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...

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...

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...

Policies

The following Daubeney Primary policies are available to download and hard copies are available from the school office

Year 5 - Yoga - Week 3

It’s our third week of yoga and we are definitely becoming much better at it! We still get the giggles sometimes but we’re learning how to slow ourselves down much faster than we used to be able to

Year 2 Computing A2W2

This week we started our new topic of online safety. We explored the search bar on Purple Mash and discussed why it's a safe search compared to search engines such as google. We also used the filter option to narrow down our results and found our activity for the day. Once we completed our work...

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...

Nursery - Observing the Changes in the Environment

In Nursery we have been observing the changes in the environment using shapes. The children looked through their shaped windows to see what Autumn changes they could observe. "The leaves are falling down" said one child with another commenting "The leaves on the tree are green and...

Year 6 Trip to Laburnum Boat Club

As temperatures soared, Year 6 couldn’t have been any luckier. We went down to Laburnum, took part in kayak games and then took a dip in the canal - just what you need on the hottest day of the year so far!

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 - Character and Setting Description

We are continuing to look at the Greta and the Giants story this week and to help us with our descriptions, we spent the lesson talking about how we can describe characters and settings. We worked collaboratively as a group to come up with descriptions and write it down on our brainstorms

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...

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

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...

Spanish learning website: Languagenut.com

All pupils at the Blossom Federation can now use Languagenut.com , one of the best online language-learning websites, which provides interactive and engaging activities and resources for children to learn Spanish. This online language-learning platform promotes a fun, simple and engaging approach...

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 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!

Nursery - Row, Row, Row Your Boat...

It was all hands-on deck down in the nursery as the children enjoyed the newest addition in the playground. They rowed down the streams, through the rivers and shores and you wouldn't believe what creatures they met along the way! The children were super eager to make their boats bright and...

Nurture Group - Raincloud Experiment

In science we are learning about seasons so we did a raincloud experiment. We used shaving foam and food colouring. We learnt that when water droplets grow heavy in the sky, gravity pulls them down from the clouds as rain just like the experiment

Year 2 - History Day

We had a fantastic day today! We made Tudor houses and then burnt them down! We watched as the wind blew the flames and turned them into ash, like it would have been in 1666. Well done everyone for dressing up and have a lovely Easter holiday!!!

Nursery visit Daubeney Bus

During polling day Nursewry visited the Daubeney Bus. They all explored the driving seat and the wonderful space upstairs and downstairs

Year 2 - Maths Partitioning

For this maths lesson, we took our learning outside. We worked in partners to partition a number into its tens and ones. We then wrote out number sentences down on our whiteboards and thought about other ways we could partition the number

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...

Skateboard Club

The skateboard club had an amazing time today when they were treated to skate at the Daubeney Fields Bumps, the children absolutely loved the experience and were coached on how to safely skate on a downhill slope. It was amazing to see the young skateboarders and their skills

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...

Rainbow Class - Farm Animals (Literacy Focus)

... listening to the story "Down on the Farm". During the session, they explored a variety of farm animals through colourful illustrations and enjoyed listening to adults model the different animal sounds. This helped to develop their attention, listening, communication, and early language sk...

Rainbow Class: SEND PE

As part of SEND PE, pupils were engaged in developing their balance, coordination and gross motor skills. They practiced walking along the bench, standing on agility tables and safely jumping down using both feet. Pupils also enjoyed jumping on the trampoline, demonstrating increasing confidence,...

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...

Year 3 - Friction Detectives

Year 3 became friction detectives! We learned what friction is and discovered that it can be both helpful and tricky. To test it out, we built a ramp and covered it with different materials. Then we sent a toy car zooming down each surface, measured how far it travelled, and carefully recorded our...

Rainbow Class - Learning Showcase

This week, some of our pupils had so much fun during their engaged learning sessions. They used magnetic letters to place them in alphabetical order, helping them develop letter awareness, understand spacing, and even form new words. Our trains and tracks was a big success too! The children loved...

Rainbow Room - Outdoor Learning & Play

Pupils enjoyed learning outside during autumn. They noticed the leaves changing colour and felt how crispy the leaves were when they touched them. Even our pupils had fun doing physical activities like crawling through tunnels, sliding down slides, and walking on ropes on the climbing frame

Year 2 - Great Fire of London WOW Day

To finish our learning about the Great Fire of London, we spent the morning making our own Tudor Houses. We thought about the designs we wanted to make with timber beams and worked collaboratively with a group. In the afternoon we watched as all the houses burned down just like in 1666!

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 - British Science Week 2021: Egg Investigation

In Year 3 we had the task to make an egg travel down a zip wire. The children were given pipe cleaners and straws to design a harness for the egg. the children were very inventive in their designs. We were learning about fair tests and how to introduce variables to the investigation

Year 5 - IntoUniversity: What is a University?

...ummer term!...

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

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."

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

Winter Resources

...ion 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 time....

Hackney Down Cross Country

Year 2 Maths - Subtract across 10

This week we have been learning new skills in Maths to help us with our arithmetic. We focused on subtracting across 10 today, identifying how many counters we need to take away to get down to 10, and then working out how many we still needed to subtract, using our number bonds to help us

Year 5 - Literacy: Himalayas Research

Do you know where the Himalayas are? We will be creating adverts for the Himalayas so to get us ready, we spent the lesson researching the Himalayas. We wrote down lots of facts so that we can use them to persuade our audience

Mental Health - Playing and Socialising with Friends

8th March 2021 Children, staff and parents were all happy to return to school! During the lockdown, our Daubeney children took part in a Mental Health Questionnaire. Can you guess what the majority of the children said they missed the most? Playing and socialising with their friends. The teachers...

Summer Reading Challenge

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

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 1 - Teddy Bears Picnic in Hackney Marshes

Year 1 had a breezy but lovely Teddy Bears Picnic in Hackney Marshes. We took the opportunity to have a little hunt, looking at what grows. Then we sat down and had a picnic with our teddies and friends!

Year 4 - Using Spaghetti and Plasticine to Construct 3D Shapes

Year 4 had the brilliant opportunity to learn about 3D shapes in a very fun way! First they used spaghetti and Plasticine to construct their shapes. Then they wrote down how many faces, vertices and edges each shape had. Comment down below, how many faces does a cube have?

Year 4 - Meditation

Year 4 have been meditating in class as a way of relaxing and making ourselves feel better. 'Meditation makes me feel calm and it helps me to get all the stress out.' - Ren 4C 'Meditation makes me calm down and helps me focus on my work' - Sofien 4C

Year 4 - Meditation

Every Friday, Year 4 spend 10 minutes of their afternoons meditating. Meditation helps you to relax and feel calm after a long week of learning (and playing) at school. It also helps you relax your mind so you are ready for a fun afternoon of learning. "Meditating helps me feel calm and...

Year 3 - Making Recycled Hats

Year 3 had lots of fun making hats from recycled material. They had a special visit from Eco Active Team to encourage the children to recycle. They were taught what things they can recycle in school and at home. They were put to a challenge to make recycled hats in 5mins. This was hardwork but Year...

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 2 - St Paul's Cathedral

As part of our Great fire of London topic, we visited St Paul’s Cathedral. We got to see what the Cathedral looked like before it was burnt down in 1666. Inside this amazing building we searched for different artefacts and saw statues that were burnt in the fire. We also lied down in the...

Year 2 - Great Fire of London

Year 2 got ready for next terms topic on the Great Fire of London, with an exciting workshop this week. The children role played the scene of the buildings in London and in role as shop keepers. They learnt how the buildings were burnt down in the tragedy. The Great Fire of London happened in 1666,...

Walking Map Zone

...nable journey you can have! Download the Walking Zone Map...

Year 5 - Meet the Worms

5M had a wonderful time today with Eco Active looking at composting and how to recycle our left over food. Worms play an important part in our food and compost making and the children were delighted to meet the worms who are responsible for breaking down our foods and turning them into soil we can...

Reception - Homerton Fire Station

We went to Homerton Fire Station and had such a good time. We all had a turn on the fire hose and got inside the Fire Engine. We watched the Fire Fighters slide down the pole. Thank you to all the parents who accompanied us on the trip. Yellow Class at Homerton Fire Station. Jaziah is having a go...

Nursery - Animals

Nursery have been learning all about animals this term. After reading the story 'Dear Zoo', they confidently named the animals, imagined and enacted how they would move, and even identified which sound each animal name begins with. Christabel said, "I'm a loud and scary...

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...

Cross Country at Hackney Downs Park

...runners, competing at Hackney Downs park. An excellent effort by the team, with every individual improving on their performance the previous week....

BBC Radio London - Parents Helping With Homework Discussion

Our Head of School, Mr Logan joined Vanessa Feltz on BBC Radio London on 9th March 2018 for a chat about how parents can best help their children with homework

Year 5 - ecoACTIVE Bugs

Year 5M had an amazing activity today exploring the world of compost and the bugs responsible for helping to break down our food. They learnt aboutthe process and even got to hold worms, larvae, beetles, woodlouse and earwigs. A special thanks to ecoACTIVE team who came to Daubeney and allowed our...

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 1 - Mapping Day

Year 1 had a great time learning all about maps! We learnt about direction and using a map of the school grounds, guided our partners around the school using 'forward/up', 'backwards/down', 'left' and 'right'. Finally, we created amazing 3D maps of the KS1...

Year 4 Spelling Test - 24th April 2020

Hi Year 4, Greetings from the Year 4 Team! We hope you are all well and have been studying your spelling words. Comment down below how you went and stay safe

Year 4 - Spelling Test - 27th March 2020

Hi Daubeney and particularly Year 4. I hope everyone is safe and happy during lockdown. I know Year 4 have been looking forward to their spelling test all week, so without further ado here it is!! Do your best as always and ask someone at home to check your spelling!

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 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...

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 2

[menu name="year5-6-residential-2020"] What an epic Day 2 at Youlbury. Not just because we started the day with a sumptuous breakfast of cereal and a fry up to compete with any Michelin star restaurant; not because of the lovely warm dry weather but because the Team Daubeney at Youlbury...

Year 3 - Oracy in RE - Discussions

After finding out about the origin of Sikhism and the life of Guru Nanak, Year 3 had a lot of questions and points to discuss! They wrote their questions down and engaged in several interesting discussions, using oracy sentence starters to help build and structure their arguments. They are on their...

Year 3 - Visit the Adventure Playground

Year 3 children showed lots of fantastic skills at the adventure playground today. It was fabulous to see how they supported one another and developed new skills. They also encouraged each other to try things that maybe they have not done before. As we left Zara said, "That wasn't an hour!...

Year 5 Residential 2018 - Day 1

What a fantastic first day. It was a very excitable coach journey and the children couldn’t wait to get to Yulebury and try out all the activities. A mere 30 minutes after arrival the games began! We had children streaming down the Zip Wire at crazy speeds! Facing their fears on the dreaded...

Year 2 - 2C Fun in the Park

During our family picnic day in Victoria Park, we had lots of fun climbing, sliding and making things with sand. Here are some of our favourite parts: "My favourite part was climbing on the ropes because it was quite challenging" - Ava "I liked covering Mr Ricardo in the sand and...

Bike Around The Borough

...dren from Homerton to Hackney Downs, then to Stoke Newington, Newington Green, Dalston and then back to Hackney for lunch. The children enjoyed the many challenges and rode along 1400 other cyclist in what was a major bike event for Hackney....

Year 5 Residential 2019 - Day 3

[menu name="year5-residential-2019"] Day 3 and things are not slowing down. And wait for it... IT DIDN’T RAIN! The sun even poked its head through the clouds for a few glorious seconds. What a time to be alive. The children finished yesterday with fried chicken and chips and...

Year 5 Residential 2019 - Day 2

[menu name="year5-residential-2019"] Day 2 down and it was another absolute belter. What a day! We thought the rain may dampen the children’s spirits but residential continued as planned. The children are adapting to independent life and have had to learn to get themselves ready for...

Year 5 Residential 2019 - Day 1

[menu name="year5-residential-2019"] Wow! What a start! As first days go this is right up there with the best of them. It was a very excitable coach journey and the children couldn’t wait to get to Youlbury and try out all the activities. We arrived in plenty of time and as usual...

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...

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...