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...

SEND and Our Local Offer

...lossom 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 several highly rated provisi...

Admissions

...ss . Two Year Olds at Daubeney From April Daubeney will have provision for Two Year Olds (already a......ed to Daubenet Children Centre) From September, Daubeney has capacity for 10 two year old children; ......FREE childcare for some 3 and 4 year olds From September 2017 some working parents will be eligible ...

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...

Privacy Notice

We hold personal data about pupils to support teaching and learning, to provide pastoral care and to assess how the school is performing. We may also receive data about pupils from other organisations including, but not limited to, other schools, local authorities and the Department for Education....

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...

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 -...

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...

Safeguarding

At Daubeney we are passionate about and committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff and visitors to share this commitment. We are fully committed to ensuring that consistent effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support...

School Council

Daubeney School Council are a hardworking and enthusiastic group of children from years 3-6. They are the voice of their peers. They are elected every academic year by their peers in a democratic fashion of campaign, speech and voting. The School Council is made up of three committees. Admin...

Year 2

Class Teachers Meet the Teacher PE Days Children in Year 2 have PE every Friday. They must wear their school uniform in to school and bring their PE kit in their bag to change in school. Forest School Parakeet class will begin Forest School sessions on Friday 15th of September and they will run...

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...

Governors

Welcome to the Governing Body section of the website. My name is Will Emms and I am the Chair of Governors of the Blossom Federation of Daubeney, Sebright & Lauriston Schools and Children Centres. Our governors represent our wider school community: elected parent and staff governors, one Local...

Clubs

Please submit applications to admin@daubeney.hackney.sch.uk Breakfast Club Breakfast Club runs every day from 7:45am – 8:55am. This includes fruit, cereal, bagels and juice. Activities will start at 8:15am Breakfast Club Registration Form 26-27 Breakfast Club Changes Update Form 26-27 Breakfast...

Contact

Daubeney Primary School Daubeney Road Clapton London E5 0EG Telephone: 020 8985 4380 Fax: 020 8525 7639 Email: admin@daubeney.hackney.sch.uk The person who deals with queries from parents and members of the public: Debi Groves Other Key Contacts Executive Head Teacher: Robin Warren Head of School:...

Policies

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

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...

Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL)

Introduction to OPAL OPAL stands for Outdoor Play and Learning and is a programme endorsed and supported by Sport England . OPAL's mission statement is "To ensure that every schoolchild has an amazing playtime every day with no exceptions." We aim to: improve well-being develop self-regulation...

School Development

Each year the staff, children and governors review the progress we have made and identify areas of focus for continued Development for the future. This self-review and evaluation is part of our ongoing school Development cycle and helps us to devise the ‘School Development Plan’ or SDP. The SDP...

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...

Daubeney Village

Daubeney Village is an organisation of parents and staff. Its role is to encourage closer links between home and school and organise fundraising events to provide an opportunity for parents, staff and pupils to get together. How is money raised? Daubeney Village raises money through events. They...

About our Curriculum

...there are support plans.in place. From these an action plan is created for the future term. SLT and subject leads use this in their monitoring of teaching and learning. Below is more information on how learning is developed in different subjects. Literacy Reading At Daubeney, we ensure that our chil...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Year 3

Class Teachers Welcome to Year 3 Daubeney Pupil Wellbeing Survey https://forms.office.com/e/VUwUMb0Mq2 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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Physical Education

...ing that is engaging and fun. From our lessons, our children learn to take responsibility for their own health and fitness, many of whom also enjoy the success of competitive sports. We equip our children with the necessary skills and a love for sport. They will hopefully grow up to live happy and h...

Religious Education

...nd reflection. Implementation From Year 1 to 6, our children are taught a variety of the world’s largest religions. These include Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism and Sikhism. RE lessons take place every week. The curriculum map is planned to ensure that children build an ever-incr...

PE and Sports Premium

Across the Blossom Federation, we have prioritised PE and sport in our budget to enhance children’s participation, involvement, and attainment in PE. We are committed to ensuring our children understand the importance of being active, to have a healthy lifestyle and to enjoy sports and games...

Be Internet Legends Online Safety Assembly

Today Years 3-6 took part in a national live assembly from Google and Parent Zone, as part of their Be Internet Legends Scheme. They had lots of fun learning about the 5 pillars of online safety - smart alert, strong, kind and brave

Year 3 - A Bear Searching for His Hat

Year 3 pupils were mesmerised as they had a special visit from a Bear who is searching for his hat. We know that the hat is red, pointy and shiny and Bear teally misses his hat. Year 3 promised to help Bear search for his hat. Have you seen Bear's hat? He really wants it back!

European Day of Languages

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

Year 2 - Computing Week 6

This week we made our own race course with a range of characters. We thought about how the options for the turtle were different from other objects and programmed each of them to move. We had fun exploring how we can create and change algorithms of our own!

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...

Year 5 - Computing: Friction and Functions

It's week 4 of coding in Year 5 and we are working on some more complicated things like friction and functions. We know that friction stops us from sliding all over the place and made use of this knowledge to stop the football on our screen from sliding off. Then we created a function where the...

Year 2 - 2L Spring 1 WOW Day

We had so much making our own cars, from choosing the wheels and axles to designing the chassis. We measured how far they travelled on a range of surfaces and enjoyed racing against each other!

Year 6 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023

Extremely busy term for Year 6 students who have worked really hard at Daubeney. Students have developed the ability to use context and previous knowledge to estimate new words, to identify words in written form through dictation using their phonics knowledge, and to work with a partner in dialogue...

Year 4 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023

Outstanding effort from our Year 4 students this half term! Students in Year 4 have enjoyed revisiting food items in Spanish and learning how to share their opinions on food. Students can now talk about what food and drinks they like to have, using a range of positive and negative opinion phrases...

Year 3 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023

This term year 3 students have been introduced to new language structures that enable them to talk about their birthdays, and their favourite colours, months of the year or days of the week. Students have enjoyed role-play tasks, asking and answering questions from memory, and of course, singing...

Year 5 - RE Day: Sikhism

Did you know that Sikhism started from a person called Guru Nanak who wanted to make a better religion that treats everyone fairly? We learnt this and lots more today. Have a look at our learning!

Year 2 - Science: Material Sorting

Year 2 thought about the properties of various materials that they could find around the classroom. We discussed what each item was made from, and how that affected it's use. We also discussed how we could sort the items in various ways, giving reasons each time

Year 2 - Coding Week 2

This week we started our coding topic! We had lots of fun trying to make planes take off from their runways and adding code blocks to detect any collisions. We had to think carefully about the algorithm we made and how we could debug if there were any problems!

Year 2 - Art in Literacy

This week we have been focusing on the book 'The Magic Bojabi Tree' in Literacy. We have had lots of fun using role play and oracy to understand the story, and today we used water colours to paint a scene from the book

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 4

This week Year 2 learnt about pointillism art and how it is different from last weeks art technique. We explored some art work from Georges Seurat and Paul Signac before we created our own masterpieces using the chromebooks

Year 1 and Year 2 - Spanish Children's Stories

This half term students in Year 1 and Year 2 are learning key vocabulary and some simple grammar structures through familiar stories. 2L students have enjoyed learning the main characters from 'Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?' this week

Year 4 - ICT and Geography: Human Geographical Features in Japan

Today, 6-10-2022, the children in Year 4 used their Chromebook to research information about the Human Geographical features in Japan. They used the information along with the notes from the lesson to create a poster identifying many Human features found in Japan

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 - 4L Visit Hackney School of Food

4L had a fantastic time at Hackney School of Food on Thursday 10th November. We learnt some useful cooking skills such as how to hold a knife correctly to chop vegetables and how to use a stove. We then cooked a tasty vegetarian paella and learnt about its history from Spain as well as the...

Year 4 - Spanish - Spring Term 2

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

Year 3 - Literacy Autumn 2 2023

Toucan class in year 3 had a fantastic day role playing scenes from our book SPEAK UP!

Year 6 - Geography: Debate

This lesson started off with us completing the recap quiz about physical geography. Then, we learnt about what land use meant and what this looked like across the UK. After, we learnt about what HS2 was and what were some reasons why it should and shouldn’t be built. As a whole class activity, we...

Duckling Class - Hello Alan! Welcome to Earth

This week, an Alien named Alan visited us from outer space! We introduced ourselves to Alan and made him feel very welcome! We created space pictures using chalk to make Alan feel at home and showed Alan how to sort items by colour and shape! We're very excited to show Alan the smells and...

Year 4 Autumn 1 Wow Day

Year 4 had an earth shattering Wow Day! We started the day by recapping our learning and answering the big question 'How would you survive an earthquake?' After that, we built cities using recycled materials that we brought in from home. We designed houses, sky scrapers and roads and took a before...

Year 2 - WOW Day Autumn 1 2023

Year 2 had so much fun on WOW day for Autumn 1! We recapped all of our learning about the world, and worked as a team to create our own climate scenes. We chose from either a tropical or polar climate, and thought about the plants you'd find there as well as the animals. We used lots of recycled...

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...

Year 6 - Literacy: Protests

On Thursday, we took inspiration from Speak UP and created our own protest posters. On Friday, we role played parts of the story and included our protest posters. We also hot seated as some of the main characters

Year 6 Day at the Zoo!

To finish off Autumn 1 and out learning of Living Things and their Habitats, Year 6 spent a day at the zoo observing animals, their habitats, their diets and their Latin names! Later in today I and my colleagues will be sending more pictures along with quotes from the children. Please include these...

Reception - Duckling Class - Week 2

In Week 2, we had a fantastic Road Safety Workshop where a visitor came in to talk to us about how to safely cross the road. We had so much fun and learnt so much! We had a visit from Nova, our federation dog! This is the first time we have met Nova, and look forward to seeing her again next week!...

Displays at Daubeney - September 2023

We love showcasing our learning at Daubeney and we love using displays to do this! Have a look at our wonderful displays from around the school!

Duckling Class - Our first trip!

Today (16/11/23), was our very first school trip! Group 1 of Duckling Class visited Homerton Library! We enjoyed looking through different books from fiction to Non-fiction, and we enjoyed reading them to each other. We were lucky enough to be able to take books back to school! We are so excited...

Year 6 - History: The Blitz

To start the lesson, we recapped our learning by doing a recap quiz as well as having a quick flip through the floor book. Then, we learnt lots of information about what the Blitz was and how it impacted people in London. Our task was to collectively film a news report as a class. We divided the...

Year 2 Science - How to keep our bodies clean

This week we have been learning about ways in which we should keep our bodies clean and healthy, from showering and bathing to using a tissue when we sneeze. We conducted an experiment using water and dried herbs to try and find out why soap is so important to use when you wash your hands. Ask us...

Year 3 Science - Fossils

The children in Year 3 studied how fossils are formed and how we can identify different species from fossils

Duckling Class - St Barnabas Church Trip

On Wednesday, we visited our local church! We walked to the high street, looking carefully where we were going and remembering what we learnt at road safety. When we arrived at the church we had a look around and listened to the story of The Nativity. Some of us were able to dress up as people from...

Year 2 RE day Autumn 2

For this half terms RE day we focused on Judaism and thought about 'What values does Hanukkah teach us?' We learned about the story of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of light, we explored the Maccabees and why they were brave, and thought about values we could learn from the story. We then...

Year 2 Wow day Autumn 2

For this half terms wow day we recapped all of our knowledge from this History topic. We explored the expeditions of Sarah Marquis, Mae Jemison and Captain Robert Falcon Scott. We had fun interviewing explorers and drawing an explorer scene. We had the most fun in the afternoon when we made our...

Year 2 Spring 1 Week 1 computing

This week we began our new Computing topic, learning all about coding. We discussed what an algorithm is and took turns giving sets of instructions, being careful to be precise. We then used Purple Mash to create algorithms which made our planes take off from the run way. We also tried debugging an...

Year 2 - Art and literacy

Year 2 have been exploring the story of The Magic Bojabi Tree as our long burst writing focus this half term. This week we created scenes from the book using watercolours, thinking about the setting of the story and the animals we would include

Daubeney Book Corners

The Junior Literacy Team visited all the classes from Nursery to Year 6 to check out everyone's book corners and judge them for the competition. We saw very creative and colourful corners with themes such as space, oceans, jungles and even hot air balloons! We want to show off our book corners so...

Year 5 - RE Day: What can we learn from the past?

Do you know about the difficult past for Jewish people? We learnt about the struggles, prejudice and tragedies they have experienced throughout history and discussed why it is important to learn about the past

Year 2 WOW Day

For our Summer 1 WOW Day, Year 2 made Tudor houses as we have been learning about the Great Fire of London. We then explored how the fire would have taken hold very quickly and we watched as it burned from house to house!

Year 1 A - Story Seekers Project

We had a brilliant telling session from Miss Gustave a few weeks ago. We were inspired by Miss Gustave's story and then came up with our own Anansi stories. Have fun listening to our stories!

Year 2 - Spanish - Spring Term 2

Another successful half term for Year 2 students who love learning vocabulary from familiar stories

School Council - Junior Road Safety Officers

The School Council, Junior Road Safety Officers met with Max Moorock, Road Safety Officer from the London Borough of Hackney. The JRSOs updated Max on their plans and were happy to take tips from Max on how to help our Daubeney family stay safe on the streets

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 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 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 ,...

History and Art

We painted a scene from the Great Fire of London last week. We thought about the colours you would use for the fire and how to create the silhouettes of the buildings in front

Year 5 - History: Windrush and Hackney

What is the link between Hackney and the Windrush generation? Today, we investigated this by looking at images and maps of bombs sites in Hackney. We also reminded ourselves of the experiences of Windrush generation after they arrived in the UK by watching some videos. Finally, we learnt about the...

Year 5 Sky colour role play

Year 5 have been completely immersed in the book 'Sky colour'. They have made predictions, created a blurb and today they acted out scenes from the story. Have a look at the fantastic acting

Year 6 - Literacy: Freeze Frames

Today we freeze framed scenes from chapters 1 and 2 of Floodlands by Marcus Sedgwick. When we were tapped on our shoulder, we explained to the rest of the class which character we were and what their thoughts and feelings were in that scene. Then we hot seated as some of the characters we have come...

Year 5 - Art: Evaluation (Outdoor Lesson)

As an introduction to our new topic, we looked at some art from the 1960s and even investigated Andy Warhol’s art. We talked about what similarities and differences we noticed about a style of art called pop art. As a class, we evaluated a piece of art together. We discussed the colours,...

Ducklings in Reception

This week, we have been so lucky to play host to 10 ducklings. We have watched them hatch from their eggs in their incubator, to scurrying for food as a duckling. We have enjoyed watching these ducklings and have very much loved having a cuddle!

Year 5 - Literacy: Art

To help us really understand the experiences of the main character Marisol, in the book Sky Color by Peter H Reynolds, we created our own art inspired by pictures from the book!

Year 5 – Los planetas

What a great start to this final term! Students in year 5 are learning new vocabulary and grammar structures while learning about space. Students have revisited days of the week and discovered the origins of the words, many of them coming from planets in both, English and Spanish

Reception - Hackney School of Food

On Wednesday, we had the chance to visit Hackney School of Food. We made our own pizzas from scratch, where we mixed ingredients to make the dough. We then used our fine motor skills to cut up our vegetables for our toppings and mixed together a tomato sauce! We rolled out our dough to make our...

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...

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 - Computing Summer 2

This half term our topic has been presenting ideas. We have looked at a range of ways to present the story of Goldilocks. We read an e-book, took a quiz and explored concept maps. Last week we made our own quizzes, thinking carefully about the types of questions we wanted to include. We chose from...

Year 4 - Wow Day

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

Year 6 Residential 2022 - Day 3

It’s been another jam packed day hahahahaha. Oh we had jam toast and croissants for breakfast. Inside joke. We’ve been kayaking, canoeing, starting fires, building bridges and climbing unimaginable heights. Last night we also had a Daubeney talent show and it’s safe to say it was VERY entertaining....

Year 5 - Literacy Roleplay

This week we are doing our moderation writing task, which means we are showing what we know and remember from our learning in Year 4 to our new Year 5 teachers. To start off, we discussed and roleplayed the story of The Three Little Pigs but we put a twist on it and told the story from the...

History Dress Up Day 2021

It was once said that going into a library and all history unrolled before me. Here at Daubeney, you need only to come in to our website and experience history relived and refreshed through the determined spirits of our pupils, fired by an unquenchable thirst to learn, remember and thrive. "A...

Message from Mr Warren - 8th March 2021

Year 1 - 1L Science Week 2021

1L have had lots of hands on science fun this week! We started with a skittles experiment to find out what happens when you add water to skittles, then thought about which materials would keep Incy Wincy Spider dry from the rain! Then we went on a very windy senses hunt around the school to see...

Superhero Day in Year 2

... people we have in our lives. From our nans to our dads and our sisters. From the scientists who cre...... to our dads and our sisters. From the scientists who created the vaccine to the NHS workers who hav...

Year 4 - Super Hero Day

The children in Year 4 had a fun day dressing up as their favourite hero from around the world to support Red Nose Day

Year 4 - History Dress Up Day

Today 1-04-2021 the children in Year 4 enjoyed their History Dress Up Day, dressed as important figures from the past. The children in Year 4 made Viking shields, flags and design their own Viking jewellery

Year 4 - 4M PSHE: Compliment Jar

Today, Friday 23rd April 2021, the children in Year 4M enjoyed their session in PSHE where they paid a compliment to every person in their class. This helped each child in the class to complete and fill their compliment jar. Their jar was filled with wonderful things that their peers had to say...

Nurture Group - Year 1 - Literacy: Handa's Surprise

We made puppets and retold the story using characters from the story Handa's surprise

Message from the Chair of Governors - Will Emms

Boys Book Club - 24th May 2021

Today, 24-05-2021, the Boys Book Club enjoyed a session of poetry. We read a poem called, 'I cannot go to school today' by Shel Silverstein and enjoyed the poem. The boys then decided to create their own poem using ideas from the poem they have read. Here is our example created by the Boys Book...

Year 5 - Wow Day - 27th May 2021

Year 5 had an amazing Wow Day! We made volcanoes from scratch and painted them. We presented the volcanoes using technical vocabulary. Finally, we're went outside to make the volcanoes erupt!

Year 4 - RE Day

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

Year 4 - 4B PHSE: Genes

In PHSE today, we learnt that we all have genes inside us and they give us our characteristics. We get half our genes from our birth mother and half of our genes from our birth father and this means, we may look like our parents but sometimes we don't. We tried to guess which kittens went with...

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

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 4M IntoUniversity

Today, 9-07-2021, the children in 4M were excited to meet the team from IntoUniversity via on online Google Meet session. The children learnt all about different careers and the skills needed to pursue certain jobs. They will visit Into University when they are in Year 5 and a whole week in Year 6

Message from Chair of Governors - 5th March 2021

Message from Robin Warren - Incoming Executive Head Teacher

Year 5 Literacy - Little Red Riding Hood

Today, Tuesday 7th September, the Year 5 children acted out Little Red Riding Hood to immerse themselves in the story before they write the story again from the wolf’s perspective

Reception Receive Presents from the Kindness Offensive Organisation

Reception received presents on Wednesday! We were very fortunate to have the Kindness Offensive Organisation come to Daubeney and give toys to every child. Check out the photos.....the children were so happy and excited

Year 2 - Spelling Test - 3rd April 2020

Hi Year 2, I hope you are all well. We are having our first spelling test! Please comment below with words you found tricky. You can also use the words from our spelling to write a sentence, don’t forget to add an adjective or adverb to your sentence. Good luck everyone!

Baller Boys Author Visit

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

Year 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

Prefect Applications for 2020-21

Job starts in September - applications accepted from Year 5 only A prefect is appointed by the Executive Headteacher on the recommendation of the Senior management team and other staff. It is expected that prefects will follow and demonstrate the Daubeney Standards in their everyday lives. Position...

Welcome to Reception

Welcome videos from your Reception teachers

Year 5 - Setting the Scene

This week Year 5 have been retelling the story of the Three Little Pigs but with a twist! They have been retelling it from the perspective of the innocent wolf! Today Year 5 drew a scene from their version of the Three Little Pigs. What would you change about the Three Little Pigs in your version?

Year 5 - Literacy with Art Focus

In Year 5, we have been studying the text Ossiri and the Bala Mangro. Today, we created an image from the text which described a monster called the bala mangro. We made sure we included lots of details from the text in our pictures and of course had lots of fun!

Spanish - Language Diversity: European Day of Languages

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

Year 3 - 3K Christmas Song

Merry Christmas from 3K!

WOW Day in Year 4

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

Year 3 - RE Day

What can we learn from the Bible? In Year 3 we learnt about two parables from the Bible. The Good Samaritan and The Prodigal son. We also learnt about The Ten Commandments and the children wrote some of their own. The children designed their own stain glass window, that included a message of peace....

1L Look Up!

Our literacy focus for the first two weeks of Autumn 2 has been a book called Look Up! We enjoyed reading the book, acting it out, hotseating characters from the story and learning lots of facts about space! We even drew our own space pictures! I wonder what you will see when you look up?

Year 4M Class Assembly - 17th November 2020

Today 17-11-2020 the school council members led our class assembly in 4M. They discussed the role of a school council member and took ideas from the class to make our class even better. It was really nice to have the children leading an assembly and our next assembly will be led by the junior...

Year 4 - Merry Christmas from 4DM

Year 6 - 6K Christmas Song

6K with the Christmas hit, Feliz Navidad! Merry Christmas to everyone from 6K!

Year 6 - 6S Christmas Song

6S chose to sing All I Want for Christmas You by Mariah Carey - we knew it'd be a challenge but we were ready! We had so much fun singing it and you should sing along if you know the words. Merry Christmas from everyone in 6S!

Message from Chair of Governors - 20th July 2021

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

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 3 - Forest School - Making Boats from Natural Materials

Year 3 have been working with Forest School and made boats from natural materials the children were then able to see if their boat floated

Year 4 - Countries and Nationalities in Spanish

We have been learning to talk about where we are from and our countries of origin in Spanish. We know the name of many countries in the world in Spanish and we can ask people about their nationality

Year 5 - Computing: Plagiarism

Do you know what plagiarism is? We learnt about it and how we have to reference the information we copy or borrow from different sources!

Year 1 - 1L World Book Day 2022

Today we had lots of fun dressing up as our favourite characters from some fabulous books. We discussed who we were and explored some of the stories. We made our own bookmarks and designed the front covers of our books!

Ensemble Development Award

Daubeney has won an Ensemble Development Award from the Mayor of Hackney

Year 5 - RE Day: Judaism

Today we learnt about Judaism and answered the question: What can we learn from the past? We looked at the Passover and the Holocaust and reflected on how we have learnt from those stories. We ended our day with making our own Purim masks

Year 6 - 6M: World War 2 Artefact

WHAT A LESSON WE HAD TODAY IN 6M! We were so lucky to have a real life WW2 Bomber jacket from a fighter pilot. Not only did we get to inspect the jacket but it belonged to a great grandfather of one of our pupils in class. In the box, there was also a comic, which was based on a true event of the...

Year 1 - DT: Making a Chair

As part of our DT topic of 'How do you make a structure strong?', we thought carefully about designing a chair and then used resources from the classroom to make it! We worked hard to make each part of the chair and then thought about how we could secure them together

Year 5 - Science: Separating Materials

We explored how we can separate different materials. We had to separate metal from sand using magnetism. We then investigated how different liquids can separate depending on their density. We also mixed some salt into some water and we will be observing it over the next few weeks to see if the salt...

Year 1 - Iggy Peck Architect

Our book focus for two weeks is Iggy Peck Architect by Andrea Beaty. We used role play and hot seating to explore the story and the characters, and we also had a go at making our own structures out of items from around the classroom!

Spanish - Phonics

To ensure children can pronounce and read words and sentences accurately and confidently in Spanish, a consistent approach is used from early years. Our phonics approach is based on the context of what vocabulary children are learning depending on the year group or stage. Children start learning...

Year 1 - Computing - Week 3

For week 3 of computing in Year 1, we used Chromebooks to practise our Maths skills, sequencing numbers from 1-100. We thought about how to navigate a website to get to the page that we need and how to accurately use the touch pad

Year 4 - Computing: 2Animate

Year 4 produced some brilliant animations. They learnt to copying from frame to frame, deleting and adding frames, changing speed and background, onion skinning and adding sound to their animations

Year 2 - 2P Singing School Trip

On Tuesday Class 2P went on a very exciting singing school trip into central London. We went to a small but very grand church called St Ann and St Agnes . It is in the vicinity of St. Paul’s in the heart of bustling central London. 2P sang their hearts out with a professional ensemble called...

Mini Garden

The School councillors came up with an idea earlier this year to develop a green space in the KS2 playground where wildlife can flourish and our Daubeney family can enjoy nature. They have worked hard with support from Dave and Gavin to design a “Mini Garden”. The friends of the Earth...

Nursery Graduation

Today our butterflies graduated from Nursery as they will be flying off to Reception in September

Junior Mental Health Team - Compliment Booklet

A very BIG thank you from Mr Matvad to our Junior Mental Health Team. Mr Matvad received a Compliment Booklet today with loads of lovely, kind and caring messages. "This really made my day, I am so happy." We would like to thank the JMHT for an amazing project that they themselves created...

Year 6 - 6M IntoUniversity

The children in 6M enjoyed a whole week of activities with the team from IntoUniversity. They discussed and learnt all about life at university, the courses on offer and activities provided by many different institutes. They children also discussed diversity and empathy and visited the Dialogue Hub...

Welcome Back Nursery

It was all smiles from our Nursery children who returned to school this week. They have been enjoying the new Baby Clinic role play area and having lots of outdoor fun!

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...

The Junior Literacy Team Visit Everyone's Book Corners

The Junior Literacy Team visited all the classes from Nursery to Year 6 to check out everyone's book corners and judge them for the competition. We saw very creative and colourful corners with themes such as space, oceans, jungles and even hot air balloons! We want to show off our book corners so...

Year 3 - Rainforests

Year 3 have been very fortunate today, they listened to a talk from one of our parents all about sustainability in The Rainforest. They also had the opportunity to ask questions

Year 1 - 1L Take Maths Outdoors

Today 1L went to the Hop Garden to practise our addition skills using the part-whole model. We used hoops to create the part-whole diagram, and then chose leaves from around the garden to help us count!

Year 3 - Outdoor Maths Lesson

In Year 3 we have had an outdoor maths lesson on Mabley Green. The children investigated many of the mathematical concepts from the Year 3 curriculum. They made arrays with leaves, used natural objects to create symmetrical patterns and took measurements of towers that they built

Year 5 - Outside Classroom Day

For Outside Classroom Day, Year 5 became factors and multiples for maths. We also planted seeds - just like the main character Joe in 'The Extraordinary Gardener'! We can't wait to see our plants grow and grow and GROW! "It was great, I really enjoyed Outside Classroom Day!" - Utku "I really...

Rudolph Run

Daubeney Primary School is collaborating with St Joseph’s Hospice to run laps around the playground to raise money for the hospice. The run will take place on Wednesday 8th December 2021 in the KS2 playground from 9:30am. Reception classes will commence the run and run 1 lap around the playground,...

Prefects' Morning Out

As a reward for all of their hard work this term, the prefects were treated to a morning at London Fields Park with some sweet treats from Broadway Market. We also had a Christmas sing song on the way home

WOW DAY Year 6 - Ancient Benin

Today, 14-12-2021, the children in Year 6 enjoyed their Wow Day activities by designing and creating masks, inspired by the real ones from Ancient Benin. The children also discussed how reliable resources are and which historical resources can be trusted

Year 2 - 2P Special Christmas Performance

A Christmas Introit (Hodie) by Audrey Snyder. Filmed for the VOCES8 Foundation's Live from London concert series in December 2021

Happy Holidays from Year 4B

For the last day of school, we are celebrating differences and in our class, we speak over 20 different languages at home! We wore traditional outfits or colours from our countries. We were given a small gift from our teacher. We wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Season's Greetings from Year 4!

Year 3 - 3HC Celebrating Differences Day

Today we are having a ‘Celebrating Differences Day’ because we are all different and unique but UNITED we stand together, at Daubeney! Children in 3HC have come into school wearing traditional clothes from where they are from and/or wearing colours of their country flag

Year 3 - 3HC Rudolph Run

3HC were supper excited to go on the charity run to raise money for St Joseph's Hospice and completed 3 laps! They had extra energy from there magical reindeer antlers! Well done 3HC!

Young Hackney Poetry Competition Winner

Congratulations to Maya in 3 HC who was the winner of the Young Hackney Poetry Competition! She beat children from many other Hackney schools. Here is the winning poem

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

Year 6M - Cartographers

Our young cartographers in 6M produced some amazing maps today 11-01-2022 from our learning yesterday, when we had our Mapping Day in Year 6. Their attention to detail and accuracy was impressive and produced high quality maps. They also designed their own suburb including features and specific...

Year 4 Trip to the Science Museum

Year 4 had a fantastic time in the Power Up gaming exhibition at the Science Museum. We had the opportunity to have a hands-on gaming experience, featuring the very best video games and consoles. We learnt lots of interesting facts about computer games from the past 50 years which links to our DT...

Duckling Class - World Book Day 2024

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

Year 4 - Spring 1 Wow Day

Year 4 had a very exciting Wow Day. We started by sketching our ideas then presenting our ideas to a panel of Dragons (Mr Dharma and Ms Gustave)! After that, we worked in groups to build our games, selecting from a range of tools and materials. We included an electrical component. Then we got to...

Rainbow - Fun Attention Activity

Our pupils had a magical learning experience that captured their attention and fostered teamwork. Sitting eagerly on their chairs, they worked together to guess sensory toys that were shown to them from the attention bucket. Each toy sparked curiosity and excitement while helping the children...

Year 2 - Literacy: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

To help us understand the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, we spent the lesson talking about the lesson and even acting out certain parts. Have a look at our photos from our freezeframes of the different characters reactions to the events of the story

Rainbow - Self-Portraits Drawings

As part of our learning about ourselves and our peers, we have been exploring self-portraits. This activity has helped us reflect on our individual identities, emotions, and physical features. We looked closely at our faces in mirrors and discussed what makes each of us unique — from the...

Year 2 - Computing: Exploring Purple Mash

For our first computing lesson in Year 2, we spent the lesson learning how to log in to Purple Mash and exploring the website. We will be using Purple Mash for almost all of our computing learning from now all the way up to Year 6!

Rainbow Room - Letters Learning

Pupils had a fantastic time exploring letters through engaging fine motor skill activities! They practiced forming letters on the interactive board and completed letter formation worksheets with enthusiasm. Some children were actively involved in matching letters in alphabetical order, while others...

Drawing Club - Autumn Art

Children from Drawing Club ( KS1) were engaged in creative drawings of autumn represention as they created colourful drawings with felt tips

Year 3 'The Great Kapok Tree' Immersion

As part of our immersion into the text, Year 3 recreated the rainforest setting from the story. We collected leaves and twigs from the Hop Garden and use a variety of materials to create a rainforest collage

Year 4 Boys - PurpleMash

The boys in Year 4 today had a fun maths session using PurpleMash to consolidate their learning around rounding. They can log on at anytime from home to practice their math skills

Year 3 Toucan - WOW Day 2025

The Year 3 Toucan class had an inspiring Wow Day, drawing creativity from the artist Andy Goldsworthy. They ventured into the playground to craft natural sculptures using leaves, twigs, and other found materials. Back in the classroom, they painted tree-themed canvases in an artistic style inspired...

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...

Year 4 - Hornbills: Reading

The children in Hornbills are always excited every Tuesday morning when they visit our library. The children are allowed to take books from the library to read in class as part of their independent reading session

Year 2 - RE Day: Autumn 1 2025

Why did Jesus tell stories? This was the question we focused on this half term as part of the larger question: What can we learn from special stories? We spent the day learning about Christian stories and discussed the meaning of them. We then did a range of activities that help us consolidate our...

Year 4 - Brain Buddies - Autumn 2 2025

The children in Year 4 had another lovely session in their weekly Brain Buddies Lesson. They explored the zones of regulations and their feelings in each zone. This helped them to understand how they can use techniques to move from one zone to the next

Year 5 - Wow Day - Tanzania and Mountains

Year 5 had an exciting WOW Day as part of their geography topic exploring Tanzania and mountain environments. The day was packed with fun and learning, helping pupils immerse themselves in the landscapes, culture, and challenges of mountainous regions. One of the highlights of the day was a...

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....

Year 3 - Stone Age

Year 3 have been exploring life from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, learning about where people lived, what they ate, and the tools they used. In one of our lessons, we created our own spears using clay and sticks to recreate a Stone Age hunting tool

Rainbow Room - Playdough Caterpillars

The children were remembering the numbers on the caterpillar cards and used green playdough to position it on the caterpillar to represent numbers when counting from 1 to 10 by counting both forwards and backwards

Rainbow Room: The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Matching Game and Life Cycle)

Children were learning about the caterpillar's life cycle by matching pictures in the correct order. They also played a memory game by naming pictures from a story and placing them on a matching game board

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....

Rainbow Room – PSHE: Family Relationships

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

Year 2 - Mapping Day

Year 2 enjoyed Mapping Day to start our Geography learning. We had lots of fun looking at maps, globes and using compasses to understand directions. We identified features of maps and made a plan view map of our playground, before making a 3D version from corrugated card

Rainbow Room: Buttons Maths

Children were actively engaged in a math activity that involved using buttons for counting. They placed the buttons on circles numbered from 1 to 10 and then recalled the names of the numbers. Additionally, the children used a whiteboard to practice simple addition. They placed buttons under the...

Kingfisher Outdoor Poetry Session 2025

Kingfisher Class enjoyed the sunshine and the Hop-garden reading a selection of poems from the Whole Class Reader (I heard it in the playground by Allan Ahlberg)

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...

Year 3 - Kingfisher in The Power Of Play

The children had an exciting literacy lesson led by the specialist literacy lead from the National Theatre. The children used the story of Rumplestilskins and enjoyed the many role- playing activities

Year 3 - Kingfisher: Online Reading

Today, 17th June 2025, Kingfisher class had the opportunity to read online (CCBC Newsround) as part of their reading session. The children enjoyed the child friendly news reports and CBBC is a great website for children's news which can be accessed from home. They also had the opportunity to...

Year 3 - Kingfisher: Chalk Art

The children in Kingfisher had fun today using chalk to draw images from our text

Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive

Survive and thrive, Daubs ‘25 Well believe it or not, today was even hotter! Everyone has dealt with it well though and are staying hydrated and being reminded to wear sunscreen! No campfire last night as we were informed it may have sent the whole place on fire so probably best not to have done...

Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive

... to come. By David and Levi From the teachers: Your children have shown such perseverance this week. Everyone has stepped out of their comfort zones and achieved everything they could. They have all displayed maturity and independence and we know you are as proud of them as we are. Thank you Year ...

Rainbow Room - Sun Catchers & Rainbow Clouds

We have been exploring the different types of weather we experience during our outdoor playtime, particularly in the playground where we have noticed changes in the weather while playing. The children had a wonderful time creating sun catchers using paper plates and triangles from orange paper ....

Rainbow Room - Human Life Cycle

In our Science and PHSE lessons, the children explored the fascinating journey of human growth stages from infancy to adulthood. They participated in an engaging activity where they arranged a series of pictures, each one depicting a different stage of the human life cycle, Some children...

Cross Country League Match 3

Daubeney Pupils from year 5/6 groups showcased impressive stamina as they raced across the challenging course, cheering one another on and celebrating each achievement. It was a fantastic day of sport, teamwork and school spirit. We are incredibly proud of all the children who took part

Rainbow Room - Caterpillar Painting

Children have been exploring the world of caterpillars and had the opportunity to use wooden pegs to create prints in their paintings, repeating the colors found in our social story, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar. on the caterpillar " They followed the color patterns from the...

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 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 4 Hornbills - Viking Longships

The children in Hornbills used their literacy skills and factual information from the lesson to create a non- chronological report all about Viking Longships

Year 2 - Great Fire of London Trip

We were lucky enough to do a workshop with some amazing story tellers from Temple Bar. We got to handle objects, draw using a quill, dress up and even go on a walk to see the locations of the great fire

Year 2 - Literacy: Climate March

Inspired by Greta from Greta and the Giants, we created our own posters and had our own climate march

Rainbow Class: RE - Learning about Islam

As part of our RE learning, pupils have been exploring Islam. They were actively engaged in matching key vocabulary words with corresponding images, such as mosque, hijab, prayer mat, Ramadan etc . This supported their understanding of important religious concepts and symbols. Pupils explored the...

Year 1 - Georges Seurat

In Art this term, we have been looking at Georges Seurat and pointillism. We used key ideas from Seurat such as pointillism, perspective and colour mixing

Year 5 Wow Day - Turkey

Year 5 had an exciting WOW Day learning all about Turkey as part of their Geography topic! The children experimented with vibrant patterns and colours to design their own ceramic‐style plates, inspired by both the physical and human geography of Turkey—from its stunning mountain ranges and...

Year 1 - Raising ducklings

Over the last two weeks, we have watched these ducklings hatch from eggs and watched them grow, and grow and grow! We gave them names of Little Joe, Big Tom, Milo, Rosie and Lily

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...

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....

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...

Lego visitors

Representatives from LEGO recently visited us, working with our Y4/5 and our Y3 classes. Children enjoyed a hands-on experience that encouraged creativity, imagination and problem-solving. Through play, pupils explored the many exciting opportunities LEGO offers, developing teamwork, communication...

Rainbow Class - Reading Fun

Pupils demonstrated strong engagement during reading by independently choosing books from the reading corner and they were looking at the illustrations from it to develop their comprehension skills. Some pupils were able to verbally describe the images to adults with limited support

Tenerife - Day 2

We have had a fantastic day in Tenerife! This morning, we visited the local schools to see their day to day, and to see how it differed from ours. After lunch, we headed to the pools! We have had so much fun and looking forward to tomorrow!

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...

Rainbow Room - Fun Art from 1970s Display Board

WOW! Look at our very creative art display board which represents art from 1970s

Rainbow Class - Under the Sea: Sensory Story

This week, pupils explored the sensory story ‘Under the Sea’ through multi-sensory activities. They engaged with tactile resources like textured sea creatures, fabrics, and water play, while adults enhanced the experience with ocean sounds, calming music, and visuals from the story....

Year 1 Peacocks - Naming our shapes!

In Maths, we have been recapping our learning from Reception and have been naming shapes. We have been using these shapes to make other things

Year 4 - Literacy and Art 2026

The children had a fun Literacy lesson today drawing a setting from the book they were reading in class

KS1 - Lego Club

Children from Reception to Year 2 had a fantastic time at Lego Club, working together in small groups to design their very own Lego Hotel. Their creativity really shone through as some pupils built unique and stylish features such as hotel buildings, swimming pools, aqua parks, car parks, and...

Year 4 - Making Circuits

The children in Year 4 -Hornbill Class had a fun session learning and discovering circuits. They watched a video and from there learnt how to make simple and complex circuits while including switches and fans

Rainbow Room - Exploring and Learning about Materials

Our pupils have been diving deeper into their science learning this week as they explored a variety of living materials in our investigation tray. The pupils were encouraged to observe, touch and discuss both familiar and unfamiliar items, allowing their natural curiosity to guide their...

Rainbow Room - Art from 1970s

As part of our Arts Curriculum, pupils engaged in creating fantastic artwork by exploring and experimenting with a range of art materials. They demonstrated creativity, curiosity, and confidence as they used different techniques and resources to produce imaginative pieces. Pupils have learned about...

Year 5 - Preparing for Tenerife

Children from across the Federation came together at Lauriston Primary for a special meeting ahead of their upcoming visit to Tenerife. It was a wonderful opportunity for pupils to meet each other, build new friendships, and collaborate on designing the logo that will represent this unforgettable...

Year 3 - Geography - Earth's Layers

Kingfisher class explored the structure of the Earth and learned about the different layers that make it up. We focused in detail on the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core, discussing what each layer is made of and how they differ from one another. Using coloured card, labels, and a split...

Creative Hub - Spring Displays 2026

Take a look at our wonderful displays that showcase our learning from Reception all the way up to Year 6. We love using displays as a way to show off our learning and to help us whilst learning. We enjoy being creative so display boards are a great way to get creative with our learning!

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...

Rainbow Class: Iggy Peck, Architect (Design & Technology)

This week, our pupils enjoyed a story that opened a window into the world of architecture. The pupils explored different types of buildings from around the world and learned about the important work that architects do when designing the places we live, learn, and play in

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...

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...

Year 5 - Science - Spherical Bodies

Year 5 had a fantastic time in Science as they designed and created their own imaginary planets. To inspire their ideas, they drew on real scientific knowledge, using key facts about the planets in our solar system. They thought carefully about features such as size, temperature, atmosphere,...

Rainbow Room - Dotted Butterflies Painting

Children were exploring butterflies from the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" during their learning activities. They discussed the various colors and patterns they noticed on the butterfly in the story and created their own representations of the butterfly by painting it on cardboard...

Rainbow Room - Incy wincy spider song

Children from the Rainbow Room were engaged in listening to their favorite spring song, "Incy Wincy Spider," sung by an adult. They practiced remembering the sequences and actions related to the song, while also following simple instructions such as putting the spider on the tube and letting it go....

Toucan Class - Mapping Day

Toucan class learned about coordinates, compass points, map symbols and used our knowledge to draw a map of our playground. We took our maps outside to measure how many steps it took us to get from one point to another

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 3 Kingfisher - Cross Curricular

The children in Kingfisher were introduced to the Aboriginal culture and their textile designs. They read and listened to Dreamtime stories and drew various scenes and pictures from the stories

Year 5 – Mexican textiles

As we start a new Content and Language Integrated project at Daubeney, children today had the opportunity to revisit their historical, geographical and cultural knowledge of Mexico through a range of different sources. Students were introduced to los rebozos, and a range of different textiles –...

Year 2 - Jigsaw: Week 1

This half term our Jigsaw topic is 'Change'. We began the topic by thinking about how a range of animals change from babies to adults. We discussed how some animals are born with the same features as their respective adults, and also thought about how some baby animals are completely...

Year 2 - Literacy: Extra Yarn

To start off our Summer 2 literacy work, we read the book 'Extra Yarn' as part of our whole school book fortnight. We spent time exploring the narrative by working together to retell the story using the main points. We then imagined what it would be like to be one of the characters, and...

Year 6 – Spanish Transition session

Children’s school transition has an impact that lasts for many years and extends throughout their academic career. Earlier on this week, children in Yr6 had the chance to welcome a group of ex Daubeney students from Urswick who led a phonics lessons

Year 6 - Literacy: Performing Poetry

In today’s reading lesson, we learnt a bit about how poetry can be performed. Joseph Coelho explains that our voice, emotions and body language is important to help the audience understand the point of our poems. We picked some poems from his book “Overheard in the Tower Block” to perform

Reception End of Year Trip 2024

We went on a trip to Cedar’s Nature Centre in Waltham Abbey. The coach took us to the park where we went straight to the little zoo. We had a talk from a zoo keeper about different animals and got to stroke a few. We went on a minibeast hunt around the parkland, seeing if we could spot pond...

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...

Year 2 - Literacy: Week 5

To end our story of Vlad and the Great Fire of London we worked in groups to create a scene from 1666. We used all of our learning and knowledge from previous weeks to make a diorama depicting a location in London. Take a look at London Bridge over the River Thames, or the bakery on Pudding Lane....

Year 2 - Character Puppets

We made our own character puppets to help us explore character feelings and emotions, with characters from The Magic Bojabi Tree. We thought about how each character was perceived by the other animals versus how they actually might feel and want to be seen

Year 2 - Geography: Hot or Cold?

We learnt about the position of the equator in this lesson, identifying that it is an imaginary line in the middle of the earth. We also located the north and south poles on the globe. We discussed the earths position in relation to the sun and explored how countries along the equator are closer to...

Year 2 - World of the Story

As part of our immersion into the story of The Magic Bojabi Tree, we investigated the setting of the book. We thought about where the mountains were located in relation to the trees, and identified where lion's rock would be, given that it was a long journey from the bojabi tree. We mapped it...

Year 5 - Geography: Physical Landmarks of Tanzania

...arks you can find in Tanzania....

Year 3 - Religious Day

The children enjoyed their day learning all about stories from Christianity and Buddhism and how these stories make us stop and reflect

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 - Science: Recycling

This week, we took our learning outdoors and decided to help our school with recycling. We picked litter from the playground and decided which bin to put it in. We discussed how each one of us has a responsibility to look after our environment and thought of other places we could help with picking...

Daubeney Library

...lore the wide range of books. From fiction and poetry to non-fiction topics such as science, history, geography and RE, there is something for everyone. What did you think of our new library? Comment below....

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...

Year 2 Maths- Measuring

Today we took our Maths learning outside and used rulers to measure objects from around the classroom and the school. We identified our lengths using centimetres as our standard unit

Year 6 – DT: Design

We began recapping our previous lesson and we shared our research on different types of shelters. We began this week’s learning by considering the different factors needed when building a structure. We thought about what the purpose of our structure would be, how it would be used and the...

Year 6 – Eagles Class: Into University

Monday We learnt about what liberal arts are and the subjects that make it up. We took part in a carousel activity about psychology, philosophy, classics and social sciences. At each activity, we learnt about what that subject means and then completed an activity that relates to our learning. An...

Year 6 – History: Diversity of the Allied forces

Having taken a week’s break from history due to RE Day, we spent the beginning of this lesson recapping our learning from when we went to the Museum of London Docklands and what we learnt about how World War II impacted the East End. After that, we reminded ourselves of the Allies and Axis...

Year 6 – History: WOW Day

We started off WOW Day by recapping all of our learning from this half term. We thought about how each lesson’s learning contributed to our understanding of just how devastating World War II was. We learnt about the impacts it had on Britain and wrote our responses to the overarching...

Year 6 – Science: Natural History Museum

As part of our topic on Evolution and Inheritance, we went on a trip to the Natural History Museum, where we took part in a workshop that introduced us to the concepts that underpin evolution through natural selection. In the workshop, we: Explored what evolution is, how and why it happens Looked...

Year 2 Computing Week 3

This week we began our topic of Music. We used 2sequence on Purple Mash to create our own digital music, thinking about the tempo, volume and range of instruments we could choose from

Year 2 Maths - mass

Today year 2 explored mass using scales. We chose objects from around the classroom, predicting which would be heavier or lighter before using scales to determine if we were correct

Year 2 - History: Tudor Houses

This week we discussed Tudor houses. We explored how they were made from timber beams that were covered in tar, and then filled with sticks called wattle. They were then covered in daub, which is a mixture of clay, sand and dung! We designed our own Tudor houses both on paper and online using...

Healthy Me - Miss Kepha's Fruit Salad

Hi Daubeney I hope you are all doing well and being safe at home. As part of our ‘Healthy Me’ week, I've made a short video to show you all how to make one of my favourite healthy snack. A fruit salad! Personally, I like to include my five a day fruits and veg, so you can add one of...

Spanish - Dia del libro – World Book Day

World Book Day was first created in 1995 by UNESCO and originally aimed at promoting reading, publishing and copyright. Since then however, it has grown bigger than anyone could ever have hoped for, with over 100 countries now taking part in World Book Day Celebrations that encompass everything...

Year 2 - Jigsaw Week 4

In week 4, we thought again about food groups and how we need a balanced diet with items from each group to keep our bodies healthy. We worked together to group food items and discussed our favourite healthy meals

Year 4 Spring 2 Wow Day

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

Year 5: Wow Day - Turkey (Spring 2)

The children in Year 5 had a fun filled Wow Day. They designed and sketched Turkish ceramics. Using what they learnt, Year 5 replicated Turkish ceramics using ideas inspired from previous learning experiences

Year 3 Kingfisher Class - Art and Literacy

The children in Kingfisher class had a wonderful Literacy lesson where they drew a scene from the story they have been reading. Their character Marcus is amazed at the African sunset and the children drew what he saw

Science Exposé

During our science exposé workshop, Daubeney parents came in to share with us their fascinating careers, working in a science related (STEAM) sector. Children from different year groups enjoyed learning about and exploring careers from different fields. In the end, we all learnt that Science is in...

Portuguese Spotlight Prize Winners

Last June, Maielly and Sueni were entered into a Portuguese Spotlight competition organised by Stephen Spender Trust.  They translated a poem from Portuguese into English together, and individually created a visual representation of the poem. At Daubeney, we are delighted to announce that they are...

A Musical Collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra

We were delighted to welcome musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra for an inspiring visit. During their time with us, our Year 6 students worked together to create a unique piece of music inspired by Mars from Gustav Holst’s The Planets. This visit is part of our ongoing partnership...

Year 3 - Natural History Museum Trip

Benjamin took part in his class trip to Natural History Museum. He was eager to explore looking at different animals from around the world, insects, dinosaurs and fossils

Year 5 - School Tasking (Session 1)

We are learning about the law! We had a group of visitors from LSE come to teach us about the law through fun activities in the style of Taskmaster!

Rainbow Room - Garden

Today, children from the Rainbow Room explored flowers, vegetables, and herbs in the garden. They were also engaged in observing different types of flowers and trees, focusing on their appearance and texture. The children enjoyed using garden tools, such as rakes, to tend to the soil. Some children...

Year 1 Parrot Class - Paddington!

This week we've been having lots of fun with Paddington! We made marmalade sandwiches and then wrote a set of instructions on how to make marmalade sandwiches. We used imperative (bossy) verbs and connectives to write instructions. Later on, we also wrote a list of things Paddington will need...

Rainbow Room - Money (Coins)

The children were engaged in a hands-on math activity exploring money, focusing on 1p coins. They independently counted the coins from 1p to 10p and placed them into money bags, reinforcing their counting and money use skills in a practical context

Rainbow Room - Mother's Day Card

The children from the Rainbow Room showed great creativity as they thoughtfully prepared for the upcoming Mother's Day celebration. They painted beautiful flowers in bright spring colours on their cards, added happy face stickers, coloured in the hearts inside the cards and with the help of an...

Rainbow Room - Ducks in Water

As part of the Indentiplay activity, children were introduced to ducks and bowls—one filled with water and one empty. The activity began with an adult modeling the actions. For example, the children observed the adult placing a duck into the water while saying, "Ducks in the water."...

Rainbow Room- Old McDonald Song

As part of the Singing Group Intervention, children from the Rainbow Room participated in an interactive session centered around their favorite song, "Old McDonald Had a Farm," using farm animals to make the activity more engaging. The adult sang a line of the song and paused, allowing...

Rainbow Room - Harp Sounds

Today, during the SEND Music Session, the children showed great focus and curiosity as they explored the harp’s sounds. With guidance from adults, they carefully interacted with the strings, producing soft, delicate tones. The supportive environment allowed them to experiment with different...

Year 2 - DT Wow Day

Year 2 had such a fun filled day for our Spring 1 Wow Day! We have been learning all about vehicles with wheels and axles, so what better than to make our own car prototype! We made our basic shape using a chassis, 2 axles and 4 wheels. We then thought back to our design from the week before and...

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...

The Nest - Arts and Crafts - March 2025

Please add these photos to the Nurture page under the heading. This week in Nurture we have been cooking , doing arts and crafts and having a fun time finding the Evil Pea from the story Supertato! Thank you

Year 5 - Science: Models of the Solar System

We learnt about how and why the model of the solar system has changed over time from the Ancient Egyptians’ God Ra, to the Ancient Greeks’ Geocentric model, to Nicolaus Copernicus’ Heliocentric model

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

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 5 - Computing Workshop

Today, Mr Power from Sebright taught us about coding by using these mini computers called microbits! We learnt how to set them up and made our microbits show our name and even sing us a song!

Tenerife adventures II

On Monday we spent the day in our partner school, CEIP César Manrique. We played games with another year 5 group in the morning and we went to visit the town hall where the mayor of Puerto de la Cruz greeted us in the afternoon! It made us feel very welcomed and fortunate. We then spent the...

Rainbow Room - SEND PE: Throwing & Catching Bean Bags

As part of their SEND PE session, the children from the Rainbow Room engaged in an exciting and interactive activity focused on developing their throwing and catching skills. Using soft bean bags, children practiced various techniques, improving their hand-eye coordination and motor skills

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...

Year 2 - Captain Robert Falcon Scott

This week in History we learnt about the explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. We discovered that he was part of a British team that were trying to be the first people to reach the South Pole. His expedition was called Terra Nova, and they set off in 1910, finally reaching the South Pole in January...

Rainbow Room - Peers Reading: Library

Children have joined their peers from different classes in the school library to take part in the peer reading by looking at illustrations and words from the books to develop new vocabulary from reading

Year 5 – Partner school in Spain. Christmas cards

Last week, in our Spanish lessons, pupils from Kiwis and Robins classes created Christmas cards for our partner school in Tenerife, Spain. All pupils have written individual bilingual messages to wish them Feliz Navidad . A small group of children will be visiting the school next year, so they also...

Reception - Autumn 2

Have a look at our photos from Autumn 2!

Reception - St Barnabas Church Trip

Have a look at our photos from our RE trip to the local church. We listened and re-enacted the Christian Christmas story

Rainbow Room

The children in the Rainbow Room engaged in the "Attention Bucket" activity, focusing on looking at objects from the bucket. They showed great attention as Mr. Namo demonstrated each item, and they eagerly shared their objects with familiar adult and peers. This activity helped support...

Rainbow Room - Maths

In the Rainbow Room, children engaged in hands-on learning by practicing counting from 1 to 5 and 1 to 10 with colorful domino cards and small counters. As they matched the dots on the dominoes to the correct number of counters, they reinforced their understanding of numbers and sequence....

Year 3 - Kingfisher: Kahoot - Spring 2025

The children were super excited today as they played Kahoot in class at the end of their IT lesson. The children answered questions based upon their learning from their Spanish sessions. It was fun!

Rainbow Room - Singing Intervention (3 Speckled Frogs)

The children were engaged as the adult sang the familiar song "3 Speckled Frogs." They joined in singing along and followed the song's phrases to count the frogs from 1 to 3. As they sang, the children placed the frogs into a red container with water. Additionally, the children used a...

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...

Year 5 - Literacy: Midnight Fair Power of Play

During this power of play lesson, we imagined what it would be like to be at the fair. What did the fair look like? How could we describe the world of the book. After, we created a story map of the story from our discussions

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

Year 4 - Phonics Activity

Today, Anas and Mete practiced phonics with puzzles. They examined each puzzle to determine what it represented and identified the starting sound by matching it with laminated sound letters. Both of them also practiced saying the sounds of the letters from the puzzles as part of their phonetics...

Year 2 - Science Recycling

This week we discussed recycling items from around the classroom and at home. We identified various recycling bins that we may have for different materials such as paper, metal, glass and fabric. We learnt about the recycling process and why this is a better option than throwing things away in the...

Year 2 - The Midnight Fair

This lesson, we used watercolours to paint a scene from the story. We used bursts of colour to show how the lights of the fair twinkled in the night time and thought about the places we would see if we were there

Year 2 trip to the Science Museum

We had so much fun on a trip to the Science Museum recently. We explored a range of aeroplanes and thought about how they had changed over the years. We discussed the materials they were/are made from and looked at miniature versions that were used in the design process. We then had a great time...

BADU Support Line

BADU Community is an organisation that uses sport as the driving force to empower, educate and uplift young people and their families in the local community. We focus on giving people in the local area activities and opportunities to bring about positive outcomes. We have close relationships with...

Reception - Yellow Class: Bug Hotels

As part of Climate Learning Week, the children in Yellow class learnt about bug hotels. They learnt that bug hotels are a multi-storey homemade habitat where creepy-crawlies of all shapes and sizes can find a place to stay. They collected various natural materials from home such as straw, wood and...

Hello to 3G

Hi 3G, I wanted to check in with you all and I hope you are doing ok? I can see that so many of you have been doing lots of your home learning which is great. Do not forget to look after yourself in other ways too, exercise is very important as is your mental wellbeing. Remember the breathing...

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...

Reception Trip to Hommerton Library

Reception went to Homerton Library! We had an amazing time listening to stories, looking at books and talking about the illustrations. We learnt that a library is a quiet place to enjoy reading and a place to borrow books from. Here's what the children have said about the trip; Ayesha "I...

Religious Education Day in Year 5

Today, Thursday 2nd of November 2017, the children in Year 5 explored Buddhism. They discussed the significant beliefs and values from the faith and the teachings of Buddha. the children enjoyed learning about the religion and created their own front page for their topic books

RRS: 'The Right to a Full and Decent Life' Assembly

KS2 were thrilled to enjoy a wonderful and entertaining assembly (in pursuance of Article 23 of the UNCRC - 'The Right to a Full and Decent Life') delivered by our local Revered, Clive Main. Reverend Clive had KS2 completely engaged and mesmerised as he skilfully explored the above Right...

Sports Update - January 2019

Fantastic from the KS1 taking part in the healthy living festival and having fun. Really Good effort Year 3 boys giving their all at Mabley green. Well done for the Athletics team in Year 6 getting through to the finals

Talking About Emotions Workshop

On Tuesday 5th March parents were invited to our ‘Talking about Emotions’ Workshop. Parents had the opportunity to hear from our CAMHs worker and family support who discussed the importance of mental health and how they can support their children. The children were invited to...

The One Show - Parents' Evening

Teachers, parents and children from Daubeney appeared on The One Show on Wednesday 20th December 2017. They featured in a film discussing their experiences of parents' evening

Transforming our School Gates

This week, children from Years 1-6 have been involved in an exciting screen printing workshop. Using pictures of local Hackney landscapes the children got stuck in to create one of the local landscapes. The children used cut out shapes of paper to create their chosen building. Using their designs...

Reception - Yellow Class World Book Day 2019

We dressed up as characters from our favourite stories. We had a fabulous, fun day

Ukulele At Daubeney

Many children at Daubeney, from Reception to Year 6 are getting a chance to learn to play the ukulele. Recently we went on a trip to Springfield Community Primary School to play at the annual schools ukulele concert. As you can see from our photos and video we had a whale of a time!

Ukulele Trip to Gainsborough

Daubeney recently performed at an interschool ukulele event at a nearby school. It was an event organised by Mr. O Flynn and Ms. Fort from Gainsborough Primary School and eight primary schools took part in total. We had a fantastic time and we dressed up in a Hawaiian theme as that is where the...

Woodwind Concert

Our annual Woodwind Concert showcased some of the rising stars of Daubeney and the mature saxophone skills of Callaghan. Our ears were treated to the sweet mellow sounds of the flute, saxophone and clarinet. These children are the ones who stuck with their instrument all year with help from their...

Work Week in Nursery

Nursery enjoyed finding out about-and trying out- different jobs people do. They pretended they were builders, wearing helmets and high-vis jackets and building with the building blocks. Fawaz said, "builders wear the helmets to protect their heads from the falling bricks! I'm making a...

World Book Day 2019

World Book Day was a great success! On Friday 8th March, everybody dressed up as their favourite book character. Well done for joining in! We saw some Harry Potters, Matildas, Greg Heffleys and even a Broccoli Boy! Congratulations to the winners of the costume competition who got to choose any book...

Year 1 - Work Week Trip to Marks and Spencer

Year 1T went on a trip to Marks & Spencer in Hackney. We had a go at visual merchandising and at using the tills. We also walked around the shop floor to have a look at all the different departments and had a go at finding items from a shopping list. Finally, we went on a tour of the stockroom....

Year 1 - 1L's Christmas Party

1L had fun yesterday afternoon at their Christmas party. We had lots of yummy food and drink, we listened to music and played games! We also had a very special visit from Father Christmas! 1L wish that everyone has a lovely Christmas holiday :)

Reception - Yellow Class: 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy

We had a fabulous week focusing on the story 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy. The children learnt all about onomatopoeia words. We pointed out many of them in the story and we thought of some of our own onomatopoeia words, which we then put into our literacy writing. As part of the...

Reception - Yellow Class Learn About Autumn

Last week Yellow Class learnt all about Autumn. We learnt about the many things that happen during this season from the leaves changing to yellow, orange, red and brown and falling to the ground. We learned about the animals that their own important job of collecting food so that they can store...

Year 1 - Christmas Dinner

Year 1 had a fantastic Christmas dinner last week! We enjoyed a yummy roast dinner and pulled crackers with our friends! We wore our party hats and had lots of fun together! Merry Christmas to everyone from Year 1!

Phonics in Nursery

The children in Nursery love phonics! As you can see from the videos and photos, they have been working hard to identify and write initial sounds and name objects and pictures with the same sound. Some children can also read CVC words by segmenting and blending. In the video a child used his phonic...

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 Reads 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy

This week nursery have been reading the book 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy. We have enjoyed acting out the story and using a range of story props. We also received an invitation from Owl to join Baby Bear for a picnic on the moon. So........... nursery made some jam sandwiches for our...

Nursery Sports Day 2015

Children from Nursery took part in lots of sporting activities

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

Our New Playgrounds

Great news!! Construction of our new playgrounds have been approved - take a look at these computer generated images of how our new KS1 & KS2 playgrounds will look! The Daubeney Road access will only be through the main gate until further notice, as work begins on our KS1 Playground from Monday...

ParentMail

As part of our ongoing effort to link school and home we have decided to introduce ParentMail , a quick and easy way to communicate with parents through online letters, a texting service and allowing parents to pay for dinner money, trips and other events online! We appreciate many people now pay...

Parents' Day 2017

Parents’ Day will be on Monday 20th March 2017 from 11am – 7pm. The school will be closed for children but it would be advisable for them to attend the appointment with their parents. All parents will be allocated a 10 minute slot in which time the teacher will discuss their...

Professor Brainwave visits Daubeney

Professor Brainwave visited Daubeney Primary School on Tuesday, 26th April, Thursday, 28th April & Friday, 29th April. Children were taken on a mathematical journey of attempting to find a solution where deep learning occurs as the sole focus is not on the answer. The focus was Geometry....

Reception - Yellow Class Journey to Africa

Last week we went on a journey to Africa. The children thought deeply about what it would be like to go to this very large continent and what they might see there. We watched real life video clips of some of the amazing animals that live in Africa. We talked about what the weather would be like and...

Rainbows and Canyons

This week we had a special treat for our KS1 assembly as we had a stunning performance from our Daubeney Choir. Here is a great rendition of "Rainbows and Canyons"

Reception - Blue Class Visit Homerton Fire Station

Blue Class went to visit the Homerton Fire Station on Homerton high street.We got to go inside a fire engine and look at all the equipment that’s inside it. We were excited to have a go at squirting water from the hose…We also met their pet fish

Reception - Chick Eggs Arrival

06th June, Reception year group waited patiently for the arrival of our chick eggs. Ten egg arrived at 11.15. They Were brought to us by Mr Dave from the company ' Living Eggs '. He help us set up the incubator. The ten eggs are in incubation we hope to see some starting hatch on Wednesday....

Reception - LaunchPad for Language Sock Puppet Workshop

Thank you for attending our LaunchPad for Language, sock puppet Workshop 28th November 2017 Some comments from our parents: Thank you so much for the workshop, I really enjoyed it. If you have more workshops that would be great. So much fun! Thanks. Thanks for a brilliant Alan the Alien puppet...

Reception - Minibeasts Workshop

Reception have taken part in a great minibeast workshop! Miss Lillian from the ZooLab brought us great fun and surprises. The children got the opportunity to meet minibeasts from around the world. We met Fire the Millipede from Africa, Mr slimey the African land snail. We even met a cockroach from...

Reception - Thames21

Reception had a special visit from Thames 21. The children learnt how to be environmentally friendly. They learnt interesting facts about the different fish and plant that live in canals and rivers. They took part in a sorting activity. they took out all the rubbish and left the plants and fish....

Reception - Work Week 2019: Red Class Learn About Their Parents Professions

Red Class had a lovely time during Inspire Work Week. We had parents come in to talk about their professions. We learnt so much from them. We had an actor, a costume designer, an events planner and Adam's mum from the children's air ambulance charity. Many thanks to the parents that...

Year 1 - 1T Magical Toy Museum Visit

1T had a visit today from the Magical Toy Museum. We explored different exhibits that showed us lots of types of toys and we had a chance to play with some of them. We discussed how old the toys were, how we could tell and what material they were made from. It was a lovely, magical session!

Year 1 - Hilda Offen

Year 1 had an exciting visit from the author Hilda Offen . The children were eager to look at her books and were even more surprised when they found out she wrote and illustrated her own books. Hilda very kindly passed around storyboards and books of her work. The children got to experience being...

Nursery - The Three Little Pigs

In nursery the children have been reading the story The Three Little Pigs. They acted out the story in small groups, remembering lots of the words from the story. They drew pictures of the story ending and talked about what happened at the end of the story. Other activities included making the 3...

Year 3 - Fabric Painting

To continue our celebration of Black History Month, Year 3 took inspiration from African prints to create their own fabric painting. They chose lively, vibrant colours to create their works of art. What fantastic artists we have in Year 3!

Year 3 - 3P Shares their Learning

3P had a wonderful time during our sharing assembly. The audience were amazed to see how well the Year 3 children performed on stage. Their main message was that success comes from hard work and determination, never giving up. They also shared with us some stories of famous people who failed at...

Year 3 - 3T Class Assembly: The Stone Age

This is Year 3T class assembly on the Stone Age. Children were amazing and got great reviews from the audience. Well done 3T

Year 3 - Chocolate Crazy, Learning Had

Wow! What a choco-tastic day of learning with MASTER Chocolatier Derek Smith the Year 3's have enjoyed. Where does the cocoa tree come from? Who invented the chocolate bar? What does a cocoa pod look and smell like? These were just some of the amazing facts we explored prior to creating our own...

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 - Creating Christmas Cards with the Metropolitan Police

On 2nd December the Met Police held an engaging lesson with the Year 3 children for an hour. The children had fun creating Christmas cards. At the end of the lesson the panel of judges deliberated and finally a winner was chosen. The winner of the competition was presented with a certificate from...

Year 3 - Exploring Christianity

Today Year 3 explored Christianity. They read and discussed some of the parables that Jesus told, including The Prodigal Son and The Good Samaritan. They enjoyed determining the meaning of each parable and cleverly drew parallels between these stories and the other stories and topics we have been...

Year 3 - Federation Maths Challenge 2017

A team of 5 pupils from each of the Year 3 classes took part in the event. They working through a variety of problem solving and reasoning activities collaboratively. They took part in relay races, cross-number puzzles and worked systematically through a variety of investigations. Daubeney did very...

Year 2's Trip to Kew Gardens

On Wednesday 20 th May, year 2 went on a fantastic trip to Kew Gardens. The trip was linked to our learning – Growing Plants. We travelled by London Overground from Homerton to Kew Gardens. It was a long journey! When we got there, we split up into groups and went to see various things in the...

Year 3 - KidZania

Yesterday (28th March 2019) Year 3 were incredibly lucky to visit KidZania. They got the opportunity to independently wonder and roam around the safe and secure indoor city run by kids. In KidZania, the children were able to get a fun and realistic insight into the adult world by taking part in a...

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 - Mental Health Day

Year 3 have been exploring their emotions through art. They enjoyed looking at works of art from Picasso's Blue and Rose Period, noting their emotional responses to each piece of art and why they might feel that way. They commented that the art from his Blue Period was sombre and gloomy, which...

Year 3 - Rainforest Weather Report

Today, 3T became rainforest weather reporters! They wrote their very own reports about the weather in a country with a rainforest, being sure to use technical vocabulary such as temperature, rainfall and humidity. Taking inspiration from the BBC's weather reporter Carol Kirkwood, they then then...

Year 3 - Reading Club

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

Year 3 - Smarties Fractions

Today Year 3 used Smarties to work out the fraction of quantities. They counted all the Smarties from the tube to work out what the denominator was. They then counted how many Smarties there were of each colour and wrote their final answer in fraction form. Here are what a few children said about...

Year 3 - The Big Draw

Year 3 created a masterpiece inspired by the art of Michael Craig Martin. "The colours are so vibrant" - Riya "I love that he creates items from the everyday world" - Gabriel

Year 2/5 - Developing Literacy Skills Using Brackets

It was a very special morning today, Friday 8th December 2017, for two special young stars from 2K, who came to 5M to enhance their learning. In the session, our two young stars developed their literacy skills by using brackets, to add more details about their subject. In maths they answered Next...

Year 2 - The Geffrye Museum

Year 2 visited the Geffrye Museum this week for our topic on The Great Fire of London. We looked at different artefacts from 1660’s and we had the opportunity to dress up in some costumes from the period. We also had the chance to write using a quill and ink just as Samuel Pepys did when...

Year 1 - Jaws, Paws and Claws Workshop

Last week Year 1 had a workshop called Jaws, Paws and Claws come in to visit from Zoolab. The workshop linked with our current science topic of Animals including Humans. There were lots of different animals that we were able to hold, touch and stroke. We learnt lots of new information about each...

Year 2 - 2C Visit the Tower of London

Today (7th March 2019) we went to the Tower of London and we learnt about the Great Fire of London. We got to sing songs, act and learn amazing facts about the Great Fire of London. We also had a chance to go to see other parts of the palace like the Crown Jewels and even meet an Earl from the 13th...

Year 1 - Lyubov Popova

In Year 1 we learnt about an artist called Lyubov Popova. We used her art as an inspiration to create our own. We mix colours and painted sheets of paper. We then cut out shapes from it and layered them to create our piece

Year 1 - Magical Toy Museum

In Year 1 were very lucky to have a special visitor from the Magical Toy Museum. We looked at different teddy bears and created a timeline with them, discussing their similarities and differences. We looked at dolls and how they imitate human features. We also had a go at playing with moving toys,...

Year 1 - Spaceship in the Hop Garden

A spaceship has landed in the Hop Garden! We went to the scene of the crime to investigate! "We saw hot metal. Maybe a spaceship was hot and some bits came off." "We think an alien was in the spaceship. Maybe he went into London. How is he going to get home?" "Maybe the...

Year 1 - The Magical Toy Museum

Year 1 had a lovely visit today from The Magical Toy Museum. We visited different exhibits that showed us different types of toys and got to play with them. We looked at how old they were, how to tell and what they were made of! It was a lovely, magical session!

Year 1 - Toys from the Past and Present

History this term is all about Toys from the past and present. We had so much fun learning and playing Victorian style games. We have also made some toys to remember the poor children who had no money to buy toys back then

Year 1 - Victorian Games

In Year 1, we discussed what types of games we play in the playground. We then explored some games from Victorian times. We thought about how new games are different from old games and which games we prefer to play. We played Ring a ring a roses, blind mans bluff and oranges and lemons!

Year 1 - Zoo Lab visit 1L

Year 1 had an exciting visitor as part of their Science topic Animals including Humans. Zoo Lab introduced the children to a variety of animals in the classroom, from a giant snail to a slithering snake! The children enjoyed being able to hold, touch and stroke the animals and learnt lots of new...

Year 2 - 2C Literacy Monsters

We have been writing about monsters from the book Flanimals for the past few weeks. Today we drew and labelled our own monsters! We even wrote some descriptions based on our drawings. Maggie wrote “Nacher Feary has crazy grass hair. When he sees a girl Nacher Feary his head goes pink and when...

Year 2 - Subtracting Using Dienes

In 2G today we have been learning to subtract using dienes. This was a practical lesson where the children had to find the correct amount of tens and ones for the amount that they were subtracting from. They then had to subtract the amount of dienes in the number sentence. The children were able to...

Year 2 - 2C Work Week 2019

During work week, we learnt about lots of community jobs. We learnt about working at the Royal Mail and how mail gets from one place to another from Lenny the Letter. We had another visitor come visit us, who was a construction worker. He told us all about how his job was about keeping people safe....

Year 2 - Black History Month Art

It's been an amazing week! As part of Black History Month, children had an exciting opportunity to participate in the 'Big Draw'. Year 2's Art drawing was an inspiration from Derek Walcott who was an artist, play writer and a poet from the Island of St. Lucia

Year 2 - Fire Safety Visit

On Monday, a member of the London Fire Brigade came to our school to talk to us about Fire Safety. At first a lot of us thought that the only job they had was to save people from burning homes. But we quickly found out that fire safety is a lot more than that. We learnt about how to keep ourselves...

Year 2 - Freshwater Theatre Company

Year 2 had a fantastic visit from Freshwater Theatre Company. This was as part of our 'Great Fire of London' topic. We got the chance to find out how people lived during 1666 and the different types of jobs that they did. This workshop helped us to develop our understanding of what life was...

Year 2 - Hackney Music Service Festival

We took our best singers from Year 2 to perform at the Round Chapel for the Hackney Music Service Festival. We had a fantastic time and we got to sing the songs we love so well with 15 other schools and a live band. We sang songs such as "I feel good", "Fatou Yo" and "La...

Year 2 - Hilda Offen

We had a fantastic visit from our author Hilda Offen! We were lucky enough to see some of her fantastic books. She also showed us some of her drawings. Some of us also got to dress up as one of Hilda's characters!

Year 2 - Opera in 2G

2G have had a very exciting morning as they have had a visit from two opera singers. They were able to listen to the beautiful voices of the two very talented ladies, and also take part in a workshop. The children were really focused by what was a unique experience for them

Nursery - Visit to Homerton Fire Station

Nursery went to visit the Homerton Fire Station on Homerton high street. We had a brilliant time watching the fire fighters in training... they were practising how to get someone (dummy) out if they got stuck on a roof! We got to go inside a fire engine and look at all the equipment that’s...

Nursery - Mothers' Week Tea Party

Thank you to all of the mums who came to our Mothers' Week tea party! It was wonderful to see so many of you there. As you can see from the photos, the children were beaming with pride; they were so excited to show their mums around the nursery and, of course, share delicious food and drink...

Year 3 - Windrush Generation

Year 3 have had a brilliant afternoon learning about the Windrush. The Windrush generation refers to the immigrants who were invited to the UK between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries such as Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados to help rebuild Britain post-war. The name comes from the...

Autumn Term in Nursery

The nursery children have been busy this week. They've been enjoying exploring what happens in autumn. In particular, they were fascinated by how the leaves changed colour and fell off of the trees. They discovered that the fallen leaves are fun to play with too, as you can see in the video!...

5M - The Big Draw

5M started their BIG DRAW project today when they studied the art work from an artist called' Sonia Delaunay'. Her work includes normal art, abstract art and art using a focused shape. Today we used a dominant shape to create our own masterpiece

5M Reading With 4S

The children in 5M welcomed the exciting young writers from 4S and had a chance to read their stories. The main focus of the session was to evaluate how well the year 4S children were writing and help them to improve by giving positive criticism

6DM - Art Workshop

We had a visitor from an art gallery who taught us all about a French artist named Monet. All of his paintings were based on nature and truly inspiring. He used four colours to make a range of different colours. Also, we learnt that he was an impressionist artist and painted using small brush...

A Letter from David Attenborough

Cormac from 4P enthusiastically wrote a letter to the legend David Attenborough (yes the guy from Planet Earth !). David took out time from his busy schedule to hand-write a thoughtful letter to Cormac. Cormac said that he will treasure this letter forever, he still can't believe it!

Autumn Book Fortnight

Our Autumn Book Fortnight was a great success! The whole school focused on the book ‘Welcome’ by Barroux. The children enjoyed the story and discussed issues such as global warming and immigration. Each class from reception to Year 6 had the opportunity to do a range of activities including art and...

Autumn Term in Nursery

A new term has begun! The children have been settling in well. They've enjoyed exploring all that nursery has to offer both indoors and outdoors, from making cakes out of play-dough and 'cooking' in the role-play area to kicking a football around the garden outside. They have also made...

Beat 26 on a Rainy Day

This groove is one we call Beat 26. In the video you can hear Mr. O Flynn calling the changes and counting the beat. It features children from the Wednesday morning music club

4G's Letters from Chicago

4G received our first letters from our new pen pals in Chicago, USA! We can't wait to write back!

Bikers Breakfast

Daubeney hosted a Bikers Breakfast on 14th March 2019 where we gave a free breakfast to all children that rode to school on a bike. We also had mechanics from ‘Dr. Bike’ come in to check everyone’s bikes and ensure they are in good working order

Black History Month 2017

Take a look at the highlights from our Black History Month celebrations

Blue Class - World Book Day 2018

Blue class are celebrating world book day! they have dressed in their favourite character from their favourite book!

Boy and Girls Football - 19th April 2018

Highlights from the boy and girls football matches at Mabley Green

Boy's Choir Rehearsal

The boys choir rehearse with the help of Aleks from City Academy

Boys Book Club

Today (22nd January 2019) the Boys Book Club members met for their first session. Our first activity was to complete a survey to establish our views on books, reading and reading for pleasure. Our session then began with reading genres that we usually enjoy. So we decided to read a range of comic...

Boys Book Club - 12th February 2019

Today (12th February 2019) the boys were excited to use the iPads to read a story. We used the website Find a book from Oxford Owl , where you can register for free and there a many different books you can read online, different genres, ages and it has the option of a story being read to you. Try...

4P Awful Egyptians Assembly

4P have worked tremendously hard to prepare for this assembly. They made sure they practised all their lines well before the assembly. Helen said: "This was one of the best assemblies I have ever done" Mohamed said " I loved playing Pharaoh, it was amazing!" Hayden said...

400 years of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare

On the 23 April many countries across the world celebrated the International Day of the Book, organized by the UNESCO to promote reading and to honour the authors Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare who died on this date. This year, we commemorate 400 years since their death and we...

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...

3K Assembly - Pirates

Avast me harties! Welcome to 3K's class assembly. Our assembly is all about Pirates! We tell the story of a small girl who goes on a brave adventure to save the pirates from the sea monsters

Nursery Visit to the Church of St. Barnabas

Nursery found out all about the Christian celebration of Easter on their recent visit to the Church of St. Barnabas. They acted out part of the Easter story, standing in two lines and waving branches to welcome Jesus (played by Lexie and Nhyira!) as he arrived on his donkey and shouting...

1D - Releasing The Butterflies in the Hop Garden

1D released their butterflies in the Hop Garden. We watched them grow and change from tiny caterpillars to beautiful Monach butterflies!

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...

Boys Book Club - 12th March 2019

The boys in the Boys Book Club enjoyed a cosy session today (12th March 2019) reading a range of books from our library. It was very interesting to read in our library because we found some exciting books to read

Boys Book Club - Poetry in the Garden

On Tuesday the 26th February 2019, the Boys Book Club made the most of the sunny day and enjoyed their session in our lovely Hop Garden. The boys read a selection of poems, then had the chance to recite some poems to their peers. It was a fun session filled with laughs and enjoyment. We were...

November Book Fair

It was Book Fair time again at Daubeney! It was great to see so many children buying interesting books to read and share with their families and friends. Well done to Kai, Hussain and Dejunet from the Junior Literacy team for helping Miss Fergus to organize and run the Book Fair. A special thank...

Maths Family Workshop KS1

Today Wednesday 26th Daubeney held its first (Autumn 1) Maths Family KS1 workshop.The attendance was amazing and the parents and children took part in some fantastic team sharing and confidence building with a focus on making maths alive outside of school. Where can we find/ use maths at home or in...

Kindness Tree

...tree simply by being KIND! :) From helping another person to being good to yourself, it is easy to earn yourself a spot up there, showing the whole school what a great role model you are....

KS1 Parent Maths Workshop - 29th September 2017

A huge thank you to all parents and carers who attended our Parent Maths Workshop. We hope that you benefitted from finding out more about how maths is taught at Daubeney and that you feel better equipped to support your child at home. As always, should you have any further questions please...

KS2 Assembly - Life in Spanish Primary Schools

This week, KS2 pupils enjoyed a Spanish assembly where they could get to know what life is like in Spanish Primary schools. They learnt new vocabulary related to the school, like do the register, classroom, playground, line up, teacher, just to name a few. Pupils had a great time watching Spanish...

London Eye Mystery

Year 6 were delighted to visit London’s South Bank as part of our study of Siobhan David’s London Eye Mystery. The London Eye Mystery is a children's mystery novel by English author Siobhan Dowd. It tells the story of how Ted, a boy with Asperger syndrome, and his sister Kat, solve...

Make a Noise

What an amazing, fun packed fortnight Daubeney had ‘Making a Noise’ about bullying. Children from Nursery to Year 6 participated in concerts,assemblies, workshops, activities in class and ended with a BIG ‘Make a Noise’ non uniform day. Take a look at some of the wonderful...

Make a Noise

What an amazing, fun packed fortnight Daubeney had ‘Making a Noise’ about bullying. Children from Nursery to Year 6 participated in concerts, assemblies, workshops, activities in class and ended with a BIG ‘Make a Noise’ non uniform day. Take a look at some of the wonderful...

Mapping Out a Walking Zone

The Eco team and Junior Road Safety Team went on a trip around our local area to map out a walking zone that children and parents can use to commute to and from school. The children were very excited to be creating this map and be part of such an important project for our school. The routes we...

Maths Parent Workshop

Highlights from our Maths Parent Workshop

Hispanic Day 2018

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

Maths Parent Workshop - Autumn 2 2018

The parents learnt about progression in KS1 from reception to year two. We discussed what mastery means and what they can do to help their children develop mastery in their learning. The Junior Maths Team helped in setting up and the delivery of the workshop. They organized free resources which...

Maths Times Table Challenge

Children from Year 3 to Year 6 participated in a times table challenge. The children were extremely excited and enthusiastic to take part and pit their speed and accuracy skills against their peers. The children received team points, certificates and mathematical games and puzzles as reward for...

Maths Week 2016

Some highlights from Maths Week 2016

Meg Hillier MP Visit

Our local MP, Meg Hillier, visited Daubeney to give a very special prize to one of our Year 6 students. At Christmas, we entered Meg's competition to find a picture to go onto her Christmas Card. Out of many entries from schools in Hackney, our very own Massimo in 6S won! He produced a...

Mother's Day Celebrations In Nursery

Everyone in nursery loves their mummies and so they wanted to do something extra special for Mother's Day to thank them for everything they do. They worked hard to make cards, carefully writing their names inside. They have been dutifully practising writing their names all term, and you can see...

Motivational Boys Group Black History Month Assembly

Our Motivational Boys Group demonstrated many qualities today (15th October 2018) when they lead an assembly prepared by them, on inspirational figures throughout history, focusing on people from Black and African heritage. The boys used their skills and lead the assembly discussing many...

Mr Young's Visit to Daubeney Primary to see Year 6

Year 6 were enthralled by a visit from Mr Young (Osceola’s dad) who inspired all the children and adults in the art of writing newspaper reports. Mr Young shared his valuable insights into the world of Journalism and shared some invaluable tips to help Year 6 write newspaper reports. Mr Young...

Jam on a Boat

On Thursday 22nd of June, some fine musicians from Daubeney Primary went for a jam on a barge. We had the ukulele club, half the school choir, two rock bands and a whole collection of other talented performers. We rocked out in the blissful setting of our nearby canal dressed in our Hawaiian...

Guitar and Ukulele

We have had a lot of success teaching ukulele to our Reception class. They have been working from a book called Ukulele Magic and can play a song called "Thumb Brush Strum."

Bring your Mother and Grandmother to School Week

Some highlights from our bring your Mother and Grandmother to school week

Daubeney Live 2016

Just before Easter we had Daubeney Live, our annual music celebration. Our two visiting schools, Millfields and Bridge Academy blew us away with their musicality. Also we had three different bands from our own school who played to a very excited audience. There were two drum kits on stage and an...

Chain Reaction Workshop

Years 4 - 6 were delighted to be part of a rapturous workshop delivered by Chain Reaction – an orgaisation that specializes in working with children to develop vital tools and techniques to achieve successful conflict resolution - whilst keeping it fun and involved in ‘real life’....

Christmas Number 1

Tell your Ma, tell your Pa, tell the whole wide world….we at Daubeney are proud to make an attempt at a Christmas number 1 single. The epic tale began last Christmas when two young girls, Iris Roberts and Mia Kaur came forward with their own stellar composition for our Christmas carol...

Classroom Displays 2017

Daubeney is full of exciting learning. The school is following a theme of 'Intrepid explorers'. Take a tour through a gallery of our bright and colourful displays to see the amazing learning that is taking place. You should also take a look at our displays from 2018, and 2019

Classroom Displays 2018

Daubeney is full of exciting learning. Take a tour through a gallery of our bright and colourful displays to see the amazing learning that is taking place. You should also take a look at our displays from 2017, and 2019

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...

Daubeney Carnival 2017

Each year group presented a dance from a different culture or tradition before joining together for a whole-school big dance!

Daubeney Has Talent 2016

On 9th March 2016, 14 children from Daubeney school took part in the Cluster E Dance show. Daubeney was one of 11 schools taking part and they finished the show with a bang! We are very proud of our students. They only had 8 weeks to learn the dance and then perform it in front of over 200 people!...

Daubeney on You and Yours - BBC Radio 4

Following our wonderful participation at the national launch event of the BBC's new science initiative - Terrific Scientific and subsequently being featured on BBC Breakfast ; Daubeney, is honoured to have been invited by BBC Radio 4 to participate in their You and Yours episode - aired on...

Guardian Visits Daubeney

Year 6 were delighted to have been visited by two inspiring members of the Guardian newspaper team and learning about the exciting world of Journalism and the Media. The workshop involved children thinking about what it means to be a journalist and what is involved in getting a newspaper ready each...

Daubeney Science Juniors

Today a few of the scientists from the Daubeney Science Juniors got some time on the bus to experiment with a non-Newtonian fluid. Not sure what that is? Ask one of the science juniors, they'd be happy to explain. If you want to try this at home, try adding some corn flour to water and seeing...

Easter Bonnet Parade 2019

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

Eco-team Climate Change and Environment Training

The Eco-team received training from 'Eco-Schools' about climate change and the environment. They also conducted an Environmental audit to ensure our school is as sustainable as it can possibly be. They were able to identify what we already do and how we can improve. Now that they know how...

Egypt Workshop

As part of their Ancient History Learning around Ancient Civilisations, Year 6 were treated to a theatrical performance by the Freshwater Theatre Company where pupils relived the times of the infamous pharaohs and had the opportunity to dress up as characters from ancient Egypt

Farewell Ms. Douglas

On Wednesday our usual singing assembly was transformed into a surprise leaving assembly for our Head Teacher Ms. Douglas. We had beautiful poems recited and heart felt tributes from staff members. The children sang "Something inside so strong" because Ms. Douglas has given us all...

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...

Goldsmiths Recording Studio

The Daubeney School Band, The New Redemptions, took a trip to Goldsmiths Recording Studio. ABC Hit It The latest studio release from the Daubeney School Band. Produced / engineered by Winther at Goldsmiths Recording Studio. Composed by Mr. O Flynn, Mr. Keating and the Daubeney School Band

Year 3 - Visit from an Archaeologist

Today (27th February 2019) Year 3 were lucky enough to be visited by a real life archaeologist from UCL (University College London)! She brought with her a variety of stones from the different stages of the Stone Age. We got to touch them and we guessed what they were used for. "Some of the...

Year 3 - WOW Day

Year 3 had a WOW day and we learnt about the Romans. We researched on the life of a Roman legionary and the weapons and armour they wore. We then used our research to design and create our own Roman shields. We then all went to the playground to be Roman soldiers for the afternoon. We threw...

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 at UBS

Today (10th July 2019) five children from Year 5 entered the last stage of the STEAM competition at UBS Bank and came third. The children had to design a robotic car and an obstacle course to allow the car to be challenged. They used many of their skills to successfully complete the challenge. The...

Bike Around The Borough

It was an amazing experience today (27th June 2019) where children from Daubeney Primary School participated in the annual cycle ride around Hackney. The 10 mile route took the children from Homerton to Hackney Downs, then to Stoke Newington, Newington Green, Dalston and then back to Hackney for...

Year 2 - 2C Sports Day

...e some friendly competitions! From three legged races to javelin throws, 2C gave it their all in everything we did today! We even ended the day by participating and watching the races! Take a look at our highlights! What was your favourite part of sports day?...

Year 5 Residential 2019 - Day 4

...we leave for school tomorrow. From all the Daubeney team at Youlbury, good night....

KS1 Sports Day 2019

On this beautiful day, KS1 had their sports day at Daubeney Fields. It was a joyous day as pupils participated in different activities and parents rushed from one year group to another to cheer on siblings. 2K enjoyed tag of war, the sack race, egg on a spoon race, mini javelin, relay and many...

Year 3 - 3T Explore Emotions

Everyone experiences an enormous variety of emotions-from excitement to fear to rage-and sometimes all of them in one day! It's perfectly normal. Today in 3T we explored different emotions, identifying their purpose and speaking about situations in which we have felt a particular way. We then...

Year 6 - Ice Skating

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

Year 2 - Carnival

Did you know that "Bee's Knees" and "Cat's Pajamas" were terms used in the 1920s that meant something was the best? After all the practice and and hard work we put into our dance, we were definitely the Bee's Knees and Cat's Pajamas! Our theme was the 1920s so we...

Year 5 - 5MC Forensic Workshop

Today 5MC took part in an amazing Forensic Workshop. In the workshop, 5MC had to identify who stole a pedigree dog from a dog show! To find the culprit 5MC had to use many forensic skills by looking at clues such as DNA, finger prints, ink chromatography, addresses and many more. 5MC, what was your...

Year 2 - Graduation Class Of 2019

With much fanfare our Year2’s graduated from KS1 to KS2 on 17.7.19. The teachers were proud, but not as much as the parents! As for the children they were filled with pride as the received their certificates, sang their celebratory songs and had nominated class individuals read their...

Year 4 - WOW Day

Today (10th September 2019) the children in Year 4 enjoyed their WOW DAY learning all about the continent of Asia. The children explored many geographical landmarks, foods from the east, facts and information, rivers and studied the various cultures from around Asia

Year 2 - RE Day

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

Year 4 - RE Day

Morning Today (19th September 2019) the children in Year 4 explored the faith and beliefs of the Jewish people. They studied the key beliefs in Judaism and looked at the importance of the Torah, synagogue and stories from the Jewish texts. Afternoon The children in Year 4 today (19th September...

Reception - Visit from Perform

Reception were lucky enough to receive a visit from Perform . The children had a wonderful time exploring the theme of Castles, Knights and Princesses and using drama, dance and singing to help develop their confidence, concentration and social skills

Year 6 - Mapping Day

For mapping day Year 6 were able to put their mapping skills to the test by taking a trip out to the Olympic Park in Stratford. Before that, they had to use a map and a scale to work out what the distance was from Homerton to Stratford. They also had to find certain points on the map once they...

Junior Road Safety Officers Training

The Junior Road Safety Officers attended training organised by Hackney Council, along with other primary school JRSOs from Hackney at the Round Chapel on 25th September 2019. It was a successful day filled with activities allowing our JRSOs an opportunity to learn new things and take away exciting...

Daubeney Student Wins The Leaders Award

We are super proud of this student, who had the incredible opportunity to visit Kingston University to accept her award for her entry in The Leaders Award competition. She was one of two Year 3 winners out of a total of 48,000 entries. She acted as a superb representative of Daubeney on the day and...

Federation Mathematics Competition

Today we held our Federation Mathematics Competition at Daubeney with our sister schools Lauriston and Sebright. Our pupils participated with such a high level of determination, resilience and team work. Everyone was actively engaged from start to finish. Daubeney emerged the winners. Well done...

World Mental Health Day - 10th October 2019

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

Maths Family Workshop

This workshop had a focus of using stories to teach mathematics and helping children develop mastery. The parents had the opportunity to learn strategies to help with the mastery of concept: everything from basic counting to doing algebra. The book we focused on was "One is a snail, ten is a...

Year 5 - The Big Draw 2019

Today, 18th June 2019 the Year 5 children enjoyed spending some time in Daubeney fields studying the landscapes. They looked at the surrounding views from different angles and decided which area they would focus on to draw. They drew the view they saw and used their art skills to include many art...

Year 6 - 6F Time Capsule

6F were amazed at how Daubeney was in 2002! Many of the children from then had shared their experiences and daily activities by filling a time capsule with many newspapers, drawings and even a Harry Potter stationery set! The 17 year old capsule was found by the builders buried under the ground in...

Year 1 - 1P Shadows

In 1P we have been learning about shadows. We discussed how shadows move depending on where the light is and how close it is. We made shadow puppets using card and lolly sticks. We turned off the lights and used a torch to try and make shadows using the puppets. We discussed what happens when you...

Year 3 - Girls Club

Year 3 girls have started their social club today during lunchtime with Ms Fathema. The girls took part in lots of icebreakers and team games including organising themselves silently from shortest to tallest. They also engaged in conversation with each other, answering funny questions such as what...

Nursery - Maths Junior Team

The members of the Maths Junior Team visited the Nursery to interact with the younger pupils and help them gain an understanding of Maths. Each member planned what activities they thought would be most engaging for the children. The time passed quickly and soon it was time to leave but not before...

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...

Reception - Red Class Planting Cress and Mustard Seeds

Just before the half term, Red Class planted some cress and mustard seeds. We were very surprised when we returned back from our holidays. The cress had grown very tall. We took good care of our plants by watering it and making sure that they had plenty of sunshine. Red Class also decided to make...

Year 2 - 2C Crazy Day Disco

Even though it rained a little today, it didn’t stop these funky 2C children from having crazy fun! We had ice lollies and danced all morning! Check out our photos!

Year 3 Visit Kew Gardens

To further their knowledge & interest in their class topic of rainforests, Year 3 visited Kew Gardens. They were in awe of the exotic Palm House (built in the Victorian period, they noted), and especially by how hot and humid it was inside, just like the rainforest. Those wearing glasses...

Year 6 - WOW Day - Autumn 2 2019

We kicked off Autumn 2 with a "WOW DAY". We started off with some sweet treats from all across the continent. We tasted delicacies from countries such as France, Poland and Sweden. We then put our researchers hats on and had to choose on country from Europe and create an eye-catching fact...

Year 4 - Money

Today (10th March 2020) the children in Year 4 used 'Real Money' and opened their shop in class. Their role was to sell items from their shop, collect payment and give the correct change to their customers. To challenge their skills, the children purposely gave the wrong change sometimes to...

Boys Book Club - 27th January 2020

Today (27th January 2020) the boys book club watched and read a story from the myths and legends website , which is a free website with many interesting myths and legends. Every session before the boys book club start we read a story and have fun discussing it. Today the boys selected their...

Year 2 - Great Fire of London Workshop

Today we experienced the Great Fire of London! Some of us dressed up like the people who were in the Great Fire of London. We spent the morning working in different jobs from 1666, like soap making and ink making. While doing our jobs, we also imagined the fire had started and some of us had to...

Family Matters Workshop - Dreams and Goals

"Have a vision, it is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible" (Walt Disney) Our dreams and Goals, a truly fun filled and creative workshop were the invisible became a visible by creating a vision. We had some lovely feedback from...

Year 6 - 6M IntoUniversity Week 2020

6M spent a week at IntoUniversity learning all about inclusion and diversity. The week included learning about a range of subjects. On Monday and Tuesday, we looked at inspirational people throughout history such as Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela and Malala Yousafzai. Also, we had an...

Year 6 Spanish Champions visit Petchey Academy

Our Spanish Champions from Year 6 visited Petchey Academy and observed a Year 7 Spanish lesson. It was a great opportunity for our Year 6 pupils to get to know what Spanish is like in Secondary school and to work alongside Year 7 pupils. They enjoyed working together and sharing their experiences...

Climate Learning Week - Jules Kirby from Friends of the Earth

As part of Climate Learning Week the Key Stage 2 children were lucky enough to have Jules Kirby from Friends of the Earth (and Daubeney dad!) come in to talk about our Planet and how we can all help to look after it. The children discussed possible ways that they could make a difference. Children...

British Science Week 2020

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

WOW Day in Year 1L

Year 1 had fun making shoebox worlds of their local area for the end of their Cross Curricular topic. They used cardboard boxes, tissue paper and card as well as other materials from home that could be reused for our project! We thought about who and what is in our world, and discussed what...

Hackney Star Life Time Achievement Award

On Thursday 12th March, our very own Miss Mary attended the Hackney Stars Award event at the Hackney Town Hall. Ms Mary was nominated as one of the nominees for the Hackney Stars Life Time Achievement Award. There were five nominees, but there was only going to be one winner – our Miss Mary....

Year 5 and 6 Residential 2020 - Day 1

[menu name="year5-6-residential-2020"] Wow! What a start! What do you get when you’ve got 70 super excited, amazing pupils rearing to take over Youlbury Scout Centre? You get the Daubeney residential team! It was a very excitable coach journey with us arriving in plenty of time for...

Reception - Red Class: Healthy Me - Germs

Red class have been learning about the importance of personal hygiene and staying healthy. We created some germ monsters today to show everyone how germs like to travel and stay in our bodies. We also highlighted ways in which we could stop germs from spreading. Here’s how you could fight...

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 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 4

...in your thoughts and prayers. From all the Daubeney team at Youlbury, one last good night and sweet dreams. See you all on the morrow. - Mr Dharma...

Year 5 and 6 Residential 2020 - Day 5

[menu name="year5-6-residential-2020"] A very good morning from Team Daubeney at Youlbury! We’re packed, fed and ready to go, once we’ve completed our last two activities and had lunch. My aim is for us to leave by 1.30pm if not a few minutes before. I will update the school...

Year 2 WOW Day - Great Fire of London

To end our Great Fire of London topic, we designed some houses! We had to think about the materials that the houses were made of and the shapes of the houses. Houses in 1666 were made of wood and most of them leaned over the narrow streets of London, making it easy for the fire to spread from house...

Wow Day in Year 3

Year 3 have been learning all about the Prehistoric World, and in particular from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. They discovered that even though there are no written documents left about this period of time, there are plenty of clues that tell us what their life was like. One of these clues is...

Year 4 - RE Day: Hinduism

The children in Year 4 had an exciting day today (31st October 2019) learning all about the Hindu faith. The children studied the main beliefs of Hinduism, the importance of the Mandir (Hindu Temple) and signs and symbols from the religion. They also had an opportunity to create their own art...

Autumn Book Fair 2019

We had yet another VERY busy and successful Book Fair at Daubeney! You spent over £1000 buying amazing books to read at home which means that we also get lots of free books for our school book corners. Well done to Halima, Tariq, Sarah and Xiomara from the Junior Literacy team for helping Miss...

Year 4 - Role-Play: Lion and the Mouse

The children had an amazing and fun time in class today (29th October 2019) when they were reading the 'Lion and the Mouse'. The children used the images and scenes to allow opportunities for them to role-play scenes, use freeze frames and had a fun time playing characters from the story

Year 5 - Art: Watercolour Paint

Today Year 5 became masters of watercolour paint. We recreated our favourite scenes from The Lion and the Mouse by Aesop. What is your favourite part of the story? What techniques did you use to create your artwork?

Year 4 - Diary Entry: The Lion and The Mouse

Today (8th November 2019) the children in Year 4 were writing their final diary entry as the Mouse from our story, 'The Lion and The Mouse'. We used many writing features and skills to create some wonderful diary entries. We included, adverbials of time, powerful adjectives, onomatopoeia,...

Year 3 - Using Smarties to Work Out the Fraction of Quantities

Today Year 3 used Smarties to work out the fraction of quantities. They counted all the Smarties from the tube to work out what the denominator was. They then counted how many Smarties there were of each colour and wrote their final answer in fraction form. What a bunch of SMART-ies (get it?)

Year 6 - Visit from Bola Abisogun OBE FRICS

Year 6 were lucky enough to have a visit from Bola Abigosun where he explained to the children what a surveyor does. The children were inspired to hear about someone from Kingsmead Estate who went onto finish university with a first class honours degree and receive an award from Prince Charles. The...

Reception - Yellow Class: Launch Pad for Language Walk

Yellow Class went for a walk along the canal this week. We had a great time talking about what we could see. We used our senses to talk about what we can feel, smell and hear. We enjoyed looking at the boats, trees and the canal. We looked at all the leaves that have fallen from the trees and...

Year 1 - 1S Sharing Assembly

We had our first assembly of Year 1 last Thursday! We loved reading the book 'Dear Zoo' and acting it out on stage! After reading the story, we were inspired to think about pets we might like to have, from fire breathing dragons, to bush babies and finger monkeys...! In literacy we have...

Year 4 - Cross Curricular Links in Literacy

Today (9th December 2019) the children in Year 4 began to plan their information posters all about Earthquakes. They used their prior knowledge from their Cross Curricular lessons to help them plan information for their posters

Year 4 - RE Day

The children in Year 4 studied Christianity as part of their Religious Education session. The children read stories from the Bible, identified key features of a church, Stain glass art work and understood the main teaching from the Bible

Year 1 - 1S Jolly Christmas Postman Artwork

In 1S, we have been very busy with all things Christmas and have absolutely loved reading the story of the Jolly Christmas Postman! During Art, we sketched one of our favourite pages from the book - 1S are incredible artists, they were concentrating very hard on their artwork as you can see in this...

Year 6 - Tycoon Team in Action

The Year 6 Tycoon Team have been developing a business enterprise in school (change challenge). So far this year, the business enterprise has been a wonderful success. The children are very excited about being part of the business and love to see profits being made, this is helping children with...

Year 4 - Information Posters

Today (13-12-2019) the children in year used their Science knowledge and their learning from their Science lessons, to help them to create an information poster all about our teeth. They included the key features in their posters and worked with their peers

Year 6 - 6S Send Fan Mail to Year 5

6S were so impressed with Year 5s pantomime performance , we decided to send them some fan mail. We snuck into their classrooms at break time and delivered their letters so they would be surprised when they returned from break. We hope they liked the cards because we certainly loved their...

2K - Making Christmas Cards

It’s a Christmassy feel! Children designed and created cards for their families and loved ones. Merry Christmas from all of us in 2K

Spanish - Español: Autumn Term Summary.

“FELIZ NAVIDAD Y PRÓSPERO AÑO NUEVO! = Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! -Y4 & Y2 worked on using more Spanish with their teachers and their classmates to follow instructions and to talk to each other. They had a great time playing bingo and many other games. - Y4 learnt...

History Projects

What inspiring children we have at Daubeney! Over the holidays whilst most of us were feasting and relaxing, our children set about independently researching their history topic for the Spring term. They presented their findings in the most creative ways, from sculptures and painting to computer...

Year 3 and 5 - Magic Maths

This morning (19th October 2018) 5M were pleasantly surprised when a young mathematician from 3G paid them a visit. The young maths master showed the class a range of math tricks, math magic and number patterns using his times tables knowledge and calculator skills. The entire class in 5M were...

Year 5 - Our Very Own Kandinsky

On Thursday, 23 March 2017 the Year 5 children truly enjoyed their Cross Curricular maths lesson, where they experimented with shapes, angles, lines, art and religious studies. The children looked at different religious symbols and works of art which uses shapes. A child from 5M created a wonderful...

Year 5 - Fire Safety

The children in Year 5 were given a workshop today from a member of the London Fire Brigade team (Educational Officer) where the children learnt about the importance of fire safety and what actions to take if a fire occurred

Year 5 - Fly Butterflies, Fly High!

The children in 5M said their last goodbye to the butterflies, which they cared for from the caterpillar stage, through to the pupa stage then watched them come out as beautiful butterflies

Year 5 - Headlines

The children in Year 5 had an interesting literacy session today (16th November 2018) where they created headlines. They used pictures from newspaper articles and their own ideas to come up with catchy and suitable headlines. Encourage your child to read the newspapers over the weekend and watch...

Year 5 - Human Form Inspired by Anthony Gormley

The children in Year 5 used ideas from Antony Gormley to design and create their own human form. They used wooden squares and rectangles to form the human outline. The children had fun making different forms and shapes of the human body - just like Antony Gormley's work

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 - Natural History Museum

Year 5 had the pleasure of visiting the beautiful Natural History Museum in central London. We explored the many exhibits it had to offer including an insect room, fossils from prehistoric times as well as a mammal room and more! All of this related to our science topic this term: Living Things...

Year 5 - Professional Authors

The children in Year 5 were totally focused today when they began to publish the very first story in Year 5. This term, the children have been reading a story and used the ideas from the story to create their own narrative with an interesting ending. All published work will be available on parents...

Year 5 - Brain Workshop

The Year 5 children were treated to a special brain workshop today, carried out by a neurologist from the Birbeck University. The children enjoyed learning about the brain, the different parts and how our brains work. We were also treated to some interesting images to identify how our brain thinks...

Year 5 - Published!

The children in Year 5M were extremely excited today (4th October 2018) when they published their first piece of work - a narrative story, which focused on our unit 'Stories from other cultures'. The children adapted the story and write their own version including descriptive settings and...

Year 5 - Role Play: 'Welcome' by Barroux

The children in 5M were excited today (1st November 2018) when we read the story 'Welcome' by Barroux, a great book discussing issues of migration and kindness. The children got the opportunity to role play scenes from the story and then we put all the scenes together to make the story come...

Year 5 - Science and Maths

Today (30th April 2019) the Year 5 pupils used their science and maths skills (cross curricular links) to draw a bar graph in order to present their data from the friction fair test carried out last week. The children used their data, and constructed a bar graph to show the effects of friction on...

Year 5 - STEAM Competition

A massive well done to all teams who participated from Year 5 today in a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) competition. The students showed amazing teamwork skills. Congratulations to all teams - one team from 5M came 3rd while the team from 5F came first and made it...

Year 5 - Study Star Number Challenge

The children in Year 5 were challenged today (9-10-2018) with a number puzzle. Their task was to use all the digits, from 1-9 with any of the four operations to make a total of 100. If you would like to try different combinations of making the number 100 see transum.org to play the game at home...

Year 5 - The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Today (26th April 2019) the children in year completed their published story based on the Aesop tale, 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'. The children used the ideas from the story and write their own version from the view of the main character - the boy. The pupils, in addition to the story added in...

Year 5 - The Night Sky

Year 5 had the opportunity to have a parent in to teach them about Art. Children were able to create a backdrop of the night sky from an image from our theme book - The heart and the bottle. We used paint and various different materials to create our own star to put in the night sky. We hope to...

Year 5 - Celebrating Diversity

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

Year 5 - Biographies

The Year 5 pupils today (14th March 2019) were focused in their literacy session, where they began writing their biographies based on a famous person. The children used their notes and planning sheets from this week to help them construct their biographies. next week we will be publishing our...

Year 5 - Young Authors Publishing Session

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

Year 4 - Hackney Museum: Travels with my Suitcase

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

Year 3 Author Visit

Year 3 had a special author coming in to visit as part of Literacy Festival Week. We had a visit from Roland Chambers who wrote ‘Nelly and the Quest for Captain Peabody’. He told us about all the books he has written and gave us lots of top tips to write interesting stories. Year 3 had...

Year 3 Celebrate World Book Day 2019

...y. Can you guess who they are?...

Year 3 Literacy - Gregory Cool

We have been focusing on the text Gregory Cool. The book is about a young boy who travels to the Caribbean island of Tobago, to spend the summer with his grandparents. Upon his arrival he realizes, the lifestyle in Tobago is much different from the lifestyle in London. We are using this book to...

Year 3 Meet a Petrologist from UCL

At the end of last term, Year 3 had a special visitor! A petrologist from UCL! She taught us all about her job and how to be successful petrologists! We learned about and identified different fossils including shark's teeth and dinosaur poo!! We then made our own ammonites to take home (after...

Year 3 Trip to the Ministry of Stories

Year 3 were sent on an exciting mission to the Ministry of Stories. There were given an assignment from the Chief of the Ministry to write 30 new stories as the story supplies were running low. When they arrived at the Ministry of Stories, they were taken through a secret door which led to the...

Year 3's Visit to Kew Gardens

On their recent visit to Kew Gardens, Year 3 observed the dry, arid space populated by spiky cactus plants & noted the distinct change of temperature & humidity as they walked into the tropical Palm House. Those with glasses couldn't not notice; their glasses steamed up as soon as they...

Year 4 - Debate

Year 4 have have been debating some very interesting topics in Literacy. Some of the motions they debated were: ‘Slime should not be banned from school’ and ‘Children should be allowed to bring their mobile phones to school’ Have a look at their fierce battles!

Year 4 - IntoUniversity Workshop

Year 4P who are now the new Year 5M enjoyed a special workshop from the IntoUniversity team. The children were engaged in various activities, like creativity by designing their own trainer, being an archaeologist and having a go at being a road and town planner. The children are now looking forward...

Year 5 - 5M Word Tree

5M are excited to have their word tree on display in the classroom. Every week we choose two new words based on our topic. We explore the word, learn its meaning, apply it in a sentence then try to use the word in our daily learning. What other words from our topic can you list at home with your...

Year 4 - Time Capsules

On the final day of the school year 4S and 4G dug up their time capsules from the hop garden that they had planted during their transition week in Year 3. It was very exciting to read the notes they had written over a year ago. Mr Garber was particularly impressed with how so many children had met...

Year 4 - Viking Invasions

4S were visited by a Viking as part of an exciting workshop. The children learnt many interesting facts about the Viking invasions. They also had their fortunes told from reading Viking runes. Please ask a 4S member what the Viking predicted their future would be!

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 Trip to Masala Zone

4K went on a trip to Masala Zone in Islington were we thoroughly enjoyed tasting dishes from the Indian cuisine as well as learning about the different jobs in a workplace. We learnt the importance of maths in the workplace by calculating a customer's bill. We then made delicious healthy...

Year 4 Visit Hackney Museum

Year 4 visited the Hackney Museum to learn more about migration and how the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings settled into Hackney. The children were fascinated by all the amazing migration facts and stories. Year 4 got the opportunity to look through real artifacts of migrants from Hackney which dated back...

Year 4 Workshop at Hackney Museum - Travels With My Suitcase

Year 4 had a wonderful time at the Hackney museum. They attended an exciting workshop called 'Travels With My Suitcase'. This workshop was all about the history of Hackney going all the way back to the Anglo Saxon era. "I really enjoyed the trip, we got to touch real artefacts from the...

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 5 - Trip to British Museum

The Year 5 children were delighted today, Tuesday 6th February 2018, to visit the Ancient Greek galleries in the British Museum. they were amazed when they saw all the various artefacts from Ancient Greece and especially enjoyed the statues of the Greek Gods. We were also lucky enough to visit the...

Year 5 - Young Engineers

Miss Calsite set up a wonderful activity for the year 5 children, where they designed and created their own moving mechanism. The children used their own creative ideas, resources from school and made their very own moving piece of engineering. 50 shared their designs with the other year 5 classes...

Yellow Class - Jobs

Yellow Class had a fantastic work week. We have learnt about many different kinds of jobs that we could be when we get older. In work week we had a visit from the police. They talked to us all about what they do and how they keep people safe. We made police hats in our class to pretend to be police...

Young Hackney Dance

On the 27th of March, two groups of children from Daubeney took part in a dance competition arranged by Young Hackney. The children choreographed their own routines and as you can see for yourselves from the brilliant performances, they did a magnificent job! Judging by the third video, Mr Simon,...

Year 6 Work Week

During Work Week, Year 6 had a wonderful opportunity to design an invention that would make Dyson and Apple pay attention and pitch their designs to 'Dragons' who were looking for an exciting investment opportunity. The Dragons, professionals from eminent corporations from the city,...

Year 7 Alumni

Here are a few wise words from Daubeney Alumni

Year 6 Meet Holocaust Survivor Eve Kugler

Year 6 had the privilege of speaking to a holocaust survivor, Eve Kugler, this week. Eve explained all about her family history and how she was separated from her parents who were interned in a concentration camp while she was forced to flee to an orphanage in America. The children were fascinated...

Year 5 and Year 4 Peer Assessment

The children in 5M welcomed the children from 4Z this morning (18th October 2018) and assistant them with their next steps and achieving their writing fundamental targets. It was nice to see the Year 5 children helping and supporting the Year 4 children. We hope to do more cross year group peer...

Year 5's Air Resistance Experiments

Year 5 carried out an air resistance experiment based on our Science topic of Forces. We developed a question as a class of whether two parachutes of different surface areas would land at the same time if dropped from the same height. We used plastic bags, cellotape and strings to create our...

Year 5 Discuss Current Affairs

Year 5 are off to an exciting start this term with finding out about current affairs. Classrooms were heated with the well-thought-out opinions from the students. We discussed a range of issues such as; Floods in Haiti, Refugee crisis and the US presidential elections. Our students were able to...

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 5 Residential 2017 - Day 4

It's our last full day on the residential and it's been another inspiring one! At breakfast we had cereal and juice for starters and then beans on toast, vegetarian sausages and saute potatoes. Yum! We read some more of the messages from families and friends whilst the children ate. We have...

Year 5 Residential 2018 - Day 2

Today was an absolute scorcher! It reached the dizzying highs of 28 degrees in Youlbury (thank you for Miss Fergus for noticing my spelling mistake in the last post). The children are adapting to independent life and have had to learn to get themselves ready for bed, keep their living areas tidy...

Year 5 Residential 2018 - Day 3

Day 3 and things are not slowing down. The children finished yesterday with pasta bake and hot cocoa. The tiredness had set in and it was a very quiet night in the cabin. After an energising sleep, the children were woken up to the smell of fresh pastries baking in the oven. They had enough choice...

Year 5 Residential 2018 - Day 4

...we leave for school tomorrow. From all the Daubeney team at Youlbury, good night....

Year 5 Visit to Our Lady's Secondary School

Some Year 5 girls had the opportunity to visit Our Lady's secondary school in Stamford Hill where they were able to experience life as a secondary school student. The girls had a French lesson where the teacher was VERY impressed by how quickly they were able to pick up conversational French....

Year 6 - 6F IntoUniversity

6F had the amazing opportunity to spend an entire week with the IntoUniversity team. The focus for the week’s learning was diversity and inclusion. On Monday and Tuesday we looked at inspiring people throughout history such as Emmeline Pankhurst, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela and...

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...

Year 6 - 6F Visit Sky Studios

6F were lucky enough to have the exciting opportunity to visit the Sky Skills Studio in the O2. They got to experience reading the news from a teleprompter and took fun photos with celebrities and film characters using a green screen. They even got to try out virtual reality which was like being...

Year 6 - 6F Work Week 2019

For Work Week, 6F had the exciting opportunity to start their own business and create their own inventions. They worked in groups to come up with the company name, design a product and work out the budget and manufacturing costs. They then had to pitch their ideas in ‘Dragon’s...

Year 6 - 6M IntoUniversity

Last week, (Monday 28th January – Friday 1st February) 6M has the exciting opportunity to go to Into University. Each day brought new and exciting learning. On Monday, we learnt all about the theme of the week which was diversity and inclusion. Following on from this, we learnt all about...

Year 6 - 6M Work Week 2019

This week, 6M had a unique learning experience this week, we had to create an invention to begin a business enterprise. To do this we had to think about our profit and how much it would cost us to produce our item. We used our numeracy skills to come up with a useful business plan. Following on...

Year 6 - Business Enterprise

Year 6 have been developing a business enterprise in school. So far this year the business enterprise has been a tremendous success. The children are very excited about being part of the business and love to see profits being made, this is helping children with their maths skills in the playground...

Year 6 - Daubeney Alumni

On Monday 8 th October some past pupils from Daubeney, who are now Year 7s at Cardinal Pole, visited Year 6 to discuss life at secondary school. They talked about their timetable, uniform, homework and gave us advice on how to prepare for secondary school. We were told that the expectations in Year...

Year 6 - Pen Pals in New York, USA

In February, we received an email from a teacher from a school called Laddie A Decker Sound Beach School in Miller Place in New York asking if we would like be their pen pals. We jumped at the opportunity and got our pens and paper out. It has been so much fun writing letters and receiving them all...

Rainbow Class: RE Day - Lego Church

As part of our Religious Education learning about Christianity, pupils explored the significance of the Christian cross through a hands-on block-building activity. Using colourful blocks, the children carefully designed and created their own cross while developing their problem-solving, creativity,...