Literacy
... from stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems when appropriate Express their ideas and feelings abo......rite simple phrases and sentences that can be read by others. EYFS Expressive arts and design (this...
Nursery
...atics Understanding the World Expressive Arts and Design The prime areas begin to develop quickly in response to relationships and experiences, and run through and support learning in all other areas. In addition, there are four specific areas of learning. The specific areas include essential s...
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...
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
...thers as they investigate or solve problems Express fears or relive anxious experiences in controlled and safe situations Curriculum EYFS Video Tour...
Mission, Vision and Aims
Mission Statement The Blossom Federation is made up of three primary schools - Daubeney, Sebright and Lauriston Schools - plus Daubeney Child & Family Hub and Sbright Children's Centre. Collectively, we serve over 1,200 Hackney children and families and are proud of our provision in supporting...
Starting Reception in September
...s Understanding the World Expressive Arts and Design Our Vision The Early Years at Daubeney will provide an environment that is safe, happy, warm, stimulating, challenging and fun. Our holistic approach ensures children become confident, inspired and independent learners who love to play, co-op...
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...
Creative Arts - Art and Design Technology
At Daubeney, the children are given the opportunity to have a broad, balanced and exciting curriculum. Art is taught through our cross-curricular lessons with a special focus during Art weeks throughout the year. We will inspire, engage and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and...
Rainbow Room - Autism Awareness Week Celebration
In celebration of Autism Awareness Week at our school, the pupils in the Rainbow Room participated in meaningful and enriching activities with great enthusiasm. A highlight of the week was the creation of their unique "Autism Puzzle." Each pupil carefully selected tissue paper colours...
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....
Spanish - Eurovision Inspired Language Learning!
Today, in our Spanish lessons we have used the excitement of Eurovision as a fun and engaging context for language learning. Students practiced using numbers in context, casting their own votes and expressed opinions about some of the performances. They enjoyed listening to songs in a range of...
Rainbow Room - Chalk Drawing
The weather outside has been nice, allowing our pupils to have a great time participating in outdoor learning. They engaged in small group interactions, creating their own chalk drawings. Using a variety of chalk colour and the space available at the playground to create own chalk drawing. The...
Year 2 - Literacy: The Magic Bojabi Tree Puppets
To help us with our conversations about the characters of the story, we made puppets of the characters. We considered what the character is like and decided what the expression they would have
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 - Art from 1970s
...ho was known for her Abstract Expressionist paintings. Inspired by her Expressive style, our pupils used paper plates and paints to create their own abstract and Expressive artworks. This activity encouraged them to experiment freely, explore bold movements, and Express their emotions through colou...
Nurture Trip to Pizza Express
we had a fantastic dough-spinning time at pizza express
Rainbow Room - Clay Snowman's
As part of our winter theme, pupils explored the texture of both wet and dry clay through a hands-on modeling activity. They used clay rollers and their hands to roll the clay into three spheres of different sizes, forming the body of a snowman. Pupils had make their snowman's to be unique and...
Rainbow Room: Drawing & Painting Pigs from Social Story
As part of their reading activity, the children from the Rainbow Room explored the classic story of "The Three Little Pigs." To enhance their learning, the children participated in an Attention Bucket Activity, where they used paper rolls and pink paint to create their own representations of the...
Rainbow Class - Seasons Arts & Crafts
As part of a combined Arts & Crafts and Science activity, our pupils explored the topic of seasons. Pupils created colourful paintings to represent the different seasons, using vibrant paint colours to express seasonal changes. Also, they took part in a sticking and gluing activity to explore...
Rainbow Class: Big Draw Day
Our pupils enjoyed a fun and engaging Big Draw Day! Pupils were able to express their artistic skills using crayons and felt tips by creating expressive mark-making drawings. Even, pupils explored different patterns, lines, and shapes by showing creativity and confidence in their artwork
Rainbow Class: Coreboard Intervention (Pop The Pirate/ Colour Match)
As part of the targeted intervention session, pupils engaged in a small-group activity using the " Pop the Pirate" game, by developing communication, social, and early literacy skills. Pupils took turns inserting coloured swords into the barrel, showing good engagement and anticipation....
Rainbow Room - Art: WOW Day
WOW! As part of ART WOW DAY, our pupils immersed themselves in a vibrant dot painting activity, exploring creativity through colour, pattern, and design. With great enthusiasm, they carefully used colourful dots to create beautiful artworks, developing their concentration, fine motor skills, and...
Rainbow Class - Exploring Plants & Tress (Science)
This week, the children in Rainbow Class explored the life cycle of plants and trees through a range of practical, sensory, and engaging learning activities. Using pictures and matching activities, children explored the different parts of plants and trees by matching, labelling, or writing the...
Rainbow Class: 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: Literacy (Story about emotions)
As part of our Literacy learning, pupils explored different emotions through stories and picture-based activities. Pupils carefully looked at illustrations, identified how characters might be feeling, and matched emotions to different situations within the story. Pupils had the opportunity to name...
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...
Saturday School SATs Boosters - 28th February 2025
Firstly, the Year 6 team would like to express their utmost gratitude for your continued support to ensure that our children are getting the most out of their final year in primary school. As the SATs are quickly approaching, we are offering free tu
5th March 2025
The Nest - Our Trip to Pizza Express
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Jigsaw in Autumn 2 2019 - Celebrating Differences
Last half term, we ended our JIGSAW theme ‘Celebrating Differences’ with a BANG! We came to school wearing traditional clothes and families made special traditional food that was shared with their class. Children and staff enjoyed showing off their traditional clothes expressing...
Junior Literacy Team Meet SLT
On Thursday 7th March, the Junior Literacy Team were invited to meet with Mr Logan, Mr Dharma, Ms Lucey, Ms Gustave, Ms Bibi, Ms Corpe and Ms Cenac (Senior Leadership Team). We discussed ways to encourage reading and writing throughout the school – even in Nursery! It was a great opportunity to...
Year 3 - Family Acrostic Poems
During their SEAL lesson today (17th October 2018), 3T spoke about people that are important in their lives. They commented that these important people feel like family whether they are related to us or not; that our class and our entire school is like a family as it is made up of people who think...
Year 5 - Balance Arguments
Today (15th January 2019) the Year 5 pupils were engaged in an activity where they had to compile points for and against. Our topic of discussion was ' should we allow a zoo to operate'. The children came up with some interesting arguments, points and opinions about the topic. We then...
Year 6 Express Their Creative Talent
Shifting their energy from arduous revision for the end of year tests; Year 6 took to our local environment to create amazing landscape masterpieces using a range of Art media including water colours, oil pastels and charcoal. No doubt, room needs to be made in some eminent galleries across the...
Newsletter - 13th November 2015
Dear Parents and Carers, Thank you to all who attended Parents Evening; our feedback from both parents and teachers RMV YHU\ SRVLPLYHB H ORSH \RX IRXQG POH PHHPLQJV YMOXMNOH LQ OHOSLQJ \RX PR VXSSRUP \RXU ŃOLOG·V learning. Once again, Bonfire night was an amazing night and a great community event....
13th November 2015
Newsletter - 16th May 2016
Dear Parents and Carers, H RRXOG OLNH PR VM\ M NLJ ¶RHOO GRQH· PR MOO RI RXU KHMU 6 VPXGHQPV IRU ŃRPSOHPLQJ POHLU HQG RI Key Stage assessments with such confidence. A big thank you must also be expressed to all the members of staff who supported our students to feel confident and relaxed during...
16th May 2016
Year 5 - 5M Britania Sports Day 2019
Another trophy for our young stars! Today (6th June 2019) was another fantastic day for the young sports stars in Year 5M who took part in the annual Britania Sports Day in Hoxton, where we competed against 12 other schools from the borough. The children in Year 5M were fully engaged and were...
Debating in Year 3
Year 3 read the fable 'The Lion and the Mouse' and determined that fables are stories that teach us a message. They thought that the message of the fable was that TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK. They then applied this idea of teamwork to a debate. They argued both for and against the idea...
The Junior Art Team
We are very pleased to introduce ourselves to you. We are the Junior Art Team. We are in Years 2 to 6 and are very excited to get under way with lots of plans and projects over the year! We met this week to decide what we want to do and to think about why we do it. We asked ourselves why the arts...
The Nest - Painting
This week we are expressing our emotions through painting
Children's Mental Health Week 2021
...n assembly by Dr Annie McHugh.......ruary 2021 Daubeney have been Expressing themselves during Children's Mental Health. More than ever,...
Nurture Group - Painting Freely
...its. Some of which are: Expressing emotions Using senses Hand eye coordination Promotes stress relief Enhances problem solving and motor skills....
Year 6 - 6M PSHE
The children enjoyed their PSHE lesson today in Daubeney Fields. They discussed their year ahead in Year 6 and expressed their fears and excitement for the new year. They also had an opportunity to have some reflective time with nature and improve their wellbeing
Year 3 - 3HC Dress to Express
3HC have dressed to EXPRESS! As part of Children's Mental Health week taking place this week. Don't forget the junior mental health team are helping to raise money for Pace 2 Be to help children get easier access mental health support
Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 - Growing Together
...ay 11th February, we had a Dress to Express Day. Our Junior Health Team raised money for Place2Be and raised £309.39!!! Thank you all for your contributions!...
Junior Mental Health Team - Thank You to Daubeney Staff
Did you know, when you express your appreciation for someone, you will not only improve their lives but yours as well. You will feel more fulfilled because you have done something to make someone else’s life better. It will change your mindset. Our mood and daily outlooks change when we focus on...
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 4 – El Loro Tico Tango
Fantastic start of the term for Year 4 students at Daubeney. Students will be learning to express opinions using ‘ me gusta’ and ‘ me gustan’ this half term. We will be reading the story of a parrot called Tico Tango together, and discovering different animals and fruits...
Year 5 – Spanish/Music joint project
As part as a pioneering joint Spanish and Music project, students in Year 5 have revisited vocabulary and structures we originally learnt in the Autumn term. Students are now able to express their musical preferences and justify their opinions using music specific vocabulary, such a timbre ,...
Year 6 Religious Education Day
The children had a wonderful Religious Education Day exploring 'How does art allow a Christian to represent his or her beliefs.' The children looked at how images and sculptures can allow someone to express their beliefs, learn from it and allow a person to follow a specific path. We ended...
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