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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...

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...

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...

Reception - Forest School

Forest school Reception, making nature necklaces

Year 6 - Football

Year 6 at Mabley Green. Well done to all the children who were playing. We had some excellent performances on the day and there will be more matches on the way

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...

Family Phonics Workshop

A big thank you to parents who attended our first family phonics workshop this half term. It was so lovely to see parents engaging in various phonics activities. We went through all of phase 2 sounds and had an excellent time playing table tennis phonics and snap! We look forward to seeing you...

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 4

This week we started our new topic of Spreadsheets. We learnt how to colour individual cells in our rows and columns, and also how add an image to a cell. We then explored adding a value to an image, and using the counting tool to say how many items we had in a certain area

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 5

This week we continued with our topic of Spreadsheets. We made a magic square using our coloured cells and identified and used the 'total' buttons this week. We then explored ways in which numbers could be placed inside the square to make the totals the same around the outside

Year 4 - Spanish - Spring Term 2

Excellent effort from students in Year 4 this half term who have had the opportunity to learn about a range of famous Spanish-speaking painters – including Pablo Picasso, Frida Khalo, Wilfredo Lam, Joaquín Sorolla and Salvador Dalí, and different art styles/movements. Students can now use a range...

Year 4 - Wow Day

The children in Year 4 had a fun filled Wow Day. They designed and built settlements along a river they created, using their knowledge from our learning this term

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...

Year 3 - Fraction Walls

In Year 3 today the children have been making fraction walls. Fraction walls are an excellent visual resource to help children learn about equivalent fractions

Year 2 - Spanish - La oruga glotona

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

Daubs on tour '24 - Day 3

Yet more reasons to be proud of our Daubeney children today as they take on challenges and show resilience with tasks that are not easy and in 25 degree weather to boot! After very little sleep Monday night (they must have been excited or something 🤦🏻‍♀️) Tuesday evening was much more settled in...

Excellence in Music Award 2025

The Daubeney Music Department and our star pupil, Noah, have just received a prestigious award from the Mayor of Hackney, Caroline Woodley. On Tuesday night, Mr. Logan, Mr. Brian, and Noah attended a ceremony at the Hackney Empire to accept our certificate and a bursary worth £2,700. So, how did we...

Rainbow Room – PSHE: Family Relationships

Children participated in their PHSE session, where they learned about different families and family members. They were introduced to Makaton signs such as "mum," "dad," "family," "brother," and "sister," and did an excellent job repeating these...

SEND PE - Autumn 2025

"The SEN pupil's completed their first PE lesson. They actively participated in all activities and were always willing to take on challenges during the session. Keep up the excellent work!"

Rainbow Class: Maths (Shapes)

As part of our Maths learning, pupils explored a variety of 2D shapes through engaging shape-identification worksheets and matching activities. Pupils practised recognising, naming, and colouring different shapes using a colour code, including circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, pentagons, and...

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...

Girls and Boys Football at Mabley Green

Well done to all the children who played. We had some excellent performances on the day and there will be more matches on the way

Home Learning

These home learning resources were published to support children during school closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. They are no longer being updated. Welcome to the Daubeney School home learning portal! There are links to useful resources, access to online activities and information about what...

Year 2 - Conscience Alley

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

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...

Centre of the Cell

...on Cell biology....

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

Easter Bonnet Parade 2019

We had an eggcellent parade today! Some of our hats were eggciting and eggstravagent and the judges found it difficult to choose just two winners from each year group. Thank you to everyone who took part and all the parents and carers who were able to attend!

Literacy in Nursery

Here are some example of our excellent literacy in Nursery

Maths in Nursery

We are excellent mathematicians

Year 4 - Hackney Museum: Travels with my Suitcase

Year 4 visited Hackney Museum where we had a workshop called 'Travels with my suitcase'. The children discovered how the local area has changed through the stories and suitcases of people who have travelled to Hackney from all over the world and throughout history. Year 4 children became...

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...

Newsletter - 17th July 2015

Dear Parents and Carers, It has been a wonderful and eventful year with many successes. Yet again we have secured excellent results in Early Years, Year 1, 2 and of course Year 6. We wish those children leaving us the very best for their future careers at their chosen secondary schools. I know they...

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17th July 2015

Newsletter - 2nd October 2015

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2nd October 2015

Newsletter - 30th September 2016

Dear Parents and Carers, Thus far, it has been a wonderful start to the new academic year. Our children are really showing their enthusiasm for learning and for being leaders. JH OMYH QRR NHJXQ POH SURŃHVV PR HOHŃP RXU 6ŃORRO FRXQŃLOORUVB JH OMYH MOVR HVPMNOLVOHG VHYHUMO ¶ÓXQLRU PHMPV· where...

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30th September 2016

Newsletter - 14th October 2016

Dear Parents and Carers, As we rapidly approach the end of our first half-term I am truly inspired by the growth and development that I have seen in our children over the last six weeks. One example of that growth you too will bear witness to, when you read the articles written by the members of...

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14th October 2016

Newsletter - 11th November 2016

Dear Parents and Carers, Unsurprisingly, our Autumn 2 half-term has got off to a wonderful start! As per usual, there were lots of activities for our children to develop their knowledge and skills, notably our various Black History Month activities in our first week back. I was really impressed by...

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11th November 2016

Newsletter - 25th November 2016

Dear Parents and Carers, Here at Daubeney we pride ourselves on providing memorable and magical learning opportunities for our students, and it fills me with great pleasure to share in this edition of our newsletter SOME of the wonderful activities our students have partak-en in over the last...

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25th November 2016

Rainbow Class - Attention Bucket & Singing

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