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...

Year 5

Class Teachers Residential 2025 Parent Meeting Spelling test Spellings will be handed out on a Friday and the test will be the following Friday. Times tables tests Times tables will be handed out on a Friday and the test will be the following week. This is timed so please try to practice using a...

Year 1

Class Teachers Meet the Teacher Phonics Screener Meeting Pupil Survey Survey Link PE Day - Friday Please ensure your child brings their PE kit and suitable footwear to school every Friday in a bag. At home, please allow your child to practice getting changed by themselves to help them to be able to...

Assessment

... May each year. Teachers use SATs papers in Reading and Maths to help assess whether the children in......ernally marked. The results of the tests in Reading, Spelling Grammar and Punctuation and Maths show......e of work as evidence. Teacher assessments in Reading, Writing, Maths and Science are submitted to t...

Religious Education

Intent Across the Blossom Federation, our RE curriculum provides children with an understanding and appreciation for beliefs, cultural practices and values. The Blossom Federation follows The Hackney Education agreed syllabus and lesson plans where available. We hold six designated RE days at the...

SEND and Our Local Offer

Our SENDCO Welcome to the Blossom Federation SEND offer. From the moment I took over as SENDCO at Daubeney, my dedicated team and I have tried to create a personalised experience for you - and bring back, the element of working together to serve your child. Our inclusive curriculum is supported by...

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...

About our Curriculum

...d in different subjects. Literacy Reading At Daubeney, we ensure that our children are taught to rea...... in Year 2-4. DSR (Daily Supported Reading) In KS1, children do Daily Supported Reading four times ......In KS1, children do Daily Supported Reading four times a week which complements our teaching of phon...

Daubeney Loves Reading

...to the genre." Go to Time.com......enres across different media. Reading Skills At Daubeney we develop our love of Reading and comprehe...

Year 3

Class Teachers Welcome to Year 3 Daubeney Pupil Wellbeing Survey https://forms.office.com/e/VUwUMb0Mq2 Times tables tests We advise children to log into Times Tables Rock Stars daily to practise their times tables. They will be tested every Friday and will compete against other class groups weekly....

Literacy

...guage with increasing confidence and creativity Reading At Daubeney, we ensure that our children a......on genres appropriate for their age and ability. Reading Policy We have a range of approaches and ......ng skills. Find out more about Phonics.... Shared Reading Opportunities are provided in literacy l...

Mental Health

Here at Daubeney, We are very lucky to have a team of people working to support mental health and well-being. This team consists of DHML - Designated Mental Health Lead - Cheryll Gustave CWIS - CAMHS worker in school - Karolina Balciunaite WBF - Wellbeing Framework Partner - Claire Tregear EMHP -...

Nursery

...essions, PE and snack time, among others. Reading Please spend 5 to 10 minutes each day with your child looking at a book together; the length of time will vary according to how long your child concentrates for. Ask your child questions such as “What can you tell me about the picture?” and give ...

Year 4

...luding their Reading records. Reading records will be checked every Friday. Water bottles Children are allowed to bring in water bottles with water. Fruit juices and squash are not allowed. Water bottles also need to be made from plastic and not glass and they are clearly labelled. Breakfast Please...

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...

Year 6

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

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...

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...

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...

Year 5 - Persuasive Arguments

Year 5 spent some time using a word processor to type up their persuasive arguments about climate change! This is their final piece of work based on the book the whole school has been reading - Varmints

Year 4 - 4M Reading - 'I Survived'

The children in 4M enjoyed their reading session today, 10-11-2022, where they continued reading their whole class reader, 'I Survived'. The children were excited to finish the story finding out what happened in the end

Family Phonics Workshop - Session 4

This week we enjoyed singing the Blossom Phonics song. We sang the alphabet song and joined in with the actions. We played a game of 'I spy' and practiced our oral segmenting and blending skills. We then read CVC words using our phase 2 phonics sounds. We look forward to our following...

School Choir Trip to Homerton Hospital

The school choir, led by the inimitable Kari Stewart, performed in the Foyer of Homerton Hospital spreading joy and Christmas cheer. The children sang their hearts out and did the school proud. Here are some ot the hits we sang:

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...

Family Phonics Workshop - Session 3

Thank you to all the parents and carers that attended our third family phonics session today. We focus on oral segmenting and blending and the children had a great time feeding 'Metal Mike' all the words. We revisited all of our phase 2 sounds and then practised reading CVC words by segmenting and...

Family Phonics Workshop - Spring Term 2023

It was so lovely to see parents and carers taking part in our family phonics workshop yesterday. This half term we will be focusing on phase 3 phonics and looking at digraphs and trigraphs. Parents had a wonderful time playing phonics bingo and reading with their child. Take a look to see what fun...

Reception - Chinese New Year and Ordinal Numbers

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

Year 4 - Cross Curricular: Rivers

Today, 1-03-2023, the children had a triple cross curricular session using the Chromebook to research information about rivers. This is also our topic in our cross curricular lesson. The children applied their reading skills to locate and record facts about rivers

Year 5 - Spanish - Spring Term 2

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

Year 4 – El Loro Tico Tango

Fantastic start of the term for Year 4 students at Daubeney. Students will be learning to express opinions using ‘ me gusta’ and ‘ me gustan’ this half term. We will be reading the story of a parrot called Tico Tango together, and discovering different animals and fruits...

Year 2 – Spanish: Story telling and learning a second language

Language learning begins with listening and speaking, so storytelling is a fabulous tool for teaching any language, whether that is a first or a second language . At Daubeney we learn new Spanish words and phrases in KS1 from stories. Stories teach us grammar and syntax in the most natural way....

Year 5 - 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 4 – Spanish - Summer Term 1

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

Family Phonics Workshop

Today we went through all of phase 5. We looked at split digraphs and created a 'spelling snake'. We made our snakes really long by reading the words and matching it with the correct snake. Do you recognise these split digraphs? a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e. Take a look at what we had

Mapping Day 2023

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

Year 5 - Levi's passion for reading

Levi loves reading so much that he created his own story to share with the class. A brilliant beginning to a story...Are you excited to see how the story unfolds?

Junior Literacy Team 2023/2024

Meet the new members of the Daubeney Junior Literacy Team! They are very eager to share their passion for reading and writing with everyone at Daubeney. The team will be supporting Ms Lester in promoting Literacy across the school through assemblies and events. They will also be in charge of...

Year 3 Non-Chronological Reports

The children in Year 3 enjoyed reading a selection of non-chronological reports today - 13-11-2023. They identified different features and the language used I. A report

Parrot Class - Role Play

We have been reading the story Little Red Riding Hood. We pretended to e the characters in the story and acted out the story with our peers. We used character masks and lots of story props to make it interesting. We also discussed the characters feelings in different parts of the story

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 - 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 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

Daubeney Reading Champions

...Timalma 5S......the opportunity to attend the Reading Champions launch at Hackney Town Hall and got to meet Councill......r badges. We also got to meet Reading Champions from other schools and recommended some great books....

Boys Book Club - 5th July 2021

On Monday, 5th July 2021, the Boys Book Club met for their second reading and Lego session. The boys looked at construction and inventions from the past and then used Lego to recreate them

Year 6 - 6M Outdoor Learning

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

Year 5 - 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

Junior Literacy Team 2021/2022

Meet the new members of the Daubeney Junior Literacy Team! They are very eager to share their passion for reading and writing with everyone at Daubeney. The team will be supporting Miss Fergus in promoting Literacy across the school through assemblies and events. They will also be in charge of...

Anti-Bullying Week 2021 - One Kind Word

Daubeney enjoyed spreading kindness in Anti-Bullying Week. The focus was, One Kind Word. Children had the opportunity to participate in activities during their JIGSAW sessions and ended the week with our annual Odd Socks Day . The children discussed bullying in assemblies and workshops and...

Boys Book Club - 19th July 2021

Today, 19-07-2021, the Boys Book Club had a relaxed reading session in front of our classroom fan. The boys read a selection of their favourite book as part of our last book club session

Boys Book Club - 12th July 2021

Today, 12-07-2021, the boys in our book club enjoyed reading online. They researched areas that they were interested in and used the internet to gather more information about the subject. They then created a quiz for Mr Matvad based on the information they read

Year 4 - 4S Loves Reading

4S students displaying their love for reading! They have the opportunity to promote and encourage others to read by recommending books to their peers

Nurture Group - Planting

In Literacy we have been reading the story The Extraordinary Gardener. We decided to grow our own plant. "Plants makes us feel peaceful"

Year 4B - The Dot - Pointillism

As part of immersion week in Literacy, we have been reading The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. We learnt about Pointillism and using a computer, we created Art with a variety of dots in different colours and sizes to produce a bigger picture

Boys Book Club - 7th June 2021

On Monday 7th June 2021 the Boys Book Club met and enjoyed a relaxing reading session in our Hop garden

This week in Reception... - 21st May 2021

...saurs in our new outdoor Dino Reading Den, cooking up carrot soup in our Mud Kitchen, building sandcastles at the beach and dressing up to perform on our outdoor stage! We have had so much fun learning this week!...

Year 4B - Outdoor Learning

Today for Outdoor Learning Day, 4B enjoyed a change of scenery and did our guided reading session in the Hop Garden. Some of us sat on the climbing frame and shared books that we were reading with our classmates and some children even had the opportunity to read with Miss Bennett today

Boys Book Club - 10th May 2021

Today, 10-5-2021, the Boys Book Club enjoyed using their iPad to read an online story, which then generated comprehension questions for them. They enjoyed reading the stories and answering the questions

Boys Book Club - 26th April 2021

Today the Boys Book Club, 26-04-2021, had a fun session reading their favourite graphic novels in our very special bus in the playground. Where is your favourite place to read?

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 1A - Book Fortnight - The Extraordinary Gardener

We really enjoyed reading the book 'The Extraordinary Gardener' By Sam Boughton as part of our book fortnight. We have been planting cress, writing instruction on how to plant a seed, acting out the story and doing observational drawings of plants. Take a look at what fun we had!

Year 4 - Reading: Non-Fiction Text About Earthquakes

Today, Wednesday 21st September 2022, the children in Year 4 had the opportunity to read a selection of Non-fiction text about earthquakes. This helped the pupils to gain a further understanding of how earthquakes occur as they will be learning more on this topic in their Geography lesson later...

Year 5 - Outdoor Reading

Yesterday was such a lovely day that we decided to spend some time reading outside. It was sunny, peaceful and relaxing!

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...

First Week in Reception - Yellow Class

We have had so much fun during our first week at Daubeney! We have made lots of new friends, explored the school and enjoyed getting to know our new adults! We have been writing and decorating our names, building in the sand, drawing pictures of ourselves, cooking dinner in the Monster Cafe,...

Year 5 - 5C Reading Outside

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

Year 6 Residential 2022 - Day 2

The sun came out hip hip hooray! And it looks like we’ve seen the last of the rain! It was a jam packed day today and our first full day here at Danbury! We’re still having an amazing time and we’re going to be reading all of your comments when we have hot chocolate later on so keep them coming!...

Year 6 Reading Booster

The children in Year 6 enjoyed their reading booster session in our Hop Garden. They read a selection of text fiction and non-fiction and discussed the text before answering the questions

KS1 Spanish Assembly - Reading 'The Little Voice'

Year 5 - World Book Day 2022

What a fun filled day of dress up and book related activities! We all came in as some of our favourite book characters (whether good or evil) and created a book cover and blurb about them. We spent the afternoon designing our bookmarks that we will use to remind us that reading is fun!

Spanish learning website: Languagenut.com

All pupils at the Blossom Federation can now use Languagenut.com , one of the best online language-learning websites, which provides interactive and engaging activities and resources for children to learn Spanish. This online language-learning platform promotes a fun, simple and engaging approach...

Year 4 - 4S World Book Day 2022

4S really enjoyed their World Book Day. Great costumes of their favourite characters as they celebrated reading with fun and engaging activities. The passion for reading is unbelievable and it is great to see!

Year 1 - Forest School - 1A Exploring the Woods

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

Year 5 - Reading Art

This half term our whole class reading book is "The Time-Travelling Cat and the Tudor Treasure". In our reading sessions we predicted what we thought the book would be about and made some art inspired by the title of the book, time travel. We created our own ideas of time machines!

Year 1 - 1L Monkey Puzzle

We have been reading the story of Monkey Puzzle in Year 1. We used role play to explore the characters and the plot of the story. We then discussed the setting and recreated Henri Rousseau's ‘Tiger in a Tropical Storm’, using oil pastels

The Junior Literacy Team's Top Tips

Check out the Junior Literacy Team's top tips for filling in your reading records as well as some amazing book recommendations! Comment below and share what you are reading at the moment and your top tips for reading at home

Year 5 - Reading: Art

We are starting a book called The Firework-Maker's Daughter by Phillip Pullman in Year 5 this half term and to get us really excited, we created our own art inspired by fireworks! Have a look at our creative work!

Duckling Class - Our first trip!

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

Duckling Class - World Book Day 2024

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

Year 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

Spanish - Transition session 2025

Earlier on this week, a group of Year 10 students from Urswick school visited Year5 classes for a special transition session, focussing on developing dictation and reading aloud skills – key foundations for success in secondary school. A wonderful opportunity to build bridges between KS2 and...

Year 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 4 - Hornbills Library Session

Hornbills had a lovely start to their day today Tuesday 16th September 2025 enjoying reading in our library

Year 1 Peacocks - Welcome back!

Have a look at what Year 1 have been up to since coming back to school! We have had mapping skills day, practicing our counting, reading groups, phonics groups, writing stories and much more!

Year 6 – Euros 2025

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

Year 3 - Kingfisher: Online Reading

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

Kingfisher Outdoor Poetry Session 2025

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

Year 4 - Hornbills: Reading

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

Year 5 - Reading at Daubeney Fields

During SATS week, we enjoyed the outdoors by reading our whole class reading book at Daubeney Fields!

Year 1 - Family phonics workshop 2024/25

Thank you to all the parents that attended the Family Phonics Workshop this year. We hope that this has been useful and that you are feeling confident in supporting your child with reading and phonics now. Here are a few photos to highlight what we have been doing

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

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

Rainbow Room – PHSE: Family & Friendships

Children drew pictures of their families using simple shapes. Some children said, "I am drawing my mummy," or pointed and said, "Look at my dad," to identify their family members. Therefore, some children used family names like mum, dad, brother, or sister. In addition children...

Rainbow Room - Learning Prepositions

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

Reception - Week 1 of Spring 2!

This week we have been really busy! We have been reading Handa's Surprise, so we had activities based around this story! In Numeracy, we have been looking at capacity and ways to measure capacity

Year 1 - Peacocks: Autumn learning so far!

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

Year 4 - Spanish: Weather

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

Year 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...

Rainbow Room - Monkey Puzzle Story

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

Rainbow Class - Geography (My Local Area)

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

Rainbow Class: 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: 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

Rainbow Class - Reading Fun

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

Year 4 - Literacy and Art 2026

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

Year 4 Hornbills - Outdoor Learning - Autumn 2 2025

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

Year 4 - ICT and Reading

...e 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 1 Peacocks - Greta and the Giants

We have been reading Greta and the Giants this week! We have been talking about climate change and what we can do to help. We acted out the story and had our own mini protest

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

Rainbow - Reading Stories

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

Year 1 Parrot Class - Rapunzel

Parrot class have been reading the story Rapunzel by Bethan Woolvin. We have been acting out the story using lots of story props. We also created a wanted poster for the wicked witch to try and find her. We've also been busy thinking of adjectives to describe Rapunzel. What words can you think...

Rainbow Room: Drawing & Painting Pigs from Social Story

As part of their reading activity, the children from the Rainbow Room explored the classic story of "The Three Little Pigs." To enhance their learning, the children participated in an Attention Bucket Activity, where they used paper rolls and pink paint to create their own representations of the...

Year 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

Family Phonics Workshop - Autumn 1 & 2

A big thank you to all the parents that attended the family phonics workshop in Autumn term! We focused on phase 2 phonics, looking at pronunciation of sounds and how words can be segmented and blended. We joined in with a range of phonics games and had fun reading CVC words using our phase 2...

Spanish - Dia del libro – World Book Day

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

Family Phonics Workshop Spring 2024

Thank you to those parents that attended the Family Phonics Workshop in spring term. Your support is very much appreciated. So far we've covered phase 2, 3 and 4 phonics and have engaged in lots of fun activities to help our pupils with their reading. We can't wait to see you in the Summer...

Duckling Class - First Summer Week!

This week, we have been super busy in Duckling Class. We have been reading, writing, playing table tennis, playing musical instruments, planting, working in Tesco and so much more

Reading session with Mr Warren

Sav Akyuz Author Visit

KS1 had the amazing opportunity to meet 'Bear Moves' author Sav Akyuz. He ran a fun, interactive workshop with Year 1 and 2 children full of energy and laughs. After giving a brief introduction to his work as a writer, and illustrator, he created an imaginary character with the help of the...

Year 3 Meets a special Author

It was an amazing experience today 12-3-2024- when the children met the author of Baller Boys vs The Bulldozers, Vanessa Taylor. They had a session with the author and discussed her latest book

Venessa Taylor Author Visit

KS2 had the amazing opportunity to meet 'Baller Boys' author Venessa Taylor. She ran an exciting workshop with each year group which involved fun activities, hearing her read a chapter of the book and answer the children's questions. Some lucky children even got signed copies of the...

Robin class - World Book Day 2024

Can you guess who we've dressed up as?

Year 3 - Comprehension

The children enjoyed reading a story which links to our cross curricular topic about the Romans. They used the text to answer questions and discussed the story

Year 3 Kingfisher - World Book Day

Parrot Class - World Book Day

Can you guess who we've dressed up as for World Book Day?

Nurture Group - Reception: Cooking

This week in Nurture we have been reading the book Owl Babies. We were lucky enough to do some 'cooking' and make some owls on toast. We were able to practise our cutting skills. We also developed our language and maths skills by practising doubles

Duckling Class - Handas Surprise

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

Duckling Class - We love reading!

Every morning, we have small group reading sessions with our adults at school. We love these! We make sure we use our reading finger and use our phonics to help us sound out tricky words!

Duckling Class - Ordinal Numbers

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

Year 3 Kingfisher Class - Art and Literacy

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

Junior Literacy Team Trip to the Roald Dahl Museum

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

Year 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

Daubeney Library

Look at our amazing brand new library! We are so excited to have our own library at Daubeney. Each class had the opportunity to go and explore the wide range of books. From fiction and poetry to non-fiction topics such as science, history, geography and RE, there is something for everyone. What did...

Year 3 Kingfisher - Open and closed questions

The children in Kingfisher explored open and closed questions using the text they are reading in class

Reception - Spring 1 - Week 3

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

Rainbow Room - Peers Reading: Library

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

Year 5 - History: Gods and Goddesses

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

Year 1 - Parrot Class: The Three Little Pigs

This week we have been reading the story 'The Three Little Pigs'. We've been creating our own story puppets and acting out the story. We've also been describing the characters in the story using adjectives. What words can you use to describe the big bad wolf?

Junior Literacy Team 2024-2025

Meet the new members of the Daubeney Junior Literacy Team! They are very eager to share their passion for reading and writing with everyone at Daubeney. The team will be supporting Ms Lester in promoting Literacy across the school through assemblies and events. They will also be in charge of...

Year 3 - Literacy: Stone Age

The children 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

Daubs on tour '24 - Day 3

Yet more reasons to be proud of our Daubeney children today as they take on challenges and show resilience with tasks that are not easy and in 25 degree weather to boot! After very little sleep Monday night (they must have been excited or something 🤦🏻‍♀️) Tuesday evening was much more settled in...

Kingfisher - in the Library

Kingfisher class had a fantastic time today reading in our new library

Year 5 - Reading for Pleasure

We love reading in Year 5! We enjoy building positive habits of reading and we always look forward to when we get to do this in and out of school!

Reception - Week 4

This week, we have been reading 'The Three Little Pigs'. We have been creating our own pig noses and investigating different materials that we could use to build a sturdy house

Year 3 - Kingfisher Literacy 2024

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

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...

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

Nurture Group - Year 1: Cooking

This week in Nurture we have been reading the book Owl Babies. We were lucky enough to do some 'cooking' and make some owls on toast. We were able to practise our cutting skills. We also developed our language and maths skills by practising doubles

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?

Boys Book Club - 19th April 2021

Today, Monday 19th April 2021, the Boys Book Club enjoyed reading a story online and answering the comprehension questions

Work Week in Nursery

Nursery enjoyed trying out different jobs in nursery this week! We had doctors curing ill people, vets treating poorly animals and a mini-teacher or two reading to their 'class'. Bea said, "I want to be a rock star or a zoo keeper- or both!" Levi reported that he wanted to be...

Nursery - World Book Day

Nursery had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day! The children and staff dressed up in their favourite book characters and enjoyed reading and talking about their favourite books. Take a look at our photographs to see all the fantastic costumes

Nursery - World Book Day 2018

Nursery had a blast dressing as characters from their favourite books on Friday. The nursery was awash with a range of characters, from dinosaurs to farmers to the ever-elusive Wally. The children also had ample time to explore stories; they acted them out, snuggled up in the book corner with a...

Nursery are Wild About Reading

In the Nursery the children chose to transform their reading area into a jungle theme. They have been super excited to read amongst their new jungle pals and have even given them names. The children have been reading lots of familiar stories and have enjoyed retelling them to their friends. It has...

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...

Our Book Corners

We love reading in our creatively decorated book corners. Each class has a wide selection of books to choose from and we enjoy reading different genres. We can sit and share books with our friends as well as take books home to read with our families

Phonics in Nursery

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

Reception - Daily Supported Reading

Daily supported reading has started in Reception! Can you help? Please speak to Mrs Addai

Reception - Red Class Visit Homerton Library

Red class had an amazing time visiting the Library. We enjoyed walking to the library. It was great fun walking through all those colourful autumn leaves and we even spotted some pumpkins on the way. When we finally got there, the children sat beautifully listening to a story about a cow that laid...

Reception - Red Class: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Red class really enjoyed reading the story 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. We have been using props and resources to retell and explore the story further. We loved using different voices to retell the story. We used a deep loud voice for daddy bear, a squeaky voice for mummy bear and a...

Reception Trip to Hommerton Library

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

Reception's Stay and Learn

... take part in Daily supported Reading in Reception. Please speak to the class teacher or Miss Bibi....

Red Class - Journey to Africa

Red Class have been on a journey to Africa! We have enjoyed reading the story Handa’s Surprise and acting out the story. We have also been looking at African art and prints in textiles. We then created a patterned scarf for Handa using shapes. Red class also loved writing postcards pretending...

Top Book Recommendations for KS2

On Monday 10 th December, the Junior Literacy Team hosted another amazing assembly; this time for KS2. We recommended some fun and interesting books for children in Year 3 – 6. Here are some of our recommendations: Dork Diaries by Rachel Renee Russell The Boy in The Dress by David Walliams Tom...

Traditional Tales in 1D

In Literacy, we are reading the Gruffalo and 1D enjoyed acting out the story, changing their voices and putting on masks!

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

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...

Year 1 - Goldilocks

In Literacy we have been reading the story of Goldilocks and the three bears. We sequenced the pictures of the story talking about what happened at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the story trying to use descriptive words. We also had fun acting out the story in small groups using...

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 1 - World Book Day 2017

We celebrated World Book Day at Daubeney by dressing up as a character. Year 1 were absolutely amazing! EVERYONE dressed up! We spent the day doing all sorts of activities related to books: we pretended to be a character, we made our own books, we dressed up and perfomed a play and, of course, had...

Year 2 - 2C Trip to the Library

This week, we got to go to the Homerton Library! We met the librarians who told us all about the library and what we could do there! Did you know that you can borrow books, read books and even use the computers to find out new things? We also found out that to borrow books and use the computers you...

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 Reading at Homerton Library

Catch Year 2 reading at Homerton Library!

Year 3 - Boys Book Club

Today (6th March 2019) Year 3 started their first session in Boys Book Club. They shared their favourite book with the boys and completed a questionnaire about reading. Watch this space to see more

Year 3 - Boys Reading Club - 20th March 2019

Today (20th March 2019) was a fun session for the year 3 boys reading club with Mr T.J. The boys read a book all about super heroes and enjoyed the special powers each hero had. During the session, a very special visitor came in, Mr Fahy, who helped the boys with their activity. They had to give...

Year 3 - George's Marvellous Medicine

Year 3 had a very exciting lesson as they were introduced to the story of George’s Marvellous Medicine. The class had to make a medicine to turn Grandma into something evil! They wrote a set of instructions to make their medicine using ingredients that George used around his house. When they...

Year 3 - Reading Club

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

Year 3 Celebrate World Book Day 2019

From Dog Man to the plays of Shakespeare, Year 3 LOVE reading, so of course they were incredibly excited to dress as a character from of their favourite books to celebrate World Book Day. Can you guess who they are?

Year 4 - Viking Invasions

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

Year 5 - Beast Quest!

The children in Year 5 are loving our new selection of fiction books. The latest craze is Beast Quest by Adam Blade. In this series, two young children bravely taken on mythical and magical beast. Their quest leads them to amazing destinations and incredible adventures. If anyone is interested in...

Year 5 - Distance Time Graph

Today (7th March 2019) the Year 5 pupils had a challenge in their maths session. They were given a graph showing time versus distance. the children had to interpret the data by reading and understanding the graph, then they created their own questions about the data

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 - Growth and Transformation

This term our topic is 'Growth and Transformation'. We will be looking closely at plants and lifecycles. So far, Nursery have been busy planting seeds, doing observational paintings of flowers and finding minibeasts in our garden. We have also been reading the story 'Jaspers...

Year 5 - Literacy and Art

The children in Year 5 were pleasantly surprised today (20th September 2019) when 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...

5M Reading With 4S

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

1A - First Week Back At School

In 1A we have been busy exploring our new class. We have enjoyed, building, reading, writing, puzzles and construction. Take a look at some of our pictures. Year 1 is lots of fun!

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...

400 years of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare

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

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...

Black History Month 2017

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

Nursery - Animals

Nursery have been learning all about animals this term. After reading the story 'Dear Zoo', they confidently named the animals, imagined and enacted how they would move, and even identified which sound each animal name begins with. Christabel said, "I'm a loud and scary...

Boys Book Club - Reading to Our Nursery Pupils

Today (26th March 2019) the boys book club pupils were super excited as they got to go to our nursery to read for our young stars. Each boy in the book club read a story to a nursery pupil and then discussed the story. Another bonus was when they were allowed to play with the nursery children for...

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...

Literacy

In Literacy we have been reading the book called Flaminals. We had so much fun creating our own monsters this week! Which one is your favourite monster? Why?

Junior Literacy Team Meet SLT

On Thursday 7th March, the Junior Literacy Team were invited to meet with Mr Logan, Mr Dharma, Ms Lucey, Ms Gustave, Ms Bibi, Ms Corpe and Ms Cenac (Senior Leadership Team). We discussed ways to encourage reading and writing throughout the school – even in Nursery! It was a great opportunity to...

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...

Christmas Grotto 2018

Our Christmas Grotto at Daubeney was a huge success. The children and their parents lined up patiently to get their chance to chat with Santa about their Christmas secrets. Each one walked away with a fabulous gift as well, spreading the Christmas cheer!

Catch Me Reading

Look who we caught reading! At Daubeney, we love reading so much that we read everywhere! Where will you get caught reading?

Boys Book Club - 5th March 2019

The boys book club today (5th March 2019) read a selection of short stories and had the opportunity to focus on their comprehension skills. The boys read their text then answered questions about the text. In our session, the boys were encouraged to make some questions of their own. Can you make up...

Blue Class Assembly

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

Boys Book Club - 30th April 2019

Today (30th April 2019) the boys in the book club enjoyed reading stories online. The boys used iPads and searched for famous stories and read the stories. There are many free websites that cater for children's stories. We particularly enjoyed Oxford Owl where you can sign up for free and enjoy...

Boys Book Club - 29th January 2019

Today (29th January 2019) the Boys Book Club enjoyed a cosy session reading in the hall. We had a fire-place lit for us courtesy of YouTube and read some of our favourite books. It felt like we were in a living room, with a real fire place roaring as we enjoyed reading our books. Hopefully next...

Boys Book Club - 19th March 2019

The boys book club met today on the 19th March 2019 and enjoyed reading their favourite books in our cosy book corner. The boys then began to identify someone who would like to read their book - recommending their book with persuasive language

Boys Book Club - 12th March 2019

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

Boys Book Club - 12th February 2019

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

Boys Book Club

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

Year 5 - LEXIA Superstars

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

Year 5 - Poems in the Hop-garden

The children in Year 5 had an amazing time in the Hop-garden where they performed their poems. This week the children had been reading a selection of poems and developing their skills to perform the poems. Next week, they will write their own poems using a range of different techniques

Boys Book Club - 29th March 2021

Today (29th March 2021) the Boys Book Club met and read a text called The Submarine. They enjoyed answering the questions and reading the story

10 amazing websites for reading activities

Check out these 10 amazing websites for lots of fun reading activities to do at home including videos of authors reading, free ebooks, phonics and much more!

Ruth Miskin Training - YouTube

10 Minute Challenges - Authorfy

Big Cat eBooks

Elevenses with The World of David Walliams - The World of David Walliams

Free eBook library | Oxford Owl

Lexia Core5 Reading

Oliver Jeffers - A Book A Day

Reading Zone Live

ReadingWise

storyonline.net 

Storytime Online - World Book Day

The Reading Realm

Summer Reading Challenge

E-library | Hackney Council

Summer Reading Challenge

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

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

Year 4 - Information Posters

The children in Year 4 are learning all about the features of information posters. Today (5th December 2019) the pupils had to create their own titles, sub-headings, captions and factual information for a poster that they have been reading in class

Year 1 - 1S Jolly Christmas Postman Artwork

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

The Junior Art Team

We are very pleased to introduce ourselves to you. We are the Junior Art Team. We are in Years 2 to 6 and are very excited to get under way with lots of plans and projects over the year! We met this week to decide what we want to do and to think about why we do it. We asked ourselves why the arts...

Boys Book Club - 20th January 2020

Last week, the Boys Book Club met and read a selection of their favourite cartoons . Today (20th January 2020) the BBC had a variety of cartoons with no speech. They had the opportunity to use the pictures and create their own speech for the cartoons. They made sure they added some onomatopoeia and...

Year 4 - Graphic Novels

Today (4th February 2020) the children enjoyed reading a selection of comics and discussed what they liked about comics. They also discussed what makes a comic interesting and identified the features of a comic. As part of our genre, this week children will be looking at comics and next week will...

Boys Book Club - 2nd March 2020

Today (2nd March 2020) the boys enjoyed a clam and relaxing reading session. They listened to soothing music while reading their favourite book. We also had the opportunity to discuss the book by Vanessa Taylor called 'Baller Boys', which was dedicated to Mr Reece, who was and will always be part...

Year 5 and 6 Residential 2020 - Day 1

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

Reception - Red Class: Healthy Me - Germs

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

Nursery - Let's go to space

We really enjoyed reading the story 'What ever next!' Written by Jill Murphy. Nursery created their very own rockets to travel to space

Home Learning

...ort, sharp, bite size pieces. Reading is the key to successful learning – the more you read the better you’ll get at everything! It’s always useful for children to reflect and comment on what they have just learnt. So, once you have learnt a new skill or knowledge, get your child to explain wh...

Year 3 - Celebrating Your Work

Hello Yr 3 (& 4!), I can see that you’ve been very busy on the Busy Things website. Here’s a selection of your wonderful work. Don’t forget to keep checking the assignments page-we’re setting tasks and are enjoying seeing your work. I hope you are all keeping well &...

Reading Skills

... you. Reading Skills Stems......some resources to help you. Reading Skills Stems...

Virtual Assembly - 20th May 2020

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Year 2 - No Pen Day in 2C

Have you ever not used pens in school? That’s what we did today! We spent a whole day doing learning without using pens! We did lots of things we enjoy like reading books, learn about landmarks in the UK by playing a game and we even played games in maths that made us think a lot! Are you...

Virtual Assembly - 3rd June 2020

Coping with Change Worried about Coronavirus? Try reading Everybody Worries - A picture book for children who are worried about Coronavirus

Virtual Library

Here is an amazing virtual library filled with fantastic books that can read at home for free. Browse around and choose any book to read. All you have to do is click on the book cover to open the link. Enjoy!

Summer Reading Challenge

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Junior Literacy Team 2020/2021

I am excited to introduce 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 3 - Recommended Books

Check out the wonderful Year 3 pupils recommending books for you to read. Do comment and let us know if you enjoyed reading the recommendations or have your own books to recommend for Year 3

Year 4 - Recommended Books

Check out the wonderful Year 4 pupils recommending books for you to read. Do comment and let us know if you enjoyed reading the recommendations or have your own books to recommend for Year 4

Year 3 - BFG

In 3G we are reading the BFG as our class reader. The children are reading aloud to the class this is helping with their confidence and fluency. They are using the Daubeney reading stems to explain their understanding of the story.

Boys Book Club - 16th November 2020

The Year 4 boys met today 16-11-2020 and enjoyed reading a selection of books which were their favourite books. We had many different genres and discussed which books we enjoyed most

Boys Book Club - 23rd November 2020

Today 23 November 2020 the boys book club met and read a story ’George the giant tortoise’. We used our reading stems to discuss the story and looked at answering questions about the story

November Book Fair 2020

Yet another fantastic Book Fair at Daubeney! Of course it was a little bit different this year but it was great to see that children were still very eager to buy lots of books to enjoy reading at home and inspire their imaginations. We hope you have fun reading your new books! By Mei Foo 6FO,...

Boys Book Club - 7th December 2020

Today the Boys Book Club met and read an interesting text all about sharks. They discussed the text and used their reading stems to understand the text. Next week they will focus on comprehension questions about the text

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...

Boys Book Club - 22nd March 2021

Today 22 March 2021 the Boys Book Club enjoyed a session reading a text then answering questions online. Next week they are looking forward to continuing using the online text and questions to develop their comprehension skills

Year 2 - No Pen Day in 2P

We had a fun day today! We read our favourite books, played lots of different maths games and using our amazing vocabulary to describe different landmarks in the UK. At first, some of us weren’t sure how we’d be able to do anything without using pens but we soon realised that there are...

Year 4 - 4M Non Fiction Session

Today (8th November 2019) the children in 4M explored many different non-fiction texts. During our guided reading session, each group read a selection of non-fiction books and recorded key facts and information they learnt. It was fun reading non-fiction books, we learnt many new facts about...

Year 5 - Professional Authors

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

Year 5 - Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPAG)

Today (25th April 2019) the Year 5 children were focusing on their Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPAG) objectives and looked at combining sentences using connectives. They were given a range of sentences and had to connect them using suitable connectives. Can you spot any connectives in your...

Year 5 - Story Time in 5M

The children were excited today to begin writing their own story based on the book we are reading in class. The children used many features of writing today like; similes, personification, fronted adverbials and varied sentence starters. Each day this week the children will be writing a part of...

Year 5 - World Book Day

5M had a wonderful day dressing up as our favourite book characters, even our teacher came as ZORRO. We enjoyed reading stories and creating our own stories, where we rediscovered our love for books

Year 5 - World Book Day 2019

The children had so much fun today (8th March 2019) dressing up as their favourite book characters. There were many amazing costumes and the children celebrated the day by reading some of their favourite books and talking to their peers about books that they recommended

Year 5 Residential 2018 - Day 1

What a fantastic first day. It was a very excitable coach journey and the children couldn’t wait to get to Yulebury and try out all the activities. A mere 30 minutes after arrival the games began! We had children streaming down the Zip Wire at crazy speeds! Facing their fears on the dreaded...

Year 5 Residential 2018 - Day 5

Good afternoon everyone. This is the last update so I’ll keep it short. It’s been an absolutely amazing week. In the words of Senior Aribas, “Muy Bien, fenomenal!” The children have been brilliant and have pushed themselves to the absolute limit. It’s only been a week...

Year 6 - 6F Visit Sky Studios

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

Year 6 - 6M Visit Sky Studios

Today (22nd November 2018) 6M had the exciting opportunity of visiting The Sky Studios in the O2 arena. Through this unique experience, we have definitely spotted some upcoming TV stars. There is a plethora of activities and we would recommend anyone to go along to enjoy reading the news; the...

Year 6 - Air Raid in 6S!

In 6S we have been learning about World War II. So far we have learned about the outbreak of the war and we are reading Goodnight Mister Tom to immerse ourselves into the topic. One of the things we learnt about was air raid drills. There would be a very loud siren and everyone in school would have...

Year 6 - Publishing Short Stories

Today (04.04.19) year 6 published the short stories they have been writing over the last few days. They used the corrections and improvements made by themselves and their peers to produce a top quality piece of writing. They will be sharing them by reading them out loud tomorrow

Year 6 - Reading

Year 6 are avid readers and read at every opportunity they have. Why don’t you comment with your favourite author or a book recommendation?

Year 6 - Writing: Peer and Self Assessment

This week Year 6 have been writing short stories based on the short film “The Piano”. Today (03.04.19) they read through each other’s writing and used their teamwork and feedback skills to improve their peers’ writing. On Friday, they will share their short stories with each...

Art and Literature in Year 3

After reading the fable, 'The Lion and the Mouse', Year 3 thought about what characteristics the lion in the story might have. They decided he was majestic and strong, the mighty King of the Jungle. This was reflected in their art, where they created bright, colourful manes for their regal lions....

Year 5 Residential 2019 - Day 5

[menu name="year5-residential-2019"] Good afternoon everyone. This is the last update so I’ll keep it short. It’s been an absolutely amazing week. In the words of Senior Aribas, our silver medalist Spanish champion, “Muy Bien, fenomenal!” The children have been...

Year 4 - Role-Play: Lion and the Mouse

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

Year 1 - Story Narrating: The Lion and The Mouse

Year 1 have been reading the wordless book The Lion and The Mouse this week as part of our Whole School book fortnight. We thought about what was happening on each page and explored how we could tell the story ourselves

Year 3 - 3T's Charles Dickens Assembly

3T's assembly last week was all about reading, and in particular about our class author of the term, Charles Dickens. We acted out one of Dickens' stories, Great Expectations, and explored the messages it contained. 3T decided that it demonstrated that everyone deserves a second chance,...

Junior Literacy Team 2019/20

Meet the Daubeney Junior Literacy Team - An enthusiastic group of children in KS2 with a love of reading and passion for writing! They will be supporting Miss Fergus in promoting Literacy across the school through assemblies, events and competitions. They will also be in charge of keeping all book...

Year 4 - Guided Reading

The children in Year 4 enjoyed a free choice reading session today where they selected some of their favourite books to read. Some children read the Harry Potter series which I'm sure Mr Swarbrick would love to read

Boys Book Club - 2nd July 2019

Today (2nd July 2019) the boys in the reading club decided to sit in front of the classroom fan and relax while reading a selection of thriller stories. The children enjoyed reading the stories which made them use their prediction skills to predict the ending and in addition they enjoyed the...

Year 3 - Outdoor Reading

...o their books. "Reading outside is so relaxing, I felt so refreshed" - Hussein "It's just a different feeling Reading outside in the fresh air, I loved every minute" - Gaia "It was like a Reading session and meditation mixed together&qu...

Year 5 Residential 2019 - Day 1

[menu name="year5-residential-2019"] Wow! What a start! As first days go this is right up there with the best of them. It was a very excitable coach journey and the children couldn’t wait to get to Youlbury and try out all the activities. We arrived in plenty of time and as usual...

Junior Literacy Team visit the Nursery

...ren. The team sat in the 'Reading Jungle', the Nursery's book corner and read books including Curious George and even a book by Mo Farah called 'Ready Steady Mo'. The children loved being read to and the Literacy Team definitely enjoyed Reading to them too! By Kai Foo-Sherwin, Ju...

Boys Book Club - 11th June 2019

Today (11-06-2019) the Boys Book Club had another great session reading to the children in the Nursery. The boys went over after lunch and read stories to the nursery pupils while asking them questions about the book. The Nursery children were excited to have a story read to them and as a bonus...

Boys Book Club - 21st May 2019

Today (21st May 2019) the Boys in the book club were treated to a selection of myths and legends, stories with witches, dragons, wizards and adventures. After reading some stories we got a chance to watch a myth using the Myths and legends website, which is free and has loads of amazing myths to...

Year 1 - 1L Perform The Gruffalo

In Literacy 1L have been reading The Gruffalo. First we chose a character that we wanted to be in the performance and explained why we would be good for the part. We discussed how we could stage the story and worked together to rehearse each part. On Friday we performed our stories to the other...

Rainbow Class - RE day - Exploring Christianity & Church

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