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...

Admissions

Daubeney is moving to a two form entry sized primary school. There are currently two classes of Reception children and this will continue for the academic year 2023 and beyond. It is currently three form entry primary school in Years 5 & 6 although it retains three classes of Year 2 children....

Science and Sustainability

...ls that are taught at each stage. Learning in science is progressive, building on previous Learning ......ldren... Explore their own bodies and their senses Learn to name the parts of the body and what we ......ame the parts of the body and what we use them for. Learn about animals and their homes, including p...

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...

Online Safety

Today’s pupils are growing up in an increasingly complex world, living their lives seamlessly on and offline. This presents many positive and exciting opportunities, but also challenges and risks. We want to equip our pupils with the knowledge needed to make the best use of the internet and...

Ofsted

The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. Following a recent visit by Ofsted’s inspectors (October 2023), we are...

Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL)

...L 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 increase physical activ...

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...

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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 -...

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...

About our Curriculum

...h school has a Teaching & Learning Lead who oversees the curriculum and the subject leaders. The T&L Leads across the Federation work together to ensure consistency of provision and the sharing of ideas. Intent The uniqueness of every child in our school is recognised and valued. Our curric...

Spanish

...gn language at an early age. Learning a foreign language provides an opening to other cultures, fosters pupils’ curiosity and deepens their understanding of the world. It helps them to develop communication skills, including key skills of speaking and listening, and extends their knowledge of how...

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...

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...

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...

Religious Education

...igion and Learning from religion. Learning about religion involves knowledge, understanding and voca......texts and – when appropriate – maps. In the EYFS children... Learn about and celebrate a rang...... at home. Look at what makes us the same and different to others. Learn about different feelings...

Physical Education

Intent The Blossom Federation believes that Physical Education (PE), experienced in a safe and supportive environment, is essential to ensure children attain optimum physical and emotional development and good health. We intend to deliver high-quality teaching and learning opportunities that...

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...

Humanities - History & Geography

...omote a culture of acceptance.” – Learning about the lives and histories or people around the wo......bed as ‘disciplinary knowledge’) Implementation “Learn more, remember more” – writing top...... They help with implementing new resources (e.g. Daubeney’s History Learning Timeline) Impact B...

Nursery Open Evenings

Is your child 3-4 years old? Are you looking for a Nursery space? Come and visit us, meet the teachers, play in our wonderful nursery and collect an application form. We have AM, PM and Full Time spaces available. Need to know more? Take a look at what we're learning in Nursery and see some of our...

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...

SEND and Our Local Offer

...re... ELSA An ELSA in a school is an Emotional Learning Support Assistant. Shelina Chowdhury (Pastoral Lead) is trained to deliver ELSA to children who struggle emotionally, socially and academically. Relationships are a key element for children and young people to feel safe, happy and nurtured. E...

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...

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...

Early Years Foundation Stage

...ice and build up ideas, concepts and skills Learn how to control impulses and understand the need for rules Be alone, be alongside others or cooperate as they talk or rehearse their feelings Take risks and make mistakes Think creatively and imaginatively Communicate with others as they investigate o...

Home Learning

...ng. Home Learning - KS2......ng or/and number work. Home Learning - Lower School Key Stage 2 Years 3 and 4 children should hav......h or creative writing. Home Learning - KS2...

Literacy

...o sentence writing Making Links Across Learning Drawing Club also incorporates early maths through...... words, high frequency words, segmenting and blending, letter names). Learn songs, rhymes and stor......e, differences between words and letters, answering simple questions. Learn how to form letters co...

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...

Maths

...ber songs and rhymes whilst Learning to count forwards and backwards. Learn all about shapes and t......ions (such as tape measures, balances, water toys, a till and coins). Learn number facts such as n......se counting regular and irregular arrangements of objects accurately. Learn how to add two numbers...

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...

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...

Year 6

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

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....

Nursery

... Additional resources for Learning at home Learning in Nursery Our curriculum overviews gives you an idea of which topic your child will be studying at which point during the school year. EYFS Policy At Daubeney Primary School our aim is to provide the highest quality care and education for all o...

Reception

Meet the Teacher EYFS Team Yearly Overview Welcome to Reception! Important information PE is on Monday. Please send your child to school in their PE kit. Please bring in your book bag on your book bag day. Please bring in a water bottle with your child’s name clearly labelled. Please bring a spare...

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...

Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development

At Daubeney, the children and their learning are at the very heart of everything we do. Its impact is seen both within and outside of the classroom. We believe strongly in a holistic education for our children, rooted in our conviction that our children will succeed regardless of their background...

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...

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

Today 17.01.2024 the children learnt all about how plants and animals obtain food

Year 4 Autumn 2 Wow Day

Year 4 had lots of fun for our History Wow Day. We went back 5000 years to the Ancient Egyptian times and learnt how to write in hieroglyphics. We wrote messages to our friends and designed our own cartouches. After that, we made our own 3D mummies and sarcophaguses! Watch the videos to learn more...

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...

Year 2 – Maths and Spanish joint project. Shapes

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

Year 6 - Trip to Museum of London Docklands

Last week, we spent the day at the Museum of London Docklands. Here, we learnt more about how the East End was affected by World War II. We also spent time exploring the rest of the museum, which was about the Docklands

Year 3 Non chronological Reports

Today 30-11-2023 the children completed their non chronological reports in literacy about The Stone Age. The children extended their learning by researching facts about The Stone Age to add to their Did You Know section

Reception Duckling Class - Maps

This week we have been learning all about maps. We have been discovering what a map is, why we use a map and looking at different types of maps including zoo maps, tube maps, street maps and treasure maps! We have been creating our own maps, following the routes and finding the treasure. We had so...

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 4 Trip to the British Museum

Year 4 had a fantastic time at the British Museum on Wednesday 29th November. We explored the Ancient Egyptian exhibits and learned lots of interesting facts about pharaohs, pyramids and hieroglyphics. We even got to see real life mummies!

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 Science - Exercise

This week for our Science lesson, year 2 have been learning about exercise and the effect it has on our bodies. We took turns showing an exercise and thought about how our lungs and heart had to work harder to pump blood with oxygen around our bodies. We also explored how exercise is good for our...

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 4 - Science Experiment

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

Year 5 - Ancient Greeks Wow Day - Autumn 2 2023

Year 5 had an awesome WOW day! They recapped what they have learnt this term and made relevant links to the over arching question: What influence did the Ancient Greeks have on our modern society? To tend the topic in great fashion, Year 5 created masks which represented Greek myths whilst...

Duckling Class - Daubeney Fields Trip

On Wednesday, we visited our local park. We visited the park because we have been learning about maps. We have been finding out what a map is and what is is used for. We have looked at road maps, zoo maps, tube maps and many other maps. We created a a walking route that was safe to walk to Daubeney...

Year 5 History – Gods and Goddess Fact Cards

Year 5 had lots of creative fun making their own God and Goddess Fact Cards ! They used their historical knowledge along with their creative skills to produce some wonderful fact cards. These will be used in lesson to help us learn more about Ancient Greek Mythology and with our class reading book...

Year 4 Trip to the Natural History Museum

Year 4 had a great time at the Natural History Museum on Tuesday 3rd October. We explored the Earthquakes and Volcanoes exhibit and learned lots of interesting facts using the interactive games and activities. We even got to feel what it would be like to experience an earthquake in Japan in the...

Year 4 - Geography Autumn Term 2023

Have a watch of what Year 4 learnt this half term in Geography

Year 3 - Geography Autumn Term 2023

Have a watch of what Year 3 learnt this half term in Geography

Year 2 - Geography Autumn Term 2023

Have a watch of what Year 2 learnt this half term in Geography

Year 1 - Geography Autumn Term 2023

Have a watch of what Year 1 learnt this half term in Geography

Year 2 - Computing week 5

This week year 2 continued their creating pictures topic and learnt about the artwork of Piet Mondrian. We then explored making our own pieces of art on 2paint a picture, and focused on using solid lines and blocks of colour

Year 6: Science - Discovering new animals

After completing the recap quiz as a class, we looked through our floorbook to remind ourselves of what we learnt and made last week. Then, we learnt about vertebrates and invertebrates and how they are different. We learnt about specific types of vertebrates and invertebrates and what makes them...

Year 6: Maths - Multiplying

We learnt how to multiply 4 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers. We practiced this skill with our partners

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...

Year 6 - Geography Autumn Term 2023

What did Year 6s learn in Geography this term? Have a watch of what Year 6s learnt this half term in Geography

Parakeet class learn about continents

This week year 2 have been learning about the 7 continents. We love singing the continent song! Ask us about them when you see us!

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!

Year 6 - Geography: Physical Geography

We started the lesson by recapping what we learnt last week, first by looking at our floor book and second by completing a recap quiz as a class. We discussed the difference between physical and human geography. We played a game as a class where we had to figure out if the landmark was a physical...

Year 5 - Math - To calculate 10, 100, 1000 , 10000 and 100000 more or less

Year 5's took their learning outdoors today! A great and rich experience for them, to use outdoor resources to support them in solving mathematical problems relating to place value

Year 3 Science and ICT

The children in Year 3 used their Chromebooks today 13-09-2023 to research information about plants which is part of their Science unit. Next week we will be learning more about plants and what they need in order to grow

Mapping Day 2023

To start the new geography topic, Year 5 had an entire day learning about maps relating to their local area . It was important that Year 5 understood the key features of a map as well as, acknowledging that reading a map is a great skill to have. To end the day, they had the opportunity to draw a...

Year 4 - Mapping Skills Day

Year 4 had fun learning all about maps on Mapping Skills Day today (12-09-2023). The children started their learning by learning about ordnance survey maps and the different symbols that are used to represent physical and human features. We then looked at grid references and identifying...

Spanish - First week

Very busy week for students at Daubeney after the summer break! Students in Year 1 have enjoyed singing along to familiar songs and revisiting greetings, while students in Year 5 have had the opportunity to improve their memory skills to help vocabulary retention through games, and learning about...

Year 5 - Geography Autumn Term 2023

Have a watch of what Year 5 learnt this half term in Geography

The Nest - This week in Nurture - Autumn Week 6 2023

This week we have been using our fine motor skills,learning number bond, plants,hot seating Rapunzel and the witch, art and much more

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 - Zoo Trip 2023

We had so much fun visiting the zoo last week as part of our Science learning! We were able to get up close to lots of animals including lions, tigers, monkeys, gorillas and penguins. Ask us about our favourite animals when you see us!

Duckling Class - Autumn 2 - Week 3

This week, we have been continuing to read 'The Extraordinary Gardener'. We have been using describing words to talk about how Joe is feeling and story sequencing. We have been making our very own flowers with play-doh and gems, we have been finger painting our own gardens and making flower...

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 3 - Spanish: Age

Students in Yr3 are currently learning to say how old they are and ask their partner about their age. Very fun lesson today singing, playing games and performing role plays to practise the key language

Year 2 - Spanish - La oruga glotona

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

Nursery - Sight

Nursery have been learning about the sense of sight. They made their own binoculars and play guess the item in a interactive zoom out game

Nursery - Sense of hearing

Nursery have been learning about their ears and what they do. Nursery made their very own listening ears

Nursery - My body is amazing

Nursery have been learning about the human body

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!...

Year 3 Religious Education Day

The children in Year 3 had a brilliant RE Day today,13-10-2023 learning all about the Sikh Faith

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...

Year 5 - WOW day Autumn 1 2023

Year 5 had an awesome WOW day! They recapped what they have learnt this term and made relevant links to the over arching question : How would you prepare to climb Mount Kilimanjaro ? Year 5 learnt the challenges mountain climbers face such as potential dangers, expensive equipment and being ready...

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...

Year 2 - Geography and Computing

We learnt about the equator and the north and south poles this week. We explored why these places are either really hot or really cold, and compared their distance to the sun. We used atlases and Google Earth on chromebooks to identify countries that are close to the equator and polar regions 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 - Habitat Learning

Year 2 - Food Chains

This week we have been learning about food chains and how animals depend on each other in their habitats. We identified predators, prey and producers. We also identified animals that were herbivores, carnivores and omnivores

Year 5 - Sea Life Trip

Year 5 visited the lovely Sea Life Aquarium in relation to what they are learning in science. They observed a variety of sea creatures, living things and the habitats; a great opportunity for them to use their inner curiosity, to explore about the wonders of marine life

Nursery - Shape Vehicles

Nursery have been learning about the different shapes in the environment. They used shapes to make different vehicles

Year 6 - Geography: Mapping Skills Day

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

Year 3 Royal Airforce Museum

The children had a wonderful experience today 31-01-2024 at the Royal Airforce Museum learning about levers, pulleys and gears

Year 4: Transition day to Year 5!

Today, we spent a day with our new Year 5 teachers! We learnt a bit about them, told them about us and created our class charter! After that, we went to King’s Hall for our swimming lesson

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 5 and Year 6 - First Two Spanish Lessons

Busy first couple of Spanish lessons for children at Daubeney! Yr5 and Yr6 explored different memory techniques for retaining information, while learning new words, and explored the mile-long list of cognates that English and Spanish share. And you, could you work out the meaning on any of the...

Reception - Self Portraits

We have been learning about ourselves and what we look like. We used photos and mirrors to paint self-portraits. We discussed our features and how they might be different to our friends

Year 6 - Mapping Day 2024

Year 6 started off their geography learning this year with Mapping Day. They used compass points to create sentences about their playground, created different routes using a local map of the area and finally drew their own maps of Homerton. We had a lot of fun looking at all of the roads and places...

Year 3 - Mapping Day

The children in year 3 enjoyed their mapping day where they learnt all about co-ordinates, using a compass for directions, map symbols and they ended their sessions by drawing their own map of our local area

Year 6 - Art WOW Day 2024

We began this week’s lesson by recalling wood blocking techniques and how we would replicate that using polystyrene. We also looked back at our designs for our polystyrene printing pattern. For our WOW day we found out that we were going to do some of the techniques that we had learned about. First...

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

Year 5 - Trip to Bank of England Museum

Today we spent our morning at the museum! We learnt lots of money related facts and we even got to see some real money! This helped see our recent maths learning of place value and rounding in action!

Year 3 - Spanish: Los volcanes y las Islas Canarias

A few months ago, alongside CC lessons, we learnt about volcanoes - how they are formed, the different parts of a volcano and its different states. We investigated the beautiful landscape of the Canary Islands and pupils had the opportunity to consider the impact of living in La Palma following the...

Year 2 - Now Press Play in Science

Year 2 had lots of fun using the Now>Press>Play headsets last week to learn more about Mary Seacole. We were immersed into life in Jamaica, learning about healing soldiers using herbal remedies. We were taken through the journey of travelling to London to try and support with the help efforts...

Year 2 - RE: trip to Aziziye Mosque

This week we took part in our final RE day of the year. We went to visit Aziziye Mosque in Stoke Newington. We met the imam and he taught us all about the features of a mosque. He explained why there are lines on the carpet, why there is a dome in the middle of the mosque, how the prayer times are...

Spanish Champions at Tate Modern

A group of Spanish Champions had the chance to visit the Tate Modern this week, where they explored various works of art by Hispanic artists. Amongst these artists was Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born visual artist and sculptor. Her work took the form of a long crack in the floor in 2007, and today...

Year 6 - Trip to V&A Museum

To begin our Japanese textiles topic, we spent the day at the V&A Museum where we learnt about different artefacts that relate to Japanese textiles. We learnt about some heel-less shoes, dyes that are used and materials used for different items of clothing in Japan. Finally, we walked around...

Reception Duckling Class - Sharing

This week in maths, we have been learning about sharing! We have been talking about what equal means and how we can make sure things are 'fair' and the 'same'. We used gingerbread men to help us practice our sharing and we shared out counters

Year 3 - Brazil travel leaflet

The children were excited today to create a travel leaflet all about Brazil. In their CC lessons they have been learning all about Brazil and the rainforest

Reception - Week 5

This week in Reception, we have been taking part in 'Drawing Club' based on the animation 'Trapdoor'. We have been creating our own monsters through art and creativity. We have also been learning about patterns. We have been learning how to continue 2 and 3 way patterns, as well as creating our...

Year 2 trip to Temple Bar

Year 2 visited lots of places near Temple Bar to learn more about Sir Christopher Wren and how he helped to rebuild London after the Great Fire. We had lots of fun dressing up, visiting the Millenium Bridge, building towers, writing with feather quills and so much more!

Year 5 - Geography: Physical Landmarks of Tanzania

From lakes to mountains, Tanzania has a wide variety of physical landmarks. We learnt what these were and how they are different to Human or Man Made landmarks. We then created a leaflet about the different landmarks you can find in Tanzania

Creative Hub - Autumn Displays 2024

The children all through Daubeney have been getting very creative this half-term to show off what they have been learning. Displays in school are a great way for the children to show what they have been working on this half-term, in a fun and creative way. It is a great 'snapshot' of our...

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 3 - Horniman Museum

The children in Year 3 had. Wonderful time exploring the Amazonian galleries in the Horniman museum as part of their learning

Year 5 - Maths: Place Value

We have been learning about numbers up to 1 MILLION! In this lesson, we imagined that we were teaching Mr O’Flynn how to find a number on a number line

Year 5 - Literacy: Punctuation Posters

Do you know what the different punctuation marks mean? We spent the lesson recapping them and creating posters that will go up on our display board to help us with our learning

Year 5 - Literacy: Adverts

Today, we started our new topic on adverts. We started the lesson off by watching some ads and discussing the purpose of those adverts. We then learnt about the features of written ads so that we are equipped to make our own next week!

Year 5 - Geography: Jane Goodall

Do you know who Jane Goodall is? We learnt that she is a zoologist who dedicated her life to learning about chimpanzees in Tanzania. We learnt lots of things about her and we put our new-found knowledge into practice by creating a comic of the key events of her life!

Reception - Week 6

This week we have been so busy! We have been learning about measurement in Maths. We have been comparing objects to see which is taller, shorter and longer. We have also enjoyed Drawing Club this week, focused on the Colour Monster. We drew our own colour monster, traps and maps! Last but not...

Year 5 - Geography: Human Geography

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

Year 2 - Science in the Hop Garden

We have been learning about habitats all around the world recently, so we decided to take a look in our own garden to see what lives and grows there. We were able to identify a range of plants in our garden habitat, such as clover, ivy, lily pads, carrots and much more! We also saw some common...

Year 2 - Maths Partitioning

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

Year 2 - Mapping Skills Day

We had lots of fun learning about how to use maps today. We explored directions and practised giving a partner directions around the room. We then discussed bird's eye view maps and used one of our school to navigate our way around the school grounds. We finished by creating a map of the UK,...

Year 2 - Jigsaw Week 3

In week 3 we explored our rights and responsibilities as children. We discussed our right to learn, our right to play and our right to be safe. We also discussed responsibilities we may have in the classroom or at home, such as tidying up and being in control of our own behaviour. We thought about...

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 - Continents and Oceans

We learnt all about the 7 continents and 5 oceans recently. We used an atlas to help us locate places and identify countries in each continent as well as the oceans that are nearby

Junior Literacy Team Trip to the Roald Dahl Museum

The Junior Literacy Team had the amazing opportunity to visit the Roald Dahl Museum. We enjoyed looking in the galleries, learning about Roald Dahl's life and doing fun activities. We also explored the village where Roald Dahl lived and saw places that inspired some of his stories

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...

Falcon Class at Into Uni!

Falcon class had a brilliant week with the staff of into university! Our toooc of the week was liberal arts. We learned so much about different universities, university courses, and about people who studied liberal arts. We also went to the Wallace Collection in central London and learned about the...

Year 6 – DT: Make

Today we recapped what we learned and did last week. We looked at our designs and discussed some of the decisions we made. We then had a serious discussion about using tools such as junior hacksaws and hot glue guns safely. Then we looked at all the different techniques we can use to create a...

Year 6 – RE Day: Judaism

As part of RE Day in Autumn, we learnt about Judaism. We spent time researching Jewish artefacts as well as learning about the rules that Jewish people follow. We ended the day by designing and colouring in our own Hamsa Hand because this is a symbol is significant in Judaism

Year 6 – RE Day: Islam

During this RE Day, we spent a lesson researching each of the 5 pillars of Islam then presented our research. We then focused in on the Hajj pillar – a pilgrimage Muslims go on to Mecca. We learnt about why Muslims do this and some children who have experiences of it, or hope to do this in...

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 – 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 – 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 – DT: Research

To begin our new topic, we discussed what we already know about shelters. We then learned how to define a shelter and different types of shelters. We also discussed and defined functionality. In our groups, we decided on the type of shelter we wanted to make and researched it. We researched the...

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...

Toucan class are learning about light in Science

How many light sources can you identify? Is the moon a light source? What about ice cream?

Week 1 in Parakeet Class

We have had lots of fun in our first week back at school! We have done lots of activities to get to know each other and have settled into our new classroom, ready to learn lots of new exciting things!

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

Duckling Class - Ordinal Numbers

This week, we have been learning about ordinal numbers in maths. We have been reading about Chinese New Year so we have been talking about racing. We had our own running races with each other, and had to use ordinal numbers to help us present our winning rosettes. We had so much fun!

Duckling Class - Chinese New Year

This week, we have been learning about and celebrating Chinese New Year. We have been talking about 'The Great Race' and all the animals involved. We have learnt that this year is 'The Year of the Dragon'. We have been designing and creating our own dragons and fans to celebrate...

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 3 - Mapping Skills Day

The children in year 3 had a wonderful Mapping Skills Day learning all about maps. They studied ordinance survey maps, identified co ordinates, symbols on a map, compass points and drew their own maps

Year 6 Hawk Class - Into University Experience

Monday During Our Into University Experience, On Monday, we did the carousel activity learning bout psychology, philosophy, classics and social sciences. Tuesday On Tuesday we did self portraits or our fellow peers. . In the afternoon, we carried out research, created fact files and biography and...

Computing fun in Toucan class!

We learned about spreadsheets and had a go at creating our own using Purplemash

Duckling Class - Handas Surprise

This week, we have been reading 'Handa's Surprise'. We have been talking about the animals and the fruit in the story. We created our own animal scene and we wrote postcards about what animals we saw. We also learnt how to weave and created our own fruit baskets

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....

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...

Nurture Group - Pizza Pizza Pizza

In Maths we have been learning about quarters and halves so we decided to make a pizza and practice cutting in halves and quarters

Duckling Class - Tangrams and 2D shapes

We have enjoyed learning about Tangrams, 2D shapes and using 2D shapes to create pictures. We looked at the properties of 2D shapes and looked at different ways we could use them to create different pictures

Year 3 - Outdoor Maths

Today the children in Year 3 enjoyed their outdoor learning in the Adventure playground where they looked at time

Year 3 - Outdoor Learning

Today the children had their comprehension session outdoors in Daubeney fields and enjoyed learning in a different space

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...

Year 4 – Spanish: Costa Rica

This half term, students in Year 4 build on previous learning of the use of ‘me gusta’, develop an understanding of the sound - spelling relationship in Spanish, and aim to understand a story based in Costa Rica. They have recently explored a range of sources – including atlas, fact files, and...

Year 3 - Magnetic Hunt

The children in Kingfisher class had a fun Science Lesson today 2-05-2024 searching for buried treasure using magnets. As part of our Science lesson we are learning about forces and magnets and the children had to identify which objects are magnetic and which are not

Year 2 Cross Curricular - Australia week 2

For this weeks lesson we focused on learning about ways in which Australia and Great Britain are similar and ways in which they are different. We explored how both countries are islands, the main language is English and that they have the same head of state. We also identified that they are in...

Year 2 - History: GFoL Week 2

This half term we are learning all about the Great Fire of London in our History lessons. This week we discussed how and where the fire started, on Pudding Lane in 1666. We explored a range of reasons for why the fire lasted for five days, including having a very hot, dry summer, the houses being...

Year 5 - Math: To plot data on a graph

...activity time, as you can see....

Duckling Class - Planting sunflower seeds

This week in Duckling Class, we have been learning about how plants grow. We have been talking about what plants need to grow and the life cycle of a plant. We used this knowledge to plant our own sunflower seeds. We are hoping with the right amount of water, sunlight, food and space they will grow...

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 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 2 - RE Day 2024

For this half term's RE day we learnt all about Easter and what it means to Christians. We spoke about what Christians believe happened many years ago, and traditions they take part in to celebrate

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 3 - Mapping Day

The children in Year 3 - Kingfisher and Toucan - enjoyed their Mapping Skills Day today (11-09-2023). The children started their learning by looking at grid references and identifying co-ordinates on a map. Then we discussed how to use a compass and how the compass points can help us. We used the...

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 3 Maths

Today, 7-09-2023 the children in Year 3 Toucan and Kingfisher class enjoyed their introduction to this terms maths objective. They played a game which helped them with learning Place Value and identifying which digit changed when adding and subtracting. We hope the pupils enjoyed playing their...

Year 3 - Computing - Coding

Year 3 have started learning about coding this term in Computing. They have now learnt what an algorithm is and how to make virtual objects move using the coding symbols and instructions. They are super excited about computing lessons and always look forward to it each week!

Music - Summer Term 2022

It was a great year of skateboards, ukuleles, djembes, recorders with lots more in between. We enjoyed and celebrated our interschool concert with guest bands from Ickburgh, a local special needs school and also a band from Rushmore. Alongside this we often had our outdoor jam on a Friday lunchtime...

Year 5 - Art WOW Day

WOW! What a day! We wrapped up our Summer 2 half term with a WOW Day dedicated to art inspired by Antony Gormley. More specifically, we created our own art pieces inspired by "Field for the British Isles" which we called "Field for the Year 5 Isles". We even had a Year 5...

Year 5 - First Week

How was your summer? We spent the first day of Year 5 learning our new routines, finding our new seats and starting some new learning. We can't wait to experience more new things in Year 5

Year 2 - 2L Mapping Skills Day

For mapping skills day, we had lots of fun learning about directions and following maps. We explored maps that used a bird's eye view and practiced drawing our classroom using a key. We also painted the United Kingdom and spoke about each of the countries and their capital cities

Year 5 - Numbers to 1000000

Today in maths, we reviewed our understanding of place value and learnt about numbers up to 1000000. We practiced by reading place value charts and making our own representations

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...

Year 5 - Mapping Skills Day

To start our new geography topic, we refreshed our memories and learnt some new things about maps and how to use them. To end the day, we created our own maps of the playground and we made sure we had a clear and easy to read key as well!

Year 4 - Reading: Non-Fiction Text About Earthquakes

...me interesting facts. Home Learning task: in the comments section let me know what interesting fact you Learnt about earthquakes....

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

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 4 - Roman Numeral Clock

Today, 29-09-2022, the children in Year 4 had a fun Maths lesson where they made their own Roman numeral clocks. They have been learning about Roman Numerals this week and used their Design and Technology skills to create a Roman Numeral clock

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 5 - Literacy Outdoor Learning

Year 5 were set the task of building dens suitable for the Himalayas. Ashley who sets off on a long arduous journey across the Himalayas would have had a similar experience when trying to find shelter in the evenings. The children had to work as a team and think about the properties of the...

Year 4 Timetables Club - 5th October 2022

The children in Year 4 enjoyed their first Timetables club today, 5-10-2022, where they practiced their times tables and their fluency. Every week they will be practicing and each week will assess their learning using the assessment tool on their Purplemash program

Year 5 - Maths Outdoor Learning

Year 5 improved their mental addition and subtraction in maths by using a range of strategies to answer one step problems. This included compensation, adjustment and finding connections between numbers

Year 5 - 5C Reading Outside

Is there a better way to end the week than sitting outside, enjoying the sun and learning through reading? We spent our reading lesson in the Hop Garden today!

Year 5 - WOW Day: Tanzania

In Year 5 we have been learning all about Tanzania! We celebrated by making posters about the Massai Tribe who live in Tanzania and then we made bracelets inspired by their culture

Year 2 - National Outdoor Learning Day

...s as part of National Outdoor Learning Day. It was raining a little and a bit cold, but the children enjoyed it....

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 1

This week we learned how to use the search bar on Purple Mash to find resources on the site. We spoke about it being a safe search bar, and how search bars on the wider internet might not be safe. We used the filter option to make sure we found relevant resources. We completed an emotions activity...

Year 5 - Factors and Multiples

Year 5's learnt about factors and multiples through fun activities which took place in the playground. They used dices to generate random numbers which were then investigated for factor pairs

World Mental Health Day 2022

It was World Mental Health Day on Monday 10th October. To celebrate mental health at Daubeney parents were invited to a “Child Anxiety” parent workshop. Children in KS1 and KS1 attended assembly around Mental health day. The children learnt about how children are supported with their...

KS1 Sewing Club

KS1 Sewing club have worked very hard during Autumn 1 with Miss Joan. They have had fun learning to sew and exploring the different patterns they can create to make their own personalised bookmark

Year 2 RE Day - Autumn 1 2022

For Autumn 1 RE day, Year 2 learnt about Hinduism and explored what is important to Hindus. We learnt about Ganesh and Krishna, and thought about our own role models in our lives

Year 6 WOW Day - The UK!

Today we completed our learning for our Autumn 1 topic - the UK! We sketched our favourite landmarks in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We then created sculptures of our favourite landmarks. Which landmarks have you visited in the UK? Do you have a favourite landmark? Why?

Year 6 - Land use in the UK

Year 6 have been learning about the different ways land is used in the UK! Today they have made posters about the different countries in the UK and compared their different forms of land use. Did you know that most of the land in the UK is used for farming?

Year 5 - RE Day: Buddhism

Today, 13-10-2022, the children in Year 5 had fun and exciting lessons, learning all about the Buddhist faith. They discussed the main beliefs, the importance of The Four Noble Truths, looked at the Eightfold Path and teachings of Buddha

The Secret Life of Reception - Autumn 1 2022

The children of Reception have been given their own camera to capture those moments that we miss... the Secret Life of Reception! Each term, we will upload the next in the series of 'The Secret Life of Reception' and see what fabulous learning has been going on. They have been taking...

Year 4 - RE Day: Judaism

Today, 13-10-2022, the children in Year 4 has fun and exciting lessons, learning all about the Jewish faith. They discussed the main beliefs, the importance of a synagogue, looked at different Jewish festivals and coloured in their own stained glass image

Year 4 - Science and ICT: Classifying Living Things

Today, 12-10-2022, the children in Year 4 used their Chromebook and explored classifying living things. They completed a range of fun activities on Purplemash learning all about classifying animals

Year 1 - 1A Geography WOW Day

For geography WOW day we have been creating landmarks in London out of junk box modelling. We've enjoyed painting, sticking, cutting and drawing. We've also learnt that London is a very busy city with wonderful things to see including the Big Ben, London Bridge, Buckingham palace, London...

Year 4 - ICT and Geography

Today, 11-10-2022, the children in 4L had their computing session where they used their ICT skills to learn more about our Geography topic, 'Earthquakes'. They researched information and completed activities on PurpleMash all about Earthquakes

Year 2 - 2KF RE Day

Yesterday we had a really fun RE Day learning about four religions. We learnt that all religions have teachings about forgiveness. Later, we discussed how it feels to ask for forgivness. We looked closely at a picture that shows forgivess and talked about how the bird flying away means to be free...

Year 4 - Transition Day in 5C

This week was super exciting. To get us ready for September, we spent the day with our new teacher, Miss Cheung and did lots of fun activities like learning about Miss Cheung and talking about ourselves, creating class charter, writing a letter to our old teacher and play team games

Year 4 - ICT and Science - The Human Digestive System

Today, 9-11-2022, the children in Year 4 used their Chromebooks to further research the human digestive system, learning key facts and information. They also completed an activity, labelling the digestive system and a quiz

Year 5 - 5C at IntoUniversity

Do you know what university is about? We have been learning about what life will be like at university by experiencing university course would be like. We learnt about space and created different space homes based on the atmosphere of different planets

Year 5 - Computing: Spreadsheets

We have started a new computing topic and it is Spreadsheets! We are learning about formulas and how to make our lives easier when we are adding and subtracting by using a spreadsheet. This week, we learnt how to make a spreadsheet that converts metres to centimetres and centimetres to metres!

Year 5 - Greta and the Giants Roleplay

We are learning about the book Greta and the Giants for the first two weeks of this half term. To help us understand the story more, we acted out the story and even made props inspired by Greta and her friends. We will be writing a blog based on the book

Year 6 - 6M ICT and Science

This week in Science 6M will be learning all about circuits. They used their Purplemash accounts today, 1-3-2022, to learn and discuss more about creating open and closed electrical circuits. The children used their program, which allowed them to draw, create and understand how to complete an...

Year 5 - Computing: Spreadsheet Counters

This week in computing we continued our topic on Spreadsheets and learnt how to add a counter. We used this to answer the question "Is 'e' the most popular vowel?" Look at how we did!

Year 5 - RE Day: Sikhism

Year 5 studied the Sikh religion. As well as learning all about the festivals and traditions they also designed posters and wrote about everything they learnt

Year 5 - Computing: Spreadsheet Area and Perimeter

This week, we learnt about how we can use formulae to calculate things for us easily, like area and perimeter. By copying and pasting a forumlae, we could find the area and perimeter of a shape by simply typing in the length and width of the shape

Year 5 - Science: Heliocentric Models

Year 5 are beginning to learn about the Earth and Space! Today we were learning about the different theories scientists had about space and what was at the centre of it. We learned that a long time ago, people thought that the planets orbited Earth. But now we know that the planets orbit the sun!...

Year 5 - King Henry VIII

What do you know about King Henry VIII? Today we learned all his life and his impact on British history! "I liked learning about King Henry VIII because there was so many things that I didn’t know about him - such as him having 6 wives!" - Di’Sean

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 5 - 5C at IntoUniversity

What do you know about university? We learnt a lot of things about university yesterday when we went to IntoUniversity! We discussed areas of university like clubs and societies, accommodation and location of universities! We are so inspired about universities now!

Year 5 - Maths: Rounding Decimals

Do you find decimals difficult? We've learnt a super easy way to make sure we can always round decimals to the nearest tenths and whole number. We'll be putting our learning into action in tomorrow's lesson!

Year 5 - Science: Air Resistance

This week in science, we have been learning about air resistance and friction. To test this out, we made our own parachutes using tissue paper and string and tied different weighted objects to it to see how that affects the speed of falling

Year 1 - Maths: Multiplication

Year 1 have been learning about making equal groups in Maths and have been introduced to the times symbol 'x'. They thought carefully about how many groups they had and also how many items were in each group. They wrote fabulous number sentences to show their learning!

Year 5 - 5MC at IntoUniversity

On Monday we went to IntoUniversity!! We recapped our knowledge of university and participated in many activities that showed us what university life could be like! Then we recapped what we learned about Space and created different space homes based on the atmosphere of different planets. "I liked...

Year 5 - Science: Water Resistance

This week, we have been learning about water resistance. We learnt that water resistance is similar to air resistance but we can lessen water resistance by being streamlined. To test this out we made our own boats and tested them out in a paddling pool

Year 5 - Science: Reproduction Revision

To remind ourselves of all our amazing learning this year, we spent some time revising words like sexual and asexual reproduction. Now that we are just looking back at our work, we found that we had a lot more questions to ask and some of us have even noticed plants in our home growing sexually or...

Year 2 - Sculpting with Clay

As part of our learning in Art, 2KF have been learning about an artist called Yayoi Kasuma. We had an fantastic lesson making amazing sculptures out of clay. There were many types of techniques we had to learn e.g. pulling, rolling, smoothing and adding detail. Have a look at some of our...

Year 5 - Literacy: Presentations

We have been researching lots about the artist we are focusing on during this half term's art topic, Antony Gormley. So we spent the morning creating posters using everything that we have learnt and presented them to the class afterwards

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

Nurture Group - Shopping Trip

This week in maths we have been learning about money. We wrote out our shopping list and headed off to the shops. Today we are making fruit kebabs and chocolate Rice Krispies. We bought the ingredients and looked at how much each item will cost and what coins we will need. Finally, we worked out...

Year 5 - Yoga - Week 3

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

Year 5 - Maths: Reflection

To end our topic of position and direction, we learnt about reflection. Some of us got confused when reflecting whole shapes but it became much easier when we just reflected each point of a polygon. Next lesson, we’ll be thinking about reflection with coordinates

Year 4 Swimming at the Aquatics Centre

For the past two weeks, Year 4 have been attending the famous Aquatics Centre in Stratford. They were learning how to swim with professional swimming instructors. By the end of the two weeks, everyone passed their swimming test!

Year 2 - Computing: Searching the Internet

This week 2KF have been learning about searching the internet. They had lots of fun trying to find answers about dinosaurs using a search engine called Google. When they finished, they tested their knowledge of dinosaurs by completing a quiz on Purple Mash

Year 5 - Design Research

Year 5 are learning about windmills and wind turbines so they had the opportunity to use their ICT skills to research how they work. They had to look up how generators work, how transformers work and how windmills and wind turbines are similar and different

Year 6 - 6M Yoga

This morning, 22-6-2022, the children in 6M had a wonderful session with our professional Yoga instructor. The children felt the calm and peaceful setting, of the hop garden, to be an amazing space to do Yoga. They really enjoyed the different Yoga techniques they did and felt relaxed and ready for...

Year 5 - Antony Gormley Treasure Hunt

Today we learned about Antony Gormley and his famous sculptures by hunting for information! What facts do you know about Antony Gormley?

Nurture Group - Our Trip to the Post Office

In Literacy we have been learning how to write a letter. We wrote our own letter together and went to the post office to post it. We spoke to the post man and asked him some questions

Year 5 - Maths: Coordinates

Today, we started off our topic of position and direction by recapping our previous learning of describing position and drawing on a grid

Reception - Ducklings Week 1

This week we were lucky enough to have 5 duck eggs arrive! We waited patiently for the eggs to hatch and over the first few hours, they all hatched! We have watched them eat, drink and cuddle with each other. Both classes have enjoyed watching them, stroking them and watching them grow! Alongside...

Year 5 - Literacy: Roleplay

Do you know what the most important things to consider when you are doing roleplay? We discussed them today in Year 5 and then used our new skills to roleplay the book "Ish" by Peter H. Reynolds, a lovely book about a child who learns to love their unique style of creating art

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 2 Art Wow Day

For our end of topic wow day this half term, we spent the day creating mini masterpieces for our art exhibition! We displayed a range of skills that we had learnt such as mixing primary colours to make secondary colours, creating tones of colours by adding black or white, and creating an image to...

Year 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 - 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 6 - Spring Term 2 – Spanish

This half term Year 6 students at Daubeney have learnt to talk about holidays – they have learnt how to use the immediate future ‘voy a + infinitive verb’ to talk about when and where they are going to go, how they are going to get there and who they are going to go with. Great...

Reception - Spring Term

Now look through the eyes of the teachers.... This term we have been learning about Space, Africa, Easter and many other topics! We have also been helping Gavin to plant Tulips in our playground! We have read stories such as 'Monkey Puzzle', 'Handas Surprise' along with non-fiction...

The Secret Life of Reception - Spring

Have a look at Reception through the eyes of Reception! Reception have really enjoyed Spring Term! We have been learning about measuring, patterns, adding and shapes. We have also been baking, having Valentine parties and so many other things!

Year 2 - Spanish - Spring Term 2

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

Year 5 - Spanish - Spring Term 2

Students in Year 5 have really enjoyed the story of ‘ Raúl, la rata que viaja en el tiempo’ . Students have learnt some hobbies and free time activities through the story in which we could also read about how people lived in England during the Tudor period. Students have further developed the use...

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 5 - Geography WOW Day: Turkey

To end our topic of learning about Turkey, we created some art inspired by Turkish ceramics and appreciated Turkish food with a celebration at the end of the day. We learnt that blue is a prominent colour in Turkish culture and we evaluated the food that we ate and thought about what we liked about...

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 ,...

Year 5 - Literacy: Biography research (Computing)

For our literacy topic, we are learning to write biographies. As we are reading Floella Benjamin's Coming to England, we decided to write about her. We did research using a range of sources, such as fact files and the internet

Year 5 - Maths: Angles in real life

aving focused on angles for the last few weeks, we thought it was time to take our learning into the outside! We took our protractors with us to investigate different types of angles that we could see in the playground

Science and JIGSAW

In Science we have been learning about taking care of the environment and trying to recycle items that we already have at home. We brought in empty jars to recycle them into dream jars! We had lots of fun adding the coloured paints and glitter, and watching the magic happen!

Year 5 - Literacy: Instructional text

For their short burst genre, Year 5 were introduced to instructional texts. First, they learnt about different features which was then followed up by a practical task (Origami-style ships)

Year 3 - Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) – Volcanoes

This half term students in Year 3 have covered volcanoes as part of their Geography curriculum. In our Spanish lessons students have really enjoyed learning about the Canary Islands and its volcanoes. CLIL provides the opportunity to diversify methods of classroom teaching and learning. Students...

Year 2 – Art lesson - Pablo Picasso

Something different this week for Year 2 students who have had the opportunity to learn about Pablo Picasso’s life and art style. Students have designed their own abstract portraits inspired by the work of the Spanish artist. Very creative and interesting pieces of work!

2L RE day trip

Last week 2L went on a trip to East London Mosque to learn more about the religion of Islam. We visited various parts of the mosque, learning about the environment and layout, and we also learnt about some actions that would be seen when Muslims are praying. We discussed why there are separate...

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 5 - Computing: Blog Publishing

In computing last week, we spent time publishing our writing. But because we wrote a few blog posts, we decided to type them up as if they were on a blog. We learnt about how to include photos by copy and pasting, change the colour and font of the text as well as what layout would look best for a...

Year 4M IntoUniversity

The children in Year 4M enjoyed their activities with the IntoUniversity team learning all about different careers. They explored careers like product designing, engineering and palaeontology. The children identified the skills they were using in different careers and completed some fun activities

Hispanic Week

We have thoroughly enjoyed learning about different Hispanic cultures and traditions this week. Students in Yr2 designed their own Mexican sombrero , listened and danced to some Mexican folk music; and students in Year3 had the opportunity to learn about Peru’s history. Maybe one day we can all...

Year 4 Outdoor Art

The children in Year 4 had a wonderful art lesson outside today. They used our outdoor area to inspire them to use black and white tones. The children enjoyed learning outdoors and are looking forward to more outdoor lessons

Year 5: Maths - Decimal sequence

Outdoor learning? Year 5 truly love learning outdoors ! The learning outcome for maths: was to understand decimal sequences. This was achieved through fun and exciting ways; some children jumped to identify patterns and others played Hopscotch. Overall, the cohort had an amazing time at Daubeney...

Year 4 – Spanish - Summer Term 1

Year 4 in action! Students in Year 4 have worked incredibly hard this very short half term, and enjoyed learning about Costa Rica’s fruits and animals. We will continue reading Tico Tango’s story after a well-deserved break

Year 5 - Art: 1960's Inspired Collages

Year 5 learnt about 1960's fashion, music and art. They were given an array of different pictures resembling the 1960's; Year 5 had to select images, cut and then piece together their very own collages which turned out brilliant

Year 4 - Outdoor learning

Spending time outside is proven to have a positive effect on children’s physical and mental health. At Daubeney we are making the most of this sunny day and have taken our Spanish lesson outside. Great opportunity for them to take ownership of their learning and enhance teamwork skills

Math - Adding decimals with different decimal places

Year 5 learnt about adding decimals with different decimal places. A strategy we consolidated was column method which was utilised to solve an array of mathematical problems. They completed their tasks outside whilst enjoying the lovely weather

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

Student Council go to London Buddhist Centre

The Student Council have been working relentlessly this year and as a bit of a special treat and a way to learn more about different cultures, they were invited to go to the London Buddhist Centre with the Year 6s. They learnt about the Buddhist way of life and enjoyed a fantastic morning of calm...

Year 2 Maths - Addition across 10

This week we have been learning about adding across a multiple of 10. We have been using our number bonds to help us and thinking carefully about the steps we need to take. Ask us how we would work out number sentences such as 35+8!

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 5 - Science: Day and Night

Do you know why we have day and night? We learnt about that today and we showed our learning through discussions and written work!

Reception - Yellow Class - The Extraordinary Gardener

This week we started our reading groups! We really enjoyed our first reading sessions. We have also been reading 'The Extraordinary Gardener' and have been making different types of flowers. We have been practicing our phonics with different games, learning Spanish and building different...

The Secret Life of Reception - Autumn 2 2022

Take a look at what we have been learning about this half-term through the eyes of many 4 / 5 year olds! Reception have really enjoyed taking their own photos of their time in Reception at Daubeney! This half-term, we have had so much fun! We have been learning about numbers 1 - 5, shapes, patterns...

Reception - Chinese New Year and Ordinal Numbers

This week, we have been learning about Chinese New Year. We have been reading a story called 'The Great Race' which explained about the chinese zodiac. We made fans, red envelopes, dragon masks, lanterns and used chopsticks for our wooly noodles. We also used the Great Race story in...

Year 5 - Spanish - Mi ciudad

This half term our students in Year 5 are learning to describe cities using a range of adjectives and naming their different buildings. These are some pictures of 5C students. Games are always a great way to get students talking in Spanish!

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 6 WOW Day - WW2

To complete our cross curricular topic - WW2 - we researched and created different bomb shelters used to protect people. We learned about Morrison shelters, Anderson shelters and Underground shelters! Then we created miniature versions of them! Have a look below! What do you know about WW2 bomb...

Year 5 - WOW Day: Ancient Greece

We created vases inspired by ancient Greeks using recyclable items. First, we created the base and structure of the vase which was then followed by decorating the vase. This was a great way to end our topic on Ancient Greece where we learnt about how and where they had an influence on modern society

Year 2 - Spanish Christmas Cards

This term in Year 2 we have learnt numbers, colours and shapes through Cubism and Pablo Picasso's art. Today we have decorated our own Christmas cards inspired by his work

Year 5 - RE Day - Islam in the Middle Ages

Year 5 spent the day learning about Islam in the middle ages. They focused on the foundations of the religion such as the 5 pillars. Furthermore, they learnt about innovators of this era and the crusades

Year 5 - Science: Soluble or Insoluble?

Do you know what soluble and insoluble means? We learnt about what they are today. We used our new learning to carry out a fair test to see what substances are soluble and what substances are insoluble. We used salt, sugar, flour, hot chocolate powder and black pepper. Which ones do you think are...

Year 4 - Controlled Experiment

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

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 4

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

Year 4 - Trip to the British Museum

4L had an amazing time at the British Museum on Thursday 24th November. We saw some amazing Ancient Egyptian atrefacts including mummies! We learnt some fascinating facts about heiroglyphics which links to our history topic. It was like going back in time!

Reception - People Who Help Us

This week we have been learning about the people who help us in our community. We have been looking at police officers, fire fighters, carers, recycling collectors, teachers and others. We are looking forward for the police and the fire fighters to come in next week!

Year 3 - Stone Age Blogging

This term Year 3 are learning all about the Stone Age, Iron Age and Bronze Age. In computing this week, Year 3 were learning about blogging so the children got the opportunity to produce a blog about what they have learnt in History so far. Children got to post their blogs and read and comment on...

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 2

This week we continued our internet safety topic and learnt about using emails as a way to communicate with other people. We learnt how to reply to a message and send an attachment too!

Year 5 - Hackney School of Food

This week, we went to Hackney School of Food where we learnt about knife skills, kitchen safety and how to create a healthy and balanced meal. We did everything ourselves! We cut our own vegetables, prepared a sauce by grinding up ingredients in a mortar and pestle and even made our own meatballs...

Year 2 - IT in Cross Curricular: Designing our own Vehicles

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

Spanish Champions Help at Parents' Evening

Spanish Champions working! Earlier on this week, at parents' evening, some members of the team helped parents with their Spanish language, as well as informed them about how we learn at Daubeney. HUGE gracias!

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 2 - Spring 2 Week 2 Computing

This week we started a new topic, learning about effective searching. We explored the difference between the internet and the world wide web, thought about different browsers that you can use and identified search engines to help us find information we need. We used this knowledge to search for...

Year 5 - Science: Geocentric vs. Heliocentric

Do you know what geocentric or heliocentric means? Today, we investigated the different theories of our solar system and we learnt that different people in the past had different opinions on what space looked like! Have a listen to some of our questions to different significant people in history

Year 5 - Science: Planets

Do you know an easy way to remember the order of the planets? Do you know what spherical bodies are? These are things we learnt about today in Science!

Year 5 - Geography: Mapping Skills Day

What are the 8 points of a compass? What are thematic maps? What about a topographical map? On this Mapping Skills Day, we learnt that maps can tell us a lot of information, including how much rainfall a place may get. We ended the day by making our own maps out of salt dough

Family Phonics Workshop - 9th February 2023

Today we had a great time learning phonics outdoors! We went through all of phase 2 and 3 sounds. We had to read words outside on the ground and find the matching picture. Parents had a wonderful time doing this with their child. Take a look to see what fun we had

Year 5 - WOW Day: Pulleys, Levers and Gears

What are mechanisms? Why do we use pulleys? Where can you find a real life example of gears? These are all questions we considered today when ending our DT topic with our fantastic WOW Day! After writing our reflections on what we learnt. we worked in small groups to make wells that included a...

Year 2 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023

At Daubeney, students in Year 2 learn through songs, games, storytelling and role play. This half term, students have really enjoyed learning the story ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?’ in Spanish. Students can now name a range of animals and describe them using colours, as well as use...

Year 2 - Coding Week 4

This week we continued our coding topic and learnt about using a timer to run a block of commands after a delay. We had fun making a magician's rabbit disappear and then reappear!

Reception - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023

Reception students love singing the numbers up to ten with Rosita! This term students have used this great number knowledge to count libros (books), pinturas (colouring pencils), gomas (rubbers), lápices (pencils), tijeras (scissors), sacapuntas (pencil sharpeners) once they learnt those new words

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 6 - 6MC - IntoUni Week

We have spent a week with IntoUni! We learned about inspirational people such as Malala Yousafzai and Martin Luther King Junior. We also visited the Wallace Collection in Central London and Cambridge University! "It was one of the best into uni sessions we had and we had lots of fun with the...

Year 3 - Spanish - Mi color favorito

Students in 3P have enjoyed revisiting colours and learning how to ask an answer questions about their favourite colour in today's lesson

Year 4 - ICT: Spreadsheets

The children in 4M enjoyed their ICT session today learning all about spreadsheets. They were able to use a spreadsheet and make a pattern that they have programmed to count in various multiples. Next week, we will be looking at creating more patterns and sequences using spreadsheets

Year 5 - Maths: Fractions of Quantity

This week in Year 5 has been full of fractions. We've spent time multiply unit and non unit fractions with integers, multiplying mixed numbers with integers and finding the fractions of a quantity. Here is us recapping some work and learning some new things!

Year 5 - Geography: WOW Day

Do you know how you would prepare to climb Mount Kilimanjaro? We finished our Mountains topic by celebrating our learning. First, we answered the overarching question, then we made a to do list for people planning to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Finally, we designed and created our own backpacks and...

Year 2 - Features of reports

We have been learning all about non-chronological reports lately in Literacy. We looked at an example and were able to identify key features, such as headings, subject specific language, third person and fact boxes

Year 2 Maths - Subtract across 10

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

Rainbow Class - Learning Showcase

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

Year 5 - DT: Understanding mechanisms

We learnt more about mechanical systems and how the process of input and output makes things move. We tested our knowledge of levers, pulleys and gears so far and then made moving puppets

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 4 - Measurement

The children continued their learning in our Measurement topic and measured a variety of object in the class. They first estimated the measurements then measured in cm and converted to mm

Rainbow Room - Science Display Board (Materials)

WOW! Look at our fantastic display board, showcasing our pupils’ learning about materials as part of their science focus

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 Class - Shaped Rockets

🚀Zoom Zoom Rockets! 🚀 This week, our pupils were fully engaged in exploring rockets — wow! It has been an exciting journey of discovery, imagination, and hands‑on learning. In our school library, children enjoyed looking through books about spaceships and rockets. They focused on the...

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

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!

Year 4 - Spanish: Times Tables

Year 4 have been strengthening their times tables by practising multiplication in Spanish! Through quick-fire games, and chants, pupils are building confidence in both their Spanish vocabulary and their maths fluency. A fun and lively way to reinforce learning across subjects!

Reception - Spanish: Numbers 1-10

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

Rainbow Class: Writing and Phonics

Our Rainbow Class pupils have been very busy and dedicated as they practised their handwriting. They worked on writing simple CVC words in their learning books and explored mark‑making through dot‑to‑dot activities to develop fine motor skills and correct pencil grip for accurate letter formation....

School Council Meeting - January 2026

The School Council recently met with Mr. Warren to share updates on their committees’ work since being elected and to outline their plans for the future. During the meeting, the Council had the opportunity to learn more about Mr. Warren’s experiences growing up, his journey to becoming...

Year 1 Peacocks - Our Body

In Science, we have been learning all about our body. We have been labelling our body parts - inside and out. This includes all of our bones!

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

Rainbow Class - Science & DT Learning

This week, our pupils became investigators as they explored different materials and their properties. They practised writing simple sentences about a variety of materials and matched these sentences to the correct picture descriptions. This helped them develop early writing skills, including...

Rainbow Class - Spring 1 Term 2026

WOW! We have been so busy during Spring 1 Term with lots of fantastic learning and our work is now presented on the display boards

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...

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...

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,...

Year 5 - Mapping Day 2026

Today was Mapping Day, and our learning focused on developing our knowledge of maps and how to use them confidently. We explored different types of maps, including thematic maps of Turkey, which link directly to our current geography topic. The children examined themes such as population, climate,...

Year 4 Hornbills at The Urswick Secondary school

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

Rainbow Room - Monkey Puzzle Story

Children enjoyed listening to the story “Puzzle Monkey” and learning about the different jungle animals and their habitats. With adult support, they matched each animal to its name and recognised the story characters, using sounds like e for elephant and m for monkey. The activity was...

Year 4 Hornbill - Geography

The children in Hornbills had an exciting lesson using their ICT skills to locate and retrieve facts about the River Thames. They used the information to complete their learning

Year 4 Hornbills - Wow Day - Spring 2026

The children had an amazing day making their own board games. Their first lesson they used their science learning to add lights to their designs then completed their board games. After, they played their games and evaluated them against a specific criteria

Rainbow Room - Teddy Bear Maths

1, 2, 3 — let’s count! Our pupils enjoyed a maths learning experience where they explored numbers through hands-on activities. Using concrete objects such as teddy bears, the pupils developed their counting skills and deepened their understanding of number representation. They practised adding...

Year 4 Hornbills - Religious Education Day

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

Little Linguists to BFI

The Little Linguists Team had a fantastic time attending the BFI’s ¡Hola Niños! Spanish learning event. A wonderfully inspiring day filled with language, culture, and cinema

Year 2 - Tagalog taster session

Our Year 2 pupils enjoyed an exciting Tagalog taster session last week! They learned greetings in Tagalog and explored a little about Filipino culture. A wonderful way to celebrate languages and broaden global awareness!

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

Year 3 - DT

Year 3 demonstrated creativity and engineering skills as they constructed their own catapults using lolly sticks. They used their Design and Technology learning on linkages and levers to explain how the mechanical element created movement. A fun combination of problem‑solving, teamwork, and...

Year 5 - Why was Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the Qur'an important to Muslims?

On RE Day, we learned about why Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the Qur’an are important to Muslims. We looked at who the Prophet was, some key facts about his life, and why he is a special role model. We also learned about how the Qur’an was revealed and why Muslims use it to guide their...

Arsenal Social Community Project Year 6

This term, Year 6 have been learning how Arsenal Football Club is helping to protect the environment. We explored how football clubs can be more sustainable by reducing waste, saving energy, and encouraging fans to care for the planet. Well done to Romilly in Toucans for winning the raffle and...

Nursery - Sense of Sight

We have been learning about the sense of sight. We made our very own binoculars

Year 4 - Hornbill: Science

The children in Hornbill were super excited when they made their own string telephones. They learnt all about sound and how sound travels. They discussed the science behind how we hear and decided to make their own string telephones

Nursery - Learning new skills

We are learning about our classroom and all the skills we can practice. We enjoyed counting. We liked talking about our family

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 - Collabarative Learning

The year 4 classes Nightingales and Hornbills enjoyed a research session together exploring Japan as part of their topic with Mr Finkle ( student teacher) who showed the children a slideshow of his trip to Japan. The children were able to use facts and information for their travel leaflet which...

Year 1 Peacocks - Evergreen or Deciduous?

In Science, we have been learning about plants and trees. We have been thinking about what they need to grow and how we can look after them.We have also been talking about different types of trees and their features

Rainbow Room - Autumn Art

As part of our seasonal learning journey, pupils have been engaging in fantastic activities to explore the beauty of Autumn through art. Pumpkins Art: Pupils painted their own representations of pumpkins using water colours and cotton buds, adding texture and vibrancy with orange tissue paper....

Nursery - Size

Nursery have been learning about size, have been sorting items by size

Nursery - Making New Friends

This week we welcomed new friends. We are learning about each other. we are learning to share and take turns

Nursery - Homes

We are learning about different homes. We made our 3D models, by recycling junk materials. We made individual models and a class model of a huge residential flats

Year 3 - Black History Workshop 2025

Year 3 had fun learning about Black History with Immediate Theatre Company. We used drama to celebrate diversity in our class and learn about different aspects of Black culture such as food

Nursery - Family

We are learning about who is special to us and who is in our family

Year 2 - Science: Hackney City Farm

We visited Hackney City Farm to learn about the animals that live there and their habitats! We enjoyed seeing all the different animals and even saw some new born piglets!

Year 2 - Geography: North Pole, South Pole and Equator

Today, we learnt about the North Pole, South Pole and Equator. We also talked about what the climate would be in these places. Where would you like to live: at the South Pole or on the Equator?

Year 4 - Spanish: Weather

Children in Year 4 have been practising phonics and learning to describe the weather in Spanish - building confidence in both reading and speaking!

Year 4 - Amazing Home Learning

This week we celebrated amazing home learning by some of our Year 4 Superstars. They completed their weekly home learning and a Science home learning project

Rainbow Room - Shapes Tracing and Colouring

Pupils explored 2D shapes like circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles on the interactive board, showing focus and independence while colouring, tracing, and drawing. In an adult-led activity, they traced and coloured shapes on large paper to create drawings. Then, pupils used the activity...

Year 4 Hornbills - Outdoor Learning - Autumn 2 2025

The children enjoyed their weekly whole class reading session in our Hop garden where they read our story and discussed the events

Year 3 - Outdoor Learning 2025

Year 3 learnt what plants need to grown and discussed the steps to follow plant a seed in our science lessons. We then went out to the Hop Garden to plant our seeds and start our plant-growing journey. It was exciting to use what we learned and see how plants begin to grow

Nursery - Sense of Hearing

We have been learning about the sense of hearing. we made listening ears

Year 2 - PSHE: Celebrating differences (Stereotypes)

We learnt about stereotypes in this PSHE lesson and we considered and discussed common stereotypes that people have of girls and boys. We even linked our learning to Oracy by using our hand signals to show how we felt about each statement

Nursery - One-handed Tools

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

Nursery - Learning and Playing!

We love learning and playing inside and out!

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

Year 2 Computing - Creating pictures: Impressionism

Do you know what impressionism is? We learnt about the art style of impressionism today and created our own impressionist inspired art on Purple Mash!

Year 1 Peacocks - Subtraction

We have been learning different ways to work out subtraction. We have used cubes, our fingers, pictures and drawings. Next week, we will be using number lines to help us!

Reception Classes - Spanish: Colours and Fruits

...nnect language and creativity!...

Rainbow - Letters, Fingers Writing and CVC Learning

We had so much fun exploring literacy in our learning! The children enjoyed using the colorful sequence mats to create various marks and letters with their fingers, helping to develop early mark-making, letter formation, and fine motor skills. Also, were also fully engaged in practicing how to...

Year 3 - RE Day - The Turtle Who Could Not Stop Talking

For RE Day, we acted out the story "The Turtle Who Could Not Stop Talking." We learned about the teachings of Jesus and Buddha, and explored what helps us pause, reflect, and think more deeply

Rainbow - Reading Stories

Pupils were well engaged during reading activities, particularly when listening to an adult read aloud the story "The Cat Who Had Different Coloured Shoes." The narrative captured their interest and provided a meaningful context for learning colours names. Pupils demonstrated recognition of colours...

Rainbow - Maths Learning

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

Rainbow - Constructive Activity

Adults have introduced a new learning opportunity called Constructive Play, where children use stickle bricks to create their own arrangements. This open-ended activity encourages creativity, problem-solving, and spatial awareness. Children explored different ways of connecting and placing the...

Rainbow - Autumn Vocabulary Learning

Pupils were exploring fantastic learning about autumn vocabulary and oracy by being introduced to new words related to this season. Some pupils were able to look at the autumn-related illustrations on the worksheets and talk to each other about who they saw, what they saw, etc. Then, with the...

Rainbow - Attention Bucket Intervention

As part of the Attention Bucket Intervention, pupils were able to develop their attention by being engaged at exploring familiar objects that they like such as bubbles, sensory balls etc. Pupils were learning social skills by sharing popping bubbles or sharing the sensory balls. The fun part of the...

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...

Year 3 - WOW Day - Autumn 1 2025

Year 3 had a fantastic Wow Day to wrap our learning about the Amazon Rainforest. We created vibrant dioramas of the rainforest using paints, leaves, twigs and lots of different recycled materials to bring our vision to life! Watch the videos to see what geographical features we included

Rainbow Class - Our Learning

This term, we have been very busy with lots of exciting activities. Check out our learning gallery to see what we’ve been doing

Rainbow Room - Planting

We have been learning about the life cycle of plants, focusing on beans and cress. As part of our sensory learning, the children planted their own seeds using soil, pots and water, exploring the different textures and steps involved when it comes to planting. Over the next few days, we will be...

Rainbow Room - Autumn Maths Learning

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

Rainbow Class - Farm Animals (Literacy Focus)

Our pupils were highly engaged while listening to the story "Down on the Farm". During the session, they explored a variety of farm animals through colourful illustrations and enjoyed listening to adults model the different animal sounds. This helped to develop their attention, listening,...

Rainbow Class - Geography

Our learners have been exploring what makes Hackney special through a creative geography project. Using their knowledge of local landmarks, community spaces, transport links, parks, and places they enjoy, pupils designed their own unique Hackney logos

Rainbow Class - Geography (My Local Area)

As part of the geography learning, children took part in exciting geography activities focused on exploring their local area. Using photographs, symbols, maps, and matching tasks, learners developed their understanding of familiar places within the community. Some children were able to identified...

Rainbow Class - Planting Fun & Plants Life Cycle (Science)

As part of the science and sustainability learning, our pupils did enjoyed learning about about how plants grow. We explored the life cycle of a plant and learned the correct order: seed → root → shoot → plant → flower → new seeds. Using visual pictures and sequencing...

Rainbow Class - Flower Painting (Arts & Science)

This week, the children in Rainbow Class combined their science and creative skills while learning about flowers and the different parts of plants. Children had an opportunity to to explore the features of flowers and used paint to create their own beautiful flower artwork. The children carefully...

Rainbow Class - Exploring Plants & Tress (Science)

This week, the children in Rainbow Class explored the life cycle of plants and trees through a range of practical, sensory, and engaging learning activities. Using pictures and matching activities, children explored the different parts of plants and trees by matching, labelling, or writing the...

Rainbow Class - Learning Subtraction

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

Rainbow Class: Three Three Little Pigs Literacy

As part of the literacy learning, pupils were engaged in matching story sequences in the correct order by recalling key events from the story and using the illustrations to support their understanding. They demonstrated their ability to remember and identify the different stages of the story....

Rainbow Class: Maths (Shapes)

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

Rainbow Class - The Three Little Pigs Focus (Literacy)

As part of their literacy learning, pupils engaged in active listening while exploring the focus story, The Three Little Pigs. Children matched concrete objects, including sticks, blocks, and shredded paper, to the different houses built by the pigs in the story. They were also encouraged to feel...

Year 4 - Hornbills at Intouniversity

The children in Hornbill class had a fun session learning all about different and exciting careers with the Intouniversity team. Next year, they will continue to have workshops exploring more career options in the future

Year 2 - Maths: Clocks

To get us ready for our time topic, we looked at clocks and learnt about the different parts of the clock. Then we designed our own clocks - the hands even spin!

Year 2 - Literacy: Performing poetry

What is your favourite poem? We have been learning about poems and we tried out performing fun and hilarious poems. We thought about our tone, volume, body language and much more! Have a watch of our performances!

Year 2 - Art: Exploring Pop Art

We are learning about Pop Art! Last lesson, we learnt a bit about the famous pop artist Andy Warhol. This week, we learn about some pop art features and created art inspired by Andy Warhol’s pop art pieces. We also saw how pop art is very different to just drawing a picture!

Year 5 and 6 - Spanish-language adaptation of Romeo and Julieta

Earlier this week, Year 5 and Year 6 pupils enjoyed watching an engaging Spanish-language adaptation of Romeo and Julieta , bringing language learning to life through theatre

Rainbow Class - Geography: Exploring Places

Our learners were a great explores as they were learning about community and places as part of their geography learning, and by using symbols, pictures, and matching activities, pupils identified a variety of important places including shops, schools, post offices, police stations, parks, and...

Rainbow Class: PSHE: Emotions Monsters

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

Rainbow Room - Maths: Adding & Subtracting Coins

Our pupils were fully engaged in exploring different ways of using 1p coins as part of their learning about money. Through a range of practical, hands-on activities, they were encouraged to recognise, count, and manipulate coins in meaningful and purposeful contexts. They demonstrated growing...

The Nest - Hop Garden

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

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,...

Year 3 - Science

As part of our science learning, Year 3 have been exploring what plants need to grow and stay healthy. The children planted their own cress seeds and discussed the importance of water, light, warmth, and nutrients for plant growth. They then observed changes in their plants as they grew

Year 1 Peacocks - Science: Seedbombs

In science this term, we have been learning about plants. In this lesson, we learnt all about wildflowers and how they grow. We made our own seed bombs using compost, flour, seeds and water

Rainbow Class - RE day - Exploring Christianity & Church

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

Happy DLD Awareness Day!

Today, Rainbow Class proudly took part in Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day. Throughout the day, children enthusiastically took part in a range of engaging activities, including language games, matching pictures and words , creative colourful posters. It was inspiring to see pupils...

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...

The Nest - Baking - Autumn 2026

Throughout this term, we have developed our baking skills through lots of practical experiences. We have learnt how to measure ingredients accurately, crack eggs independently and follow instructions in the correct order. We have also discovered which ingredients are important in baking and why we...

Rainbow Room - PHSE: Recognising Emotions

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

Year 6 - Science Research Activity

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

Rainbow Class - Maths: Colouring & Tracing 2D Shapes

As part of our maths learning, pupils were engaged in tracing and colouring the 2D Shapes to develop fine motor skills and shapes formations

Rainbow Class - Learning Gallery

WOW ! We had so much fun with our learning so check it out

Rainbow Class: PSHE & Arts (Emotions Jars)

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

Rainbow Class: Literacy (Story about emotions)

As part of our Literacy learning, pupils explored different emotions through stories and picture-based activities. Pupils carefully looked at illustrations, identified how characters might be feeling, and matched emotions to different situations within the story. Pupils had the opportunity to name...

Rainbow Class: Maths (Shapes Matching/ Shapes Names)

As part of their Maths learning, our learners explored the properties of 2D shapes by counting and identifying the number of sides each shape has. Pupils practised recognising and naming a range of common shapes, including circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles. They also matched shapes to...

Year 1 Peacock - Science: Lego

This week in Science, we have been learning about Lego. We spent time researching Ole Kirk Khristiansen (creator of Lego) and we also spent time experimenting with Lego, making our own Lego Masterpieces

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...

Spanish - Teide’s National Park

Bringing classroom learning to life as we spent an unforgettable day at Teide’s National Park

Rainbow Class - Learning about Seasons

Pupils explored learning about the different seasons by watching a short, engaging video and listening to a song related to seasonal changes. Following this, pupils took part in a hands‐on matching activity, where they matched pictures associated with each season, as well they were able to sequence...

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 5: History - Windrush

In today’s lesson, Year 5 explored the experiences of the Windrush generation, learning about their journey to the United Kingdom and how they settled into new communities. The session encouraged pupils to develop empathy and a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by those who arrived...

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 - Literacy Focus

In literacy, pupils enjoyed listening to the story “We Can’t Take an Elephant on the Bus”, where they learned about different types of transport and their uses. Pupils listened carefully to the story and were able to recall key events by identifying the characters (animals) and...

Year 3 Trip to the London Mithraeum

Year 3 enjoyed an exciting trip to the London Mithraeum, where they brought their learning about the Romans to life. The children explored Roman artefacts and learned what they were used for in everyday life nearly 2,000 years ago. They were especially fascinated by the remains of a real Roman...

Rainbow Class - Seasons Arts & Crafts

As part of a combined Arts & Crafts and Science activity, our pupils explored the topic of seasons. Pupils created colourful paintings to represent the different seasons, using vibrant paint colours to express seasonal changes. Also, they took part in a sticking and gluing activity to explore...

Year 4 - Science

The children in Year 4 are enjoying their Science learning this term which is all about the states of matter. They discussed the different states of matter and how they change. They also used their Chromebook to research facts and information about the topic

Year 3 - Friction Detectives

...al created the most friction. Learning through experiments made science exciting and hands‑on!...

Year 3 Language Day

Year 3 Kingfishers speak 13 languages! We celebrated Language Day by talking about all the different languages we speak at home and at school. We shared our languages with pride and learned how to say hello in each one. Everyone enjoyed practising new greetings and discovering how languages help us...

Language Day at UEL

A selected group of children enjoyed an inspiring visit to the University of East London, where they explored the campus, discovered the medical facilities, and took part in engaging language sessions. Pupils particularly enjoyed learning new languages including Russian, Romanian, Ewe, and Latin,...

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 4 - RE Day 2026

The children in Year 4 enjoyed their RE Day today - 25-03-2026 - learning all about the significance of Easter. They learnt about the events that occurred and how Christians around the world celebrate Easter

Rainbow Class - Planting Beans and Cress

As part of our science learning, the pupils took part in a hands‐on activity where they planted beans and cress. The pupils were highly engaged throughout the session, exploring the steps involved in planting and beginning to learn about the plant life cycle. They had opportunities to touch and...

Tenerife - Day 4

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

Year 2 - Trip to the Science Museum - Spring 2026

We went to the science museum to learn about space and what life was like for the astronauts in space

Rainbow Class - Transports: History

As part of our history learning, our pupils had a great opportunity to learn about different types of transport across land, water, and air. They were able to sort and match transports by gluing and sticking them into the correct categories, for example, a helicopter in the air group, a ship in...

Rainbow Room: Human Anatomy (Our Body)

We have been learning names of the body parts and identifying them on the human's body drawing

Year 2 - History: WOW Day

To end our Great Fire of London topic, we made our own Tudor houses and burned them! It was a little sad because we put in a lot of hard work but this helped us learn a bit about how the people of 1666 felt when they lost their homes!

Rainbow Room - Mehdi Hanna Design ( RE )

As part of the RE learning, our pupils began exploring Islam through a creative and engaging art and crafts activity. They designed their own Mehndi (henna) patterns, using chalk dipped in a mixture of powder and water to create vibrant designs on their hands. Pupils thoroughly enjoyed...

Rainbow Class - Human Life Cycle & Needs / Human Body

As part of Science and PSHE, pupils learned to identify and name parts of the human body. They were able to find, match, and write body part names on worksheets using a labelled human body diagram. Pupils demonstrated understanding by pointing to and naming most body parts independently. In...

Year 5: Wow Day - Windrush

Year 5 had an exciting WOW Day learning all about the Windrush generation as part of their History topic! During one of the activities, the children explored the work of a famous artist linked to Caribbean culture and created their own vibrant artwork, using bold colours and patterns to reflect the...

Rainbow Room: Human Body Learning

As part of our Science and PSHE learning, pupils explored the human body, beginning with singing their favourite song “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” with actions to support identifying the names of different body parts. Then, pupils were using an interactive board to match facial and...

Rainbow Class: Fun Learning

Our pupils were well engaged in the fun learning environment. Some pupils explored the safari animals and enjoyed the soft texture of the sand in the sandpit, supporting their sensory development. Other pupils were engaged in intensive interaction, demonstrating strong eye coordination and focus as...

Rainbow Class: Body X-Ray Art Fun

As part of our Science and PSHE learning, pupils explored the human body using simple, visual books showing body parts and organs. This was supported by looking at X-ray images of hands, arms and feet, helping pupils understand what is inside the body. Adults used clear language, repetition and...

Year 4 Hornbill - Class Assembly

Hornbills had a fantastic assembly sharing all their amazing learning this half term

Year 2 - DT: Axles, wheels and chassis

Do you know what an axle is? What about wheels and chassis? We learnt about where we would find each of these on a vehicle

Year 2 - Science: Reusing

What does it mean to reuse? We learnt about this and did a fun activity where we reused scrap paper to making origami jumping frogs!

Year 2 - Science: Plants 2026

During our plants topic, we planted beans and seeds so that we could observe how a plant grows and learn more about what a plant needs to grow into a strong healthy plant

Year 2 - RE Day: Spring 2 2026

In this RE day, we learnt about how Christians celebrate Easter. We learnt about the story of Easter and what some important symbols of Easter are

Year 2 - Maths: Multiplication arrays

We have been learning about multiplying! To help us understand what this means, we built arrays using counters to solve multiplication questions

Year 2 - Maths: Finding thirds

Now that we know what a third looks like in shapes, we learnt how to find a third of a number using counters

Year 2 - History: How did the fire start?

Do you know how the Great Fire of London started? We learnt about this and imagined we were there. How do you think we felt? What do you think we were thinking?

Year 2 - Geography: Spring Mapping Skills Day

In this Mapping Skills Day, we learnt how to read and interpret maps. We also learnt about compasses and to end the day, we drew and built a map of our school!

Rainbow Room - Outdoor Learning & Play

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

Year 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 5 - Science: Soluble or Insoluble

Do you know what soluble or insoluble means? Today, the children in year five learnt the meaning of these two words. We learnt about what it means for a substance to dissolve and we even did an experiment to test out what we know

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 5 - Mental Health Workshop

We took part in a mental health workshop where we learnt about what mental health was. We discussed how to have good mental health as well as how to handle situations that can cause us to have bad mental health

Year 3 – Learning Science through Spanish

Children in Year 3 have had the chance to build up and consolidate their science knowledge through Spanish. They can now name a range of vertebrates and invertebrates and describe their characteristics in two languages!

Year 3 - RE Day - 6th February 2025

The children had a great RE day on Thursday 6th February as they explored Judaism. the children learnt about the core beliefs, traditions, festivals and ended the lesson creating a piece of art

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...

Year 4 - RE Day

During RE day, Hornbill class learnt about the life of Saint Francis. We were inspired by his poem 'Canticle of the Sun' and worked collaborative to write our own class poem 'The World, My World'. Listen to us perform our poem

Year 4 - Number Day (Part 1)

Today, Mete and Anas had a fantastic time participating in a fun and engaging learning activity that was all about numbers. The activity was designed around Valentine's Day, using heart-themed cards to make it even more exciting! They explored different quantities of hearts on each card, and their...

Year 2 - Jigsaw

For this week’s Jigsaw lesson, we had a go at learning a new skill. We worked in partners to spend time learning how to count to 10 in Mandarin or count in twos in French and then presented this to the class. We thought about how learning something new can be difficult, and how it takes...

Year 5 - Science: Water Resistance

We learnt about water resistance by carrying out an experiment where we tested out dropping chunks of plasticine into water to see what shape was the most streamlined and had the least water resistance

Rainbow Room - Number Day (Part 3)

The children engaged in an maths activity where they rolled a dice and matched the numbers with corresponding number cards. This helped them recognize numbers and improve their counting skills. They also counted cubes by matching the quantities to number cards as they were exploring quantities in...

Rainbow Room - Number Day (Part 1)

Today, children had a fantastic time participating in a fun and engaging learning activity that was all about numbers. The activity was designed around Valentine's Day, using heart-themed cards to make it even more exciting! They explored different quantities of hearts on each card, and their...

Year 2 - DT Exploring Wheels

To begin our Design and Technology topic, we brought in lots of vehicles and explored their features. We learnt about wheels, and how they are attached to an axle. We identified loose axles and fixed axles, discussing how these are attached to a chassis. We had lots of fun trying our vehicles out...

Year 5 DT: Moving Dragons

In this lesson, we learnt about levers and what input and outputs are. We created our own moving dragons using card and split pins!

Year 2 - Learning Spanish through familiar stories and games

Rainbow Room: Display Boards

...lebrations and Growth Mindset Learning....

Year 5 - Science: Air Resistance

We learnt about air resistance by making parachutes to test how the size of the parachute changes the speed of falling

Rainbow Room - Heart Tree

The children in the Rainbow Room have excitedly designed their very own Valentine's Heart Tree, engaging in a creative activity that involved using a variety of textured papers. They explored different types of paper, including both hard and soft textures, to give their artwork an added sensory...

Year 5 - Energy Sparks Workshop

Is our school energy efficient? This is what the Year 5s learn about during their workshop run by Energy Sparks

Rainbow Room - Science (Our Body)

The children were actively participating in a science lesson focused on learning about the human body. They engaged in a body parts memory game that helped them learn the names of various body parts. In this game, they matched the names of body parts with their corresponding pictures, such as the...

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 - Displays: Spring

We invite you to take the opportunity to explore our new and vibrant displays, which beautifully highlight the incredible learning and growth of the children in the Rainbow Room. These displays serve as a celebration of the creativity, curiosity, and dedication that our students have invested in...

Rainbow Room - Colours Alphabet

Today, the children had a fantastic time during their phonics session, which skillfully combined learning with lots of fun! The session focused on colours, giving the children the opportunity to not only name various colours but also practice their phonics skills by identifying the first letter...

Rainbow Room - Phonics Game

The children were actively practicing phonics through an interactive game that made learning fun. They matched words to pictures, reinforcing letter sounds, word formation, and pronunciation. They also listened to an adult pronounce the initial sounds and independently matched them in the game....

Year 5 - Geography: Mapping Skills Day

Today is Mapping Skills Day! We utilised our wonderful library to immerse ourselves into our topic - learning all about Turkey through maps and atlases. After that, we learnt about thematic maps and what the purpose of them is. In our third lesson, we created our own map of Turkey and included...

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 - Valentine's Day Phonics

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

Rainbow Room: Surprise Day

As part of our wonderful learning journey, we were pleasantly surprised with a special treat! We were given colouring sheets and stickers as a reward for our incredible determination and effort in our learning. It was such a fun and exciting way to celebrate our hard work!

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 5 - DT: WOW Day

After recapping what we learnt this half term in DT, we spend the rest of the day creating our own wells that involved a pulley system

Year 3 - Wow Day

The children had a fun day continuing their learning all about linkages and levers. As part of our Wow Day activities they made a moving dragon, a snapping crocodile and a scissor dragon

Year 5 - Trip to Suleymaniye Mosque

Year 5 spent the morning learning alot about Islam at Suleymaniye Mosque. We learned about the different features of a mosque, how Muslims pray and how to treat a Quran

Year 2 Maths Arrays 2025

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

Year 3 Kingfisher - Science - Spring 2025

The children in Kingfisher discussed the terms vertebrates and invertebrates. Their activities allowed them to identify which animals belong to vertebrates and invertebrates. The children also did some research using their Chromebooks to find facts about the topic they are learning

Year 5 - DT: Gears - Spring 2025

We made gears! We used corrugated card, cardboard and pins to create this. We learnt that one wheel moves the other in the opposite direction

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...

Year 5 – Spanish: La música y los instrumentos musicales

Children in Year 5 are currently exploring a range of different music related vocabulary, music genres, a range of musical instruments and high frequency words that will allow them to use their musical skills and relate them to language learning

Year 2 visit our new school library

We visited our brand new learning resource centre in school and loved the new space! We explored how the books are organised and enjoyed choosing a book to read with our friends!

Year 2 - Column Addition

This week we have been learning a new method in maths called column addition. This helps us to add together two 2-digit numbers easily

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...

Year 2 - Week 2 Computing: Online Safety

For this topic we have been learning all about keeping ourselves safe when we are using online devices such as computers, tablets and phones. We discussed how to search and filter information, alongside exploring how Purple Mash is a safe site to search on. We learnt about emails, and how we can...

Year 2 - Parakeet School of Food trip

We had so much fun going to the Hackney School of Food. We learnt all about cooking in a big kitchen and followed recipes to make delicious food, thinking about the skills we need to use to make them. First we made pumpkin scruffins, followed by a fancy fruit salad. They were both scrumptious!

Year 2 - 2P Chocolate in Spanish & Lew Wallace School in Albuquerque

Year 2 have learnt the names of different types of chocolates in Spanish and can say which ones they like and the ones they don´t. They are sharing a song and everything they know of chocolate with their Music & Spanish pen pals in USA, the Lew Wallace Elementary school of Albuquerque

Year 5 - History: Democracy

Do you know the origins of democracy? We learnt about this in the lesson and we even role played Dikasteria. We held a court that had a jury who helped to decide the fate of the accused

Year 3 - WOW Day

The children today enjoyed their activities and ended their unit of learning around the Stone Age

Year 3 - Kingfisher: Spanish

The children had a fun Spanish lesson today learning Spanish through interactive games

Year 5 - Science: Separating mixtures

In this lesson, we learnt about 4 different processes of separating mixtures: evaporating, decanting, filtering and sieving. We made our predictions on the evaporation experiment then conducted a carousel activity of the other 3 processes

Year 5 - History: Hierarchy in Ancient Greece

Do you know what the four levels of society there are? We learnt about that this lesson by discussing with our groups and creating a information poster for it

Year 1 - Parrot Class: Daubeney Olympics

We've been busy learning about the Olympics as an historical event that happened in the past, in London!!! We made our own Olympic gold medals and had a mini Olympics in school

Reception - Let's get started Autumn 2!

We have had a great start to Autumn 2 in Reception! We have been learning about 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in Numeracy. We visited the new Daubeney Library, and we loved it! We have been taking part in great learning and having lots of fun at the same time as you can see!

Year 5 - History: Gods and Goddesses

In this lesson, we explore the gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece. We already knew the names and powers of some because of the book we are reading called “Who Let the Gods Out”. Some of us were already experts. To show our learning, we designed trading cards for each of our favourite...

Year 5 - RE: Autumn 2 2024

This half term’s RE day was dedicated to Christmas! We learnt about how Christmas is celebrated around the world as well as the different Christmas stories that are told to Christian children everywhere! We ended the day by making Christingle candles using actual oranges!

Rainbow Room: Shapes Learning

Today, the children learned about 2D shapes by drawing them on the whiteboard, which helped develop their fine motor skills and ability to form shapes through drawing. Afterward, they played a shape-matching game, naming familiar shapes like circles, triangles, and squares

Year 3 - Multiplication and Division - Spring 2025

The children in Year 3 worked exceptionally well today consolidating their learning and methods to solve multiplication and division problems

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 - Science: Friction - Spring 2025

To learn about friction, we carried out an experiment where we tested the distance that toy cars went on different surfaces

Year 5 - Maths: Multiplying 2 - digit numbers

To begin our topic of multiplication and division, we learnt about multiplying 2-digit numbers. As this was completely new to us, we worked in partners and practiced the method on large grid paper

Year 6 - Day 2 of Into Uni: Eagles Class

Today we had another brilliant day, we created portraits using watercolours and collage. We explored how the time you have to create an image changes the detail and content - what you think is important enough to include. We also continued to learn all about our three famous individuals - Jean-...

Reception - Spring 1 - Week 3

This week, we have been having lots of fun! We have been fossil hunting in our Investigation Area. We have also been using our fine motor skills to create lovely images using hammers and pins. We have also been reading 'Monkey Puzzle' this week and have been doing fantastic writing, as well...

Year 3 - Toucan - Learning about the Human Skeleton

...s about what they have Learnt....

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!

Year 5 - Trip to the British Museum

We have been learning loads about Greek Myths (Literacy) and Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses (History) this half term. At the British Museum, there are so many artefacts related to those topics. We spent the day exploring the museum and furthering our learning

Year 3 - Coding in Kingfisher Class: Spring 2025

The children had a fun lesson today learning about coding. They planned a route and used the BeeBots to follow the code

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....

Rainbow Room - Identiplay Learning (Cars & Instruments)

As part of Identiplay, children had the opportunity to engage in interactive play with adults and peers using a variety of objects. They explored musical instruments by mimicking different sounds, to foster auditory skills and musical creativity. Also, children played with cars by demonstrating...

Year 3 - PE

The children in Year 3 enjoyed their PE lesson playing hockey and learning different skills needed to master the game

Rainbow Room - Chinese New Year

The children in Rainbow Room had a wonderful learning experience making Chinese New Year arts and crafts. They made lanterns, colourful and creative snakes, blossom trees and a selection of traditional social stories were read to them

Year 6 – Spanish: Phonics

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

Year 3 - Science

The children in year 3 started their topic today around Animals and Humans. They discussed what they knew and shared their facts. We created a mind map of our learning

Rainbow Room - Dino Pegs Counting

The children had a wonderful and engaging math session, where they had fun learning by using Dino Number Cards and pegs for counting. In this activity, they observed the numbers on the Dino cards and then counted out the corresponding number of pegs to match the number on each card. This...

Year 5 - Big Draw (Spring)

Do you know who Pablo Picasso is? We learnt about him and discussed the similarities of his surrealist portraits. We then created our own portraits inspired by Picasso!

Rainbow - Spontaneous Learning

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

Year 3 - Maths: learning about time

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

Rainbow Room - Shapes ( Maths )

As part of their math learning, children engaged in exploring 2D shapes by learning their properties, including their appearances. They were introduced to a fun shape memory game where they matched the shapes on cards to those on a template. Some children even named the shapes, such as circles,...

Year 3 Art - Andy Goldsworthy

In today's art lesson, we have been learning about Andy Goldsworthy. Today, we went outside and took pictures of our sculptures. We used buttons as rocks and wooden sticks to create our artwork

Year 3 - Creating Drawings using Chalk

In today’s lesson, we took our learning outdoors and used chalk to create drawings on the KS2 playground. Around our artwork, we wrote adjectives inspired by our fortnightly focus book, Chalk

Rainbow Room - Chalk Drawing

The weather outside has been nice, allowing our pupils to have a great time participating in outdoor learning. They engaged in small group interactions, creating their own chalk drawings. Using a variety of chalk colour and the space available at the playground to create own chalk drawing. The...

Reception - Our own Ducklings!

This week, we have been so lucky to hatch our own eggs! We have been learning about the lifecycle of a Duck and we saw it for ourselves. We received 5 eggs and we watched them hatch into Hatchlings. They are now growing into Ducklings! They are super cute

Reception - Number bonds of 5

This week, we have been learning our Number bonds of 5! Have a look at the facts we have learnt. Next week, we are learning about Number Bonds of 10!

Rainbow Room - Our Body and Senses

WOW! Look at those wonderful displayed which demonstrates our learning about our body and senses as part of PHSE and Science

Rainbow Room- Weather Patterns

Children participated in learning about various weather phenomena they encounter in their daily lives, such as sunshine, rain, and clouds. They had a great time using colorful lollipop sticks to match different colours to weather cards. This activity helped them visualize and demonstrate different...

Rainbow Room - Our Body and Senses

As part of our PHSE and Science curriculum, students have the opportunity to learn about their bodies by naming and identifying various body parts through worksheets, interactive games, and coloring activities. They are encouraged to identify familiar body parts on their own bodies, such as eyes,...

Year 2 Maths - Measuring: June 2025

Year 2 had fun learning how to measure objects around the classroom and identifying units of measure. Year 2 used scales to measure mass of items around the classroom, identifying the units used

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

Year 2 - Healthy Foods: June 2025

Year 2 have been learning about food groups, identifying healthy food choices and sharing our favourite recipes

Year 2 - Great Fire of London WOW Day

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

Year 2 - Computing: June 2025

We have been learning about making music on Purple Mash as part of our computing learning

Rainbow Room - Weather learning

Children were matching the names of the weather using weather cards and word cards. Some children were able to recognize the weather names by saying them or pointing to them with an adult

Year 6 – Euros 2025

One-off lesson about the 2025 Women’s Euros, covering countries, present tense verbs, multiple-choice quiz to learn about this year’s competition and reading comprehension in Spanish

Year 5 - History: Experiences of the Windrush

We learnt about what life was like in the Caribbean then discussed the journey. Finally, some of their experiences when people of the Windrush generation arrived in the UK. We freeze framed our interpretations and discussed their thoughts and feelings

Rainbow Room - Exploring Autumn in Hop Garden

As the weather turned warm and sunny, pupils enjoyed exploring autumn in the school garden—collecting colourful leaves and even spotting a snail! This outdoor learning has inspired staff to plan exciting new activities for next week. Can our pupils guess what the next topic will be?

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 - Maths: Greater than, less than or equal to

Today we learnt about the symbols for greater than, less than and equals to and found out what they mean. Then, we came up with lots of different numbers with our partners and decided which one was greater or if they were the same

Year 4 - Brain Buddies

The children in year 4 had a fun session today learning about their feelings and emotions. They played many games and discussed strategies to play as a team. They will continue Brain Buddies for the next 7 weeks

Year 1 - Peacocks: Autumn learning so far!

Have a look at what Peacock Class have been learning about so far. We have been reading Rapunzel. We looked at characters and setting. We have also done some acting and using adjectives. In Math's, we have been practicing our counting!

Year 5 - Mapping Day

Year 5 recently took part in a fantastic full-day workshop focused on developing their mapping skills. The children explored a wide range of maps and learned how to read them using keys, symbols, and directional language. They were fascinated to discover how maps can tell stories and help us...

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...

Year 4 Hornbills - Geography - Exploring the continent of Asia

The children in Hornbills explored the continent of Asia today learning various facts about countries and cities, rivers, mountains and other interesting facts. They created their own information posters and fact files about the continent

Year 3 - Angles

This week, we began learning about angles by using maps and toy animals, giving directions using degrees and compass points. In our maths lesson, we also created origami to explore different types of angles, as well as shapes, edges, and vertices—setting the stage for our upcoming sequence on...

Year 2 - Science: Living, Dead, Never Alive

In this lesson, we learnt about how how everything can be thought of as living, dead or never alive. We talked about what makes something a living thing (MRS GREN)

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!

Year 2 - Sustainability lesson - Autumn 1 2025

We're in a new classroom! This means we have to spend time making it ours! And to start, we learnt what sustainability is and we spent time creating posters to remind ourselves of how to be more sustainable while at school

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 - Geography: Autumn Mapping Skills Day

Today, we spent time learning about language used for direction (such as north, east, south, west) and we looked at some maps. We went on a treasure hunt, drew our own maps and even made art inspired by maps!

Year 4 - Mapping Skills Day

The children in Year 4 enjoyed Mapping Skills Day learning all about maps, co-ordinates, grid references, symbols and also had the opportunity to draw their own maps of our local area

Year 4 - Cross Curricular Learning

The children in Year 4 started learning about earthquakes as part of the Geography topic. They discussed what they knew and used their ICT skills to further research facts about earthquakes

Year 5 - Maths: Regular and Irregular Polygons

We learnt about regular and irregular polygons by creating flash cards and testing ourselves with them! We even played games with them with our partners

Reception - Hackney School of Food - May 2025

On Tuesday, Cygnet Class enjoyed their first trip to Hackney School of Food. We made our own dough, chopped our own toppings and watched our pizzas bake! We had so much fun learning different kneading and cutting techniques

Year 5 - British Science Week Workshop

We learnt about the states of matter through fun experiments during British Science Week! We had fun learning using dry ice! We even attempted to make our own ice cream!

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!

Year 6 Hawks - British Science Week Workshop - Dry Ice experiment

The highlight of this spring term was the British Science Week . This year’s theme was ‘Adapt and Change’ the 6 Hawks enjoyed science workshop whereby they learnt about state of matter and even attempted to make ice-cream. The children had the opportunity to explore different hypothesis and the...

Year 6 - Hawks & Eagles: Science - Circuit and Voltage Experiment

Before the experiment, we begun the lesson by recapping our prior knowledge: scientific symbols for circuits, the difference between circuits and voltage as well as our hypothesis. We began our learning by understanding the difference between electricity and circuits and how voltage equals power....

Tenerife adventures III

Early start to head to school where we had the chance to visit the school’s facilities and learn about how schools work in Spain. One of the Year 5 groups we are working with celebrated their sharing assembly so we watched them performing Le Petit Prince story in Spanish. After exploring the Canary...

Rainbow Room - Autism Awareness Week Celebration

In celebration of Autism Awareness Week at our school, the pupils in the Rainbow Room participated in meaningful and enriching activities with great enthusiasm. A highlight of the week was the creation of their unique "Autism Puzzle." Each pupil carefully selected tissue paper colours...

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...

Year 5 - Maths: Percentages as decimals

We have gotten pretty good at understanding what percentages are and in this lesson, we spent our time learning about how decimals have equivalent percentages

Year 3 – Toucan: Shadow Puppet Show

In today's lesson, we reviewed what we learned last week and explored how shadows are formed. We experimented with creating shadows using torches and other light sources. Using cut-out shapes, we put on a puppet show featuring moving shadows. During the show, we experimented with the size and...

Rainbow Room: Actions Words & Colourful Semantics

As part of our ongoing support, some Year 4 pupils in the Rainbow Room took part in an activity to name and match different actions. They learned that action words are called verbs and often end in -ing. For example, they looked at phrases like "watching TV" and "eating food."...

School Council off to a Great Start!

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

Year 3 – Learning Geography through Spanish

As we continue developing our Content and Language Integrated provision, pupils in Year 3 have explored the Canary Islands and its volcanoes. They can now label the different parts of a volcano, and name and describe the three states of a volcano in Spanish and English, as well as recalling...

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

Year 5 - School Tasking (Session 3)

Tort Law. Gross Negligence. Trespass. These were only some of the law terms that we learn about and discussed in this week’s School Tasking session run by our LSE law students!

Year 5 - School Tasking (Session 2)

Are Jaffa Cakes a biscuit or a cake? We learnt about how the law can relate to things that we love, like Jaffa Cakes!

Year 5 - IntoUniversity: What is a University?

We visited Hackney Downs IntoUniversity who taught us about what a university is! We learnt about who goes to university, what you can study there as well as the different locations you’ll find universities! We can’t wait to go back to learn more in the Summer term!

Rainbow Room - Learning Preposition (Interactive Game)

Children in the Rainbow Room explored prepositions through an interactive game displayed on the screen. They matched prepositions with various objects in familiar settings such as a park, living room, or kitchen. The children were introduced to phrases like "on top of the TV," "above...

Rainbow Room - Chalk Butterflies Drawing

As part of our captivating social story, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," children immersed themselves in a artistic experience. They enthusiastically engaged in colouring and drawing their own spring butterflies, using chalks. With each stroke, they brought their imaginations to life, crafting...

Maths Team Trip to Museum of Brands

We enjoyed a lovely day out to the Museum of Brands in West London, where we learnt about market research and unique selling points. We then designed and priced our own chocolate bars!

Year 5 - IntoUniversity: Astronomy

What is it like to study at university? What kinds of classes do they have? We explored the types of lessons university students might have by learning about astronomy. We took part in a variety of activities and worked with a team!

Year 3 - Kingfisher: Exploring the Zones of Regulations

Kingfisher had an interesting workshop today learning and exploring the Zones of Regulations. Their workshop was lead by a doctor in this field and they completed their own booklet demonstrating their knowledge and understanding surrounding the Zones of Regulations

Spanish - Eurovision Inspired Language Learning!

Today, in our Spanish lessons we have used the excitement of Eurovision as a fun and engaging context for language learning. Students practiced using numbers in context, casting their own votes and expressed opinions about some of the performances. They enjoyed listening to songs in a range of...

Rainbow Room - Preposition Learning

Children were learning about prepositions by completing matching activities and sticking tasks with the support of an adult. They also participated in a game called "Find the Ball," which encouraged them to identify and name the prepositions related to a hidden ball in a picture. During...

Year 3 Kingfisher - RE Day 2025

The children in Kingfisher had an exciting Religious Education Day learning all about signs, symbols and their meanings. They created their own special sign and symbol to represent their family. Then they learnt all about Christian symbols, Buddhist symbols and the importance of the signs. In the...

Year 2 - Spanish: Lectura rítmica. Iniciación a la lectura musical

At Daubeney we incorporate musical reading into our Spanish lessons as it is a very effective strategy that helps long term memory retention, fits a wide range of learning styles, improves students’ pronunciation and intonation, and it is fun!

Planting Sunflower!

We enjoyed learning about how plants grow and what they need. After this, we planted our own sunflowers to take home and look after

Year 2 – Los instrumentos musicales

This half term children in Year 2 are learning about musical instruments -their names in Spanish and English, which families they belong to, what they look like, how they’re played and what they sound like

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 – 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...

Rainbow Room - Learning Prepositions

Activity: Where is the Monkey? In this activity, children listened to an adult reading a story about a monkey while looking at illustrations. They were tasked with finding out where the monkey was hiding by identifying the prepositions and naming the objects that the monkey was hiding behind,...

Year 3 – Kingfisher: Literacy

The children in Kingfisher were super excited today. They continued their learning around journals. They did something amazing today and created a whole class journal making sure all the features were included

Year 3 Kingfisher - Sharing Assembly

The children in Kingfisher were excited to share their learning in front of a live audience. They put on quite a show, sharing all the amazing learning they did last term

Year 4 Maths - Fractions and Decimals

"Today we had so much fun enjoying our learning. We now understand how to work with hundredths as fractions and decimals. Some parts were challenging but we love challenges in Hornbills class."

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 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Children listen to an adult read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," where they learn the days of the week and the fruits the caterpillar eats. They match the fruits with the corresponding days and arrange them on a caterpillar model

Year 5 - Adding Fractions

In Year 4, we learnt about adding fractions but what happens when the fractions don't have the same denominator? We worked with our partners this week to find the lowest common denominator to solve each number sentence

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...

Year 6 - 6M Internet Safety

Today 8-02-2022 the children in 6M explored how to be save online by looking at different features that are available for children to play online games. They used PurpleMash to learn more about the topic and completed various quizzes based on Internet Safety

Year 3 - Comparing Numbers

In Year 3 today we have been learning about comparing numbers. We started by ordering 3 and 4 digit numbers starting with the smallest to the largest. We then compared 2 numbers looking at their differences and similarities. Finally we chose 3 numbers and wrote facts that we know about those...

Year 3 - Meditation

Have you ever felt tired, exhausted, stressed or worried? Well meditation helps you to calm your body and relax your mind. It allows you to reflect on your self and focus on your breathing and surroundings. It is proven that meditation helps you stay calm, improve your behaviour and focus during...

Year 3 - Marlon's Lego Model of The Windrush

Marlon in 3G made a Lego model of The Windrush. He researched The Windrush using photos on the internet. Marlon was able to correctly name all the parts of the ship. He has also researched the history of the The Windrush as part of his home learning. He shared his knowledge in a question and answer...

Year 3 - Magnets and Forces

Year 3 have been learning about Magnets and Forces. They learnt that magnets have north poles and south poles and that these attract each other. But two north poles will repel each other, as will two south poles. In today's lesson, Year 3 learnt how to make a compass with a magnet and needle....

Year 3 - Kew Gardens

Year 3 had a fantastic learning experience at Kew Gardens to introduce our new topic for the half term: Rainforests! We explored Palm house with our teacher for the day. It was so humid! We discovered that Papaya fruit is used as medicine, and that Banana trees have huge purple flowers! We touched...

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 - Estimating in Maths

In Year 3 today the children have been using resources to learn about estimating in maths. The children had to make reasonable estimates of the amount of objects their partner was holding. They then had to check their estimates accurately to find out how close they were

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 - Plasticine Stonehenge

Year 3 explored and investigated the mysteries of the great Stone Age wonder of Stonehenge. We discussed and debated how and why it was made. We then built our own using Plasticine and learn the stages in which it was built

Year 3 - 3P's Friendship Week Message to You

Year 3 have been learning about the importance of a good friendship and being kind. They have an inspiring message for all of you... take a look!

Year 3 - 3P The Surprising Stone Age

3P have worked really hard on their class assembly. This term they have been learning all about life in the Stone Age

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 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'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 2 Trip to Tower of London

Year 2 went on a trip to Tower of London and we learnt about the Great Fire of London. We had a tour around the tower and saw houses that were made out of wood in 1666. Do you know how the fire started?

Year 3 - Parents Visit Children at School

Year 3 were very lucky to have a parent come into school this morning, and share her knowledge about the rainforest and climate change. Jenny showed the children a slide show showing them what's happening to the worlds rainforests. The children were very happy to share their knowledge and learn...

Year 3 - Prehistoric Houses

After learning about the Stone Age through to the Iron Age, Year 3 dutifully collected rocks, sticks and other materials to independently make a variety of prehistoric houses. I was impressed by their creativity, critical thinking skills and teamwork. Well done Year 3!

Year 2 Science Week - Molecules and Atoms

As part of Science Week, class 2F took part in an amazing workshop! We got to learn about some fantastic science words like 'molecules' and 'atoms'! We also got to make some scientific slime!

Year 3 - Work Week

This week, year 3 are learning all about how money is dealt with in the adult world. Today (27th March 2019) we brought Hackney's Mare Street into our classroom! The High street included a Cinema, Post Office, Bank and a Supermarket! Pupils all got their own wallet which included some money,...

Year 3 Cross-Curricular Autumn 2015

In Cross-Curricular we have been focusing on volcanoes, earthquakes, rocks, and the seven continents of the world. It was really interesting comparing the climate, living conditions, and food supply, in Haiti and London. We learned that we have a lot to be thankful for

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 and Year 4 - Science Club

The children in year 3 and 4 enjoyed experimenting with surface tension, floating and investigating how different objects, even unlikely ones, can float due to manipulating the surface tension. Mr Ricardo was amazed to see how well the junior scientist carried out the investigation and their...

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 3 / 4 - Spanish in the World and Geography in Spanish

This week, Year 3 & Year 4 are learning about Spanish in the world and Geography in Spanish! They can find Spain in a map, they can name all the continents, the most important Spanish cities and the Spanish speaking countries in Spanish. They also learnt the history behind how Spanish spread...

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...

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...

Year 3 - Roman Roads

Year 3 have been learning all about the Romans this half term and this week’s focus was Roman Roads. Did you know that Roman roads were extremely straight and had no bends? Year 3 also studied that Roman roads had different layers starting with the rubble then stones and sand and lastly the...

Year 3 - What We're Learning in Spring 2 2017

Year 3 are learning about Light and the Romans this half-term. In Science, we have investigated light and discovered that visible light contains 3 different colours! In history, we have learned about life in the Roman army. We made our own shields and practised our battle formation following Latin...

Year 3 - Weather Presenters

3G have spent the afternoon being weather presenters. They were learning about the difference between weather and climate.The children had to research their facts using fact cards and atlases. They worked with a partner sharing information

Year 3 - Trip to Mabley Green

Year 3 have been learning about rainforests. They went to Mabley Green, a local green space in Hackney, to note the differences and similarities it shares with rainforests. They said that both Mabley Green and rainforests have a lot of trees and foliage, though the trees in the rainforest would be...

Year 3 - Things We Learnt This Term

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

Year 3 - 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 - Shadows

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

Year 2 Super Science

...Learning About Plants...

Year 2 - Visit to the Gurdwara in Bow

The children in year 2 visited the Gurdwara in Bow on Wednesday. The children and adults were asked to remove their shoes and socks and cover their heads with a scarf. They were warmly welcomed into the Gurdwara and shown to the prayer room. A lady explained what Sikhs believe in and how they...

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 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 1 RE Day

Year 1 learned a great deal during RE day this week. This term was all about the Sikhism religion and the children learned about Guru Nanak and the Vaisakhi festival which was celebrated in April. Manpreet one of our children's family members happily came in and gave a detailed talk about the...

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 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 - Odd Numbers

In Year 1 we have been learning about odd and even numbers in Maths. We sorted numicons into odd and even. Dexter said “Even numbers always have a partner but odd numbers always have ne left out”

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 - London Transport Museum

Year 1 have been learning about different means of transport. We went to the London Transport Museum to learn about how people traveled in the past in London. We saw how horses were used to pull carriages, and what the first bus looked like. We also went on the first ever tube train: it had no...

Year 1 - Identifying and Classifying Different Materials

In 1P we have been learning about different materials and their properties. This week we had the task of identifying and classifying different materials. We worked as a team to decide where to put things and really enjoyed our experiment!

Year 2 - 2C Chinese New Year Festivities

Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the year of the Pig in 2019! In 2C we have been celebrating by learning how to write in Chinese and learning about Chinese traditions through colouring. We also watched a video of traditional Chinese lion dances! Take a look at our photos!

Year 1 - Hispanic Day in 1P

We had a lovely day today, celebrating everything HIspanic! In We focused on Equador. We learnt about the artist Guayasmin, we had a flamenco and story telling session and made some fans for art

Year 1 - Animals

In Science our topic is Animals including Humans. We have been learning about animal classifications. We sorted animals out into different groups; reptiles, birds, amphibians, mammals and fish

Year 1 - 1T's Weather Report

In Cross Curricular, 1T have been learning about the weather. We identified different types of weather, explored weather in the British Isles and looked at weather in different countries around the world. We then made our very own weather report and had lots of fun creating it!

Year 1 - 1P's Weather Forecast

In Cross Curricular, Year 1 have been learning about the weather. We made our own weather forecast video in 1P, talking about weather all over the world. We had a great time!

Year 1 - 1P Zoo Lab

1P had the Zoo Lab in to visit this morning. We were very excited! We saw a giant snail, a cockroach, a frog, a snake and a gerbil. We were able to touch the animals and lots of us even held them! We learnt lots about the animals and had a lovely time

Year 1 - 1P Learn About the Hackney Martian

1P learnt about the Hackney Martian today! We did some role-play, acting out different parts and imagining how the characters might feel. We think we know how was in the spaceship in the hop garden now

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 2 - 2C Class Assembly - Great Fire of London

What do you know about newspaper reports and the Great Fire of London? In 2C, we know a lot about both of these topics and did our class assembly on it. We also sang a song about the Great Fire of London and it included a lot of helpful signs to help us remember the words of the song. Have a watch...

Year 2 - Venn Diagrams Using Materials

Today (14th January 2019) while looking at what materials everyday objects were made of, we learnt about Venn diagrams because objects like scissors and computers are made of plastic AND metal! We used a Venn diagram to show that objects can be part of 2 categories. A lot of everyday materials are...

Year 2 - Maths: Adding Using the Column Method

It's been a fabulous week of learning in Maths. Year 2 have been learning how to add using the column method; regrouping in ones. They practiced with dienes where they learnt how to 'Stop and Swap' moving the 1 ten in the tens column

Year 2 - Time

The children in 2K had a fun lesson learning all about time. They learnt how to identify, quarter past, half past, quarter to and on the clock. We then extended our learning by using other time intervals

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 - SS Empire Windrush

As it is Black History Month, we have been learning about the Windrush! After talking and watching videos about the Windrush, we went on the Daubeney Bus and used Legos to build our own versions of SS Empire Windrush! Take a look at our photos!

Year 2 - Space and Astronauts at the Science Museum

Year 2 visited the Science Museum to learn about space and astronauts. We had fun looking at space shuttles, space capsule, what food astronauts eat in space and we saw a piece of the moon! It was very exciting! We learnt about Yuri Gagarin who made history in 1961 when he became the first human to...

Year 2 - Science: Plants

We had a great start to our Science lesson by learning about plants. We discussed what we already know about plants and to our surprise we realised that we actually know quite a lot! We worked as a group to complete a KWL chart about what we KNOW, what we WANT to learn and later would fill in what...

Year 2 - Planting Onions

In Science, we are learning about plants! Last week we learnt about what a plant needs to grow and live. This week, we refreshed our memories and put this to the test. In class, we planted some beans where we made some predictions of how they might turn out in different conditions. After that, we...

Year 2 - Living Things and Their Habitats

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

Year 2 - 2C Postal Museum

After work week, we went to the postal museum to learn more about the history of mail in the UK. Royal Mail plays a really big part in making sure our mail gets to where it needs to be! At the Postal Museum, we learnt through play and Alan took us around the museum to learn about how mail used to...

Year 2 - Great Fire of London

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

Year 2 - Giving Intructions Using Imperative Verbs

In literacy we this week, Year 2 have been learning how to give intructions using imperative verbs. As part of a practical lesson, the children gave each other instructions using imperative verbs while making a jam sandwich

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 - Conscience Alley

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

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 - 2C Singing the Continent Song

Last week in Year 2, we learnt about the continents by singing a song about it! 2C loved the song so much that they can’t stop singing it! Here is a video of our class singing the continent song. Do you know all 7 continents?

Year 3 Maths Workshop

Year 3 took part in Maths workshop led by Mr Naidoo. The children were challenged through a series of activities to test their mathematical knowledge. They first of all began with a test of their times table where they had a set time to answer as many times table questions as they can. They later...

Year 3 Numeracy - Autumn 2015

In numeracy we have been focusing on subtraction and addition via column method, partitioning, and using a number-line. We have also been doing weekly multiplication test and mental maths test to improve our at home learning

Year 1 - 1L's Weather Report

1L have been learning about weather in Cross Curricular this half term. We have been identifying different types of common weather, learning about some types of extreme weather, and we have watched lots of weather reports. We had fun making our own weather report last week!

Year 5 - African Dance Workshop

As part of our Black and African history month, Year 5 had a fun dance workshop this afternoon (17th Octover 2018) where they learnt many dancer skills and movements. The children put together a dance routine and demonstrated a high level of energy. It was so much fun!

Year 5 - Creating Navajo Patterns

The Year 5 children enjoyed creating their traditional Navajo patterns, based on learning in the class. The children studied different designs and patterns and identified the bold colours used by the Native Americans. We hope to paint our designs on white material so the children can take them home...

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 - Book Corner

The children in 5M were extremely proud of their book corner today (3rd April 2019) when they re-packed the booked corner ensuring their learning space is a space that not only looks good, but has a welcoming feel to read books for pleasure. 5M would like to welcome anyone to come along and read in...

Year 5 - Balance Arguments

Today (15th January 2019) the Year 5 pupils were engaged in an activity where they had to compile points for and against. Our topic of discussion was ' should we allow a zoo to operate'. The children came up with some interesting arguments, points and opinions about the topic. We then...

Year 5 - Author Karen McCombie Visits for World Book Day

The Year 5 children were delighted to meet an author today (27th February 2018), Karen McCombie , who came in today and spoke to children about writing books. They were introduced to new writing techniques and were amazed to learn what it takes to write a book. The children are enjoying their World...

Year 5 - Ancient Greeks at The British Museum

Year 5 visited the Ancient Greek exhibit in the British Museum. We had lots of fun exploring and imitating some of the sculptures. 'I think it was interesting because of how the Ancient Greeks crafted the artefacts' - Brandon, 5C 'I liked the fact that we had fun while learning....

Year 5 - 5MC IntoUniversity

Yesterday (26th February 2019) 5MC visited IntoUniversity to learn about university life. During the workshop, 5MC learned about degrees, accommodation, university locations and clubs and societies. Would you like to go to university? What degree would you study? Why?

Year 5 - Drama Workshop

Year 5 learned about creativity in drama today. The students had to create magic worlds, draw them, make sounds for them and act them out. It was a very fun workshop!

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 5 - 5M Sustainability Pledge

This week (Spring Term 1 Week 6) the children learnt all about the dangers of plastic pollution. The class made a pledge to help put a stop to plastic polluting our oceans

Year 5 - 5M IntoUniversity: Engineering and Design

5M had an amazing learning time at our whole day session at IntoUniversity. The children had a whole day focused on engineering and designing activities and participated in many hands on activities

Year 5 - 5M Developing Mathematical Skills Using IXL

The children enjoyed their session today when they used online learning tool to develop their mathematical skills. The children logged on to IXL and practised the objectives that we visited in Autumn Term. Children are encouraged to keep practising their maths skills at home using IXL

Year 5 - 5F Trip to IntoUniversity

Today (28th February 2019), 5F participated in a workshop at IntoUniversity. The children were engaged in activities to learn more about university life. Well done to everyone, especially Amira and Ronnie, who received congratulatory postcards for their effort!

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 - Cross Curricular: Crime and Punishment

In Year 5, we are learning about crime and punishment. Today (8th March 2019), we played a board game to see how crime and punishment worked in Anglo Saxon times. It was very interesting to see how their punishments differed to our modern ones!

Year 5 - Eco Active Workshop

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

Year 4 Visit Wahaca in Liverpool Street

Year 4 were lucky enough to visit the famous Wahaca restaurant in Liverpool Street. They learned that maths and literacy are both very important in the workplace. First they used their maths skills to add up a customer's bill. Then they made some delicious guacamole and ate it with chips!...

Year 5 - Literacy and Art

Today (27th February 2019) the children in Year 5 were excited when we had a cross curricular learning session, Literacy and Art, and created our own dragons based on the writing we did this week. The children watched an animated clip about a dragon slayer and re-told the story with their own...

Year 5 - RE Day: Sikhism

The children in year 5 had their RE day today (10th January 2019) and studied the beliefs and values of the Sikh faith and community. They took part in a range of activities; designed a Gurdwara, create a poster for Vaisakhi, learnt about the Golden temple and studied the importance and...

Year 5 - RE Day: Christian Values

The Year 5 children were engaged today in our RE day, where we explored Christian Values and learnt about parables and their meanings

Year 5 - RE Day

Today in Year 5 we were learning about the teachings of Buddhism. We learned about how Buddhism began and we discussed the teachings of Buddha such as The Four Noble Truths

Year 5 - Percentages

The children in Year 5 today (13-11-2018) worked extremely well, developing their learning to find different percentages of amounts. We first found 10% then used this to find other amounts, like 5%, 20% and 25%. Encourage your child at home to practice finding different percentages of amounts and...

Year 5 - Our Planets

The Year 5 children published their non-chronological reports about their planets and used their planets that they designed to create a wonderful display in class. Their learning saw how they used their Literacy skills and Science skills, combining them to create a wonderful display

Year 5 - Literacy Unit

Year 5 had an exciting week back in school. They started their Literacy unit this term and are learning all about travel leaflets. The children will be creating their own travel leaflet based on their topic - North America. The children are excited to learn all about North America, the culture,...

Year 5 - LEXIA Superstars

The children in Year 5 have been developing their learning today (3rd April 2019) using a programme called Lexia, which enables pupils to build on their knowledge and skills in reading and writing. The pupils have been working to improve their sentence structures and vocabulary

Year 5 - ecoACTIVE Bugs

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

Year 5 - Junior Scientist

Today (5h February 2019) the Year 5 children used their moon phase home learning to help them create a scientific poster. Their posters included the different phases of the moon and many relevant facts about the moon. This helped the Year 5 children understand the importance of sharing and...

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 - IntoUniversity: Space

The children in Year 5M had a wonderful session at INTO UNIVERSITY, where they studied the planets, the galaxy and outer space. The children were also treated to a Scientist, who had a rather strange piece of equipment, who taught them even more about our solar system. The activities and the...

Year 5 - Imperial War Museum

Year 5 visited the Imperial War Museum where they had to chance to deepen their knowledge on World War 2. They thoroughly enjoyed the clips that they saw in the museum and were astounded by the artefacts. "I found the museum very interesting and I learnt about the disastrous bombs that landed...

Year 5 - Fractions With Like Denominators

Today (1st November 2017) the Year 5 children enjoyed their group work lesson, where they learnt to add fractions with like denominators. The children worked well in a group, supporting each other and extended their learning by adding mixed numbers. Today was another example of great learning in...

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 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 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 3's Black History Month

In honour of Black History Month, the Year 3 students went on a trip to Sutton House. We were given a Black History Month activity trial where we learned all about famous historical black leaders. We had alot of fun, and we each got an educational booklet to take home

Year 4 - Hispanic Day - Making Inca Masks

Year 4 had a wonderful time making their Peruvian Inca masks as part of their Hispanic Day learning. We learnt that the Inca worshipped the sun, moon and stars and all of their masks had abstract, symmetrical patterns. Take a look at their brilliant creations! “I am really enjoying Hispanic...

Year 4 - Mummification

This term, Year 4 have been studying life in Ancient Egypt and on Wednesday, learnt about 'mummification'. They learnt the fascinating yet queasy facts about why and how it was done. As an activity, they pretended to be Embalmers and mummify an orange. They loved the activity, getting messy...

Year 4 - Meditation

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

Year 4 - Lego Workshop

Year 4 had an interesting Lego workshop organised by the City Year team. They had a wonderful time learning about coding and robotics and put all this knowledge into use. Take a look at what they got up to!

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 4 - Internet Safety Day

For Internet Safety Day, Year 4 learnt about the internet and how we can use it safely. We spoke about social media and privacy settings. The children also spoke about their own experiences and learnt about how important it is to report anything to an adult and when to use the 'block'...

Year 4 - Indian Inspired Tapestries

Year 4 have been creating Indian inspired tapestries. We learned lots of new seeing skills. Take a look at the results

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 4 - Natural History Museum

Year 4 had a great time at the Natural History Museum where we visited the Volcanoes and Earthquakes exhibition and were able to consolidate and develop our learning. Not only were children able to look at artefacts but they also had the chance to experience what an earthquake feels like on a...

Year 4 - Eco-Active Workshop

As part of an Eco-Active workshop, Year 4 went on a trip around the local area to 'map their neighbourhood' and survey litter. The children were very excited to pick up litter and learn more about recycling

Year 4 - Designing Bridges

Year 4 have been learning about how maths and literacy are important in the world of work. In maths this week, Year 4 were designing their very own bridge, just as an architect would! They then used their design to create a model of it. Mikey said "I loved building the model, it was so much...

Year 4 - Board Games

Year 4 started their Summer term by playing and learning about board games. The children had a lot of fun during lessons and even got to start planning their own board games

Year 4 - 4K Trip to Lego Headquarters

4K enjoyed an amazing trip to Lego Headquarters where we took part in hands-on activities. We built robots, had a go at programming and concluded with team races. We also played memory games, learnt about the history of the Lego family and tested the newest Lego video games. Take a look at some of...

Year 4 - 4C Work Week 2019

4C had the opportunity to visit Pizza East in Kentish Town to learn about Literacy and Numeracy in the workplace. They learnt about all the different skills needed for doing different jobs and even had a go making some pizzas and mocktails! "This is the best trip we've had so far!" -...

Year 4 - #PassOnPlastic

Year 4 created pledges to #PassOnPlastic. This is such a great challenge and if you check the hashtag, you will find that over 100 MPs have also created pledges to do the same! Children learnt about the responsibility of humans to protect the global environment. They also learnt about simple...

Year 4 - Natural History Museum

Year 4 went on a trip to the Natural History Museum to learn about earthquakes. We had a really exciting day and even experienced what an earthquake would feel like!

Year 4 - Natural History Museum Trip

Year 4 had a fantastic learning experience at the Natural History Museum to explore more about our topic of Earthquakes. Through dramatic film footage, exhibits of earthquake rocks and fossils and interactive games we learnt how destructive earthquakes can be. We even had a feel of what it was like...

Year 4 Trip to Suleymaniye Mosque

As part of Religious Education (RE), Year 4 had a great time visiting Suleymaniye Mosque in Hackney. We were able to learn about Islam and Muslims' place of worship. The imam (religious leader) took us on a tour of the mosque and answered any questions we had. 'We learnt new things that we...

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 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 Swimming at The Aquatics Centre

For the past two weeks, Year 4 have been attending the famous Aquatics Centre in Stratford. They were learning how to swim with professional swimming instructors. By the end of the two weeks, everyone passed their swimming test!

Year 4 Have Had a Great First Week Back!

They have shared what they did during the summer holidays and have got to know their class teachers better. They have also jumped right into Year 4 learning for RE day where they learnt about Judaism. Have a look at the concentration on their faces!

Year 4 - Working Collaboratively Through Role Play

After a restful holiday, Year 4 are back and rearing to go! We had a great time stimulating our imagination and working collaboratively through our role playing lessons in Literacy. 'I enjoyed role-playing the mum in the story because I learnt how to use more adjective in my sentences and I...

Year 4 - Woodberry Wetlands

Year 4 were very lucky to go on a trip to Woodberry Wetlands where they had first-hand experience seeing all the creatures that they have been learning about in Science. At first the children were scared and didn't want to get their hands dirty but by the end of the day everyone was brave...

Year 4 - Wahaca

Year 4 were lucky enough to visit the famous Wahaca restaurant in Liverpool Street. They learned that maths and literacy are both very important in the workplace. First they used their maths skills to add up a customer's bill. Then they made some delicious guacamole and ate it with chips!...

Year 4 - Viking Helmets

This week, Year 4 were creating Viking helmets to help them understand life during that era. They were able to identify the key features of a Viking hat, along with discussing where the Vikings conquered between AD793 to 1066. They had a great time and are looking forward to learning more about...

Year 4 - PE: Dancing

Year 4 have been lucky enough to have a dance instructor come in to teach them during PE. They have learnt a range of moves and are building their confidence up to perform in front of others. Have a look at some of their moves!

Year 4 - Viking Helmets

Year 4 had an exciting week creating Viking helmets. Did you know that the real Viking helmets did not have horns? Take a look at the pictures below to see how they really looked! "Before learning about the Vikings, I thought their helmets had horns" - Zakaria "It was so much fun to...

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

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

Year 4 - Sound

Year 4 are learning all about sound this half term. They have started their first session with a practical lesson about vibrations and the sounds that they make. They have also shared some questions that they have about sound. I challenge Daubeney students to find out the answers and comment below!

Year 4 - SEAL- Odd Socks Day

Year 4 had a great SEAL session today discussing Odd socks day. We spoke about how we are different in some ways and all similar in other ways. We also spoke about accepting one another for who we are and having a growth mindset. We chose to wear odd socks today to show that it is OK to be...

Year 4 - Science: How Sound Travels

In our Science lessons this term, Year 4 have been exploring sound and how sound travels. We have learned that sound is created by vibrations and travels in waves. During this lesson, we wanted to test how sound travels through different materials. We did this by attaching some string onto a metal,...

Year 4 - Science: How Our Bodies Work

...and how they work. One of our Learning Questions was 'How can different liquids affect our teeth' and we were able to investigate that in class! If you want to find out more, ask our Year 4 students about how we conducted the experiment and the results we found!...

Year 1 - 1P Class Assembly (May 2018)

Thank you to everyone who came to watch 1Ps Class Assembly. We were very excited to show you what we have learnt and we hope you enjoy it

Year 1 - 1L Visit Virgin Trains in Euston Station

1L had a great trip on Tuesday to visit Virgin Trains in Euston Station as part of work week. We had fun exploring a train and split into groups to learn more. We visited the train shop and found out what it would be like to work there. We took a seat in first class! We also spent time with the...

Year 5 - Self and Peer Assessment

Today (1st February 2019) the Year 5 used their learning in our Balanced Argument unit and assessed their work. They first started with self-assessment, where they identified their strengths and what they did well in the unit. Each pupil then paired up with a friend to peer-assess their learning....

1A - Odd and Even Numbers

In maths we have been learning about Odd and Even numbers. We sorted numicons into odd and even

1Ps Class Assembly - Autumn 2018

Thank you to everyone who came to our assembly, we worked very hard learning our words, songs and remembering what order we were in!

1Ps Class Assembly - 18th January 2017

Thank you to everyone who came to see our assembly today. We worked very hard learning lots of songs and our lines. Unfortunately, we only managed to capture a snippet but we hope you like it!

1FA - Maths Week

For Maths Week we had a fun assembly where we learned about shapes. We also had a great workshop where we worked together as a team to solve puzzles and problems. It was fun!

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...

1B's trip to Sainsbury's

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

1A Visit Sainsbury's in Camden

1A went on a trip to Sainsbury's in Camden. 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 and filled jam doughnuts in the bakery. We had...

4G - European Swimming Championships

4G had an amazing time at the European Swimming Championships. We learned all about the different techniques for swimming and saw athletes competing for a place at Rio 2016!

2G Learn About Instruction Writing

2G have been learning about instruction writing. They had the opportunity to make a jam sandwich, before they had to write the instructions of how to make a sandwich. I think they would all agree the best part was being able to eat their sandwiches

4G - Now Press Play Workshop

4G LOVED their Now Press Play electricity workshop. We learned about insulators and conductors and sustainable energy sources

6S - Spanish Dictionary Challenge

This week, 6S took on a new challenge on their Spanish learning by using a Spanish online dictionary and translation websites to be able to understand and independently translate a text. They used their expertise in dealing with the Spanish alphabetical order confidently to be able to look up...

Boys Book Club - 23rd April 2019

Today (23rd April 2019) the boys book club enjoyed a story all about Saint George and his amazing adventures. The boys were encouraged to research more information about St. George and learn more facts about the interesting character

Blue Class Assembly

Blue class shared their learning this week. They talked about new years resolutions. They were very confident reading out their work. Blue Class also shared their Pictogram, they told everybody about what information the pictogram shows. They ended their assembly with a song "Wheels on the...

Blue Class - Language Walk

Blue Class children and parents went on a language walk to the Hackney Marshes, walked by the canal. Miss Poppy our speech therapist provided top tips to develop listening skills, and how to help your children to learn new words

Black History Month 2017

Black History Month is celebrated annually for the remembrance of important people and events in the history of the African heritage. During the month of October, this is a time when communities and schools give special attention to learning about the contributions and history of black people. When...

BBC Breakfast - Meeting Andy Murray

We are absolutely delighted to be featured on the BBC once again! This time, it's summer and it's Wimbledon! A huge congratulations to Hamnah in 5O for being invited by the BBC to meet the World No.1 tennis champion – Sir Andrew Murray OBE - at the prestigious Queen’s Club in...

Alexia Performs 'Long Way Home' For Our Singing Assembly

Alexia learned this song back in Year 3 and it is still one of her favourites. I think we can all agree, her voice is amazing! Well done Alexia

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...

4G Making a Collaborative Collage of the UK

We used our map reading skills to find discover the four countries of the United Kingdom including their capital cities. We made a huge collaborative collage of the UK to show off what we have learned and we'll be adding more detail as the term goes on... Come and test our geography learning...

5O - IntoUniversity

Year 50 had a wonderful time at IntoUniversity, where they learnt about courses offered at university, places to stay, clubs and societies that are available to join. next term they will return to the workshop for a whole day, where they will study a subject in more detail

5M and 2K - Peer Tutors

The Year 5M children were excited on Friday the 17th March because they became Peer Tutors and helped the year 2K children to develop their learning by supporting them with their Next Steps. The Year 2 children were even more excited because they got to do their learning in the Year 5 class. Mr...

5M African Drumming Session

As part of our Black History Month, the children in 5M were excited to take part in a drumming session, where they learnt about rhythm, pattern and tone

5M - Meet the Tribe

Year 5M had an amazing sharing assembly where they shared their learning about the Native American Culture

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...

4G Visit Wahaca in Westfield

For Work Week 4G visitited Wahaca restaurant in Westfield. We had the best time and learned about all about being chefs, waiters and restaurant managers

Boys Can Sing!

It was a pleasure to have our boys take part in the third annual 'Boys Can Sing' event at City Academy. As per usual our students made us very proud, and they had the chance to sing with winner of the 'Voice' 2014 Jermaine Jackman. All credit to Mr O'Flynn for his on-going hard...

Year 1 - Outdoor Learning

1A really enjoyed doing outdoor learning this week as part of our mental health week. We had literacy, maths and story time outside. We also did meditating in the hop garden. It made us feel calm and relaxed and we were able to concentrate and focus better

Reading Skills

Reading Skills At Daubeney we develop our love of reading and comprehension by using the 7 reading skills: predicting, inferring, clarifying, summarising, making connections, evaluating and asking questions. You learnt how to use these in in your reading sessions with your teacher and have them...

Year 1 - Science in 1S

Last week, 1S ventured into the hop garden to investigate our topic: 'nature around us' We loved being outdoors, looking at (and listening to) all that was around us. We loved the tomato and raspberry plant, carefully observing that different stages of the growth cycle - we especially liked...

Year 2 - RE Day - Autumn 2020

For RE Day in Year 2, we were learning about Hinduism. We found out that Hindu God’s encourage Hindus to be good people. In one of our lessons, we thought about our own role-models and explained why they inspired us to be good children

Year 1 - RE Day - Autumn 2020 - Harvest Festival

1A have been finding out why and how do people celebrate the harvest festival. We have been singing songs and making thank you cards for all the things we are grateful for. We also learnt what 'harvest' means and which food items can be harvested

First Week in Year 6 - Autumn 2020

The children have all settled in fantastically to their new classrooms. We have already begun working on maths, spelling & handwriting and literacy. We have started our class reader 'Under the Lights' so make sure to ask the children what is happening in the story when they get home....

Virtual Assembly - 1st May 2020

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Virtual Assembly - 28th April 2020

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Parent Guide to Home Learning

School Council Elections 2020/21

...the classrooms instead of the Learning Mentors. But, this did not dampen spirits and the usual excitement of election day was there. The results of the successful councillors will be announced soon....

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 6 - Spelling Test and Easter Home Learning

Hi Year 6 Here’s this weeks spelling test but please watch the whole video and see where you can access some different resources over the Easter holiday. There will also be battles on TTRS, activities on busy things and of course all the amazing and fun things we will add to the website over...

Ms Shaikh's Banana Bread Recipe

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a wonderful time playing, learning and creating at home! In my spare time I love to cook, so today I wanted to share one of my favourite recipes with you: banana bread! Hopefully my video will make it super easy to make some banana bread of your own, showing...

Origami with Miss Cheung - Paper Crane

...crane by following this video!...

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...

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...

Nurture Group - Year 2: Science

In science we have also been learning about the weather so we decided to go and have a look at the clouds and learn their different names. We used a creative lesson to recreate them

Year 5 - Geography: Tanzania

This week we have been learning about physical and human geography of Tanzania. Physical geography are natural landmarks such as mountains and beaches and human geography are man made landmarks such as buildings and cities. Where in Tanzania would you like to visit?

Year 2 - RE Day

We learnt about Hanukkah today, the Jewish celebration! We started off the day by learning the story through role play and picture sequencing. Then we learnt about Jewish symbols. Finally we had a relaxing afternoon by sketching a picture

Nurture Group - Year 1: Nature All Around Me

In Science we have been learning about Nature all around me. We collected leaves to observe the different colours they change into during the Autumn season. We then used tin foil and sponges to paint our own leaves. The group then decided to make some butterflies to add to our nature display

WOW Day in Year 2 - Why is the weather different?

In Year 2 we have been learning about weather. We used painted to make leaves look like the four seasons for our display and made extreme weather reports!

Year 5 - WOW Day

Today we learned specifically about the Maasai tribe of Tanzania. We then designed and created our own Maasai inspired jewellery. We had a really fun afternoon, have a look!

Spanish - KS1: My name, Parts of the day and Greetings

Pupils in KS1 have been learning how to introduce themselves in Spanish. They can ask other people their names and say who they are. They have also been learning the parts of the day and greetings in Spanish. They really enjoyed learning through songs and games

Nurture Group - Year 1 - National Outdoor Learning Day

On National outdoor learning day we went to Daubeney Fields. We did some fine motor skill activities, cross circular and some maths. "I loved it today" "My favourite part was the walk in the woods" 'My favourite part was making bubbles and catching them"

Year 2 - Celebrating African Fashion

Today in Year 2 we learnt about different fashions in Africa. We focused specifically on jewellery and the different styles. We made our very own necklaces, inspired by the bright and bold prints in Africa!

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 6 - Present Exceptional Figures in Black History

Year 6 have been carrying out some extraordinary home learning and put together some very informative and inspirational presentations about some exceptional figures in black history

Nurture Group - Year 1: Jack and the Beanstalk

In literacy we have been learning about the Jack and the Beanstalk. We used paint and tissue paper to make a picture. We retold the story and used role play to act it out

Year 3 - Maths: Multiplication

Today in maths Year 3 have been learning about multiplication. We started by using repeated addition. The children used place value counters and charts to show their work

Year 3 - Maths Word Problems

In maths, Year 3 have been solving word problems using the addition and subtraction skills they have been learning

Nursery - We Have Been Learning About the Sense of Sight

We have been learning about ours senses. We have been learning about how we use our eyes to investigate the world. We read ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see?’ We even made our very own binoculars. We loved using them outside

Nursery - We Have Been Learning About the Sense of Hearing

We have been learning about ours senses. We have been learning about how we use our ears to investigate the world. We read ‘Polar Bear, Polar Bear what do you hear?’ We even made our very own giant listening ears. We loved using them everywhere

Nursery - We Have Been Learning About Shapes

We have been learning about shapes. We can name the different shapes we have used. We have been using shapes to make everyday objects. Can you tell what we have made?

Nurture Group - Year 2: Seasons

We have been learning about our seasons in year 2. We recreated the seasons using oil pastels

Year 4 - 4M Outdoor Learning Space

Today, 11th May 2021, the children in Year 4M enjoyed the opportunity to do their daily times table assessment in the Hop Garden as part of our outdoor learning for Mental Health Week. The children found the outside calming and soothing and was a nice place to focus while completing their times...

Year 4 - 4S Mental Health Awareness

For PHSE, 4S went into the Hop Garden and meditated to observe the natural sounds around them which links to what they are currently learning in science. They were able to draw, say and write why it is important to take care of your mental health through regular walks, meditation and turning off...

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...

Year 4 - 4S Outdoor Maths Session

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

Year 1 - 1L Science: Parts of the Human Body

This week in Science we have been learning about human body parts, as part of our Animals including Humans topic. We used sticky notes to label the parts of the body that we know!

Spanish Champions 2021-22

We have selected our wonderful Spanish Champions for this school year. They are ready to help everyone in the school to love & learn more Spanish

Maths with Year 5

Today, Year 5 went on a treasure hunt to see if we could remember mathematical vocabulary such as prime numbers, square numbers, factors and multiples. ‘I liked solving the maths puzzles’ - Katie ‘I liked that we got to go outside and run around and we were learning all at the same time’ -...

Year 6 - 6M Outdoor Learning

On Thursday, 4-11-2021, the children in 6M enjoyed their maths lesson in Daubeney fields. They created and identified different angles, measured and estimated various lengths and also enjoyed a reading session in Hackney Marshes

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...

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 4 - 4S Diwali Workshop

4S enjoyed a Diwali workshop where they learnt about the story surrounding the festival of light and they achieved this through stories, song and dance

Year 4 - 4B Sharing Assembly: Egyptian Cinderella

In 4B, we have been learning about the Ancient Egyptians so for our sharing assembly, we read a book called the Egyptian Cinderella and acted out the story. We had great fun learning more about the Egyptians

Year 4 - 4B Diwali Workshop

4B had an amazing time learning about the origin story of Diwali and who the important people are

Year 3 - Outdoor Learning Day

In Year 3 we got our coats on and went outside for some outdoor learning! We used outdoor resources to solve maths problems in Mabley Green. After, we went to Daubeney Fields and linked it to our whole class book for literacy

Year 1 Phonics Outside

As part of outdoor learning day, some of Year 1 took their phonics lessons outside!

Year 1 - 1S Outdoor Learning

Today, 1S took their learning outside! We did some part whole maths in the hop garden, using autumn leaves to help us add with hoops!

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!

Outdoor Learning in Reception

We love playing and learning outside!

Year 1 - 1L Shape Hunt

This week we have been learning about 2D shapes - we can name each shape and describe how many sides and corners each shape has. We went on a shape hunt around the school to see which shapes we can find in our environment!

Year 5 - RE Day: What Happened to Islam in the Middle Ages?

We learnt all about the Five Pillars of Islam and even discussed what Islam was like during the middle ages. Did you know that they went through a Golden Age, where learning and inventions were thriving in the capital of Baghdad, whilst most of the rest of the world was going through the Dark Ages?...

Year 4 - Wow Day: Crayon Resist

For Wow Day in Year 4, we learnt about the technique of crayon wax resist where you draw something in crayon and paint over it. We were able to create amazing artwork of Mount Everest as a result

Year 4 - Outdoor Lesson: PHSE

In our outdoor lesson, we learnt about resilience. We created dens, structure and art using natural materials. Then certain children were chosen to destroy them which helped us to understand what is resilience and how can we overcome when we are hurt

Year 4 - 4B PSHE: Resilience

In 4B, we have been learning about resilience and how we can deal with being disappointed and not letting it consume us. We created a song that we either rapped or sang about making a new plan or setting a new goal and how we can cope with these situations

Year 5 - Science: Filtering and Sieving

This week we learnt about another 2 separation processes: Filtering and Sieving. We learn about how these are both reversible changes through our experiment!

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 5 - Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese New Year! Did you know that it is the Year of the Tiger? Year 5s have been learning to write important greetings in Chinese that is traditionally said to others during the New Year to show respect!

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 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...

Year 5 - Computing: SMART

What are the responsibilities and support when we are online? In Year 5 today, we learnt about SMART, which helps us stay safe on the internet. We discussed our thoughts and took notes on Purple Mash

Year 5 - Maths Outdoor Learning

To start off our long division topic in Year 5, we took our learning outdoors and thought about how we could divide large numbers. We spent the morning drawing out our learning on the playground in chalk!

Year 4 Writing Club - 12th January 2021

Today in Writing Club, we learnt about calligraphy and how important it is. We saw everyday examples of calligraphy and watched a video on how we can do calligraphy. We used our current spelling words to create posters

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 5 - Maths - Multiplying 2 Digit Numbers

We are learning to multiply 2 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers and to help us understand what we are doing, we used dienes and worked with our partners to answer questions together

Year 6 Mapping Day

The children in Year 6 had a fun day today, 10-1-2022, learning all about maps. They used a grid reference map today to locate places. Then used direction and instructions and drew their own map when they designed their own creating their own suburb

Reception Trip to St Barnabas Church

Reception enjoyed their first out of school trip to St Barnabas Church, where we learnt about the Story of Christmas. We dressed up as the characters and acted out the nativity. We had so much fun!

Year 5 - Wow Day - Tanzania

How would you prepare to climb Mount Kilimanjaro? To end our geography topic we had a wonderful WOW Day where we recapped all of our learning and answered the overarching question. Then, we spent the rest of the day learning about the Maasai people. We created posters all about them and the ways...

Year 5 - Maths Outside

Today we took our statistics learning outside! We created a tally chart by noting down all of the different types of vehicles that passed us. We saw way more vehicles than we predicted we would find!

Year 4B - Outdoor Learning

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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...

Year 5 Mapping Skills Day

To start our Geography topic off, we refreshed our memories of geographical skills we learnt in previous years and built onto our own knowledge by learning some new skills. We looked at 8 point compasses, 4 figure coordinates, aerial photographs and even thematic maps! To end our day we went on an...

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