Spanish

Pupils at our school learn Spanish and enjoy the benefits of starting to learn a foreign language at an early age. Learning a foreign language provides an opening to other cultures, fosters pupils’ curiosity and deepens their understanding of the world. It helps them to develop communication...

Nursery

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

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...

Ofsted

The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. Following a recent visit by Ofsted’s inspectors (October 2023), we are...

Phonics & Early Reading

... most commonly used phonics words. Term Meaning Adjacent consonants Two or three consonants next to each other that represent different sounds. For example, bl in black. Notice here that bl makes the two different sounds b and l , whereas ck makes the single sound ck ....

PSHE - Jigsaw

Intent One of the integral features of the Blossom Federation curriculum. The backbone of PSHCE is our JIGSAW programme. Jigsaw connects the pieces of Personal, Social and Health Education, emotional literacy, social skills and citizenship, carrying out a mindful approach to PSHCE which brings...

Reception

...nd of Year Expectations Medium Term Plan 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...

School Council

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

School 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...

Year 2

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

Governors

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

Assessment

...rents each year - Parents’ Days: one in the second half of the Autumn Term and another in the seco......nd half of the Autumn Term and another in the second half of the Spring Term. Progress, achievement ...... are also included for EYFS, Year 1, Year 2, Year 4 and Year 6. General Termly Assessment Cycle Form...

Literacy

At Daubeney we are committed to raising standards in Literacy and follow the National Curriculum in order maintain accurate coverage across the year. In order to maximise opportunities to develop literacy skills, we make cross curricular links wherever possible. In Early Years we follow the Early...

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...

Forest School

...epending on the weather......er......r 2 Spring Term – Year 1 Summer Term – Reception During Forest School sessions, children are enc...

Science and Sustainability

...broken down onto the Science Medium Term Plans for each year group. This is to inform teacher planning and delivery of the curriculum. Science is taught every half Term, in a 3 week block to provide children with opportunities to engage deeply with their topic over consecutive sequential lessons. ...

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

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

Maths

Our Vision Our vision at Blossom Federation is to nurture a life-long love and confident use of Maths. We aim to develop lively, enquiring minds encouraging pupils to become self-motivated, confident and capable in order to solve problems that will become an integral part of their future. Through...

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...

Contact

...Trips and school activities Term dates Assemblies and events Changes to personal details Medical issues, medication or ongoing treatment Changes to picking up children Uniform / PE Kit Free school meals and admissions Phone the Pastoral Care Lead After school clubs Attendance ...

Admissions

Daubeney is moving to a two form entry sized primary school. There are currently two classes of Reception children and this will continue for the academic year 2023 and beyond. It is currently three form entry primary school in Years 5 & 6 although it retains three classes of Year 2 children....

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...

Ambassadors

Their role is to be helpful, polite, friendly, respectful and caring. They are smartly dressed and support the staff in maintaining discipline. They are responsible for promoting our school values and expectations of behavior, meet and greet visitors and escort them around our school and being a...

Daubeney Children & Family Hub

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

About our Curriculum

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

Calendar and Term Dates

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Clubs

...ter School Club Plan for Summer Term - £39.00 per session Year groups Monday Tuesd......fter School Club Plan for Spring Term - £39.00 per session Year groups Monday Tues...

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

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

Year 5 - Geography Autumn Term 2023

Have a watch of what Year 5 learnt this half term in Geography

Year 4 - Geography Autumn Term 2023

Have a watch of what Year 4 learnt this half term in Geography

Year 3 - Geography Autumn Term 2023

Have a watch of what Year 3 learnt this half term in Geography

Year 2 - Geography Autumn Term 2023

Have a watch of what Year 2 learnt this half term in Geography

Year 2 Computing Week 3

This week we started our topic for this half term which is 'creating pictures'. We explored impressionist art and then made our own impressionist style painting by using 2 paint a picture

Year 1 - Geography Autumn Term 2023

Have a watch of what Year 1 learnt this half term in Geography

Year 2 - Art and literacy

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

Parakeet class trip to Hackney City Farm

This week year 2 enjoyed a trip to Hackney City Farm! We enjoyed exploring the habitats of many farm animals as part of our Science topic this half term. We saw a range of animals including pigs, donkeys, goats and ducks!

Year 3 Maths

Today, 7-09-2023 the children in Year 3 Toucan and Kingfisher class enjoyed their introduction to this terms maths objective. They played a game which helped them with learning Place Value and identifying which digit changed when adding and subtracting. We hope the pupils enjoyed playing their...

Year 2 Poetry

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

Year 2 Art Wow Day

For our end of topic wow day this half term, we spent the day creating mini masterpieces for our art exhibition! We displayed a range of skills that we had learnt such as mixing primary colours to make secondary colours, creating tones of colours by adding black or white, and creating an image to...

Year 2 - Computing Summer 2

This half term our topic has been presenting ideas. We have looked at a range of ways to present the story of Goldilocks. We read an e-book, took a quiz and explored concept maps. Last week we made our own quizzes, thinking carefully about the types of questions we wanted to include. We chose from...

Year 5 – Los planetas

What a great start to this final term! Students in year 5 are learning new vocabulary and grammar structures while learning about space. Students have revisited days of the week and discovered the origins of the words, many of them coming from planets in both, English and Spanish

Mr Logan’s weekly update video

Please see my first update video of the summer 2 half-term. I hope you find it informative and useful. Kind regards,

Year 6 - Geography Autumn Term 2023

What did Year 6s learn in Geography this term? Have a watch of what Year 6s learnt this half term in Geography

Year 2 - WOW Day Autumn 1 2023

Year 2 had so much fun on WOW day for Autumn 1! We recapped all of our learning about the world, and worked as a team to create our own climate scenes. We chose from either a tropical or polar climate, and thought about the plants you'd find there as well as the animals. We used lots of recycled...

Year 3 - Science Autumn Term 2023

The children in Year 3 enjoyed planting their own seeds. They will observe it grow over the next few days

Year 4 Autumn 1 Wow Day

Year 4 had an earth shattering Wow Day! We started the day by recapping our learning and answering the big question 'How would you survive an earthquake?' After that, we built cities using recycled materials that we brought in from home. We designed houses, sky scrapers and roads and took a before...

Computing Week 2

In Computing we explored pictograms as part of our Questioning topic for this half term. We discussed what types of homes we lived in and made a pictogram to show the answers

Year 5 - WOW day Autumn 1 2023

Year 5 had an awesome WOW day! They recapped what they have learnt this term and made relevant links to the over arching question : How would you prepare to climb Mount Kilimanjaro ? Year 5 learnt the challenges mountain climbers face such as potential dangers, expensive equipment and being ready...

Nursery - Autumn Shop

Nursery have loved their Autumn shop role play area this half term. They have been serving customers and exploring different Autumn Treasures

Year 3 – Spanish: Autumn Term Singing

Over the past four months students in Year 3 have worked hard practising key structures to be able to greet people, ask and answer questions about their names, age and wellbeing. Singing provides rhyme and repetition, and allows children to make connections between letters and sounds. There is a...

Year 5 - Ancient Greeks Wow Day - Autumn 2 2023

Year 5 had an awesome WOW day! They recapped what they have learnt this term and made relevant links to the over arching question: What influence did the Ancient Greeks have on our modern society? To tend the topic in great fashion, Year 5 created masks which represented Greek myths whilst...

Year 2 RE day Autumn 2

For this half terms RE day we focused on Judaism and thought about 'What values does Hanukkah teach us?' We learned about the story of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of light, we explored the Maccabees and why they were brave, and thought about values we could learn from the story. We then...

Year 2 Wow day Autumn 2

For this half terms wow day we recapped all of our knowledge from this History topic. We explored the expeditions of Sarah Marquis, Mae Jemison and Captain Robert Falcon Scott. We had fun interviewing explorers and drawing an explorer scene. We had the most fun in the afternoon when we made our...

Year 2 – Maths and Spanish joint project. Shapes

CLIL stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning and as the term suggests, this approach is used to teach students about a new subject in a language foreign to them. Through CLIL, students not only learn a second language but also learn about a topic totally new to them. This week Year 2...

Toucan class visit the RAF museum

Year 3 visited the RAF museum to explore linkages, levers and pulleys linking to our DT topic this term

Family Phonics Workshop - Autumn 1 & 2

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

Year 6 - Geography: Mapping Skills Day

Lesson 1: For our first lesson this Mapping Day we first recapped all that we have learned before, including the 8 points in a compass to how to read a map. We then looked at globes and how to read globes. On our maps, we identified the 7 continents, lines of latitude such as the Tropics of...

Year 6 – History: WOW Day

We started off WOW Day by recapping all of our learning from this half term. We thought about how each lesson’s learning contributed to our understanding of just how devastating World War II was. We learnt about the impacts it had on Britain and wrote our responses to the overarching...

Year 4 – Spanish - Summer Term 1

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

Year 4 - Wow Day

The children in Year 4 had a fun filled Wow Day. They designed and built settlements along a river they created, using their knowledge from our learning this term

Year 4 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023

Outstanding effort from our Year 4 students this half term! Students in Year 4 have enjoyed revisiting food items in Spanish and learning how to share their opinions on food. Students can now talk about what food and drinks they like to have, using a range of positive and negative opinion phrases...

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 7

This week we completed our final lesson in our art topic for computing this half term. We explored surrealism and then used eCollage on Purple Mash to make our own artwork using drawings and clip art

Family Phonics Workshop

A big thank you to parents who attended our first family phonics workshop this half term. It was so lovely to see parents engaging in various phonics activities. We went through all of phase 2 sounds and had an excellent time playing table tennis phonics and snap! We look forward to seeing you...

Year 3 - Stone Age Blogging

This term Year 3 are learning all about the Stone Age, Iron Age and Bronze Age. In computing this week, Year 3 were learning about blogging so the children got the opportunity to produce a blog about what they have learnt in History so far. Children got to post their blogs and read and comment on...

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!

End of Term Achievers - Autumn 2022

The Secret Life of Reception - Autumn 2 2022

Take a look at what we have been learning about this half-term through the eyes of many 4 / 5 year olds! Reception have really enjoyed taking their own photos of their time in Reception at Daubeney! This half-term, we have had so much fun! We have been learning about numbers 1 - 5, shapes, patterns...

Year 2 - Spanish Christmas Cards

This term in Year 2 we have learnt numbers, colours and shapes through Cubism and Pablo Picasso's art. Today we have decorated our own Christmas cards inspired by his work

Year 1 and Year 2 - Spanish Children's Stories

This half term students in Year 1 and Year 2 are learning key vocabulary and some simple grammar structures through familiar stories. 2L students have enjoyed learning the main characters from 'Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?' this week

Family Phonics Workshop - Spring Term 2023

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

Year 5 - Spanish - Mi ciudad

This half term our students in Year 5 are learning to describe cities using a range of adjectives and naming their different buildings. These are some pictures of 5C students. Games are always a great way to get students talking in Spanish!

Reception - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023

Reception students love singing the numbers up to ten with Rosita! This term students have used this great number knowledge to count libros (books), pinturas (colouring pencils), gomas (rubbers), lápices (pencils), tijeras (scissors), sacapuntas (pencil sharpeners) once they learnt those new words

Rainbow Class - RE day - Exploring Christianity & Church

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

Year 2 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023

At Daubeney, students in Year 2 learn through songs, games, storytelling and role play. This half term, students have really enjoyed learning the story ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?’ in Spanish. Students can now name a range of animals and describe them using colours, as well as use...

Year 3 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023

This term year 3 students have been introduced to new language structures that enable them to talk about their birthdays, and their favourite colours, months of the year or days of the week. Students have enjoyed role-play tasks, asking and answering questions from memory, and of course, singing...

Year 5 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023

Year 5 students at Daubeney have worked really hard this term. They have made great progress and are now able to create sentences using a range of different buildings and shops in town. They can also engage in a dialogue and ask and understand directions. They have also had the opportunity to...

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 ,...

Year 6 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023

Extremely busy term for Year 6 students who have worked really hard at Daubeney. Students have developed the ability to use context and previous knowledge to estimate new words, to identify words in written form through dictation using their phonics knowledge, and to work with a partner in dialogue...

Year 3 - Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) – Volcanoes

This half term students in Year 3 have covered volcanoes as part of their Geography curriculum. In our Spanish lessons students have really enjoyed learning about the Canary Islands and its volcanoes. CLIL provides the opportunity to diversify methods of classroom teaching and learning. Students...

Year 4 - Spanish - Spring Term 2

Excellent effort from students in Year 4 this half term who have had the opportunity to learn about a range of famous Spanish-speaking painters – including Pablo Picasso, Frida Khalo, Wilfredo Lam, Joaquín Sorolla and Salvador Dalí, and different art styles/movements. Students can now use a range...

The Nest - Hop Garden

This term in Science, we have been learning about identifying plants and recognising their basic parts. We created a checklist of things we might find and went on a nature hunt in the Hop Garden. The children really enjoyed exploring the outdoor environment and were very excited to discover some...

Year 6 - Spring Term 2 – Spanish

This half term Year 6 students at Daubeney have learnt to talk about holidays – they have learnt how to use the immediate future ‘voy a + infinitive verb’ to talk about when and where they are going to go, how they are going to get there and who they are going to go with. Great...

Reception - Spring Term

Now look through the eyes of the teachers.... This term we have been learning about Space, Africa, Easter and many other topics! We have also been helping Gavin to plant Tulips in our playground! We have read stories such as 'Monkey Puzzle', 'Handas Surprise' along with non-fiction...

The Secret Life of Reception - Spring

...on have really enjoyed Spring Term! We have been learning about measuring, patterns, adding and shapes. We have also been baking, having Valentine parties and so many other things!...

Year 2 - Spanish - Spring Term 2

Another successful half term for Year 2 students who love learning vocabulary from familiar stories

Year 3 - Spanish - Spring Term 2

What a fun half term for Year 3 students at Daubeney! Students can now understand a wide range of body parts and use them to make descriptions including masculine and feminine forms of colours. Adjectival agreement is one of the most challenging grammar points covered in this key stage, very well...

Year 5 - Spanish - Spring Term 2

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

Year 2 - RE Day 2024

For this half term's RE day we learnt all about Easter and what it means to Christians. We spoke about what Christians believe happened many years ago, and traditions they take part in to celebrate

Year 4 – El Loro Tico Tango

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

The Nest - Baking - Autumn 2026

Throughout this term, we have developed our baking skills through lots of practical experiences. We have learnt how to measure ingredients accurately, crack eggs independently and follow instructions in the correct order. We have also discovered which ingredients are important in baking and why we...

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

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

Year 2 Maths - mass

Today year 2 explored mass using scales. We chose objects from around the classroom, predicting which would be heavier or lighter before using scales to determine if we were correct

Year 2 - Science: Dream jars

Our topic this half term is the environment and we are thinking about how humans can help the planet. We collected old jars throughout the week and then recycled them to give them a new purpose. We used paint and glitter, along with cotton wool, to create our very own magical dream jars. We had...

Year 4 Spring 2 Wow Day

The children in Year 4 had a fun filled Wow Day. They designed and built settlements along a river they created, using their knowledge from our learning this term

Year 2 – Los instrumentos musicales

This half term children in Year 2 are learning about musical instruments -their names in Spanish and English, which families they belong to, what they look like, how they’re played and what they sound like

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

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

Year 3 Kingfisher - Testing Frictional Force

The children in Kingfisher carried out a fair test to determine which surface will have the most frictional force. They built a ramp and tested different surfaces to test how far their car would roll and see which surface had the most and least frictional force

Year 3 Kingfisher - Sharing Assembly

The children in Kingfisher were excited to share their learning in front of a live audience. They put on quite a show, sharing all the amazing learning they did last term

Year 6 Hawks - British Science Week Workshop - Dry Ice experiment

The highlight of this spring term was the British Science Week . This year’s theme was ‘Adapt and Change’ the 6 Hawks enjoyed science workshop whereby they learnt about state of matter and even attempted to make ice-cream. The children had the opportunity to explore different hypothesis and the...

School Council off to a Great Start!

The School Council of 2024-25 is off to a great start! Their dedication to working for the betterment of their peers and splitting into focused committees shows a strong commitment to addressing different aspects of school life. The committees are; Admin Committee, Journalist Committee and Junior...

Year 4 Hornbills - ICT

The children in Hornbill class discussed their responsibilities when using online activities. As part of their lesson they discussed SMART targets which identifies how to be safe online. Next term they will explore Logo using PurpleMash

Year 2 - RE Day: Autumn 1 2025

Why did Jesus tell stories? This was the question we focused on this half term as part of the larger question: What can we learn from special stories? We spent the day learning about Christian stories and discussed the meaning of them. We then did a range of activities that help us consolidate our...

Year 5 - IntoUniversity: What is a University?

We visited Hackney Downs IntoUniversity who taught us about what a university is! We learnt about who goes to university, what you can study there as well as the different locations you’ll find universities! We can’t wait to go back to learn more in the Summer term!

Arsenal Social Community Project Year 6

This term, Year 6 have been learning how Arsenal Football Club is helping to protect the environment. We explored how football clubs can be more sustainable by reducing waste, saving energy, and encouraging fans to care for the planet. Well done to Romilly in Toucans for winning the raffle and...

Year 4 Hornbill - Class Assembly

Hornbills had a fantastic assembly sharing all their amazing learning this half term

Year 4 - Science

The children in Year 4 are enjoying their Science learning this term which is all about the states of matter. They discussed the different states of matter and how they change. They also used their Chromebook to research facts and information about the topic

Rainbow Class - Our Learning

This term, we have been very busy with lots of exciting activities. Check out our learning gallery to see what we’ve been doing

Rainbow Class - Spring 1 Term 2026

... been so busy during Spring 1 Term with lots of fantastic learning and our work is now presented on the display boards....

Year 5 & 6 Cross Country League

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

Year 1 - Georges Seurat

In Art this term, we have been looking at Georges Seurat and pointillism. We used key ideas from Seurat such as pointillism, perspective and colour mixing

Year 1 Peacocks - Past and Present

This term in History, we are looking at the History of Hackney. We have been looking at new and old photos, and comparing them. We have found it very interesting looking at old photos

Year 2 - Literacy: Rainforest Artwork 2025

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

Rainbow - Maths Learning

Wow! Our pupils are awesome mathematician because they were exploring mathematics in many and fun ways. Children were able to use numbers puzzles by placing them in the correct order from 1- 10 by following the number sequences and they counted animals that was representing each of the numbers....

Year 4 Wow Day

The children in Year 4 had an amazing Wow Day. They first completed their end of term assessment and then began creating their earthquake cities. Some of our pupils had the opportunity to make a pop-up earthquake building

Year 5 - School Tasking (Session 3)

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

The Nest - Fun times in Nurture - Spring Term 2025

Family Phonics Workshop Spring 2024

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

Year 5: Science - Sir David Attenborough

This term for science, Year 5 are focusing on different scientists and inventors. This lesson we focused on the famous British broadcaster and biologist, Sir David Attenborough for his amazing contribution to the world of science. Children first researched and then produced their own documentaries...

The Secret Life of Reception - Autumn 1 2022

The children of Reception have been given their own camera to capture those moments that we miss... the Secret Life of Reception! Each term, we will upload the next in the series of 'The Secret Life of Reception' and see what fabulous learning has been going on. They have been taking...

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...

Nurture Autumn Term

Year 6 - Science: Shadows Experiment

We finally did our experiment this week! A couple of weeks ago, we discussed and wrote up our predictions to the question: How is the shape and size of an object’s shadow determined? Today, we got to see if our predictions were accurate! We even drew bar charts and wrote up our conclusions...

Daubs on tour ‘24 - Day 2

Day 2 was a scorcher! Cloud cover intermittently helped us out a little though. The children awoke at sunrise after a pretty late night but were surprisingly still full of energy We got straight into activities and the children were amazing. They tried things they'd never done before and really had...

Year 2 - Jigsaw: Week 1

This half term our Jigsaw topic is 'Change'. We began the topic by thinking about how a range of animals change from babies to adults. We discussed how some animals are born with the same features as their respective adults, and also thought about how some baby animals are completely...

Year 2 - Great Fire of London WOW Day

Today we had lots of fun bringing together all of our learning from the last half term. We worked in groups to make Tudor Houses, thinking carefully about the colours of the walls and the patterns of the timber beams. We also decorated windows and added thatch to the top! In the afternoon, we set...

Year 2 - RE Day: Summer 1

For this half term's RE Day we thought about a range of religions and discussed how do we know what is right and wrong. We thought about ourselves and how we know what the right and wrong choices are, and discussed 5 different religions, thinking about how they seek guidance and what they believe....

Year 4 – Spanish: Costa Rica

This half term, students in Year 4 build on previous learning of the use of ‘me gusta’, develop an understanding of the sound - spelling relationship in Spanish, and aim to understand a story based in Costa Rica. They have recently explored a range of sources – including atlas, fact files, and...

Year 2 - History: GFoL Week 2

This half term we are learning all about the Great Fire of London in our History lessons. This week we discussed how and where the fire started, on Pudding Lane in 1666. We explored a range of reasons for why the fire lasted for five days, including having a very hot, dry summer, the houses being...

Year 2 - Computing Week 2

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

Year 5 - RE: Autumn 1 2024

What impact do beliefs have on actions? This is of big question of the year. This half term, we focused on “What inner forces affect how we think and behave?” We explored these topics and stories: temptation, Adam and Eve, Jonah and the Whale, and forces of good in the world

Year 5 - RE: Autumn 2 2024

This half term’s RE day was dedicated to Christmas! We learnt about how Christmas is celebrated around the world as well as the different Christmas stories that are told to Christian children everywhere! We ended the day by making Christingle candles using actual oranges!

Year 2 - RE Day - Spring 2025

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

Rainbow Room: Surprise Day

As part of our wonderful learning journey, we were pleasantly surprised with a special treat! We were given colouring sheets and stickers as a reward for our incredible determination and effort in our learning. It was such a fun and exciting way to celebrate our hard work!

Year 5 - DT: WOW Day

After recapping what we learnt this half term in DT, we spend the rest of the day creating our own wells that involved a pulley system

Year 2 - Computing

This half term in Computing we began our coding topic. We used Air Traffic Control on Purple Mash to code a variety of objects to move in different ways. We also identified the collision detection coding block and used this in our code

Year 5 - Trip to the British Museum

We have been learning loads about Greek Myths (Literacy) and Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses (History) this half term. At the British Museum, there are so many artefacts related to those topics. We spent the day exploring the museum and furthering our learning

Year 4 - Phonics Activity

Today, Anas and Mete practiced phonics with puzzles. They examined each puzzle to determine what it represented and identified the starting sound by matching it with laminated sound letters. Both of them also practiced saying the sounds of the letters from the puzzles as part of their phonetics...

Year 3 - Trip to Stepney Farm

Today, Year 3 visited Stepney Farm, where they observed various animals and identified which ones are vertebrates and which are invertebrates, linking to their science topic for this term. They also discussed what these animals might eat if they lived in the wild

Year 3 Kingfisher - Science - Spring 2025

The children in Kingfisher discussed the terms vertebrates and invertebrates. Their activities allowed them to identify which animals belong to vertebrates and invertebrates. The children also did some research using their Chromebooks to find facts about the topic they are learning

Year 3 - Linkages and Levers

The children in Year 3 discussed and identified what a linkage and lever is. They used pictures to help explain the terms and created an information poster to explain what a linkage and lever is

Year 4 - Autumn Wow Day

Year 4 had a fantastic Wow Day focusing on our geography topic Japan and Earthquakes! We used our arts and crafts skills to create our own Japanese cities using recycled materials. We then destroyed them to show how they would look in the aftermath of an earthquake

Prefects' Morning Out

As a reward for all of their hard work this term, the prefects were treated to a morning at London Fields Park with some sweet treats from Broadway Market. We also had a Christmas sing song on the way home

Year 3 - Computing - Coding

Year 3 have started learning about coding this term in Computing. They have now learnt what an algorithm is and how to make virtual objects move using the coding symbols and instructions. They are super excited about computing lessons and always look forward to it each week!

Year 5 - Carnival Headbands

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

Year 3 - Forces and Magnets

Year 3's science topic for this term is forces and magnets. After creating mind maps to think about what questions we had about this area, we then took part in a game of tug of war! We discovered the the team who used the most force (pulling) would win. If we used equal force then the rope did...

Year 3 - Kew Gardens

Year 3 had a fantastic learning experience at Kew Gardens to introduce our new topic for the half term: Rainforests! We explored Palm house with our teacher for the day. It was so humid! We discovered that Papaya fruit is used as medicine, and that Banana trees have huge purple flowers! We touched...

Year 3 - Making Roman Soldiers

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

Year 3 - Roman Roads

Year 3 have been learning all about the Romans this half term and this week’s focus was Roman Roads. Did you know that Roman roads were extremely straight and had no bends? Year 3 also studied that Roman roads had different layers starting with the rubble then stones and sand and lastly the...

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 - What We're Learning in Spring 2 2017

Year 3 are learning about Light and the Romans this half-term. In Science, we have investigated light and discovered that visible light contains 3 different colours! In history, we have learned about life in the Roman army. We made our own shields and practised our battle formation following Latin...

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 - Board Games

Year 4 started their Summer term by playing and learning about board games. The children had a lot of fun during lessons and even got to start planning their own board games

Year 4 - Mummification

This term, Year 4 have been studying life in Ancient Egypt and on Wednesday, learnt about 'mummification'. They learnt the fascinating yet queasy facts about why and how it was done. As an activity, they pretended to be Embalmers and mummify an orange. They loved the activity, getting messy...

Year 4 - Science: How Sound Travels

In our Science lessons this term, Year 4 have been exploring sound and how sound travels. We have learned that sound is created by vibrations and travels in waves. During this lesson, we wanted to test how sound travels through different materials. We did this by attaching some string onto a metal,...

Year 4 - Sound

Year 4 are learning all about sound this half term. They have started their first session with a practical lesson about vibrations and the sounds that they make. They have also shared some questions that they have about sound. I challenge Daubeney students to find out the answers and comment below!

Year 4 Half Term Holiday Projects

Over the Half-term holidays, Year 4 have been busy creating jaw-dropping projects! Hayden in 4P created a volcano (which actually explodes!). Massimo, Oran and Cormac created a model of a earthquake scene in London. The teachers and Mr Logan were very impressed!

Year 5 - 5M Developing Mathematical Skills Using IXL

...ves that we visited in Autumn Term. Children are encouraged to keep practising their maths skills at home using IXL....

Year 5 - 5M Sustainability Pledge

... our oceans....

Year 5 - Chalk Art

The children in Year 5 had a wonderful time today using chalk to show their creativity. They used various techniques like rubbing, line work, colours, varied shading and images to design their own master piece. This was part of our Topic lesson this term, where our focusis on art and the work of...

Year 3 - Chocolate Crazy, Learning Had

Wow! What a choco-tastic day of learning with MASTER Chocolatier Derek Smith the Year 3's have enjoyed. Where does the cocoa tree come from? Who invented the chocolate bar? What does a cocoa pod look and smell like? These were just some of the amazing facts we explored prior to creating our own...

Year 5 Discuss Current Affairs

Year 5 are off to an exciting start this term with finding out about current affairs. Classrooms were heated with the well-thought-out opinions from the students. We discussed a range of issues such as; Floods in Haiti, Refugee crisis and the US presidential elections. Our students were able to...

Year 6 - The Boy Who Cried Wolf

...d the beginning of the Summer Term. Year 6 are going to be writing their own modern take on the well known fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. To get immersed in the story they performed it in groups. This will help them when it comes to planning their own story....

Year 5 Work Week

Year 5 had a brilliant start to the Spring 2 term with an enjoyable work week! They had the opportunity to meet a creative director that works in the fashion industry and learn and experience what it is like to work in an ethical clothing company. 'Work week showed me how to work well under...

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 - We Made Our Own Catapult

The Year 5 children were very excited today when they made their own catapult. Our topic this term is all about forces, mechanism, gears, levers and pulleys. we hope to design, create and build more items as the term progresses

Year 5 - Fitness

The Year 5 children started this term (23rd April 2019) off with a once a week fitness session led by our sports coaches. The Year 5 children will use the good weather this term to promote a healthy lifestyle and develop their fitness levels over the coming term. In addition, they have been...

Year 5 - Professional Authors

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

Year 5 - Newspapers

Today (12th November 2018) the children in Year 5 had a chance to explore and read a variety of newspaper articles. This term, for our long burst genre, we will be looking at news-papers and creating our own articles. Encourage your child to read the news at home

Year 5 - Natural History Museum

Year 5 had the pleasure of visiting the beautiful Natural History Museum in central London. We explored the many exhibits it had to offer including an insect room, fossils from prehistoric times as well as a mammal room and more! All of this related to our science topic this term: Living Things...

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 - Leaflets

The Year 5 children were busy today (18th October 2018) publishing their leaflets. They used the key features of a leaflet and their frame, along with their information in their books, which they were writing this week. Ask your children over the half-term holiday to create a leaflet on any topic...

Year 3 - Exploring Christianity

Today Year 3 explored Christianity. They read and discussed some of the parables that Jesus told, including The Prodigal Son and The Good Samaritan. They enjoyed determining the meaning of each parable and cleverly drew parallels between these stories and the other stories and topics we have been...

Year 3 - 3P The Surprising Stone Age

3P have worked really hard on their class assembly. This term they have been learning all about life in the Stone Age

Mother's Day Celebrations In Nursery

Everyone in nursery loves their mummies and so they wanted to do something extra special for Mother's Day to thank them for everything they do. They worked hard to make cards, carefully writing their names inside. They have been dutifully practising writing their names all term, and you can see...

1L Class Update

It's a great start to the year in 1L. We've been writing about the Gingerbread man for our Traditional Tales topic, we talked about our holidays and shared what a wonderful time we have had. We've been doing some arty pictures in free flow and we're looking forward to the rest of...

4G Making a Collaborative Collage of the UK

We used our map reading skills to find discover the four countries of the United Kingdom including their capital cities. We made a huge collaborative collage of the UK to show off what we have learned and we'll be adding more detail as the term goes on... Come and test our geography learning...

5O - IntoUniversity

Year 50 had a wonderful time at IntoUniversity, where they learnt about courses offered at university, places to stay, clubs and societies that are available to join. next term they will return to the workshop for a whole day, where they will study a subject in more detail

6S - Spanish Dictionary Challenge

This week, 6S took on a new challenge on their Spanish learning by using a Spanish online dictionary and translation websites to be able to understand and independently translate a text. They used their expertise in dealing with the Spanish alphabetical order confidently to be able to look up...

Autumn Term in Nursery

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

Autumn Term in Nursery

The nursery children have been busy this week. They've been enjoying exploring what happens in autumn. In particular, they were fascinated by how the leaves changed colour and fell off of the trees. They discovered that the fallen leaves are fun to play with too, as you can see in the video!...

First Week in Year 6

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

First Week of Nursery

The children have had a wonderful first week at nursery. They've painted, practised writing their letters and numbers, built tall towers, played instruments and sung as loudly as they can. And that was just on their first day! Don't forget to check our class page for weekly updates. We look...

Geography in Year 2

This term in Geography, we have been learning about the weather in the UK. We enjoyed using green screen and role playing as weather forecasters. Watch our videos to find out what we have been learning about

Handwriting in Year 3

Year 3 pupils have been working incredibly hard to perfect their handwriting this term and, as you can see, their hard work has paid off! Many of them have beautifully neat handwriting and as a result they have earned their pen licence. I'm confident that many others with earn theirs in the new...

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...

Literacy September Parent Workshop

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

November 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...

Year 3 - 3P Shares their Learning

3P had a wonderful time during our sharing assembly. The audience were amazed to see how well the Year 3 children performed on stage. Their main message was that success comes from hard work and determination, never giving up. They also shared with us some stories of famous people who failed at...

Reception's Stay and Learn

... learn sessions during Autumn Term. If you would like to volunteer to take part in Daily supported Reading in Reception. Please speak to the class teacher or Miss Bibi....

Year 2 - Great Fire of London

Year 2 got ready for next terms topic on the Great Fire of London, with an exciting workshop this week. The children role played the scene of the buildings in London and in role as shop keepers. They learnt how the buildings were burnt down in the tragedy. The Great Fire of London happened in 1666,...

Year 1 RE Day

Year 1 learned a great deal during RE day this week. This term was all about the Sikhism religion and the children learned about Guru Nanak and the Vaisakhi festival which was celebrated in April. Manpreet one of our children's family members happily came in and gave a detailed talk about the...

Year 1 - Toys from the Past and Present

History this term is all about Toys from the past and present. We had so much fun learning and playing Victorian style games. We have also made some toys to remember the poor children who had no money to buy toys back then

Year 1 - 1T's Class Assembly: Growth Mindset

We had our class assembly on Thursday 7th February. We spoke about our SEAL topic for the term and we presented our cross curricular work. We enjoyed performing our songs for our friends and family. Thank you everyone for coming!

Year 1 - 1L's Weather Report

1L have been learning about weather in Cross Curricular this half term. We have been identifying different types of common weather, learning about some types of extreme weather, and we have watched lots of weather reports. We had fun making our own weather report last week!

Science Club

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

Reception - Yellow Class Visit Paradise Wildlife Park

All of Reception classes went on a end of term trip to Paradise Wildlife Park. We had an amazing time seeing so many different animals. We especially liked the meerkats, penguin and the white tiger. The weather was very hot but we found lots of shaded areas. We had a picnic lunch and we played in...

Nursery - Animals

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

Nursery - The Five Senses

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

Nursery - Growth and Transformation

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

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 - Chinese New Year

Nursery enjoyed their first week back after half term. We have had fewer tears than usual... which means children are settling in more easily after a break. This week we have been celebrating the Chinese New Year. Children have enjoyed taking part in the activities. They have decorated and painted...

Nursery - Autumn Treasures Bag

Nursery will be filling a Autumn treasures bag. Parents and children will be collecting Autumn treasures together, during the half term holiday

Year 5 - Art WOW Day

WOW! What a day! We wrapped up our Summer 2 half term with a WOW Day dedicated to art inspired by Antony Gormley. More specifically, we created our own art pieces inspired by "Field for the British Isles" which we called "Field for the Year 5 Isles". We even had a Year 5...

School Council Meeting - 8th September 2021

The School Council met together for the first time! They were elected last year, but due to Covid restrictions the team never met together. It was a very special and exciting moment for all. The School Council will meet every Tuesday for this half term. Some vacancies have become available…so watch...

Boys Book Club - 13th January 2019

Today (13th January 2020) the Boys Book Club members met for the first session in Spring term. The boys read their favourite genre, Comic books and next week during our book club meeting (every Monday afternoon) we will be creating our own comic books

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 2 - Making a Vehicle

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

Science and Art in Year 2

Did you know it’s science week? We started our new science topic by doing some art! We are learning about plants this half term. We looked at pictures of different types of plants and talked about similarities and differences of it. Then, we painted them using bright colours! Have a look at our...

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...

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 1 - RE Day in 1L

For RE Day this half term, Year 1 explored how and why people celebrate Harvest. We explored which foods can be harvested and acted out how you would do this. We had fun pretending to dig up potatoes and carrots, and picking apples and pears off the tree! We also sang Harvest songs, and made our...

Year 6 RE Day - Buddhism

This half-term Year 6 explored the religion of Buddhism. We learned about the four noble truths, the eight fold path and how the Buddha first became enlightened. We then put all of this information into a leaflet and finished off with some art inspired by what we had learnt. [slideshow...

Learning Mentors Excellence Award - Autumn Term 2020

6S Winners Has won the award for working extremely hard to turn his behaviour around and being a positive influence and example in his year group. Has won the award for improving her behaviour over a long period of time and maintaining a high standard, by following the golden expectations at all...

Nursery - Celebrating Differences and End of Term Party

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...

History Dress Up Day 2021

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...

Year 3 - 3G Composing on Ukuleles

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

Year 5 Mapping Skills Day

To start our Geography topic off, we refreshed our memories of geographical skills we learnt in previous years and built onto our own knowledge by learning some new skills. We looked at 8 point compasses, 4 figure coordinates, aerial photographs and even thematic maps! To end our day we went on an...

Year 3 - Science: Plants and Flowers

In Year 3 we are learning about plants this half term in Science. The children have spent time in the Hop garden carefully observing the flowers growing there. This week they have been learning about the functions of different parts of a plant

Spanish - Español: Autumn Term Summary.

“FELIZ NAVIDAD Y PRÓSPERO AÑO NUEVO! = Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! -Y4 & Y2 worked on using more Spanish with their teachers and their classmates to follow instructions and to talk to each other. They had a great time playing bingo and many other games. - Y4 learnt...

Year 5 - Greta and the Giants Roleplay

We are learning about the book Greta and the Giants for the first two weeks of this half term. To help us understand the story more, we acted out the story and even made props inspired by Greta and her friends. We will be writing a blog based on the book

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...

Year 5 - Literacy: Presentations

We have been researching lots about the artist we are focusing on during this half term's art topic, Antony Gormley. So we spent the morning creating posters using everything that we have learnt and presented them to the class afterwards

Year 6 - ICT and Science in 6M

Today, 22-6-2022, the children in Year 6M used their Chromebooks to complete their Scientific activities on Purplemash. Then they used their research skills to retrieve information about our Science topic. This term in Science we will be looking at Scientist and Inventors

Year 1 - RE Trip to St. Barnabus Church

Year 1 had lots of fun for our RE day trip this half term. We visited St. Barnabus Church in Homerton. Reverend Clive told us all about the church, what happens during a mass, and about the community that visit to pray together

Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 - Growing Together

During the last week of our half term, week commencing 7th February 2022, Daubeney celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week. The theme was Growing Together. Growing Together is about growing emotionally and finding ways to help each other grow. Challenges and setbacks can help us to grow and adapt...

Year 5 - Reading Art

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

Year 5 - Reading: Art

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

Year 5 - Outdoor Learning: Life Cycles

Our science topic of this half term is Animals and their habitats and during it we have been learning about the life cycles of different types of animals and insects. During our outdoor learning session, we learnt about a frogs life cycle, what type of animal they are and what they eat. We also...

Year 5 - Mapping Skills Day

What did we remember about maps from the Autumn term? We put this to the test during our second Mapping Skills Day of the year! We looked at features of maps and types of maps. We even drew our own map of Iceland and created a 3D replica based on a topographic map of Iceland

Year 3 Literacy - Stone Age

As part of one of our Literacy sessions this half term, the children created Stone Age caves to help them write a non-chronological report

Golden Achievers - End of Autumn Term

...congratulations to our End of Term Golden Achievers, what a tremendous achievement!...

Dress Down Day

On the final day of term, the students dressed as famous black scientists and inventors. They practised their oracy skills by describing who they were dressed as and why they were famous!

Spanish - KS1 Introducing Themselves

This term our KS1 pupils have been learning to introduce themselves in Spanish. They feel very confident now and ready to make new friends in Spanish!

Nurture Group - Fundraiser

Nurture are lucky enough to welcome a new pet to the family. We will be getting a pet rabbit after the half term. We need to raise money to give it a lovely home (cage) and food. Please come and support us outside the nurture room by purchasing a cake or naming the rabbit or even both! Thank you in...

History Projects

What inspiring children we have at Daubeney! Over the holidays whilst most of us were feasting and relaxing, our children set about independently researching their history topic for the Spring term. They presented their findings in the most creative ways, from sculptures and painting to computer...

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...

Reception - Blue Class: Celebrating Differences

Blue class dressed up in their traditional clothes and bought in special traditional dishes to celebrate differences and end to our wonderful autumn term

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 - 1L Science Investigation

1L had fun doing a science experiment today, testing materials to see if they were waterproof. We were thinking about our big question this half term 'Could all materials keep us dry?'. We predicted which materials would keep a teddy dry and then used different materials to cover a teddy in...

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

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

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

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

Debating in Year 3

Year 3 read the fable 'The Lion and the Mouse' and determined that fables are stories that teach us a message. They thought that the message of the fable was that TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK. They then applied this idea of teamwork to a debate. They argued both for and against the idea...

Year 2 - 2C The Lion and the Mouse

For the first two weeks of the half term, we are looking at the picture book "The Lion and the Mouse". To help us get excited and fully understand the story we have been role playing the story and painting a picture of one of the main characters, the lion. Take a look at our photos!

Year 3 - 3T's Charles Dickens Assembly

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

Year 6 - Staying Calm and Focused

6F made a fantastic to start to the term and had a great first week in Year 6. We learnt some breathing techniques to help up stay calm and focused. We also created a 'calm corner' with encouraging words of affirmation to keep us motivated throughout the year. 6F are excited for the term...

Year 4 - Sustainability Presentations

Last term, Year 4's created a presentation on sustainability. This was to help their understanding of the environment and how we could look after the Daubeney community effectively. Their presenting skills were very impressive!

Year 2 - Carnival

Did you know that "Bee's Knees" and "Cat's Pajamas" were terms used in the 1920s that meant something was the best? After all the practice and and hard work we put into our dance, we were definitely the Bee's Knees and Cat's Pajamas! Our theme was the 1920s so we...

It Takes a Village...

This half-term we having been holding a series of events every Wednesday (5pm-7pm) under the banner of, ‘It Takes a Village...’. We have been blessed to have had the opportunity to host some world class speakers such as: Gary Younge, Patricia Lamour MBE, ‘Lt. Stitchie’,...

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...

Reception - Red Class Planting Cress and Mustard Seeds

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

Year 2 - Ultimate Times Table Challenge!

Before the half term, Year 2s took part in the ULTIMATE TIMES TABLE CHALLENGE. As it was the KS1 SATS earlier in May, we had to practice our times tables a lot and we took this opportunity to continue it even more after the SATS. We practiced for the whole of Summer 1 and on the last day of the...

'It Takes a Village' Holiday Activities

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

Year 1 Peacocks - Science: Seedbombs

In science this term, we have been learning about plants. In this lesson, we learnt all about wildflowers and how they grow. We made our own seed bombs using compost, flour, seeds and water