School Council

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

School Development

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

Nursery

EYFS Team Welcome to Daubeney Nursery! In the nursery, we plan exciting activities every week based on our observation of children’s needs, interests, and stages of development across the seven areas of learning to enable the children to achieve and exceed the early learning goals. We hope you...

Year 2

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

Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development

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

Governors

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

Free School Meals

Our Catering Team works very hard to prepare a delicious and varied diet. As School Meals are universally free in London thanks to the Mayor of London, we expect all children to have a hot meal during the day. Pupil premium and free school meals If your child is eligible for ‘free school meals’ and...

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 -...

Daubeney Village

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

Daubeney Children & Family Hub

Daubeney Children & Family Hub is just down the road from Daubeney Primary School. The centre shares its state of the art facilities with Daubeney Nursery which is a high quality and beautiful environment for children to learn. The centre is run by our Children’s Centre Manager – Suzanne...

Physical Education

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

Contact

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

Clubs

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

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...

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....

Year 5 - Christmas Jumper Day and Rudolph Run

Are you excited for Christmas? Year 5 are! Have a look at our eventful day!

Year 1 - 1L Christmas Day

We had lots of fun yesterday wearing our Christmas jumpers, going for a Rudolph run and enjoying our Christmas dinner!

Rudolph Run

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

Maths with Year 5

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

WOW Walk to School Challenge

For the second year running, Daubeney has decided to take part in the WOW walk to school challenge! WOW is a pupil-led initiative where children self-report how they come to school everyday. If they travel sustainably (walk, cycle, scoot, hop off the bus early and walk the rest of the way) a few...

Daubeney's 100 Active Challenge

Daubeney children took part in the Daubeney’s 100 Active Challenge. The children had a challenge each day to see how many squats, crunches, lunges, jumping jacks and burpees they could do in 100 seconds. Our Junior Mentor Health team created videos to help us with the challenge

Nurture Group - Snow Day

"When I stamp on the snow, it makes a crunching noise!!" Fun Fact - Playing outdoors activates the frontal cortex (the front part of your brain). This part is responsible for controlling emotions and problem solving. This forces the brain to make those neurotransmitter connections. This...

First Week in Nursery - Autumn 2020

Well done to all the new nursery children for such a wonderful first week! We’ve had so much fun playing, drawing, running, jumping, climbing and painting and we cannot wait for the fun to continue in the weeks to come! Have lots of rest this weekend and we will see you next week for more...

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...

'It Takes a Village' Holiday Activities

As part of Daubeney's 'It Takes a Village' project, we would like to celebrate fathers and male role models and the positive impact they have on our children. As such, we are running two competitions for the children over the half term and would like your support in encouraging the...

Hackney School 1.1 Mile Fun Run

Sunday 19th May 2019 Daubeney took part in the Hackney School 1.1 mile fun run. It was a fantastic afternoon and the children were so well behaved and did so brilliantly with in the mile run. All the adults who supported felt extremely proud of them all. Go Team Daubeney you are great!

School Council - St Joseph's Hospice Rudolph Run

...n St Joseph's Hospice Rudolph Run. The aim was to raise money to help the hospice look after patients. The Run started at 9:30 with the receptions and the year 6s ended the Run at 10:55. On Tuesday the 14th of December, two children delivered the money raised by our Daubeney family to St Joseph’s ...

Year 3 - 3HC Rudolph Run

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

Rainbow Class - Attention Bucket & Singing

Pupils maintained their attention well during Attention Bucket activities, showing curiosity as they explored new and exciting items. They enjoyed choosing songs and demonstrated good listening skills by responding immediately with actions and movements linked to the music. The session supported...

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...

Year 5 & 6 Cross Country League

Well done to all our fantastic Year 5 and 6 pupils who took part in the recent cross-country competition! Every runner showed incredible determination, teamwork, and resilience as they tackled the challenging course

Year 5 - School Tasking (Session 3)

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

Year 5 - Energy Sparks Workshop

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

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!

The Nest - Baking Cookies

Today we had lots of fun baking cookies! We used flour, butter, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla essence. "it tasted delicious" "yummy" "it is crunchy" "ten out of ten"

Year 2 Spring 1 Week 1 computing

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

Eco Team Trip

...nter! We learned about the Running Out of Time campaign and we got to meet the Runners! The Runni...... got to meet the Runners! The Running Out of Time campaign aims to raise awareness about Climate Cha...

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 2 - Coding Week 2

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

Rudolph Run 2022

Nursery Had Their First PE Session!

The nursery children really enjoyed their first PE session delivered by Mr Simon and Mr Reece. The children experimented in moving in different ways, balancing, walking, hopping on one leg and running. We even played a game, naming colours and matching the coloured cones. Well done Nursery!

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...

School Choir Perform for Nursery

Our parent led school choir performed for a captivated nursery audience on Wednesday 5th of July. We had a sing off in which nursery children and our choir sang for each other. 4G were in the audience too and they treated us to a cool rendition of Kye Kye Kule. Massive applause and kudos goes to...

Reception - Red Class' First PE Lesson

Take a look to see what fun we had during our first PE session. "l like running and playing the wild animals game" - Kaivan "I like rolling" - Sueni "I like doing racing in our team colours" - Benjamin

Reception - First Week At School

Our first week at school, we have been getting to know our new friends and teachers. We have been busy drawing, painting, climbing, running, bouncing, playing and learning at the same time

ORDER, ORDER! The House will hear...

Last Friday, Daubeney's finest school council members were given the marvellous opportunity to attend a visit to The Houses of Parliament in company of Miss Bree, Mr. West and City Year's own Mr. N. The trip allowed for the group to venture into the heart of London, specifically the area of...

Nursery Sports Day 2017

Nursery's sports day revealed that we have many budding athletes in Daubeney! The children hopped higher than kangaroos in their sacks, balanced like aeroplanes in the sky in the egg and spoon race and ran (almost) as fast as cheetahs! The parents didn't do too badly either, as you can see...

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...

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...

November Book Fair

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

Hackney Junior Citizenship

Hackney Junior Citizenship Schemes is a fast-paced, multiple-agency event run for Year 6 students and designed to help pupils prepare for the challenges they may face as they become young adults. Our Year 6 pupils enjoyed a carousel of activities with up to ten different agencies delivering short...

Hackney Fun Run

...n the annual Schools' Fun Run Challenge at Hackney Marshes. The day as per usual was a great success for all involved, with many of our students declaring/discovering their love for Running! Our marathon Runners Mrs Taylor, Mr Dharma and Mr Logan were all in attendance along with others members ...

First Week in Year 3

Take a look at what Year 3 have been getting up to in their Maths and Literacy lessons this week: In one of their Literacy lessons, Year 3 got to know the story of The Gingerbread Man in preparation for a writing task later this week. In groups, they created freeze frames of different scenes from...

Cross Country at Hackney Downs Park

A selection of Daubeney's finest long distance runners, competing at Hackney Downs park. An excellent effort by the team, with every individual improving on their performance the previous week

April Book Fair

We had another very successful Book Fair at Daubeney! There was a fantastic selection of books and they were all half price! If you missed it, you missed out! The children bought lots of books to read at home and enjoy with their families. Well done to Queenie in 6F who helped to run the Book Fair...

This Week in 1S

1S have settled into Year 1 super quickly! They have been playing and writing, drawing and running! This week we have been drawing our own maps and writing our own sentences using colourful semantics. We even know all about odd and even numbers! We can't wait to learn even more :)

Year 3 - Designing Chocolate Factories

After finding out about Willy Wonka's weird and wonderful culinary creations, Year 3 decided to design confectionery rooms of their own. Some of their ideas would give Mr Wonka himself a run for his money! One child created 'Everest Room', which contains a life sized version of the...

1FA - Autumn in the School Garden

We went to the school garden to look at how the trees are changing as autumn approaches. We discussed how the leaves are drying and falling off the trees. We talked to Gavin, our gardener, as he was pruning the berry bushes to prepare them for winter. We talked about how the days are longer in the...

Year 3 - KidZania

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

Year 5 Visit to Our Lady's Secondary School

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

Year 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 4 - Viking Invasions

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

Year 4 - 4C Work Week 2019: Meeting a Foley Artist

4C were very lucky to have Sue, Ellis' mum, come in to talk about her very special job. She is a Foley artist which means she reproduces everyday sound effects in cartoons and movies. She has worked on some cartoons that the children watched such as Peppa Pig! Sue showed us different ways of...

Year 4 - 4C Trip to The Jones Family Project

4C went on a trip to The Jones Family Project where we had a great time experiencing how a restaurant is run. We had a chance to see how Literacy and Numeracy are used in the work place and even got to have a taste of what the chef's are really made of

Year 3 Trip to the Ministry of Stories

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

Rainbow Class: RE Day - Lego Church

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