Humanities - History & Geography

Intent To deliver a broad and balanced curriculum, which includes ensuring children are able to access cross curricular subjects like Geography, History and RE regularly. To have a deeper understanding of the world that we live in by learning in a cross curricular, creative and experiential way. To...

Nursery

...nt Communication and Language Literacy Mathematics Understanding the World Expressive Arts and Design The prime areas begin to develop quickly in response to relationships and experiences, and run through and support learning in all other areas. In addition, there are four specific areas ...

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...

Literacy

...itted to raising standards in Literacy and follow the National Curriculum in order maintain accurate...... fluent writing – using the tripod grip in almost all cases EYFS Literacy ELG Comprehension D...

Inclusion

Launchpad for Language The school have invested in an exciting early years package with the Speech and Language Therapy service. Listening and talking are the key foundation skills for later literacy and academic achievement. Launchpad for Language is a fun filled language enrichment programme for...

Year 6

... 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 school. Breakfast Please ensure your child has breakfast before coming to school as it can affect their focus and concent...

Starting Reception in September

...to the four specific areas: Literacy Mathematics Understanding the World Expressive Arts and Design Our Vision The Early Years at Daubeney will provide an environment that is safe, happy, warm, stimulating, challenging and fun. Our holistic approach ensures children become confident, inspir...

Home Learning

Home Learning is an activity that should enhance your child’s experience so at Daubeney the activities we give all children are based on skills that will be useful and help them to learn during class time. Lower School Years R, 1 and 2 children should have 1 hour per week of home learning and...

Computing

...g and website building. Digital Literacy – covers skills to find, evaluate, utilise and share using technologies and the Internet. This includes important e-safety and internet research skills, as well as an understanding of computer networks in Key Stage 2. Impact Children can save their work ...

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...

About our Curriculum

...ed curriculum with Numeracy and Literacy at the heart of all learning. Skills and knowledge are taug...... developed in different subjects. Literacy Reading At Daubeney, we ensure that our children are taug...

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

Year 6 - Literacy: Speeches

This week, we have been working on writing speeches about things that matter to us - the environment and our library. We performed these speeches in front of our peers today!

Year 6 - Literacy: Protests

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

Year 3 - Art and Literacy

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Year 2 - Art and literacy

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

Junior Literacy Team 2023/2024

...embers of the Daubeney Junior Literacy Team! They are very eager to share their passion for reading ......orting Ms Lester in promoting Literacy across the school through assemblies and events. They will al...

Daubeney Book Corners

... is your favourite?...

Year 3 - Literacy Autumn 2 2023

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

Year 2 - Literacy: Exploring the narrative of Vlad and The Great Fire of London

...been taking part in immersive Literacy lessons to really imagine what it would have been like during the Great Fire of London, for Vlad the flea and Boxton the rat. We used lots of fun techniques to help us remember all of the details of the important points in the story....

Year 3 Literacy in the Stone Age

The children in Year 3 had fun today creating ancient paper which they had to travel back into the Stone Age and teach the people how to make. They will use their papers to create a diary entry all about their experience during the Stone Age which is based on the book we are reading

Year 3 Kingfisher Class - Art and Literacy

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

Year 6 - Literacy: Freeze Frames

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

Year 2 - Literacy: Explore the characters

We have done lots of fun work recently exploring the characters in our story. We made posters for role on the wall, allowing us to think of adjectives to describe the characters inner and outer personality, as well as making our own character puppets

Year 2 - Literacy: Explore the World

This week we have focused on exploring the world of the story. We began by making collages to explore scenes of London in the past and during the fire. We thought about what London would have been like in 1666, discussing the locations in the story. We used masking tape to map out the setting,...

Year 2 - Literacy: Week 5

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

Year 3 - Kingfisher Literacy

The children had a fun literacy lesson. They read a story and used the story to create their own speech bubbles. They discussed in their groups what they thought the characters might be saying

Junior Literacy Team Trip to the Roald Dahl Museum

...ome of his stories....

Year 2 - Literacy: Extra Yarn

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

Year 6 - 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 3 - Kingfisher Literacy 2024

...en today have a fun lesson in Literacy where they designed their own front cover for the book they are reading - The Great Kapok Tree....

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 - 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 3 - Art and Literacy: September 2023

... and Kingfisher enjoyed their Literacy session today when they created their own front cover for The Great Kapok Tree. The children used their creative ideas to design a front cover....

Year 5 - Literacy: Conscience Alley

Should Harry Potter stay with the Dursley's or go with Hagrid to Hogwarts? What do you think? Would you trust going to a new school with someone you've just met? We debated this by doing a conscience alley and had some amazing arguments!

Year 2 Poetry

...ear 2 are exploring poetry in Literacy. We have looked at poems by Michael Rosen and watched videos of him reciting some of them. We read through some of his work, chose our favourite poem and then performed to the class....

Year 5 - Literacy: Himalayas Fact File

Today we created a fact file all about the Himalayas as part of our ‘Hook into a Book’. We looked at pictures of the mountains and discussed Mount Everest. We are very excited to begin our new book ‘King of cloud forest’ by Michael Morpurgo

Year 5 - Literacy Roleplay

This week we are writing a narrative based on the video Taking Flight and to help us understand the story, we used our imaginations to go on an adventure like Tony and his grandpa does in the video. Some of us flew on planes, whilst others swam through the depths of the dark, blue oceans

The Junior Literacy Team's Top Tips

... at home....

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

Year 5 - Literacy: Art-ish

Sun-ish, tree-ish, butterfly-ish, fish-ish. What do you do when your drawing looks ALMOST like the thing you meant to draw? We made art inspired by the book "Ish" to show us that even if it isn't perfect, we can all do art!

Year 3 - Literacy in the Sun

Nurture Group - Our Trip to the Post Office

...d asked him some questions....

Year 5 - Literacy: Dragon Trump Cards

To finish up our week of the Dragon Slayer, we designed our own dragons and made trump cards for them! We considered their powers, favourite food and appearance

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 5 - Literacy: Features of a Poem

This week, we are looking at poems in literacy and today we spent the lesson looking at the features of poems. We looked at different kinds of poems. Do you know what the features of a poem is?

Year 5 - Literacy: Artwork Inspired by Poetry

In today's literacy lesson, we drew some art inspired by the imagery created by the poem "Mrs McPhee" in the book "The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry" Here is the poem: Mrs McPhee Who lived in South Zeal Roasted a duckling For every meal. 'Duckling for breakfast And dinner and tea And...

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 - Literacy: Art

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

Year 2 - Art in Literacy

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

Year 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...

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...

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...

The Nest - Literacy and Maths

Our week of fun literacy and maths in The Nest

Year 5 - Literacy: Curiosity Collage

This week, we have started reading a new book called Quest. We made predictions about the book yesterday and today we created a curiosity collage, which had all our brilliant ideas that we want to include in our writing next week

Year 4 - ICT and Literacy

...cts about river pollution. In Literacy, they will be writing a letter to our Council representative about this issue....

Year 2 Literacy - Man on the Moon immersion

...is week we introduced our new Literacy topic of non-chronological reports. We are going to be focusing on the topic of astronauts and space, and so are using the book 'Man on the Moon, a day in the life of Bob' as our long burst text. We retold the story as a whole class using our 'and t...

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 - 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 5 - Literacy: Himalayas Research

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

Kingfisher - ICT in literacy

The children in Kingfisher class researched information about the Stone Age. They collected facts and made notes in their books. They will use the notes to help them write full factual sentences

Year 3 - Literacy: Stone Age

...ldren in Year 3 enjoyed their Literacy lesson today reading a story about the Stone Age. They looked at different shelters in the Stone Age period and made their own simple shelters....

Year 2 - Literacy: How to Live Forever Characters

To help us discover the different characters of the book “How to Live Forever”, we took part in some role play activities. Have a look at how we acted as each of the characters!

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 2 - Literacy: Rainforest Artwork 2025

We spent the last week of our first half term completing writing that relates to our geography topic: Hot and Cold countries. We created artwork inspired by the rainforest!

Year 2 - Literacy: Man on the Moon Drama

To start our topic, we read the story then we had lots of discussions about the story. We even acted out some parts of the story to help us remember it!

Year 4 - Literacy

The children in Year 4 were excited today to start reading our whole school book called, Greta and The Giants. The children were inspired by the character Greta and made their own placards to protest against climate change

Year 4 - Literacy and Art 2026

... class....

Rainbow Room - 2D Monkey Model

As part of our literacy focus, pupils enjoyed listening to an adult read the story “Monkey Puzzle .” This helped them explore the different characters in the story, especially the jungle animals. They then created their own 2D monkey model, based on the main character. Pupils followed...

Year 4 Hornbills - Literacy - Writing Notes

The children had fun in their literacy lesson and as part of immersion week they wrote informal notes to their friends. They then designed their own envelopes and gave their notes to their friends

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...

Rainbow Class - Transports

As part of our history and literacy learning, pupils learned about different types of transport that people use to travel. We talked about the names of different transports and how people use them. Pupils also explored transport from the past and the present, looking at how some transports have...

Year 4 Hornbills - Viking Longships

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

Year 2 - Literacy: Climate March

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

Year 2 - Literacy: Research the rainforest

To help us with our writing, we spent the lesson researching about the Daintree Rainforest in Australia. This will give us plenty of ideas when we write an informal letter to our friends

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 2 - Literacy: Vlad and the Great Fire of London character puppets

Who are the characters of the story “Vlad and the Great Fire of London”? We created character puppets to help us retell the story

Year 2 - Literacy: Vlad and the Great Fire of London hot seating

To discover more about the important characters of the story Vlad and the Great Fire of London, we spent the lesson considering each character. Then we ended the lesson with some hot seating

Year 2 - Literacy: Vlad and the Great Fire of London role-play

We start the summer term by reading and exploring a new book, Vlad and the Great Fire of London. We spent the lesson talking about the book then did some freeze frames of different parts o the story

Year 2 - Literacy: Vlad and the Great Fire of London setting

We explored the setting of London in 1666 by using masking tape to create the world. We described the setting and even used our senses to imagine what it would have been like

Rainbow Class: Coreboard Intervention (Pop The Pirate/ Colour Match)

As part of the targeted intervention session, pupils engaged in a small-group activity using the " Pop the Pirate" game, by developing communication, social, and early literacy skills. Pupils took turns inserting coloured swords into the barrel, showing good engagement and anticipation....

Year 2 - Literacy: All About Me Posters

This year, we have had the amazing opportunity to publish our own book. To inspire us to write, we started the process by creating posters all about us to show people the best parts of ourselves

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 - Literacy: Taking Flight Drama

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

Rainbow Class - The Three Little Pigs Focus (Literacy)

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

Rainbow Class: Three Three Little Pigs Literacy

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

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,...

Year 4 Research - Literacy and ICT

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

Year 2 - Literacy: The Magic Bojabi Tree Puppets

To help us with our conversations about the characters of the story, we made puppets of the characters. We considered what the character is like and decided what the expression they would have

Year 3 - Literacy: Autumn 2 2024

The children in Year 3 had the opportunity to read a selection of non-chronological reports and critiqued them based on the key features of a non chronological report

Year 5 - Literacy: A Series of Unfortunate Events Power of Play

Nurture Group - Planting

...akes us feel peaceful"...

Junior Literacy Team 2024-2025

...embers of the Daubeney Junior Literacy Team! They are very eager to share their passion for reading ......orting Ms Lester in promoting Literacy across the school through assemblies and events. They will al...

Year 3 - Kingfisher researches The Stone Age

...port that were writing in our Literacy lesson....

Year 2 - Features of reports

...ronological 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 5 - Literacy: Greek Drama

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

Year 5 - Literacy: Greek Myth Story Maps

What Greek myths do you know? We read some Greek Myths and created story maps of them! Have a look!

Year 3 - Built a Stone Age Village

...dren in Year3 had a fantastic Literacy lesson. As part of our Power of Play project the children built a village where they would be living in during the Stone Age. This week they will write a travel guide for visiting the Stone Age....

Year 5 - Trip to the British Museum

...ning 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 5 - Literacy: Power of Play

Year 3 - Kingfisher Literacy - Spring 2025

...in Kingfisher had an exciting Literacy lesson making a ship that Nelly used to sail the open seas. They have been reading Nelly and the Quest for Captain Peabody and was inspired by the ship Nelly made....

Year 3 Kingfisher - Literacy - Spring 2025

...ingfisher class enjoyed their Literacy lesson today making a treasure map as their character Nelly made in the book they are reading....

Year 5 - Literacy: Midnight Fair Power of Play

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

Year 2 - Literacy: The Magic Bojabi Tree Watercolours

To end our immersion week, we made beautiful paintings inspired by the Magic Bojabi Tree! We talked about what we could see and added adjectives to our observations then we drew it out on paper. Finally, we added water colour to make it really shine!

Year 5 - Literacy: Scene descriptions

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

Year 5 - Literacy Power of Play immersion lesson

Today we used drama to re tell the beginning of the story 'The Black Hole'. We practised moving and manipulating our bodies into shapes and characters before making freeze frames of the story, focusing on the mood and emotions of the character

Year 5 - Literacy: Power of Play (Harry Potter)

Should Harry go to Hogwarts? To help us write a balanced argument formal letter, we took part in some drama activities that got us thinking about why Harry should or shouldn’t go to Hogwarts

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: Online Reading

...election poems as part of our Literacy topic....

Year 3 - Kingfisher in The Power Of Play

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

Year 3 - Rumpelstiltskin

This week, Year 3 have been exploring the story of Rumpelstiltskin in their literacy lessons through the Power of Play sequence. They've thoroughly enjoyed their first week—acting out scenes, building a fairy tale world, and bringing their imagination and drama skills to life

Year 2 - Literacy: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

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

Year 1 Parrots - Our First Week in Year 1

Parrot class have been very busy doing maths, literacy, phonics and geography. Take a look at our amazing work!

Year 4 - Literacy

The children discussed the features of a good narrative today and created their very own information posters to display around the classroom. their posters included what features would help to make their narrative stories even better

Year 2 - Literacy: The Magic Bojabi Tree Role on the Wall

What are the characters like in the story? We thought about this by thinking about how they seem to everyone else and then what they're really like on the inside!

Year 2 - Literacy: The Magic Bojabi Tree Roleplay

We are reading The Magic Bojabi Tree! We will write a narrative about it in the next few weeks. Today we read the Magic Bojabi Tree and to help us remember the story, we did some acting and roleplay!

Year 3 Literacy - Stone Age

... report....

Junior Literacy Team 2021/2022

...embers of the Daubeney Junior Literacy Team! They are very eager to share their passion for reading ......ting Miss Fergus in promoting Literacy across the school through assemblies and events. They will al...

Year 5 - Literacy: Advertisements

Have you heard about Joe’s Plants? We have been reading The Extraordinary Gardener in Year 5 and we created advertisements based on the book

Year 3 - Making Roman Soldiers

... for their journal writing in Literacy. Have a look at their masterpieces!...

Year 1 - Goldilocks

...r the different characters....

Year 1 Trip to Homerton Library

Year 1 went on a trip to Homerton Library. Our literacy focus has been based on a story by Anthony Browne called 'Into the Forest' so the librarians read us some other stories by him. The children really enjoyed meeting Morgan and Myrna who made the stories really enjoyable for them

Year 2 - 2C Class Assembly - 15th November 2018

Today we did our first class assembly of the year! We talked about writing instructions in literacy, maps in geography and the environment in geography! Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to watch us perform! We hope you enjoyed it!

Year 2 - 2C Literacy Monsters

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

Year 2 - 2K Sharing Assembly

We had our sharing assembly yesterday (18th October 2018)! In geography, we talked about the oceans and the continents. In science, we talked about habitats and how important they are for animals. In literacy, we sang a song that narrated a story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Thank you for...

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 - 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 - Making Jam Sandwiches

In Year 2, we started off our literacy unit on Instructions. We had lots of fun making jam sandwiches with our group. We gave each other instructions on how to make the sandwich while remembering to use imperative verbs and time connectives. We took turns to give each other simple instructions. We...

Year 2 - Performing to and Reading with Year 1s

In literacy, we watched a video called 'Catchit' and retold the story in our own words. After writing the story and including our own ending, we created performances to show to the Year 1s based on our writing. After performing to the Year 1s, they invited us to read their stories with them...

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 3 - First Week Back At School

... of place value so far. In Literacy, we have been recounting our summer holidays and we are preparing to create our own comic strips based on some of the exciting things which happened over the summer; we have started off this week by exploring and recapping on some of the main features which we ...

Year 3 Author Visit

...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 lots of interesting questions...

Traditional Tales in 1D

...oices and putting on masks!...

Year 3 Literacy - Gregory Cool

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

Year 4 - 4C Trip to The Jones Family Project

... We had a chance to see how Literacy and Numeracy are used in the work place and even got to have a taste of what the chef's are really made of....

Year 4 - 4C Work Week 2019

...n 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!" - Josh...

Year 4 - Debate

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

Year 4 - 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 - 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 - Working Collaboratively Through Role Play

...h 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 liked working in a group' - Lakeyrah 'I enjoyed role-playing the wolf because it was funny when the wood-cutter had to chop me...

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 - Adverts

...lets as part of our Topic and Literacy units....

Year 5 - Biographies

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

Year 5 - Conscious Alley Role Play

The children in Year 5 had a wonderful session during our immersion lesson in literacy. They watched the story of Pandora's Box' then used various types of drama activities to explore the characters and the themes. The children used conscious alley to help them with the dilemma -top open or...

World Book Day 2019

...s Hospice. - By Kai Foo Sherwin, 6F – Literacy Team Leader...

Top Book Recommendations for KS2

...ay 10 th December, the Junior Literacy Team hosted another amazing assembly; this time for KS2. We r......y! By Kai Foo Sherwin, 6F, Junior Literacy Team Leader...

Year 5 - Headlines

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

Junior Literacy Team Meet SLT

...hursday 7th March, the Junior Literacy Team were invited to meet with Mr Logan, Mr Dharma, Ms Lucey,......omment below, speak to the Junior Literacy or Miss Fergus. Happy reading! Written by Kai Foo Sherwin......n by Kai Foo Sherwin, 6F - Junior Literacy Team Leader...

1P Class Update

What a fantastic few weeks we have had in 1P! Lots of writing and maths. We have been continuing with free flow time but focusing on writing about the gingerbread man in literacy and odd and even numbers in maths

2K - 'Me and You' by Anthony Brown

As part of our literacy unit on Traditional Tales, we have been reading the book 'Me and You' by Anthony Brown. We based our assembly on this amazing book and retold the story by creating a short trailer and rehearsed the story line. We had lots of fun practising and trying to portray the...

First Week in Year 3

...ting up to in their Maths and Literacy lessons this week: In one of their Literacy lessons, Year ......this week: In one of their Literacy lessons, Year 3 got to know the story of The Gingerbread Man ...

Literacy

...our favourite monster? Why?...

Top Book Recommendations for KS1

...’ by Roald Dahl. The books the Junior Literacy Team recommended include: The Twits by Roald Dahl......books when you were younger? The Junior Literacy Team enjoyed the assembly as much as the KS1 childr......ldren! - By Kai Foo Sherwin, 6F, Junior Literacy Team Leader...

Literacy in Nursery

Here are some example of our excellent literacy in Nursery

Literacy Parent Workshop

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Literacy Parent Workshop - January 2019

The parents and children thoroughly enjoyed our January workshop which was led by Phil McDermott, the amazing story teller. They were enthralled listening to Phil tell an entertaining story then they had the opportunity to work in pairs to create their own stories. The parents learnt about the...

Literacy Parent Workshop - March 2019

... spelling at home. The Junior Literacy team were also there to support and the team played spelling ...... 1 and 2 children. The Junior Literacy Team even invented their own games and the children and paren...

Literacy September Parent Workshop

We had a great turn out for our first literacy parent workshop of the term. KS1 parents had the opportunity to learn some fun ways to support their children with reading at home. Their children also attended and it was great to see parents and children enjoying reading together by discussing the...

November Book Fair

...n and Dejunet from the Junior Literacy team for helping Miss Fergus to organize and run the Book Fair. A special thank you to Salma, Kemari and Kelicia in Year 6 and all the adults that stayed to help out and keep the Book Fair open until 5pm so that the children in after school clubs didn’t miss ...

November Parent Workshop

We had another fantastic turn out for our second literacy parent workshop of the Autumn term. KS1 parents had the opportunity to learn some fun ways to support their children with writing at home. We had a go at using visual image to inspire children’s imagination and creativity. The parents and...

Publishing Year 5 - Newspaper Reports

The children in year 5 were focused today (27-11-2018) in their literacy sessions, where they began to publish their newspaper reports on plastic pollution. The children will get an opportunity to write another report, as a HOT TASK on Thursday on deforestation

Reception - Yellow Class Meet 'The Rainbow Fish'

Yellow have gone a journey through the sea and met 'The Rainbow Fish'. We have been learning all about what it is to be a good friend and treat others kindly. The children wrote about this as art of a literacy focus. Yellow Class have enjoyed taking part in creative activities drawing and...

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

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

Speaking and Listening in Literacy Through Drama

What are Year 2 thinking?

Year 5 - Drama and Literacy

On the 25th March 2019 the year 5 children watched a short story and use the story to help them role play scenes. The children enjoyed making up characters and having a dialogue with other characters. This week in literacy, the children will be creating their own short stories

Year 5 - Instructional Text

...d Draughts/checkers for their Literacy lesson. The class studied the instructions, evaluated them by identifying the key features and then used their knowledge to play the game. They also wrote their own instructions for a different version of the game which they designed....

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

November Book Fair 2020

...books! By Mei Foo 6FO, Junior Literacy Team Leader...

Virtual Assembly - 13th May 2020

...Junior Literacy Team...

Virtual Assembly - 14th May 2020

...Literacy Week - Writing...

Virtual Assembly - 15th May 2020

...squo;s assembly lead by Nevan....

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....

Junior Literacy Team 2020/2021

...the new members of the Junior Literacy Team! They are eager to share their passion for reading and writing with everyone at Daubeney. Watch this space for book reviews, book recommendations, Literacy tutorials, competitions and more!...

Year 4 - Literacy: 3 Little Pigs

Today the children in Year 4 were focused when they completed their stories. The children re-told the story of the 3 Little Pigs but created their own alternative ending. The children focused on using varied sentence starters, powerful adjectives, speech, editing and improving their presentation

Year 5 - Literacy with Art Focus

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

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

1L Look Up!

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

Year 4M Class Assembly - 17th November 2020

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

Year 4M Class Assembly - 19th November 2020

Today 19-11-2020 our junior science and literacy team members led our class assembly. They explained their roles and activities in the group. There was also an opportunity to ask questions

Year 4 - Literacy: Instructional Poster to Make a Smoothie

Today 8-12-2020 the children in Year 4 created their own instructional poster to make a smoothie

Virtual Assembly - 11th May 2020

...Literacy Week...

Year 4 - Literacy and Art

Today 11-12-2020 the children in Year 4 enjoyed sketching the pyramid as part of their literacy lesson- to follow instructions

Year 1 - 1L Literacy: First Week Back

1L read the story of Rainbow Fish this week and thought about what it meant to be a good friend! We acted out the story and made scales for Rainbow Fish saying how we could be a good friend. We also made compliment cards for our friends, telling them what we like about them and then made friendship...

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

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

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

Year 4M - ICT and Geography

Today, 20-5-2021, the children in 4M used their ICT skills to research information about Mt Fuji and create a non-chronological report. The children were able to use their literacy knowledge and ICT skills to create a factual report about Japans famous mountain. The children enjoyed using their...

Year 4B - The Dot - Pointillism

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Year 5 Literacy - Little Red Riding Hood

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

Nurture Group - The Little Red Riding Hood Role Play

...cutter is a brave man"...

The Junior Literacy Team Visit Everyone's Book Corners

...unior Literacy Team......vourite? By Nico, 6O - Junior Literacy Team...

Year 5 - Outdoor Learning: Literacy

After reading "The Boy Who Answered the Call of Kilimanjaro" yesterday, we roleplayed the story during our Outdoor Learning session. We found props and performance locations in the outdoors to help us truly imagine what it is like to be out in Tanzania

Virtual Assembly - 12th May 2020

...Literacy Week...

Year 5 - Comic Gallery

In literacy we have been learning about the features of comics and we create our own comics based on ancient Greek myths such as King Midas and the Golden Touch. Today we showcased our comics in Year 5 gallery and discussed what we liked about each others work. What is your favourite ancient Greek...

Year 5 - Literacy and Art

Our whole school focus book this term, 'Where's Elephant' is an amazing book about an elephant who falls victim to deforestation. The children in year 5 were excited to draw the before and after effects of deforestation. They captured the colour and size of the jungle and then showed the same...

Year 5 - Literacy and Art

...hen they were told that their Literacy lesson was actually an Art lesson. The children have been reading 'The Colour of Home' by Mary Hoffman, and have used the village image as their stimulus for today. They used various colours, crayons and colour pencils to recreate the image of the African Villa...

Year 5 - Literacy and Art

... 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 ending. Their dragons designs were amazing....

Year 5 - Literacy Unit

...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, food and geographical features....

Year 5 - Our Planets

...rning saw how they used their Literacy skills and Science skills, combining them to create a wonderful display....

Year 5 - Publishing Balanced Arguments

The Year 5 children were focused today (30th January 2019) during their literacy session where they were publishing their balanced arguments. They included the features, points for and against, evidence and a detailed explanations of their points

Year 5 - We Designed Our Own Zoo!

As part of our literacy topic, 'balanced arguments', we discussed the impact of a zoo and debated whether we should or should not have a zoo. We decided today (16th January 2019) to design our own zoo to allow animals to live in a safe environment which is similar to their natural habitat....

Year 6 - Romeo and Juliet Workshop

...engaging level....

Year 4 - Cross Curricular Links in Literacy

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

Summer Project 2018

...tember! Creative KS1 KS2 Literacy KS1 KS2 Maths Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6...

Year 1 - 1L Perform The Gruffalo

... we could have done better....

Daubeney Spelling Bee 2019

...! - By Kai Foo-Sherwin 6F, Junior Literacy Team Leader...

Junior Literacy Team visit the Nursery

...Tuesday 18th June, the Junior Literacy Team visited the Nursery to read stories to the children. The......n loved being read to and the Literacy Team definitely enjoyed reading to them too! By Kai Foo-Sherw......o! By Kai Foo-Sherwin, Junior Literacy Team Leader...

Year 6 - First Week in 6S

...know about classification. In Literacy we got into character by performing role play of our modern version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We have also had our WOW Day and through it all we have maintained a calm and focused attitude by practising breathing techniques each day....

Year 4 - Collaborative Learning

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Year 2 - Take a breath...

This week in literacy we have been looking at what the benefits of breathing are. We started every lesson by doing some breathing activities and talked about how that made us feel. Afterwards, we made posters about what breathing is, why we should do it and when we can do it. We made these posters...

Junior Literacy Team 2019/20

...them!......ting Miss Fergus in promoting Literacy across the school through assemblies, events and competitions...... tidy and vibrant. The Junior Literacy Team will always be able to recommend a good book so ask them...

Year 4 - Cross Curricular Learning: Sketching 'The Great Wave of Kanagawa' by Hokusai

... Art skills, Topic skills and Literacy skills to sketch 'The Great Wave of Kanagawa' by Hokusai. The children learnt about the famous artist and then looked at some of his famous work, especially the Great Wave and re-created his masterpiece....

Year 2 - 2P Art with Literacy

In Year 2, we painted the cover of The Lion and the Mouse. We used different colours to achieve the different tones that make up the lions face

Year 1 - 1S Sharing Assembly

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

Autumn Book Fair 2019

...ah and Xiomara from the Junior Literacy team for helping Miss Fergus to organise and run the Book Fair. A special thank you to all the adults that helped out and to all the children that came along with their families. We hope you enjoy reading your new books and look out for details on the next Dau...

Rainbow Class: Literacy (Story about emotions)

...and excitement....