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...

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...

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...

Science and Sustainability

Science We recognise the importance of Science in every aspect of daily life. As one of the core subjects taught in Primary Schools, we give the teaching and learning of Science the prominence it requires. Our vision for science is, “to ensure that children are given a science curriculum, which...

About our Curriculum

At The Blossom Federation of Daubeney, Sebright and Lauriston Schools, we shape our curriculum to ensure all pupils have access to a rich, exciting, experiential curriculum, which celebrates the rich diversity of our schools. Drawing on the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage and...

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....

Literacy

... move from drawing to sentence writing Making Links Across Learning Drawing Club also incorporates early maths through playful exploration, including: Shapes and describing features Counting, doubling and halving Simple addition and subtraction For example, children may describe: “A troll...

Clubs

... Yr5 - Yr6 20 Model Making Yr4 - Yr6 12 Creative Yr3 - Yr6 20 Gardening Yr3 - Yr6 12 Carnival Club Yr4 - Yr6 15 After School Club Plan for Spring Term - £39.00 per session Year groups Monday Tuesday Wedn...

Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL)

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Exploring numbers

This week we have been focusing on numbers . We also used our number skills when making cookies

Reception - Duckling Class - Halloween Dress Up Day

We had so much fun dressing up for Halloween. We saw witches, zombies, football players, superheroes, skeletons and lots more. We enjoyed designing our own pumpkins and making spider webs!

Year 2 - Add by making 10

This week we practised adding two single digits together. We made each number on a tens frame and then moved some counters to make a ten frame full. We thought about the new number sentences we could write and how this could help us add numbers easily

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 3 Wow Day

The children had fun making their own Amazon rainforests as part of our Wow Day activities

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...

Year 2 trip to Hackney city farm

Today, we visited Hackney City Farm to explore what animals live nearby in our local area. We had so much fun investigating which animals lived on each part of the farm and had a go at making each of the animal noises. We discussed what each animal liked in their habitat and how they moved around...

Reception - Ducklings first week!

We have had a superb first week in Duckling class. We have been making new friends, meeting our new teachers, playing different games, getting creative and enjoying the weather outside!

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

Reception - Forest School

Forest school Reception, making nature necklaces

Reception - Yellow Class Easter Bonnet Parade

We loved making our Easter hats this week! We used coloured card, gems, googly eyes and tape to make our bonnets, and some of us made our own bonnets at home!

Year 1 Protest - Speak Up

Year 1's were inspired by reading the book 'Speak Up' by Nathan Bryon to go on a protest. We went on a protest to convince Mr Logan why we should have a library in our school. We thought of lots of reasons why having a library at our school will benefit us. We enjoyed making placards as...

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 sound investigation - March 2024

Year 4 had fun making string telephones to investigate how sound travels to our ears. Watch the videos to hear use explain how it works

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: 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 - Computing Week 2

Our new topic this half term is Questioning. This week we were introduced to binary questions which only allow for 2 answers. We played a game of guess who with our computing avatars, making sure our questions could only have yes or no as answers. Next week we will be using binary questions to...

Duckling Class - Easter Egg Hunt

On the last day of Spring 2, we went on an exciting Easter Egg hunt. All week, we have been designing our own Easter eggs and making cornflake cakes so what better way is there to finish the week off than an Easter egg hunt. We had so much fun!

Year 2 - Australia Wow Day

This week we've had lots of fun for our Spring 2 WOW Day. We took a virtual trip to Australia, making sure we had our passports and boarding passes ready! Once on the plane we were ready for take off! In the afternoon we made some delicious fairy bread using colourful sprinkles

Year 2 - Computing Week 6

This week we used 2Beat on Purple Mash to create our own beats for our music. We were then able to upload this into 2Sequence to finish making our tunes with our own melodies on top

Duckling Class - Valentines Week and Party!

Last week of Spring 1, we celebrated Valentines Day! We enjoyed making cards for our family, making play-doh hearts and making decorations for our party! On the last Friday, Duckling Class hosted a family Valentines Party. We enjoyed making heart shaped biscuits for our family to enjoy at the...

Duckling Class - Its beginning to look like Christmas

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

Year 5: Science - Air Resistance

Today for science, Year 5 tested air resistance by making parachutes and then allowing them to free-fall. They observed the parachute as it fell towards the ground. This was followed by, partner talk on why the parachute slowed down

Year 3 Wow Day 2024

The children in Year 3 had fun making levers and linkages as part of their Wow Day. They made a moving dragon and a snapping crocodile

Year 3 - Design and Technology

The children in Year 3 had fun today -25.01.2024 making linkages and levers. They made a waving flag with two pivot points

Year 4 - Science: Making Circuits

Duckling Class - Final Christmas Week 2023

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

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

Duckling Class - Christmas Jumper Day

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

Year 4 - Telephone Science

The children in 4M had fun making their own telephones. I wonder how is it possible to hear each other- what makes the sound travel?

The Nest - Bread Making

Year 2 - 2L Spring 1 WOW Day

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

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 2 - 2S Forest School: Whittling, Pencil Making and Exploring the Woods

Year 2 - 2L Forest School: Whittling, Pencil Making and Exploring the Woods

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

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...

Reception - Forest School - Blue Class Friendship Week

...der necklaces for our friends....

Reception - Trip to Hackney School of Food

On Monday, we visited the Hackney School of Food. We made pizza by making our dough and adding tomato paste, cheese and oregano to match the colours of the Italian flag. We also made fruit kebabs, using bananas, pears, blueberries and raspberries. After we made our food, we enjoyed eating it in the...

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 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 5

This week we used 2Paint on Purple Mash to explore the art work of Piet Mondrian. We discussed how they used lines and colour to produce their art work, and then had a go at making our own versions

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...

Reception - Forest School - Yellow Class: Jubilee Crown Making

Yellow class celebrating the end of Forest School and the Queen jubilee crown making

Reception - Forest School - Yellow Class: Planting a Rainbow

...t flowers....

Year 1 - 1A DT: Making a Chair

For DT we have been designing and creating our own chairs. We have been looking at how to make a structure strong. We discussed using stronger materials such as card and cardboard and resources to connect pieces together. The outcome was amazing and most of our chairs were strong and sturdy. Take a...

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 1 - Iggy Peck Architect

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

Year 2 - 2L Forest School - Pencil Making and Bug Hunting

Year 2 - 2S Forest School - Making Clay Animals, Den Building and Free Play

Safer Internet Day 2023

...s 'Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online.' We had lots of wonderful activities that enabled children to think about how they use the internet and what the benefits are, whilst also thinking about issues they may face and who can they can ask for help if they...

Christmas in Reception

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

The Nest - Making Sandwiches

We watched a video on how to make a Jam sandwich and then tried it all by ourselves. "it taste delicious"

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!

Year 3 - 3D SHAPES

The children in Kingfisher class had fun today 1-07-2024 in math making 3D shapes

Year 1 - 1S Forest School - Making Nature Calendars

Year 1 - 1S Forest School - Making Bird Feeders

The Nest - Pizza Making

Today we made cheese and tomato pizza's and they were delicious!!!

Year 2 - 2L Christmas Prep

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

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

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...

Nurture Group - Making Cinderella Crowns

Year 2 - Spanish: Number Knowledge

In Year 2 we have started the week reinforcing our number knowledge and making links between figures and words using a tangram. Students really enjoyed this hands-on activity and the competitive element of it

Year 2 - 2S Forest School - Making Autumn Storm Jars

Free play and making Autumn storm jars

Year 2 - 2L Forest School - Making Forest Creatures

...th clay and natural resources....

Year 2 - 2L Forest School - Making Autumn Storm Jars

...tumn storm jars and free flow....

Year 2 - Maths: Time

This week we have been focusing on time in our maths lessons. We started by making our own clocks, thinking carefully about where the numbers go and what each hand measures. We then used them to show a range of times including o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to

Sewing and knitting Club

Today Mr Matvad joined the club and had a knitting lesson. The children enjoyed their club making a range of different items

Reception - Our First Week

We have loved our first week in Reception at Daubeney! This week, we have been exploring our new classrooms! We have been reading in our garden themed reading are, making Play-Doh faces, playing in our home and our doctors' surgery, as well as exploring our maths and writing areas. We have been...

Rainbow - Autumn Tree (Apple Painting)

Pupils were engaged in creating their own unique and colourful autumn trees as the weather shifting between sunny and rainy, days. They explored painting autumn trees with apples—what an exciting new idea! Pupils enjoyed making apple stamps on their trees using red, yellow, and green paint,...

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

Year 4 - Design and Technology

The children were excited today as they began to design their board game that they will be making in their lesson

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....

Year 4 - ICT and Reading

The children had an interesting Reading lesson where they read online information about our topic - Design and Technology. They researched facts and looked at how electricity can be added to a board game that they will be making in their lessons

Year 4 - Boardgames

The children had a fun lesson today in our Design and Technology lesson. They had an opportunity to play different boardgames and critique the games they played. They discussed function versus appearances and shared their views. next week the children will begin to plan making their own board game

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...

Rainbow Room - WOW DAY

It was a fantastic WOW Day! Pupils showed great creativity as they used light food‐dye colours mixed with water to paint their own geometric shapes, by carefully creating bright and colorful patterns on each piece. They experimented with how the colours blended and enjoyed making their artwork...

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 2 - Maths: Add by making 10

In today's practical lesson, we practised adding single digit numbers by using tens frames to make a 10 so it would be easier for us to find the answer

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

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 - Making New Friends

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

Year 4 - Maths - Roman Numeral Clock

The Year 4 children had fun in their maths lesson today making a Roman Numeral Clock

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

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

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,...

Nurture Group - Making Slime

Rainbow Class: Big Draw Day

Our pupils enjoyed a fun and engaging Big Draw Day! Pupils were able to express their artistic skills using crayons and felt tips by creating expressive mark-making drawings. Even, pupils explored different patterns, lines, and shapes by showing creativity and confidence in their artwork

Extended Day Care

Our Extended Day Care children have been having lots of creative fun! They have been bringing their imagination to life through role play, creating figures in the playground planters and making their very own bracelets. It’s wonderful to see their creativity and ideas shine!

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...

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: 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 1 Peacocks - BIG DRAW and Art

This week, we have had fun making Coral Reef pictures for our BIG DRAW. These will be displayed at the school exhibition later on this month

Rainbow Class: Colorful Hands

We had so much fun creating colourful hands! Pupils explored making their own handprints on a range of different textures, using both primary and secondary colours. They enjoyed experimenting with colour mixing, discovering how new colours can be created by mixing colours together. The activity...

Lego Club - Farm & Countryside

In the Lego Club, children were engaged working in small groups by making their farms and countryside using lego

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...

Year 4 - WOW Day

The children in Year 4 had a fun Wow Day making Viking shields, Viking Tunics, longships and did an activity using Old Norse Language

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 4 - Science Experiment

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

Year 4 Hornbills - Jigsaw - Summer 1 2026

The children in Hornbills had a fantastic time making their memory boxes. Inside the boxes they wrote words that were special to the memory of a person, or object even a pet that they have of had in the past

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 - Improper Fractions and Mix numbers

The children in Year 4 had a fun lesson making their own Improper fraction and Mix number dominoes in maths today. They had to convert the improper and mix numbers, then find the equivalent fractions

Year 4 Science - Making telephones

Nurture Group - Making Table Football Boxes

Rainbow Room- Attention Bucket ( Glitter Fun ) )

The children had a great time using paper cups as shakers to sprinkle different colors of glitter onto large sheets of paper. After that, the children used cotton buds to create mark-making with the glitter on the paper

Reception - Our Family and more!

This week, we have been talking about our families and how they might be different to our friends. We also have been having lots of fun taking part in Drawing Club and making most of the sun outside!

Rainbow Room - PE Session

As part of the SEN PE sessions, the children engaged in an activity where they practiced walking on a beach by making choices about their directions as well they developed their physical skills such as coordination, balance, and body awareness

Year 2 - Making 3D Shapes

We used nets of 3D shapes to create a range of everyday objects such as boxes, bean tins and tents. We thought carefully about how each edge matched up and were then able to identify how many faces, edges and vertices each shape had

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 3 Kingfisher - Literacy - Spring 2025

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

Year 3 - Kingfisher Literacy - Spring 2025

The children 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

Rainbow Room - PE Session

Today, as part of the PE session (Sensory Circuits), the children had the opportunity to engage in an enriching activity where they practiced walking along the bench. They were encouraged to make their own decisions about the direction they wanted to take, fostering independence and enhancing their...

Year 3 - Toucan - Learning about the Human Skeleton

Learning all about the human skeleton and making factual posters about what they have learnt

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 2 - RE Day - Spring 2025

This half term’s RE day was focussed on forgiveness. Our question was ‘What does it mean to say sorry?’. We spent time identifying why it might by difficult to say sorry and thought about other ways we could we were sorry. We discussed religious views on being honest, truthful and...

Parrot Class Trip - Hackney School of Food

Parrot class went to the Hackney School of Food and we had so much fun making cheese scones and rainbow slaw. We were very confident using all the kitchen equipment and following step by step instructions. Chef Tom was super impressed with us!!

Forest School - Animal Dens

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

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!

Kingfisher - Making Stone Age Tools

Today in our History lesson the children in Kingfisher made their own Stone Age tools

Year 2 - Geography WOW Day: Climate

For the end of our Geography topic, we had lots of fun making a climate scene. We chose either a polar or a tropical climate and thought carefully about which animals and plants you would find there. We worked collaboratively to make beautiful dioramas and could explain where our climate could be...

Reception - Forest School - Yellow Class Friendship Week

Exploring friendships and making Elder necklaces

Year 3 - WOW Day: Amazon Rainforest

The children in Year 3 had a fantastic WOW day making their very own Amazon Rainforest

Year 2 - Making Equal Groups

To start our multiplication topic, this week we focussed on making equal groups. We used cubes to make towers representing various sentences such as 3 groups of 4. We talked about how groups we would need and how many cubes there would be inside each group. We could then work out the answer to the...

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 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

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 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

Year 2 - Australia WOW Day

We had lots of fun making our own boarding passes and passports this lesson before boarding our plane to Australia. We then had some delicious fairy bread!

Parent Art Workshop - REC/KS1

On Wednesday, we hosted an Art Parent Workshop for our Reception and KS1 cohorts. The children and their carers enjoyed taking part in a range of different art activities including bracelet making, collaging, painting, air dry clay and making paper plate fish! We look forward for our next workshop!

Reception - Forest School: May 2025

Receptions first visit to forest school. Exploring the pond and making nature books

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

The Nest - Making Flap Jacks - March 2025

Nurture had fun making Flap jacks this week

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- Old McDonald Song

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

Rainbow Room - Blocks Play

Ayyad and Benjamin were having an absolute fun as they transformed the room into a colourful and exciting mess, using blocks to build towers of all shapes and sizes. Each tower was uniquely crafted with different colored blocks, making every creation stand out even more. It was a joy to witness...

Year 2 - Division

Today we began thinking about using division and how this means we are sharing out items equally between groups. We were able to identify how many groups we would need, as well as how many cubes we needed to share out. We double checked our answers by counting each group and making sure they were...

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 1 - Parrot Class: DT

We've been busy making chairs in DT. First we looked at lots of different examples of chairs, like sofas, rocking chairs, deck chairs and swivel chairs. Then we designed our own chairs before making them out of lots of different materials. We used lots of tape and glue so that it was strong and...

Year 2 Maths Arrays 2025

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

Rainbow Room - 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 1 - DT: Making a Chair

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

Year 1 - Forest School - 1S Making Bird Feeders and Playing Games

1S making bird feeders and playing in the woods

Nurture Group - Cross Curricular: Making a Chair Using Cardboard

Today we made a chair using cardboard. We worked as a team to make the legs, seat, back and spindle. We managed to make it stand for our teddy to sit on, unfortunately it did not stay standing when a child sat on it

Year 1 Groovin'

Have a look at 1H making beautiful music supported by Year 3 superstars; Jenny on keyboard and Hayden on bass. Team work makes the dream work!

Year 2 - Making Toy Cars

In D&T we have been designing and making our own toy car. We first designed our car and made our body using cardboard. We then attached the axle to the wheels. We had a class race when we finished constructing our car. It was fun! Can you guess who won?

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 - 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 - 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 - 2C is Feeling Festive

Over the past few weeks we have been getting in the festive mood by doing lots of colouring, singing and card making! It was also Christmas Jumper day last week so that made us even more festive! Take a look at what we have been up to in our photos!

Year 1 Trip to Daubeney Fields

Year 1 went on our first trip to Daubeney Fields. We looked at what is in our surrounding area and will be making a map about our local community!

Year 1 - Hilda Offen

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

Year 3 - Making Recycled Hats

Year 3 had lots of fun making hats from recycled material. They had a special visit from Eco Active Team to encourage the children to recycle. They were taught what things they can recycle in school and at home. They were put to a challenge to make recycled hats in 5mins. This was hardwork but Year...

Year 1 - Designing And Making Toys

In 1A we have been busy designing and making toys as part of our History. We collected lots of junk boxes which we used to make our toy. It got very messy as we painted our creations and used lots of glitter, gems, feathers and other collage to put on the finishing touches. We all had so much fun!

Year 1 - 1P World Book Day 2019

We had a fantastic World Book Day in 1P! We spent the day doing lots of reading activities including sharing our favourite stories with each other, making bookmarks and looking and talking about different characters

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!

Work Week in Nursery

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

Talking About Emotions Workshop

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

Starting Reception - Autumn 2017

Reception are settling well into routine. They are learning about their new school, making new friends and building relationships with all the staff

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 - Making Roman Shields

Year 3 are soon to be members of a Roman army! Today they took their first step towards that goal by making their very own Roman shields, which will be put to the test tomorrow in a battle with the Celts! Who do you think will win?

Science Club - Sound and Vibration

Science Club had a lot of fun experimenting with sound and vibration. We made phones to test how sound traveled, and discovered that sound can travel through string by making it vibrate!

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 6 - Making Easter Bonnets

Year 6 got to flex their creative muscles today and got to making their bonnets for tomorrow’s Easter Bonnet parade. The children really enjoyed working together to make some original, creative ideas and they can’t wait to show them off tomorrow!

Year 5 - Study Star Number Challenge

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

Year 5 - Meet the Worms

5M had a wonderful time today with Eco Active looking at composting and how to recycle our left over food. Worms play an important part in our food and compost making and the children were delighted to meet the worms who are responsible for breaking down our foods and turning them into soil we can...

Year 5 - Making Chocolate Cornflake Cakes

Our Year 5's used and applied their knowledge of measurement by cooking cakes and creating playdough! Here we have our young chefs concentrating on the tough task at hand... And yes the cakes were as yummy as they looked. Why not make some chocolate cornflakes cakes at home? Ingredients For 6...

Year 5 - Inspire Work Week

The children in Year 5 were extremely busy today designing and making their fashion products. The class made their own handbags, bags and we were even lucky enough to have some Tie Dye T-shirts, ready for our fashion show on Friday 23rd March 2018, in front of three judges

Year 5 - Human Form Inspired by Anthony Gormley

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

Year 5 - Carnival Headbands

Year 5 had fun making Carnival headbands as part of our cross curricular topic this term

Year 3 - Making Roman Soldiers

Today (7th March 2019) Year 3 got the opportunity to put their artistic skills to use. This term, our topic is the Romans, and to immerse them into the topic, they created their own Roman soldier. The children will be using these models as a stimulus for their journal writing in Literacy. Have a...

Year 4 - Meditation

Year 4 have been meditating in class as a way of relaxing and making ourselves feel better. 'Meditation makes me feel calm and it helps me to get all the stress out.' - Ren 4C 'Meditation makes me calm down and helps me focus on my work' - Sofien 4C

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 - 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 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 - Surviving the Stone Age

As part of their lesson today, Year 3 imagined what they would do in order to survive if they suddenly found themselves transported back to the Stone Age. In their table groups, they spoke about and ordered the importance of different activities to ensure survival, such as finding water, killing...

Year 3 - Properties of Soil

Year 3 investigated the properties of soil before making mini compost bins. Everyone was surprised that soil is more than just dirt. Amira commented, 'soil has a lot of minerals in it- over 47%!' David added, 'soil is important because it helps plants to grow and we need plants to eat...

Spanish Champions Make Displays About Themselves

Our Spanish champions had an exciting meeting this week and they had a great time making creative and colourful displays in which they spoke about themselves in Spanish! They shared what their hobbies, favourite food, birthday, etc. are in Spanish

Science Club

The children in science club today (17-10-2018) run by Mr Dan and Mr Ricardo, was a super excited and fun filled session. The children used ingredients to make their own slime, which turned out to be AMAZING! The children look forward to the next session, after half-term, where they will be making...

Year 6 - Volcano Models

Year 6 had the opportunity to demonstrate their artistic and geographical skills in Cross Curricular by making some model volcanoes. It was explosive fun

Daubeney Live 2016

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

Making Music in Nursery

The nursery children have enjoyed using the instruments to create different sounds, to "make some music!" as Levi put it. They shook, twisted and jingled their way through several tunes with Mr. O'Flynn to great effect, as you can hear in the video clip. The nursery may just have to...

Make a Noise

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

Make a Noise

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

Jam on a Boat

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

First Week in Year 6

It has been a busy but exciting first week back for our new Year 6s. They have had to demonstrate incredible resilience as their first task was to complete a round of assessments. The children met this challenge with grit and determination and were still smiling at the end. We have spent time...

Eco Team Workshop

Daubeney's Eco-team met a landscape architect today to discuss a special project for the hop garden! They discussed what they liked about it and how it can be improved. The children came up with a range of creative ideas which we can put into action soon. 'We enjoyed being outside in the...

Creative Arts - Art and Design Technology

At Daubeney, the children are given the opportunity to have a broad, balanced and exciting curriculum. Art is taught through our cross-curricular lessons with a special focus during Art weeks throughout the year. We will inspire, engage and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and...

Nursery - Christmas Tree Decorations

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

Autumn Term in Nursery

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

5M Fashion Show

The children have completed designing and making their fashion clothes, ready for our fashion show. The boys created funky tie dye T-shirts and the girls designed a Hawaiian style skirt with fashionable handbags as an accessory. The children had so much fun making and designing their product for...

5M - Inspire Work Week Project

The children in 5M were excited to create their own fashion T-shirts, using tie dye for our Inspire Work Week project. They enjoyed making and mixing colours to make their products colourful and amazing. Watch this space to see our finished product, which will appear very soon. Their fashion show...

4P’s trip to Tramshed by Mark Hix

This week, year 4 got to experience what it felt to work for the very first time! They were lucky enough to go to the famous restaurant and make delicious doughnuts and marshmallows with the head chef. Not only that, they also got the chance to make their very own mocktails! After making the...

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...

1D - Easter Bonnets

1D had lots of fun making our Easter Bonnets. We danced around the circle and well done to Gaia for winning! Hip hip Hooray!

Maths Family Workshop KS1

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

Nursery - First Week of the Spring Term 2017

Nursery enjoyed their first week of the new Spring term and indeed it very much felt like Spring! As you can see, they enjoyed the warmer weather and discovering that new flowers had grown in the nursery garden. Rio said, "Look at the daffodils! They smell so nice!" They also enjoyed...

Reception - Yellow Class: The Three Little Pigs

Yellow Class did a book focus on the well known story 'The Three Little Pigs'. The children enjoyed role playing the story, making the 3D houses and trees and painting the pigs for our display. They did some really good writing around the story. This was focusing on the how the characters...

Pizza Making in Nursery

Look at these delicious pizzas!

Reception - Yellow Class Trip to Discover Centre

We went on a fun filled trip to Discover centre in Stratford. The children enjoyed the playground and making stories for Hootah. We made spoon puppets and dressed up as a character. We loved Discover!

Reception - Yellow Class Learn About 2D Shapes

Yellow Class have been learning all about shapes. We have learnt the names of 2D shapes and talked about the properties of these shapes. We did lots of activities around shape such as making pictures using shaped collage. We even made shapes with our bodies. We have learnt a new song about shape...

Reception - Red Class Christmas Hoop

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

Reception - LaunchPad for Language Sock Puppet Workshop

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

Reception - Launchpad for Language Parent Workshop

Our Launchpad Workshop took place on Tuesday 17th January 2017. Parents had fun with their child/ren making fantastic story props. They found out how they can help their child/ren with storytelling and took home story prompts!

Professor Brainwave visits Daubeney

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

Nursery Reads 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy

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

Nursery - Gingerbread Men

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

Nursery Made Pizza

Nursery had a great time making pizza. Take a look at the photographs below!

Nursery - World Book Day 2019

Its World Book Day at Nursery and the children have dressed up! Please have at a look at some of the creativity that went into making these outfits awesome!

Nursery - Work Week 2019

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

Nursery - The Three Little Pigs

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

Nursery - The Five Senses

Nursery have been learning all about the five senses this term. After reading the story 'Brown Bear Brown Bear, What Do You See?', they confidently described what they could see around them. They named colours and animals, and identified the first sound in some words. Agnes said, "I...

Nursery - Pyjama Day

The children (and parents!) in nursery showed off their fabulous night-time attire in aid of Great Ormond St Hospital on Friday. Elijah excitedly said, "I can't believe we're not going to bed now!" The excitement lasted throughout the day, so it was lucky we had an activity that...

Nursery - Music Lesson

Yesterday Nursery had a very exciting Music lesson. After practising for Christmas songs for our upcoming performance, Mr O'Flynn took all the children around Nursery making music with......... Each one of those .......had a different beat and together Nursery had lots and lots of fun

Year 6 - Making Shapes

Today (04.04.19) Year 6 completed their week of learning about shapes by getting creative and making some. They have been revising properties of shapes this week - making sure they know about faces, edges, vertices, volume and shape names

Year 3 - Forest School - Making Boats from Natural Materials

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

Reception - Journey through African

We have had a fantastic first week back! This week, reception have been taking a Journey through Africa, learning about the countries, animals and landmarks! We have been making African inspired masks, African patterns using 2D and 3D shapes and bright colours. We have also enjoyed playing in the...

Year 4 - All About Me in Spanish

We had a great time making our self-portraits and learning to talk about ourselves and the thinks we like, and we don´t like in Spanish

Reception: Yellow Class - Ice Cream Parlour

In Yellow class the children were super excited to use the Ice Cream Parlour where they were making ice cream cones. They had a great time taking orders then scooping shaving foam into cones and adding a variety of sprinkles. They had heaps of fun! If you are passing Yellow Class, remember to stop...

Year 3 - 3G Composing on Ukuleles

3G were busy composing on ukuleles in the last half term. Check out the music they were making. Well done 3G!

Year 2 - Wow Day - 27th May 2021

To end our Australia topic, we went to Australia! We made our own passports and boarding passes then imagined we were on a plane! We spent the rest of the day outside doing fun things like splashing in a paddling pool and making fairy bread! Are you convinced to go to Australia? Watch our advert!

Year 4 - Science: Making Sound

Today, 11-05-2021, the children in Year 4 enjoyed making sound by making a telephone cup. The children discussed how sound travels and how we hear

Nurture Group - Playdough

We had so much fun making our own playdough. "Playdough looks like clay" "It feels soft"

Year 6 - First Week Back

and breathe! Wow! What a first week back. To say it’s been busy would be an understatement. Year 6 started the week off with a whole school virtual live assembly followed by an electrifying science workshop. We continued with our CC topic looking into the wondrous ancient kingdom of Benin....

Eco Team Waste Audit

This afternoon Daubeney's Eco Team conducted a waste audit with Hackney environment. We found many ways were we are not using our bins correctly but we also found many ways that we are! We can’t wait to begin making changes at our school and help everyone get rid of their waste correctly!

Year 4 - British Science Week 2021

Today 10th March 2021 the children in Year 4 had a fun session making close circuits. The children had bulbs, batteries, switches, motors and connecting wires

Year 4 - British Science Week 2021

Today 9th March 2021 the children enjoyed making their own lava lamps using simple ingredients and apparatus. They had loads of fun during our afternoon of science

Art in Year 2 - Spring Watercolours

We had a lovely afternoon making watercolour Spring pictures. We looked at different flowers and made some landscapes. What a lovely first day!

Year 1 - 1S Back at School!

1S are super excited to be back at school! This week, we're putting even more fun into our learning! We're making, drawing, playing, creating, chatting and PARTYING! Today in Maths, we played snakes and ladders, counting our spaces and racing to get to 100!

Reception - Christmas Jumper Day 2020

Wednesday 9th December was Daubeney's Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas Lunch! We spent the day taking part in Christmas activities such as decoration making, card making and playing Christmas songs! We also had our Christmas Lunch which we all enjoyed!

Year 4M Class Assembly - 26th November 2020

Today, 26 November 2020, our playground friends led out assembly discussing the importance of keeping safe in the play ground. In addition they spoke about making our play times fun and enjoyable

Cooking in Nursery

The children in the Nursery enjoyed making Veggie pizza roll ups! They learnt about hygiene when preparing food and talked about some of their favourite foods to eat. Take a look at some of the pictures. We definitely have some chefs in the making!

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 11

...Making dens....

Reception - Diwali

This week in Reception, we have been learning about Diwali. We have been learning about why people celebrate Diwali and what activities we can take part in. We have been making Diva Lamps using clay, sequins and beads. We have also been designing Rangoli Patterns both inside and outside the...

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

Reception - Forest School - Yellow Class Making Stone Soup

...g stone soup and finding bugs....

Year 1 - Forest School - 1S Celebration Week

...ng crowns and Easter egg hunt....

Year 1 - Forest School - 1A Celebration Week

...ng crowns and Easter egg hunt....

Year 1 - Forest School - 1A Making Nature Journals and Playing

Year 4 Trip to the Ministry of Stories

Year 4 participated in a story making workshop at the Ministry of Stories, designed to inspire a love of writing. Each pupil had the opportunity to draft and write, creating characters, setting and plot. They then evaluated and edited, assessing the effectiveness of their writing. At the end of the...

Year 1 - Forest School - 1L making bird feeders and playing in the woods

Year 1 - Forest School - 1A Making Bird Feeders and Playing Games

Year 5 - Maths: Making Graphs

Today we made bar graphs and created questions about the data that we collected yesterday. "It was really fun because we all worked together to create our graphs and questions" - Elijah "I really liked making graphs today because maths is my favourite subject" - Rachel

Nursery - Outdoor Chalk Fun

The Nursery children had heaps of fun mark making with chunky chalks outdoors

Year 1 - Forest School - 1L World Book Day

Celebrating World Book day making Stickman

Year 1 - Forest School - 1B World Book Day

Celebrating World Book Day making stickman

Year 1 - Forest School - 1A Exploring the Woods

Exploring the woods and celebrating World Book Day by reading and making Stickman

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 - 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?...

Christmas in Reception

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

Year 3 - Fraction Walls

In Year 3 today the children have been making fraction walls. Fraction walls are an excellent visual resource to help children learn about equivalent fractions

Reception - Black History Week 2020

Today children celebrated Black people making a difference in Daubeney. It was amazing to see so many children dress up - thank you parents for your effort and support

Year 2 - 2C Fun in the Park

During our family picnic day in Victoria Park, we had lots of fun climbing, sliding and making things with sand. Here are some of our favourite parts: "My favourite part was climbing on the ropes because it was quite challenging" - Ava "I liked covering Mr Ricardo in the sand and...

Hispanic Week 2019

Our pupils learnt a lot about the Spanish speaking countries by researching, making presentations, posters, flags, maracas and many more. All staff, parents and especially children had an amazing time. A first-hand experience of the culture of all Spanish speaking countries: we had a Mexican...

Reception - Red Class Planting Cress and Mustard Seeds

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

Reception - Red Class - Our Body

Red Class have had a wonderful week learning about our bodies. We have been naming and labelling different parts of the body. We also spoke about what is inside our body. The children came up with lot of interesting facts. Sky said “our heart pumps blood to the rest of our body”....

Year 4 - RE Day

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

Outdoor Classroom Day in Year 2

We took our Cross Curricular lesson outside today and did some painting in the playground! We were making the seas surrounding the UK so used lots of blues. We than sprinkled salt on it to achieve a wave like texture

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 - Making a Vehicle

This half term our cross curricular topic is DT. We have been learning all about how things can move using wheels and axles. To end our topic, we made our own vehicles and even created fun designs for it. We had lots of fun learning and making our vehicles!

Spanish - KS2: All About Me

KS2 pupils know how to say all about themselves in Spanish. They had a great time creating their "All about me" cards, sharing things about themselves with their classmates in writing and making a self-protrait

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

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...

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...

Healthy Me - Mrs Alam's Fruit Kebabs

Hi Daubeney, Hope you are all well and safe at home. I've made a video to show you all how to make a healthy snack. You can be as creative as you like with this recipe. You will need: A selection of different fruits (I have used strawberries, oranges, pineapples and grapes) Some wooden skewers...

Home Learning

These home learning resources were published to support children during school closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. They are no longer being updated. Welcome to the Daubeney School home learning portal! There are links to useful resources, access to online activities and information about what...

Year 1 - Design and Technology: How do you make a structure strong?

1L had fun making their own chairs as part of our Design and Technology topic thinking about "How do you make a structure strong?" We used lots of materials to make the seat, legs and back of our chairs. Some of us even made arms!

Year 1 - 1L: Where Are We in the World?

Year 1 have been learning all about continents and oceans this half term. We have explored countries, seasons, geographical features and so much more! We finished our topic by making a video full of facts and information!

Year 2 - Great Fire of London Workshop

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

Year 2 WOW Day - Great Fire of London

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

WOW Day in Year 1L

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

WOW Day in Year 1TK

Year 1 have been learning about 'Who and what is in my world?'. To end their topic the children had Wow Day! 1TK had lots of fun being creative and making a shoe box world of their local area. They worked in groups to create different parts of their local area. Using a range of materials...

2K - Making Christmas Cards

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

Year 6 - Drum Show

Did you see that amazing drumming concert? Wow! Miss Harley and Miss Davis really blew us away with a spectacular show. We saw all the Year 6 children dance and drum to an extremely high standard. We also saw the after school drum club play to an equally high standard. Big thanks to all involved in...

Year 1 - 1TK: Where Are We in the World?

Year 1 have been working hard this term learning about where we are in the world. We had lots of fun making this video and presenting our knowledge of countries, continents and oceans to end our topic. We hope you enjoy watching our video as much as we enjoyed making it!

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...