Assessment

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

Religious Education

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

Humanities - History & Geography

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

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...

Mission, Vision and Aims

Mission Statement The Blossom Federation is made up of three primary schools - Daubeney, Sebright and Lauriston Schools - plus Daubeney Child & Family Hub and Sbright Children's Centre. Collectively, we serve over 1,200 Hackney children and families and are proud of our provision in supporting...

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 -...

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...

Year 5 WOW Day - Ancient Greeks

To celebrate the end of our History topic on Ancient Greeks, we created, designed and painted our own Greek inspired vases using salt dough. Have a look at our fun day!

Year 5 - Harry Potter Slumber Party

To celebrate finishing our whole class reader, we watched Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. We dressed in our pyjamas and brought our teddy bears and blankets to make it extra cosy

Year 1 - 1L Growing Together

As part of Children's Mental Health week, we took time to think about how we have grown and who has helped us to grow. We celebrated all the things we are able to do now and decorated a butterfly with all of those things. We also decorated parts of a caterpillar to show all the people that have...

Nursery - Queen's Jubilee: Going to the Races

The Nursery children looked spectacular dressed to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee with the theme 'Going to the races'. They designed and made pool noodle horses to race around the track. There were smiles, laughter and lots of cheering

Year 4 - 4S World Book Day 2022

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

Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 - Growing Together

During the last week of our half term, week commencing 7th February 2022, Daubeney celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week. The theme was Growing Together. Growing Together is about growing emotionally and finding ways to help each other grow. Challenges and setbacks can help us to grow and adapt...

Year 3 - 3HC Odd Socks Day 2021

3HC wore old socks last Friday to celebrate anti bullying week

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...

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...

European Day of Languages

This week we are celebrating European Day of Languages. Students in Yr5 and Yr6 have had the opportunity to learn about some loanwords or ‘borrowings’. These are words which are now English words that come from other languages. As well as being a great chance to celebrate the diversity...

Year 1 - 1L RE Day: How and Why Christians Celebrate Christmas

For Autumn 2 RE day, Year 1 explored how and why Christians celebrate Christmas. We retold the Nativity story and thought about the people and why they are important to Christians. We then sang lots of Christmas songs and discussed other ways that people may celebrate, like putting up a Christmas...

Nurture Group Baked a Cake!

On Thursday 17th June 2021 we celebrated a birthday in nurture. We baked a cake for his birthday. The children really enjoyed measuring the ingredients and mixing all the ingredients together. They especially enjoyed cracking the eggs into the bowl

World Teachers' Day 2021

On the 5th October, Daubeney Primary School celebrated World Teachers' Day. The children came to school dressed as our teachers and created cards, poems and gifts for staff to show their appreciation. We had a special staff breakfast and our Junior Mental Health Team created cards and handed out...

Nursery - Dressing Up for Christmas

We dressed up to celebrate the festive season. We have even included the out-takes!

1A RE Day - How and why do Christians celebrate Christmas?

Last week in RE Year 1 explored the big question, how and why do Christians celebrate Christmas? We read the Christmas story and acted out the story using props. We discussed how the birth of Jesus was a significant event. We also discussed how Christmas is celebrated all over the world. We...

Black History Month 2020

We had a fantastic day dressing up to celebrate inspiring black people for Black History Month. Who can you spot? A big thank you to Mr Vidler for taking such wonderful pictures!

Reception - Diwali

This week in Reception, we have been learning about Diwali. We have been learning about why people celebrate Diwali and what activities we can take part in. We have been making Diva Lamps using clay, sequins and beads. We have also been designing Rangoli Patterns both inside and outside the...

1L RE Day - How and Why do Christians Celebrate Christmas?

1L had lots of fun for RE day in Autumn 2. We listened to the Nativity story and then acted it out as a class. We listened to some Christmas Carols and sang some Christmas songs while we decorated our Christmas tree with baubles! We also learnt about the Christmas star and decorated our very own...

Nursery - Friendship / Anti-bullying Week 2020

This week Nursery have been celebrating friendships, they have been working together, helping each other and talking about differences. Nursery celebrated their peer's success. She won a prize for her wonderful art work. They all clapped and said "well done". They all wore odd socks to celebrate...

Reception - Blue Class Celebrate Odd Socks Day

Today was 'Odd socks day' @ at Daubeney. We celebrated 'it's good to be different'

Year 2 - WOW day - Great Explorers

Today Year 2 came to school dressed up as their favourite explorer. They then prepared some interview style questions for their explorer of choice and engaged in some interview role-play. They then answered the BIG question which was 'What makes a Great Explorer?' To round it all off, Year 2 made...

World Mental Health Day 2022

It was World Mental Health Day on Monday 10th October. To celebrate mental health at Daubeney parents were invited to a “Child Anxiety” parent workshop. Children in KS1 and KS1 attended assembly around Mental health day. The children learnt about how children are supported with their...

Year 6 WOW Day

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

Year 2 - RE Day: Easter

We learnt about Christianity this RE Day! We spent the morning learning about how Jesus did lots of miracles and what a good person he was. Then in the afternoon, we we learnt about how Christians celebrate Easter! We even made pop up Easter cards!

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

Nurture Group - Reception - Board Game

We played a board game called snakes and ladders. We had to take turns and wait our turn patiently. We celebrated our winner and congratulated him!

Nurture Group - Year 1 - Graduation Party

Today we are delighted to celebrate one of our nurture students graduating back to class full time. She has been a delight to work with and we will miss her vibrant caring personality in the nurture room

Year 4 - RE Day

Today (10-06-2021) the children in Year 4 had various activities to help them understand how the Christian faith deals with death and how people from other cultures celebrate their loved ones life. The children learn about Christian practices when a loved one passes away. They also learnt about a...

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

Junior Mental Health Team - Mindful Colouring Sessions for Children's Mental Health Week

JMHT have been delivering mindful colouring sessions to celebrate Children's Mental Health Week

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...

Year 2 - Black History Month Drumming

To celebrate Black History Month, we had an incredible visitor who came in to lead a drumming assembly and he even did a workshop for us where we each had our own drums and we drummed along to his beat

Tenerife adventures III

Early start to head to school where we had the chance to visit the school’s facilities and learn about how schools work in Spain. One of the Year 5 groups we are working with celebrated their sharing assembly so we watched them performing Le Petit Prince story in Spanish. After exploring the Canary...

Rainbow Room - VE Day Celebration

Children had great street party to celebrate VE Day

Parrot class - VE Day celebration!

Parrot class had a lovely time celebrating VE day. We made flags and hats to celebrate and even had lunch outside

Whole School Art Exhibition - May 2025

On Monday and Tuesday, we held our Whole School Art Exhibition where we celebrated the art of all the children at Daubeney. Each year group were given an artist as inspiration and were asked to create a self-portrait based on this artist. The results were amazing! If you would like to purchase your...

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

Year 3 - Black History Workshop 2025

Year 3 had fun learning about Black History with Immediate Theatre Company. We used drama to celebrate diversity in our class and learn about different aspects of Black culture such as food

Reception - World Book Day

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

Year 2 - Tagalog taster session

Our Year 2 pupils enjoyed an exciting Tagalog taster session last week! They learned greetings in Tagalog and explored a little about Filipino culture. A wonderful way to celebrate languages and broaden global awareness!

Year 4 - RE Day 2026

The children in Year 4 enjoyed their RE Day today - 25-03-2026 - learning all about the significance of Easter. They learnt about the events that occurred and how Christians around the world celebrate Easter

Nurture Group - Our Busy and Baking Adventures

Here are some of the highlights of what we’ve been up to- We worked together, waited our turn, supported one another, and celebrated each small success

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 - RE Day: Spring 2 2026

In this RE day, we learnt about how Christians celebrate Easter. We learnt about the story of Easter and what some important symbols of Easter are

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 3 Kingfisher - World Book Day

Kingfisher celebrated World Book Day on Friday 7th March 2025

Reception - Black History Week 2020

Today children celebrated Black people making a difference in Daubeney. It was amazing to see so many children dress up - thank you parents for your effort and support

Year 2 - RE Day 2024

For this half term's RE day we learnt all about Easter and what it means to Christians. We spoke about what Christians believe happened many years ago, and traditions they take part in to celebrate

Spanish - First week

Very busy week for students at Daubeney after the summer break! Students in Year 1 have enjoyed singing along to familiar songs and revisiting greetings, while students in Year 5 have had the opportunity to improve their memory skills to help vocabulary retention through games, and learning about...

Spanish - Día de Muertos

Students across school have had the opportunity to explore the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead. During this festivity, which roots began over 3000 years ago, the dead ones are honoured. It is not a sombre and sad time, but a time for celebration and remembrance. Day of the Dead is...

Duckling Class - Valentines Week and Party!

Last week of Spring 1, we celebrated Valentines Day! We enjoyed making cards for our family, making play-doh hearts and making decorations for our party! On the last Friday, Duckling Class hosted a family Valentines Party. We enjoyed making heart shaped biscuits for our family to enjoy at the...

Duckling Class - Chinese New Year

This week, we have been learning about and celebrating Chinese New Year. We have been talking about 'The Great Race' and all the animals involved. We have learnt that this year is 'The Year of the Dragon'. We have been designing and creating our own dragons and fans to celebrate...

Duckling Class - World Book Day 2024

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

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 5 and 6: End of Year Seaside Trip 2024

Today was brilliant! To celebrate the end of the year, we took a coach to Southend and had fun on the beach. After that, we dove into Adventure Island where we spent the rest of the afternoon screaming and laughing on all the rides!

Year 4 Hornbills - World Book Day

Hornbills had fun getting dressed up to celebrate World Book Day. We discussed our favourite characters and why we chose to dress up as them. We then put them in the 'Hot Seat', asking them questions and answering in role of the character. Can you name all the charcters we're dressed as?

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 - RE: Autumn 2 2024

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

Year 1 - Parrot Class: RE Day - Christmas

During RE day we discussed why Christians celebrate Christmas. We acted out the Christmas story using props and costumes. We also created a lovely advent wreath and discussed what each candle on the wreath represents. Take a look at our lovely work!

Year 4 - Numbers Day

Hornbill Class enjoyed doing a variety of maths activities to celebrate Numbers Day. We got creative with our number-inspired outfits and had fun playing 'Who Wants to be a Mathionaire'

Year 5 - Numbers Day

To celebrate numbers day, we dressed up as numbers and also did some fun activities during our maths lesson!

Rainbow Room: Surprise Day

As part of our wonderful learning journey, we were pleasantly surprised with a special treat! We were given colouring sheets and stickers as a reward for our incredible determination and effort in our learning. It was such a fun and exciting way to celebrate our hard work!

WOW Day in Year 4

On Thursday, 22 October 2020, the children in Year 4 had their Wow Day based around our Topic - Nepal. The children created a survival guide to climb mount Everest, drew different pieces of art from Nepal, studied a special festival celebrated in Nepal and created their very own Nepalese necklace

Year 1 - RE Day - Autumn 2020 - Harvest Festival

1A have been finding out why and how do people celebrate the harvest festival. We have been singing songs and making thank you cards for all the things we are grateful for. We also learnt what 'harvest' means and which food items can be harvested

Spanish - Language Diversity: European Day of Languages

This month schools from all countries in Europe celebrated the European Day of Languages. Daubeney took part in this event celebrating our diversity in languages and culture. KS2 pupils learnt important facts about Europe and shared their passion for languages. We discussed why it is so important...

Year 2 World Poetry Day

To celebrate World Poetry Day 2FA performed the poem 'The North Wind Doth Blow'. We memorized the verses and added some movement to our performance. The North Wind Doth Blow (Anonymous) The north wind doth blow And we shall have snow And what will the robin do then, Poor thing? He'll...

Year 5 Residential 2017 - Day 2

Another riveting day at our residential adventure! What better way to start the day than with cereal, beans, hash browns, scrambled egg and toast? A hearty breakfast, after an interesting first night and a 6am morning workout and yoga, to prepare for another fun packed day of activities including...

Year 5 - Young Authors Publishing Session

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

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 - We are FREE

We are FREE Thursday we celebrated National Poetry day and our theme was FREEDOM. So the children in 5M decided it was the perfect opportunity to release our butterflies, who had grown so huge, into the wild to allow them to taste their FREEDOM. Fly little butterfly Roam the skies Enjoy life...

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 - Celebrating Diversity

The children in Year 5 used their creative skills today (29-10-2018) to design a poster celebrating diversity. The class, in their SEAL session, discussed the importance of diversity and generated ideas to create a poster to celebrate how diverse our world is. We hope to use all the work from the...

Year 5 - 5M Friendship Week Posters

Today (12th November 2018) the children in Year 5M made posters to celebrate their friendships and used vocabulary to describe what makes a good friend. They created word posters using a style and technique

Year 4 Ballet at the Royal Opera House

What an amazing opportunity it was for Year 4 to enjoy a wonderful and inspiring ballet performance of ‘Rhapsody’ and ‘Two Pigeons’ at the prodigious Royal Opera House. The children were pleasantly surprised and sat mesmerised throughout the electrifying performances. As the...

Year 4 - SEAL- Odd Socks Day

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

Year 3 Celebrate World Book Day 2019

From Dog Man to the plays of Shakespeare, Year 3 LOVE reading, so of course they were incredibly excited to dress as a character from of their favourite books to celebrate World Book Day. Can you guess who they are?

Year 3 - World Maths Day 2019

To celebrate World Maths Day, Year 3 took part in many fun-filled maths games and challenges. They completed the activities collaboratively and used a range of mathematical operations to solve the problems

Year 3 - Reading Club

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

Year 3 - Celebrating Chinese New Year

Today Year 3 found out about Chinese New Year. They completed several artistic activities to celebrate the occasion and listened to Chinese New Year music. 'Luck is a very important part of Chinese New Year. Lanterns are released into the sky to send off the bad and make room for the new.'...

Year 3 - 3T Friendship Flowers

To celebrate Friendship Week, 3T made special friendship flowers. They thought about what friendship is and how we can all be good friends to one another. They then wrote what was special about their friends on a petal to be added to their flower. They also thought about what made them a good...

Year 1 RE Day

Year 1 learned a great deal during RE day this week. This term was all about the Sikhism religion and the children learned about Guru Nanak and the Vaisakhi festival which was celebrated in April. Manpreet one of our children's family members happily came in and gave a detailed talk about the...

Year 5/6 Residential - Oxford

29th June Thank you parents for all your lovely messages; we've had a great time sharing these, especially the nicknames! The children are doing absolutely great. However, after a gruelling day today, they are very tired. We've decided to have an early night after a much-needed hot...

Fireworks!

To celebrate bonfire night nursery have painted some beautiful pictures. We have been talking about how fireworks explode into different colours in the sky and have been learning to recognise and name colours. Here's what some of the children had to say about bonfire night... Gabriella said...

1FA - Black History Month

We celebrated Black History Month with lots of music and dance! We had the chance to play the steel pans and enjoy a lovely performance too!

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...

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...

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...

Black History Month 2018

Daubeney celebrated Black History month with a fantastic event. We had singing, dancing and lots of other things that kept us thoroughly entertained throughout the evening. Thank you to all the parents, carers, friends and family that attended and a big thank you to Miss Gustave for organising such...

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...

Hispanic Day 2018

This week all Daubeney celebrated their first Hispanic Day! Everyone had an amazing time learning to dance flamenco and pupils from all year groups learnt everything about all the Spanish speaking countries. They made flags, posters, drawings, masks and they could even enjoy a Spanish lunch!

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...

Nursery Celebrate Chinese New Year

Nursery had a fantastic time celebrating Chinese New Year. We had a party and created monkey hats to celebrate the year of the 'Monkey'. Nursery also enjoyed listening to some Chinese music and stories. A big thank you to all our parents who brought in some delicious Chinese dishes!

Odd Socks Day 2018

On 16 th November 2018 Daubeney school had an ‘Odd Socks Day’ to celebrate being different

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...

WE Day 2019

As part of our Safer communities initiative the learning mentors took a group of year 6 children to the SSE arena in Wembley for the WE Day event. There were 12,000 people in attendance at WE Day to celebrate all young people who are socially active, locally and globally and want to see change....

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...

World Book Day 2016

Daubeney celebrated World Book Day with a blast! The children and staff made a massive effort in coming to school dressed as their favourite book character!

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 1 - RE Day in 1L

For RE Day this half term, Year 1 explored how and why people celebrate Harvest. We explored which foods can be harvested and acted out how you would do this. We had fun pretending to dig up potatoes and carrots, and picking apples and pears off the tree! We also sang Harvest songs, and made our...

Year 2 - RE Day

Did you know that Hindus believe that there is one God that takes on many different forms? Some have many arms and legs, some don't look like humans! We learnt a lot of new things from where they pray and worship to what festivals they celebrate. The day ended with us designing our own hennas...

1D Celebrates Christmas Jumper Day

Year 6 - SATs Celebration

Hi Year 6, we've put together this video for you to celebrate you finishing what is normally one of the more memorable half-terms in primary school - the half-term when you should have been sitting your SATs. As it was, you didn't have to sit them but arguably you have faced something much...

Baller Boys Author Visit

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

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...

British Science Week 2020

The pupils and staff of Daubeney primary school drew the curtains to a close on an awesome British Science Week. Parents spent the afternoon in school educating and motivating pupils on a wide range of stem related jobs, from building their own animation into a film, taking fantastic photos when...

Year 4 - Young Scientist

Today (13th March 2020) the Year 4 children dressed up as their favourite scientist to celebrate our Science Week in Daubeney. The children were excited to explain who they came dressed up as and why. The children have enjoyed our Science Week and will be very excited to welcome our next science...

Spanish Champions & Mental Health Week

We celebrated Mental Health Week discussing what is being brave in Spanish (ser valiente). Our Spanish champions shared their views and created their own be brave self-portrait, describing what being brave means to them both in English & Spanish

Year 2 - RE Day: Easter

Today we are learning about one of the most important Christian celebrations, Easter! Christians believe that Jesus died on the cross and resurrected (which means come back to life again) and that is why Christians celebrate Easter. There are many ways that Christians celebrate Easter, for example...

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...

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...

Reception - Blue Class: Celebrating Differences

Blue class dressed up in their traditional clothes and bought in special traditional dishes to celebrate differences and end to our wonderful autumn term

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!

Odd Socks Day 2019

The children have been Celebrating Differences in JIGSAW sessions and discussing that it is ‘Good to be Different!’. On Friday 15 th November we celebrated our Uniqueness with our annual ‘Odd Socks Day’

World Mental Health Day - 10th October 2019

Throughout the week, Daubeney participated in assemblies, parent workshops and class activities to celebrate the fantastic World Mental Health Day. This year our focus was ‘I Love Me’. Children discussed the importance of being unique and participated in activities celebrating what they...

Year 6 - Transition Week 5F to 6S

It’s been an absolutely fantastic week for the new 6S and an incredibly busy one too. In just one week the children have: completed a piece of writing, published it and begun their writing folders for Year 6; taken part in school council elections; practised their dancing for the end of year...

Year 6 - Ice Skating

It’s getting closer to the final days at Daubeney for Year 6 and to celebrate they went out ice skating. It was a nice break from the heat in the cool ice rink. Lots of fun, laugh and good times. That would also work as a good summary for their time in Daubeney

'It Takes a Village' Holiday Activities

As part of Daubeney's 'It Takes a Village' project, we would like to celebrate fathers and male role models and the positive impact they have on our children. As such, we are running two competitions for the children over the half term and would like your support in encouraging the...

Year 3 Celebrate Wacky Day

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

Capital Kids Cricket Festival

Today (8th July 2019) the children in Year 5 had a wonderful time at the CKC cricket festival, where they celebrated 30 years of dedicated service to coaching and mentoring young future stars. The children participated in a variety of different activities and cricket games and as a bonus each child...

Year 2 - End of Year Beach Trip

We went to Margate to celebrate the end of the year! We made plenty of time to splash around in the sea, as well as build sandcastles!