Mental Health

Here at Daubeney, We are very lucky to have a team of people working to support mental health and well-being. This team consists of DHML - Designated Mental Health Lead - Cheryll Gustave CWIS - CAMHS worker in school - Karolina Balciunaite WBF - Wellbeing Framework Partner - Claire Tregear EMHP -...

Nursery

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

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...

Science and Sustainability

... Think about water usage. Close taps when not in use Eco Warriors At Daubeney all children are part......Eco Warriors At Daubeney all children are part of our Eco Team. As the way we live and treat the pla...

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

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...

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...

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

Our Vision Our vision at Blossom Federation is to nurture a life-long love and confident use of Maths. We aim to develop lively, enquiring minds encouraging pupils to become self-motivated, confident and capable in order to solve problems that will become an integral part of their future. Through...

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...

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...

Starting Reception in September

Your Teachers The Early Years Curriculum at Daubeney Your child will be learning skills, acquiring new knowledge and demonstrating their understanding through seven areas of learning and development. There are three prime areas that are embedded in everything we do: Communication and Language...

Music

Every child experiences the opportunity to realise themselves as composers and performers in their whole-class weekly music lessons. Lessons are delivered by our Music-specialists, using a holistic approach that includes moving, singing and playing as a way to understand and be creative in a range...

Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development

...es Tree Planting (Mabley Green) and Eco Days Swimming Work Week BBC initiatives and enrichment Daubeney Village Parental Workshops SEN support...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Early Years Foundation Stage

The Early Years (Nursery and Reception classes) will provide an environment that is happy, warm, secure and stimulating. We aim to ensure that all children become confident and independent, and enjoy exploring and learning. We aim to enable children to develop a strong sense of self, while also...

Year 4

Times tables tests We advise children to log into Times Tables Rock Stars daily to practise their times tables. They will be tested every Friday and will compete against other class groups weekly. PE Children in Year 4 have PE every Monday and must bring in their PE kit to school including trainers...

Clubs

... Years 4, 5 & 6 Eco Club Yr4 - Yr6 15 Dodgeball Yr5 - Yr6 20 Model Making Yr4 - Yr6 12 Creative Yr3 - Yr6 20 Gardening Yr3 - Yr6 12 Carnival Club Yr4 - Yr6 15 After School Club Plan for Spring Term ...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Year 6

Class Teachers Secondary School Application Home Learning Daily reading and reading records to be completed Times Tables Rockstars – TTRS IXL – one Maths and one Literacy objective to be practiced daily Weekly spelling list PE Children in Year 6 have PE every Wednesday and must bring in their PE...

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...

Year 5 - Geography: Human Geography

We learnt that human geography means things to do with people. We spent the lesson researching what the economy, trade, culture and food is like in Tanzania! We then created a presentation to show what we have learnt

Year 6: Urwisck Transition Session. Phonics

Children in Year 6 hosted a small group of ex-Daubeney students from Urswick Academy this morning. Year 11 students have shared the importance of learning phonics through a series of activities and games in a lesson they delivered. This transition session has also given our children at Daubeney the...

Junior Literacy Team 2024-2025

Meet the new members of the Daubeney Junior Literacy Team! They are very eager to share their passion for reading and writing with everyone at Daubeney. The team will be supporting Ms Lester in promoting Literacy across the school through assemblies and events. They will also be in charge of...

Year 5 - Our second week in Year 5

This week was full of exciting activities, from Mapping Skills Day to a practical maths lesson. We even created posters and researched the author of our new whole class reader, Michael Morpurgo. Have a look at our fun week!

Year 6 - Eagle Class’ last trip to IntoUniversity

This week, we went to IntoUniversity for the last time altogether. Of course when we are in secondary school, we’ll be able to come back for Academic Support but we will still miss coming here together during the school day. We thought about how we might prepare for secondary school and discussed...

Year 2 – Spanish: Story telling and learning a second language

Language learning begins with listening and speaking, so storytelling is a fabulous tool for teaching any language, whether that is a first or a second language . At Daubeney we learn new Spanish words and phrases in KS1 from stories. Stories teach us grammar and syntax in the most natural way....

Year 2 - Great Fire of London WOW Day

Today we had lots of fun bringing together all of our learning from the last half term. We worked in groups to make Tudor Houses, thinking carefully about the colours of the walls and the patterns of the timber beams. We also decorated windows and added thatch to the top! In the afternoon, we set...

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...

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 6 - Geography: Mapping Skills Day

Lesson 1: For our first lesson this Mapping Day we first recapped all that we have learned before, including the 8 points in a compass to how to read a map. We then looked at globes and how to read globes. On our maps, we identified the 7 continents, lines of latitude such as the Tropics of...

Drama club - Autumn 2024

Mr Matvad was invited to be a special guest today 23-9-2024 in the after school drama club. The children today discussed what makes a good story teller and what key skills they needed to become interesting storytellers. The club had a wonderful time telling stories and acting out different scenes....

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 4 - Science Experiment

Today Year 4 did an experiment to help us understand how the digestive system works. We were able to identify the parts and the functions of the digestive system and had lots of fun learning all about how our food becomes waste

Eco Team Trip

Today we went to the Leaside Trust Center! We learned about the Running Out of Time campaign and we got to meet the runners! The Running Out of Time campaign aims to raise awareness about Climate Change. The runners have been taking part in a relay from Ben Nevis in Scotland to the Big Ben in...

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 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...

Junior Literacy Team 2023/2024

Meet the new members of the Daubeney Junior Literacy Team! They are very eager to share their passion for reading and writing with everyone at Daubeney. The team will be supporting Ms Lester in promoting Literacy across the school through assemblies and events. They will also be in charge of...

Year 5: cross curricular - Human geography in Tanzania

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

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...

Year 2 – Maths and Spanish joint project. Shapes

CLIL stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning and as the term suggests, this approach is used to teach students about a new subject in a language foreign to them. Through CLIL, students not only learn a second language but also learn about a topic totally new to them. This week Year 2...

Duckling Class - Final Christmas Week 2023

This week has been our final week of Autumn 2. We have been doing a lot of different Christmas/seasonal activities. This includes showing of our nativity (video coming soon!) making decorations, cards, making gingerbread men, practising wrapping presents and talking about what we will be doing...

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...

Reception - Yellow Class - World Book Day 2023

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

Duckling Class - Christmas Jumper Day

Today (15/12), it was Christmas Jumper Day. We really enjoyed wearing our festive jumpers and had fun making decorations to decorate our classroom! We also had our Christmas Dinner with our teachers. It was so yummy!

Duckling Class - Its beginning to look like Christmas

This week, we started our Christmas and seasonal holiday prep. We have been talking about Christmas and Hanukkah - making decorations, writing lists, playing games. We enjoyed playing in the Antarctic small world with the snow and beginning to practice our Nativity

Year 5 - Science: Soluble and Insoluble

Year 5 had a science lesson to remember ! They put their investigational skills to the test, as they conducted an experiment to test if certain substances would dissolve. The experiment required them to first predict if the substances were soluble or insoluble in water. Moreover, the outcome was...

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 4 - Cross Curricular: Rivers

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

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 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 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...

Year 2 - VOCES8 Choir: Chocolat Chaud

Please enjoy our latest recording with VOCES8 choir. We are singing a French tango called Chocolat Chaud

Eco Team Bulb Planting

...n a couple of months time....

The Junior Literacy Team's Top Tips

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

Year 5 - Mapping Skills Day

What did we remember about maps from the Autumn term? We put this to the test during our second Mapping Skills Day of the year! We looked at features of maps and types of maps. We even drew our own map of Iceland and created a 3D replica based on a topographic map of Iceland

Nurture Group - Christmas Decorations

Today our parents came in to help us make some Christmas decorations for our Nurture Room. "I felt happy that mummy came to help us"

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...

Christmas in Reception

Christmas she’s started this week in Reception with Christmas jumper designs, Christmas tree decorating and making toys in our Santa Work Shop. We have been talking about what can keep on us on the nice list…

Year 1 Cinderella Ball

Year 1 had lots of fun dressing up for a royal ball as part of our story immersion for Cinderella! We wore our best outfits with a royal crown, and we enjoyed some majestic dancing and a magical banquet! A massive thank you to prestige_event_stylist for decorating the hall for us, it looked amazing!

Year 4 - 4S Outdoor Maths Session

For outdoor classroom day, we focused on equivalent lengths. 4S had a wonderful time measuring their best jumps in the playground and they enjoyed recording, comparing and converting data

Eco Team Waste Audit

...tly!...

Junior Literacy Team 2021/2022

Meet the new members of the Daubeney Junior Literacy Team! They are very eager to share their passion for reading and writing with everyone at Daubeney. The team will be supporting Miss Fergus in promoting Literacy across the school through assemblies and events. They will also be in charge of...

Year 6M - Role Play

On Tuesday, 7-9-2021, the children in Year 6M enjoyed their lesson when they were able to role play different scenes from our story. The children used their skills to become various characters and explored what the characters said and thought

School Council Meeting - 8th September 2021

The School Council met together for the first time! They were elected last year, but due to Covid restrictions the team never met together. It was a very special and exciting moment for all. The School Council will meet every Tuesday for this half term. Some vacancies have become available…so watch...

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

First Week in Reception - Yellow Class

We have had so much fun during our first week at Daubeney! We have made lots of new friends, explored the school and enjoyed getting to know our new adults! We have been writing and decorating our names, building in the sand, drawing pictures of ourselves, cooking dinner in the Monster Cafe,...

Year 4L Science at Cardinal Pole Secondary School

Year 4L had an amazing Science lesson in Cardinal Pole Secondary School today 9-02-2023. The children used Bunsen burners to test the different effects of different solutions and made their own sparkles

Year 4 - Controlled Experiment

The children in Year 4 had a fun controlled experiment, learning all about our digestive system. The children were able to identify the parts and the functions of the digestive system. They had fun learning all about how our food becomes waste

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 2 - IT in Cross Curricular: Designing our own Vehicles

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

Christmas in Reception

We have had a fun-filled week of different Christmas and winter activities! We have been making Christmas cards, decorating biscuits, making tree decorations and had an end of the year party! We were also lucky enough to go on a school trip to see 'Whiskers First Winter' which we loved!

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 5 - Literacy: Greek Drama

In today’s literacy lesson, we did some drama activities to help us come up with brilliant ideas for our comics that we will create next week. We are becoming superb drama practitioners!

Year 2 - 2L Christmas Prep

This week 2L have been making lots of Christmas decorations! We decorated Santa faces for our hoop, made a paper wreath and even made our own baubles. We then decorated the tree with our creations!

Autumn Book Fair 2022

We had another fantastic Book Fair at Daubeney last week. It was great to see so many children excited about books. Altogether you spent an amazing £959.26 which equals £479.63 in rewards for us to spend on some great new books for the school. What book did you buy? Would you recommend it? Comment...

Year 4 - Reading: Non-Fiction Text About Earthquakes

Today, Wednesday 21st September 2022, the children in Year 4 had the opportunity to read a selection of Non-fiction text about earthquakes. This helped the pupils to gain a further understanding of how earthquakes occur as they will be learning more on this topic in their Geography lesson later...

Eco Team Waste Audit

We have conducted a waste audit of our school! It was loads of fun and we found out how much we waste as well as if we are using our bins correctly! We can’t wait to share our results next term!

The Nest - Parent Workshop

We invited our parents in to make Christmas decorations with us

Year 5 - Persuasive Argument

Year 5 have been identifying the features of a persuasive argument. They will use this to write their own argument persuading people to contribute to the fight against climate change. The children have become very passionate about the fight against climate change and have come up with some amazing...

Year 4 - ICT and History - Ancient Egyptian Gods

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

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...

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 7

This week we completed our final lesson in our art topic for computing this half term. We explored surrealism and then used eCollage on Purple Mash to make our own artwork using drawings and clip art

Daubeney Reading Champions

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

The Nest - Decorating the Christmas Tree

Year 2 - Science Hop Garden

We went to visit our very own garden this week for Science to take part in a survey. We made a tally chart to record how many trees, plants and animals we could see and then discussed how this is useful to know. We also discussed what we can do to look after our environment

Forest School - Animal Dens

Exploring, making animal dens, using natural resources to make christmas cards and decorations

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...

Year 2 - Maths: Recognise quarters

What is a quarter? We spent the lesson familiarising ourselves with what this looks like in shapes

UCL Eco Schools Workshop

Year 4 - Science Experiment

The children in Year 4 had an exciting science lesson where they carried out a fair test to investigate factors that affect evaporation. They soaked three cloths in different amounts of water making them different in weight. Then hung them out to dry and recorded the weight every hour. The children...

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 4 Hornbills - History

The children enjoyed their research session today where they collected and recorded interesting facts about the Vikings and the Anglo Saxons

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 - 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....

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...

Tenerife - Day 4

We had yet another fantastic day in sunny Tenerife! We visited an ecological banana plantation where we had the opportunity to have a tour and learn a range of different things about how they grow bananas! After this, we had a beautiful walk to a park which had fantastic views of the sea and the...

TTRS AWARD for Year 4 Pupil

The whole year 4 group were so excited when a star pupil received the GONE GREEN TTRS award. This means that all their answers on TTRS were completed in under 4 seconds. Well done to our young superstar. We are so proud of your achievements

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 1 Peacocks - World Book Day 2026

We loved celebrating World Book Day 2026! Can you recognise any of the characters?

Year 4 Hornbills at The Urswick Secondary school

Firstly, a huge thank you to The Urswick School for inviting our year 4 hornbill class for a wonderful art lesson. The children learnt about a specific artist and discussed his work and drew ideas and inspiration from his works. Then, the children used a range of different resources to create their...

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 - 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 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...

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....

Year 4 Hornbills - Religious Education Day

The children enjoyed their RE day learning about what makes a person special and unique. We discussed many different religious figures and used them as role-models. We identified who influences us and how we can become a positive influence for others. We made a describing tree listing all the great...

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 - Attention Bucket & Singing

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

Rainbow Class - RE day - Exploring Christianity & Church

As part of our RE Day, our pupils were engaged in learning about Christianity and explored some of the important symbols associated with this faith. As a creative activity, the children carefully designed and decorated colourful crosses using tissue paper, helping them to deepen their understanding...

The Nest - Hop Garden

This term in Science, we have been learning about identifying plants and recognising their basic parts. We created a checklist of things we might find and went on a nature hunt in the Hop Garden. The children really enjoyed exploring the outdoor environment and were very excited to discover some...

Year 6 - Science Research Activity

The children in Year 6 used their ICT skills to research information and develop their learning all about micro-organisms. They used different ICT skills to gather and record their information

Year 6 Science - Classifying a new specie

The children in Year 6 had a fun lesson today exploring a scenario where we invented or discovered a new specie. The children drew their new animal and scientifically classified the new animal. They also recorded information about the animal that would help others to classify the animal

Year 6 Eagles - Debating the Future

The children in Eagle class debated today whether the HS2 fast train should go ahead and be built. They argued about the physical landmarks and natural resources that would be lost if the train line is created. On the other hand, they also argued the impact it would have economically and how it...

Rainbow Class: PSHE & Arts (Emotions Jars)

As part of our PSHE and Arts learning, pupils explored a range of emotions through a creative "Emotions Jars" activity. Pupils identified different feelings, including happiness, sadness, anger, worry, calmness, and surprise, and discussed situations that might cause these emotions. Pupils used a...

Rainbow Room - PHSE: Recognising Emotions

During our PSHE lesson, pupils were learning to recognise and identify emotions that are familiar to them in order to develop emotional awareness and communication skills. Pupils participated in matching, colouring, and emotion-identification activities, helping them recognise different feelings...

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...

Rainbow Class: PSHE: Emotions Monsters

As part of our PSHE learning, our pupils had the opportunity to explore emotions through a fun and creative activity. Using recycled cardboard tubes, a variety of paint colours to represent different emotions, glitter, googly eyes, and feathers, our pupils designed and created their own Emotion...

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...

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 - Learning Subtraction

Our pupils have been working hard to develop their early math's skills through practical subtraction activities. Using counters and number worksheets, the children explored how numbers become smaller when objects are taken away

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 - 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...

Year 2 - Literacy: Taking Flight Drama

To help us remember the story of taking flight, we sequenced the story and then retold the story to our partners. The challenge was the second partner had half the time to retell the story, then we halved it again! This helps us focus on the most important parts of the story so we can add our own...

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...

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...

Year 6 – Spanish: Phonics

Considering the greater emphasis on the explicit teaching and assessment of phonics in Secondary, and with the idea of continue helping children to become successful language learners in the future, at Daubeney we consistently complete a range of different activities that help us consolidate our...

Year 2 Maths Arrays 2025

This week in Maths, year 2 have been learning about making arrays to help us with multiplication. We were able to recognise how many counters were in each column and each row and used this to help us work out the answer

Rainbow Room - Easter Chicks

The children from the Rainbow Room coloured an Easter chick using pastel crayons. Next, they used pastels and felt-tip pens to decorate their Easter eggs, creating a variety of marks, such as lines, dots, and other patterns, based on their personal choices

Year 5 - Cardinal Pole Visit

We visited the secondary school Cardinal Pole and took part in an experiment using a bunsen burner and different metals!

Rainbow Room - Spring Books

Children explored the vibrant season of spring through two delightful books: "Hooray for Hoppy! " and " Five Little Ducks". Both stories brought the joys of spring to life, focusing on farm animals and changing weather. Hooray for Hoppy! by Linda L. Harkins follows a playful...

Rainbow Room - 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...

Year 5 - World Book Day 2025

Have a look at what we dressed up as this World Book Day! Do you recognise the characters we are dressed up as?

Rainbow Room - Our Body: Identity Play

As part of the science activity, we incorporated an identity play where children were asked to use a doll to identify and name different body parts. This activity aimed to help them become more familiar with the human body

Rainbow Room - Numerical Hearts

We had fun exploring numbers on heart shapes in the tuff tray, matching them to develop our numerical understanding. We also practiced counting and number recognition with interactive actions like jumping

Rainbow Room - Valentine's Day Phonics

The children in the Rainbow Room were actively engaged in a fun Valentine's Day Phonics activity, where they focused on learning the sounds of letters in various words featured on Valentine’s Word Hearts. They worked on matching these words with corresponding word puzzles, helping them to...

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....

Nurture Group - Creative: Windsocks

In creative we made some windsocks and decorated them with Chinese cherry blossom. We then took them outside to see what direction the wind was blowing

Year 2 - Changing Materials

In Science, we took part in an experiment about changing the shape of materials. We made a prediction first, as to what material would be the most changeable and which would be the least. We then chose various items and tested to see whether we could squash, stretch, twist or bend it. We recorded...

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...

Rainbow Room: Picture Sequences Activity

Children have been practicing understanding picture sequences through exercises with three-part images. This activity helps them interpret the flow of events, grasp cause and effect, and recognize the order of actions. By observing the arrangement, they develop skills in logical thinking and...

Year 5 - Literacy: Scene descriptions

To immerse ourselves more into the book Midnight Fair, we spent the lesson discussing our thoughts and ideas on different scenes from the book and recording them in our groups

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 - 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...

School Council off to a Great Start!

The School Council of 2024-25 is off to a great start! Their dedication to working for the betterment of their peers and splitting into focused committees shows a strong commitment to addressing different aspects of school life. The committees are; Admin Committee, Journalist Committee and Junior...

Year 3 – Toucan: Magnetic and non-magnetic materials!

Year 3 Toucan class have been exploring magnetic and non-magnetic materials. They went outside the classroom to make predictions about which items they thought would be magnetic, then tested their ideas and recorded the results

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 - Maths Learning

Wow! Our pupils are awesome mathematician because they were exploring mathematics in many and fun ways. Children were able to use numbers puzzles by placing them in the correct order from 1- 10 by following the number sequences and they counted animals that was representing each of the numbers....

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...

Reception - Spanish: Numbers 1-10

In Reception, we also learn the numbers 1–10 in Spanish to help strengthen the children’s understanding of number value and number order. Through songs, games, and hands-on activities, the children build confidence recognising and counting numbers in both English and Spanish

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 6 - Transition session

This week, Year 6 students welcomed a small group of Year 11 ambassadors from Urswick Secondary School for a transition session focused on developing photo description skills—an essential foundation for future language learning. The visit boosted our students’ confidence and underscored the...

Nursery - One-handed Tools

We are learning to use one-handed tools. We can decorate our trees, and then count how many baubles our tree has

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 4 Research - Literacy and ICT

The children in Year 4 had a session today where they researched facts about Japan for their leaflets they will be making next week. They used their ICT skills and their note taking skills to locate and record their information

Year 5 - ELWP Circular Economy Workshop

East London Waterworks Park came to visit us and teach us about the benefits of circular economy. We created our own circular economy designs for the park, which may be turned to life!

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...

Rainbow Room - Autumn Maths Learning

Wow! We Have Fantastic Mathematicians. Our pupils had a fantastic time exploring autumn-themed maths activities! They practised number formation on the interactive board and enjoyed tracing numbers on pumpkins and acorns in their worksheets. This supported their number recognition and helped...

Rainbow - Spontaneous Learning

The children were fully engaged in spontaneous learning as they explored a variety of interests: Musical Instruments: They listened to and played with different instruments, experimenting with sound and rhythm. Sensory Toys: The children used sensory toys to help with emotional regulation, offering...

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- Patterns Arrangements

We had an amazing time exploring different pattern arrangements using colorful lollipop sticks. There was an opportunity for us to challenged ourselves to try memorize the colours sequences as we carefully placed the lollipop s sticks on the paper, matching each stick to its corresponding colour in...

Year 3 - Maths: learning about time

In our math's lessons, we’ve been learning about time—hours, minutes, and seconds. To put our knowledge of converting minutes to seconds into practice, we created a circuit in the KS1 playground. We timed each other to see how long it took to complete the course—and had lots...

Spanish - Transition session 2025

Earlier on this week, a group of Year 10 students from Urswick school visited Year5 classes for a special transition session, focussing on developing dictation and reading aloud skills – key foundations for success in secondary school. A wonderful opportunity to build bridges between KS2 and...

Boys Book Club - 5th July 2021

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

Year 4 - Recommended Books

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

Year 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

Recording Studio Trip

We took our school band and part of our choir to a recording studio in North London. We recorded our hit single "Daubeney Christmas". It will be released this coming Christmas as a charity single. We had a great day out as you can see in our photographs

Year 2 - Living Things and Their Habitats

In Year 2, we have been learning about living things and their habitats in Science! In partners we decorated shoeboxes that highlighted key features and animals of each habitat. Take a look at these photos of our habitats! Which habitat would you like to live in?

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 1- Visit Sainsbury's In Stratford.

Year 1L went on a trip to Sainsbury’s in Stratford. We went on the bus to Stratford. When we got there we had a cupcake decorating competition, we had a go at scanning things on the tills and we went on a shopping list treasure hunt. We had so much fun!

Top Book Recommendations for KS2

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

Top Book Recommendations for KS1

On Wednesday 7th November, The Junior literacy Team led an assembly for KS1. We recommended books we like to read when were younger. Dejunet’s favourite book was ‘Eat Up Gemma!’ by Sarah Huges, which Miss Fergus loved when she was younger too! Kai, leader of the JLT, read a funny extract from his...

Red Class - Decorating Cupcakes

The children enjoyed decorating cupcakes to create a snowmen. First we spread the vanilla frosting on our cake and then we had to use our counting skills to create the eyes, nose and mouth. Can you guess how many sweeties we needed to create the eyes, nose and mouth for our snowmen? Take a look...

Reception - Yellow Class Work Week 2019

During work we had lots of visits. The police came in to tell us about their important job. We also had some of our very own Yellow Class parents come and visit. Pearl's mum who is a Foley artist (makes sounds for films and tv programmes), Freddie's mum who is a doctor at Homerton hospital...

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...

Reception - Red Class Christmas Hoop

We enjoyed making decorations for our Christmas hoop. Take a look at our reindeers!

Our Book Corners

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

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...

Nursery - World Book Day 2018

Nursery had a blast dressing as characters from their favourite books on Friday. The nursery was awash with a range of characters, from dinosaurs to farmers to the ever-elusive Wally. The children also had ample time to explore stories; they acted them out, snuggled up in the book corner with a...

Nursery - Work Week 2019

Nursery enjoyed trying out different jobs in nursery this week! We had vets treating poorly animals, gardeners planting seeds, farmers collecting eggs and chefs making gingerbread! Nursery were lucky to have a chef come in and talk about cooking and the children had the opportunity to eat their...

Nursery - Transport Survey

We went to see some cars parked outside on Daubeney Road. The children enthusiastically counted the number of coloured cars and recorded it on their tally chart

Year 3 - Christmas Party Day in 3T

3T have had a fun-filled day of festive frivolities! In the morning, they enjoyed creative activities, board games, word searches (including one in Spanish!) and they even got a visit from the one and only Santa! Later, they played a game called 'minute to win it' in which they had to...

Year 3 - Making Recycled Hats

...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 3 did an amazing job and managed create exciting and quirky...

Nursery - Christmas Tree Decorations

In the nursery children enjoyed making Christmas tree decorations. They used lollipop sticks to create a triangle and then used lots of Christmas themed sequins which they counted to decorate it making it look very festive. Children then added some ribbon to hang it up

Year 5 - Favourite Book and Author

The children in Year 5 today (24th April 2019) shared some of their favourite books and authors. They recommended books to their peers and suggested why they thought their friends would like the books. It was interesting to see the various books chosen by the pupils. Even Mr Matvad shared his...

Year 5 - 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 5 - Morning Fitness

What a great way to start the morning with a fitness game -dodge-ball. The children in Year 5M have been enjoying their second PE sessions every Tuesday mornings, where they play invasion games to help promote a healthy start to the day

Year 5 - Money, money, money!

The Year 5 children enjoyed their practical maths lesson today, where they used coins and notes to make various amounts. The children added different amounts, found the change and also used different coins to make different amounts. Children should encourage parents to allow them with their next...

Year 5 - Meet the Worms

...d 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 use....

Year 5 - London Buddhist Centre

The children were delighted to visit the London Buddhist centre and had the opportunity to explore the beliefs and teachings of Buddhist. They we excited to see the two shrine rooms and were amazed at the decor and artefacts

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 - Exploring Earth and Space

The children in year 5 were excited today when they began their topic on Earth and Space. They will become scientist over the next few weeks, exploring the depths of space and answering scientific questions that will stretch their thinking to 'space and beyond'. It will be beneficial for...

Year 3 - Shadows

3G have been learning about shadows. Our first investigation was to discover how shadows are formed. Secondly we conducted an experiment to see how and why shadows change their size

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 - Eco Active Workshop

Year 5M were involved today (27th September 2018) in learning all about recycling and sustainability. The Eo Active team came into class to help the children learn about the importance of recycling and how we can recycle our food. Food waste is a major issue around Hackney and the children...

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 4 - Work Week Dress Up

As part of work week, children got to dress up as professionals from work. Fathia said "My dream is to become a doctor an open up my own surgery" Anaya said " I want to be a teacher just like Miss Patel" Justin said "I want to be a tennis player because it's fun and I...

Year 4 - Eco-Active Workshop

...about recycling....

Year 3 - Things We Learnt This Term

To start our term with a bang, we had wow day on Monday which was full of exciting activities all about Pirates. We came to school dressed up as pirates and even kept a pirate name to start the day. First of all, we learnt about some famous pirates such as Blackbeard. Did you know he used to walk...

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...

Nursery - Gingerbread Men

The Nursery children enjoyed making Gingerbread men. They looked at the recipe, talked about the ingredients and then worked together to mix, roll and cut them out. After much anticipation they were cooked in the oven and the children then decorated them using different coloured icing. Luckily our...

Nursery - Chinese New Year

Nursery enjoyed their first week back after half term. We have had fewer tears than usual... which means children are settling in more easily after a break. This week we have been celebrating the Chinese New Year. Children have enjoyed taking part in the activities. They have decorated and painted...

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

1P - The Jolly Postman

In 1P we have been enjoying The Jolly Postman. We acted out the story becoming very convincing postmen, santa's and elves!

Boys Book Club - 5th February 2019

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

Boys Book Club - 29th January 2019

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

Boys Book Club - 19th March 2019

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

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...

5M Decorating Their Christmas Hoop

Year 5M had a fun time decorating our Christmas hoop, where they made their own Christmas crackers. The children used bright coloured paper, ribbons and a cardboard roll to make their own designs. It was so much fun and our hoop looks AMAZING!

1P - Work Week

For Work Week, 1P went on a trip to John Lewis in Stratford. We decorated biscuits in the catering department, had a tour of the warehouse and then had a go at visual merchandising. We had a great time!

1D Visit Sainsbury's in Stratford

On Wednesday 1D went on a lovely trip to Sainsbury's in Stratford. We were learning about different skills needed in different jobs and had an opportunity to practice some skills in a real work environment. We had a go on the checkout, did a treasure hunt in the aisles, had a tour of the stock...

Christmas in Nursery

Almost everyone in Nursery loves Christmas! The Nursery has been very busy preparing for the last couple of weeks. They have made Christmas decorations for the Nursery and to take home. The children have also created their own Christmas cards to give to their families. Since September, the children...

1B's trip to Sainsbury's

For our exciting 'Work Week' topic this week, 1B went on a trip to Sainsbury's in Dalston. This was an opportunity for them to experience the roles and responsibilities of some of the people that worked there. They all got to decorate their own gingerbread man and of course eat it...