year 4 - Spring 1 Wow Day

Year 4 had a very exciting Wow Day. We started by sketching our ideas then presenting our ideas to a panel of Dragons (Mr Dharma and Ms Gustave)! After that, we worked in groups to build our games, selecting from a range of tools and materials. We included an electrical component. Then we got to...

Year 3 Mystery Reader

The children today were delighted to be read a story by our Mystery Reader who came in and read an exciting story filled with suspense and adventure

Year 6 – RE Day: Judaism

As part of RE Day in Autumn, we learnt about Judaism. We spent time researching Jewish artefacts as well as learning about the rules that Jewish people follow. We ended the day by designing and colouring in our own Hamsa Hand because this is a symbol is significant in Judaism

Year 5: Science - Air Resistance

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

Year 3 - Mystery Reader

A huge thank you to our Mystery Reader today who came in and read a story to our Year 3 children. The children were treated to a wonderful story and told beautifully by our mystery reader

Year 6 – History: WOW Day

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

Year 2 - Add by making 10

This week we practised adding two single digits together. We made each number on a tens frame and then moved some counters to make a ten frame full. We thought about the new number sentences we could write and how this could help us add numbers easily

Year 2 - plant careers

Last week we explored a range of jobs that involved plants. We discussed farmers, florists, gardeners and botanists. We then had a turn being a botanist by using a microscope to look at our bean plants that have been growing in the classroom!

Year 5 - Computing: Blog Publishing

In computing last week, we spent time publishing our writing. But because we wrote a few blog posts, we decided to type them up as if they were on a blog. We learnt about how to include photos by copy and pasting, change the colour and font of the text as well as what layout would look best for a...

Year 2 Computing Week 3

This week we started our topic for this half term which is 'creating pictures'. We explored impressionist art and then made our own impressionist style painting by using 2 paint a picture

Year 5 – Spanish - Antonio Gaudí. Trencadis technique

As part of a series of cross curricular lessons, year 5 have explored the famous Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi’s life and work, and created their own artwork inspired by the architect. Trencadís is an artistic method popularised by Gaudi. It is a mosaic-like effect, achieved by cementing together...

Year 2 Art Wow Day

For our end of topic wow day this half term, we spent the day creating mini masterpieces for our art exhibition! We displayed a range of skills that we had learnt such as mixing primary colours to make secondary colours, creating tones of colours by adding black or white, and creating an image to...

Year 2 Poetry

This half term year 2 are exploring poetry in Literacy. We have looked at poems by Michael Rosen and watched videos of him reciting some of them. We read through some of his work, chose our favourite poem and then performed to the class

Year 3 - Mapping Day

The children in Year 3 - Kingfisher and Toucan - enjoyed their Mapping Skills Day today (11-09-2023). The children started their learning by looking at grid references and identifying co-ordinates on a map. Then we discussed how to use a compass and how the compass points can help us. We used the...

Year 4 - Mapping Skills Day

Year 4 had fun learning all about maps on Mapping Skills Day today (12-09-2023). The children started their learning by learning about ordnance survey maps and the different symbols that are used to represent physical and human features. We then looked at grid references and identifying...

Year 2 - Literacy: Explore the World

This week we have focused on exploring the world of the story. We began by making collages to explore scenes of London in the past and during the fire. We thought about what London would have been like in 1666, discussing the locations in the story. We used masking tape to map out the setting,...

Gardening Afterschool Club

The gardening club began by introducing the important rules to children when it comes to using the school garden, for instance listening to each other, working in teams, being safe when using tools, taking respectful care of plants, fruits and vegetables etc so this was well followed by all the...

The Nest - This week in Nurture - Autumn Week 2 2023

This week Nurture 'The Nest' have created their own portraits inspired by Picasso

Year 4 Autumn 1 Wow Day

Year 4 had an earth shattering Wow Day! We started the day by recapping our learning and answering the big question 'How would you survive an earthquake?' After that, we built cities using recycled materials that we brought in from home. We designed houses, sky scrapers and roads and took a before...

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...

Year 3 - Volcano Wow Day

Year 3 had an amazing fun packed WOW day all about volcanoes. We started with a quiz before we designed and made our own volcanoes. We ended the day by answering the big question and creating our own volcanic ERUPTIONS!!

Year 6 - Literacy: Freeze Frames

Today we freeze framed scenes from chapters 1 and 2 of Floodlands by Marcus Sedgwick. When we were tapped on our shoulder, we explained to the rest of the class which character we were and what their thoughts and feelings were in that scene. Then we hot seated as some of the characters we have come...

Year 2 trip to Hackney city farm

Today, we visited Hackney City Farm to explore what animals live nearby in our local area. We had so much fun investigating which animals lived on each part of the farm and had a go at making each of the animal noises. We discussed what each animal liked in their habitat and how they moved around...

Family Phonics Workshop - Session 3

Thank you to all the parents and carers that attended our third family phonics session today. We focus on oral segmenting and blending and the children had a great time feeding 'Metal Mike' all the words. We revisited all of our phase 2 sounds and then practised reading CVC words by segmenting and...

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...

Duckling Class - Hello Alan! Welcome to Earth

This week, an Alien named Alan visited us from outer space! We introduced ourselves to Alan and made him feel very welcome! We created space pictures using chalk to make Alan feel at home and showed Alan how to sort items by colour and shape! We're very excited to show Alan the smells and...

Year 6: Maths - Multiplying

We learnt how to multiply 4 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers. We practiced this skill with our partners

Therapy Dog

Research has shown many benefits to therapy and reading dogs in school settings. Daubeney School has introduced the access to a dog promoting emotional well-being, curiosity and engagement as an additional provision for pupils with high additional needs at school. Although there is a risk in...

The Junior Literacy Team Visit Everyone's Book Corners

... Which one is your favourite? By Nico, 6O - Junior Literacy Team...

Year 4B - The Dot - Pointillism

As part of immersion week in Literacy, we have been reading The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. We learnt about Pointillism and using a computer, we created Art with a variety of dots in different colours and sizes to produce a bigger picture

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

Reception: Yellow Class - Ice Cream Parlour

In Yellow class the children were super excited to use the Ice Cream Parlour where they were making ice cream cones. They had a great time taking orders then scooping shaving foam into cones and adding a variety of sprinkles. They had heaps of fun! If you are passing Yellow Class, remember to stop...

Goodbye to City Year

Year 5 Mapping Skills Day

To start our Geography topic off, we refreshed our memories of geographical skills we learnt in previous years and built onto our own knowledge by learning some new skills. We looked at 8 point compasses, 4 figure coordinates, aerial photographs and even thematic maps! To end our day we went on an...

Welcome Back Nursery

It was all smiles from our Nursery children who returned to school this week. They have been enjoying the new Baby Clinic role play area and having lots of outdoor fun!

Nurture Group - Fundraiser

Nurture are lucky enough to welcome a new pet to the family. We will be getting a pet rabbit after the half term. We need to raise money to give it a lovely home (cage) and food. Please come and support us outside the nurture room by purchasing a cake or naming the rabbit or even both! Thank you in...

Year 6 - 6M Poetry Workshop

Today, 15th October 2021, the children in Year 6M had a wonderful poetry session led by Donna Powell, who is an artist, songwriter and poet. The children with links to Black History Month enjoyed the session with creative ideas to use to create their own poem/rap or song

Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 - Nature

During the week commencing the 10th May, Daubeney celebrated Mental Health Awareness Week by discussing how nature is important for our Mental Health. The children loved participating in activities outdoors

Year 5 - Maths Outside

Today we took our statistics learning outside! We created a tally chart by noting down all of the different types of vehicles that passed us. We saw way more vehicles than we predicted we would find!

Dress Down Day

On the final day of term, the students dressed as famous black scientists and inventors. They practised their oracy skills by describing who they were dressed as and why they were famous!

Year 3 - 3HC's Class Assembly - 21st October 2021

3HC’s sharing assembly was held on 21/10/21 and it was ALL about Brazil and saving the RAINFOREST! Must watch! The children worked so hard and were super excited to perform. The children shared some facts, acted out the story ‘The great Kapok tree’ by Lynne Cherry and sang and danced to the song...

Year 5 - Wow Day - Tanzania

How would you prepare to climb Mount Kilimanjaro? To end our geography topic we had a wonderful WOW Day where we recapped all of our learning and answered the overarching question. Then, we spent the rest of the day learning about the Maasai people. We created posters all about them and the ways...

Year 1A - Book Fortnight - The Extraordinary Gardener

...e 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 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 5 - RE Day: What Happened to Islam in the Middle Ages?

We learnt all about the Five Pillars of Islam and even discussed what Islam was like during the middle ages. Did you know that they went through a Golden Age, where learning and inventions were thriving in the capital of Baghdad, whilst most of the rest of the world was going through the Dark Ages?...

School Council - Meeting with Mr Warren - 8th December 2021

School Council invited Mr. Warren to meet with them. The meeting was scheduled for Wednesday 8th December 2021. School Council Committees had a selection of questions and ideas they wanted to share with Mr. Warren. Here are some of the questions they asked Mr. Warren; What are your plans for the...

Boys Book Club - 24th May 2021

Today, 24-05-2021, the Boys Book Club enjoyed a session of poetry. We read a poem called, 'I cannot go to school today' by Shel Silverstein and enjoyed the poem. The boys then decided to create their own poem using ideas from the poem they have read. Here is our example created by the Boys Book...

Year 4 - Science: Can you see sound?

Today, 18th May 2021, the children in Year 4 carried out a fun investigation to see whether they can actually see sound. The children used cling film, a bowl, hundreds and thousands and tested to see the vibrations created by various sounds around us

WOW DAY Year 6 - Ancient Benin

Today, 14-12-2021, the children in Year 6 enjoyed their Wow Day activities by designing and creating masks, inspired by the real ones from Ancient Benin. The children also discussed how reliable resources are and which historical resources can be trusted

Year 6 - First Week Back

and breathe! Wow! What a first week back. To say it’s been busy would be an understatement. Year 6 started the week off with a whole school virtual live assembly followed by an electrifying science workshop. We continued with our CC topic looking into the wondrous ancient kingdom of Benin....

Year 6 - 6S Christmas Song

6S chose to sing All I Want for Christmas You by Mariah Carey - we knew it'd be a challenge but we were ready! We had so much fun singing it and you should sing along if you know the words. Merry Christmas from everyone in 6S!

Year 6 Science - Growing Mould

In science we have been learning about animals, plants and microorganisms. We could find plenty of examples of animals and plants and we decided to grow our very own microorganisms in class whilst also carrying out a scientific investigation. We are going to observe the effect water has on mould...

Year 6 - African Drum and Dance Workshop

Year 6 have been busy with an African drum and dance workshop as led by Miss Harley and Mr. Aaron

Learning Mentors Excellence Award - Autumn Term 2020

6S Winners Has won the award for working extremely hard to turn his behaviour around and being a positive influence and example in his year group. Has won the award for improving her behaviour over a long period of time and maintaining a high standard, by following the golden expectations at all...

Year 2 - WOW Day in 2C

This is how our WOW Day has gone! We started by filming our interview with Amelia Earhart. Then we answered our Big Question: "What makes a great explorer?". After we created our own spaceships! Have a look at our explorer costumes!

Year 2 - WOW Day in 2P

This is how our WOW Day has gone! We started by filming our interview with Different explorers. Then we answered our Big Question: "What makes a great explorer?". After we created our own spaceships! Have a look at our explorer costumes!

Children's Mental Health Week 2021

Express Yourself - 1st February 2021 - 5th February 2021 Daubeney have been Expressing themselves during Children's Mental Health. More than ever, it is really important to talk about how we are feeling. The children participated in a variety of activities, including, yoga, origami, creating a...

Nurture Group - Ruby's Worry

Year 4 - Poetry Workshop

Today, Thursday 18th March 2021, the children in Year 4 enjoyed a virtual Poetry session led by Adisa Stephen Ezeocha a poet and publisher. The children had fun with poems and rhymes

Year 4 - Science: Making Sound

Today, 11-05-2021, the children in Year 4 enjoyed making sound by making a telephone cup. The children discussed how sound travels and how we hear

Art Team Easter Competition

Take part in this years Young Artists Summer Show, presented by the Royal Academy of Arts. Submit a piece of artwork based on any theme, using any materials to admin@daubeney.hackney.sch.uk by the 21st April for submission into the competition. For more information, visit the Royal Academy website

Year 2 - Mapping Skills Day

We had a fantastic day learning about maps! We learnt about positional language and played a game with our friends then we went on a treasure hunt around the school. Afterwards, we created our own maps of the classroom and we ended the day by creating an art piece of the map of the UK!

Year 4 - Mapping Day

The children today, 20th April 2021, had a fun day of learning all about mapping. The children started by identifying continents, oceans, cities and various landmarks and features on a map. Then the children placed key features on a map while planning a local route using a local map of our area....

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

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 - Number Formation

In maths we were writing our numbers and practising number formation using paint. We finished the session by mixing the colours together to see what other colours we can make. 'This feels great!'

History

It was once said that going into a library and all history unrolled before me. Here at Daubeney, you need only to come in to our website and experience history relived and refreshed through the determined spirits of our pupils, fired by an unquenchable thirst to learn, remember and thrive. "A...

History Dress Up Day 2021

It was once said that going into a library and all history unrolled before me. Here at Daubeney, you need only to come in to our website and experience history relived and refreshed through the determined spirits of our pupils, fired by an unquenchable thirst to learn, remember and thrive. "A...

Staff Panto 2021

Oscar worthy rendition of the age-old Disney classic put on by our wonderful Daubeney staff - we can guarantee you have never seen nor heard Cinderella told in this way!

Nursery - A special little visitor...

Today the children in Nursery were visited by a special and super cute member of the Daubeney family, Oreo. The children were excited as they watched him hop around the Nursery. We talked about what rabbits eat, where they live and other animals we can keep as pets!

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

Reception - Trip to Hackney School of Food

On Monday, we visited the Hackney School of Food. We made pizza by making our dough and adding tomato paste, cheese and oregano to match the colours of the Italian flag. We also made fruit kebabs, using bananas, pears, blueberries and raspberries. After we made our food, we enjoyed eating it in the...

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!

Year 5 - Maths: Coordinates

Today, we started off our topic of position and direction by recapping our previous learning of describing position and drawing on a grid

Year 5 - Antony Gormley Treasure Hunt

Today we learned about Antony Gormley and his famous sculptures by hunting for information! What facts do you know about Antony Gormley?

Year 2 - Computing: Searching the Internet

This week 2KF have been learning about searching the internet. They had lots of fun trying to find answers about dinosaurs using a search engine called Google. When they finished, they tested their knowledge of dinosaurs by completing a quiz on Purple Mash

Year 4 Swimming at the Aquatics Centre

...ssional swimming instructors. By the end of the two weeks, everyone passed their swimming test!...

Year 5 - Computing: Game Design

This week we spent time really focusing on our game design skills by using 2DIY3D on Purple Mash once again. We spent time adding more levels to our games as well!

Mini Garden

The School councillors came up with an idea earlier this year to develop a green space in the KS2 playground where wildlife can flourish and our Daubeney family can enjoy nature. They have worked hard with support from Dave and Gavin to design a “Mini Garden”. The friends of the Earth...

Year 5 - Literacy: Artwork Inspired by Poetry

In today's literacy lesson, we drew some art inspired by the imagery created by the poem "Mrs McPhee" 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...

Year 6 Residential 2022 - Day 5

Can you believe we still managed to fit in two activities on our final day! We had our farewell lunch, said goodbye to our tents and we are officially coming home!! See you all very soon!

Music - Summer Term 2022

It was a great year of skateboards, ukuleles, djembes, recorders with lots more in between. We enjoyed and celebrated our interschool concert with guest bands from Ickburgh, a local special needs school and also a band from Rushmore. Alongside this we often had our outdoor jam on a Friday lunchtime...

Year 5 - Art WOW Day

WOW! What a day! We wrapped up our Summer 2 half term with a WOW Day dedicated to art inspired by Antony Gormley. More specifically, we created our own art pieces inspired by "Field for the British Isles" which we called "Field for the Year 5 Isles". We even had a Year 5...

Year 5 - Literacy: Himalayas Fact File

Today we created a fact file all about the Himalayas as part of our ‘Hook into a Book’. We looked at pictures of the mountains and discussed Mount Everest. We are very excited to begin our new book ‘King of cloud forest’ by Michael Morpurgo

Year 5 - Geography: WOW Day

Do you know how you would prepare to climb Mount Kilimanjaro? We finished our Mountains topic by celebrating our learning. First, we answered the overarching question, then we made a to do list for people planning to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Finally, we designed and created our own backpacks and...

Year 5 - Numbers to 1000000

Today in maths, we reviewed our understanding of place value and learnt about numbers up to 1000000. We practiced by reading place value charts and making our own representations

Year 5 - Maths Outdoor Learning

Year 5 improved their mental addition and subtraction in maths by using a range of strategies to answer one step problems. This included compensation, adjustment and finding connections between numbers

Year 5 & 6 - PE Trips

Well done to the year 5/6 for trying their best at rugby and dodgeball

Year 5 - WOW Day: Tanzania

In Year 5 we have been learning all about Tanzania! We celebrated by making posters about the Massai Tribe who live in Tanzania and then we made bracelets inspired by their culture

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

Year 6 Residential 2022 - Day 4

It’s our second to last day and things are not slowing down. We’ve been kayaking and canoeing, orienteering, going on an aerial trek, zip lining and doing some archery. We’ve got one final night and we’re going to celebrate by having a campfire and playing some camp games. It’s also the last night...

School Council - St Joseph's Hospice Rudolph Run

On Wednesday the 8th of December, we participated in St Joseph's Hospice Rudolph Run. The aim was to raise money to help the hospice look after patients. The run started at 9:30 with the receptions and the year 6s ended the run at 10:55. On Tuesday the 14th of December, two children delivered the...

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 - Maths - Multiplying 2 Digit Numbers

We are learning to multiply 2 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers and to help us understand what we are doing, we used dienes and worked with our partners to answer questions together

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!

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 2 - 2P Special Christmas Performance

A Christmas Introit (Hodie) by Audrey Snyder. Filmed for the VOCES8 Foundation's Live from London concert series in December 2021

Year 6 - 6M IntoUniversity

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

Year 6 - 6M Internet Safety

Today 8-02-2022 the children in 6M explored how to be save online by looking at different features that are available for children to play online games. They used PurpleMash to learn more about the topic and completed various quizzes based on Internet Safety

Year 5 - Computing: Spreadsheets

We have started a new computing topic and it is Spreadsheets! We are learning about formulas and how to make our lives easier when we are adding and subtracting by using a spreadsheet. This week, we learnt how to make a spreadsheet that converts metres to centimetres and centimetres to metres!

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

Year 1 - Forest School - 1A Exploring the Woods

Exploring the woods and celebrating World Book Day by reading and making Stickman

Year 4 - Function or Appearance: What Is More Important?

For design and technology, we researched, evaluated and created amazing boardgames to see the difference between function and appearance. Sketches of their innovation was brought to life and was also tested by themselves in order to evaluate the functions of their game

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

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

Year 5 - Computing: Spreadsheet Area and Perimeter

...ily, like area and perimeter. By copying and pasting a forumlae, we could find the area and perimeter of a shape By simply typing in the length and width of the shape....

Year 5 - Trip to Science Museum

It was our first trip of Year 5 - can you believe it? We certainly could by the end of the day - we were so tired! We visited the museum as part of our science unit on space but we also so many other amazing things!

Fitness and Mental Health Assembly

This week is Fitness Week and Year 5 and Year 6 had a special assembly lead by Mr Swarbrick and Mr Shamji. My Swarbrick and Mr Shamji discussed the importance of fitness and how it supports our mental health. What types of fitness do you do?

Wildlife Watch - 11th March 2022

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 - 5C at IntoUniversity

Do you know what university is about? We have been learning about what life will be like at university by experiencing university course would be like. We learnt about space and created different space homes based on the atmosphere of different planets

Year 5 - Science: Water Resistance

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

Year 5 - Maths: Rounding

In this lesson, we recapped rounding and discussed the steps to do it. We then put our knowledge into a real life situation by rounding the average salaries of jobs that we might be interested in

Parrot Class Trip - Hackney School of Food

Parrot class went to the Hackney School of Food and we had so much fun making cheese scones and rainbow slaw. We were very confident using all the kitchen equipment and following step by step instructions. Chef Tom was super impressed with us!!

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

Rainbow Room - Exploring Spring

We had a fabulous time exploring our school garden today. Around the pond, we discovered clusters of frogspawn and spotted several frogs swimming across the water. Some pupils enthusiastically tried to count them as they darted through the pond. Pupils also explored the pond’s ecosystem by...

Year 4 - Spanish: Times Tables

Year 4 have been strengthening their times tables by practising multiplication in Spanish! Through quick-fire games, and chants, pupils are building confidence in both their Spanish vocabulary and their maths fluency. A fun and lively way to reinforce learning across subjects!

Year 3 - DT: Linkages and levers

In today's DT lesson, we explored linkages and levers. For our third session, we followed step bystep instructions to build a waving hand mechanism that creates movement

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 Room - Art from 1970s

As part of our Arts Curriculum, pupils engaged in creating fantastic artwork by exploring and experimenting with a range of art materials. They demonstrated creativity, curiosity, and confidence as they used different techniques and resources to produce imaginative pieces. Pupils have learned about...

Year 4 Hornbills at Cardinal Pole Secondary School

The children in Hornbill class had an exciting lesson in Cardinal Pole Secondary School. They were invited to a History lesson all about Medieval Doctors and medical practices during this period. The children enjoyed the lesson and were fascinated by the facts and stories they heard

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 - Teddy Bear Maths

1, 2, 3 — let’s count! Our pupils enjoyed a maths learning experience where they explored numbers through hands-on activities. Using concrete objects such as teddy bears, the pupils developed their counting skills and deepened their understanding of number representation. They practised adding...

Rainbow Class- Jungle Animals

As part of our Science topic "Animals Including Humans" , pupils took part in a hands‐on exploration of animals and their habitats. They listened to the story “Monkey Puzzle”, which helped introduce different jungle animals and their characteristics. Afterwards, pupils created...

Rainbow Room - WOW DAY

It was a fantastic WOW Day! Pupils showed great creativity as they used light food‐dye colours mixed with water to paint their own geometric shapes, by carefully creating bright and colorful patterns on each piece. They experimented with how the colours blended and enjoyed making their artwork...

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

Rainbow Room - Maths (Measure)

Using Numicon Cubes, pupils measured a range of objects by placing the cubes next to them and comparing their sizes. This hands‐on approach helped pupils see which items were taller, shorter, longer, or smaller. They pupils recorded their measurements on their worksheets by using Numicon Cubes to...

Rainbow Room - Monkey Puzzle Story

Children enjoyed listening to the story “Puzzle Monkey” and learning about the different jungle animals and their habitats. With adult support, they matched each animal to its name and recognised the story characters, using sounds like e for elephant and m for monkey. The activity was...

Rainbow Room - Planting

We have been learning about the life cycle of plants, focusing on beans and cress. As part of our sensory learning, the children planted their own seeds using soil, pots and water, exploring the different textures and steps involved when it comes to planting. Over the next few days, we will be...

Year 4 Nightingales visit Urswick

Today, the Nightingales visited Urswick Secondary School to take part in a fantastic art session led by one of the school’s art teachers. The students explored their creativity by creating artwork inspired by William Morris and had a wonderful time experimenting with patterns and designs,...

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...

Year 5 Wow Day - Turkey

Year 5 had an exciting WOW Day learning all about Turkey as part of their Geography topic! The children experimented with vibrant patterns and colours to design their own ceramic‐style plates, inspired by both the physical and human geography of Turkey—from its stunning mountain ranges and...

Rainbow Class: Magical Music Session

As we know, SEND Music Sessions with Mr O’Flynn are always fun and magical. It was a wonderful experience for our pupils to explore musical instruments such as the triangle, tambourine, and ukulele. Mr O’Flynn was truly amazed by how beautifully the children shared the instruments,...

School Council Meeting - January 2026

The School Council recently met with Mr. Warren to share updates on their committees’ work since being elected and to outline their plans for the future. During the meeting, the Council had the opportunity to learn more about Mr. Warren’s experiences growing up, his journey to becoming...

Year 3 Language Day

Year 3 Kingfishers speak 13 languages! We celebrated Language Day by talking about all the different languages we speak at home and at school. We shared our languages with pride and learned how to say hello in each one. Everyone enjoyed practising new greetings and discovering how languages help us...

Year 2 - Maths: Add by making 10

In today's practical lesson, we practised adding single digit numbers by using tens frames to make a 10 so it would be easier for us to find the answer

Year 2 - Literacy: The Magic Bojabi Tree Role on the Wall

What are the characters like in the story? We thought about this by thinking about how they seem to everyone else and then what they're really like on the inside!

Year 2 - Literacy: The Magic Bojabi Tree Watercolours

To end our immersion week, we made beautiful paintings inspired by the Magic Bojabi Tree! We talked about what we could see and added adjectives to our observations then we drew it out on paper. Finally, we added water colour to make it really shine!

Rainbow Room - Shapes Tracing and Colouring

Pupils explored 2D shapes like circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles on the interactive board, showing focus and independence while colouring, tracing, and drawing. In an adult-led activity, they traced and coloured shapes on large paper to create drawings. Then, pupils used the activity...

Year 4 - Amazing Home Learning

This week we celebrated amazing home learning by some of our Year 4 Superstars. They completed their weekly home learning and a Science home learning project

Nursery - Homes

We are learning about different homes. We made our 3D models, by recycling junk materials. We made individual models and a class model of a huge residential flats

Nursery - Size

Nursery have been learning about size, have been sorting items by size

Rainbow Room - Autumn Art

As part of our seasonal learning journey, pupils have been engaging in fantastic activities to explore the beauty of Autumn through art. Pumpkins Art: Pupils painted their own representations of pumpkins using water colours and cotton buds, adding texture and vibrancy with orange tissue paper....

Year 1 Parrot Class - Rapunzel

Parrot class have been reading the story Rapunzel by Bethan Woolvin. We have been acting out the story using lots of story props. We also created a wanted poster for the wicked witch to try and find her. We've also been busy thinking of adjectives to describe Rapunzel. What words can you think...

Arsenal Social Community Project Year 6

This term, Year 6 have been learning how Arsenal Football Club is helping to protect the environment. We explored how football clubs can be more sustainable by reducing waste, saving energy, and encouraging fans to care for the planet. Well done to Romilly in Toucans for winning the raffle and...

Rainbow - Attention Bucket Intervention

As part of the Attention Bucket Intervention, pupils were able to develop their attention by being engaged at exploring familiar objects that they like such as bubbles, sensory balls etc. Pupils were learning social skills by sharing popping bubbles or sharing the sensory balls. The fun part of the...

Rainbow - Autumn Vocabulary Learning

Pupils were exploring fantastic learning about autumn vocabulary and oracy by being introduced to new words related to this season. Some pupils were able to look at the autumn-related illustrations on the worksheets and talk to each other about who they saw, what they saw, etc. Then, with the...

Rainbow - Maths Learning

..." and "empty." By filling and emptying the cups, they developed an understanding of volume and were introduced to key vocabulary related to capacity. Children engaged in a creative activity where they drew and coloured 2D shapes on the whiteboard. This activity supported their reco...

Rainbow - Reading Stories

Pupils were well engaged during reading activities, particularly when listening to an adult read aloud the story "The Cat Who Had Different Coloured Shoes." The narrative captured their interest and provided a meaningful context for learning colours names. Pupils demonstrated recognition of colours...

Year 2 - Literacy: Rainforest Artwork 2025

We spent the last week of our first half term completing writing that relates to our geography topic: Hot and Cold countries. We created artwork inspired by the rainforest!

Year 2 - PSHE: Celebrating differences (Stereotypes)

We learnt about stereotypes in this PSHE lesson and we considered and discussed common stereotypes that people have of girls and boys. We even linked our learning to Oracy by using our hand signals to show how we felt about each statement

Reception Classes - Spanish: Colours and Fruits

Learning colours through stories and play! Our children in Ducklings and Cygnet Classes explored words for colours and fruits in Spanish by using paints and real fruits — a fun way to connect language and creativity!

Language Day at UEL

A selected group of children enjoyed an inspiring visit to the University of East London, where they explored the campus, discovered the medical facilities, and took part in engaging language sessions. Pupils particularly enjoyed learning new languages including Russian, Romanian, Ewe, and Latin,...

Year 2 - Maths: Partitioning in different ways

We started the lesson by practising partitioning our tens and ones. Then we moved onto think about how we can partition a number in different ways! So we know that 45 is made of 40+5 but we also know that 20+25 is 45

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: Colorful Hands

We had so much fun creating colourful hands! Pupils explored making their own handprints on a range of different textures, using both primary and secondary colours. They enjoyed experimenting with colour mixing, discovering how new colours can be created by mixing colours together. The activity...

Year 5: Wow Day - Windrush

Year 5 had an exciting WOW Day learning all about the Windrush generation as part of their History topic! During one of the activities, the children explored the work of a famous artist linked to Caribbean culture and created their own vibrant artwork, using bold colours and patterns to reflect the...

Rainbow Class - Human Life Cycle & Needs / Human Body

As part of Science and PSHE, pupils learned to identify and name parts of the human body. They were able to find, match, and write body part names on worksheets using a labelled human body diagram. Pupils demonstrated understanding by pointing to and naming most body parts independently. In...

Rainbow Room - Mehdi Hanna Design ( RE )

As part of the RE learning, our pupils began exploring Islam through a creative and engaging art and crafts activity. They designed their own Mehndi (henna) patterns, using chalk dipped in a mixture of powder and water to create vibrant designs on their hands. Pupils thoroughly enjoyed...

Rainbow Class: Coreboard Intervention (Pop The Pirate/ Colour Match)

As part of the targeted intervention session, pupils engaged in a small-group activity using the " Pop the Pirate" game, by developing communication, social, and early literacy skills. Pupils took turns inserting coloured swords into the barrel, showing good engagement and anticipation....

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 Room - Maths: Adding & Subtracting Coins

Our pupils were fully engaged in exploring different ways of using 1p coins as part of their learning about money. Through a range of practical, hands-on activities, they were encouraged to recognise, count, and manipulate coins in meaningful and purposeful contexts. They demonstrated growing...

Year 2 - Art: Exploring Pop Art

We are learning about Pop Art! Last lesson, we learnt a bit about the famous pop artist Andy Warhol. This week, we learn about some pop art features and created art inspired by Andy Warhol’s pop art pieces. We also saw how pop art is very different to just drawing a picture!

Rainbow Class - The Three Little Pigs Focus (Literacy)

As part of their literacy learning, pupils engaged in active listening while exploring the focus story, The Three Little Pigs. Children matched concrete objects, including sticks, blocks, and shredded paper, to the different houses built by the pigs in the story. They were also encouraged to feel...

Rainbow Class: Fun Learning

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

Rainbow Class: Three Three Little Pigs Literacy

As part of the literacy learning, pupils were engaged in matching story sequences in the correct order by recalling key events from the story and using the illustrations to support their understanding. They demonstrated their ability to remember and identify the different stages of the story....

Rainbow Class - Pigs Masks & Houses (Art)

Pupils had a fantastic time taking part in a creative art activity inspired by the story of "The Three Little Pigs." They carefully painted their pig and wolf masks and explored a variety of materials, including sticks, colour paper, and tissue paper, to create houses for the pigs. This...

Rainbow Class - Exploring Subtraction (Maths)

Pupils were able to explore simple subtraction problem-solving activities by counting objects, crossing out the required number, and identifying how many remained by using a house-themed. They were able to select and match the correct numeral on the door, window, roof and other parts of the house...

Rainbow Class - Exploring Plants & Tress (Science)

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

Rainbow Class - Planting Fun & Plants Life Cycle (Science)

As part of the science and sustainability learning, our pupils did enjoyed learning about about how plants grow. We explored the life cycle of a plant and learned the correct order: seed → root → shoot → plant → flower → new seeds. Using visual pictures and sequencing...

Rainbow Class - Geography: Exploring Places

Our learners were a great explores as they were learning about community and places as part of their geography learning, and by using symbols, pictures, and matching activities, pupils identified a variety of important places including shops, schools, post offices, police stations, parks, and...

Rainbow Class: Maths (Shapes)

...leting shape colour patterns. By carefully looking at the sequence of colours and shapes, they were able to identify what came next and continue the pattern independently. This helped to strengthen their visual discrimination, attention to detail, memory, and early problem-solving skills....

Rainbow Class: Maths (Shapes Matching/ Shapes Names)

As part of their Maths learning, our learners explored the properties of 2D shapes by counting and identifying the number of sides each shape has. Pupils practised recognising and naming a range of common shapes, including circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles. They also matched shapes to...

Rainbow Class: Big Draw Day

Our pupils enjoyed a fun and engaging Big Draw Day! Pupils were able to express their artistic skills using crayons and felt tips by creating expressive mark-making drawings. Even, pupils explored different patterns, lines, and shapes by showing creativity and confidence in their artwork

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...

Rainbow Class - Interventions Focus

As part of our Colourful Semantics intervention, pupils listened attentively as adults modelled and recalled simple sentences using the sentence structure such as " Who"/ 'What doing"/ etc. Pupils were supported to identify and understand each part of the sentence through visual...

Year 3 - Friction Test

We explored what friction is and how it can be both an advantage and a disadvantage. We investigated the effects of friction by setting up a ramp with different materials on it. We rolled a toy car down each surface, measured the distance it travelled, and recorded our results. We then discussed...

Rainbow Class - Learning about Seasons

Pupils explored learning about the different seasons by watching a short, engaging video and listening to a song related to seasonal changes. Following this, pupils took part in a hands‐on matching activity, where they matched pictures associated with each season, as well they were able to sequence...

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 3 Trip to the London Mithraeum

Year 3 enjoyed an exciting trip to the London Mithraeum, where they brought their learning about the Romans to life. The children explored Roman artefacts and learned what they were used for in everyday life nearly 2,000 years ago. They were especially fascinated by the remains of a real Roman...

Rainbow Class - Literacy Focus

In literacy, pupils enjoyed listening to the story “We Can’t Take an Elephant on the Bus”, where they learned about different types of transport and their uses. Pupils listened carefully to the story and were able to recall key events by identifying the characters (animals) and...

Rainbow Class - Using Coins

As part of mathematics learning, pupils took part in practical activities to explore the use and value of coins, helping to develop their understanding of money. Pupils used concrete resources, including coins and numericons, to support counting skills and reinforce number recognition from 1 to 20....

Year 5: History - Windrush

In today’s lesson, Year 5 explored the experiences of the Windrush generation, learning about their journey to the United Kingdom and how they settled into new communities. The session encouraged pupils to develop empathy and a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by those who arrived...

Year 5: Science - Stages of Human Development

We began by reflecting on our prior knowledge of life stages and life cycles in both animals and humans, considering the changes that occur as they grow. The children then created a timeline of the human life stages, identifying typical ages and exploring the physical, emotional and mental changes,...

Rainbow Class - Transports

As part of our history and literacy learning, pupils learned about different types of transport that people use to travel. We talked about the names of different transports and how people use them. Pupils also explored transport from the past and the present, looking at how some transports have...

Rainbow Class - Transports: History

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

Lego Club - Farm & Countryside

In the Lego Club, children were engaged working in small groups by making their farms and countryside using lego

Year 2 - DT: Spring WOW Day 2026

We finished our DT topic off by building our vehicles that promote being environmentally friendly

Year 2 - Literacy: Climate March

Inspired by Greta from Greta and the Giants, we created our own posters and had our own climate march

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

Year 2 - Literacy: Vlad and the Great Fire of London setting

We explored the setting of London in 1666 by using masking tape to create the world. We described the setting and even used our senses to imagine what it would have been like

Year 2 - Maths: Division sharing

To help us understand how to divide by sharing, we worked with our partners share out numbers equally on our whiteboards

Year 2 - Science: Changing shapes experiment

We carried out an experiment about how we can change the shapes of different objects by stretching, squashing, bending and twisting

Year 2 - Science: Recycling items

Do you know what items can be recycled? We explored this by sorting items into different categories

Rainbow - SEND Music & PE

Wow! This week, our pupils were fully engaged in exciting activities as part of SEND PE and Music. In SEND PE, they enjoyed jumping on the trampoline, walking along the bench, and throwing bean bags. During SEND Music, the children were captivated by the sounds of various musical instruments,...

Year 2 - Geography: Autumn Mapping Skills Day

Today, we spent time learning about language used for direction (such as north, east, south, west) and we looked at some maps. We went on a treasure hunt, drew our own maps and even made art inspired by maps!

Year 5 - Maths Challenge

On Monday, four Year 5 children were invited to go to Guildhall to take part in a maths challenge lead by the students of Christ’s Hospital. The children took part in 5 challenging activities for 8 minutes each. Well done to all who took part!

Rainbow Room - Number Day (Part 3)

The children engaged in an maths activity where they rolled a dice and matched the numbers with corresponding number cards. This helped them recognize numbers and improve their counting skills. They also counted cubes by matching the quantities to number cards as they were exploring quantities in...

Year 2 - Role on the wall

To continue our Book Fortnight, we explored the characters in more detail. We used role on the wall to discuss and write down a variety of adjectives for how the characters are seen by others on the outside, and how the characters actually feel or want to be seen on the inside

Year 2 - 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 - World of the Story

We explored the world of the story of ‘The Midnight Fair’ by imagining the setting. We used masking tape to mark out the different areas of the fair, thinking about where rides, food stalls, and games would be relative to each other

Year 4 - RE Day

During RE day, Hornbill class learnt about the life of Saint Francis. We were inspired by his poem 'Canticle of the Sun' and worked collaborative to write our own class poem 'The World, My World'. Listen to us perform our poem

Year 2 - RE Day - Spring 2025

This half term’s RE day was focussed on forgiveness. Our question was ‘What does it mean to say sorry?’. We spent time identifying why it might by difficult to say sorry and thought about other ways we could we were sorry. We discussed religious views on being honest, truthful and...

Year 2 trip to the Science Museum

We had so much fun on a trip to the Science Museum recently. We explored a range of aeroplanes and thought about how they had changed over the years. We discussed the materials they were/are made from and looked at miniature versions that were used in the design process. We then had a great time...

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 5 - Science: Air Resistance

We learnt about air resistance by making parachutes to test how the size of the parachute changes the speed of falling

Year 4 - Phonics Activity

Today, Anas and Mete practiced phonics with puzzles. They examined each puzzle to determine what it represented and identified the starting sound by matching it with laminated sound letters. Both of them also practiced saying the sounds of the letters from the puzzles as part of their phonetics...

Year 5 - Science: Water Resistance

We learnt about water resistance by carrying out an experiment where we tested out dropping chunks of plasticine into water to see what shape was the most streamlined and had the least water resistance

Rainbow Room - Big and Small Hearts Stamping

The children in the Rainbow Room have been exploring different sizes of hearts, creating colorful heart stamps using heart-shaped cutters. They’ve enjoyed experimenting with various sizes to see how each heart looks by adding a fun and creative twist to their stamping activity

Year 2 - Division

Today we began thinking about using division and how this means we are sharing out items equally between groups. We were able to identify how many groups we would need, as well as how many cubes we needed to share out. We double checked our answers by counting each group and making sure they were...

Rainbow Room - Spring Flowers Painting (Mother's Day)

The children were fully focused on the activity, using forks dipped in vibrant paint to create colorful patterns and lines. With great care, they pressed the forks onto the paper by experimenting with colours and lines formations to represent flower petals and stems. Their concentration was great...

Rainbow Room - Colours Alphabet

Today, the children had a fantastic time during their phonics session, which skillfully combined learning with lots of fun! The session focused on colours, giving the children the opportunity to not only name various colours but also practice their phonics skills by identifying the first letter...

Rainbow Room- Old McDonald Song

As part of the Singing Group Intervention, children from the Rainbow Room participated in an interactive session centered around their favorite song, "Old McDonald Had a Farm," using farm animals to make the activity more engaging. The adult sang a line of the song and paused, allowing...

Rainbow Room - Dino Pegs Counting

The children had a wonderful and engaging math session, where they had fun learning by using Dino Number Cards and pegs for counting. In this activity, they observed the numbers on the Dino cards and then counted out the corresponding number of pegs to match the number on each card. This...

Rainbow Room - Number Day ( Part 2 )

The children in the Rainbow Room enjoyed a fun math activity for Number Day, playing "Follow the Leader" with heart-shaped numbers around the classroom. They listened for numbers called by the adult, finding the matching ones with some support. Some children confidently named the numbers,...

Rainbow Room: Picture Sequences Activity

...cognize the order of actions. By observing the arrangement, they develop skills in logical thinking and comprehension. Children were also able to describe the pictures to an adult, identifying who is in the image, what is happening, and explaining the sequence of events....

Year 5 - Big Draw (Spring)

Do you know who Pablo Picasso is? We learnt about him and discussed the similarities of his surrealist portraits. We then created our own portraits inspired by Picasso!

November Book Fair 2020

...e fun reading your new books! By Mei Foo 6FO, Junior Literacy Team Leader...

Portuguese Spotlight Prize Winners

Last June, Maielly and Sueni were entered into a Portuguese Spotlight competition organised by Stephen Spender Trust.  They translated a poem from Portuguese into English together, and individually created a visual representation of the poem. At Daubeney, we are delighted to announce that they are...

Year 5 - History: Hierarchy in Ancient Greece

Do you know what the four levels of society there are? We learnt about that this lesson by discussing with our groups and creating a information poster for it

A Musical Collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra

We were delighted to welcome musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra for an inspiring visit. During their time with us, our Year 6 students worked together to create a unique piece of music inspired by Mars from Gustav Holst’s The Planets. This visit is part of our ongoing partnership...

Year 2 - Parakeet School of Food trip

We had so much fun going to the Hackney School of Food. We learnt all about cooking in a big kitchen and followed recipes to make delicious food, thinking about the skills we need to use to make them. First we made pumpkin scruffins, followed by a fancy fruit salad. They were both scrumptious!

Year 2 - Captain Robert Falcon Scott

This week in History we learnt about the explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. We discovered that he was part of a British team that were trying to be the first people to reach the South Pole. His expedition was called Terra Nova, and they set off in 1910, finally reaching the South Pole in January...

Winter Resources

Winter Resources for Parents and Carers These resources are specially designed by the therapists at Beacon House to support regulation, connection and rest during December. Download them for free here and share with family and friends so everyone can access what they need during this busy holiday...

Year 5 - RE: Autumn 2 2024

This half term’s RE day was dedicated to Christmas! We learnt about how Christmas is celebrated around the world as well as the different Christmas stories that are told to Christian children everywhere! We ended the day by making Christingle candles using actual oranges!

Baby Stay & Play 0 - 2 YRS Old

Rainbow Room - Identiplay Learning (Cars & Instruments)

As part of Identiplay, children had the opportunity to engage in interactive play with adults and peers using a variety of objects. They explored musical instruments by mimicking different sounds, to foster auditory skills and musical creativity. Also, children played with cars by demonstrating...

Rainbow Room - Click Clack Cars with Coreboard

As part of Speech & Language Intervention, the children explored playing with Click Clack Cars by letting them roll down the platform. They were introduced to key vocabulary related to the activity, such as "Stop," "Next," "Go," and "I want a car."

Rainbow Room - Maths

In the Rainbow Room, children engaged in hands-on learning by practicing counting from 1 to 5 and 1 to 10 with colorful domino cards and small counters. As they matched the dots on the dominoes to the correct number of counters, they reinforced their understanding of numbers and sequence....

Rainbow Room - PE Session

As part of the SEN PE sessions, the children engaged in an activity where they practiced walking on a beach by making choices about their directions as well they developed their physical skills such as coordination, balance, and body awareness

Rainbow Room - Maths: Counting Blocks

Children in the Rainbow Room were engaging in a fun and interactive exploration of numbers. They began by identifying the numerals on the dice, carefully rolling the dice on the floor and saying the saying number name aloud. After each roll, children counted the blocks in various number orders as...

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 - Playtime - Using climbing frame

During playtime, Benjamin displayed great confidence as he climbed up and down the climbing frame by demonstrating his independence and growing physical abilities

Year 3 - Kingfisher Literacy - Spring 2025

The children in Kingfisher had an exciting Literacy lesson making a ship that Nelly used to sail the open seas. They have been reading Nelly and the Quest for Captain Peabody and was inspired by the ship Nelly made

Rainbow Room: Shapes Learning

Today, the children learned about 2D shapes by drawing them on the whiteboard, which helped develop their fine motor skills and ability to form shapes through drawing. Afterward, they played a shape-matching game, naming familiar shapes like circles, triangles, and squares

Year 5 - Energy Sparks Workshop

Is our school energy efficient? This is what the Year 5s learn about during their workshop run by Energy Sparks

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...

Year 5 - School Tasking (Session 3)

Tort Law. Gross Negligence. Trespass. These were only some of the law terms that we learn about and discussed in this week’s School Tasking session run by our LSE law students!

Rainbow Room - Sun Catchers & Rainbow Clouds

We have been exploring the different types of weather we experience during our outdoor playtime, particularly in the playground where we have noticed changes in the weather while playing. The children had a wonderful time creating sun catchers using paper plates and triangles from orange paper ....

Nurture Group - Art work inspired by Giacometti

Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive

We had a chill evening last night and enjoyed our hot chocolates. Bedtime went surprisingly well. The children were in their cabins by 9 but it did take a little longer to settle! This is to be expected though, it’s all very exciting. This morning was an early start though, everyone up at 6 and...

Rainbow Room - Chalk Drawing

The weather outside has been nice, allowing our pupils to have a great time participating in outdoor learning. They engaged in small group interactions, creating their own chalk drawings. Using a variety of chalk colour and the space available at the playground to create own chalk drawing. The...

Year 3 - Kingfisher: Art

The children in Kingfisher class enjoyed their outdoor art session inspired by Anthony Goldsworthy. the children used mostly natural resources to create their art work

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 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive

Survive and thrive, Daubs ‘25 Well believe it or not, today was even hotter! Everyone has dealt with it well though and are staying hydrated and being reminded to wear sunscreen! No campfire last night as we were informed it may have sent the whole place on fire so probably best not to have done...

Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive

... the books for years to come. By David and Levi From the teachers: Your children have shown such perseverance this week. Everyone has stepped out of their comfort zones and achieved everything they could. They have all displayed maturity and independence and we know you are as proud of them as we ...

Rainbow Room - Shapes ( Maths )

As part of their math learning, children engaged in exploring 2D shapes by learning their properties, including their appearances. They were introduced to a fun shape memory game where they matched the shapes on cards to those on a template. Some children even named the shapes, such as circles,...

Year 3 - Kingfisher Art Project 2025

The children were so excited today as they started their art project inspired by Anthony Goldsworthy. The children prepared their canvas for next when we created our art piece

Kingfisher Outdoor Poetry Session 2025

Kingfisher Class enjoyed the sunshine and the Hop-garden reading a selection of poems from the Whole Class Reader (I heard it in the playground by Allan Ahlberg)

Rainbow Room - Weather learning

Children were matching the names of the weather using weather cards and word cards. Some children were able to recognize the weather names by saying them or pointing to them with an adult

Rainbow Room - Human Life Cycle

In our Science and PHSE lessons, the children explored the fascinating journey of human growth stages from infancy to adulthood. They participated in an engaging activity where they arranged a series of pictures, each one depicting a different stage of the human life cycle, Some children...

Year 3 - Kingfisher - Andy Goldsworthy Art Project

Today (02-07-2025) the children in Kingfisher class were super excited to complete their art project inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. The children had their canvas prepared last week and used twigs to paint their image. They added leaves and on Friday will add a setting sun to complete the project

Year 3 - Kingfisher in The Power Of Play

The children had an exciting literacy lesson led by the specialist literacy lead from the National Theatre. The children used the story of Rumplestilskins and enjoyed the many role- playing activities

Year 3 - Angles

This week, we began learning about angles by using maps and toy animals, giving directions using degrees and compass points. In our maths lesson, we also created origami to explore different types of angles, as well as shapes, edges, and vertices—setting the stage for our upcoming sequence on...

Year 3 Kingfisher - Wow Day 2025

The children in Kingfisher had a lovely Wow Day creating pieces of art inspired by Andy Goldsworthy

Year 3 Toucan - WOW Day 2025

The Year 3 Toucan class had an inspiring Wow Day, drawing creativity from the artist Andy Goldsworthy. They ventured into the playground to craft natural sculptures using leaves, twigs, and other found materials. Back in the classroom, they painted tree-themed canvases in an artistic style inspired...

ArtBytes Celebration Event 2025

...nners of the school in our ArtBytes competition. After accepting their awards, we were lucky enou...... forward to taking part in ArtBytes again next year!...

Rainbow Room - Our Body and Senses

As part of our PHSE and Science curriculum, students have the opportunity to learn about their bodies by naming and identifying various body parts through worksheets, interactive games, and coloring activities. They are encouraged to identify familiar body parts on their own bodies, such as eyes,...

Rainbow Room - Easter Bunnies

Today, the children created their own Easter bunnies using paper plates and cotton. They explored the texture of the cotton by touching it with their hands. They also used black paper to make whiskers, googly eyes for the eyes, and pink paper to create ears

Rainbow Room: The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Matching Game and Life Cycle)

Children were learning about the caterpillar's life cycle by matching pictures in the correct order. They also played a memory game by naming pictures from a story and placing them on a matching game board

Year 5 - Computing Workshop

Today, Mr Power from Sebright taught us about coding by using these mini computers called microbits! We learnt how to set them up and made our microbits show our name and even sing us a song!

Year 6 - Hawks & Eagles: Science - Circuit and Voltage Experiment

Before the experiment, we begun the lesson by recapping our prior knowledge: scientific symbols for circuits, the difference between circuits and voltage as well as our hypothesis. We began our learning by understanding the difference between electricity and circuits and how voltage equals power....

Year 6 Hawks - British Science Week Workshop - Dry Ice experiment

The highlight of this spring term was the British Science Week . This year’s theme was ‘Adapt and Change’ the 6 Hawks enjoyed science workshop whereby they learnt about state of matter and even attempted to make ice-cream. The children had the opportunity to explore different hypothesis and the...

Rainbow Room - Learning Preposition (Interactive Game)

Children in the Rainbow Room explored prepositions through an interactive game displayed on the screen. They matched prepositions with various objects in familiar settings such as a park, living room, or kitchen. The children were introduced to phrases like "on top of the TV," "above...

Rainbow Room - Incy wincy spider song

Children from the Rainbow Room were engaged in listening to their favorite spring song, "Incy Wincy Spider," sung by an adult. They practiced remembering the sequences and actions related to the song, while also following simple instructions such as putting the spider on the tube and letting it go....

Rainbow Room: Actions Words & Colourful Semantics

As part of our ongoing support, some Year 4 pupils in the Rainbow Room took part in an activity to name and match different actions. They learned that action words are called verbs and often end in -ing. For example, they looked at phrases like "watching TV" and "eating food."...

Rainbow Room - Dotted Butterflies Painting

Children were exploring butterflies from the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" during their learning activities. They discussed the various colors and patterns they noticed on the butterfly in the story and created their own representations of the butterfly by painting it on cardboard...

Rainbow Room - Playdough Caterpillars

The children were remembering the numbers on the caterpillar cards and used green playdough to position it on the caterpillar to represent numbers when counting from 1 to 10 by counting both forwards and backwards

Rainbow Room - Learning Prepositions

Activity: Where is the Monkey? In this activity, children listened to an adult reading a story about a monkey while looking at illustrations. They were tasked with finding out where the monkey was hiding by identifying the prepositions and naming the objects that the monkey was hiding behind,...

Rainbow Room- Requesting with Coreboard

Children in the Rainbow Room participated in a requesting and sharing intervention using click-clack cars. They were also supported in their communication with a core board during this activity. In this session, children used pictures on the cardboard to request an object or action from an adult....

Year 3 – Kingfisher: The Roman Armour

The children in Kingfisher explored the Roman army today in their History lesson and focused on the equipment and armour used by the Roman soldiers. They used their knowledge to create an information poster all about the different pieces and their uses

Year 5 - IntoUniversity: Astronomy

What is it like to study at university? What kinds of classes do they have? We explored the types of lessons university students might have by learning about astronomy. We took part in a variety of activities and worked with a team!

Rainbow Room - Adventure Playground

We have fun at Adventure Playground by participating in fun activities

Rainbow Room - Preposition Learning

Children were learning about prepositions by completing matching activities and sticking tasks with the support of an adult. They also participated in a game called "Find the Ball," which encouraged them to identify and name the prepositions related to a hidden ball in a picture. During...

Year 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

Year 5 - Maths: Regular and Irregular Polygons

We learnt about regular and irregular polygons by creating flash cards and testing ourselves with them! We even played games with them with our partners

Year 5 - Reading at Daubeney Fields

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

Our 2020-21 Spanish Champions!

These are our 2020-21 Spanish Champions! We have new Daubeney Spanish Champions for the 2020-21 school year! There will be two Spanish champions on each KS2 class. Our champions are enthusiast of Spanish and try really hard to learn and also to help other children to learn. They will lead their...

Year 6 Graduation - Goodbye Class of 2020

The time has finally come to say goodbye to our Year 6 children though we know it's not goodbye forever because you are welcome to come visit Daubeney whenever you wish. It has been a memorable year, more memorable than most, but we will never forget all of you and how special you were to all...

Year 4M Class Assembly - 17th November 2020

Today 17-11-2020 the school council members led our class assembly in 4M. They discussed the role of a school council member and took ideas from the class to make our class even better. It was really nice to have the children leading an assembly and our next assembly will be led by the junior...

Year 2 - 2C is Feeling Festive

Over the past few weeks we have been getting in the festive mood by doing lots of colouring, singing and card making! It was also Christmas Jumper day last week so that made us even more festive! Take a look at what we have been up to in our photos!

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 1 - London Transport Museum

Year 1 have been learning about different means of transport. We went to the London Transport Museum to learn about how people traveled in the past in London. We saw how horses were used to pull carriages, and what the first bus looked like. We also went on the first ever tube train: it had no...

Year 1 - World Book Day 2017

We celebrated World Book Day at Daubeney by dressing up as a character. Year 1 were absolutely amazing! EVERYONE dressed up! We spent the day doing all sorts of activities related to books: we pretended to be a character, we made our own books, we dressed up and perfomed a play and, of course, had...

Year 1 Groovin'

Have a look at 1H making beautiful music supported by Year 3 superstars; Jenny on keyboard and Hayden on bass. Team work makes the dream work!

Year 1 Trip to Homerton Library

Year 1 went on a trip to Homerton Library. Our literacy focus has been based on a story by Anthony Browne called 'Into the Forest' so the librarians read us some other stories by him. The children really enjoyed meeting Morgan and Myrna who made the stories really enjoyable for them

Year 2 - 2C Chinese New Year Festivities

Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the year of the Pig in 2019! In 2C we have been celebrating by learning how to write in Chinese and learning about Chinese traditions through colouring. We also watched a video of traditional Chinese lion dances! Take a look at our photos!

Year 2 - 2C Easter Bonnet Parade

Happy Easter! For our Easter Bonnet Parade, we decorated cards using felt tips, glitter and bow with rabbits and Easter eggs! We had a lot of fun designing them and we chose the song Firework by Katy Perry to dance to during the parade! Take a look at our photos! Which bonnet catches your eye?

Year 2 - 2C Singing the Continent Song

Last week in Year 2, we learnt about the continents by singing a song about it! 2C loved the song so much that they can’t stop singing it! Here is a video of our class singing the continent song. Do you know all 7 continents?

World Book Day 2019

...d money for St. Joseph’s Hospice. - By Kai Foo Sherwin, 6F – Literacy Team Leader...

Year 2 - 2K World Maths Day 2019

Today (12th March 2019) was World Maths Day!! It was a fun day as 2K enjoyed taking part in different Maths activities. They enjoyed working in groups; whereby each child contributed ideas that helped their team solve the equation. Some teams used concrete as others challenged themselves with...

Year 2 - Land Art

Year 2 have been looking at scluptures created by Andy Goldworthy in their art lessons. Today we went to Daubeney Filed and created our own land art. We used natural materials such as leaves, twigs, stones and flowers. Have a look at our creations

Year 2 - Opera in 2G

2G have had a very exciting morning as they have had a visit from two opera singers. They were able to listen to the beautiful voices of the two very talented ladies, and also take part in a workshop. The children were really focused by what was a unique experience for them

Year 2 - Science: Plants

We had a great start to our Science lesson by learning about plants. We discussed what we already know about plants and to our surprise we realised that we actually know quite a lot! We worked as a group to complete a KWL chart about what we KNOW, what we WANT to learn and later would fill in what...

Year 2 - Time

The children in 2K had a fun lesson learning all about time. They learnt how to identify, quarter past, half past, quarter to and on the clock. We then extended our learning by using other time intervals

Year 2's Trip to Kew Gardens

On Wednesday 20 th May, year 2 went on a fantastic trip to Kew Gardens. The trip was linked to our learning – Growing Plants. We travelled by London Overground from Homerton to Kew Gardens. It was a long journey! When we got there, we split up into groups and went to see various things in the...

Year 2/5 - Developing Literacy Skills Using Brackets

It was a very special morning today, Friday 8th December 2017, for two special young stars from 2K, who came to 5M to enhance their learning. In the session, our two young stars developed their literacy skills by using brackets, to add more details about their subject. In maths they answered Next...

Year 2K Peer Tutored by 5M

The children in 2K were excited today to visit the children in year 5M, who peer tutored them. They worked brilliantly at developing their next steps and the Year 5 children helped the Year 2 children to focus on writing at a higher level. It was wonderful to see the peer tutoring being done across...

Year 1 & 2 - The Dinky Donkeys

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 3 - Chocolate Crazy, Learning Had

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

Science Club

The children in science club today (17-10-2018) run by Mr Dan and Mr Ricardo, was a super excited and fun filled session. The children used ingredients to make their own slime, which turned out to be AMAZING! The children look forward to the next session, after half-term, where they will be making...

Reception - Yellow Class Visit Discover Story Centre

Take a look at our pictures of the trip to Discover Story Centre In Stratford. It was such a brilliant afternoon. The children absolutely loved it! We went to see the 'Tiger Who Came To Tea' by Judith Kerr. We learnt about the many other stories that Judith Kerr wrote such as 'Mog The...

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 - 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 Trip to St Barnabas Church

Reception had an amazing time visiting St Barnabas Church. The children listened carefully to the Christmas story about the birth of baby Jesus. The children even took part in acting out the story. We also looked at some story props and pointed out some very important people in the story like, baby...

Red Class - The Big Draw

Red class created some lovely landscape pictures inspired by the artist Nicolas De Steal. We used paint and oil pastels to create different sceneries. Max said "mine is a picture of a garden with lots of colourful flowers". Agnes said " I like Elijah's picture because I like the colours of the sea...

Red Class - Transports

We created our own class pictogram to see how we travel to school. In Red Class, we found out that a lot of us walk to school and only a few children come by train or ride a bike. We also completed a transport survey to see how many different types of transports pass by Daubeney Road

Rights Song

Listen to our Rights Song as performed by our wonderful school choir

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

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

Science Club - Sound and Vibration

Science Club had a lot of fun experimenting with sound and vibration. We made phones to test how sound traveled, and discovered that sound can travel through string by making it vibrate!

Work Week in Nursery

Nursery enjoyed finding out about-and trying out- different jobs people do. They pretended they were builders, wearing helmets and high-vis jackets and building with the building blocks. Fawaz said, "builders wear the helmets to protect their heads from the falling bricks! I'm making a...

Short Ride in a Fast Machine

This is our music video for the BBC Ten Pieces Project. Thanks to parent volunteer Guy Sherwin for helping the children produce old style hand drawn animation. Drums by Jackson, Year 4 and keyboards by Tracey in Year 6

Storytelling with Phil McDermott

To celebrate National Storytelling Week (29th January - 3rd February 2018), we invited Phil McDermott, the master storyteller, to Daubeney. Each year group had a fun and engaging session listening to Phil tell amazing stories. The children were inspired by mysteries, myths and fables and enjoyed...

Sustainable Travel Assembly

London's Walking and Cycling commissioner, Will Norman, came in to deliver an assembly to KS1 and KS2 about the benefits of sustainable travel. He spoke about how good it is for our health because of exercise and how it benefits the environment. A healthier body means a healthier mind, which...

Top Book Recommendations for KS1

...assembly as much as the KS1 children! - By Kai Foo Sherwin, 6F, Junior Literacy Team Leader...

Top Book Recommendations for KS2

...our ideas! Keep reading Daubeney! By Kai Foo Sherwin, 6F, Junior Literacy Team Leader...

Transforming our School Gates

This week, children from Years 1-6 have been involved in an exciting screen printing workshop. Using pictures of local Hackney landscapes the children got stuck in to create one of the local landscapes. The children used cut out shapes of paper to create their chosen building. Using their designs...

Ukulele Trip to Gainsborough

Daubeney recently performed at an interschool ukulele event at a nearby school. It was an event organised by Mr. O Flynn and Ms. Fort from Gainsborough Primary School and eight primary schools took part in total. We had a fantastic time and we dressed up in a Hawaiian theme as that is where the...

Victoria Derbyshire - Call for Free Sanitary Products in Primary Schools

Nadia Collier, a member of staff here at Daubeney joined Victoria Derbyshire on Thursday 14th March for a discussion about calls for the Government to extend the supply for free sanitary products to primary schools

Year 3 - 3T's Climate Change Speeches

Inspired by the story 'Welcome', in which a polar bear's icy habitat melts, 3T decided to write speeches persuading people to do something about global warming. Take a listen!

Year 3 - Comparing Numbers

In Year 3 today we have been learning about comparing numbers. We started by ordering 3 and 4 digit numbers starting with the smallest to the largest. We then compared 2 numbers looking at their differences and similarities. Finally we chose 3 numbers and wrote facts that we know about those...

Reception - Red Class: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Red class really enjoyed reading the story 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. We have been using props and resources to retell and explore the story further. We loved using different voices to retell the story. We used a deep loud voice for daddy bear, a squeaky voice for mummy bear and a...

Year 4 Swimming at The Aquatics Centre

...ssional swimming instructors. By the end of the two weeks, everyone passed their swimming test!...

Year 4 - Natural History Museum Trip

Year 4 had a fantastic learning experience at the Natural History Museum to explore more about our topic of Earthquakes. Through dramatic film footage, exhibits of earthquake rocks and fossils and interactive games we learnt how destructive earthquakes can be. We even had a feel of what it was like...

Year 4 - RE Day: Christianity

As part of RE day, Year 4 explored how Christians show their beliefs. The children made posters inspired by the Good Samaritan parable. We also looked at important figures such as Mother Teresa. Finally we created glass stained windows with symbols that we thought represented Christianity

Year 4 - Science: How Sound Travels

In our Science lessons this term, Year 4 have been exploring sound and how sound travels. We have learned that sound is created by vibrations and travels in waves. During this lesson, we wanted to test how sound travels through different materials. We did this by attaching some string onto a metal,...

Year 4 - Time Capsules

On the final day of the school year 4S and 4G dug up their time capsules from the hop garden that they had planted during their transition week in Year 3. It was very exciting to read the notes they had written over a year ago. Mr Garber was particularly impressed with how so many children had met...

Year 4 - Viking Invasions

4S were visited by a Viking as part of an exciting workshop. The children learnt many interesting facts about the Viking invasions. They also had their fortunes told from reading Viking runes. Please ask a 4S member what the Viking predicted their future would be!

Year 4 - Woodberry Wetlands

As part of our science topic, we were very lucky to take part in the workshops held by the Woodberry Wetlands centre. We got the opportunity to go and look for creatures in the wildlife and observe and classify what they were using the classification key. We also got to go pond dipping where we...

Year 4 - Woodberry Wetlands

Year 4 were very lucky to go on a trip to Woodberry Wetlands where they had first-hand experience seeing all the creatures that they have been learning about in Science. At first the children were scared and didn't want to get their hands dirty but by the end of the day everyone was brave...

Year 4 Trip to Masala Zone

4K went on a trip to Masala Zone in Islington were we thoroughly enjoyed tasting dishes from the Indian cuisine as well as learning about the different jobs in a workplace. We learnt the importance of maths in the workplace by calculating a customer's bill. We then made delicious healthy...

Year 4 - IntoUniversity Workshop

Year 4P who are now the new Year 5M enjoyed a special workshop from the IntoUniversity team. The children were engaged in various activities, like creativity by designing their own trainer, being an archaeologist and having a go at being a road and town planner. The children are now looking forward...

Year 4 Visit Hackney Museum

Year 4 visited the Hackney Museum to learn more about migration and how the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings settled into Hackney. The children were fascinated by all the amazing migration facts and stories. Year 4 got the opportunity to look through real artifacts of migrants from Hackney which dated back...

Year 4's Maths Tricks

In Year 4 we have been using our 'tricks' to help us work out challenging problems! Have a look at some of the examples where the children used their knowledge of patterns to extend their learning. "For 375 + 200. My trick is that if I know 3+2=5, then I also know that 300+200=500....

Year 5 - Balance Arguments

Today (15th January 2019) the Year 5 pupils were engaged in an activity where they had to compile points for and against. Our topic of discussion was ' should we allow a zoo to operate'. The children came up with some interesting arguments, points and opinions about the topic. We then...

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 - Brain Workshop

The Year 5 children were treated to a special brain workshop today, carried out by a neurologist from the Birbeck University. The children enjoyed learning about the brain, the different parts and how our brains work. We were also treated to some interesting images to identify how our brain thinks...

Year 5 - British Science Week 2019

Today (12th March 2019) the children in Year 5 used their engineering skills and creativity to design a product as part of a nation wide competition. Their product must be able to help in any way or form and all applications will be submitted by to the nominated university and their engineering...

Year 5 - Celebrating World Maths Day

Today (12th March 2019) the Year 5 pupils were excited to celebrate World Maths Day by solving a range of puzzles and problems. The children formed groups and partners to help each other solve the puzzles and problems. The class had so much fun, solving the maths puzzles using their mathematical...

Year 5 - Creating Navajo Patterns

The Year 5 children enjoyed creating their traditional Navajo patterns, based on learning in the class. The children studied different designs and patterns and identified the bold colours used by the Native Americans. We hope to paint our designs on white material so the children can take them home...

Year 4 - Lego Workshop

Year 4 had an interesting Lego workshop organised by the City Year team. They had a wonderful time learning about coding and robotics and put all this knowledge into use. Take a look at what they got up to!

Year 4 - Human and Physical Geography Trip to Daubeney Fields

Year 4 went on a trip to Daubeney Fields to develop their understanding of 'human and physical geography'. They enjoyed themselves by having the opportunity to observe different things in nature and discuss the physical landscape of their local area! They will use this information to help...

Year 3 - Creating Christmas Cards with the Metropolitan Police

On 2nd December the Met Police held an engaging lesson with the Year 3 children for an hour. The children had fun creating Christmas cards. At the end of the lesson the panel of judges deliberated and finally a winner was chosen. The winner of the competition was presented with a certificate from...

Year 3 - Prehistoric Houses

After learning about the Stone Age through to the Iron Age, Year 3 dutifully collected rocks, sticks and other materials to independently make a variety of prehistoric houses. I was impressed by their creativity, critical thinking skills and teamwork. Well done Year 3!

Year 3 - Designing Chocolate Factories

After finding out about Willy Wonka's weird and wonderful culinary creations, Year 3 decided to design confectionery rooms of their own. Some of their ideas would give Mr Wonka himself a run for his money! One child created 'Everest Room', which contains a life sized version of the...

Year 3 - First Week Back At School

In Maths, we have been looking at place value and representing numbers using dienes and counters. We have also started to add on 1, 10 and 100 onto different numbers using our knowledge of place value so far. In Literacy, we have been recounting our summer holidays and we are preparing to create...

Year 3 - Fraction Museum

Today children exhibited their understanding of fractions by creating their very own Fraction Museum. They used different objects in the classroom to represent each fraction. On the card, they wrote down all the facts related to the fraction. Take a look at their exhibition!

Year 3 - Healthy Living Festival

Year 3 attended the Healthy Living Festival in Kings Hall. The event was promoting healthy eating and living, children were able to do different activities e.g Dodgeball and Tag rugby. At the end of the event, the children were given a free t-shirt for taking part

Year 3 - KidZania

Yesterday (28th March 2019) Year 3 were incredibly lucky to visit KidZania. They got the opportunity to independently wonder and roam around the safe and secure indoor city run by kids. In KidZania, the children were able to get a fun and realistic insight into the adult world by taking part in a...

Year 3 - Magnets and Forces

Year 3 have been learning about Magnets and Forces. They learnt that magnets have north poles and south poles and that these attract each other. But two north poles will repel each other, as will two south poles. In today's lesson, Year 3 learnt how to make a compass with a magnet and needle....

Year 3 - Making Roman Shields

Year 3 are soon to be members of a Roman army! Today they took their first step towards that goal by making their very own Roman shields, which will be put to the test tomorrow in a battle with the Celts! Who do you think will win?

Year 3 - Museum of London

Yesterday (29th January 2019) Year 3 visited the Museum of London. We were there to see how the people of London lived during The Stone Age, The Bronze Age and Roman times. The children were really interested by the artefacts that have been discovered over the years

Year 3 - Remembrance Day 2018

Year 3 explored Remembrance Day and discussed why it is important. They read and thought about the WW1 poem 'In Flanders Fields' and listened to music inspired by it. They also made their very own poppies and collectively decided that they wanted to observe a two-minute silence to remember...

Year 4 - Board Games

Year 4 started their Summer term by playing and learning about board games. The children had a lot of fun during lessons and even got to start planning their own board games

Year 3 - The Big Draw

Year 3 created beautiful landscapes inspired by the artist Paul Cezanne. Younes said, "I wanted to blend my colours to make it look like a hazy sunset!" Farzana added, "my dark mountain contrasts with my light background." The children are becoming very good at commenting on & appreciating each...

Year 3 - The Big Draw

Year 3 created a masterpiece inspired by the art of Michael Craig Martin. "The colours are so vibrant" - Riya "I love that he creates items from the everyday world" - Gabriel

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 - Visit from an Archaeologist

Today (27th February 2019) Year 3 were lucky enough to be visited by a real life archaeologist from UCL (University College London)! She brought with her a variety of stones from the different stages of the Stone Age. We got to touch them and we guessed what they were used for. "Some of the...

Year 3 - Work Week

This week, year 3 are learning all about how money is dealt with in the adult world. Today (27th March 2019) we brought Hackney's Mare Street into our classroom! The High street included a Cinema, Post Office, Bank and a Supermarket! Pupils all got their own wallet which included some money,...

Year 3 Maths Workshop

Year 3 took part in Maths workshop led by Mr Naidoo. The children were challenged through a series of activities to test their mathematical knowledge. They first of all began with a test of their times table where they had a set time to answer as many times table questions as they can. They later...

Year 3's Visit to Kew Gardens

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

Year 4 - African Silhouettes

Year 4 had a fantastic time creating their African Silhouettes last week. They used red, orange and yellow water colours to create a beautiful African sunset. They then created their Silhouette by drawing the outline of an African Animal onto black card and cut around it. Have a look at their...

Reception - Red Class: Still Life Drawing

In Red Class we have been inspired by the artist Dennis Wojtkjewicz who paints large scale pictures of fruits and flowers. Take a look at our wonderful still life drawings of fruits. Can you guess which fruits they are? What do you like about these pictures? What is your favourite fruit?

Reception - Chick Eggs Arrival

06th June, Reception year group waited patiently for the arrival of our chick eggs. Ten egg arrived at 11.15. They Were brought to us by Mr Dave from the company ' Living Eggs '. He help us set up the incubator. The ten eggs are in incubation we hope to see some starting hatch on Wednesday....

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...

5M and 2K - Peer Tutors

The Year 5M children were excited on Friday the 17th March because they became Peer Tutors and helped the year 2K children to develop their learning by supporting them with their Next Steps. The Year 2 children were even more excited because they got to do their learning in the Year 5 class. Mr...

1D - Sense Investigation

1D did a sense investigation for Science. We explored what our senses do for us by tasting different items, listening to different instruments, smell different things, touching different materials and looking into sight boxes

1FA - 'The Gruffalo' by Julia Donaldson

Our had out class assembly and it was amazing! We performed "The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson. Everyone worked really hard to put together a memorable performance. We made ourselves proud and had a great time! Well done, 1FA! You are awesome!

2B Assembly - The Flower Man

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

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...

3T - Get Arty

Today 3T created masterpieces in the style of the artists that our class tables are named after. Can you guess which artists they were inspired by?

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...

4P’s trip to Tramshed by Mark Hix

This week, year 4 got to experience what it felt to work for the very first time! They were lucky enough to go to the famous restaurant and make delicious doughnuts and marshmallows with the head chef. Not only that, they also got the chance to make their very own mocktails! After making the...

5M Reading With 4S

The children in 5M welcomed the exciting young writers from 4S and had a chance to read their stories. The main focus of the session was to evaluate how well the year 4S children were writing and help them to improve by giving positive criticism

Nursery Visit to the Church of St. Barnabas

Nursery found out all about the Christian celebration of Easter on their recent visit to the Church of St. Barnabas. They acted out part of the Easter story, standing in two lines and waving branches to welcome Jesus (played by Lexie and Nhyira!) as he arrived on his donkey and shouting...

6S - Spanish Dictionary Challenge

This week, 6S took on a new challenge on their Spanish learning by using a Spanish online dictionary and translation websites to be able to understand and independently translate a text. They used their expertise in dealing with the Spanish alphabetical order confidently to be able to look up...

ABC Hit It!

An original tune by the Daubeney School Band

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!

Annual Instrumental Event

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

Autumn Book Fortnight

Our Autumn Book Fortnight was a great success! The whole school focused on the book ‘Welcome’ by Barroux. The children enjoyed the story and discussed issues such as global warming and immigration. Each class from reception to Year 6 had the opportunity to do a range of activities including art and...

Autumn Term in Nursery

The nursery children have been busy this week. They've been enjoying exploring what happens in autumn. In particular, they were fascinated by how the leaves changed colour and fell off of the trees. They discovered that the fallen leaves are fun to play with too, as you can see in the video!...

BBC Breakfast - Meeting Andy Murray

We are absolutely delighted to be featured on the BBC once again! This time, it's summer and it's Wimbledon! A huge congratulations to Hamnah in 5O for being invited by the BBC to meet the World No.1 tennis champion – Sir Andrew Murray OBE - at the prestigious Queen’s Club in...

Black History Month 2016

At Daubeney we celebrated Black History Month and many students were enthused enough to carry out their own research. Mr Logan was impressed by the quality of the research and the passion for History shown by the children here at Daubeney. We look forward to an even bigger Black History Month next...

"Bed Bug Blues" by Bessie Smith

The Daubeney School Band headline at the Daubeney Mini Music festival

Blue Class - Language Walk

Blue Class children and parents went on a language walk to the Hackney Marshes, walked by the canal. Miss Poppy our speech therapist provided top tips to develop listening skills, and how to help your children to learn new words

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...

Boys Book Club - Poetry in the Garden

On Tuesday the 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...

PSHCE - Going For Our Goals

We are celebrating the new year by going for our goals! Throughout the school, children have created 3 goals for themselves to achieve in this year. Many children dedicated their goals to helping others! Here are some of their inspiring goals: "I want to learn a life skill such as cooking so...

Nursery Had Their First PE Session!

The nursery children really enjoyed their first PE session delivered by Mr Simon and Mr Reece. The children experimented in moving in different ways, balancing, walking, hopping on one leg and running. We even played a game, naming colours and matching the coloured cones. Well done Nursery!

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...

Maths Junior Team Coding Club

At Daubeney the Maths Junior Team have been having a fantastic time engaging in a Coding Club. This is held every Friday morning and facilitated by two of our very enthusiastic parents. The pupils are fully engaged during these sessions and looking forward to creating their own amazing projects...

Motivational Boys Group Black History Month Assembly

Our Motivational Boys Group demonstrated many qualities today (15th October 2018) when they lead an assembly prepared by them, on inspirational figures throughout history, focusing on people from Black and African heritage. The boys used their skills and lead the assembly discussing many...

Mr Young's Visit to Daubeney Primary to see Year 6

Year 6 were enthralled by a visit from Mr Young (Osceola’s dad) who inspired all the children and adults in the art of writing newspaper reports. Mr Young shared his valuable insights into the world of Journalism and shared some invaluable tips to help Year 6 write newspaper reports. Mr Young...

Nursery - Baby Clinic

Nursery have enjoyed using their new role play area which has been turned into a baby clinic. They have been weighing the babies, dressing, feeding, bathing and doing check ups. They have even learn how to put a nappy on the baby!

Nursery - Growth and Transformation

This term our topic is 'Growth and Transformation'. We will be looking closely at plants and lifecycles. So far, Nursery have been busy planting seeds, doing observational paintings of flowers and finding minibeasts in our garden. We have also been reading the story 'Jaspers...

Nursery - The Big Draw

As part of our Big Draw project the nursery children created a piece of art inspired by the work of Lubaina Himid. They worked together to paint, cut and stick lots of coloured shapes and fruits onto a canvas. The finished piece looks spectacular!

Nursery Concert

Our school band went to a nearby Forest School Nursery to perform a rock concert on a Saturday. It was a beautiful sunny day and the crowd seemed to really enjoy our grooves. If you look closely at the photos you may spot Mr. O Flynn's son providing guest vocals. Well done to all the children...

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...

Literacy Parent Workshop - March 2019

Miss Fergus invited some Year 1 and 2 parents to come to a workshop with their children to learn some fun ways to practice spelling at home. The Junior Literacy team were also there to support and the team played spelling and word games with the Year 1 and 2 children. The Junior Literacy Team even...

Nursery Trip to Old MacDonald's Farm

Nursery had a wonderful time at Old MacDonald's Farm. They got to meet and feed so many animals, including Annie the owl and Freckles the pony. They were also lucky enough to race a tortoise and see if they could jump as far as a wallaby. Bea said, "The tortoise was faster than I...

Nursery Trip to Paradise Wildlife Park

Nursery enjoyed encountering lots of new animals on their big day out to Paradise Wildlife Park. They were mesmerised by the elegant white tiger, in awe of the enormous anaconda and surprised by the emus, who they thought looked very funny. Inigo commented, "I've never seen anything that...

Nursery Visit to St Barnabas Church

Recently Nursery visited St Barnabas church on Homerton High street. Children eagerly listened to the Christmas story about baby Jesus. Children even took part in acting out the story. Agnes and Ben were Mary and Joseph, some children were the angels, shepherds and others were kings. Everyone took...

Nursery's Caterpillars

The children in nursery have enjoyed observing the caterpillars as they transform into butterflies. The children waved goodbye and they were very excited to let the butterflies out of their net

ORDER, ORDER! The House will hear...

Last Friday, Daubeney's finest school council members were given the marvellous opportunity to attend a visit to The Houses of Parliament in company of Miss Bree, Mr. West and City Year's own Mr. N. The trip allowed for the group to venture into the heart of London, specifically the area of...

ParentMail

As part of our ongoing effort to link school and home we have decided to introduce ParentMail , a quick and easy way to communicate with parents through online letters, a texting service and allowing parents to pay for dinner money, trips and other events online! We appreciate many people now pay...

Phonics in Nursery

The children in Nursery love phonics! As you can see from the videos and photos, they have been working hard to identify and write initial sounds and name objects and pictures with the same sound. Some children can also read CVC words by segmenting and blending. In the video a child used his phonic...

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

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 Parent Workshop - January 2019

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

Chain Reaction Workshop

Years 4 - 6 were delighted to be part of a rapturous workshop delivered by Chain Reaction – an orgaisation that specializes in working with children to develop vital tools and techniques to achieve successful conflict resolution - whilst keeping it fun and involved in ‘real life’....

Discussing Sustainable Modes of Transport in Spanish

Linking with our efforts to promote sustainable modes of transports lead by Ms Cherid, Year 5 and some Spanish champions had a travel survey and discussed the transports they prefer using and why in Spanish. Pupils also shared the way they travel to school and their reasons

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...

Collage by Atticus and Khanya 5M

Our budding Year 5 stars have been busy writing a song. Have a listen! I think you will agree that it is a very accomplished piece of song writing

Concert at the Hackney Music Service Festival

On Monday 3rd July our school band performed at the Hackney Music Service Festival. We performed in front of ten other schools and an audience of over 100 parents. Thank you to all the parents who made it to this event to bare witness to how great our band sounded. This is the last big hurrah for...

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...

Cross Country at Hackney Downs Park

A selection of Daubeney's finest long distance runners, competing at Hackney Downs park. An excellent effort by the team, with every individual improving on their performance the previous week

Daubeney Jazz Concert

On Thursday we had our second ever Daubeney Jazz Concert. Our guest musician was the unbelievably skilled Anthony Browne who gave us a lesson on Ragtime, Cool Jazz and Bebop. At the session we also had the Daubeney All Girl Band and the Boys’ Choir

Daubeney Live 2016

Just before Easter we had Daubeney Live, our annual music celebration. Our two visiting schools, Millfields and Bridge Academy blew us away with their musicality. Also we had three different bands from our own school who played to a very excited audience. There were two drum kits on stage and an...

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...

Egypt Workshop

As part of their Ancient History Learning around Ancient Civilisations, Year 6 were treated to a theatrical performance by the Freshwater Theatre Company where pupils relived the times of the infamous pharaohs and had the opportunity to dress up as characters from ancient Egypt

Kindness Tree

This is our beautiful Kindness Tree, earn yourself a leaf on the tree simply by being KIND! :) From helping another person to being good to yourself, it is easy to earn yourself a spot up there, showing the whole school what a great role model you are

Farewell Ms. Douglas

On Wednesday our usual singing assembly was transformed into a surprise leaving assembly for our Head Teacher Ms. Douglas. We had beautiful poems recited and heart felt tributes from staff members. The children sang "Something inside so strong" because Ms. Douglas has given us all...

First Week in Year 3

Take a look at what Year 3 have been getting up to in their Maths and Literacy lessons this week: In one of their Literacy lessons, Year 3 got to know the story of The Gingerbread Man in preparation for a writing task later this week. In groups, they created freeze frames of different scenes from...

Goldsmiths Recording Studio

The Daubeney School Band, The New Redemptions, took a trip to Goldsmiths Recording Studio. ABC Hit It The latest studio release from the Daubeney School Band. Produced / engineered by Winther at Goldsmiths Recording Studio. Composed by Mr. O Flynn, Mr. Keating and the Daubeney School Band

Guardian Visits Daubeney

Year 6 were delighted to have been visited by two inspiring members of the Guardian newspaper team and learning about the exciting world of Journalism and the Media. The workshop involved children thinking about what it means to be a journalist and what is involved in getting a newspaper ready each...

Hackney Junior Citizenship

Hackney Junior Citizenship Schemes is a fast-paced, multiple-agency event run for Year 6 students and designed to help pupils prepare for the challenges they may face as they become young adults. Our Year 6 pupils enjoyed a carousel of activities with up to ten different agencies delivering short...

Healthy Me Week 2019

We had a fantastic Healthy Me Week, focusing on ‘Healthy Body, Healthy Mind’. The children had the opportunity to look closely at how looking after your physical health can support in looking after your mental health . The children: Participated in meditation during their music...

Jam on a Boat

On Thursday 22nd of June, some fine musicians from Daubeney Primary went for a jam on a barge. We had the ukulele club, half the school choir, two rock bands and a whole collection of other talented performers. We rocked out in the blissful setting of our nearby canal dressed in our Hawaiian...

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...

Year 5 - Distance Time Graph

Today (7th March 2019) the Year 5 pupils had a challenge in their maths session. They were given a graph showing time versus distance. the children had to interpret the data by reading and understanding the graph, then they created their own questions about the data

Year 5 - Finding a Fraction of an Amount

Today (11th February 2019) the Year 5 children had an exciting maths lesson using concrete and visual resources to help them find a fraction of an amount. The children watched a video prepared by the teachers, then used the concrete materials to help them solve the calculations. After, they used...

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

RE Day in Year 2

Today we learnt all about Christianity and why churches are important to Christians. We started by looking at symbols and new ones that represent us. We then looked at Christian symbols and what they mean. Next we learnt about churches and their features. Finally we learnt about Christenings and...

Year 5 - Art: Watercolour Paint

Today Year 5 became masters of watercolour paint. We recreated our favourite scenes from The Lion and the Mouse by Aesop. What is your favourite part of the story? What techniques did you use to create your artwork?

Year 3 and Year 4 Carol Concert Preparations

Please read to find out what your child is singing for the carol concert and then help by practising the song at home. Carol Concert Lyrics 3P are singing Christmas is Coming , an original song by the Daubeney School Choir and Band 3G are singing I Saw Three Ships 3T are singing Wonder by Naughty...

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 - Young Seismologist

Our young Scientist today were very busy designing and creating their own seismographs. They used the same principles that is used by professional seismographs and made their own. They even got to test the seismograph by creating a mini earthquake in class. The results were amazing!!

Year 1 - 1L: Where Are We in the World?

Year 1 have been learning all about continents and oceans this half term. We have explored countries, seasons, geographical features and so much more! We finished our topic by making a video full of facts and information!

Year 2 - Christmas Jumper Day

Can you believe it’s almost Christmas? We celebrated today by putting on our best Christmas jumpers and by having a lovely Christmas dinner together! Look at how happy we are!

History Projects

What inspiring children we have at Daubeney! Over the holidays whilst most of us were feasting and relaxing, our children set about independently researching their history topic for the Spring term. They presented their findings in the most creative ways, from sculptures and painting to computer...

RE Day in Year 3

Today was RE day at Daubeney and year 3 were learning all about Judaism. They learnt what the main beliefs of Judaism are, their place of worship and the festivals that are celebrated. In the afternoon, they created their very own Judaism inspired masterpieces. In the pictures below, you will see...

Year 3 Visit Kew Gardens

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

Year 4 - Mummification

Today (16-01-2020) the children in Year 4 studied the process of mummification as it was done during the Ancient Egyptian period. The children then had a chance to apply the same process by mummifying an orange in order to see how long they could preserve the skin of the fruit

Year 4 - Distributive Law

Today (21st January 2020) the children in Year 4 used the distributive law to solve their multiplication examples. The children used a game sheet, where they had to choose their own 2-digit numbers and multiply it by a single digit. Then, using the distributive law when they found the answer they...

Family Matters Workshop - Dreams and Goals

"Have a vision, it is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible" (Walt Disney) Our dreams and Goals, a truly fun filled and creative workshop were the invisible became a visible by creating a vision. We had some lovely feedback from...

Year 6 - 6M IntoUniversity Week 2020

6M spent a week at IntoUniversity learning all about inclusion and diversity. The week included learning about a range of subjects. On Monday and Tuesday, we looked at inspirational people throughout history such as Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela and Malala Yousafzai. Also, we had an...

Boys Book Club - 24th February 2029

Today (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...

Climate Learning Week - Jules Kirby from Friends of the Earth

As part of Climate Learning Week the Key Stage 2 children were lucky enough to have Jules Kirby from Friends of the Earth (and Daubeney dad!) come in to talk about our Planet and how we can all help to look after it. The children discussed possible ways that they could make a difference. Children...

Year 3 - Stone Age workshop at the Hackney Museum

Year 3 have been learning all about the Stone Age this term. During their visit to the Hackney museum, they got an insight into how Hackney was during the Stone Age era. They were able to have a touch of a range of artefact replicas including animal fur, flint tools and fossilised poop; they were...

Year 4 - Battleships Co-ordinates

Today (26-02-2020) in Maths, the children in year 4 played a game called Battleships. They had to guess the co-ordinates selected by their peers and see how many they could get

Year 4 - Cross Curricular Learning: Sketching 'The Great Wave of Kanagawa' by Hokusai

Today (14th October 2019) the children in Year 4 used their Art skills, Topic skills and Literacy skills to sketch 'The Great Wave of Kanagawa' by Hokusai. The children learnt about the famous artist and then looked at some of his famous work, especially the Great Wave and re-created his...

Reception - Red Class - Our Body

Red Class have had a wonderful week learning about our bodies. We have been naming and labelling different parts of the body. We also spoke about what is inside our body. The children came up with lot of interesting facts. Sky said “our heart pumps blood to the rest of our body”....

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...

Year 1 - Favourite Places

This week in Year 1 we talked about our local area. Firstly, we talked about our favourite places in our local area, then we sketched a picture of our favourite place using pencils and finally we finished our pictures with oil pastels. We shared our pictures with the rest of the class. Watch our...

KS2 Sports Day 2019

Another wonderful Daubeney KS2 Sports Day was enjoyed by all that participated and watched last Thursday at Mabley Green. A big thank you to all the staff who supported and encouraged our children on the day, especially Mr Simon and Mr Simeon our PE teachers. As always, a big thank you to you our...

Year 3 Turn Banksy

Year 3 were inspired by the political and cultural messages of the graffiti artist Banksy's work. They found out that Banksy uses stencils to create his art so that he can get away quickly. This is because he is actually anonymous-nobody knows who he is! Year 3 made their own Banksy-style...

Year 2 - 2C Sports Day

What a wonderful day to be out in the sun and have some friendly competitions! From three legged races to javelin throws, 2C gave it their all in everything we did today! We even ended the day by participating and watching the races! Take a look at our highlights! What was your favourite part of...

Year 5 Residential 2019 - Day 4

[menu name="year5-residential-2019"] It’s day 4 and you’d have thought the tiredness would have set in by now... well it has with the teachers. The children are just as energised as ever. They finished last night with wider games and the usual hot chocolate before bed. This...

Year 2 - Carnival

Did you know that "Bee's Knees" and "Cat's Pajamas" were terms used in the 1920s that meant something was the best? After all the practice and and hard work we put into our dance, we were definitely the Bee's Knees and Cat's Pajamas! Our theme was the 1920s so we...

Year 3 Recreate 'Alone in a Crowd'

After finding out about the artist Julian Opie, Year 3 created their own piece of art inspired by his work. It was interesting to see how one piece of art inspired so many different styles. It seems that the children are really developing their own unique artistic voice!

Year 3 - WOW Day 2019

Year 3 had a brilliant start to their new topic - the rainforest - today. They found out about the deforestation that is going on in the Amazon & wrote news reports about the fires that occurred recently, which they thought were devastating. In their reports, they call for action & make...

Year 3 - Mapping Skills Day

Year 3 immersed themselves into the world of maps. Firstly, they helped some pirates to find their missing treasure by building and then using their knowledge of grid references and coordinates. They then worked together to identify symbols that are used on maps, leading to an interesting...

Year 4 - Concrete Maths

Today (12th September 2019) the children in Year 4 used concrete resources to represent numbers in a place value chart. The children used 5 digit numbers and extended their learning by going up to millions

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,...

Year 6 - First Week in 6S

We have had a fantastic first week in 6S. In science we have started by asking questions about all the things we want to know about classification. In Literacy we got into character by performing role play of our modern version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We have also had our WOW Day and...

Year 4 - Note Taking Skill

Today (18th September 2019) the children in Year 4 developed their knowledge by learning the skill of note taking. They then used the notes to help them create factual sentences for their travel leaflets, which will be published later this week

Year 2 - 2P's Class Assembly - September 2019

We had a lot of fun sharing our assembly today. We worked as a team to create it and discussed what it should be about. We decided on the very important subject of mindfulness and breathing!

Year 2 - Take a breath...

This week in literacy we have been looking at what the benefits of breathing are. We started every lesson by doing some breathing activities and talked about how that made us feel. Afterwards, we made posters about what breathing is, why we should do it and when we can do it. We made these posters...

Year 4 - 4M IntoUniversity Workshop

The children in 4M were challenged today with various activities provided by the IntoUniversity team, who came into school today to carry out a range of activities. The children had to use various skills like; teamwork, listening, creativity and building skills to complete the various activities

Year 6 - Mapping Day

For mapping day Year 6 were able to put their mapping skills to the test by taking a trip out to the Olympic Park in Stratford. Before that, they had to use a map and a scale to work out what the distance was from Homerton to Stratford. They also had to find certain points on the map once they...

Junior Road Safety Officers Training

The Junior Road Safety Officers attended training organised by Hackney Council, along with other primary school JRSOs from Hackney at the Round Chapel on 25th September 2019. It was a successful day filled with activities allowing our JRSOs an opportunity to learn new things and take away exciting...

Year 2 - 2C Outdoor Sketching

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

Art Competition

Create an art piece based on what sustainability looks like to you. Please submit your entries by 13th March

Science and Art in Year 2

Did you know it’s science week? We started our new science topic by doing some art! We are learning about plants this half term. We looked at pictures of different types of plants and talked about similarities and differences of it. Then, we painted them using bright colours! Have a look at our...

Hispanic Week 2019

Our pupils learnt a lot about the Spanish speaking countries by researching, making presentations, posters, flags, maracas and many more. All staff, parents and especially children had an amazing time. A first-hand experience of the culture of all Spanish speaking countries: we had a Mexican...

Miss Fergus Reads Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman

'So Much' Read by Mrs Alam

'Little Leaders' Read by Miss Nadia

Virtual Assembly - 26th June 2020

Sports Week - presented by Hamza

It Takes a Village... 2020 - Episode 2

Episode 2 of It takes a Village presented by Mr Logan. Featuring: Ronnie, Nasra, Hind, Bola, Poppy, Hamza, Aoife, Taylor and Mr Tyrone

It Takes a Village... 2020 - Episode 3

Episode 3 of ‘It Takes a Village...’ presented by Mr Logan featuring: Aoife, Brian, Jusson, Lily-Ann, Miriam, Maelle, Miss Fergus & Miss Theresa

Every Little Thing read by Mr Logan and Katie

It Takes a Village... 2020 - Episode 4

Episode 4 of ‘It Takes a Village...’ presented by Mr Logan. This concluding episode features many distinguished village voices as well as our very own, Aleah, Anessi, Evelyn, Cristina, Caian, Brian, Judson & Ronnie

Year 1 - Science in the Hop Garden

Last week Year 1 visited the Hop Garden as part of our Science topic 'Nature All Around Us'. We looked for plants that were growing in our school environment and explored the bug hotels too! We then practised our sketching skills by drawing our favourite plant in the garden. We had lots of...

Virtual Assembly - 12th June 2020

Art Week - presented by Esther

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

Year 3 - Maths: Multiplication

Today in maths Year 3 have been learning about multiplication. We started by using repeated addition. The children used place value counters and charts to show their work

Year 2 - Celebrating African Fashion

Today in Year 2 we learnt about different fashions in Africa. We focused specifically on jewellery and the different styles. We made our very own necklaces, inspired by the bright and bold prints in Africa!

Year 3 WOW Day - Should we worry about our rainforests?

Year 3 concluded their geography unit by creating placards and delivering persuasive speeches about deforestation and what could be done to preserve The Amazon Rainforest

WOW Day in 1L

1L had lots of fun for Wow Day! We started by practising following directions - left, right, forwards, backwards. We loved playing Simon Says! Then we went for a walk around the school using a map to guide us. We thought about the direction we had to turn to find the next place on the map, and...

Year 2 - RE Day

We learnt about Hanukkah today, the Jewish celebration! We started off the day by learning the story through role play and picture sequencing. Then we learnt about Jewish symbols. Finally we had a relaxing afternoon by sketching a picture

Year 5 - Life Cycles

This afternoon Year 5 were displaying their knowledge of life cycles by creating POSTERS! What life cycles do you know?

Year 6 RE Day - Buddhism

This half-term Year 6 explored the religion of Buddhism. We learned about the four noble truths, the eight fold path and how the Buddha first became enlightened. We then put all of this information into a leaflet and finished off with some art inspired by what we had learnt. [slideshow...

Have You Seen Elephant by David Barrow

I Am Enough by Grace Byers read by Miss Lucey

School Council - Interview with Matt Harding by Jago

The School Council are divided into four committees; the Journalist Committee research and write articles about activities scheduled to take place in school, what children do outside of school and anything of interest happening within our community. This is an article written by Jago in 5MC. He...

Virtual Assembly - 15th May 2020

Literacy Week - Our weekly children’s assembly lead by Nevan

Year 5 and 6 Residential 2020 - Day 3

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

Year 5 and 6 Residential 2020 - Day 4

[menu name="year5-6-residential-2020"] It’s Day 4 and you’d have thought the tiredness would have set in by now... well it has for the adults! The children are just as energised as ever. After a hearty breakfast, they were pasting their way down, by now, a well trodden and...

Nursery - Let's go to space

We really enjoyed reading the story 'What ever next!' Written by Jill Murphy. Nursery created their very own rockets to travel to space

Year 5 and 6 Residential 2020 - Day 5

[menu name="year5-6-residential-2020"] A very good morning from Team Daubeney at Youlbury! We’re packed, fed and ready to go, once we’ve completed our last two activities and had lunch. My aim is for us to leave by 1.30pm if not a few minutes before. I will update the school...

Origami with Miss Cheung - Paper Crane

Learn how to fold a paper crane by following this video!

Reading Skills

Reading Skills At Daubeney we develop our love of reading and comprehension by using the 7 reading skills: predicting, inferring, clarifying, summarising, making connections, evaluating and asking questions. You learnt how to use these in in your reading sessions with your teacher and have them...

Hansel and Gretel Read by Malek

The Beast of Buckingham Palace

The final chapters have been added! What do you think will happen next?!

Mr Stink

Prefect Applications for 2020-21

Job starts in September - applications accepted from Year 5 only A prefect is appointed by the Executive Headteacher on the recommendation of the Senior management team and other staff. It is expected that prefects will follow and demonstrate the Daubeney Standards in their everyday lives. Position...

Ms Gray Reads FING by David Walliams

Virtual Assembly - 21st May 2020

Hispanic Week - Sports

Virtual Assembly - 26th May 2020

Have Fun and Laugh Week - Lead by Rosa

Virtual Assembly - 27th May 2020

Have Fun and Laugh Week - Presented by Laniya

Virtual Assembly - 28th May 2020

Have Fun and Laugh Week - Presented by Mei

Virtual Assembly - 29th May 2020

Have Fun and Laugh Week - presented by Poppy

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

Virtual Assembly - 5th June 2020

Our Friday Assembly presented by Jago

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...

Year 5 - 5MC Forensic Workshop

Today 5MC took part in an amazing Forensic Workshop. In the workshop, 5MC had to identify who stole a pedigree dog from a dog show! To find the culprit 5MC had to use many forensic skills by looking at clues such as DNA, finger prints, ink chromatography, addresses and many more. 5MC, what was your...

Year 5 - Fitness

The Year 5 children started this term (23rd April 2019) off with a once a week fitness session led by our sports coaches. The Year 5 children will use the good weather this term to promote a healthy lifestyle and develop their fitness levels over the coming term. In addition, they have been...

Year 6 - 6M IntoUniversity

Last week, (Monday 28th January – Friday 1st February) 6M has the exciting opportunity to go to Into University. Each day brought new and exciting learning. On Monday, we learnt all about the theme of the week which was diversity and inclusion. Following on from this, we learnt all about...

Year 5 Residential 2017 - Day 3

It's been another fantastic day on the residential! We started the day with cereal, juice and a huge selection of pastries! We read out all the parents, families and friends comments whilst the children ate. The comments really helped the children get motivated for another fun filled day of...

Year 5 Residential 2017 - Day 4

It's our last full day on the residential and it's been another inspiring one! At breakfast we had cereal and juice for starters and then beans on toast, vegetarian sausages and saute potatoes. Yum! We read some more of the messages from families and friends whilst the children ate. We have...

Year 5 Residential 2018 - Day 3

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

Year 5 Residential 2018 - Day 4

It’s day 4 and you’d have thought the tiredness would have set in by now... well it has with the teachers. The children are just as energised as ever. They finished last night with wider games which incorporated orienteering with a quiz. Of course, Mr Swarbrick’s group emerged...

Year 5 visit the Science Museum

Year 5 recently visited the Science Museum to watch an amazing humanoid robots 3D film all about science, technology and engineering. Year 5 enjoyed all that the film had to teach us and felt inspired and blown away by the new technology that will soon be prevalent in our every day lives. Of...

Year 5 Visit to Our Lady's Secondary School

Some Year 5 girls had the opportunity to visit Our Lady's secondary school in Stamford Hill where they were able to experience life as a secondary school student. The girls had a French lesson where the teacher was VERY impressed by how quickly they were able to pick up conversational French....

Year 5's Air Resistance Experiments

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

Year 6 - 6M Work Week 2019

This week, 6M had a unique learning experience this week, we had to create an invention to begin a business enterprise. To do this we had to think about our profit and how much it would cost us to produce our item. We used our numeracy skills to come up with a useful business plan. Following on...

Year 5 - Whole School Focus: Art

The children in Year 5 were truly inspired by the work of Kadinsky, and used his style and themes to create their own art pieces. They used lines, shapes, colours, thickness and even different designs to create their own master pieces which will be displayed in our very own art gallery

Year 6 - Art: Malevich

The children in Year 6 were truly inspired by the work of Malevich, and used lines, shapes, colours, thickness and even different designs to create their own Malevich inspired master pieces

Year 6 - Constructing Balanced Mobile Structures Using Wire

As part of our cross curricular topic Year 6 have been constructing balanced mobile structures using wire. The wire structures are inspired by Alexander Calder who was hugely influenced by an artist called Miro. Whilst building our structures we had to keep in mind some key factors: the structure...

Year 6 - Cultural Cooking

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

Year 6 - Daubeney Alumni

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

Year 6 - Making Shapes

Today (04.04.19) Year 6 completed their week of learning about shapes by getting creative and making some. They have been revising properties of shapes this week - making sure they know about faces, edges, vertices, volume and shape names

Year 6 - Monet Workshop

Year 6 had the amazing opportunity to take part in a four-hour workshop where we focused on the work of Claude Monet. We learned that he was inspired by nature and enjoyed experimenting with light and colour. We had to create colour wheels using only the primary colours and white. We then used...

Year 6 - Posting Letters to America

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

Year 6 - Publishing Short Stories

Today (04.04.19) year 6 published the short stories they have been writing over the last few days. They used the corrections and improvements made by themselves and their peers to produce a top quality piece of writing. They will be sharing them by reading them out loud tomorrow

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 - The Caterpillars Are Growing

The year 5 children are super excited to see their baby caterpillars growing and becoming ready for their next stage. Soon, they will enter the chrysalis stage where they will begin the amazing process of metamorphosis. Once they have changed into butterflies, we will update you and we hope to...

Year 6 - Volcano Models

Year 6 had the opportunity to demonstrate their artistic and geographical skills in Cross Curricular by making some model volcanoes. It was explosive fun

Year 5 - IntoUniversity

Year 5 went on a whole day trip to 'IntoUniversity' where their stereotypes and prior knowledge was challenged. They were inspired by the fact that anyone can attend University and how it did not have an age limit! Year 5 took part in a range of activities and put a lot of effort into their...

Year 5 - Fly Butterflies, Fly High!

The children in 5M said their last goodbye to the butterflies, which they cared for from the caterpillar stage, through to the pupa stage then watched them come out as beautiful butterflies

Year 5 - Fractions With Like Denominators

Today (1st November 2017) the Year 5 children enjoyed their group work lesson, where they learnt to add fractions with like denominators. The children worked well in a group, supporting each other and extended their learning by adding mixed numbers. Today was another example of great learning in...

Year 5 - Graphic Novels

This week, the Year 5 children will be studying Graphic novels and will be creating their own version by Friday. The children will look at speech bubbles, actions and creating characters. Today (10th December 2018) we created on our character and a front cover for our comic

Year 5 - Graphic Novels Expo

For the past week, Year 5 have been busy creating their own graphic novels. Today we shared our graphic novel with our peers in other Year 5 classes. We gave each other effective feedback by saying what we liked about each others work and by suggesting ways that our peers could improve

Year 5 - Human Form Inspired by Anthony Gormley

The children in Year 5 used ideas from Antony Gormley to design and create their own human form. They used wooden squares and rectangles to form the human outline. The children had fun making different forms and shapes of the human body - just like Antony Gormley's work

Year 5 - Imperial War Museum

Year 5 visited the Imperial War Museum where they had to chance to deepen their knowledge on World War 2. They thoroughly enjoyed the clips that they saw in the museum and were astounded by the artefacts. "I found the museum very interesting and I learnt about the disastrous bombs that landed...

Year 5 - Inspired by Anthony Gormley

The children in year 5 have been studying the work of Anthony Gormley and the use of squared objects and designs. He also enjoys using the human form to create art pieces. The children had fun today creating and designing their own art piece based on the human form

Year 5 - Instructional Text

The Year 5 children had a pleasant surprise today, when they played Draughts/checkers for their Literacy lesson. The class studied the instructions, evaluated them by identifying the key features and then used their knowledge to play the game. They also wrote their own instructions for a different...

Year 5 - IntoUniversity: Space

The children in Year 5M had a wonderful session at INTO UNIVERSITY, where they studied the planets, the galaxy and outer space. The children were also treated to a Scientist, who had a rather strange piece of equipment, who taught them even more about our solar system. The activities and the...

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 - Junior Maths Team

The junior maths team were in action today (5th February 2019) working across the Year 5 classes. Some children from 5M were working alongside groups in 5Mc, supporting and teaching the pupils methods to convert seconds, minutes and hours. They helped the children to extend their learning by...

Year 5 - Lego Time

The children in year 5 were pleasantly surprised today to be part of a Lego workshop organised by City Year for them. They enjoyed building, designing various Lego structures and included using a pulley drive to make the car move. Mr Fahy was super excited and jumped in to play with the Lego

Year 5 - Literacy and Art

The children in Year 5 were pleasantly surprised today (20th September 2019) when they were told that their Literacy lesson was actually an Art lesson. The children have been reading 'The Colour of Home' by Mary Hoffman, and have used the village image as their stimulus for today. They used various...

Year 5 - Making Chocolate Cornflake Cakes

Our Year 5's used and applied their knowledge of measurement by cooking cakes and creating playdough! Here we have our young chefs concentrating on the tough task at hand... And yes the cakes were as yummy as they looked. Why not make some chocolate cornflakes cakes at home? Ingredients For 6...

Year 5 - Mexican Carnival

The children in Year 5 had a fun time this afternoon (4th October 2018) creating and designing different carnival head pieces. They were inspired by our topic -North America and we studied the different carnivals, celebrations that happen every year. The children used a range of materials to design...

Year 5 - Number and Place Value

The Year 5 children started their Summer T1 today (23rd April 2019) with a focus on number and place value. We looked at the various topics covered by number and place value, and during this week we will be covering more on this topic

Year 5 - Online SPAG

The children in year 5M enjoyed their first session using the online Spelling, punctuation and Grammar activity. Each child was given a unique password and username, which will help them to log on at home in order to complete the weekly activities, which are set by the teachers. The online program...

Year 5 - Poets

The Year 5 children had an amazing week of poetry. They developed their skills in writing different types of poetry and ended the week with an amazing poems called, My Gift To You... which they presented to their families. I hope all the mums, dads, brothers, sisters and grandparents enjoyed the...

Year 6 - Romeo and Juliet Workshop

As part of our Literacy learning, children in Year 6 studied Shakespeare's infamous play, Romeo and Juliet. To enrich their learning, Year 6 had the pleasure of a drama session, led by veteran soldiers, who brought Romeo and Juliet to a highly engaging level

Year 6 - Writing: Peer and Self Assessment

This week Year 6 have been writing short stories based on the short film “The Piano”. Today (03.04.19) they read through each other’s writing and used their teamwork and feedback skills to improve their peers’ writing. On Friday, they will share their short stories with each...

Junior Literacy Team visit the Nursery

... enjoyed reading to them too! By Kai Foo-Sherwin, Junior Literacy Team Leader...

Year 5 - IntoUniversity Centre

The children in 5M, 5F and 5Mc had a wonderful time exploring engineering at the 'IntoUniversity Centre' in Clapton. The three classes went on different days but all had the opportunity to use their designing and engineering skills to create a solution for a problem that was posed by the...

Christmas No. 1

"Christmas is coming" by Iris and Mia. Vocals: Iris, Mia, Salma Band: Atticus , Khanya , Keshae

Year 6 - 6F Time Capsule

...over the 2019 time capsule! - By Kai Foo Sherwin ‘It was really cool to see what the children liked to do 17 years ago and compare it to now.’ – Ailana 6F ‘It was weird because everything was really old! The school and the uniform looked very different.’ – Cav...

Year 5 - Catapults

Today (3rd May 2019) the Year 5 children made their very own catapults in the topic lesson as part of our forces lessons. The children designed their catapults then measured the force applied by the elastic bands to help them make their catapult stronger and more effective

Year 1T - Retells 'The Gruffalo' by Julia Donaldson

In 1T we are learning one of our favourite stories, The Gruffalo. Firstly, we chose a character we wanted to play in our performance. We have our reasons why we would be good for the part. Then, we worked collaboratively to rehearse each part of the story, taking care to remember not only our...

Reception - Blue Class Sharing Assembly

Blue Class had their last sharing assembly in Reception on Thursday (16th May 2019)! They delivered a fantastic performance, ukuleles and all! Most of the lines were written by the children themselves, there was even some improvising thrown in! Enjoy watching :)

Girls Club - 21st May 2019

Today (21st May 2019) at girls club we started off by playing a game called fizz buzz. Then we played a Lego building game in teams where everybody had to work together to build the Lego model. We ended the session by reflecting on the importance of teamwork. Another fun session in the bag!!!

Spanish & Art - Our Champions Creating Their Own Paintings

The Spanish champions had a great time painting on canvasses, inspired by the Spanish impressionist artist Joaquin Sorolla. After seeing his exhibition, they learnt about his work and impressionism and this week they used impressionist techniques to create their own artwork. They will now learn to...

Spanish Champions Art Trip to the National Gallery

Our Spanish champions went to the National Gallery to see the Spanish artist's exhibition 'Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light'. They were stunned by Sorolla's colourful and bright landscapes of Spain. They learnt about impressionism and discussed the effects of light in painting

Daubeney Spelling Bee 2019

...eep working on those spellings! - By Kai Foo-Sherwin 6F, Junior Literacy Team Leader...

Reception - Red Class Planting Cress and Mustard Seeds

Just before the half term, Red Class planted some cress and mustard seeds. We were very surprised when we returned back from our holidays. The cress had grown very tall. We took good care of our plants by watering it and making sure that they had plenty of sunshine. Red Class also decided to make...

Year 3 - Mariachi Workshop

Today (10th June 2019) Year 3 got the fantastic opportunity to experience live music performed by a Mariachi band. They even got do do a bit of traditional dancing. Year 3 have definitely started Hispanic week off with a bang at Daubeney. Watch this space for more updates!

Year 1 - Hispanic Week in 1P

For Hispanic Week, 1P have been learning about Chlie. We made an information video about what we learnt. We hope you enjoy it!

Year 6 Meet Holocaust Survivor Eve Kugler

Year 6 had the privilege of speaking to a holocaust survivor, Eve Kugler, this week. Eve explained all about her family history and how she was separated from her parents who were interned in a concentration camp while she was forced to flee to an orphanage in America. The children were fascinated...

Year 6 Tycoons

An ambitious group of our Year 6 children have decided to show off their entrepreneurial skills by setting up a tuck shop at break time. They are in charge of keeping stock, calculating finance and ensuring they make a profit. In addition, the food that they're selling is all fresh, nutritional...

Year 6- 6F Maths Peer Tutors in Daubeney by Hodoo

Young Hackney Dance

On the 27th of March, two groups of children from Daubeney took part in a dance competition arranged by Young Hackney. The children choreographed their own routines and as you can see for yourselves from the brilliant performances, they did a magnificent job! Judging by the third video, Mr Simon,...

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...