Free School Meals

...delicious and varied diet. As School Meals are universally free in London thanks to the Mayor of Lon....../portal.learningtrust.co.uk/Synergy/Enquiries/Citizen/FreeSchoolMeals.aspx If you require assistanc...

Literacy

...edded across Daubeney Primary School over the last two academic years, enhancing our child-centred and creative approach to learning within EYFS. Drawing Club opens up the magical world of stories, allowing children to immerse themselves in rich language, imagination and creativity, while also stren...

Maths

... they are ready for Secondary School. Maths is an integral skill that will support children’s readiness for the world. We want children in our School to become enthusiastic, independent and reflective learners. Essentially, we want children to love Maths. Aims Ensure that the Maths curriculum eq...

Lunch Menu

...ied diet. These are the menus:...

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...

Year 2

...g to change in School. Forest School Parakeet class will begin Forest School sessions on Friday 15th......akeet class will begin Forest School sessions on Friday 15th of September and they will run weekly t...... class will have their Forest School sessions every Friday in Autumn 2 half-term. Book bags Please e...

Inclusion

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

Home Learning

...earn during class time. Lower School Years R, 1 and 2 children should have 1 hour per week of home l......work. Home Learning - Lower School Key Stage 2 Years 3 and 4 children should have 1.5 hours of ho...

Governors

...ney, Sebright & Lauriston Schools and Children Centres. Our governors represent our wider School...... best possible support to the School. We are actively recruiting new members. School governors have ......ively recruiting new members. School governors have a responsibility for supporting the Schools, whi...

Daubeney Loves Reading

Reading for Pleasure We have a rich reading culture at Daubeney. We are committed to creating an ethos and an environment that excites, enthuses and inspires children to read for their own enjoyment. We aim to develop a community of readers through high quality reading provision. The children have...

Vacancies

We proud to be part of the Blossom Federation, so you may want to check for vacancies at Lauriston Primary and Sebright Primary to see if there are any opportunities to work at our wonderful partner schools

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...

Computing

If you would like to know more about this area of the curriculum, please talk to Joel Power. Computing in EYFS We understand how important it is that children develop their technology skills and we will continue to use a range of technology to support and enhance learning in other areas of the...

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....

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...

Mental Health

... Slate Magazine “looked at the effectiveness of the Mindful Schools program on around 400 low-income, mostly minority elementary-School students. It found that after five weeks of regular mindfulness sessions, teachers reported that students became more focused, participatory, and caring.” Clear...

Music

Every child experiences the opportunity to realise themselves as composers and performers in their whole-class weekly music lessons. Lessons are delivered by our Music-specialists, using a holistic approach that includes moving, singing and playing as a way to understand and be creative in a range...

Daubeney Children & Family Hub

...he 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 Carmichael – who also works at Sebright Children�...

Curriculum Overviews

A curriculum overview gives you an idea of which topic your child will be studying at which point during the school year. Year Group Overviews Subject Overviews

Nursery

... School year. EYFS Policy At Daubeney Primary School our aim is to provide the highest quality care and education for all our children, thus giving them a strong foundation for their future learning. EYFS Policy...

Starting Reception in September

...d explore with their friends. School Trips You will sign a permission slip at the beginning of the s...... the Trutex uniform shop. Being School Ready! Starting School is an exciting and nervous time for ch......your interest and secure a place. School Uniform The School uniform is available from the Trutex sho...

Contact

...of the SENCO.......Teacher: Robin Warren Head of School: Gregory Logan Chair of Governors: Will Emms Chair of Local Sch......ors: Will Emms Chair of Local School Committee: Annwen Johnson BEM SENDCO: Raj Dharma Interim Financ...

Spanish

...rimary Award Daubeney Primary School has been awarded the GOLD Primary Spanish Award (Premio Español Primaria) in recognition of its excellence in Spanish language provision. This award highlights the School’s success in embedding Spanish across the curriculum and reflects best practices establ...

Safeguarding

...the School office, or via the School's Safeguarding Email DaubeneyDSL@Blossom.Hackney.sch.uk Alternatively, you can contact the Hackney Children and Families Services Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) on 020 8356 5500 or email MASH@hackney.gov.uk or Tower Hamlets Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub...

Mission, Vision and Aims

...beney, Sebright and Lauriston Schools - plus Daubeney Child & Family Hub and Sbright Children's ......d. Vision At Daubeney Primary School, in line with the other Schools in our Federation, it is our ai......ity Aims At Daubeney Primary School, in line with the other Schools in our Federation, we aim to: ...

School Council

...ore Find out more.........paign, speech and voting. The School Council is made up of three committees. Admin Committee – the......-6 Idea Boxes. This enables the School Council to get ideas, concerns and feedback from their peers....

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...

Physical Education

... than others outside. P.E School Trips PE Highlights...

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...

School Uniform

Daubeney is a ‘uniform school’ this is supported by the SLT and the Governors. We believe that a school uniform is important: It looks smart Wears well Contributes to a sense of belonging and community Gives a common purpose Makes children feel equal to their peers in terms of appearance Fosters a...

SEND and Our Local Offer

...nt Lead SEND Information Report Our School’s SEND Information Report explains what we offer childr......roughout the document as SEND) into our School; how we support them in all aspects of School life ...... how we support them in all aspects of School life and remove barriers to achievement; how we wor...

Reception

...EYFS Policy At Daubeney Primary School our aim is to provide the highest quality care and education for all our children, thus giving them a strong foundation for their future learning. EYFS Policy...

Attendance

At Daubeney we know that good attendance is the key to successful schooling, and we believe our pupils can be amongst the best. Although we aim for 100% attendance, each year we set a target for attendance, and this is used to compare us to other schools nationally. Our current attendance target is...

Pupil Premium

The Government believes that the Pupil Premium, which is additional to main school funding, is the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and their peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who...

PSHE - Jigsaw

...2 onwards, actively involved in School Council elections. School council members allow children to h......ed in School Council elections. School council members allow children to have a real say in issues t......e of Work for the whole Primary School from Years F1 and 2 through to Year 6. It brings together PSH...

Policies

The following Daubeney Primary policies are available to download and hard copies are available from the school office

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...

Performance, Results and Reporting

This page presents the performance data for the academic year 2025-2026 for the school and Federation based on: End of Early Years Foundation Stage data Outcomes of the Y1 Phonics Check Key Stage 1 Teacher Assessment Y4 Multiplication Times Tables Check Key Stage 2 Teacher Assessment and Tests The...

PE and Sports Premium

Across the Blossom Federation, we have prioritised PE and sport in our budget to enhance children’s participation, involvement, and attainment in PE. We are committed to ensuring our children understand the importance of being active, to have a healthy lifestyle and to enjoy sports and games...

Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development

...iefs of others (Rights Respecting School) their own spiritual awareness (RE Curriculum and Enrichm......caust survivors Rights Respecting Schools Attendance Charity Support – marathon School Cou......ance Charity Support – marathon School Council and Elections Student subject teams Trips ...

Ofsted

...ney, we at Daubeney have a rigorous School Development Plan and monitoring and evaluation cycle. The......lies said they would recommend Daubeney Primary School to other prospective parents" Parent View Pa......ew the Parent View results for Daubeney Primary School ....

Nurture Group - The Nest

The Nest is a place for children to have the opportunity to grow in confidence and become engaged, successful learners in their classrooms and the school community. Nurture is an environment where adults and children work closely together; a place where mistakes and accidents are discussed; where...

Assessment

Assessment Policy and Procedures Why Assess? We assess to be sure that all children across the Blossom Federation can make as much progress in their learning as they possibly can. By assessing children’s achievements in their work, further progress in their learning can be planned for. Assessment...

Online Safety

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

Science and Sustainability

...re subjects taught in Primary Schools, we give the teaching and learning of Science the prominence i......ig part of our School life here at Daubeney Primary School. We are working with our pupils, parents,...

Privacy Notice

We hold personal data about pupils to support teaching and learning, to provide pastoral care and to assess how the school is performing. We may also receive data about pupils from other organisations including, but not limited to, other schools, local authorities and the Department for Education....

Ambassadors

...adors 2026-27 We are Daubeney School Ambassadors! We have a variety of important roles at our School......wing visitors around Daubeney School Hosting the Debate of the Wand Organising Daubeney's Got Ta...... role models for all Daubeney School children. Be sure to check out this term’s debates and join u...

Admissions

...y Education. Please visit the School Tours page , contact Jennifer Coyston us on 020 8985 4380 or em......n be applied for at the Daubeney Main School Office. Our Nursery provides places for up to 120 child...

About our Curriculum

...beney, Sebright and Lauriston Schools, we shape our curriculum to ensure all pupils have access to a rich, exciting, experiential curriculum, which celebrates the rich diversity of our Schools. Drawing on the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage and National Curriculum, we provide broad...

Forest School

...er Term – Reception During Forest School sessions, children are encouraged to work with others to ......Federation, and is a trained Forest School Lead Teacher. The sessions will take place once a week in......s A warm coat – preferably waterproof School jumper or fleece School t-shirt Trousers Waterproof o...

Year 6

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Clubs

...istration Form 2025-2026 After School Clubs After School Club Plan for Summer Term - £39.00 per s......2026 After School Clubs After School Club Plan for Summer Term - £39.00 per session Year......- Yr6 15 After School Club Plan for Spring Term - £39.00 per session Yea...

Year 4

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. PE Children in Year 4 have PE every Monday and must bring in their PE kit to school including trainers...

School Development

...e and helps us to devise the ‘School Development Plan’ or SDP. The SDP runs in with the academic......updates about our progress on the School Development Plan and it is very important that all members ...

Staff

...d with Sebright and Lauriston Schools and some of our staff work across all three Schools....

Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL)

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

Reception - Forest School

Forest school Reception, making nature necklaces

School Council - New Committee Meetings

..., so watch this space!...

World Mental Health Day 2022

...ldren across Daubeney Primary School entered competition. They all won a “gratitude journal”. Well done children!...

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

Daubeney Reading Champions

We are the Daubeney Reading Champions! Our role is to promote reading at Daubeney and share our ideas with other schools in Hackney. We had the opportunity to attend the Reading Champions launch at Hackney Town Hall and got to meet Councillor Bramble, the deputy mayor, who presented us with our...

Year 5 – Spanish/Music joint project

As part as a pioneering joint Spanish and Music project, students in Year 5 have revisited vocabulary and structures we originally learnt in the Autumn term. Students are now able to express their musical preferences and justify their opinions using music specific vocabulary, such a timbre ,...

Spanish Music Project

...laboration with other Hackney Schools and the Hackney Music Service. We hope you like our video....

Forest school Reception class celebrating the Kings Coronation

Hackney Schools' Challenge

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

Making Autumn storm jars and free flow

Reception - Hackney School of Food

...d the chance to visit Hackney School of Food. We made our own pizzas from scratch, where we mixed ingredients to make the dough. We then used our fine motor skills to cut up our vegetables for our toppings and mixed together a tomato sauce! We rolled out our dough to make our base, pasted on the tom...

Year 2 - 2L Forest School - Painting with Nature

Year 2 - 2S Forest School - Painting with Nature

6TK and 6MC Hackney School of Food

Year 5 – Spanish - Antonio Gaudí. Trencadis technique

As part of a series of cross curricular lessons, year 5 have explored the famous Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi’s life and work, and created their own artwork inspired by the architect. Trencadís is an artistic method popularised by Gaudi. It is a mosaic-like effect, achieved by cementing together...

Daubeney Primary School Nurture - Fairy Cakes

Baking fairy cakes for Nurture Graduation

Daubeney Primary School, Nurture - Picnic

... and family...

Week 1 in Parakeet Class

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

Spanish - First week

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

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...

School Council - Junior Road Safety Officers

... stay safe on the streets....

Year 1 - 1S Forest School - Making Nature Calendars

Year 2 - 2L Forest School - Making Forest Creatures

Making forest creatures with clay and natural resources

Christmas in Reception

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

The Nest - The Hackney School of Food

...ur class to go to The Hackney School of Food to make Cheese and Spinach Scones and Rainbow Slaw....

Year 1 - 1S Forest School - Making Bird Feeders

After School Club - Creative (Years 3-6) - 23rd January 2023

After School Club - Creative (Years 3-6) - 9th January 2023

Year 1 - Forest School - Nest Building

Year 5 - Hackney School of Food

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

Year 4M Science Experiment at Cardinal Pole Secondary School

...on at Cardinal Pole Secondary School today, 2-02-2023. They were able to use the amazing facilities of their science lab. The children were taught by a secondary science teacher and had a fabulous session where they used Bunsen burners and different chemicals. The children lit a sample of each of th...

Year 4L Science at Cardinal Pole Secondary School

...on in Cardinal Pole Secondary School today 9-02-2023. The children used Bunsen burners to test the different effects of different solutions and made their own sparkles....

Year 1 - Forest School - Looking for Signs of Spring and Bug Hunting

Year 1 - Forest School - Treasure Hunt and Free Flow

Year 1 - Forest School - World Book Day 2023

Mr Logan Meets the School Councillors of 2022/23

...ldhood, aspirations and music.......ed Mr. Logan to meet with the School Councillors of 2022/23. The committees introduced themselves...

Year 2 - Science Plant Hunt

As part of our Science topic we went on a plant hunt in the hop garden this week! We had fun exploring and identifying a range of plants that grow right here in school!

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

Free play and making Autumn storm jars

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:

Year 5 - Literacy: Conscience Alley

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

Year 1 - Forest school - Bug hunting and hide and seek

Autumn Book Fair 2022

We had another fantastic Book Fair at Daubeney last week. It was great to see so many children excited about books. Altogether you spent an amazing £959.26 which equals £479.63 in rewards for us to spend on some great new books for the school. What book did you buy? Would you recommend it? Comment...

Eco Team Waste Audit

We have conducted a waste audit of our school! It was loads of fun and we found out how much we waste as well as if we are using our bins correctly! We can’t wait to share our results next term!

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 School For Food

... an amazing experience at the School For Food. They made their very own Spanish Paella. The children were so excited to cook the dish themselves and they could not wait to eat the delicious paella....

Year 4 - 4L Visit Hackney School of Food

...d a fantastic time at Hackney School of Food on Thursday 10th November. We learnt some useful cooking skills such as how to hold a knife correctly to chop vegetables and how to use a stove. We then cooked a tasty vegetarian paella and learnt about its history from Spain as well as the ingredients an...

Therapy Dog

... in School settings. Daubeney School has introduced the access to a dog promoting emotional well-bei......ts. The Benefits of a Dog in School School dogs have been proven to help develop Pupils’ reading...... Benefits of a Dog in School School dogs have been proven to help develop Pupils’ reading skills,...

Year 1 - Forest School - Mud Kitchen

Year 2 - 2S Forest School - Whittling Pencils and Exploring the Woods

Year 2 - 2H Forest School - Whittling Pencils and Exploring the Woods

Spring Book Fair 2023

Our Spring Book Fair was another great success! Lots of children came to buy some fantastic books to share with their families at home. Altogether you spent an amazing £1002.88 which equals £601.73 in rewards for us to spend on some great new books for the school. What books would like to see at...

Year 2 - 2P Singing School Trip

On Tuesday Class 2P went on a very exciting singing school trip into central London. We went to a small but very grand church called St Ann and St Agnes . It is in the vicinity of St. Paul’s in the heart of bustling central London. 2P sang their hearts out with a professional ensemble called...

Year 2 - 2S Forest School - Finding Nature's Treasure

Happy Holidays from Year 4B

For the last day of school, we are celebrating differences and in our class, we speak over 20 different languages at home! We wore traditional outfits or colours from our countries. We were given a small gift from our teacher. We wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Year 1 - Forest School - 1L Free Play and Exploring the Woods

Year 1 - Forest School - 1A Free Play and Tree Climbing

Year 1 - Safer Internet Day

Today, for Safer Internet Day, we thought about how we use the internet to play online games. We discussed how we can keep ourselves safe when playing games online, who to talk to if we need help or are unsure of anything, and also explored the things that are safe to share online and things that...

Year 1 - Forest School - 1S Superworm

1S looking for, measuring and drawing worms

Year 1 - Forest School - 1L Superworm

1L searching for worms, measuring them and climbing trees

Year 1 - Forest School - Session 3

Year 1 - Forest School - Session 2

Year 1 - Forest School - Session 1

Writing poems to what we hear

Eco Team Bulb Planting

The Eco Team had a great time planting donated bulbs around pavement trees surrounding our school. We had a great time and cannot wait to get our fingers green again as well see the bulbs grow in a couple of months time

Young Hackney Poetry Competition Winner

Congratulations to Maya in 3 HC who was the winner of the Young Hackney Poetry Competition! She beat children from many other Hackney schools. Here is the winning poem

Year 3 - Oreo Bugs Came to Visit 3HC!

Daubeny's school pet Oreo Bugs came to visit 3HC with Miss Asiya! The children were well excited but remained calm so that they don't scare him away. Well done 3HC!

Year 3 - 3HC Celebrating Differences Day

Today we are having a ‘Celebrating Differences Day’ because we are all different and unique but UNITED we stand together, at Daubeney! Children in 3HC have come into school wearing traditional clothes from where they are from and/or wearing colours of their country flag

Year 1 - 1L's Last Day Before Christmas

1L had a fun filled last day of school today! We had some tasty treats, we watched a film and we practised our dance moves! We showed off our traditional clothes too as part of international dress up day! We hope you have a lovely Christmas!

School Council - St Joseph's Hospice Rudolph Run

...ell Done Team Daubeney! - Audrey, School Council...

Reception Trip to St Barnabas Church

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

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

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

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 16

Anti-bullying week 2021

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 12

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 13

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 14

Understanding and Managing Behaviour Workshop

On the 9th November, Vana, our CWIS (CAMHs worker in school) lead a parent workshop about managing emotions

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 15

Spanish Champions 2021-22

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

Year 1 - 1L Shape Hunt

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

School Council - Meeting with Mr Warren - 8th December 2021

...uggestions made by Mr. Warren....... Wednesday 8th December 2021. School Council Committees had a selection of questions and ideas they ...... Daubeney? How do you see the School Council role within your plans? What are your plans for the pla...

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 17

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 18

Where the wild things are

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 19

Rudolph Run

...chool Council......ecial guest with antlers on the day! - School Council...

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 20

Year 1 - 1A Christmas Jumper Day & Christmas Lunch

We had an amazing time at school celebrating Christmas Jumper Day and eating our special lunch. Take a look at what fun we had!

Year 1 - Forest School - 1S Exploring the Woods

1S exploring the woods, free play

Parents Consultation Survey 2022

Our Parents Consultation Feedback survey is anonymous and we greatly value your feedback as it plays an important role in the management of the school

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

Year 2 Mapping Skills Day

We had lots of fun during Mapping Skills Day! We identified points on a compass, and explored giving correct directions. We then used a bird's eye view map of the school to navigate our way around the playgrounds, discussing which direction we had to go. We also identified what a key is on a...

Reception - Forest School - Yellow Class: Jubilee Crown Making

...celebrating the end of Forest School and the Queen jubilee crown making....

Reception - Forest School - Blue Class Introduction

Blue class introduction to forest school. Exploring and nature treasure hunt

Reception - Forest School - Blue Class Mud Play

Reception - Forest School - Blue Class Nest Building and Hide and Seek

What do children think about freedom at breaktimes?

Please see how your children feel about the idea of freedom at break times. This video will be shared with other OPAL schools across the country. We hope it puts a smile on your face

Nurture Group - Cooking with Parents

Our parents came in to school to cook with us! We made fruit kebabs and chocolate Rice Krispies. "I really liked doing this activity with mummy" "I was happy that daddy came to nurture to make fruit kebabs with me" "Daddy and I really enjoyed the eating part"

Mini Garden

...n by painting the decking....

Reception - Forest School - Yellow Class Friendship Week

Exploring friendships and making Elder necklaces

Reception - Trip to Hackney School of Food

...onday, we visited the Hackney School of Food. We made pizza by making our dough and adding tomato pa......oyed eating it in the Hackney School of Food Garden on the picnic benches. We had such a fun time!...

Reception - Forest School - Blue Class Friendship Week

Making elder necklaces for our friends

Music - Summer Term 2022

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

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

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

Reception - Forest School - Yellow Class: Planting a Rainbow

Planting a rainbow. Making seed bombs and felt flowers

Year 3 - Forest School - Making Boats from Natural Materials

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

Year 1 - Forest School - 1A Exploring the Woods

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

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

1S making bird feeders and playing in the woods

Year 1 - Forest School - 1B World Book Day

Celebrating World Book Day making stickman

Year 1 - Forest School - 1L World Book Day

Celebrating World Book day making Stickman

Year 1 - Forest School - 1S The Busy Fox and Nest Building

Year 1 - Forest School - 1L The Busy Fox and Nest Building

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

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

Year 4 and Year 5 Workshop - Giving

As part of our Giving Week, Year 4 and 5 met with Olivia (Mental Health Support) and Vana (CAMHs Worker in school) to discuss memories of helping others, friendship and feelings. Can you think of a memory that you helped someone? How did this make you feel? How do you think it made the person you...

Reception - Forest School - Yellow Class Making Stone Soup

Making stone soup and finding bugs

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

Year 1 - Forest School - 1L Easter Egg Hunt

...Celebrating the end of Forest School....

Year 1 - Forest School - 1S Nature Journals and Play

Year 1 - Forest School - 1A Celebration Week

Making crowns and Easter egg hunt

Year 1 - Forest School - 1S Celebration Week

Making crowns and Easter egg hunt

Reception - Forest School - Introduction to Forest School

Introduction to forest school and exploring new environments

Gardening Afterschool Club

The gardening club began by introducing the important rules to children when it comes to using the school garden, for instance listening to each other, working in teams, being safe when using tools, taking respectful care of plants, fruits and vegetables etc so this was well followed by all the...

Duckling Class - Our Ducklings

This week, we have been lucky enough to hatch our own duck eggs! We received the eggs in an incubator to keep them warm whilst the eggs hatched. On Monday and Tuesday, we started to see that cracks on the shells and knew that we would soon have ducklings. When we came back to school on Wednesday,...

Displays at Daubeney - September 2023

We love showcasing our learning at Daubeney and we love using displays to do this! Have a look at our wonderful displays from around the school!

Year 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 2 - Sustainability lesson - Autumn 1 2025

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

Rainbow Room - Exploring Autumn in Hop Garden

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

Year 5 - Mapping Day

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

Cross Country League Match 3

Daubeney Pupils from year 5/6 groups showcased impressive stamina as they raced across the challenging course, cheering one another on and celebrating each achievement. It was a fantastic day of sport, teamwork and school spirit. We are incredibly proud of all the children who took part

Year 6 - Transition session

...sadors from Urswick Secondary School for a transition session focused on developing photo description skills—an essential foundation for future language learning. The visit boosted our students’ confidence and underscored the importance of a smooth transition into Year 7....

School Council Elections 2025

ArtBytes Celebration Event 2025

Three Year 5 children had the wonderful opportunity to attend a celebration event of Art at Saatchi Gallery. The three children were voted the top 3 winners of the school in our ArtBytes competition. After accepting their awards, we were lucky enough to have a guided tour around the exhibitions. We...

Reception – Ducklings: Trip to Hackney School of Food!

...s enjoyed our trip to Hackney School of Food. We made dough, and cut the toppings to make little pizzas! We then sat in the sunny garden and eat them. What a nice morning!...

Daubeney Art Exhibition!

On Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th May, we are holding a whole school art exhibition, and you're invited!! It is taking place in the KS1 hall at 3.45! Come along to see your child's artwork, have a few snacks and take part in a few activities

Reception - Hackney School of Food - May 2025

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

Whole School Art Exhibition - May 2025

...nd Tuesday, we held our Whole School Art Exhibition where we celebrated the art of all the children at Daubeney. Each year group were given an artist as inspiration and were asked to create a self-portrait based on this artist. The results were amazing! If you would like to purchase your child's art...

Year 5 - Hackney School of Food - May 2025

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Team Point Winners!

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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...

Reception - Let's have fun!

... We have been going to Forest School, building Lego, practicing for assembly and much more!...

School Council Meeting - January 2026

... for our School community....... Head, and his vision for the School Council. Mr. Warren also agreed for the School Council to co......r. Warren also agreed for the School Council to collaborate with the OPAL Team to explore revamping ...

Year 2 - Science: Environment survey

Do you know what our school environment has? Does it have trees? What about animals? What kinds of sounds can you hear? Is there litter? We went around the school playground and hop garden to carry out a survey

Year 1 Peacocks - BIG DRAW and Art

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

UCL Eco Schools Workshop

Forest school - Autumn 1 2026

Today we used berries to paint and found frogs and centipedes

Rainbow Class - Geography (My Local Area)

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

Year 1 Peacock Class - Mapping Skills Day

We enjoyed our first Mapping Skills Day! We looked at maps of the local area, particularly our school. We then followed directions and used a map of our playground to find our landmarks. We then created 3D models of the playgrounds

Rainbow Class - Geography: Exploring Places

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

Year 2 - Geography: Spring Mapping Skills Day

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

Year 4 - Literacy

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

Year 4 Hornbills at The Urswick Secondary school

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

Rainbow Class - Shaped Rockets

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

Year 4 Hornbills at Cardinal Pole Secondary School

...on in Cardinal Pole Secondary School. They were invited to a History lesson all about Medieval Doctors and medical practices during this period. The children enjoyed the lesson and were fascinated by the facts and stories they heard....

School Council 2025-26

Junior Road Safety Committee (JRSO)

They presented to Peacock Class, Year 1 on 12.2.26 about Being Bright, Staying in Sight

Rainbow Room - Exploring Spring

We had a fabulous time exploring our school garden today. Around the pond, we discovered clusters of frogspawn and spotted several frogs swimming across the water. Some pupils enthusiastically tried to count them as they darted through the pond. Pupils also explored the pond’s ecosystem by...

Year 3 Language Day

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

Cross Country & Dodgeball

The Year 5/6 groups took part in two competition this week. Showcased they impressive stamina and celebrating each other achievements. It was a fantastic week of sports as they was showing teamwork and school spirit

Year 4 Nightingales visit Urswick

...les visited Urswick Secondary School to take part in a fantastic art session led by one of the School’s art teachers. The students explored their creativity by creating artwork inspired by William Morris and had a wonderful time experimenting with patterns and designs, producing some fantastic...

Tenerife - Day 2

We have had a fantastic day in Tenerife! This morning, we visited the local schools to see their day to day, and to see how it differed from ours. After lunch, we headed to the pools! We have had so much fun and looking forward to tomorrow!

Tenerife - Day 3

We have had another fabulous day in Tenerife! We started our day at the local school taking part in French, Maths, English and Art lessons. At the end of the school day, we painted a Cesar Manrique fish with our new Spanish friends! After school, we visited the town centre and treated ourselves to...

Spanish - Tenerife

We loved spending time in our partner school in sunny Tenerife, Spain! Pupils enjoyed a friendly, inspiring environment where they built confidence in numeracy, tried out French, got active in PE and through some traditional Canarian games and had fun exploring new ideas in Robotics - all while...

Reception - Forest School: May 2025

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

Tenerife adventures III

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

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 6: Urwisck Transition Session. Phonics

...ome questions about Secondary School life and what studying languages and preparing GCSE exams feel like....

Year 6 – Spanish Transition session

Children’s school transition has an impact that lasts for many years and extends throughout their academic career. Earlier on this week, children in Yr6 had the chance to welcome a group of ex Daubeney students from Urswick who led a phonics lessons

Year 6 - Eagle Class’ last trip to IntoUniversity

This week, we went to IntoUniversity for the last time altogether. Of course when we are in secondary school, we’ll be able to come back for Academic Support but we will still miss coming here together during the school day. We thought about how we might prepare for secondary school and discussed...

Kingfisher: Science

The children in Kingfisher had an exciting outdoor lesson today -26-06-2024 where they investigated magnetic objects in our school and playground

Reception End of Year Trip 2024

We went on a trip to Cedar’s Nature Centre in Waltham Abbey. The coach took us to the park where we went straight to the little zoo. We had a talk from a zoo keeper about different animals and got to stroke a few. We went on a minibeast hunt around the parkland, seeing if we could spot pond...

School Council Election

Drama club - Autumn 2024

Mr Matvad was invited to be a special guest today 23-9-2024 in the after school drama club. The children today discussed what makes a good story teller and what key skills they needed to become interesting storytellers. The club had a wonderful time telling stories and acting out different scenes....

Reception - Week 6

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

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 10

Year 2 - Mapping Skills Day

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

Year 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!

International School Partnership

A very exciting partnership project has just started between Daubeney and C.E.I.P. Cesar Manrique in Tenerife, Spain. We have had the chance to visit their facilities, meet up with staff and children, and we are looking forward to exchange Christmas cards very soon!

Celebration of ‘Día de Muertos’

Day of the Dead is a holiday for celebrating death and life. Pupils across school explored this fiesta through a range of texts, videos – including a short movie, games and discussions

Creative Hub - Autumn Displays 2024

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

Year 2 - Literacy: Extra Yarn

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

Duckling Class - Forest School: Summer 2024

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Year3 School Of Food Trip

The children in year 3 had an amazing session baking their own bread and cooking their own soup today 4-12-2023

Year 2 - Forest School

Painting with berries

Spanish - Día de Muertos

Students across school have had the opportunity to explore the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead. During this festivity, which roots began over 3000 years ago, the dead ones are honoured. It is not a sombre and sad time, but a time for celebration and remembrance. Day of the Dead is...

Year 3 - Road Safety

The children in Year 3 had an interesting lesson in school today 7-11-2023 where they discussed road safety and how to keep us safe on the roads

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...

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 - Library Visit

This week was Group 2s first week at the Library. We enjoyed our walk to Homerton library, we listened carefully to the library rules and then we explored the children's section. We founds lots of books that we would like to read and we were able to bring some of them back to school!

Year 1 - Parrot Class visited the Hackney School of Food.

...rot class visited the Hackney School of Food today. We made rainbow salad and green cheese scones. We had fun practising our knife skills and chopping salad leaves. We also discussed our sense of taste as this relates to our science topic, 'Animals including humans'. We also said that the ta...

Duckling Class - Forest School

...ek, we enjoyed another Forest School session. We enjoyed looking for snails and other wildlife. We built homes and hotels for the nature that lives in that part of the forest and used magnifying glasses to have a closer look....

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!

Year 2 Maths- Measuring

Today we took our Maths learning outside and used rulers to measure objects from around the classroom and the school. We identified our lengths using centimetres as our standard unit

Year 2 - British Science Week 2024

Year 2 have enjoyed British science weeks by carrying out experiments, visiting a science exhibition and welcoming real life scientists to our school

Hackney School Challenge Training Week 1

Hackney School Challenge Training Week 2

Year 2 - Science: Recycling

This week, we took our learning outdoors and decided to help our school with recycling. We picked litter from the playground and decided which bin to put it in. We discussed how each one of us has a responsibility to look after our environment and thought of other places we could help with picking...

After School Club Play

Rainbow Room - Autism Awareness Week Celebration

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

Year 5 - Cardinal Pole Visit

We visited the secondary school Cardinal Pole and took part in an experiment using a bunsen burner and different metals!

Football Boot Competition

During Spring, we entered into a football boot competition where the children were asked to design a pair of football boots. We had over 100 entries! They have now been collected and will be going through the voting panel. Each class will have 1 winner plus 1 whole school winner. Watch this space!

Year 5 - School Tasking (Session 1)

We are learning about the law! We had a group of visitors from LSE come to teach us about the law through fun activities in the style of Taskmaster!

Year 5 - School Tasking (Session 2)

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

Year 2 - Book Fortnight

As part of our whole school Book Fortnight, we read the story ‘The Midnight Fair’. We explored various points of the story and used freeze frames to imagine what the characters were doing and what they would be feeling

Year 5 - School Tasking (Session 3)

...iscussed in this week’s School Tasking session run by our LSE law students!...

School Council off to a Great Start!

... as a teacher or a leader....... proactive approach. The School Council has been incredibly active and engaged! They met with t......t with the Blossom Federation School Councillors at Lauriston Primary School. It was a fantastic opp...

Tenerife adventures II

On Monday we spent the day in our partner school, CEIP César Manrique. We played games with another year 5 group in the morning and we went to visit the town hall where the mayor of Puerto de la Cruz greeted us in the afternoon! It made us feel very welcomed and fortunate. We then spent the...

Year 5 - Energy Sparks Workshop

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

Year 3 - Kingfisher Hackney School of Food: November 2024

...their own soup in the Hackney School Of Food kitchen....

Year 5 – Partner school in Spain. Christmas cards

Last week, in our Spanish lessons, pupils from Kiwis and Robins classes created Christmas cards for our partner school in Tenerife, Spain. All pupils have written individual bilingual messages to wish them Feliz Navidad . A small group of children will be visiting the school next year, so they also...

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 2 - Trip to Hackney School of Food

Year 1 - Parrot Class: Daubeney Olympics

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

Year 2 - Parakeet School of Food trip

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

Year 2 visit our new school library

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

Forest School - Animal Dens

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

Excellence in Music Award 2025

... The music program at Daubeney School offers a rich, inclusive, and creative experience that nurtures every student's musical journey. In music class, students are immersed in creativity, drawing inspiration from composer Rachel Leach of the London Symphony Orchestra. This hands-on approach encourag...

Forest School - Year 2

After School Club - 8th Jan 2025

Parrot Class Trip - Hackney School of Food

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

Reception - Week 1: Spring 2025

We have enjoyed our first week back at school! We have been talking about our holidays, practising our numbers and our phonics

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 2 - Forest School - Session 11

Making dens

History

It was once said that going into a library and all history unrolled before me. Here at Daubeney, you need only to come in to our website and experience history relived and refreshed through the determined spirits of our pupils, fired by an unquenchable thirst to learn, remember and thrive. "A...

Eco Team Waste Audit

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

School Councillors visit Credit Suisse

...ursday 28th, the Year 5 and 6 School Councillors went to Credit Suisse, Canary Wharf, and took part ...... in different continents. The School Councillors also had the opportunity to hear Abdul Buhari, a 20......s a great opportunity for the School Councillors to represent Daubeney and talk about their School a...

World Book Day 2016

Daubeney celebrated World Book Day with a blast! The children and staff made a massive effort in coming to school dressed as their favourite book character!

Welcome

...lcome to the Daubeney Primary School website. I am the Executive Head Teacher of the Federation of D......beney, Sebright and Lauriston Schools and Children Centres. These are very exciting Schools to be a ...

WE Day 2019

As part of our Safer communities initiative the learning mentors took a group of year 6 children to the SSE arena in Wembley for the WE Day event. There were 12,000 people in attendance at WE Day to celebrate all young people who are socially active, locally and globally and want to see change....

Walking Map Zone

Recently, students went walking around our local area to create a Walking Map Zone and compiled the data for Hackney Council. The council have now got back to us with an official map for students to use to plan their journey to school using sustainable travel methods. Think about how you travel to...

Victoria Derbyshire - Call for Free Sanitary Products in Primary Schools

Nadia Collier, a member of staff here at Daubeney joined Victoria Derbyshire on Thursday 14th March for a discussion about calls for the Government to extend the supply for free sanitary products to primary schools

Ukulele Trip to Gainsborough

...ort from Gainsborough Primary School and eight primary Schools took part in total. We had a fantastic time and we dressed up in a Hawaiian theme as that is where the ukulele comes from. We performed "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". We did the trip twice as we also attended the dress rehearsal; o...

Ukulele At Daubeney

...Springfield Community Primary School to play at the annual Schools ukulele concert. As you can see from our photos and video we had a whale of a time!...

Transforming our School Gates

...ransformation of the Daubeney School gates in the upcoming weeks!...

Talking Mental Health Annimation

Mental health problems affect about 1 in 10 children and young people. this includes depression, anxiety and conduct disorder, and are often a direct response to what is happening in their lives. 70% of children and young people who experience a mental health problem have not had appropriate...

Sustainable Travel Assembly

London's Walking and Cycling commissioner, Will Norman, came in to deliver an assembly to KS1 and KS2 about the benefits of sustainable travel. He spoke about how good it is for our health because of exercise and how it benefits the environment. A healthier body means a healthier mind, which...

Summer Creative and Sports School Summer 2018

Starting Reception - Autumn 2017

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

Spanish Champions Armbands

Gracias, champions! Our Spanish champions now wear new armbands to show everyone at Daubeney that we really love Spanish in our school. They are doing a fantastic job in helping all pupils to learn more Spanish and encouraging them to practise what we learn in class throughout the week. We had a...

Spanish Champions 2016-17

We have selected the Daubeney’s Spanish Champions for 2016-2017. Our Spanish Champions are pupils who LOVE Spanish and who always show their passion about learning the language. They are children who HELP other pupils and their teachers practising what we learn in Spanish class throughout the...

School Councillors 2017/18

...d welcome to Daubeney Primary School Councillors of 2017/18. They have taken on their new responsibility with enthusiasm and dedication. We would all like to wish them all the best for the year ahead....

Year 1 - 1L: What We Want to be When We're Older

1L had fun dressing up last week to show everyone what they want to be when they are older! We had some fire fighters, footballers, vets and even an Olympic swimmer! Some children even had their picture taken with some police officers that were visiting the school! We had a great time talking about...

School Council Elections

...should be chosen for Daubeney School Council". Once the class has selected the 4 members they will be putting forward , assembly speeches will take place. Assembly Speeches: Monday 26th September - Year 3 speeches Tuesday 27th September - Year 4 speeches Monday 3rd October - Year 5 speech...

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...

SATs Saturday School

...me to our first SATs Saturday School of the year. The children all enjoyed themselves having the entire School to themselves and not having to wear School uniform - they even saw the teachers wearing jeans! They also enjoyed flapjacks, biscuits and a juice for their snack at break time. Keep it up b...

RRS: 'The Right to a Full and Decent Life' Assembly

KS2 were thrilled to enjoy a wonderful and entertaining assembly (in pursuance of Article 23 of the UNCRC - 'The Right to a Full and Decent Life') delivered by our local Revered, Clive Main. Reverend Clive had KS2 completely engaged and mesmerised as he skilfully explored the above Right...

Rights Song

Listen to our Rights Song as performed by our wonderful school choir

Red Class - Transports

We created our own class pictogram to see how we travel to school. In Red Class, we found out that a lot of us walk to school and only a few children come by train or ride a bike. We also completed a transport survey to see how many different types of transports pass by Daubeney Road

Recording Studio Trip

We took our school band and part of our choir to a recording studio in North London. We recorded our hit single "Daubeney Christmas". It will be released this coming Christmas as a charity single. We had a great day out as you can see in our photographs

Reception - Yellow Class Visit the Library

Yellow Class have been on their first trip to the local library. We walked all the way there and the children were so sensible and grown up. Mrs Addai and all the grown ups who accompanied us on the trip were very proud of all the children. The librarian read us a story called 'Handa's...

Reception - LaunchPad for Language Sock Puppet Workshop

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

Reception - 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

Reception - Chicks Day 3

Day 3 - We have three new chicks churping away. Once they are dry and fluffy, they will move to their new home, the Brooder box. Please check back for regular updates. Our school will have the Chicks in residence for two weeks. We are ending our day with seven chicks, all seem happy and hurdling...

PSHCE - Going For Our Goals

We are celebrating the new year by going for our goals! Throughout the school, children have created 3 goals for themselves to achieve in this year. Many children dedicated their goals to helping others! Here are some of their inspiring goals: "I want to learn a life skill such as cooking so...

Professor Brainwave visits Daubeney

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

Parents' Day 2017

Parents’ Day will be on Monday 20th March 2017 from 11am – 7pm. The school will be closed for children but it would be advisable for them to attend the appointment with their parents. All parents will be allocated a 10 minute slot in which time the teacher will discuss their...

Year 1 - Work Week Trip to Marks and Spencer

Year 1T went on a trip to Marks & Spencer in Hackney. We had a go at visual merchandising and at using the tills. We also walked around the shop floor to have a look at all the different departments and had a go at finding items from a shopping list. Finally, we went on a tour of the stockroom....

Year 1- Visit Sainsbury's In Stratford.

Year 1L went on a trip to Sainsbury’s in Stratford. We went on the bus to Stratford. When we got there we had a cupcake decorating competition, we had a go at scanning things on the tills and we went on a shopping list treasure hunt. We had so much fun!

Our New Playgrounds

Great news!! Construction of our new playgrounds have been approved - take a look at these computer generated images of how our new KS1 & KS2 playgrounds will look! The Daubeney Road access will only be through the main gate until further notice, as work begins on our KS1 Playground from Monday...

Year 4 - Time Capsules

On the final day of the school year 4S and 4G dug up their time capsules from the hop garden that they had planted during their transition week in Year 3. It was very exciting to read the notes they had written over a year ago. Mr Garber was particularly impressed with how so many children had met...

Year 5 Residential 2018 - Day 4

It’s day 4 and you’d have thought the tiredness would have set in by now... well it has with the teachers. The children are just as energised as ever. They finished last night with wider games which incorporated orienteering with a quiz. Of course, Mr Swarbrick’s group emerged...

Year 5 Residential 2017 - Day 3

It's been another fantastic day on the residential! We started the day with cereal, juice and a huge selection of pastries! We read out all the parents, families and friends comments whilst the children ate. The comments really helped the children get motivated for another fun filled day of...

Year 5 Meet Mr Saunders

Year 5 have been learning about World War 2 over this half term and had the chance to visit the renowned Imperial War Museum . As if this wasn't exciting enough, we were lucky enough to have a World War 2 survivor names Mr Saunders come to visit us at school! Mr Saunders told us about life in...

Year 5 - Young Engineers

Miss Calsite set up a wonderful activity for the year 5 children, where they designed and created their own moving mechanism. The children used their own creative ideas, resources from school and made their very own moving piece of engineering. 50 shared their designs with the other year 5 classes...

Year 5 - Whole School Focus: Art

The children in Year 5 were truly inspired by the work of Kadinsky, and used his style and themes to create their own art pieces. They used lines, shapes, colours, thickness and even different designs to create their own master pieces which will be displayed in our very own art gallery

Year 5 - Literacy Unit

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

Year 5 - Literacy and Art

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

Year 5 - Creating Navajo Patterns

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

Year 5 - Celebrating Diversity

The children in Year 5 used their creative skills today (29-10-2018) to design a poster celebrating diversity. The class, in their SEAL session, discussed the importance of diversity and generated ideas to create a poster to celebrate how diverse our world is. We hope to use all the work from the...

Year 5 - Biographies

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

Year 5 - 5MC Big Draw Vincent Van Gogh

Today, Year 5 worked hard to create our Vincent Van Gogh landscape inspired artwork. We created our bespoke art pieces using oil pastel and sheer imagination. You can come to our school exhibition to see our artwork on the following dates: 4 th December – Nursery, Reception, Year 1 5 th December –...

Year 5 - 5M True Artists

The children in Year 5M are absolutely proud of their artistic flair, when they took a photo of our recent butterfly activity. They used a close up zooming technique to capture the true beauty of a Monarch butterfly. The piece of art will be used as a display around the school and will be handed to...

Year 4 Return to School 2017

Year 4 have had a great return to school. The children are bursting with energy and ready for all challenges thrown at them this year. 'I feel great being back at school. I look forward to doing tests and seeing my results.' Brian - 4C 'I'm happy to be back because I like Year 4....

Year 4 - Work Week

...ot; began at Daubeney Primary School with year four pupils going out on their first trip to the Andina Restaurant in Shoreditch in the city. The experience was amazing, as pupils had the opportunity to experience a range of jobs that they could do if they wanted to choose a career in the restaurant ...

Year 4 - Meditation

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

Year 2 - 2C Traction Man and Our Favourite Toy

This week we read a book called Traction Man is here and it is about a helpful action figure who saves the lives of characters like the dollies and spoons. Today, we brought our favourite toy to school and drew a scene where our favourite toy and Traction Man go on an adventure. We made sure to...

Year 3 - First Week Back At School

In Maths, we have been looking at place value and representing numbers using dienes and counters. We have also started to add on 1, 10 and 100 onto different numbers using our knowledge of place value so far. In Literacy, we have been recounting our summer holidays and we are preparing to create...

Year 2 - Fire Safety Visit

On Monday, a member of the London Fire Brigade came to our school to talk to us about Fire Safety. At first a lot of us thought that the only job they had was to save people from burning homes. But we quickly found out that fire safety is a lot more than that. We learnt about how to keep ourselves...

Year 2 - Hackney Music Service Festival

We took our best singers from Year 2 to perform at the Round Chapel for the Hackney Music Service Festival. We had a fantastic time and we got to sing the songs we love so well with 15 other schools and a live band. We sang songs such as "I feel good", "Fatou Yo" and "La...

Year 2 - Visit to the Gurdwara in Bow

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

Year 3 - 3T's Christmas Hoop

3T designed and made snowmen for their Christmas hoop! Look out for it around the school

Year 3 - 3T's School Council Speeches

Year 3 - Family Acrostic Poems

During their SEAL lesson today (17th October 2018), 3T spoke about people that are important in their lives. They commented that these important people feel like family whether they are related to us or not; that our class and our entire school is like a family as it is made up of people who think...

Year 3 - Making Recycled Hats

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

Year 4 - Debate

Year 4 have have been debating some very interesting topics in Literacy. Some of the motions they debated were: ‘Slime should not be banned from school’ and ‘Children should be allowed to bring their mobile phones to school’ Have a look at their fierce battles!

Year 3 - Meditation

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

Year 3 - Parents Visit Children at School

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

Year 3 - Things We Learnt This Term

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

Year 3 - Trip to the Polka Theatre

Year 3 have just been on a school visit to the Polka, theatre in Wimbledon to watch 'Chocolate Cake' based onthe poem written and performed by Michael Rosen. The show was really funny. The best bit 'was when Michael ate the chocolate cake in a funny way when he shouldn't have'...

Year 3 Meet a Petrologist from UCL

At the end of last term, Year 3 had a special visitor! A petrologist from UCL! She taught us all about her job and how to be successful petrologists! We learned about and identified different fossils including shark's teeth and dinosaur poo!! We then made our own ammonites to take home (after...

Year 4 - 4K Sharing Assembly: Living Things and their Habitats

4K proudly performed their class assembly to parents and the whole school. Their class assembly was based on the science topic of Living Things and their Habitats. Well done to all the pupils who worked hard and performed with confidence! What a team!

ParentMail

As part of our ongoing effort to link school and home we have decided to introduce ParentMail , a quick and easy way to communicate with parents through online letters, a texting service and allowing parents to pay for dinner money, trips and other events online! We appreciate many people now pay...

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...

Year 5 Were Dancing

The Year 5 children had a fun session today when the dance instructor came to school to teach them their new dance for our summer carnival

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!

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...

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...

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...

Bikers Breakfast

Daubeney hosted a Bikers Breakfast on 14th March 2019 where we gave a free breakfast to all children that rode to school on a bike. We also had mechanics from ‘Dr. Bike’ come in to check everyone’s bikes and ensure they are in good working order

BBC Radio London - Parents Helping With Homework Discussion

...ren with homework....

BBC Breakfast - Race Inequality Discussion

...and Figures audit....

BBC Breakfast - Meeting Andy Murray

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

Autumn Book Fortnight

Our Autumn Book Fortnight was a great success! The whole school focused on the book ‘Welcome’ by Barroux. The children enjoyed the story and discussed issues such as global warming and immigration. Each class from reception to Year 6 had the opportunity to do a range of activities including art and...

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...

ABC Hit It!

...original tune by the Daubeney School Band....

A Typical School Day in 3E

You are invited behind the scenes to check out a typical school day in 3E!

1P - Landscapes

In 1P we created some artwork based on Georgia O'Keeffe's landscapes. We used paint to sponge a background then ripped card and tissue paper to create the texture and layers of mountains, hills and rivers. You can come to our school exhibition to see our artwork on the following dates: 4th...

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...

1D - First Week Back At School

We've achieved a lot in our first week back in 1D. Take a look at some of the things we've done:

"Bed Bug Blues" by Bessie Smith

...i Music festival....

Bring your Mother and Grandmother to School Week

Some highlights from our bring your Mother and Grandmother to school week

Boys Can Sing

We sang our hearts out at City Academy with five other schools. Every child was a star performer and really rose to the challenge on the day

Christmas Number 1

...same event. Daubeney Primary School is proud to support Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity ....

Odd Socks Day 2018

On 16 th November 2018 Daubeney school had an ‘Odd Socks Day’ to celebrate being different

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...

Nursery Concert

... band went to a nearby Forest School Nursery to perform a rock concert on a Saturday. It was a beautiful sunny day and the crowd seemed to really enjoy our grooves. If you look closely at the photos you may spot Mr. O Flynn's son providing guest vocals. Well done to all the children involved as ...

Nursery - Going Global and Journeys

Our topic for Spring term is 'Going Global and Journeys'. Nursery will be learning about 'Transports' this half term and covering topics such as 'transports on land', 'transports on water' and 'transports in the air'. So far ..... the children have enjoyed...

Nursery - First Week of the Spring Term 2017

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

Nursery - First Week of School

Welcome to Our Nursery! A warm welcome to all our new parents, children and carers at Daubeney Nursery. So far, the children have been exploring the nursery and gradually settling in. Take a look at the photographs below to see how the children have enjoyed their first week in Nursery

Nursery - Daubeney School Carnival 2018

Nursery children dancing to 'We like to move it'!

Nursery - Christmas Jumper Day

Nursery had so much fun on Christmas Jumper Day. The children were excited to come in to school dressed in their special jumpers. This was extra special too as the contributions made are all for a very good cause, to help support the amazing work at Great Ormond Street Hospital

November Parent Workshop

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

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...

Meg Hillier MP Visit

Our local MP, Meg Hillier, visited Daubeney to give a very special prize to one of our Year 6 students. At Christmas, we entered Meg's competition to find a picture to go onto her Christmas Card. Out of many entries from schools in Hackney, our very own Massimo in 6S won! He produced a...

Maths Family Workshop KS1

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

Mapping Out a Walking Zone

The Eco team and Junior Road Safety Team went on a trip around our local area to map out a walking zone that children and parents can use to commute to and from school. The children were very excited to be creating this map and be part of such an important project for our school. The routes we...

KS2 Assembly - Life in Spanish Primary Schools

This week, KS2 pupils enjoyed a Spanish assembly where they could get to know what life is like in Spanish Primary schools. They learnt new vocabulary related to the school, like do the register, classroom, playground, line up, teacher, just to name a few. Pupils had a great time watching Spanish...

Kindness Tree

This is our beautiful Kindness Tree, earn yourself a leaf on the tree simply by being KIND! :) From helping another person to being good to yourself, it is easy to earn yourself a spot up there, showing the whole school what a great role model you are

Junior Maths Team - Multiplication and Division Facts

The Junior Maths Team are currently tutoring the multiplication and division facts across the school. The tutors are using games and ICT equipment to help their 'tutees' to mastery their multiplication and division facts. If you would like to become a tutor or tutee then please speak to a...

Jamming at the School Gates

We have been having fun jamming at the school gates every Tuesday morning

City Year UK: We don't know who benefits most - the students, the schools, or the volunteers

... travelled to Daubery Primary School in Hackney to meet with the City Year UK Team, take a tour of the School, and speak to the volunteers themselves about their experience since they began working at the School in September. Read more at Big Change......

Discussing Sustainable Modes of Transport in Spanish

Linking with our efforts to promote sustainable modes of transports lead by Ms Cherid, Year 5 and some Spanish champions had a travel survey and discussed the transports they prefer using and why in Spanish. Pupils also shared the way they travel to school and their reasons

Classroom Displays 2017

Daubeney is full of exciting learning. The school is following a theme of 'Intrepid explorers'. Take a tour through a gallery of our bright and colourful displays to see the amazing learning that is taking place. You should also take a look at our displays from 2018, and 2019

Concert at the Hackney Music Service Festival

On Monday 3rd July our school band performed at the Hackney Music Service Festival. We performed in front of ten other schools and an audience of over 100 parents. Thank you to all the parents who made it to this event to bare witness to how great our band sounded. This is the last big hurrah for...

Creative Arts - Art and Design Technology

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

Daubeney Carnival 2017

Each year group presented a dance from a different culture or tradition before joining together for a whole-school big dance!

Daubeney Has Talent 2016

On 9th March 2016, 14 children from Daubeney school took part in the Cluster E Dance show. Daubeney was one of 11 schools taking part and they finished the show with a bang! We are very proud of our students. They only had 8 weeks to learn the dance and then perform it in front of over 200 people!...

Daubeney Live 2016

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

Eco Team Workshop

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

Jam on a Boat

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

Eco-team Climate Change and Environment Training

...ceived training from 'Eco-Schools' about climate change and the environment. They also conducted an Environmental audit to ensure our School is as sustainable as it can possibly be. They were able to identify what we already do and how we can improve. Now that they know how to improve, th...

Eco-Team Monitoring Air Quality

The Eco-team have been keeping busy with meetings to improve Daubeney primary school. One of them being monitoring our air quality. We know that London has some of the worst air quality in the whole of Europe and so we are measuring our air quality around Daubeney to find out how clean the air we...

EcoACTIVE Awards

Eco-Team went to the Science Museum for the EcoACTIVE Awards. We had a really exciting day and our project scrapbook won £100 pounds to help our school become more Eco-friendly! Thank you to all who supported the team with all their hard work so far this year!

General Photos

...ngs we do at Daubeney Primary School....

Goldsmiths Recording Studio

...eney School Band.......dio release from the Daubeney School Band. Produced / engineered by Winther at Goldsmiths Recording ...... Mr. Keating and the Daubeney School Band....

Hackney Fun Run

...y, we took part in 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 wit...

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 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 2 - Forest School - Session 9

British Science Week 2020

The pupils and staff of Daubeney primary school drew the curtains to a close on an awesome British Science Week. Parents spent the afternoon in school educating and motivating pupils on a wide range of stem related jobs, from building their own animation into a film, taking fantastic photos when...

Year 5 - Publishing Poetry

Today, we published the poetry we had been writing which was all about what were appreciate in our lives! This was limited to a whole school book we studied called Look Up!

WOW Day in 1L

1L had lots of fun for Wow Day! We started by practising following directions - left, right, forwards, backwards. We loved playing Simon Says! Then we went for a walk around the school using a map to guide us. We thought about the direction we had to turn to find the next place on the map, and...

WOW Day in 1A

Year 1 have created 3D maps as part of our WOW day. We used a 2d map of the school to help us plan and create our 3D maps. We had lots of fun assembling pieces of paper together, cutting and sticking. We included features such as the school building, playground and the big slide in the KS1...

Spanish - Language Diversity: European Day of Languages

This month schools from all countries in Europe celebrated the European Day of Languages. Daubeney took part in this event celebrating our diversity in languages and culture. KS2 pupils learnt important facts about Europe and shared their passion for languages. We discussed why it is so important...

School Council Elections 2020/21

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Year 1 - Science in the Hop Garden

Last week Year 1 visited the Hop Garden as part of our Science topic 'Nature All Around Us'. We looked for plants that were growing in our school environment and explored the bug hotels too! We then practised our sketching skills by drawing our favourite plant in the garden. We had lots of...

Prefect Applications for 2020-21

Job starts in September - applications accepted from Year 5 only A prefect is appointed by the Executive Headteacher on the recommendation of the Senior management team and other staff. It is expected that prefects will follow and demonstrate the Daubeney Standards in their everyday lives. Position...

Year 6 - SATs Celebration

Hi Year 6, we've put together this video for you to celebrate you finishing what is normally one of the more memorable half-terms in primary school - the half-term when you should have been sitting your SATs. As it was, you didn't have to sit them but arguably you have faced something much...

Story Time With Mrs Alam

Hi Reception I hope you are all well, healthy and safe at home. I have some stories for you to listen to today in case you're missing Mrs Alam's story sessions at school. I hope you enjoy them. Let me know which one you like and comment below. Remember to sit back, get comfy and enjoy

BADU Support Line

BADU Community is an organisation that uses sport as the driving force to empower, educate and uplift young people and their families in the local community. We focus on giving people in the local area activities and opportunities to bring about positive outcomes. We have close relationships with...

Home Learning

...ed. Welcome to the Daubeney School home learning portal! There are links to useful resources, access to online activities and information about what your child has been learning in class. At Daubeney School we pride ourselves in making learning fun, engaging and accessible for all. We encourage ch...

Year 5 and 6 Residential 2020 - Day 5

[menu name="year5-6-residential-2020"] A very good morning from Team Daubeney at Youlbury! We’re packed, fed and ready to go, once we’ve completed our last two activities and had lunch. My aim is for us to leave by 1.30pm if not a few minutes before. I will update the school...

Year 5 and 6 Residential 2020 - Day 2

[menu name="year5-6-residential-2020"] What an epic Day 2 at Youlbury. Not just because we started the day with a sumptuous breakfast of cereal and a fry up to compete with any Michelin star restaurant; not because of the lovely warm dry weather but because the Team Daubeney at Youlbury...

Scientist of the Week

One pupil stood out for his hard work and dedication and emerged as Daubeney's Scientist of the Week. He worked tirelessly, assisting the team in Daubeney's science gadget shop but also assisting the science lead in presenting jaw-dropping experiments to the rest of the school

Year 4 - Young Scientist

Today (13th March 2020) the Year 4 children dressed up as their favourite scientist to celebrate our Science Week in Daubeney. The children were excited to explain who they came dressed up as and why. The children have enjoyed our Science Week and will be very excited to welcome our next science...

Year 4M Class Assembly - 1st December 2020

Today 1-12-2020 the Junior Art team led our class assembly and discussed the role of being in the art club. The children were also encouraged to do some art activities and share their art skills with others around the school

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...

Year 6 - Dance and Make Some Noise

Year 6 have been practising for the last 10 weeks and today they performed in front of a packed audience to resounding (and well deserved) applause. They performed dances which featured some traditional moves as well some moves associated with a certain popular video game. They also performed...

Year 6 - Drum Show

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

Miss Nadia on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour

Miss Nadia featured in BBC Radio 4 show, Woman’s Hour ; to raise awareness of period poverty and the important of all schools signing up for the governments scheme to provide sanitary products for all girls in education; which will rolled out in January 2020. [audio...

Year 6 - Tycoon Team in Action

The Year 6 Tycoon Team have been developing a business enterprise in school (change challenge). So far this year, the business enterprise has been a wonderful success. The children are very excited about being part of the business and love to see profits being made, this is helping children with...

Christmas fun in 1L

1L have had lots of fun in school recently! We enjoyed Christmas jumper day and shared a lovely Christmas dinner with each other. Today we had lots of fun at our class party sharing our traditional dishes with our friends! Have a lovely Christmas everyone!

Jigsaw in Autumn 2 2019 - Celebrating Differences

Last half term, we ended our JIGSAW theme ‘Celebrating Differences’ with a BANG! We came to school wearing traditional clothes and families made special traditional food that was shared with their class. Children and staff enjoyed showing off their traditional clothes expressing...

Family Matters Workshop - Dreams and Goals

"Have a vision, it is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible" (Walt Disney) Our dreams and Goals, a truly fun filled and creative workshop were the invisible became a visible by creating a vision. We had some lovely feedback from...

School Council - Interview with Matt Harding by Jago

... parent who is a musician....

Year 6 Spanish Champions visit Petchey Academy

Our Spanish Champions from Year 6 visited Petchey Academy and observed a Year 7 Spanish lesson. It was a great opportunity for our Year 6 pupils to get to know what Spanish is like in Secondary school and to work alongside Year 7 pupils. They enjoyed working together and sharing their experiences...

Reception - Blue Class's Parent Phonic Lunch

Lots of parents came to take part in Daubeney's parent phonic lunch today (25th February 2020) which was awesome. Parents were happy observing phonic sessions and enjoying a tasty meal with their children. Of course children were extremely happy to see their parent in the middle of the school...

Year 3 - Stone Age workshop at the Hackney Museum

Year 3 have been learning all about the Stone Age this term. During their visit to the Hackney museum, they got an insight into how Hackney was during the Stone Age era. They were able to have a touch of a range of artefact replicas including animal fur, flint tools and fossilised poop; they were...

Year 6 - Healthy Mind, Healthy Me

During our SEAL lessons, 6F have been focusing on taking care of our mental health and well being. As we are getting closer to the SATs and beginning to think about moving on to secondary school, we discussed the different ways we can stay calm and manage our worries. Here 6F’s top tips to a...

Reception - Blue Class: World Book Day 2020

Blue class dressed up in their favourite book character today (6th March 2020). It was really nice to see them happy and cheerful. Blue class carefully listened to the stories they bought into school throughout the day inside and out

Our Spanish champions showing Daubeney in Spanish

Get to know our school in Spanish and meet our Spanish champions showing Daubeney to our partner school in Spain (Nuryana school in Tenerife)

Year 4M Class Assembly - 17th November 2020

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

Our 2020-21 Spanish Champions!

These are our 2020-21 Spanish Champions! We have new Daubeney Spanish Champions for the 2020-21 school year! There will be two Spanish champions on each KS2 class. Our champions are enthusiast of Spanish and try really hard to learn and also to help other children to learn. They will lead their...

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...

School Council Meeting - 8th September 2021

...ble…so watch this space....... exciting moment for all. The School Council will meet every Tuesday for this half term. Some vacanc...

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...

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 8

Mental Health Parent Workshop - 12th October 2021

On the 12th October 2021, our CAMHS worker, Vana Lamprogianni lead our Parent Workshop. We discussed the WAMHS project and how she supports in our school. She also discussed the importance of looking after our mental health. Please see below Vana’s presentation. There will be another workshop on...

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 7

World Teachers' Day 2021

...5th October, Daubeney Primary School celebrated World Teachers' Day. The children came to School dressed as our teachers and created cards, poems and gifts for staff to show their appreciation. We had a special staff breakfast and our Junior Mental Health Team created cards and handed out treats to ...

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 6

Building birds nests

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 5

Forest School Club

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 4

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 3

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 2

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 1

Year 1 - 1L Mapping Skills Day

1L had lots of fun this week for Mapping Skills Day! We played Simon Says to help us remember our directions, went on a map hunt around the school and then made a 3D map of our playground!

Welcome Back Nursery

It was all smiles from our Nursery children who returned to school this week. They have been enjoying the new Baby Clinic role play area and having lots of outdoor fun!

Year 3 - Mapping Day

Year 3 had an amazing Mapping Day where we had the chance to learn about directional language and a variety of symbols used in maps. Children identified locations on maps and were even able to guide their partners to various locations around the school. At the end of the day, Year 3 went to...

Virtual Assembly - 14th December 2020

Dear Daubeney family, Welcome to our final virtual assembly for 2020. Enjoy the last week of school with all of the festive celebrations and a special farewell to Mrs Thomas on Wednesday. Stay great! Mr Logan

Year 1 - 1L Science Week 2021

1L have had lots of hands on science fun this week! We started with a skittles experiment to find out what happens when you add water to skittles, then thought about which materials would keep Incy Wincy Spider dry from the rain! Then we went on a very windy senses hunt around the school to see...

Year 2 - WOW day - Great Explorers

Today Year 2 came to school dressed up as their favourite explorer. They then prepared some interview style questions for their explorer of choice and engaged in some interview role-play. They then answered the BIG question which was 'What makes a Great Explorer?' To round it all off, Year 2 made...

The 2021 RSPB School's Bird Watch Event

...ited to take part in the RSPB Schools Bird Watch event this weekend! If you are interested, watch the video below. Find more information on the RSPB website and use the documents to help you keep count of all the different birds that you will find. If you are in Year 3, 4, 5 or 6, also make sure th...

Year 1 - 1S Back at School!

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

Year 1 - 1A First Week Back at School

1A had so much fun being back at school this week. We played lots of games, made friendship bracelets, wrote compliments and messages for our friends and even enjoyed playing in the hop garden. Take a look to see what fun we had

Year 4M - TTRS Champions

A huge well done to 4M this week for being the TTRS Champions. They competed against the whole school and were crowned the winners

Year 6 - First Week Back

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

Mental Health - Giving

The week commencing the 15th March 2021, Daubeney focussed on the word, GIVING. The children discussed the importance of giving and raised money for Comic Relief. The children purchased Red Noses and on Friday 19th March the children donated money and came to school dressed as Superheroes! It was...

Year 6 - 6M Mapping Day

In Year 6 today, 6th September 2021, the children had their Mapping Day learning activities and enjoyed learning all about the different types of maps. They also explored how maps are made, keys, different styles of maps and when a map can be used. The children had a final session in our playground...

Mental Health - Playing and Socialising with Friends

8th March 2021 Children, staff and parents were all happy to return to school! During the lockdown, our Daubeney children took part in a Mental Health Questionnaire. Can you guess what the majority of the children said they missed the most? Playing and socialising with their friends. The teachers...

Year 2 - Mapping Skills Day

We had a fantastic day learning about maps! We learnt about positional language and played a game with our friends then we went on a treasure hunt around the school. Afterwards, we created our own maps of the classroom and we ended the day by creating an art piece of the map of the UK!

Year 4 - Mapping Day

The children today, 20th April 2021, had a fun day of learning all about mapping. The children started by identifying continents, oceans, cities and various landmarks and features on a map. Then the children placed key features on a map while planning a local route using a local map of our area....

Year 4 - Atlas

...portunity to study our Junior School Atlas books. The children were able to transfer their knowledge when using keys to read a map, identifying lakes, rivers, mountainous areas, deserts and main roads. They also looked at continents, countries and capital cities across the globe....

School Council Journalist Committee - Ramadan

Boys Book Club - 24th May 2021

Today, 24-05-2021, the Boys Book Club enjoyed a session of poetry. We read a poem called, 'I cannot go to school today' by Shel Silverstein and enjoyed the poem. The boys then decided to create their own poem using ideas from the poem they have read. Here is our example created by the Boys Book...

Year 4 - Natural History Museum

On Wednesday 27th November, the Year 4 pupils enjoyed a visit to the Museum of Natural History. They viewed the earthquake galleries and found all the information they learnt in class available on the display. It was very interesting to see how much the pupils knew, especially how earthquakes are...

Reception - Yellow Class: Launch Pad for Language Walk

Yellow Class went for a walk along the canal this week. We had a great time talking about what we could see. We used our senses to talk about what we can feel, smell and hear. We enjoyed looking at the boats, trees and the canal. We looked at all the leaves that have fallen from the trees and...

Year 6 - Business Enterprise

Year 6 have been developing a business enterprise in school. So far this year the business enterprise has been a tremendous success. The children are very excited about being part of the business and love to see profits being made, this is helping children with their maths skills in the playground...

Year 6 - Daubeney Alumni

On Monday 8 th October some past pupils from Daubeney, who are now Year 7s at Cardinal Pole, visited Year 6 to discuss life at secondary school. They talked about their timetable, uniform, homework and gave us advice on how to prepare for secondary school. We were told that the expectations in Year...

Year 6 - Pen Pals in New York, USA

...d Laddie A Decker Sound Beach School in Miller Place in New York asking if we would like be their pen pals. We jumped at the opportunity and got our pens and paper out. It has been so much fun writing letters and receiving them all the way from the USA. We have learnt so much about our pen pals and ...

Year 6 - Prefects

The Year 6 prefects have settled into their new roles brilliantly and are acting as inspirational role models to the rest of the school. It has been good to see the children rise to the responsibility of their duties. Here the prefects are seen sharing their inspiration in a special Prefects...

Year 6 Spanish Champions Visit The Urswick School

...h Year 7 class at The Urswick School on Tuesday. It was a fantastic opportunity for them to know what Spanish is like in KS3, to see Spanish textbooks and to work with Year 7 children, helping each other and sharing their experiences and impressions....

Year 6 - Visit from Bola Abisogun OBE FRICS

Year 6 were lucky enough to have a visit from Bola Abigosun where he explained to the children what a surveyor does. The children were inspired to hear about someone from Kingsmead Estate who went onto finish university with a first class honours degree and receive an award from Prince Charles. The...

Summer School

Daubeney Awarded Top Award of PSQM Outreach for Science

Last night (13th November 2019) our ex-science lead Mr Swarbrick had the honour of collecting our PSQM Outreach award. He led science for 3 years and this is testament to the incredible science work that happens at Daubeney and it was a pleasure to be a part of the process. At Daubeney we truly...

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...

Year 3 and Year 4 Carol Concert Preparations

...original song by the Daubeney School Choir and Band 3G are singing I Saw Three Ships 3T are singing Wonder by Naughty Boy 4DM are singing We Three Kings of Orient Are 4M are singing In the Bleak Midwinter 4K are singing Go Tell It on the Mountain...

"Clapton's Daubeney Primary school wears pink for breast cancer research" - Hackney Gazette

...and staff at Daubeney Primary School swapped their uniforms for pink outfits and wigs to raise money and awareness for charity Breast Cancer Now. Read more......

Year 1 - Story Narrating: The Lion and The Mouse

...his 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....

School Council Visit the Houses of Parliament

...nted it and ran for elections.......heresa May was there too. The School Council attended a Voting and Representation workshop, in group...

Junior Road Safety Officers Training

The Junior Road Safety Officers attended training organised by Hackney Council, along with other primary school JRSOs from Hackney at the Round Chapel on 25th September 2019. It was a successful day filled with activities allowing our JRSOs an opportunity to learn new things and take away exciting...

Year 4 - 4M IntoUniversity Workshop

The children in 4M were challenged today with various activities provided by the IntoUniversity team, who came into school today to carry out a range of activities. The children had to use various skills like; teamwork, listening, creativity and building skills to complete the various activities

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 3 - Mapping Skills Day

Year 3 immersed themselves into the world of maps. Firstly, they helped some pirates to find their missing treasure by building and then using their knowledge of grid references and coordinates. They then worked together to identify symbols that are used on maps, leading to an interesting...

Year 1 - Mapping Day

Year 1 had a great time learning all about maps! We learnt about direction and using a map of the school grounds, guided our partners around the school using 'forward/up', 'backwards/down', 'left' and 'right'. Finally, we created amazing 3D maps of the KS1...

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...

Year 4 - Map Day

Today (9th September 2019) the children in Year 4 explored a variety of types of maps. They began learning about the cardinal points and then used the points to complete two different activities. The children also studied the United Kingdom and the countries which make up the UK. Our final activity...

Year 6 Graduation - Class Of 2019

As always, it was an emotional farewell to our year 6’s on graduation day (17.7.19). There were speeches, there were guests of honour, there were songs, there were special achievements there were tears and there was laughter! As we all enjoy the summer, we reflect on the good times and wish...

Year 6 - Transition Week 5F to 6S

It’s been an absolutely fantastic week for the new 6S and an incredibly busy one too. In just one week the children have: completed a piece of writing, published it and begun their writing folders for Year 6; taken part in school council elections; practised their dancing for the end of year...

Year 5 - 5M Britania Sports Day 2019

Another trophy for our young stars! Today (6th June 2019) was another fantastic day for the young sports stars in Year 5M who took part in the annual Britania Sports Day in Hoxton, where we competed against 12 other schools from the borough. The children in Year 5M were fully engaged and were...

Year 6 - Motivational Poems

Year 6 is an important year and the children wanted to share some advice that has helped them develop their attitude. These poems are truly inspiring and if you listen carefully you may learn some important lessons not just about school but about life

Year 6 - 6F Time Capsule

6F were amazed at how Daubeney was in 2002! Many of the children from then had shared their experiences and daily activities by filling a time capsule with many newspapers, drawings and even a Harry Potter stationery set! The 17 year old capsule was found by the builders buried under the ground in...

The Junior Creativity Team

The Junior Creativity Team have been busy. As well as our club every week where we work towards gaining the Explore Arts Award, we attending a morning SLT meeting. We talked about how art inspires us and what we want to do for the school. On the same day we took KS1 Assembly and taught everyone...

Year 3 - Girls Club

Year 3 girls have started their social club today during lunchtime with Ms Fathema. The girls took part in lots of icebreakers and team games including organising themselves silently from shortest to tallest. They also engaged in conversation with each other, answering funny questions such as what...

Hackney School 1.1 Mile Fun Run

...eney 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!...

Anti-Idling Campaign

Daubeney students were out early this morning handing out leaflets and informing parents and students about our anti-idling campaign. We are committed to our students living a healthy life and so we would like to ensure our air is as clean as possible. Read our leaflet to find out more information...

Year 5 Residential 2019 - Day 4

[menu name="year5-residential-2019"] It’s day 4 and you’d have thought the tiredness would have set in by now... well it has with the teachers. The children are just as energised as ever. They finished last night with wider games and the usual hot chocolate before bed. This...

Eco Team Meet The Senior Team

...ing not only Daubeney Primary School but also the local community and world!...

Year 5 - Crazy Day Disco

On Friday, Year 5 had lots of fun on the school's Crazy Day. There was a disco in the Hop Garden where the children got the chance to bust some moves!

Boys Book Club - 18th June 2019

Today (18-06-2019) the Boys Book Club explored the many online stories available which are suitable for primary school children. We used the iPads, and read a selection of stories. Next week we aim to read some classic fairy tales and hope to create our own fairy tale story in the session

Federation Mathematics Competition

Today we held our Federation Mathematics Competition at Daubeney with our sister schools Lauriston and Sebright. Our pupils participated with such a high level of determination, resilience and team work. Everyone was actively engaged from start to finish. Daubeney emerged the winners. Well done...

Hispanic Week 2019

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

Bike Around The Borough

...hildren from Daubeney Primary School participated in the annual cycle ride around Hackney. The 10 mile route took the children from Homerton to Hackney Downs, then to Stoke Newington, Newington Green, Dalston and then back to Hackney for lunch. The children enjoyed the many challenges and rode along...

School Council Elections 2026/2027

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