16/11 - 20/11 - Anti-Bullying Week - Break the Silence
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...
Science and Sustainability
... travels through different mediums. The key knowledge and skills are Then broken down onto The Scien......ge and skills taught in The current lesson. The idea behind this is to give children opportunities t...... of Their physical world and Their community. The frequency and range of children’s personal exper...
Year 6
Class Teachers Secondary School Application Home Learning Daily reading and reading records to be completed Times Tables Rockstars – TTRS IXL – one Maths and one Literacy objective to be practiced daily Weekly spelling list PE Children in Year 6 have PE every Wednesday and must bring in their PE...
Computing
...l and at home. Implementation The Purple Mash scheme of learning helps children to cover a variety o......y develops subject knowledge. The three recognised aspects of computing are covered with progression...
Humanities - History & Geography
...s reflected in what we teach. The Anthropology & Humanities curriculum teaches The children abou......ior Anthropology team – Ambassadors of Geography, History and RE. They help lead assemblies and ge......he rest of The school excited about Their new and future CC topics. They inspire children to find bo...
Physical Education
...ol Trips PE Highlights...... and Healthy Living promotes. The specialist PE teams deliver and provides a wide curriculum for The......cts that can impact all ages. There are special sessions for our SEND children which will ensure tha...
Religious Education
...ltural practices and values. The Blossom Federation follows The Hackney Education agreed syllabus a......he Blossom Federation follows The Hackney Education agreed syllabus and lesson plans where available......he world’s largest religions. These include Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism and S...
Year 4
... 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 or plimsoles. Book bags Please ensure your child brings in Their book bags every d...
Early Years Foundation Stage
... Curriculum EYFS Video Tour......tant vehicle for active learning. The curriculum has to be accessible for every child – in plannin......nce (broad and balanced curriculum). There are four essential aspects for The provision of an effec...
Resources for Parents
...d managing behaviour at home. These presentations seek to help us to understand where misbehaviour m......ays of managing misbehaviour. They also provide us with some tips about how we can most effectively ...
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....
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...
Mission, Vision and Aims
... around Them...
Nurture Group - The Nest
...n's well being. MBQMA Report......ren can feel safe and secure. The room aims to replicate a home; has a table to share breakfast, a b......a to prepare food and snacks. The purpose of Nurture is to offer children opportunities to re-visit ...
Ofsted
... for Daubeney Primary School .......nd monitoring and evaluation cycle. These are used to ensure clear steps are made to make us a good ......this friendly and welcoming school. They are happy and safe here. Pupils know The ‘golden expectat...
PE and Sports Premium
...ng in a wide variety of sports activities. The Sports Premium investment will play an important part in getting children active - not just for Their physical health but also for mental resilience and academic achievement. Across Blossom, we are committed to using this resource in developing high qua...
Performance, Results and Reporting
...Teacher Assessment and Tests The Performance Data Narrative document presents The school's performa......t. Department for Education The DfE reports on important statistical information about The school ......rking Financial benchmarking There is one employee at The Blossom Federation who has a salary above...
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
Phonics & Early Reading
...eme correspondences are introduced. There is no requirement that children should have mastered all t......ncluding songs, stories and rhymes. They will be able to distinguish between speech sounds and many ......blend and segment CVC words orally. The purpose of this phase is to teach anoTher 25 graphemes, most...
Policies
...ilable from The school office....
School Development
...chool Development Plan’ or SDP. The SDP runs in with The academic year from September 2024 to July 2026. Throughout The year There will be updates about our progress on The School Development Plan and it is very important that all members of The school community have The opportunity to contribute ...
PSHE - Jigsaw
...lossom Federation curriculum. The backbone of PSHCE is our JIGSAW programme. Jigsaw connects The pie......ow that Their opinions count. They learn about positive moral attributes, for example, courage, ho......ti-bullying, DLD, autism week). They are also encouraged to take part in some of The school collecti...
Pupil Premium
...s The pupils who need it most....
Nursery
...ears Foundation Stage curriculum. The Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum is organised to take c......rld Expressive Arts and Design The prime areas begin to develop quickly in response to relationsh...... four specific areas of learning. The specific areas include essential skills and knowledge. They gr...
Literacy
...op children’s reading skills and love of reading. These include: Phonics At Blossom Federation we ......hat children become fluent and independent readers. The programme develops children’s decoding, wo......a combination of whole class and independent reading. They complete short tasks linked to The readin...
Reception
Meet the Teacher EYFS Team Yearly Overview Welcome to Reception! Important information PE is on Monday. Please send your child to school in their PE kit. Please bring in your book bag on your book bag day. Please bring in a water bottle with your child’s name clearly labelled. Please bring a spare...
Clubs
Please submit applications to admin@daubeney.hackney.sch.uk Breakfast Club Breakfast Club runs every day from 7:45am – 8:55am. This includes fruit, cereal, bagels and juice. Activities will start at 8:15am Breakfast Club Registration Form 26-27 Breakfast Club Changes Update Form 26-27 Breakfast...
Daubeney Village
... raises money through events. They often hold one main event each school term – for example, a Chr......ational evenings and many more. They’re always looking for new fundraising ideas. Some Daubeney pa...... can I be involved in Daubeney Village? There are many different ways you can help with Daubeney Vil...
Assessment
...ide how to teach Them to get There. These next steps are shared with The children who are encouraged...... be compared to standards nationally. There are two ways in which assessment is approached: Formativ...... term when The child joins The class. These assessments identify where children are in relation to t...
Year 3
... practise Their times tables. They will be tested every Friday and will compete against oTher class groups weekly. PE Children in Year 3 have PE every Tuesday and must bring in Their PE kit to school including trainers or plimsoles. Book bags Please ensure your child brings in Their book bags every ...
Mental Health
...hildren’s mental health week! The JMHT team will regularly meet throughout The year to plan and de......oblem are not receiving treatment There has been a rise in The time children are having to wait to r...... families or roots in The region. The news and social media feeds are filled with The latest informa...
Year 5
...Year 5 have PE every Tuesday. They must bring Their PE kit to school, including trainers or plimsole......in Their book bags every day. They must also have Their reading record inside Their book bags every ...
Daubeney Children & Family Hub
...from Daubeney Primary School. The centre shares its state of The art facilities with Daubeney Nurser......onment for children to learn. The centre is run by our Children’s Centre Manager – Suzanne Carmi......y.hackney.sch.uk or The number below. The Daubeney Children & Family Hub offers family support a...
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
Daubeney Loves Reading
...gh quality reading provision. The children have plenty of opportunities to read, share and discuss b......fun and games? Love freebies? Then you'll love our online Scholastic Kids' Club. It's a place where ......ions. Go to Kids Book Club The 100 Best Children's Books "We’re living in a golden age of ...
Contact
...dmin@daubeney.hackney.sch.uk The person who deals with queries from parents and members of The publ......mms, Chair of Governors'. The School Day Daubeney Primary School is open from 7:45 to 6pm (33 hr......(33 hrs and 45 mins per week) The School Breakfast Club runs from 7:45 - 8:45 The School Day is from...
Online Safety
...ty Links for Parents and Carers These links contain advice about staying safe online, and support with setting parental control on your devices. Online Activity and Mental Health...
Free School Meals
...rt VI of The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 The guaranteed element of Pension Credit Child Tax Credit (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190) Working Tax Credit run-on Universal Credit, provided you have an annual ...
About our Curriculum
... Our Curriculum 2025 - 2026......ulum and The subject leaders. The T&L Leads across The Federation work togeTher to ensure consis......The sharing of ideas. Intent The uniqueness of every child in our school is recognised and valued. ...
Starting Reception in September
...ling in week....... of learning and development. There are three prime areas that are embedded in everything we do: C......al and Emotional Development These life skills are essential to healthy development and future lear...
Governors
...ers from The wider community. They have a mix of skills, experiences and backgrounds to help provide......es The best possible education. The purpose of The Governing Body is to help The school to provide t......sible education for its pupils. They work closely with The Executive Head Teacher and The Senior Lea...
Nursery Open Evenings
Is your child 3-4 years old? Are you looking for a Nursery space? Come and visit us, meet the teachers, play in our wonderful nursery and collect an application form. We have AM, PM and Full Time spaces available. Need to know more? Take a look at what we're learning in Nursery and see some of our...
Home Learning
Home Learning is an activity that should enhance your child’s experience so at Daubeney the activities we give all children are based on skills that will be useful and help them to learn during class time. Lower School Years R, 1 and 2 children should have 1 hour per week of home learning and...
Inclusion
...aliens?...... with The Speech and Language Therapy service. Listening and talking are The key foundation skills f...
Lunch Menu
...n a balanced and varied diet. These are The menus:...
Year 2
... 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 weekly through Autumn 1 half-term. Bluethroat class wil...
Maths
...adaptable understanding of The subject. The phrase ‘teaching for mastery’ describes The elements......ch in turn supports Them in Their arithmetic. They will Then have Their main teacher input for The l......ictures in The beginning stages of each unit. The children work Their way through a series of tasks ...
Ambassadors
...h The dining hall. Highlights......endly, respectful and caring. They are smartly dressed and support The staff in maintaining discipli......ff in maintaining discipline. They are responsible for promoting our school values and expectations ...
Admissions
...m entry sized primary school. There are currently two classes of Reception children and this will co......re if both The following apply: The child is 2 years old or will turn 2 years old before 1 April......They cannot use These hours as well. They are eligible to use The 15 hours of funded childcare at t...
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...
Music
... move freely in an open area. The children get to experience The beauty of music as a social form wh...... musicians and collaborators. The musical journey starts with an introduction to song games and lear......usic journey. Music in The EYFS The development of children’s artistic and cultural awareness supp...
Spanish
...ucation to inform our planning. The units of work in which our curriculum is divided, are The medium......ng The order in which we teach. These units of work set out The learning intentions in knowledge, sk......anguage learning across The school. They promote a love of languages, assist with language-related a...
Safeguarding
...he wellbeing of our children. These policies underpin our practice and values shared by every single member of staff in our school. Copies are available form The school office. Any concerns about children are passed through The members of staff who are trained as Designated Child Protection Officers...
School Uniform
...f clean and tidy dress in school. There is opportunity for you to access second hand uniform and we ......dership Team if you require this. The information below outlines The expectations for uniform. Unifo...
Forest School
...ical and creative skills and tasks. These sessions will be delivered by Miss Clare, who works across......trained Forest School Lead Teacher. The sessions will take place once a week in The forest area in D...
School Council
...p of children from years 3-6. They are The voice of Their peers. They are elected every academic yea......are The voice of Their peers. They are elected every academic year by Their peers in a democratic fa...... campaign, speech and voting. The School Council is made up of three committees. Admin Committee –...
Quick Links
Staff Links IT Support Helpdesk - To log a call, enter your work email address and click ‘Log In’. An email will be sent to you with a link to the Helpdesk. Click this link and you will be taken to an area where you can see your calls. To log a new call, click the button in the top right and fill...
SEND and Our Local Offer
...Teachers, Speech and Language Therapists (SaLTs), Educational Psychologists (EP), art Therapists, yo......of children and young people with SEND. The purpose of our Local Offer is to inform parents and care......eview and refresh our approach accordingly. The next review date for our School’s offer is July 20...
Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development
At Daubeney, the children and their learning are at the very heart of everything we do. Its impact is seen both within and outside of the classroom. We believe strongly in a holistic education for our children, rooted in our conviction that our children will succeed regardless of their background...
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...
Junior Literacy Team 2023/2024
...aubeney Junior Literacy Team! They are very eager to share Their passion for reading and writing wit......ng with everyone at Daubeney. The team will be supporting Ms Lester in promoting Literacy across The......hrough assemblies and events. They will also be in charge of keeping all book corners around The sch...
Parakeet class learn about continents
This week year 2 have been learning about the 7 continents. We love singing the continent song! Ask us about them when you see us!
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 2 - Art and literacy
...e 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....
Year 2 trip to Hackney city farm
Today, we visited Hackney City Farm to explore what animals live nearby in our local area. We had so much fun investigating which animals lived on each part of the farm and had a go at making each of the animal noises. We discussed what each animal liked in their habitat and how they moved around...
Year 2 - Computing week 4
This week in our computing lesson we explored pointillism art. We discussed aspects of this theme and looked at lots of example pieces. We then used 2paint a picture to create our own pointillist art pieces using a body outline as a template
Daubeney Book Corners
...? Which one is your favourite?...
Year 6 - Geography: Debate
...uiz about physical geography. Then, we learnt about what land use meant and what this looked like across The UK. After, we learnt about what HS2 was and what were some reasons why it should and shouldn’t be built. As a whole class activity, we had a debate about HS2 and wheTher it should be built....
Year 3 Geography - Deforestation
...t it has on humans and animals......mans have on The rainforests. They completed an activity to outline The dangers and The impact it ha...
Year 4 Trip to the Natural History Museum
Year 4 had a great time at the Natural History Museum on Tuesday 3rd October. We explored the Earthquakes and Volcanoes exhibit and learned lots of interesting facts using the interactive games and activities. We even got to feel what it would be like to experience an earthquake in Japan in the...
Year 6: Science - Discovering new animals
...we learnt and made last week. Then, we learnt about vertebrates and invertebrates and how They are different. We learnt about specific types of vertebrates and invertebrates and what makes Them unique. After, we recapped vertebrates and invertebrates by sorting different types of animals. As a partn...
Year 2 - Comparing numbers
This week in maths we have been comparing and ordering numbers up to 100. We have been using the less than and greater than symbols and using this vocabulary when discussing numbers
Year 2 - Computing week 5
This week year 2 continued their creating pictures topic and learnt about the artwork of Piet Mondrian. We then explored making our own pieces of art on 2paint a picture, and focused on using solid lines and blocks of colour
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!
The Nest - Painting
This week we are expressing our emotions through painting
Year 3 - Maths September 2023
...ad a peer tutor to guide Them....... exciting Maths lesson today. The children worked in groups and pairs and had a peer tutor to guide ...
Gardening Afterschool Club
...g butterflies and dragonflies.......teams by working togeTher. They noticed different insects in our garden such as snails and lavend......and bugs with lots of smiles. Then children were engaged in washing The vegetables so new words were...
Mapping Day 2023
To start the new geography topic, Year 5 had an entire day learning about maps relating to their local area . It was important that Year 5 understood the key features of a map as well as, acknowledging that reading a map is a great skill to have. To end the day, they had the opportunity to draw a...
Year 2 - Spring 2 Week 2 Computing
This week we started a new topic, learning about effective searching. We explored the difference between the internet and the world wide web, thought about different browsers that you can use and identified search engines to help us find information we need. We used this knowledge to search for...
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 3 Science and ICT
...at They need in order to grow....
Year 5 - World Book Day 2023
Who is your favourite book character? Can you spot them in Year 5? Can you spot any characters you know?
Reception - Ducklings first week!
We have had a superb first week in Duckling class. We have been making new friends, meeting our new teachers, playing different games, getting creative and enjoying the weather outside!
Year 5 - Math - To calculate 10, 100, 1000 , 10000 and 100000 more or less
Year 5's took their learning outdoors today! A great and rich experience for them, to use outdoor resources to support them in solving mathematical problems relating to place value
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 3 - Art and Literacy: September 2023
...ideas to design a front cover.......ted Their own front cover for The Great Kapok Tree. The children used Their creative ideas to design......ver for The Great Kapok Tree. The children used Their creative ideas to design a front cover....
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...
Nursery - World Book Day 2023
...brating world book day today! They came dressed as Their favourite book characters, and The children have been so excited to share who They are. We have some superheroes, princesses and even a big scary Gruffalo!...
The Nest - This week in Nurture - Autumn Week 2 2023
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Year 5 - Levi's passion for reading
Levi loves reading so much that he created his own story to share with the class. A brilliant beginning to a story...Are you excited to see how the story unfolds?
Year 6 - Geography: Physical Geography
...l landmark or human landmark. Then in partners, we created a leaflet about some of UK’s physical landmarks. Afterwards, we completed our next steps where we thought about what it would be like to live near some physical landmarks....
Year 6 - Literacy: Freeze Frames
... feelings were in that scene. Then we hot seated as some of The characters we have come across and answered questions as Them....
Duckling Class - Hello Alan! Welcome to Earth
This week, an Alien named Alan visited us from outer space! We introduced ourselves to Alan and made him feel very welcome! We created space pictures using chalk to make Alan feel at home and showed Alan how to sort items by colour and shape! We're very excited to show Alan the smells and...
The Nest trip to the Adventure Playground
Today we explored and had fun at the Adventure Playground
Year 5: cross curricular - Human geography in Tanzania
... human geography in Tanzania. They used Chromebooks to search for settlement patterns, main trade, economy and tourism. All The information was collated, and in Their groups, They presented Their findings to The class. It was a fun opportunity for kids to work in groups, investigate and get experien...
Year 3 Trip to Horniman Museum
...and The people who live There....... Amazon Rainforest galleries. They also had a lesson in The museum discussing The Amazon Rainforest ...
Year 3 - Science Autumn Term 2023
...t grow over The next few days.......yed planting Their own seeds. They will observe it grow over The next few days....
Year 3 - Road Safety
... to keep us safe on The roads....
Year 5 - Geography: Mapping Skills Day
What are the 8 points of a compass? What are thematic maps? What about a topographical map? On this Mapping Skills Day, we learnt that maps can tell us a lot of information, including how much rainfall a place may get. We ended the day by making our own maps out of salt dough
Year 3 - A Bear Searching for His Hat
Year 3 pupils were mesmerised as they had a special visit from a Bear who is searching for his hat. We know that the hat is red, pointy and shiny and Bear teally misses his hat. Year 3 promised to help Bear search for his hat. Have you seen Bear's hat? He really wants it back!
Year 3 - Dress up day
...ng off Their amazing costumes....
Year 2 - Computing Week 6
This week we made our own race course with a range of characters. We thought about how the options for the turtle were different from other objects and programmed each of them to move. We had fun exploring how we can create and change algorithms of our own!
Year 6 - Literacy: Protests
On Thursday, we took inspiration from Speak UP and created our own protest posters. On Friday, we role played parts of the story and included our protest posters. We also hot seated as some of the main characters
Year 6 Day at the Zoo!
To finish off Autumn 1 and out learning of Living Things and their Habitats, Year 6 spent a day at the zoo observing animals, their habitats, their diets and their Latin names! Later in today I and my colleagues will be sending more pictures along with quotes from the children. Please include these...
Year 2 - 2L Spring 1 WOW Day
We had so much making our own cars, from choosing the wheels and axles to designing the chassis. We measured how far they travelled on a range of surfaces and enjoyed racing against each other!
Year 6 - Literacy: Speeches
This week, we have been working on writing speeches about things that matter to us - the environment and our library. We performed these speeches in front of our peers today!
Year 3 - Art and Literacy
...tistic skills in The activity....
The Nest - Our Trip to Pizza Express
...s The best day" "The pizza tasted delicious and scrumptious " "I am going to save some for my sister"...
Reception - Duckling Class - Week 2
In Week 2, we had a fantastic Road Safety Workshop where a visitor came in to talk to us about how to safely cross the road. We had so much fun and learnt so much! We had a visit from Nova, our federation dog! This is the first time we have met Nova, and look forward to seeing her again next week!...
Year 2 - Zoo Trip 2023
We had so much fun visiting the zoo last week as part of our Science learning! We were able to get up close to lots of animals including lions, tigers, monkeys, gorillas and penguins. Ask us about our favourite animals when you see us!
Safer Internet Day 2023
... Day on Tuesday 7th February. The Theme this year is 'Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online.' We had lots of wonderful activities that enabled children to think about how They use The internet and what The benefits are, whilst also thinking about issues They...
Year 4L Science at Cardinal Pole Secondary School
...ndary School today 9-02-2023. The children used Bunsen burners to test The different effects of different solutions and made Their own sparkles....
Year 4 - Wow Day: Building Board Games
...s with electronic components. The children used various electrical components and played The game to ensure it works. After evaluating Their game The children pitched Their game to The CEO (Their teacher) to make and produce The game....
Year 2 Computing A2W2
This week we started our new topic of online safety. We explored the search bar on Purple Mash and discussed why it's a safe search compared to search engines such as google. We also used the filter option to narrow down our results and found our activity for the day. Once we completed our work...
Year 5 - Literacy: Curiosity Collage
This week, we have started reading a new book called Quest. We made predictions about the book yesterday and today we created a curiosity collage, which had all our brilliant ideas that we want to include in our writing next week
Year 5 - Science: Planets
...ow what spherical bodies are? These are things we learnt about today in Science!...
Year 3 - ICT
... ICT lesson using Purplemash. They practiced Their typing skills and identifying different keys....
Year 3 Wow Day
...art of our Wow Day activities....
The Nest - This week in Nurture - Autumn Week 6 2023
This week we have been using our fine motor skills,learning number bond, plants,hot seating Rapunzel and the witch, art and much more
Year 3 Religious Education Day
...ning all about The Sikh Faith....
Year 5 - Science: Geocentric vs. Heliocentric
Do you know what geocentric or heliocentric means? Today, we investigated the different theories of our solar system and we learnt that different people in the past had different opinions on what space looked like! Have a listen to some of our questions to different significant people in history
Year 5 - Sea Life Trip
...They are learning in science. They observed a variety of sea creatures, living things and The habitats; a great opportunity for Them to use Their inner curiosity, to explore about The wonders of marine life....
Reception - Duckling Class - Smell and Taste
Last week, we enjoyed exploring our senses. We talked about different smells and we had a discussion on good smells and bad smells. We made our very own big smelly bear! We tasted different food including sugar, salt and lemon. Some of us enjoyed the sourness of the lemon...some did not. We also...
Year 2 - Food Chains
This week we have been learning about food chains and how animals depend on each other in their habitats. We identified predators, prey and producers. We also identified animals that were herbivores, carnivores and omnivores
Year 3 Science Experiment
...els up The stem to The leaves....
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...
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 2 - Add by making 10
This week we practised adding two single digits together. We made each number on a tens frame and then moved some counters to make a ten frame full. We thought about the new number sentences we could write and how this could help us add numbers easily
Year 4 - Cross Curricular: Rivers
... our cross curricular lesson. The children applied Their reading skills to locate and record facts about rivers....
Year 2 - Computing Week 2023 - Week 7
This week was our final lesson on creating art. We looked at some of the work by William Morris and thought about the patterns he made, how he used symmetry and rotation, and how he repeated patterns. We made our own repeated patterns in two different ways, they look amazing!
Year 2 - Geography and Computing
We learnt about the equator and the north and south poles this week. We explored why these places are either really hot or really cold, and compared their distance to the sun. We used atlases and Google Earth on chromebooks to identify countries that are close to the equator and polar regions and...
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 4 - Maths Club
...ear 4 Maths had a full house. The children enjoyed playing Times Tables Rock Stars, Hit The button, MTC games, Maths on Purple Mash and many more maths games. Every Wednesday The children in Year 4 have The opportunity to develop Their fluency in Their TimeTables....
Year 5 - WOW day Autumn 1 2023
...ear 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 phy...
Year 4 - Mapping Skills Day
...kills Day today (12-09-2023). The children started Their learning by learning about ordnance survey ......ifying co-ordinates on a map. Then we recapped The 8 compass points and practiced using Them to give...
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...
Spanish Champions Help at Parents' Evening
Spanish Champions working! Earlier on this week, at parents' evening, some members of the team helped parents with their Spanish language, as well as informed them about how we learn at Daubeney. HUGE gracias!
5S: sharing assembly - Windrush
...ring assembly to Their peers. They produced, acted and directed a play based on Floella Benjamin and her experiences during Windrush (history topic). It was absolutely amazing!...
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...
Year 5 – Spanish: Eurovision
...m using a range of adjectives....
Year 5 - History: Windrush and Hackney
What is the link between Hackney and the Windrush generation? Today, we investigated this by looking at images and maps of bombs sites in Hackney. We also reminded ourselves of the experiences of Windrush generation after they arrived in the UK by watching some videos. Finally, we learnt about the...
Year 5 - Literacy: Instructional text
For their short burst genre, Year 5 were introduced to instructional texts. First, they learnt about different features which was then followed up by a practical task (Origami-style ships)
Wow Day Year 4
...with Their own creative style....... as Anglo Saxons and Vikings. They made Their own swords and shields and designed it with Their own ...
Year 2 WOW Day
For our Summer 1 WOW Day, Year 2 made Tudor houses as we have been learning about the Great Fire of London. We then explored how the fire would have taken hold very quickly and we watched as it burned from house to house!
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...
Spanish Music Project
...e. We hope you like our video....
Year 5 Sky colour role play
...sed in The book 'Sky colour'. They have made predictions, created a blurb and today They acted out scenes from The story. Have a look at The fantastic acting....
Year 5 - Art: Evaluation (Outdoor Lesson)
...ghtness and style of The art. Then, we moved our lesson outdoors where we walked around and discussed 1960s art like we were in an outside art gallery....
Year 5 - Chicks
...out for a wonder and a cuddle!...
Year 6 - Outdoor Descriptive Writing
Today Year 6 enjoyed using the outdoor setting of Daubeney Fields as their inspiration for descriptive writing! We used all 5 senses and figurative language to create descriptive sentences and paragraphs!
Ducklings in Reception
This week, we have been so lucky to play host to 10 ducklings. We have watched them hatch from their eggs in their incubator, to scurrying for food as a duckling. We have enjoyed watching these ducklings and have very much loved having a cuddle!
Family Phonics Workshop
Today we went through all of phase 5. We looked at split digraphs and created a 'spelling snake'. We made our snakes really long by reading the words and matching it with the correct snake. Do you recognise these split digraphs? a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e. Take a look at what we had
Year 4M - Can you SEE sound?
...und?' It was a fun lesson.......ing sound today (27-03-2023). They carried out an experiment to answer The question, 'Can you se...
Science and JIGSAW
In Science we have been learning about taking care of the environment and trying to recycle items that we already have at home. We brought in empty jars to recycle them into dream jars! We had lots of fun adding the coloured paints and glitter, and watching the magic happen!
The Secret Life of Reception - Spring
Have a look at Reception through the eyes of Reception! Reception 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 5 - Literacy: Art
To help us really understand the experiences of the main character Marisol, in the book Sky Color by Peter H Reynolds, we created our own art inspired by pictures from the book!
1A's RE trip to the church
...at a wonderful time we had at The Immaculate Heart of Marys and St Dominics church last week!...
Year 2 – Spanish: Story telling and learning a second language
Language learning begins with listening and speaking, so storytelling is a fabulous tool for teaching any language, whether that is a first or a second language . At Daubeney we learn new Spanish words and phrases in KS1 from stories. Stories teach us grammar and syntax in the most natural way....
Year 5 - Geography WOW Day: Turkey
To end our topic of learning about Turkey, we created some art inspired by Turkish ceramics and appreciated Turkish food with a celebration at the end of the day. We learnt that blue is a prominent colour in Turkish culture and we evaluated the food that we ate and thought about what we liked about...
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 4 - Wow Day
...e from our learning this term.......r 4 had a fun filled Wow Day. They designed and built settlements along a river They created, using ...
Year 5 - Literacy: Biography research (Computing)
For our literacy topic, we are learning to write biographies. As we are reading Floella Benjamin's Coming to England, we decided to write about her. We did research using a range of sources, such as fact files and the internet
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 5 - Science - Life Cycle Wheels
...e thought about this statement: The older you get The more independent you are....
Year 5 - Maths: Angles in real life
aving focused on angles for the last few weeks, we thought it was time to take our learning into the outside! We took our protractors with us to investigate different types of angles that we could see in the playground
History and Computing
As part of our Great Fire of London topic, we used 2Create on Purple Mash to design our own tudor houses. We thought carefully about the features of the houses such as wooden beams, thatched or tiled roofs and white exterior
Year 5 - Spanish - Spring Term 2
...pinion phrases and justifications. The focus of this half term has been reading for learning, and They have proved They can apply Their phonic knowledge to support Their reading....
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 2 - Spanish - Spring Term 2
Another successful half term for Year 2 students who love learning vocabulary from familiar stories
Year 1 A - Story Seekers Project
We had a brilliant telling session from Miss Gustave a few weeks ago. We were inspired by Miss Gustave's story and then came up with our own Anansi stories. Have fun listening to our stories!
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
Computing Week 3
This week we explored binary trees and worked collaboratively to think of questions that could be used to classify a range of avatars. We then tested our binary tree to make sure each question worked well and we could identify each avatar by asking yes/no questions
Computing Week 4
This week we used 2Question to follow a binary code in order to find out the names of each avatar. We carefully answered yes or no to each question to find the correct names. We then used our debugging skills to find the errors in a binary tree and fix them so that each step worked correctly
History and Art
We painted a scene from the Great Fire of London last week. We thought about the colours you would use for the fire and how to create the silhouettes of the buildings in front
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,
Student Council go to London Buddhist Centre
... morning of calm and serenity.......hist Centre with The Year 6s. They learnt about The Buddhist way of life and enjoyed a fantastic mor...
School Council - Junior Road Safety Officers
...mily stay safe on The streets.......London Borough of Hackney. The JRSOs updated Max on Their plans and were happy to take tips from ...
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 2 Art - Collaging
Last week year 2 had fun collaging a piece of work in Art. We thought about what image we wanted to make, colours we would need, and where we would be placing the pieces
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 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
Daubeney Primary School, Nurture - Picnic
Enjoying the Whole School Family Picnic Day with friends and family
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...
Year 4 - Telephone Science
...- what makes The sound travel?...
The Nest - Putting Sand in the Reception Playground
Team work. Working together to help put sand in the Reception Playground
Year 5 - Maths: Perimeter
... with a variety of 2D shapes. The aim of this lesson was to understand what perimeter means, measure accurately using rulers and calculate The total length of The chosen 2D shape....
Mr Logan’s Weekly Update Video - 21st July 2023
Please watch my final video of the year. Wishing everyone a great summer holiday. We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 6th September
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 3 Maths
...o 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 Place Value game and we look forward to our great learning ahead....
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!
Year 4 - ICT and Literacy
Today, 9-03-2023, the children in Year 4 used their Chromebooks to research facts about river pollution. In Literacy, they will be writing a letter to our Council representative about this issue
Year 3 - Mapping Day
...al area and drew our own maps.......kills Day today (11-09-2023). The children started Their learning by looking at grid references and ......ifying co-ordinates on a map. Then we discussed how to use a compass and how The compass points can ...
Daubeney Ambassadors 2023-24
...heir first meeting on Friday. They were very excited, passionate about Their new role and responsibilities and had so many great ideas....
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...
The Nest - 70's Art Inspired Disco
Enjoying the 70's art inspired disco
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
Year 1 - Anasi stories!
Year 1 have been looking for Anasi stories! We've heard and read lots of tales of Anansi and were inspired to write our very own! We had a go at writing them and then we did some story telling, sharing our wonderful stories to the rest of the class. Have a listen!
Math - Adding decimals with different decimal places
...ray of maThematical problems. They completed Their tasks outside whilst enjoying The lovely weaTher....
Reception - Hackney School of Food
...umber salad. It was so yummy! The pizzas came out delicious!...
Reception - Old MacDonalds Farm
On Thursday, we visited Old MacDonalds Farm for our end of year trip. We had so much fun! We started off by looking at the animals where we saw pigs, goats, cows, meerkats, alpacas, tortoise, donkeys and rabbits! After lunch, we went on lots of different rides and played in the outdoor and indoor...
Year 5 - Computing Week 2
We've spent another week familiarising ourselves with the 2Design and Make program. This lesson focused on changing the shapes of our vehicles. We did a few challenges as a class
Year 4 - Outdoor learning
Spending time outside is proven to have a positive effect on children’s physical and mental health. At Daubeney we are making the most of this sunny day and have taken our Spanish lesson outside. Great opportunity for them to take ownership of their learning and enhance teamwork skills
Year 5 - Art: 1960's Inspired Collages
...#39;s fashion, music and art. They were given an array of different pictures resembling The 1960's; Year 5 had to select images, cut and Then piece togeTher Their very own collages which turned out brilliant....
Year 5: Maths - Decimal sequence
...ruly love learning outdoors ! The learning outcome for maths: was to understand decimal sequences. This was achieved through fun and exciting ways; some children jumped to identify patterns and oThers played Hopscotch. Overall, The cohort had an amazing time at Daubeney Fields....
Year 2 – Art lesson - Pablo Picasso
Something different this week for Year 2 students who have had the opportunity to learn about Pablo Picasso’s life and art style. Students have designed their own abstract portraits inspired by the work of the Spanish artist. Very creative and interesting pieces of work!
Year 4 Outdoor Art
...rward to more outdoor lessons.......ful art lesson outside today. They used our outdoor area to inspire Them to use black and white tone......to use black and white tones. The children enjoyed learning outdoors and are looking forward to more...
2L RE day trip
Last week 2L went on a trip to East London Mosque to learn more about the religion of Islam. We visited various parts of the mosque, learning about the environment and layout, and we also learnt about some actions that would be seen when Muslims are praying. We discussed why there are separate...
Digital Leader Trip
...pple store in Stratford City. There They had The opportunity to code and create with Swift Playgroun......ft Playgrounds using an iPad. The children experimented with code and designed an app using The Abou......sing The About Me playground. They had a great time presenting Their app to each oTher as well!...
Hispanic Week
We have thoroughly enjoyed learning about different Hispanic cultures and traditions this week. Students in Yr2 designed their own Mexican sombrero , listened and danced to some Mexican folk music; and students in Year3 had the opportunity to learn about Peru’s history. Maybe one day we can all...
Year 4M IntoUniversity
...completed some fun activities....... all about different careers. They explored careers like product designing, engineering and palaeont......ngineering and palaeontology. The children identified The skills They were using in different career...
Year 5 - Art: Final Pieces
...use Them on our own sketches. Then, we coloured in our sketches using those colours and cut and organised Them on our coloured card. After sticking Them down, we labelled Them with our names and handed Them in so that They can be shown in The exhibition next week!...
Year 5 - Computing: Blog Publishing
In computing last week, we spent time publishing our writing. But because we wrote a few blog posts, we decided to type them up as if they were on a blog. We learnt about how to include photos by copy and pasting, change the colour and font of the text as well as what layout would look best for a...
Year 5 - RE Day: What can we learn from the past?
Do you know about the difficult past for Jewish people? We learnt about the struggles, prejudice and tragedies they have experienced throughout history and discussed why it is important to learn about the past
Eco Team Trip
...d we got to meet The runners! The Running Out of Time campaign aims to raise awareness about Climate......areness about Climate Change. The runners have been taking part in a relay from Ben Nevis in Scotlan...... to The Big Ben in London! They completed The run this afternoon, while They had a pit stop at th...
Year 5 - RE Day: Women in Religion
For our last RE Day of the year, we thought about how women are valued and treated in different religions. Although history has shown us that women weren't treated equally, religions usually teach to treat everyone equally
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...
Reception - Duckling Class: Anti-bullying Week - celebrating Kindness Day!
This week, it is Anti-Bullying Week! We started this week off by celebrating ‘Kindness Day’. We talked about what it means to be kind, how we can show kindness and why we should show kindness. After our circle time, we drew pictures of ourselves and our friends being kind to each other!
Year 3 Non-Chronological Reports
...The language used I. A report.......l reports today - 13-11-2023. They identified different features and The language used I. A report....
Science - Weather Reporters!
In parrot class we have been busy reporting the weather. We pretended to be weather reporters and used weather symbols to demonstrate the weather conditions in each of the 4 countries in the UK. Take a look to se what fun we had!
Year 3 - Scientific Investigation
... distance Their car travelled.......test in Their Science lesson. They tested different surfaces to identify The one with The most and l...
Year 2 Maths Partition with Bar Models
This week Year 2 have been focusing on partitioning numbers into parts. We split the numbers into either 2, 3 or 4 parts and discussed if we had made equal groups. We identified that two equal groups would show half and that four equal groups would give us quarters
Year 3 Kingfisher Class - Art and Literacy
...The children drew what he saw.......story They have been reading. Their character Marcus is amazed at The African sunset and The childre...
Digital Leaders trip to Apple
Our Digital Leaders team had lots of fun at the Apple store in Stratford. We had an interactive session all about using GarageBand to make our own theme tune. We thought about the beat we could create, the tempo of the track, the additional instruments we could use and even included special...
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 - Jigsaw Summer 1 Week 2
This week we focused on physical contact, including touches that we like such as high fives, hugs, and holding hands, compared to touches that we don't like such as pushing, hitting, and fighting. We also discussed how it is ok to not like physical contact even if it is kind, and talked about...
Year 2 - Literacy: Exploring the narrative of Vlad and The Great Fire of London
This week we have been taking part in immersive Literacy lessons to really imagine what it would have been like during the Great Fire of London, for Vlad the flea and Boxton the rat. We used lots of fun techniques to help us remember all of the details of the important points in the story
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 5 - Windrush: Understanding Windrush Generation Experiences
Year 5 got involved with some exciting role play; it exhibited what the Windrush generation experienced during the departure, journey and arrival stages of their migration to the United Kingdom
Year 3 - Magnetic Hunt
...re magnetic and which are not....
Year 4 – Spanish: Forming Questions and Answers Independently
...stions/answers independently. They can produce short pre-prepared phrases on familiar topics, with secure pronunciation....
Science Exposé
During our science exposé workshop, Daubeney parents came in to share with us their fascinating careers, working in a science related (STEAM) sector. Children from different year groups enjoyed learning about and exploring careers from different fields. In the end, we all learnt that Science is in...
Year 4 – Spanish: Costa Rica
...tand a story based in Costa Rica. They have recently explored a range of sources – including atlas, fact files, and videos, to find out about Costa Rica’s culture, fauna and flora....
Year 5 - Robin: Sharing Assembly
This was the amazing sharing assembly of Robin class. Please watch and enjoy!
Year 2 - Computing: Week 3
This week we used the same avatars and began to use our binary questions to identify characters. We thought about questions we could ask that would have a yes or no answer, that would split our options into two equal groups. When they were all complete we had made our own binary tree!
Year 2 - History: Tudor Houses
...ed with sticks called wattle. They were Then covered in daub, which is a mixture of clay, sand and dung! We designed our own Tudor houses both on paper and online using Purple Mash....
Year 2 - Literacy: Explore the characters
We have done lots of fun work recently exploring the characters in our story. We made posters for role on the wall, allowing us to think of adjectives to describe the characters inner and outer personality, as well as making our own character puppets
Year 2 - Literacy: Explore the World
This week we have focused on exploring the world of the story. We began by making collages to explore scenes of London in the past and during the fire. We thought about what London would have been like in 1666, discussing the locations in the story. We used masking tape to map out the setting,...
Year 2 - 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...
Year 3 - Outdoor Learning
Today the children had their comprehension session outdoors in Daubeney fields and enjoyed learning in a different space
Year 3 - Outdoor Maths
Today the children in Year 3 enjoyed their outdoor learning in the Adventure playground where they looked at time
Year 5 – Spanish: Confidence and Fluency Speaking
Year 5 students completing an exercise to reinforce the pronunciation of key sounds in Spanish. Students confidence and fluency develop as they feel more comfortable pronouncing words in Spanish
Year 3 - Kingfisher Roman Dig
...rpose The artefacts may serve....... up different Roman artefact. The children had to identify The objects and say who might used Them, ...
Year 3 - Comprehension
...tions and discussed The story.......cular topic about The Romans. They used The text to answer questions and discussed The story....
Year 2 - plant careers
Last week we explored a range of jobs that involved plants. We discussed farmers, florists, gardeners and botanists. We then had a turn being a botanist by using a microscope to look at our bean plants that have been growing in the classroom!
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 5: Science - Geocentric and Heliocentric theory
...resented this to Their peers. They researched about two different Theories; it conveyed which planet or sun is The focal point, and how oTher planets revolve around it....
Spanish - Dia del libro – World Book Day
World Book Day was first created in 1995 by UNESCO and originally aimed at promoting reading, publishing and copyright. Since then however, it has grown bigger than anyone could ever have hoped for, with over 100 countries now taking part in World Book Day Celebrations that encompass everything...
Venessa Taylor Author Visit
KS2 had the amazing opportunity to meet 'Baller Boys' author Venessa Taylor. She ran an exciting workshop with each year group which involved fun activities, hearing her read a chapter of the book and answer the children's questions. Some lucky children even got signed copies of the...
Year 3 Meets a special Author
... The author of Baller Boys vs The Bulldozers, Vanessa Taylor. They had a session with The author and......e Bulldozers, Vanessa Taylor. They had a session with The author and discussed her latest book....
Sav Akyuz Author Visit
KS1 had the amazing opportunity to meet 'Bear Moves' author Sav Akyuz. He ran a fun, interactive workshop with Year 1 and 2 children full of energy and laughs. After giving a brief introduction to his work as a writer, and illustrator, he created an imaginary character with the help of the...
Year 4 sound investigation - March 2024
Year 4 had fun making string telephones to investigate how sound travels to our ears. Watch the videos to hear use explain how it works
Year 2 - Computing Week 6
This week we used 2Beat on Purple Mash to create our own beats for our music. We were then able to upload this into 2Sequence to finish making our tunes with our own melodies on top
Year 2 - Jigsaw Week 4
In week 4, we thought again about food groups and how we need a balanced diet with items from each group to keep our bodies healthy. We worked together to group food items and discussed our favourite healthy meals
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
Junior Art Team Trip
On Tuesday 23 rd April our Junior Art Team enjoyed a trip to the Young V&A in Bethnal Green. Not only did they have a nice time on their trip, but they had the opportunity to look at art and design in toys and ‘everyday’ objects. Thank you to Ms Smith for leading, and thank you to...
Year 2 - Australia Wow Day
This week we've had lots of fun for our Spring 2 WOW Day. We took a virtual trip to Australia, making sure we had our passports and boarding passes ready! Once on the plane we were ready for take off! In the afternoon we made some delicious fairy bread using colourful sprinkles
Year 4 Spring 2 Wow Day
...e from our learning this term.......r 4 had a fun filled Wow Day. They designed and built settlements along a river They created, using ...
Year 2 science Trip - March 2024
This week Year 2 visited Hackney Marshes to finish our Plants topic. We went on a plant hunt to see what is growing in our local environment and spent some time sketching the plants we could see
Year 5: Wow Day - Turkey (Spring 2)
...previous learning experiences.......r 5 had a fun filled Wow Day. They designed and sketched Turkish ceramics. Using what They learnt, Y...
Duckling Class - Easter Egg Hunt
On the last day of Spring 2, we went on an exciting Easter Egg hunt. All week, we have been designing our own Easter eggs and making cornflake cakes so what better way is there to finish the week off than an Easter egg hunt. We had so much fun!
Duckling Class - Easter Trip
Leading up to the Easter holidays, Duckling Class visited St Barnabas Church where we told the story about where and when Easter started. We had fun dressing up for different parts of the story!
Year 3 - Volcano Wow Day
Year 3 had an amazing fun packed WOW day all about volcanoes. We started with a quiz before we designed and made our own volcanoes. We ended the day by answering the big question and creating our own volcanic ERUPTIONS!!
Duckling Class - Planting sunflower seeds
This week in Duckling Class, we have been learning about how plants grow. We have been talking about what plants need to grow and the life cycle of a plant. We used this knowledge to plant our own sunflower seeds. We are hoping with the right amount of water, sunlight, food and space they will grow...
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 - Math: To plot data on a graph
...ience for students in Year 5. Their smiles truly convey how much They were enjoying Themselves throughout activity time, as you can see....
Year 3 - Maths: Time
...t of class in our Music room. The children looked at telling time and finding time difference....
Year 3 - Maths in Adventure Park
...lesson in The Adventure Park. They matched analogue and digital times....
Year 2 Cross Curricular - Australia week 2
For this weeks lesson we focused on learning about ways in which Australia and Great Britain are similar and ways in which they are different. We explored how both countries are islands, the main language is English and that they have the same head of state. We also identified that they are in...
Year 3 Kingfisher - Aboriginal Art Symbols
...n art piece using The symbols.......at symbols in Aboriginal art. They created Their own art piece using The symbols....
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...
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...
Year 2 - Beach Trip 2024
This week year 2 had the best time at the beach! We travelled by coach to Margate and spent the day in the sun! We went into the sea, played football on the beach, painted pictures, buried our legs in the sand, there was so much to do!
Year 2 visit the ducklings
...Them and stroked Them gently. They were very cute and fluffy!...
Daubs on tour ‘24 - Day 1
After a delayed start (excuse you coach company) we arrived to blue skies and sunshine. After a quick lunch we went straight into activities. Everyone had a go, got stuck and enjoyed themselves. We are looking forward to festival night later and please leave comments!
Hispanic Week – Afternoon film screening
...;s 1936 children’s book The Story of Ferdinand, this animation film follows an adorable flower-sniffing bull named Ferdinand. Ferdinand is a beautiful film when it comes to sharing an important part of Spanish culture, bullfighting, while confronting animal abuse....
Daubs on tour ‘24 - Day 2
...elped us out a little though. The children awoke at sunrise after a pretty late night but were surpr......nd The children were amazing. They tried things They'd never done before and really had a go at ever...
Daubs on tour '24 - Day 3
Yet more reasons to be proud of our Daubeney children today as they take on challenges and show resilience with tasks that are not easy and in 25 degree weather to boot! After very little sleep Monday night (they must have been excited or something 🤦🏻♀️) Tuesday evening was much more settled in...
Kingfisher: Science
... in our school and playground....
Daub's on Tour '24- Day 4
It’s been a much nicer day today weather wise, 24 and cloudy! Children are excited for their activities and campfire tonight. See you tomorrow!
Daubs on tour '24 - Day 5
...wouldn’t have been possible.......o enjoy our final activities. The children got stuck in, despite showing signs of tiredness and I th......g us all back safe and sound! The children had a great time on residential and we were so proud of t...
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 2 - Now Press Play in Science
Year 2 had lots of fun using the Now>Press>Play headsets last week to learn more about Mary Seacole. We were immersed into life in Jamaica, learning about healing soldiers using herbal remedies. We were taken through the journey of travelling to London to try and support with the help efforts...
Year 3 - 3D SHAPES
...2024 in math making 3D shapes....
Year 3 - Spanish: Los volcanes y las Islas Canarias
A few months ago, alongside CC lessons, we learnt about volcanoes - how they are formed, the different parts of a volcano and its different states. We investigated the beautiful landscape of the Canary Islands and pupils had the opportunity to consider the impact of living in La Palma following the...
Year 6 - Literacy: Performing Poetry
In today’s reading lesson, we learnt a bit about how poetry can be performed. Joseph Coelho explains that our voice, emotions and body language is important to help the audience understand the point of our poems. We picked some poems from his book “Overheard in the Tower Block” to perform
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...
Year 4: Transition day to Year 5!
Today, we spent a day with our new Year 5 teachers! We learnt a bit about them, told them about us and created our class charter! After that, we went to King’s Hall for our swimming lesson
Reception End of Year Trip 2024
...ture 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 skippers, bees and butterflies. We Then...
Kingfisher at Hackney Personal Best
On Wednesday the 3 July 2024 the children in Kingfisher class had an amazing opportunity to take part in the Hackney Personal Best sports activity day
Year 5 and 6: End of Year Seaside Trip 2024
Today was brilliant! To celebrate the end of the year, we took a coach to Southend and had fun on the beach. After that, we dove into Adventure Island where we spent the rest of the afternoon screaming and laughing on all the rides!
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Bar Charts
...d presented it on a bar graph....
Year 5 and Year 6 - Spanish: Eurocopa 2024
EURO 2024 takes place in Germany between 14th June and 14th July. In our lessons this week, children in Year 5 and Year 6 have revisited topics such as numbers, colours, days of the week and European countries, as well as simple verb forms using EUROS as a stimulus
Year 2 - RE: trip to Aziziye Mosque
This week we took part in our final RE day of the year. We went to visit Aziziye Mosque in Stoke Newington. We met the imam and he taught us all about the features of a mosque. He explained why there are lines on the carpet, why there is a dome in the middle of the mosque, how the prayer times are...
Duckling Class - Forest School
Earlier this week, 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
Year 3 - Kingfisher Literacy
...he characters might be saying.......en had a fun literacy lesson. They read a story and used The story to create Their own speech bubble......ate Their own speech bubbles. They discussed in Their groups what They thought The characters might ...
Duckling Class - Tangrams and 2D shapes
We have enjoyed learning about Tangrams, 2D shapes and using 2D shapes to create pictures. We looked at the properties of 2D shapes and looked at different ways we could use them to create different pictures
Year 2 - Computing: Week 4
In week 4, we used all of our knowledge about binary questions to use a program to find out the names of our avatars. We had to answer questions carefully to get the right name! We also debugged a binary tree that had some errors!
Year 2 - Jigsaw: Week 5
This week in Jigsaw we thought about the people that we trust and why. We discussed what can help to build trust and what may also break trust. We then worked in groups to create a circle of trust, thinking about who we trust the most and why
Year 2 - Literacy: Week 5
To end our story of Vlad and the Great Fire of London we worked in groups to create a scene from 1666. We used all of our learning and knowledge from previous weeks to make a diorama depicting a location in London. Take a look at London Bridge over the River Thames, or the bakery on Pudding Lane....
Year 2 - Maths: Time
This week we have been focusing on time in our maths lessons. We started by making our own clocks, thinking carefully about where the numbers go and what each hand measures. We then used them to show a range of times including o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to
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 2 - Science: Week 5
This week we finished off our topic of 'environment' by recycling household items that we had brought in. We made a whole range of new items out of something old that would have gone in the bin! Lava lamps, jewellery boxes, jet packs....the ideas were endless!
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 3 - Kingfisher Wow Day: Roman Shields
...t of Their Wow Day activities....
Year 2 trip to Temple Bar
Year 2 visited lots of places near Temple Bar to learn more about Sir Christopher Wren and how he helped to rebuild London after the Great Fire. We had lots of fun dressing up, visiting the Millenium Bridge, building towers, writing with feather quills and so much more!
Junior Literacy Team Trip to the Roald Dahl Museum
... inspired some of his stories....
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...
Kingfisher - Shapes and Angles
...ted in The patterns They made.......fferent patterns with shapes. They identified The different shapes and identified The angles created...
Reception Duckling Class - Sharing
This week in maths, we have been learning about sharing! We have been talking about what equal means and how we can make sure things are 'fair' and the 'same'. We used gingerbread men to help us practice our sharing and we shared out counters
Year 3 Kingfisher - Cross Curricular
...and pictures from The stories.......re and Their textile designs. They read and listened to Dreamtime stories and drew various scenes an...
Year 5: Art - Textiles
...inspired mood-boards for art. They sketched Their ideas into Their sketchbooks and it turned out amazing ....
Year 5 – Mexican textiles
As we start a new Content and Language Integrated project at Daubeney, children today had the opportunity to revisit their historical, geographical and cultural knowledge of Mexico through a range of different sources. Students were introduced to los rebozos, and a range of different textiles –...
Year 6 - Trip to V&A Museum
To begin our Japanese textiles topic, we spent the day at the V&A Museum where we learnt about different artefacts that relate to Japanese textiles. We learnt about some heel-less shoes, dyes that are used and materials used for different items of clothing in Japan. Finally, we walked around...
Year 3 - Outdoor Maths
...es, right angles and polygons....
Spanish Champions at Tate Modern
... crack in The Turbine Hall. The children also attended an informative talk about The artist Joan Mitchell, learning about her influence and style and using her work to discuss colours in Spanish. This experience enriched Their understanding of Hispanic culture and art....
Duckling Class - Our Ducklings
...looking after 5 ducklings! The chosen names are Angel, DJ, Lucy, Super Duckling and Dumpling. We will be looking after Them until The end of next week and we are so excited to see Them grow!...
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 JIGSAW Spring 2 week 2
Computing This week year 2 were using a search engine to find answers to a range of questions relating to dinosaurs. We discussed our online safety agreement before using Google Chrome to search for our answers. We explored the images tab and also discussed how search engines work by giving us the...
Year 2 Computing Week 3
This week we began our topic of Music. We used 2sequence on Purple Mash to create our own digital music, thinking about the tempo, volume and range of instruments we could choose from
Nursery - Doctors surgery role-play
Nursery have been role playing in the doctors surgery
Duckling Class - Its beginning to look like Christmas
This week, we started our Christmas and seasonal holiday prep. We have been talking about Christmas and Hanukkah - making decorations, writing lists, playing games. We enjoyed playing in the Antarctic small world with the snow and beginning to practice our Nativity
Year 2 Science - Exercise
This week for our Science lesson, year 2 have been learning about exercise and the effect it has on our bodies. We took turns showing an exercise and thought about how our lungs and heart had to work harder to pump blood with oxygen around our bodies. We also explored how exercise is good for our...
Year 3 Non chronological Reports
...cal reports in literacy about The Stone Age. The children extended Their learning by researching fac......literacy about The Stone Age. The children extended Their learning by researching facts about The St......ng by researching facts about The Stone Age to add to Their Did You Know section....
Year 3 Stone Age Tools
...ade Their own Stone Age tools....
Year 4 Trip to the British Museum
Year 4 had a fantastic time at the British Museum on Wednesday 29th November. We explored the Ancient Egyptian exhibits and learned lots of interesting facts about pharaohs, pyramids and hieroglyphics. We even got to see real life mummies!
Reception Duckling Class - Maps
This week we have been learning all about maps. We have been discovering what a map is, why we use a map and looking at different types of maps including zoo maps, tube maps, street maps and treasure maps! We have been creating our own maps, following the routes and finding the treasure. We had so...
Year3 School Of Food Trip
...heir own soup today 4-12-2023....
Year 1 - Parrot Class visited the Hackney School of Food.
Parrot 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...
Year 3 Science - Fossils
...ifferent species from fossils....
Year 6 - Trip to Museum of London Docklands
Last week, we spent the day at the Museum of London Docklands. Here, we learnt more about how the East End was affected by World War II. We also spent time exploring the rest of the museum, which was about the Docklands
Year 4 - Science Experiment
Today Year 4 did an experiment to help us understand how the digestive system works. We were able to identify the parts and the functions of the digestive system and had lots of fun learning all about how our food becomes waste
Duckling Class - Library
We enjoyed our last weekly visit until after Christmas to the library. We loved looking at the different books and enjoyed listening to a story
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 3 Literacy in the Stone Age
...ed on The book we are reading.......teach The people how to make. They will use Their papers to create a diary entry all about Their exp...
Year 3 - Diary Entry
...y all about Their experiences.......y on special paper They made. The children imagined They were in The Stone Age and wrote a diary ent...
Year 3 – Spanish: Autumn Term Singing
...s between letters and sounds. There is a strong link between language development and music and at Daubeney we love singing songs in Spanish!...
Jackie and the Beanstalk - Teacher Panto
...isn’t! Oh yes it is! The children enjoyed our annual staff panto ‘Jackie and The Bean......kie and The Beanstalk’. They all had a wonderful time watching Their teachers take part in The...
Year 4 Autumn 2 Wow Day
Year 4 had lots of fun for our History Wow Day. We went back 5000 years to the Ancient Egyptian times and learnt how to write in hieroglyphics. We wrote messages to our friends and designed our own cartouches. After that, we made our own 3D mummies and sarcophaguses! Watch the videos to learn more...
Duckling Class - St Barnabas Church Trip
... and listened to The story of The Nativity. Some of us were able to dress up as people from The story and act it out. We had so much fun!...
Year 5 - Ancient Greeks Wow Day - Autumn 2 2023
...ear 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 implementi...
Year 3 - ICT and Science
... Science topic Rocks and Soil....
Year 3 - Stone Age
...ting Stone Age hand paintings....
Year 1 - Shine star Shine!
...iantly for our nativity show. They have been working hard to remember Their lines, made wonderful costumes and hats and sang beautifully!...
Duckling Class - Daubeney Fields Trip
On Wednesday, we visited our local park. We visited the park because we have been learning about maps. We have been finding out what a map is and what is is used for. We have looked at road maps, zoo maps, tube maps and many other maps. We created a a walking route that was safe to walk to Daubeney...
Year 5 History – Gods and Goddess Fact Cards
... God and Goddess Fact Cards ! They used Their historical knowledge along with Their creative skills ......ce some wonderful fact cards. These will be used in lesson to help us learn more about Ancient Greek...
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...
Nursery visit Daubeney Bus
...wry visited The Daubeney Bus. They all explored The driving seat and The wonderful space upstairs and downstairs....
Nursery - Face Shape
Nursery have been using shapes to make their face
Nursery - My body is amazing
Nursery have been learning about the human body
Nursery - Sense of hearing
Nursery have been learning about their ears and what they do. Nursery made their very own listening ears
Nursery - Sight
...ing about The sense of sight. They made Their own binoculars and play guess The item in a interactive zoom out game....
Year 5 - WOW Day: Pulleys, Levers and Gears
...a real life example of gears? These are all questions we considered today when ending our DT topic with our fantastic WOW Day! After writing our reflections on what we learnt. we worked in small groups to make wells that included a pulley mechanism....
Year 2 - Spanish - La oruga glotona
...anish. Excellent lesson today!...
Year 3 - Spanish: Age
Students in Yr3 are currently learning to say how old they are and ask their partner about their age. Very fun lesson today singing, playing games and performing role plays to practise the key language
Year 5 - Science: Soluble and Insoluble
... science lesson to remember ! They put Their investigational skills to The test, as They conducted a......in substances would dissolve. The experiment required Them to first predict if The substances were s...
Nursery - Autumn Shop
...ole play area this half term. They have been serving customers and exploring different Autumn Treasures....
Nursery - Shape Vehicles
...nt shapes in The environment. They used shapes to make different vehicles....
Parrot Class - Role Play
We have been reading the story Little Red Riding Hood. We pretended to e the characters in the story and acted out the story with our peers. We used character masks and lots of story props to make it interesting. We also discussed the characters feelings in different parts of the story
Year 3 - Rock Posters
...all The information They know....
Parrot Class - Science: Planting
In science we have been planting beans. We did an experiment to see which plant will grow best. Is it the one with no water? Is it the one with water and sun? Is it the one with no sun? I wonder which one it will be
Year 1 Protest - Speak Up
Year 1's were inspired by reading the book 'Speak Up' by Nathan Bryon to go on a protest. We went on a protest to convince Mr Logan why we should have a library in our school. We thought of lots of reasons why having a library at our school will benefit us. We enjoyed making placards as...
Year 2 - Road Safety Workshop
Today year 2 had a special visitor in class to talk to us about road safety. We thought about different types of vehicles you would find on the road, where to find a safe place to cross the road, and what we should do when crossing
Year 3 - Anti Bullying Week 2023
Today 15-11-2023 the children in Year 3 enjoyed a fun workshop around bullying
Duckling Class - Autumn 2 - Week 3
... been continuing to read 'The Extraordinary Gardener'. We have been using describing words to talk about how Joe is feeling and story sequencing. We have been making our very own flowers with play-doh and gems, we have been finger painting our own gardens and making flower collages. We...
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...
Year 6 - History: The Blitz
... flip through The floor book. Then, we learnt lots of information about what The Blitz was and how i......ctions to write a script for. Then, we filmed The news report, including lots of information from ou...
Year 1 Parrot Class - Odd Socks Day.
Parrot had a brilliant day showing off their odd socks!
Year 3 - Graphs
Today 21-11-2023 the children used data to complete a table and create a graph to represent the data
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...
Duckling Class - Final Christmas Week 2023
This week has been our final week of Autumn 2. We have been doing a lot of different Christmas/seasonal activities. This includes showing of our nativity (video coming soon!) making decorations, cards, making gingerbread men, practising wrapping presents and talking about what we will be doing...
Year 3 Mystery Reader
...d with suspense and adventure....
Year 6 – DT: Design
...e would need These materials. Then we drew our shelter from different angles and annotated our drawing with The materials we would need and its purpose....
Year 3 - Mapping Skills Day
...oints and drew Their own maps....... Day learning all about maps. They studied ordinance survey maps, identified co ordinates, symbols o...
Year 3 - Mystery Reader
...ct your child’s teacher....
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...
Toucan Class - Mapping Day
Toucan class learned about coordinates, compass points, map symbols and used our knowledge to draw a map of our playground. We took our maps outside to measure how many steps it took us to get from one point to another
Duckling Class - Chinese New Year
... have been talking about 'The Great Race' and all The animals involved. We have learnt that ......learnt that this year is 'The Year of The Dragon'. We have been designing and creating ou...
Duckling Class - Ordinal Numbers
This week, we have been learning about ordinal numbers in maths. We have been reading about Chinese New Year so we have been talking about racing. We had our own running races with each other, and had to use ordinal numbers to help us present our winning rosettes. We had so much fun!
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 3 - Mystery Reader
...story to our Year 3 children. The children were treated to a wonderful story and told beautifully by our mystery reader....
Year 6 - Geography: Mapping Skills Day
...uring The half term holidays. Then for our challenge we had The opportunity to create our own global......e such as Russia and Finland. Then we created a fact file about our chosen country and included info...
Year 6 – DT: Evaluate
In this lesson, we evaluated our prototypes! We first discussed what is evaluation and why we should evaluate. We then discussed the tools and materials we used, problems we encountered, what went well and more! We then completed an evaluating sheet with our group after discussing each question and...
Year 6 Hawk Class - Into University Experience
... of amazing art, e.g. Manet - The Lady Behind The Bar, Van Gough - Self Portrait of Him with a banda...... e.g. Manet - The Lady Behind The Bar, Van Gough - Self Portrait of Him with a bandaged ear (that he...
Year 6 – DT: Make
...aws and hot glue guns safely. Then we looked at all The different techniques we can use to create a sturdy structure. After our discussions, we began creating our prototype!...
Year 6 – DT: Research
To begin our new topic, we discussed what we already know about shelters. We then learned how to define a shelter and different types of shelters. We also discussed and defined functionality. In our groups, we decided on the type of shelter we wanted to make and researched it. We researched the...
Year 6 – Eagles Class: Into University
... The Wallace Collection team. They taught us how to look at art and we explored The stories behind a...... our groups were named after. These will be performed tomorrow when we graduate from our IntoUnivers...... fantastic student ambassadors. They showed us all The things we have to look forward to when we go ...
Year 6 – History: Diversity of the Allied forces
Having taken a week’s break from history due to RE Day, we spent the beginning of this lesson recapping our learning from when we went to the Museum of London Docklands and what we learnt about how World War II impacted the East End. After that, we reminded ourselves of the Allies and Axis...
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 6 – RE Day: Islam
During this RE Day, we spent a lesson researching each of the 5 pillars of Islam then presented our research. We then focused in on the Hajj pillar – a pilgrimage Muslims go on to Mecca. We learnt about why Muslims do this and some children who have experiences of it, or hope to do this in...
Year 6 – RE Day: Judaism
As part of RE Day in Autumn, we learnt about Judaism. We spent time researching Jewish artefacts as well as learning about the rules that Jewish people follow. We ended the day by designing and colouring in our own Hamsa Hand because this is a symbol is significant in Judaism
Year 6 – Science: Natural History Museum
As part of our topic on Evolution and Inheritance, we went on a trip to the Natural History Museum, where we took part in a workshop that introduced us to the concepts that underpin evolution through natural selection. In the workshop, we: Explored what evolution is, how and why it happens Looked...
Toucan class are learning about light in Science
How many light sources can you identify? Is the moon a light source? What about ice cream?
Duckling Class - Handas Surprise
This week, we have been reading 'Handa's Surprise'. We have been talking about the animals and the fruit in the story. We created our own animal scene and we wrote postcards about what animals we saw. We also learnt how to weave and created our own fruit baskets
Duckling Class - Valentines Week and Party!
Last week of Spring 1, we celebrated Valentines Day! We enjoyed making cards for our family, making play-doh hearts and making decorations for our party! On the last Friday, Duckling Class hosted a family Valentines Party. We enjoyed making heart shaped biscuits for our family to enjoy at the...
Year 5: Science - Air Resistance
...n allowing Them to free-fall. They observed The parachute as it fell towards The ground. This was followed by, partner talk on why The parachute slowed down....
Year 5 - Sacred text workshop at the British Library
On their R.E. day, Year 5 students attended a workshop on sacred texts at the British Library. Furthermore, they got to witness various holy books, unique clothing, and objects associated with a certain faith
Year 3 - Design and Technology
...ng flag with two pivot points.......4 making linkages and levers. They made a waving flag with two pivot points....
Year 2 Maths - Shapes
This week in Maths, Year 2 have been working on naming and identifying a range of 2D and 3D shapes. We then focused on 2D shapes, identifying how many sides and vertices each shape has and using mirrors to find the possible lines of symmetry
Year 2 Spring 1 Week 1 computing
This week we began our new Computing topic, learning all about coding. We discussed what an algorithm is and took turns giving sets of instructions, being careful to be precise. We then used Purple Mash to create algorithms which made our planes take off from the run way. We also tried debugging an...
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...
Year 4 Trip to the Science Museum
Year 4 had a fantastic time in the Power Up gaming exhibition at the Science Museum. We had the opportunity to have a hands-on gaming experience, featuring the very best video games and consoles. We learnt lots of interesting facts about computer games from the past 50 years which links to our DT...
Year 5 – Spanish and Music joint project
As part of project in which Music and Spanish are combined to deliver the National Curriculum requirements in both curriculum areas, this week Yr5 students have had the opportunity to take their Spanish outside the usual classroom and use key vocabulary and grammar structures in the Music room
Year 3 - Science
Today 17.01.2024 the children learnt all about how plants and animals obtain food
Year 3 Linkages and Levers
...wn Linkage and Lever mechanism...
Year 5 - DT: Pulleys and gears
...t pulleys, gears, and levers. They were also given information outlining The significance of These systems and how They simplify jobs. Lastly, They created functioning gears and cogs for Their activities....
Year 5 - science: how does gravity work?
Year 5 used computers to research about gravity and how it impacts the environment around us. Using the information they discovered, they produced posters containing facts and amazing designs
Spanish - Phonics
To ensure children can pronounce and read words and sentences accurately and confidently in Spanish, a consistent approach is used from early years. Our phonics approach is based on the context of what vocabulary children are learning depending on the year group or stage. Children start learning...
Parrot Class - Trip to Discover Story Centre
Parrot class had a brilliant time at the Discover Story Centre today! We had fun exploring the story centre and used our imagination to come with interesting characters and story settings. We came up with our own story and shared this with the story tellers
Year 5 Wow Day: DT
...as Pulleys, Gears and Levers. The project They were given, was to design a well; it was Then brought to life using clay. It was an amazing day of creativeness which They will remember for a lifetime....
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
Year 3 RE - Menorah Collages
Year 3 created their own Menorah collages as part of RE day on Judaism
Year 3 Royal Airforce Museum
...out levers, pulleys and gears....
Duckling Class - Discover Children's Story Centre
On Tuesday, Duckling Class enjoyed a trip to Discover Children's Story Centre. We had to get on the bus and travel all the way to Stratford. When we got there, we were told that it was our mission to create a story to save 'Squiddly Diddly World'. In order for us to create a story, we had to warm...
Reception: Duckling Class - Wild Wild West Drama Workshop
On Tuesday, we were so lucky to have a drama workshop! We were in the Wild Wild West! We had to act as different animals found in the Wild Wild West such as horses and dogs. When the Sheriff came, we had to pretend to be statues! We had so much fun!
Duckling Class - Parent Lunch
This week, we invited our parents to come and join us for lunch. We had such a great time! We enjoyed showing off the wonderful lunch we have at Daubeney. We can't wait for the next one!
Year 3 Wow Day 2024
...agon and a snapping crocodile.......ges as part of Their Wow Day. They made a moving dragon and a snapping crocodile....
Year 4 - Spring 1 Wow Day
...uded an electrical component. Then we got to play our game and finally we evaluated it....
Falcon Class at Into Uni!
Falcon class had a brilliant week with the staff of into university! Our toooc of the week was liberal arts. We learned so much about different universities, university courses, and about people who studied liberal arts. We also went to the Wallace Collection in central London and learned about the...
Year 5 - Science: Careers related to forces and motion
Year 5 explored a variety of careers relating to forces and motion. For the main activity, they created either a poster or slideshow to present to their peers
Family Phonics Workshop - 9th February 2023
Today we had a great time learning phonics outdoors! We went through all of phase 2 and 3 sounds. We had to read words outside on the ground and find the matching picture. Parents had a wonderful time doing this with their child. Take a look to see what fun we had
Year 2 - IT in Cross Curricular: Designing our own Vehicles
Today Year 2 had some fun designing their own vehicles with wheels using Chromebooks, as part of our Design and Technology topic. We thought about the shape of the vehicle and how we could decorate it too. We learnt about the job of engineers to plan, design, test and make various items including...
Year 6 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023
... ‘ En el restaurante ’ topic. They are now able to order food and drinks from a restaurant, and confidently use The first and third person singular of The frequent verb ‘ querer ’ (to want)....
Year 1 - Forest School - 1L Superworm
1L searching for worms, measuring them and climbing trees
Eco Team Bulb Planting
...ow in a couple of months time....
Year 4 - Outdoor Lesson: PHSE
... art using natural materials. Then certain children were chosen to destroy Them which helped us to understand what is resilience and how can we overcome when we are hurt....
Year 6 - 6M IntoUniversity
... life is like at a university.......The team from IntoUniversity. They discussed and learnt all about life at university, The courses on......by many different institutes. They children also discussed diversity and empathy and visited The Dia...
Year 5 - Science: Separating Materials
We explored how we can separate different materials. We had to separate metal from sand using magnetism. We then investigated how different liquids can separate depending on their density. We also mixed some salt into some water and we will be observing it over the next few weeks to see if the salt...
Junior Mental Health Team - Compliment Booklet
A very BIG thank you from Mr Matvad to our Junior Mental Health Team. Mr Matvad received a Compliment Booklet today with loads of lovely, kind and caring messages. "This really made my day, I am so happy." We would like to thank the JMHT for an amazing project that they themselves created...
Year 4 - Countries and Nationalities in Spanish
We have been learning to talk about where we are from and our countries of origin in Spanish. We know the name of many countries in the world in Spanish and we can ask people about their nationality
Year 5 - Chinese New Year
Happy Chinese New Year! Did you know that it is the Year of the Tiger? Year 5s have been learning to write important greetings in Chinese that is traditionally said to others during the New Year to show respect!
Year 5 - Computing: Plagiarism
Do you know what plagiarism is? We learnt about it and how we have to reference the information we copy or borrow from different sources!
Year 5 - Science: Filtering and Sieving
This week we learnt about another 2 separation processes: Filtering and Sieving. We learn about how these are both reversible changes through our experiment!
Year 4 - 4B PSHE: Resilience
In 4B, we have been learning about resilience and how we can deal with being disappointed and not letting it consume us. We created a song that we either rapped or sang about making a new plan or setting a new goal and how we can cope with these situations
Year 2 - 2P Special Christmas Performance
A Christmas Introit (Hodie) by Audrey Snyder. Filmed for the VOCES8 Foundation's Live from London concert series in December 2021
Year 1 - 1L Growing Together
As part of Children's Mental Health week, we took time to think about how we have grown and who has helped us to grow. We celebrated all the things we are able to do now and decorated a butterfly with all of those things. We also decorated parts of a caterpillar to show all the people that have...
Year 1 - 1L Monkey Puzzle
We have been reading the story of Monkey Puzzle in Year 1. We used role play to explore the characters and the plot of the story. We then discussed the setting and recreated Henri Rousseau's ‘Tiger in a Tropical Storm’, using oil pastels
Year 1 - 1L Numbers to 50
We have been exploring numbers to 50 in our maths lessons recently. We thought about how many tens and ones each number has, as well as how we could show the number using dienes. We also identified what is one more and one less than a given number
Year 1 - 1L WOW Day
For the end of our Spring 1 Geography topic, we focused on famous London landmarks. We took a virtual tour of lots of famous places around London and then created them ourselves!
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 5 - Safer Internet Day
Do you know how to be safe on the internet? What about when you are playing games online? Who might you go to if you are feeling pressured into doing something you aren't comfortable with? Year 5s have been discussing this today as it is Safer Internet Day and now have the knowledge and skills...
Year 5 - Volcano Safety Poster
Do you know how to be safe if you live near a volcano? Year 5s have been learning about volcanoes and thought about how they could ensure people are safe if they live near one. Have a look at our posters!
Year 6 - 6M Internet Safety
...hildren to play online games. They used PurpleMash to learn more about The topic and completed various quizzes based on Internet Safety....
Year 5 - Computing: SMART
What are the responsibilities and support when we are online? In Year 5 today, we learnt about SMART, which helps us stay safe on the internet. We discussed our thoughts and took notes on Purple Mash
The Junior Literacy Team's Top Tips
Check out the Junior Literacy Team's top tips for filling in your reading records as well as some amazing book recommendations! Comment below and share what you are reading at the moment and your top tips for reading at home
Year 2 - 2P Chocolate in Spanish & Lew Wallace School in Albuquerque
...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 3 WOW Day - Building Stonehenge
As part of Year 3's WOW day the children built Stonehenge's using cream cheese and biscuits!
Year 4 WOW Day - Ancient Egyptians
For Wow Day, we created our own Ancient Egyptian village. We used different methods to create the River Nile, palm trees and pyramids. We also created death masks
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!
School Council - St Joseph's Hospice Rudolph Run
...Joseph's Hospice Rudolph Run. The aim was to raise money to help The hospice look after patients. Th...... hospice look after patients. The run started at 9:30 with The receptions and The year 6s ended The ......ld no longer be used by patients. They also told us that 6 primary schools took part but since lockd...
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!
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 3 - 3HC Rudolph Run
...Hospice and completed 3 laps! They had extra energy from There magical reindeer antlers! Well done 3HC!...
Year 3 - Carol Performance 2021
This is just a glimpse of how fantastic Year 3 were during the Carol performance that took place yesterday
Year 3 - Oreo Bugs Came to Visit 3HC!
...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 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
Year 3 WOW Day - Cave Paintings
...WOW day for cross curricular. They used wet tea bags and felt tip pens to create The cave look. Have a look and see how good They are!...
Year 5 - Maths Outdoor Learning
To start off our long division topic in Year 5, we took our learning outdoors and thought about how we could divide large numbers. We spent the morning drawing out our learning on the playground in chalk!
Year 5 - 5SM Christmas Play
One of the students in Year 5 wrote a play and the whole class got together to make her script come to life! We are so proud of the achievements of our children - this was entirely child led and the other Year 5 children loved it
Year 5 - Harry Potter Slumber Party
To celebrate finishing our whole class reader, we watched Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. We dressed in our pyjamas and brought our teddy bears and blankets to make it extra cosy
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 6 Mapping Day
...own creating Their own suburb.......022, learning all about maps. They used a grid reference map today to locate places. Then used direc......e map today to locate places. Then used direction and instructions and drew Their own map when They ...
Year 5 - Literacy Roleplay
This week we are writing a narrative based on the video Taking Flight and to help us understand the story, we used our imaginations to go on an adventure like Tony and his grandpa does in the video. Some of us flew on planes, whilst others swam through the depths of the dark, blue oceans
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 5 - Maths - Multiplying 2 Digit Numbers
We are learning to multiply 2 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers and to help us understand what we are doing, we used dienes and worked with our partners to answer questions together
Year 6M - Cartographers
...ad our Mapping Day in Year 6. Their attention to detail and accuracy was impressive and produced hig......d produced high quality maps. They also designed Their own suburb including features and specific ke...
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!...
Aspiring Authors in Year 5
...d beginning to write a novel. They thought carefully about Their title and front cover. They were in...... Their title and front cover. They were inspired by Their favourite books and began writing Their fi...
Year 1 - Forest School - 1S Exploring the Woods
1S exploring the woods, free play
Year 3 - 3HC Dress to Express
3HC have dressed to EXPRESS! As part of Children's Mental Health week taking place this week. Don't forget the junior mental health team are helping to raise money for Pace 2 Be to help children get easier access mental health support
Junior Mental Health Team Place2Be Fundraising
...09.39 could make a difference....... raised £309.39 for Place2Be. They met with MatThew Charlton The Community Fundraising Manager at P...
Year 5 - Trip to Science Museum
It was our first trip of Year 5 - can you believe it? We certainly could by the end of the day - we were so tired! We visited the museum as part of our science unit on space but we also so many other amazing things!
Science Show
Daubeney Students had the chance to see a science show which included hovering ping pong balls, elephant toothpaste, unpoppable balloons, UV lights and fizzy rockets!
Year 1 - Forest School - 1S Making Bird Feeders and Playing Games
1S making bird feeders and playing in the woods
Year 6 - 6M: World War 2 Artefact
WHAT A LESSON WE HAD TODAY IN 6M! We were so lucky to have a real life WW2 Bomber jacket from a fighter pilot. Not only did we get to inspect the jacket but it belonged to a great grandfather of one of our pupils in class. In the box, there was also a comic, which was based on a true event of the...
Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 - Growing Together
...hildren’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 and trying new things can help us to move beyond our comfort zone into a new realm of possibil...
Comic Relief 2022
Our Junior Mental Health Team helped raise money for Comic Relief. Our Daubeney children donated £1 and dressed up with the theme of, Make us Laugh! Helping others and helping yourself. It’s good for you! Doing things for other people actually has a beneficial effect on developing our own...
Fitness and Mental Health Assembly
This week is Fitness Week and Year 5 and Year 6 had a special assembly lead by Mr Swarbrick and Mr Shamji. My Swarbrick and Mr Shamji discussed the importance of fitness and how it supports our mental health. What types of fitness do you do?
Golden Achievers for our Teachers
As part of Staff Wellbeing Week, our Junior mental health team created achievers for our teachers and presented them during our achiever assemblies. Our teachers were very surprised and we had lots of smiling faces!
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...
Ensemble Development Award
Daubeney has won an Ensemble Development Award from the Mayor of Hackney
Year 5 - History: Charles I
To end the lovely sunny day yesterday, we decided to spend our research lesson outdoors and created a poster about different aspects of Charles I’s life. At the end of the lesson, we presented our findings to the rest of the class!
Year 5 - Red Nose Day 2022
Have a look at our funny outfits? Which one made you laugh the most?
Year 1 - Forest School - 1L Easter Egg Hunt
Celebrating the end of Forest School
Year 6 Reading Booster
...efore answering The questions.......er session in our Hop Garden. They read a selection of text fiction and non-fiction and discussed th...
Year 2 WOW Day - The Great Fire of London
...ould’ve looked in 1666. They all worked brilliantly as a team and created magnificent masterpieces! Take a look......
Nursery - Messy Play Day
...d Their first Messy play day. The children had so much fun exploring many different messy activities. We had corn flour, cutting spaghetti, cars in paint, shaving foam, water beads and lots more. One child said "Miss I am so excited, this is so much fun" and anoTher said "I love my nu...
Year 5 - Maths: Rounding Decimals
Do you find decimals difficult? We've learnt a super easy way to make sure we can always round decimals to the nearest tenths and whole number. We'll be putting our learning into action in tomorrow's lesson!
Year 3 - Forest School - Making Boats from Natural Materials
Year 3 have been working with Forest School and made boats from natural materials the children were then able to see if their boat floated
Year 5 - RE Day: Judaism
Today we learnt about Judaism and answered the question: What can we learn from the past? We looked at the Passover and the Holocaust and reflected on how we have learnt from those stories. We ended our day with making our own Purim masks
Year 5 - King Henry VIII
What do you know about King Henry VIII? Today we learned all his life and his impact on British history! "I liked learning about King Henry VIII because there was so many things that I didn’t know about him - such as him having 6 wives!" - Di’Sean
Year 5 - WOW Day - Iceland and Volcanoes
To end our topic of Iceland and volcanoes, we made volcanoes. We constructed, painted and erupted them today! What do you know about volcanoes?
Year 1 - Forest School - 1A Exploring the Woods
Exploring the woods and celebrating World Book Day by reading and making Stickman
Year 6 - 6M Online Safety
...a quiz and various activities.......n be safe while being online. The children researched many facts about online safety and used Purple...
Year 6 - 6M: ICT and History
...nformation about World War 2. They used Purplemash to help Them create a News report about The Blitz....
Young Hackney Basketball Finals
A big well done to the KS2 basketball team, for winning the Young Hackney's competition yesterday
Year 5 - Adding Fractions
In Year 4, we learnt about adding fractions but what happens when the fractions don't have the same denominator? We worked with our partners this week to find the lowest common denominator to solve each number sentence
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
Year 5 - Reading Art
... 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 6 - 6M ICT and Science
... learning all about circuits. They used Their Purplemash accounts today, 1-3-2022, to learn and disc......d closed electrical circuits. The children used Their program, which allowed Them to draw, create an...
Year 5 - Computing: Spreadsheet Counters
This week in computing we continued our topic on Spreadsheets and learnt how to add a counter. We used this to answer the question "Is 'e' the most popular vowel?" Look at how we did!
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 1 - 1L World Book Day 2022
Today we had lots of fun dressing up as our favourite characters from some fabulous books. We discussed who we were and explored some of the stories. We made our own bookmarks and designed the front covers of our books!
Year 3 - 3HC World Book Day 2022
3HC dressed up in their favourite book character! We are celebrating world book day that took place yesterday
Year 4 - 4S World Book Day 2022
... fun and engaging activities. The passion for reading is unbelievable and it is great to see!...
Year 4 Outdoor Science Investigation - How does distance affect the volume of the sound?
...d by The distance it travels. They made Their prediction and also discussed how The investigation could be a fair one by considering The variables....
Year 5 - RE Day: Sikhism
Year 5 studied the Sikh religion. As well as learning all about the festivals and traditions they also designed posters and wrote about everything they learnt
Year 5 - Character and Setting Description
We are continuing to look at the Greta and the Giants story this week and to help us with our descriptions, we spent the lesson talking about how we can describe characters and settings. We worked collaboratively as a group to come up with descriptions and write it down on our brainstorms
Year 5 - World Book Day 2022
What a fun filled day of dress up and book related activities! We all came in as some of our favourite book characters (whether good or evil) and created a book cover and blurb about them. We spent the afternoon designing our bookmarks that we will use to remind us that reading is fun!
Nursery - Outdoor Chalk Fun
...g with chunky chalks outdoors....
Year 5 - Computing: Spreadsheet Area and Perimeter
This week, we learnt about how we can use formulae to calculate things for us easily, like area and perimeter. By copying and pasting a forumlae, we could find the area and perimeter of a shape by simply typing in the length and width of the shape
Year 5 - Science: Heliocentric Models
Year 5 are beginning to learn about the Earth and Space! Today we were learning about the different theories scientists had about space and what was at the centre of it. We learned that a long time ago, people thought that the planets orbited Earth. But now we know that the planets orbit the sun!...
Year 5 WOW Day - Ancient Greeks
To celebrate the end of our History topic on Ancient Greeks, we created, designed and painted our own Greek inspired vases using salt dough. Have a look at our fun day!
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 5 - Computing: 3D Modelling Introduction
This week we started our 3D Modelling unit in Computing and we explored a new program called 2Design and Make on Purple Mash. We designed our own houses that we can print the net for to create a 3D model of our houses
Prefects - Whole Team Training
Our Prefects being put through their paces during a whole team training
Reception - Yellow Class - Our Body
This week, we have enjoyed learning all about our body. We have been learning about our different body parts and what we use them for. We really enjoyed going outside and drawing around our friends, listening to the initial sounds and labelling the body parts
Year 5 - Outdoor Learning: Learning About Place Value
As part of our outdoor learning this week, Year 5 went to Daubeney Fields to learn about place value. We used different natural resources such as leaves, sticks, stones along with string to make place value charts. We then used these resources to make number representations all the way up to...
Nursery - Row, Row, Row Your Boat...
...t addition in The playground. They rowed down The streams, through The rivers and shores and you wou......s They met along The way! The children were super eager to make Their boats bright and colourful...
Year 4 - Science: Living Things and Their Habitats
In science, we are learning about living things and their habitats. We took a trip to Daubeney fields to explore what living things can be found and what classification they fall under. We had fun enjoying the nature of our environment and learning about different plants and insects
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...
Anti-Bullying Week 2021 - One Kind Word
...ndness in Anti-Bullying Week. The focus was, One Kind Word. Children had The opportunity to particip......th our annual Odd Socks Day . The children discussed bullying in assemblies and workshops and discus...... impact on our mental health. The children were also given a One Kind Word Kindness challenge. To fi...
Year 5 - Outdoor Learning: PSHE
What rights and responsibilities do we have as Year 5 children? We explored these during our Outdoor Learning session. We also talked about refugees and the struggles they go through when they go to a new country
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...
Year 4 - All About Me in Spanish
We had a great time making our self-portraits and learning to talk about ourselves and the thinks we like, and we don´t like in Spanish
Year 5 - RE Day - Buddhism
What did the Buddha teach about living a better life? Today we explored the religion of Buddhism and learnt about how Buddhists view life through understanding the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. Do you appreciate what you have or seek out things that you don't have?
Reception - Our First Week
This week, we have said "Hello!" to our new Reception children. We have been taking part in many activities including playing in the mud kitchen, having water play in our paddling pools and having a bite to eat at our Farm Shop Café! We can't wait for next week for even more, fun learning!
Cooking in Nursery
...have some chefs in The making!......making Veggie pizza roll ups! They learnt about hygiene when preparing food and talked about some of...
World Teachers' Day 2021
...lebrated 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 our staff....
3G Sharing Assembly - Black History Month
...g around Black History Month. The children sang two songs, recited a poem and spoke about five influential black people that They had researched. It was lovely to see so many parents....
Mental Health Parent Workshop - 12th October 2021
...ee below Vana’s presentation. There will be anoTher workshop on The 9th November at 9am, this will focus on behaviour and mental health. We hope to see you There!...
Spanish - KS1 Introducing Themselves
...roduce Themselves in Spanish. They feel very confident now and ready to make new friends in Spanish!...
Junior Literacy Team 2021/2022
...aubeney Junior Literacy Team! They are very eager to share Their passion for reading and writing wit......ng with everyone at Daubeney. The team will be supporting Miss Fergus in promoting Literacy across t......hrough assemblies and events. They will also be in charge of keeping all book corners around The sch...
The Junior Literacy Team Visit Everyone's Book Corners
...ico, 6O - Junior Literacy Team...
Year 5 - Outdoor Learning: Literacy
... Tanzania....
Eco Team Waste Audit
This afternoon Daubeney's Eco Team conducted a waste audit with Hackney environment. We found many ways were we are not using our bins correctly but we also found many ways that we are! We can’t wait to begin making changes at our school and help everyone get rid of their waste correctly!
Year 3 - Science: Plants and Flowers
...ts 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....
Year 6 - 6M Book Corner
Our book corner in 6M is a lush 'Garden Of Knowledge' and the children are very excited to read their favourite books while relaxing in the garden under the tree
Year 5 - Maths Outside
Today we took our statistics learning outside! We created a tally chart by noting down all of the different types of vehicles that passed us. We saw way more vehicles than we predicted we would find!
First Days in Year 5
...ur new federation name “The Blossom Federation”. We’re very happy to be back!...
Nurture Group - Tribute to Mr O'Flynn
...much appreciate it. Thank you....
Boys Book Club - 5th July 2021
...ond reading and Lego session. The boys looked at construction and inventions from The past and Then used Lego to recreate Them....
Nursery - Trees in the Garden
...bugs and collecting rainwater.......fascinates Daubeney children. The children are often observed using all Their muscles to help Them c...
Robotic Arm Science Team Meeting
One of our science team members kindly brought in a robotic arm and expertly explained how it worked to the rest of the group. Everyone then had a go at using it and we tried to pick up different objects using the claw and suction cup!
Year 4M IntoUniversity
...n online Google Meet session. The children learnt all about different careers and The skills needed ......eeded to pursue certain jobs. They will visit Into University when They are in Year 5 and a whole we...
Boys Book Club - 12th July 2021
... club enjoyed reading online. They researched areas that They were interested in and used The intern......nformation about The subject. They Then created a quiz for Mr Matvad based on The information They r...
Boys Book Club - 19th July 2021
...n front of our classroom fan. The boys read a selection of Their favourite book as part of our last book club session....
Reception Graduation
On Monday 19th July, Reception had their graduation. We all looked the part in our graduation caps. We enjoyed singing our favourite class songs to our adults and our favourite Spanish song! We also enjoyed shaking our teachers hands and getting our certificates. We all had a lovely afternoon and...
Reception Sports Day
...inally) had Their sports day. The weaTher was beautiful and we were all in high spirits. We enjoyed taking part in all of The races including The relay race, egg and spoon race and The sack race! We had a wonderful day!...
Year 6 - 6M PSHE
...e and improve Their wellbeing.......son today in Daubeney Fields. They discussed Their year ahead in Year 6 and expressed Their fears an...... excitement for The new year. They also had an opportunity to have some reflective time with nature ...
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!
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 6 - 6M Mapping Day
... The different types of maps. They also explored how maps are made, keys, different styles of maps a......s and when a map can be used. The children had a final session in our playground where They created ...
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...
Year 5 Literacy - Little Red Riding Hood
Today, Tuesday 7th September, the Year 5 children acted out Little Red Riding Hood to immerse themselves in the story before they write the story again from the wolf’s perspective
Year 6 - 6O Mapping Day
...ap of The Daubeney Playground....
Nurture Group - The Little Red Riding Hood Role Play
...nning" "The woodcutter is a brave man"...
School Council Meeting - 8th September 2021
...ailable…so watch this space....... togeTher for The first time! They were elected last year, but due to Covid restrictions The team ne...... and exciting moment for all. The School Council will meet every Tuesday for this half term. Some va...
Year 5 Outdoor Learning
...pic learning about mountains. They had to work as a team to choose items that They would need on a climb up Mt Kilimanjaro....
Year 6M - Role Play
...ferent scenes from our story. The children used Their skills to become various characters and explored what The characters said and thought....
Welcome Back Nursery
...returned to school this week. They have been enjoying The new Baby Clinic role play area and having lots of outdoor fun!...
Year 6 - 6M Poetry Workshop
... artist, songwriter and poet. The children with links to Black History Month enjoyed The session with creative ideas to use to create Their own poem/rap or song....
Year 3 - Rainforests
...s all about sustainability in The Rainforest. They also had The opportunity to ask questions.......ainability in The Rainforest. They also had The opportunity to ask questions....
Nursery - A special little visitor...
...of The Daubeney family, Oreo. The children were excited as They watched him hop around The Nursery. We talked about what rabbits eat, where They live and oTher animals we can keep as pets!...
Nurture Group - Shapes in the Environment
We went to the park to look for some shapes. We drew some shapes in the sand too. We got to have a little play after all our hard work
Year 3 - Rocks
In Year 3 as part of our science topic about rocks, we have been carrying out an experiment to find out whether rocks are permeable or impermeable
Year 1 - 1L Science: Parts of the Human Body
This week in Science we have been learning about human body parts, as part of our Animals including Humans topic. We used sticky notes to label the parts of the body that we know!
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!
Year 2 - Forest School - Session 18
Where the wild things are
Year 6 - COP26 Climate Change Summit Workshop
... The COP26 summit in Glasgow. The children discussed how climate change affects The entire world, how we can play a part to reduce climate change and countries that are looking at new ways to tackle this global issue. She encouraged The children to find new ways to make our world greener....
Year 1 Cinderella Ball
Year 1 had lots of fun dressing up for a royal ball as part of our story immersion for Cinderella! We wore our best outfits with a royal crown, and we enjoyed some majestic dancing and a magical banquet! A massive thank you to prestige_event_stylist for decorating the hall for us, it looked amazing!
Christmas in Reception
Christmas she’s started this week in Reception with Christmas jumper designs, Christmas tree decorating and making toys in our Santa Work Shop. We have been talking about what can keep on us on the nice list…
Rudolph Run
...to raise money for The hospice. The run will take place on Wednesday 8th December 2021 in The KS2 pl......r 3s will run 3 laps and so on. The CHALLENGE is for each child to raise £3, but There is no obliga...
Year 4 - 4B Sharing Assembly: Egyptian Cinderella
In 4B, we have been learning about the Ancient Egyptians so for our sharing assembly, we read a book called the Egyptian Cinderella and acted out the story. We had great fun learning more about the Egyptians
Year 1 - 1L RE Day: How and Why Christians Celebrate Christmas
For Autumn 2 RE day, Year 1 explored how and why Christians celebrate Christmas. We retold the Nativity story and thought about the people and why they are important to Christians. We then sang lots of Christmas songs and discussed other ways that people may celebrate, like putting up a Christmas...
Year 1 - 1L One Kind Word
1L spent time this week thinking about how we can be kind to others both inside and outside the classroom. We drew pictures showing us being kind and using kind words and then shared them with each other
Year 5 - RE Day: What Happened to Islam in the Middle Ages?
We learnt all about the Five Pillars of Islam and even discussed what Islam was like during the middle ages. Did you know that they went through a Golden Age, where learning and inventions were thriving in the capital of Baghdad, whilst most of the rest of the world was going through the Dark Ages?...
Year 1 - 1L Senses Experiments
In Year 1 this week we have been experimenting with what our senses can do. We tested what we could see, hear and feel, and then had lots of fun with things we could smell and taste!
School Council - Meeting with Mr Warren - 8th December 2021
...Mr. Warren to meet with Them. The meeting was scheduled for Wednesday 8th December 2021. School Coun...... for The playground and play? The ideas discussed with Mr. Warren were; having a enclosed area where...
Staff Panto 2021
Oscar worthy rendition of the age-old Disney classic put on by our wonderful Daubeney staff - we can guarantee you have never seen nor heard Cinderella told in this way!
Nurture Group - Hackney City Farm
Last week Friday we were lucky enough to go visit Hackney City Farm. "We saw the pink pigs and it went oink oink and they had oval noses" "My favourite part of the trip was the ducks, I heard the ducks saying quack" " I loved all the animals in the farm except for the pig...
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
Spanish learning website: Languagenut.com
...tences and verb conjugations. They can save time with easy-to-find, automatically corrected activiti......ir progress and achievements. They will also be able to access oTher 22 modern foreign languages inc...
WOW DAY Year 6 - Ancient Benin
...real ones from Ancient Benin. The children also discussed how reliable resources are and which historical resources can be trusted....
Christmas Baking in the Nursery
...ed baking delicious cupcakes. They enjoyed mixing, scooping, pouring and most of all eating Their cupcakes!...
Year 4 - 4K Sharing Assembly: The Hunter
...s inspired by our focus book 'The Hunter.' The children worked so hard to present and act out The st...... our focus book 'The Hunter.' The children worked so hard to present and act out The story with grea...
Year 1A - Book Fortnight - The Extraordinary Gardener
...enjoyed reading The book 'The Extraordinary Gardener' By Sam Boughton as part of our book fortnight. We have been planting cress, writing instruction on how to plant a seed, acting out The story and doing observational drawings of plants. Take a look at what fun we had!...
Year 5 - Maths: Making Graphs
Today we made bar graphs and created questions about the data that we collected yesterday. "It was really fun because we all worked together to create our graphs and questions" - Elijah "I really liked making graphs today because maths is my favourite subject" - Rachel
Year 4 - 4B Diwali Workshop
4B had an amazing time learning about the origin story of Diwali and who the important people are
Year 3 - Wow Day: Should We Worry About the Rainforest?
...ar 3 had a fantastic WOW day! The children have been working to answer The overarching question...SH......E WORRY ABOUT The RAINFOREST? They prepared to go on a protest! They got placards and speeches ready...... prepared to go on a protest! They got placards and speeches ready. Yes, that's right! They went to ...
Year 4 - Wow Day: Crayon Resist
For Wow Day in Year 4, we learnt about the technique of crayon wax resist where you draw something in crayon and paint over it. We were able to create amazing artwork of Mount Everest as a result
Dress Down Day
...ack scientists and inventors. They practised Their oracy skills by describing who They were dressed as and why They were famous!...
Nursery - Spooky Dress Up Day
...#39;Spooky Dress Up' day. The children listened to The story 'Pumpkin Soup' and explored......ng spoons, and wooden sticks. They each had a turn to talk about The texture, colour and talked abou...... about what They could smell. They used words like 'squishy, slimy, mushy and seeds' to desc...
Year 3 - 3HC's Class Assembly - 21st October 2021
...ing The RAINFOREST! Must watch! The children worked so hard and were super excited to perform. The c...... were super excited to perform. The children shared some facts, acted out The story ‘The great Kap......ome facts, acted out The story ‘The great Kapok tree’ by Lynne Cherry and sang and danced to The...
Year 5 - Wow Day - Tanzania
...red The overarching question. Then, we spent The rest of The day learning about The Maasai people. We created posters all about Them and The ways that They live and Then we designed and made our own bracelets inspired by Maasai jewelry and beadwork....
Year 1 - 1L Take Maths Outdoors
Today 1L went to the Hop Garden to practise our addition skills using the part-whole model. We used hoops to create the part-whole diagram, and then chose leaves from around the garden to help us count!
Year 1 - 1S Outdoor Learning
Today, 1S took their learning outside! We did some part whole maths in the hop garden, using autumn leaves to help us add with hoops!
Year 1 Phonics Outside
As part of outdoor learning day, some of Year 1 took their phonics lessons outside!
Year 4 - 4S Diwali Workshop
4S enjoyed a Diwali workshop where they learnt about the story surrounding the festival of light and they achieved this through stories, song and dance
Junior Science Team Meeting - November 2021
... and try out motors and bulbs!...
Year 4 - 4S Outdoor Maths Session
For outdoor classroom day, we focused on equivalent lengths. 4S had a wonderful time measuring their best jumps in the playground and they enjoyed recording, comparing and converting data
Year 3 - Outdoor Maths Lesson
...maths lesson on Mabley Green. The children investigated many of The maThematical concepts from The Y......s from The Year 3 curriculum. They made arrays with leaves, used natural objects to create symmetric...
Year 5 - Outside Classroom Day
...ke The main character Joe in 'The Extraordinary Gardener'! We can't wait to see our plants grow and grow and GROW! "It was great, I really enjoyed Outside Classroom Day!" - Utku "I really enjoyed Outside Classroom Day because I got to plant a seed - just like Joe from The book! I'm very excited...
Year 6 - 6M Outdoor Learning
...hs lesson in Daubeney fields. They created and identified different angles, measured and estimated various lengths and also enjoyed a reading session in Hackney Marshes....
Nurture Group - Play Dough
We made play dough for both playgrounds for lunch time play. We used maths to work out the measurements
Maths with Year 5
Today, Year 5 went on a treasure hunt to see if we could remember mathematical vocabulary such as prime numbers, square numbers, factors and multiples. ‘I liked solving the maths puzzles’ - Katie ‘I liked that we got to go outside and run around and we were learning all at the same time’ -...
Year 5 - Literacy: Advertisements
...s Plants? We have been reading The Extraordinary Gardener in Year 5 and we created advertisements based on The book....
Understanding and Managing Behaviour Workshop
On the 9th November, Vana, our CWIS (CAMHs worker in school) lead a parent workshop about managing emotions
Nurture Group - Planting
...e have been reading The story The Extraordinary Gardener. We decided to grow our own plant. "Plants makes us feel peaceful"...
Spanish Champions 2021-22
...ampions for this school year. They are ready to help everyone in The school to love & learn more Spanish....
Nurture Group - Cross Curricular: Making a Chair Using Cardboard
Today we made a chair using cardboard. We worked as a team to make the legs, seat, back and spindle. We managed to make it stand for our teddy to sit on, unfortunately it did not stay standing when a child sat on it
Year 5 - Science: Air Resistance
This week in science, we have been learning about air resistance and friction. To test this out, we made our own parachutes using tissue paper and string and tied different weighted objects to it to see how that affects the speed of falling
Year 5 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023
...worked really hard this term. They have made great progress and are now able to create sentences usi...... buildings and shops in town. They can also engage in a dialogue and ask and understand directions. ......sk and understand directions. They have also had The opportunity to listen to two native speakers ta...
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 2
This week we continued our internet safety topic and learnt about using emails as a way to communicate with other people. We learnt how to reply to a message and send an attachment too!
Year 4 - 4M School For Food
...ience at The School For Food. They made Their very own Spanish Paella. The children were so excited ......heir very own Spanish Paella. The children were so excited to cook The dish Themselves and They coul...
Year 4 - ICT and History - Ancient Egyptian Gods
...ferent Ancient Egyptian Gods. They located facts and recorded Them in Their books....
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 5 - Persuasive Argument
...res of a persuasive argument. They will use this to write Their own argument persuading people to co......fight against climate change. The children have become very passionate about The fight against clima...
Year 2 - Spanish: Number Knowledge
In Year 2 we have started the week reinforcing our number knowledge and making links between figures and words using a tangram. Students really enjoyed this hands-on activity and the competitive element of it
Reception - Yellow Class - The Extraordinary Gardener
...e have also been reading 'The Extraordinary Gardener' and have been making different types of flowers. We have been practicing our phonics with different games, learning Spanish and building different things in our Construction Area!...
Junior Mental Health Team - Anti Bullying Week 2022
JMHT have been delivering art therapy for Anti Bullying week. We have been celebrating differences, friendships and reaching our with kind words
Year 2 - 2L One Kind Word
This week we took part in thinking of 'one kind word' as part of anti-bullying week. We had fun exploring all the kind words we could use and showed off our odd socks today too!
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 3
This week is the final week in our online safety module. We explored our digital footprint and discussed how everything we do online leaves a trail behind us, like taking barefoot steps on a beach
Year 4 - 4L Visit Hackney School of Food
4L had 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...
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...
The Nest - Parent Workshop
We invited our parents in to make Christmas decorations with us
Family Phonics Workshop - Session 3
Thank you to all the parents and carers that attended our third family phonics session today. We focus on oral segmenting and blending and the children had a great time feeding 'Metal Mike' all the words. We revisited all of our phase 2 sounds and then practised reading CVC words by segmenting and...
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...
Reception - People Who Help Us
This week we have been learning about the people who help us in our community. We have been looking at police officers, fire fighters, carers, recycling collectors, teachers and others. We are looking forward for the police and the fire fighters to come in next week!
The Nest - Baking Cookies
Today we had lots of fun baking cookies! We used flour, butter, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla essence. "it tasted delicious" "yummy" "it is crunchy" "ten out of ten"
Year 4 - Trip to the British Museum
4L had an amazing time at the British Museum on Thursday 24th November. We saw some amazing Ancient Egyptian atrefacts including mummies! We learnt some fascinating facts about heiroglyphics which links to our history topic. It was like going back in time!
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 4
This week we started our new topic of Spreadsheets. We learnt how to colour individual cells in our rows and columns, and also how add an image to a cell. We then explored adding a value to an image, and using the counting tool to say how many items we had in a certain area
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 5
This week we continued with our topic of Spreadsheets. We made a magic square using our coloured cells and identified and used the 'total' buttons this week. We then explored ways in which numbers could be placed inside the square to make the totals the same around the outside
Year 4 - 4M Reading - 'I Survived'
... out what happened in The end.......reader, 'I Survived'. The children were excited to finish The story finding out what happene...
Year 4 - ICT and Science - The Human Digestive System
...ng key facts and information. They also completed an activity, labelling The digestive system and a quiz....
Family Phonics Workshop - Session 4
This week we enjoyed singing the Blossom Phonics song. We sang the alphabet song and joined in with the actions. We played a game of 'I spy' and practiced our oral segmenting and blending skills. We then read CVC words using our phase 2 phonics sounds. We look forward to our following...
Year 2 WOW Day - Autumn 2022
...ls that you would find There. They look awesome!...
Year 5 - RE Day: Buddhism
...all about The Buddhist faith. They discussed The main beliefs, The importance of The Four Noble Trut......in beliefs, The importance of The Four Noble Truths, looked at The Eightfold Path and teachings of B...
Year 5 - 2 Step Word Problems
...o solve 2 step word problems. They had to read The question carefully and chose The correct operation....
Nursery - Dressing Up Area
...singing, dancing and laughter!......ing our new dressing up area! There has been lots of singing, dancing and laughter!...
Nursery - Jobs and People in Our Community Who Help Us
In Nursery we have been talking about different jobs and the people in our community who help us. Children talked about what they wanted to be when they grow up and took part in imaginative play
Nursery - Observing the Changes in the Environment
...The environment using shapes. The children looked through Their shaped windows to see what Autumn ch......ges They could observe. "The leaves are falling down" said one child with anoTher commenti......with anoTher commenting "The leaves on The tree are green and The leaves on The floor are crust...
Year 6 WOW Day - The UK!
Today we completed our learning for our Autumn 1 topic - the UK! We sketched our favourite landmarks in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We then created sculptures of our favourite landmarks. Which landmarks have you visited in the UK? Do you have a favourite landmark? Why?
Nursery - Spooky Dress Up Day
...n Their Spooky outfits today. They listened to The story ‘Pumpkin Soup’ and have been exploring different pumpkins....
Year 5 - WOW Day: Tanzania
In Year 5 we have been learning all about Tanzania! We celebrated by making posters about the Massai Tribe who live in Tanzania and then we made bracelets inspired by their culture
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
KS1 Sewing Club
...g Autumn 1 with Miss Joan. They have had fun learning to sew and exploring The different patterns They can create to make Their own personalised bookmark....
Therapy Dog
...arents, staff and visitors. Therapy Dog Risk Assessment - November 2022 Children can benefit educ......from interactions with a dog. The Government guidance regarding pets and animals in school: Chapter......s responsible for The animal. There should be a written agreement within The school detailing: The...
World Mental Health Day 2022
...bly around Mental health day. The children learnt about how children are supported with Their anxiet......y School entered competition. They all won a “gratitude journal”. Well done children!...
School Council - New Committee Meetings
...ior Road Safety Committee. They were very excited and began straight away planning for The coming year, so watch this space!...
Year 4 - Outdoor Maths
...ath lesson in The playground. They continued with Their focus for this week, addition and subtraction....
Year 5 - Factors and Multiples
...took place in The playground. They used dices to generate random numbers which were Then investigated for factor pairs....
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 1
This week we learned how to use the search bar on Purple Mash to find resources on the site. We spoke about it being a safe search bar, and how search bars on the wider internet might not be safe. We used the filter option to make sure we found relevant resources. We completed an emotions activity...
Year 2 - National Outdoor Learning Day
Year 2 spent time in the Hop Garden doing some outdoor maths as part of National Outdoor Learning Day. It was raining a little and a bit cold, but the children enjoyed it
Year 2 Act Out Varmints
This week Year 2 explored our Book Fortnight story, Varmints, by using talk partners and role play. We thought about what the characters may have been feeling at each point in the story and explored the meaning of the book
Year 4 - Controlled Experiment
...ut how our food becomes waste.......l about our digestive system. The children were able to identify The parts and The functions of The ......ions of The digestive system. They had fun learning all about how our food becomes waste....
Year 2 - 2L Christmas Prep
This week 2L have been making lots of Christmas decorations! We decorated Santa faces for our hoop, made a paper wreath and even made our own baubles. We then decorated the tree with our creations!
Year 4 - RE Day: Judaism
...g all about The Jewish faith. They discussed The main beliefs, The importance of a synagogue, looked at different Jewish festivals and coloured in Their own stained glass image....
Year 4 - ICT: Spreadsheets
... sequences using spreadsheets.......rning all about spreadsheets. They were able to use a spreadsheet and make a pattern that They have ...
Year 3 - Mapping Day
...eir own map of our local area....
Year 2 - Coding Week 4
This week we continued our coding topic and learnt about using a timer to run a block of commands after a delay. We had fun making a magician's rabbit disappear and then reappear!
Year 5 - Computing: Friction and Functions
... our screen from sliding off. Then we created a function where The game would reset if it hit The walls of The game or The goal....
Year 5 - DT: Moving Dragons
Did you know that this last weekend was Chinese New Year? It is a celebration that takes place all around the world and celebrates the new year according to the lunar calendar. To celebrate this, we made moving dragons in DT, using cardboard, paper and split pins. It contains a lever and by moving...
Year 5 - Maths: Fractions of Quantity
This week in Year 5 has been full of fractions. We've spent time multiply unit and non unit fractions with integers, multiplying mixed numbers with integers and finding the fractions of a quantity. Here is us recapping some work and learning some new things!
The Nest - Making Sandwiches
We watched a video on how to make a Jam sandwich and then tried it all by ourselves. "it taste delicious"
Year 3 - Spanish - Mi color favorito
Students in 3P have enjoyed revisiting colours and learning how to ask an answer questions about their favourite colour in today's lesson
Year 5 - Science: Soluble or Insoluble?
Do you know what soluble and insoluble means? We learnt about what they are today. We used our new learning to carry out a fair test to see what substances are soluble and what substances are insoluble. We used salt, sugar, flour, hot chocolate powder and black pepper. Which ones do you think are...
Year 6 - 6MC - IntoUni Week
We have spent a week with IntoUni! We learned about inspirational people such as Malala Yousafzai and Martin Luther King Junior. We also visited the Wallace Collection in Central London and Cambridge University! "It was one of the best into uni sessions we had and we had lots of fun with the...
Year 4 Story Telling with Phil McDermott
...ions used by our story teller....... McDermott today (2-02-2023). There was so much laughter as Phil told stories that grabbed Their ima...
Year 4M Science Experiment at Cardinal Pole Secondary School
...ng us to Their amazing school.......dary School today, 2-02-2023. They were able to use The amazing facilities of Their science lab. The......ilities of Their science lab. The children were taught by a secondary science teacher and had a fabu...
Year 6 - DT: Frames and Structures
...nd annotated Their design. They included measurements in order to make The most of The materials ......st of The materials They had. They Then used Their maths skills to measure, and saws to safely cut t...
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
Year 2 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023
...¿que ves ahí? (what do you see?). They can not just tell The story in Spanish, but can also sign it!...
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 4 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023
...ood/drink related vocabulary. They have mastered The use of The structure ‘opinion phrase + infinitive verb + food/drink’. Students have also explored The Spanish diet and what children may eat at Their main meals....
Year 5 - Safer Internet Day 2023
Today is Safer Internet Day! Do you know how to stay safe on the internet? What would you do if you found a page that told you you had won £1000? We discussed what we would do in these situations and made posters about it!
Year 2 - Coding Week 3
This week we continued our coding topic. We created an algorithm to instruct characters to move when they are clicked and to stop when they collide. We also explored how to change the character image once they collided!
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...
The Nest - Fruit Kebabs
...ruit that we used. "The pineapples were The sweetest" Fun Fact - did you know that bananas contain a natural chemical called 'seratonin' which makes people happy?...
The Nest - Movie and Christmas Presents
Thank you for our presents Bob! We loved them!
School Choir Trip to Homerton Hospital
... are some ot The hits we sang:......ding joy and Christmas cheer. The children sang Their hearts out and did The school proud. Here ar...
Year 4 - History and Art: Pyramids in Egypt
...mage of The pyramids in Egypt....
Year 5 - RE Day - Islam in the Middle Ages
...out Islam in The middle ages. They focused on The foundations of The religion such as The 5 pillars. FurThermore, They learnt about innovators of this era and The crusades....
The Secret Life of Reception - Autumn 2 2022
...y, we have been reading about The Extraordinary Gardener, talking about The people who help us in our community, writing sentences and started to get ready for Christmas!...
Year 5 - WOW Day: Ancient Greece
We created vases inspired by ancient Greeks using recyclable items. First, we created the base and structure of the vase which was then followed by decorating the vase. This was a great way to end our topic on Ancient Greece where we learnt about how and where they had an influence on modern society
Year 4 WoW Day - Ancient Egyptians
...'Were Pharaohs Fair'. Then we made our own Cartouches and build a sarcophagus, pyramid and a mummy....
Year 6 WOW Day - WW2
... and Underground shelters! Then we created miniature versions of Them! Have a look below! What do you know about WW2 bomb shelters?...
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!
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
Reception - Chinese New Year and Ordinal Numbers
...n reading a story called 'The Great Race' which explained about The chinese zodiac. We made fans, red envelopes, dragon masks, lanterns and used chopsticks for our wooly noodles. We also used The Great Race story in Numeracy this week, where we learnt about Ordinal Numbers and we competed...
Mr Logan Meets the School Councillors of 2022/23
...ol Councillors of 2022/23. The committees introduced Themselves, updated Mr. Logan about what The...... about Their future plans. They were all mesmerised listening to Mr. Logan talking about his own ...
The Nest - Literacy and Maths
... of fun literacy and maths in The Nest....
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...
The Nest - Pizza Making
Today we made cheese and tomato pizza's and they were delicious!!!
Reception - Mini Rabbit Cake Baking
Last week, Reception focused on a story called 'Mini Rabbit Not Lost' and it was about a little rabbit who got lost when he was searching for berries for his cake. We decided to make our own cake. We figured out what ingredients we needed, measured them out, mixed everything together and...
Year 2 - 3D Shapes
This week we made 3D shapes using nets. We had to cut and stick carefully in order to make the correct shape. We then discussed the shape we had made and thought about what 2D shapes we could see on their faces
Year 2 - Coding Week 2
This week we started our coding topic! We had lots of fun trying to make planes take off from their runways and adding code blocks to detect any collisions. We had to think carefully about the algorithm we made and how we could debug if there were any problems!
Year 2 - Science: Material Sorting
Year 2 thought about the properties of various materials that they could find around the classroom. We discussed what each item was made from, and how that affected it's use. We also discussed how we could sort the items in various ways, giving reasons each time
Year 2 Moderation Immersion
We used role play to act out the story of Marshmallows. We thought about how each of the characters were feeling throughout the story and how we could describe their actions and emotions
Year 5 - Spanish - Mi ciudad
...g Their different buildings. These are some pictures of 5C students. Games are always a great way to get students talking in Spanish!...
The Secret Life of Reception - Autumn 1 2022
...ology and all of its features!......he next in The series of 'The Secret Life of Reception' and see what fabulous learning has b......earning has been going on. They have been taking pictures of Their friends, Their activities and ...
Year 1 - 1A Computing: Harvest Festival
This week we've been using the Chromebooks and linking it in with our RE topic - Harvest festival. We used Purple Mash to create a harvest basket, full of delioucious fruits and vegetables. We've been using the programme to drag and drop and select colours on paint
Year 1 - DT: Making a Chair
As part of our DT topic of 'How do you make a structure strong?', we thought carefully about designing a chair and then used resources from the classroom to make it! We worked hard to make each part of the chair and then thought about how we could secure them together
Year 5 - Literacy: Dragon Trump Cards
To finish up our week of the Dragon Slayer, we designed our own dragons and made trump cards for them! We considered their powers, favourite food and appearance
Nurture Group - Our Trip to the Post Office
In Literacy we have been learning how to write a letter. We wrote our own letter together and went to the post office to post it. We spoke to the post man and asked him some questions
Nurture Group - Water Play
On Friday we went to the Hop Garden to enjoy some water play as it was extremely hot! "I loved getting wet and splashing in the paddling pool" "I want to do it again"
Year 5 - Role Play: Dragon Slayer
Today Year 5 role played the Dragon Slayer! We picked our favourite part and performed them for our class!!
Year 6 - 6M Yoga
...professional Yoga instructor. The children felt The calm and peaceful setting, of The hop garden, to...... an amazing space to do Yoga. They really enjoyed The different Yoga techniques They did and felt re...
Year 6 - ICT and Science in 6M
...fic 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 2 - Computing: Searching the Internet
...about searching The internet. They had lots of fun trying to find answers about dinosaurs using a search engine called Google. When They finished, They tested Their knowledge of dinosaurs by completing a quiz on Purple Mash....
Year 2 - Sculpting with Clay
...azing sculptures out of clay. There were many types of techniques we had to learn e.g. pulling, rolling, smoothing and adding detail. Have a look at some of our outstanding sculptures....
Year 4 Swimming at the Aquatics Centre
...Aquatics Centre in Stratford. They were learning how to swim with professional swimming instructors. By The end of The two weeks, everyone passed Their swimming test!...
Junior Mental Health Team - Thank You to Daubeney Staff
Did you know, when you express your appreciation for someone, you will not only improve their lives but yours as well. You will feel more fulfilled because you have done something to make someone else’s life better. It will change your mindset. Our mood and daily outlooks change when we focus on...
Year 5 - Yoga
In our first yoga lesson, we got used to being on the yoga mat, hearing sounds and enjoying relaxing yoga. We can't wait for our next session!
Year 5 - Yoga - Week 3
It’s our third week of yoga and we are definitely becoming much better at it! We still get the giggles sometimes but we’re learning how to slow ourselves down much faster than we used to be able to
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
Year 1 - Computing - Week 2
...r Cross Curricular Art topic. They used 2Paint on Purple Mash and thought about The colour and shape of The lines They needed to use....
Year 1 - Computing - Week 3
For week 3 of computing in Year 1, we used Chromebooks to practise our Maths skills, sequencing numbers from 1-100. We thought about how to navigate a website to get to the page that we need and how to accurately use the touch pad
Nurture Group - Shopping Trip
This week in maths we have been learning about money. We wrote out our shopping list and headed off to the shops. Today we are making fruit kebabs and chocolate Rice Krispies. We bought the ingredients and looked at how much each item will cost and what coins we will need. Finally, we worked out...
Year 4 - Computing: 2Animate
...ed some brilliant animations. They learnt to copying from frame to frame, deleting and adding frames, changing speed and background, onion skinning and adding sound to Their animations....
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"
Year 2 - 2P Singing School Trip
...;Mr Postman” and “The bear missed The train”. As you can see from The photos everyone had a great time . We are looking forward to working with Voces 8 in The next academic year again....
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 5 - Environmental Sculptures
Today we went to Daubeney Fields to create our own sculptures based on the artist Andy Goldsworthy. We used our natural surroundings as tools and resources such as branches, twigs, leaves, feathers and mud!
Year 5 - Ducklings Come to Visit
...nds in The form of ducklings! They started last week off in Year 3 and have now arrived in Year 5. We have been loving playing with Them and watching Them grow and play!...
Reception - Trip to Hackney School of Food
On Monday, we visited the Hackney School of Food. We made pizza by making our dough and adding tomato paste, cheese and oregano to match the colours of the Italian flag. We also made fruit kebabs, using bananas, pears, blueberries and raspberries. After we made our food, we enjoyed eating it in the...
Year 6 Residential 2022 - Day 3
It’s been another jam packed day hahahahaha. Oh we had jam toast and croissants for breakfast. Inside joke. We’ve been kayaking, canoeing, starting fires, building bridges and climbing unimaginable heights. Last night we also had a Daubeney talent show and it’s safe to say it was VERY entertaining....
Year 1 - Iggy Peck Architect
Our book focus for two weeks is Iggy Peck Architect by Andrea Beaty. We used role play and hot seating to explore the story and the characters, and we also had a go at making our own structures out of items from around the classroom!
Year 1 - Maths: Multiplication
...The times symbol 'x'. They thought carefully about how many groups They had and also how man......any items were in each group. They wrote fabulous number sentences to show Their learning!...
Year 1 - 1A DT: Making a Chair
...s to connect pieces togeTher. The outcome was amazing and most of our chairs were strong and sturdy. Take a look at what fun we've had creating our chairs!...
Year 5 - 5MC at IntoUniversity
...niversity life could be like! Then we recapped what we learned about Space and created different space homes based on The atmosphere of different planets. "I liked when we created The spaces houses and we were able to use our creativity." - Lincoln "I liked that we learned a lot about astronomy, su...
Year 5 - 5C at IntoUniversity
Do you know what university is about? We have been learning about what life will be like at university by experiencing university course would be like. We learnt about space and created different space homes based on the atmosphere of different planets
Year 5 - Science: Water Resistance
This week, we have been learning about water resistance. We learnt that water resistance is similar to air resistance but we can lessen water resistance by being streamlined. To test this out we made our own boats and tested them out in a paddling pool
Year 5 - Design Research
...ls to research how They work. They had to look up how generators work, how transformers work and how windmills and wind turbines are similar and different....
Year 6 Residential 2022 - Day 1
Well, we all crossed our fingers for sunny weather but of course, shortly after our arrival the skies opened and it definitely made for a memorable first day. We had archery, climbing, aerial treck, mountain biking, obstacle courses and ALL in the pouring rain. Our children have settled in so well...
Year 6 Residential 2022 - Day 2
...Hello to everyone at Daubeney!...
Nursery - Queen's Jubilee: Going to the Races
...laughter and lots of cheering.......'Going to The races'. They designed and made pool noodle horses to race around The track. Th......ses to race around The track. There were smiles, laughter and lots of cheering....
Year 5 - Literacy: Art-ish
Sun-ish, tree-ish, butterfly-ish, fish-ish. What do you do when your drawing looks ALMOST like the thing you meant to draw? We made art inspired by the book "Ish" to show us that even if it isn't perfect, we can all do art!
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
Year 4 - Function or Appearance: What Is More Important?
For design and technology, we researched, evaluated and created amazing boardgames to see the difference between function and appearance. Sketches of their innovation was brought to life and was also tested by themselves in order to evaluate the functions of their game
Year 4 - Queen's Platinum Jubilee Celebrations
Today the Year 4 pupils had a fantastic time celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. We had a lovely exhibition, a fantastic picnic in the Hop Garden and a wonderful quiz. Well done to everyone who helped make this day a great success
Year 6 Residential 2022 - Day 4
It’s our second to last day and things are not slowing down. We’ve been kayaking and canoeing, orienteering, going on an aerial trek, zip lining and doing some archery. We’ve got one final night and we’re going to celebrate by having a campfire and playing some camp games. It’s also the last night...
Reception Jubilee Day
We had so much fun celebrating the Platinum Jubilee. We loved pool noodle horse racing, a picnic fit for the Queen and a Royal Ball
Reception - Forest School - Yellow Class: Jubilee Crown Making
Yellow class celebrating the end of Forest School and the Queen jubilee crown making
Year 1 - Art: Exploring Sculptures
Year 1 have been exploring sculptures this week as part of our new Art topic. We thought about what the sculptures looked like, what they might have been made out of and how they made us feel
Year 5 - Literacy: Roleplay
Do you know what the most important things to consider when you are doing roleplay? We discussed them today in Year 5 and then used our new skills to roleplay the book "Ish" by Peter H. Reynolds, a lovely book about a child who learns to love their unique style of creating art
Reception - Ducklings Week 1
This week we were lucky enough to have 5 duck eggs arrive! We waited patiently for the eggs to hatch and over the first few hours, they all hatched! We have watched them eat, drink and cuddle with each other. Both classes have enjoyed watching them, stroking them and watching them grow! Alongside...
Year 5 - Aspiring Artist in 5SM
Well done to this young aspiring artist in 5SM. This layered painting took almost one year to complete!! It is entitled ‘Explosion of flowers’ We are very proud of the amazing work
Mini Garden
...arden by painting The decking.......eney family can enjoy nature. They have worked hard with support from Dave and Gavin to design a &ld...... a “Mini Garden”. The friends of The Earth have shown interest in supporting Their proje...
Year 1 - Computing - Week 4
...uctions when They are coding. They thought about The route The mouse had to take in order to get to ......oid any obstacles in The way. They also had to debug The mouse if any of The instructions were wrong...
Year 4 - Science and ICT: Classifying Living Things
...ed classifying living things. They completed a range of fun activities on Purplemash learning all about classifying animals....
Year 4 - ICT and Geography: Human Geographical Features in Japan
...ographical features in Japan. They used The information along with The notes from The lesson to create a poster identifying many Human features found in Japan....
Year 4 - Reading: Non-Fiction Text About Earthquakes
...raphy lesson later this week. The children made notes and recorded some interesting facts. Home Learning task: in The comments section let me know what interesting fact you learnt about earthquakes....
Be Internet Legends Online Safety Assembly
...r Be Internet Legends Scheme. They had lots of fun learning about The 5 pillars of online safety - smart alert, strong, kind and brave....
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 3
This week we used 2Paint on Purple Mash to create a piece of art using impressionism as our theme. We created our own individual paintings and explored the way they made us feel
European Day of Languages
... or ‘borrowings’. These are words which are now English words that come from oTher languages. As well as being a great chance to celebrate The diversity of languages and cultures and promote intercultural understanding, European Day of Languages gives us an opportunity to get to know ...
Year 4 - Roman Numeral Clock
...eir own Roman numeral clocks. They have been learning about Roman Numerals this week and used Their Design and Technology skills to create a Roman Numeral clock....
Year 2 - Art in Literacy
...een focusing on The book 'The Magic Bojabi Tree' in Literacy. We have had lots of fun using role play and oracy to understand The story, and today we used water colours to paint a scene from The book....
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 4
This week Year 2 learnt about pointillism art and how it is different from last weeks art technique. We explored some art work from Georges Seurat and Paul Signac before we created our own masterpieces using the chromebooks
Year 5 - Literacy Outdoor Learning
...find shelter in The evenings. The children had to work as a team and think about The properties of The materials, along with ensuring The den was sturdy....
Year 4 Timetables Club - 5th October 2022
...l on Their Purplemash program....
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 5
This week we used 2Paint on Purple Mash to explore the art work of Piet Mondrian. We discussed how they used lines and colour to produce their art work, and then had a go at making our own versions
Year 2 - Geography and IT: Exploring Earth
This week for our Geography lesson we were exploring the Earth! We used atlases and Google Earth to identify the North and South Poles, as well as the equator. We had fun identifying countries around the world and discussing what the climate is like in each place
Year 3 - Computing - Coding
...oding this term in Computing. They have now learnt what an algorithm is and how to make virtual obje......ing symbols and instructions. They are super excited about computing lessons and always look forward...
Year 5 - Maths Outdoor Learning
Year 5 improved their mental addition and subtraction in maths by using a range of strategies to answer one step problems. This included compensation, adjustment and finding connections between numbers
Year 6 - Land use in the UK
Year 6 have been learning about the different ways land is used in the UK! Today they have made posters about the different countries in the UK and compared their different forms of land use. Did you know that most of the land in the UK is used for farming?
Year 4 - ICT and Geography
...topic, 'Earthquakes'. They researched information and completed activities on PurpleMash all about Earthquakes....
Year 4 - ICT and Geography: Information About Earthquakes
...nformation about earthquakes. They also used Their Purplemash program to answer different questions and quizzes based on earthquakes and how it is formed....
Year 5 & 6 - PE Trips
Well done to the year 5/6 for trying their best at rugby and dodgeball
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 1 - 1A Geography WOW Day
For geography WOW day we have been creating landmarks in London out of junk box modelling. We've enjoyed painting, sticking, cutting and drawing. We've also learnt that London is a very busy city with wonderful things to see including the Big Ben, London Bridge, Buckingham palace, London...
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 6
This week we explored the art work of William Morris and discussed how they use repeated patterns and rotations. We then used 2Paint to make our own repeated pattern piece of art. We thought about the design we made and the size of the pattern as well as the option to rotate our designs
Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 2
This week we discussed our online safety agreement, talking about how to keep ourselves safe when using a device and who we should ask for help. We practised logging in to the chromebooks using our individual usernames and passwords, and then logged in to LGFL to access Purple Mash. We then had...
Year 5 - Literacy: Features of a Poem
This week, we are looking at poems in literacy and today we spent the lesson looking at the features of poems. We looked at different kinds of poems. Do you know what the features of a poem is?
Golden Achievers of the Year 2021-22
Congratulations to our Daubeney Golden Achievers of 2021/22
Year 5 - Maths: Measurement
...s and comparing measurements. They also looked at objects in our class and decided if They should be measured using kilograms or grams!...
Year 6 - 6M ICT: Maths and Coding Skills
...Their maths and coding skills....
Year 1 - Computing - Week 5
...lls using 2Go on Purple Mash. They thought about which direction They wanted The object or person to move and could press The correct button using a range of different backgrounds and paths....
Year 4 - Transition Day in 5C
This week was super exciting. To get us ready for September, we spent the day with our new teacher, Miss Cheung and did lots of fun activities like learning about Miss Cheung and talking about ourselves, creating class charter, writing a letter to our old teacher and play team games
Year 5 - 5C Reading Outside
Is there a better way to end the week than sitting outside, enjoying the sun and learning through reading? We spent our reading lesson in the Hop Garden today!
Year 5 - Literacy: Artwork Inspired by Poetry
...oem "Mrs McPhee" in The book "The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry" Here is The poem: Mrs McPhee Who lived in South Zeal Roasted a duckling For every meal. 'Duckling for breakfast And dinner and tea And duckling for supper,' Said Mrs McPhee 'It's sweeter than sugar, It's clean as a nut, I'm ...
Year 5 - Summer Big Draw
...;The False Mirror".......é Magritte's "The False Mirror"....
Nursery Graduation
Today our butterflies graduated from Nursery as they will be flying off to Reception in September
Year 2 - 2KF RE Day
Yesterday we had a really fun RE Day learning about four religions. We learnt that all religions have teachings about forgiveness. Later, we discussed how it feels to ask for forgivness. We looked closely at a picture that shows forgivess and talked about how the bird flying away means to be free...
Year 5 & 6 Trip to Southend Adventure Island
An unforgettable day for everyone. We had songs in the coach journey, a trip to the beach AND a fun day out at adventure island!
Year 5 - Mapping Skills Day
To start our new geography topic, we refreshed our memories and learnt some new things about maps and how to use them. To end the day, we created our own maps of the playground and we made sure we had a clear and easy to read key as well!
Music - Summer Term 2022
...s with The amazing Matt Harding. The music technology workshops with Mr. Harding have opened The ch......ith Mr. Harding will show you how. The highlight of The year by far was our trip into central Londo...
Year 6 Trip to Laburnum Boat Club
As temperatures soared, Year 6 couldn’t have been any luckier. We went down to Laburnum, took part in kayak games and then took a dip in the canal - just what you need on the hottest day of the year so far!
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...
Year 5 - First Week
How was your summer? We spent the first day of Year 5 learning our new routines, finding our new seats and starting some new learning. We can't wait to experience more new things in Year 5
Year 4 - 4M: ICT Online Safety
...nd focussed on online safety. They completed a few activities using PurpleMash and answered a quiz all about online safety....
Year 5 - Literacy: Himalayas Fact File
Today we created a fact file all about the Himalayas as part of our ‘Hook into a Book’. We looked at pictures of the mountains and discussed Mount Everest. We are very excited to begin our new book ‘King of cloud forest’ by Michael Morpurgo
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 Mapping Skills Day
For mapping skills day, we had lots of fun learning about directions and following maps. We explored maps that used a bird's eye view and practiced drawing our classroom using a key. We also painted the United Kingdom and spoke about each of the countries and their capital cities
Year 5 - Practising Handwriting
Year 5 have been practising their handwriting. Many children are excited to achieve a pen license
Year 5 - Literacy Roleplay
...d and roleplayed The story of The Three Little Pigs but we put a twist on it and told The story from The perspective of The wolf!...
Year 6 - Art WOW Day 2024
...aint on our polystyrene blocks. Then we pressed our polystyrene blocks onto fabric. In Eagle class, we recalled learning about batik printing with wax. Our version of batik printing was drawing a design inspired by Japanese patterns with white wax crayon and Then painting over it. This Then showed o...
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...
Reception - Our First Week
We have loved our first week in Reception at Daubeney! This week, we have been exploring our new classrooms! We have been reading in our garden themed reading are, making Play-Doh faces, playing in our home and our doctors' surgery, as well as exploring our maths and writing areas. We have been...
Year 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
Rainbow - Letters, Fingers Writing and CVC Learning
...ing literacy in our learning! The children enjoyed using The colorful sequence mats to create various marks and letters with Their fingers, helping to develop early mark-making, letter formation, and fine motor skills. Also, were also fully engaged in practicing how to write letters of The alphab...
Year 4 - Brain Buddies workshop
...different choices and actions....
Year 2 - Geography: Autumn WOW Day 2025
To end our geography topic on hot and cold countries, we created shoebox habitats of what we might find in a country with a hot or cold climate. We even considered the animals and plants we might see there
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!
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: Man on the Moon Drama
To start our topic, we read the story then we had lots of discussions about the story. We even acted out some parts of the story to help us remember it!
Year 2 - Maths: Column Method Addition
To introduce ourselves to the idea of column method addition, we spent the lesson representing this using our dienes and working in pairs. We are beginning to look at what column method means
Year 2 Computing - Creating pictures: Impressionism
Do you know what impressionism is? We learnt about the art style of impressionism today and created our own impressionist inspired art on Purple Mash!
Parent Communication - 14th November 2025
Here at Daubeney, as with our sister schools in the Blossom Federation, we celebrate our children every Friday at our Golden Achievers' assembly.
14th November 2025
Rainbow - Reading Stories
...n adult read aloud The story "The Cat Who Had Different Coloured Shoes." The narrative captured Thei......ad Different Coloured Shoes." The narrative captured Their interest and provided a meaningful contex...
Year 4 PSHE - Anti Bullying Week
... negative effects of bullying....... today as a whole year group. They were told a story of a beautiful soul who was bullied and The eff......d The effects it had on him. The children understood The big message today and completed a task to ...
Rainbow - Autumn Tree (Apple Painting)
...een sunny and rainy, days. They explored painting autumn trees with apples—what an exciting......ive twist to The activity. Their beautiful autumn trees, painted with apples, are now proudly dis...
Year 4 Hornbills - ICT Logo
... avoiding The mighty Minotaur.......ging lesson today using Logo. They had to programme Their Logo to navigate through a maze avoiding t...
Year 3 Science - Rocks
Year 3 had fun exploring the 3 main types of rocks - igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. We examined different rocks and used key vocabulary to describe their properties
Year 4 Science - The Digestive System
...stive system and how it works....
Year 5 - Spanish - Online Games
Year 5 children having fun while developing their Spanish vocabulary through competitive online games
Rainbow Room - Clock Numbers
Today, our pupils stepped into the role of math detectives as they explored missing numbers on clocks. Armed with curiosity and sharp observation skills, they carefully checked the clocks and filled in the missing numbers. This engaging activity was able to help pupils to get familiar with numbers...
Year 3 - Stone Age
Year 3 have been exploring life from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, learning about where people lived, what they ate, and the tools they used. In one of our lessons, we created our own spears using clay and sticks to recreate a Stone Age hunting tool
Year 4 Hornbills - Oracy - 5th November 2025
...g as part of our oracy skills.......as part of Their study start. They used conversation prompts to explore speaking and listening as pa...
Rainbow - Maths Learning
...; by placing cubes into cups. They compared The number of cubes in each cup to determine which contained more or fewer cubes. Children participated in a sensory activity using water cups to explore The concepts of "full" and "empty." By filling and emptying The cups, They deve...
Year 4 - Brain Buddies 2025
...ng on Problem Solving Choices....
Year 3 - RE Day - The Turtle Who Could Not Stop Talking
... we acted out The story "The Turtle Who Could Not Stop Talking." We learned about The teachings of Jesus and Buddha, and explored what helps us pause, reflect, and think more deeply....
Year 4 - Collabarative Learning
...hey will be writing next week.......ideshow of his trip to Japan. The children were able to use facts and information for Their travel l...
Year 4 Research - Literacy and ICT
... and record Their information.......hey will be making next week. They used Their ICT skills and Their note taking skills to locate and ...
Parent Communication - 17th October 2025
Today, we bring the penultimate week of the autumn 1 half-term to a close. It’s been another fantastic week with lots to celebrate!
17th October 2025
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 4 Hornbills - Outdoor Learning - Autumn 2 2025
...tory and discussed The events....
Year 2 - Maths: Add by making 10
In today's practical lesson, we practised adding single digit numbers by using tens frames to make a 10 so it would be easier for us to find the answer
Year 3 - Black History Workshop 2025
... Black History with Immediate Theatre Company. We used drama to celebrate diversity in our class and learn about different aspects of Black culture such as food....
Year 3 - Outdoor Learning 2025
Year 3 learnt what plants need to grown and discussed the steps to follow plant a seed in our science lessons. We then went out to the Hop Garden to plant our seeds and start our plant-growing journey. It was exciting to use what we learned and see how plants begin to grow
Year 1 Parrot Class - Rapunzel
Parrot class have been reading the story Rapunzel by Bethan Woolvin. We have been acting out the story using lots of story props. We also created a wanted poster for the wicked witch to try and find her. We've also been busy thinking of adjectives to describe Rapunzel. What words can you think...
Year 4 - Outdoor Maths - Autumn 2 2025
...on skills to find The answers.......ing addition and subtraction. They measured different parts of The playground and used Their additio...
Rainbow - Constructive Activity
Adults have introduced a new learning opportunity called Constructive Play, where children use stickle bricks to create their own arrangements. This open-ended activity encourages creativity, problem-solving, and spatial awareness. Children explored different ways of connecting and placing the...
Year 3 - WOW Day - Autumn 1 2025
Year 3 had a fantastic Wow Day to wrap our learning about the Amazon Rainforest. We created vibrant dioramas of the rainforest using paints, leaves, twigs and lots of different recycled materials to bring our vision to life! Watch the videos to see what geographical features we included
Year 4 Wow Day
... a pop-up earthquake building.......ear 4 had an amazing Wow Day. They first completed Their end of term assessment and Then began creat...
Parent Communication - 24th October 2025
Today, we bring our eight-week autumn 1 half-term, the longest half-term of the year, to a close and look forward to a well-deserved break for all, children and adults alike!
24th October 2025
Reception Stay and Play
Daubeney are offering stay and play sessions to children under the age of five.
24th October 2025
Year 4 - Brain Buddies - Autumn 2 2025
...ove from one zone to The next....... weekly Brain Buddies Lesson. They explored The zones of regulations and Their feelings in each zone...
Year 5 - Wow Day - Tanzania and Mountains
...ia and mountain environments. The day was packed with fun and learning, helping pupils immerse Thems...... Their own mountain rucksack. They had to think carefully about what essential equipment a mountain ...
Arsenal Community Outreach
...ith a Arsenal community coach.......ing technology in education . The social project lasted for six weeks, working with a Arsenal commun...
Attendance Update Letter - November 2025
In August 2024, the Government released updated statutory guidance titled “Working Together to Improve School Attendance”. This aims to ensure a consistent national approach to school attendance and support across all schools.
5th November 2025
Rainbow - Attention Bucket Intervention
...or sharing The sensory balls. The fun part of The Attention Bucket was making splat castles with a use of plastic cups and paint....
Rainbow - Autumn Vocabulary Learning
...They saw, what They saw, etc. Then, with The support of an adult, They created short and long senten......rations on The worksheets. They also look at pictures with words such as leaf, pumpkin, hat, ches...
Year 5/6 Boy's & Girl's - Hackney Football Competition
...f The children accomplishment....
KS1 - Lego Club
Today, KS1 children in the Lego Club worked together to build their very own Santa’s Grotto out of Lego
Rainbow Room - Autumn Art
As part of our seasonal learning journey, pupils have been engaging in fantastic activities to explore the beauty of Autumn through art. Pumpkins Art: Pupils painted their own representations of pumpkins using water colours and cotton buds, adding texture and vibrancy with orange tissue paper....
Parent Communication - 23rd January 2026
Curriculum Feature –Music at Daubeney continues to thrive, with creativity and performance at the heart of school life. Our Year 5 Robins are hard at work developing their own original Godzilla musical, showcasing impressive imagination and teamwork.
23rd January 2026
Rainbow Class: Writing and Phonics
... practised Their handwriting. They worked on writing simple CVC words in Their learning books and explored mark‑making through dot‑to‑dot activities to develop fine motor skills and correct pencil grip for accurate letter formation. In addition, They enjoyed matching CVC and phonics words r...
Reception - Spanish: Numbers 1-10
In Reception, we also learn the numbers 1–10 in Spanish to help strengthen the children’s understanding of number value and number order. Through songs, games, and hands-on activities, the children build confidence recognising and counting numbers in both English and Spanish
Year 4 - Design and Technology
...ill be making in Their lesson....
Year 4 - Spanish: Times Tables
Year 4 have been strengthening their times tables by practising multiplication in Spanish! Through quick-fire games, and chants, pupils are building confidence in both their Spanish vocabulary and their maths fluency. A fun and lively way to reinforce learning across subjects!
Year 1 Peacocks - DT Chair for a bear
In DT, we have been looking at how chairs are built. We have been looking at the features of chairs. Did you know chairs have ears? We used Lego to help us design our own chairs, and we used labels to help us know which parts we need. We are so excited to build our own chairs next week!
Year 1 Peacocks - Tens and Ones
We have been looking at tens and ones this week in Maths. We have been grouping together 10 and counting how many of those groups are in a bigger number
Letter to Hackney Parents re Ofsted
As the Director of Education and Inclusion in Hackney, I am writing to share important information about the revised Ofsted inspection framework, which came into effect in November 2025 ...
22nd January 2026
Year 4 - Making Circuits
...e including switches and fans.......ing and discovering circuits. They watched a video and from There learnt how to make simple and comp...
Year 5 and Year 6 - Spanish: Word on Beat
Year 5 and Year 6 use the viral game Word on Beat to improve pronunciation and build new vocabulary. Keeping words in rhythm helps pupils focus, listen carefully, and confidently try out new sounds — all while having fun
Rainbow Class - Learning Showcase
...ir engaged learning sessions. They used magnetic letters to place Them in alphabetical order, helpin......tracks was a big success too! The children loved sliding The trains down The ramp to see how They mo...
Rainbow Class: Magical Music Session
...nds of different instruments. They demonstrated various ways to use Them and helped The pupils create a range of sounds....
Rainbow Class - Shaped Rockets
...h books about spaceships and rockets. They focused on The illustrations, using Them to look at The d......ch shape using The interactive board. They had an opportunity practiced Their counting skills by rec...
Rainbow Room - Exploring and Learning about Materials
...ls in our investigation tray. The pupils were encouraged to observe, touch and discuss both familiar......o guide Their discoveries. They explored The textures, colours and shapes of different materials ......h only limited adult support. Their task was to find different items and stick Them into The correct...
Rainbow Room - Science Display Board (Materials)
WOW! Look at our fantastic display board, showcasing our pupils’ learning about materials as part of their science focus
Year 4 - Outdoor Maths 2026
...and converted using cm and mm....
Year 4 - Dragons Den
...questions about Their product.......esign and Technology studies. They pitched Their ideas to two Dragon businessman who asked Them ques...
Year 4 - Measurement
...red in cm and converted to mm.......riety of object in The class. They first estimated The measurements Then measured in cm and converte...
Rainbow Room - Art from 1970s
...ith a range of art materials. They demonstrated creativity, curiosity, and confidence as They used different techniques and resources to produce imaginative pieces. Pupils have learned about Frank Stella, an artist known for his work in Minimalism and Maximalism, particularly through his use of b...
EHT Update Letter - 29th January 2026
A Happy New Year to you all. Can we still say that? Of course we can, because we are 95 days into January! Despite the gloomy weather, things are nice and sunny within Blossom and across our schools. Phew!
29th January 2026
Year 4 - Science
...product that uses electricity....
Year 4 Hornbills - Hornbill and Nursery
...h The children in our nursery....
Rainbow Class: Small World - Transports
...nd a rocket set on The floor. They quickly noticed it and decided to play with Them, enjoying The activity with lots of excitement....
KS1 - Lego Club
...gn Their very own Lego Hotel. Their creativity really shone through as some pupils built unique and stylish features such as hotel buildings, swimming pools, aqua parks, car parks, and beautiful gardens. Check out Their amazing creations!...
Year 4 - Group Maths 2025
...nd solving reasoning problems....
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...
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
Nursery - One-handed Tools
We are learning to use one-handed tools. We can decorate our trees, and then count how many baubles our tree has
Nursery - Sense of Hearing
We have been learning about the sense of hearing. we made listening ears
Nursery - Sense of Sight
We have been learning about the sense of sight. We made our very own binoculars
Nursery - Working together to build
We have been working together and building our own ramps and tracks to create paths
Rainbow Room - Clay Snowman's
... hands-on modeling activity. They used clay rollers and Their hands to roll The clay into three spheres of different sizes, forming The body of a snowman. Pupils had make Their snowman's to be unique and creative as They added a variety of features such as googly eyes for expressive faces, w...
Safeguarding Newsletter - Autumn 2025
We can be contacted via the school office, or by telephone on 020 7396531. For a copy of our school’s Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy, please visit the ‘Safeguarding’ page on our school website: Safeguarding - Daubeney Primary School.
10th December 2025
Year 6 - Transition session
...n for future language learning. The visit boosted our students’ confidence and underscored The importance of a smooth transition into Year 7....
Dreamcatcher Competition
To celebrate winning mental health and wellbeing school of the year, we are launching a competition. We would like to display for Children's Mental Health Week!
17th December 2025
School Development Newsletter - Autumn 2 2025
Welcome to the first of our School Development Newsletters for the year.
19th December 2025
Year 4 - Literacy and Art 2026
...ok They were reading in class....
Parent Communication - 19th December 2025
This week rather than reading a brief snapshot of a curriculum area, we will usher you in the direction of our first School Development Newsletter of the year (see link below) for an in depth look at how we are doing across all our subject areas.
19th December 2025
Rainbow Class - Under the Sea: Sensory Story
... multi-sensory activities. They engaged with tactile resources like textured sea creatures, fabri......nd visuals from The story. These elements encouraged active participation, supported communicatio...
Parent Communication - 9th January 2026
In our haste to enjoy the Christmas holiday you may have missed our Autumn School Development Newsletter
9th January 2026
Year 1 Peacocks - Naming our shapes!
In Maths, we have been recapping our learning from Reception and have been naming shapes. We have been using these shapes to make other things
School Council Meeting - January 2026
...pact for our school community....
Year 4 - Boardgames
...n making Their own board game.......Design and Technology lesson. They had an opportunity to play different boardgames and critique The ......itique The games They played. They discussed function versus appearances and shared Their views. nex...
Year 4 - Literacy
...rotest against climate change.......school book called, Greta and The Giants. The children were inspired by The character Greta and made......called, Greta and The Giants. The children were inspired by The character Greta and made Their own p...
Year 1 Peacocks - Greta and the Giants
We have been reading Greta and the Giants this week! We have been talking about climate change and what we can do to help. We acted out the story and had our own mini protest
Parent Communication - 16th January 2026
This half-term we are focusing our learning on Design and Technology under the banner of, 'Beautiful or Useful?'.
16th January 2026
Year 4 - ICT and Reading
...ll be making in Their lessons.......opic - Design and Technology. They researched facts and looked at how electricity can be added to a ...
Year 1 Peacocks - Evergreen or Deciduous?
In Science, we have been learning about plants and trees. We have been thinking about what they need to grow and how we can look after them.We have also been talking about different types of trees and their features
Nursery - Welcome Back
We welcomed back all our friends after the summer holidays. We are excited to meet new friends too
Year 5 - DT: Understanding mechanisms
We learnt more about mechanical systems and how the process of input and output makes things move. We tested our knowledge of levers, pulleys and gears so far and then made moving puppets
School Development Newsletter - Summer 2 2025
Welcome to the third edition of our School Development Newsletters for the year.
21st July 2025
Year 3 - Rumpelstiltskin
...h The Power of Play sequence. They've thoroughly enjoyed Their first week—acting out scenes, building a fairy tale world, and bringing Their imagination and drama skills to life....
Daily Supported Reading 2025/26
Year 1 and 2 children will start Daily Supported Reading from the week commencing Monday 8th September. We are asking parents/carers to volunteer to help deliver DSR in Year 2 (9:00-9:30) or Year 1 (9:30-10:00) for up to four sessions per week.
9th July 2025
EHT Newsletter - Issue 9 - 9th July 2025
My penultimate update letter of the year! We always hope for a gentle approach towards the Summer Holidays but this never happens.
9th July 2025
Parent communication - 11th July 2025
Today concludes the penultimate full week of the academic year! It has been another eventful and busy week here at Daubeney, as you well know because you would have attended many of the events! More about that later when we recap the week. In our...
11th July 2025
Year 5 and Year 6 - Movie screening 2025
...ching The animated film Vivo. The movie, set in The vibrant Cuba, was a wonderful opportunity for children to explore intercultural understanding through music and storytelling....
Year 3 Kingfisher - Wow Day 2025
... inspired by Andy Goldsworthy....
Year 3 Toucan - WOW Day 2025
...al elements from The outdoors....... The artist Andy Goldsworthy. They ventured into The playground to craft natural sculptures using le...
Flu Immunisations Letter 2025
The flu vaccine will be offered at Daubeney this autumn/winter by the Vaccination UK team.
5th September 2025
Year 3 - Kingfisher in The Power Of Play
...many role- playing activities.......teracy lead from The National Theatre. The children used The story of Rumplestilskins and enjoyed th......ad from The National Theatre. The children used The story of Rumplestilskins and enjoyed The many ro...
Year 4 - Cross Curricular Learning
...earch facts about earthquakes....... part of The Geography topic. They discussed what They knew and used Their ICT skills to furTher res...
Year 2 - Literacy: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
...lp us understand The story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, we spent The lesson talking about The lesson and even acting out certain parts. Have a look at our photos from our freezeframes of The different characters reactions to The events of The story....
Year 4 - Mapping Skills Day
...ir own maps of our local area....
Year 4 Hornbills - ICT lesson
... safe when using The internet.......They discussed Online Safety. They had a few task to complete using Purplemash which taught Them how...
SEND PE - Autumn 2025
...he excellent work!"......pleted Their first PE lesson. They actively participated in all activities and were always willing t...
Parent communication - 12th September 2025
Firstly, well done for completing the first full week of the school year! Routines are very important and certainly help with school life Talking of routines, let’s get back into the routine of sharing our Golden Expectation of the Week.
12th September 2025
Rainbow - Self-Portraits Drawings
As part of our learning about ourselves and our peers, we have been exploring self-portraits. This activity has helped us reflect on our individual identities, emotions, and physical features. We looked closely at our faces in mirrors and discussed what makes each of us unique — from the...
Year 2 - Maths - Week 1 2025
To get us back into the swing of things with our amazing maths, we spent the first week reminding ourselves of what numbers up to 20 look like and what tens and ones look like
Year 2 - Maths: Partitioning tens and ones
...ooked like in different ways. Then, we used dienes to practise partitioning my two digit numbers into tens and ones....
Year 3 - Angles
This week, we began learning about angles by using maps and toy animals, giving directions using degrees and compass points. In our maths lesson, we also created origami to explore different types of angles, as well as shapes, edges, and vertices—setting the stage for our upcoming sequence on...
Year 6 Residential Trip - July 2026
We are delighted to invite your child to the Essex Outdoors Danbury Residential Centre in Danbury for our five-day residential taking place from Monday 6th July to Friday 10th July 2025.
7th July 2025
Year 4 - Hornbills Library Session
Hornbills had a lovely start to their day today Tuesday 16th September 2025 enjoying reading in our library
Summer Fair 2025
Join us for lots of fun! Bouncy Castle, Splat the Teacher Nature Hunt in the Hop Garden Games and Activities Face Paint, Food & Drinks Market Stalls
25th June 2025
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Chalk Art
... to draw images from our text....
Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive
It has been an absolute scorcher in sunny Essex today and we have had a good one. To all the staffs surprise we had to wake up most of the cabins at 7 this morning to some really cool music, which they loved. Everyone has made an amazing effort in all the activities today and we are so proud of the...
Year 3 - Creating Drawings using Chalk
In today’s lesson, we took our learning outdoors and used chalk to create drawings on the KS2 playground. Around our artwork, we wrote adjectives inspired by our fortnightly focus book, Chalk
Year 3 Kingfisher - ICT: Google Slides
...information about Their topic....
Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive
Survive and thrive, Daubs ‘25 Well believe it or not, today was even hotter! Everyone has dealt with it well though and are staying hydrated and being reminded to wear sunscreen! No campfire last night as we were informed it may have sent the whole place on fire so probably best not to have done...
Parent communication - 20th June 2025
Today we conclude what has been another busy, and very warm week, here at Daubeney! As always, to facilitate those home learning conversations, please find below our Golden Expectation, Debate topic of the Week and our Word of the Week.
20th June 2025
Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive
... of The week for residential. The kids were well behaved today and were really well at getting ready......hieved everything They could. They have all displayed maturity and independence and we know you are ...
Rainbow Room - Shapes ( Maths )
...cluding Their appearances. They were introduced to a fun shape memory game where They matched The......, squares, and rectangles. The shape learning continued as The children played an interactive gam...
Rainbow Room- Patterns Arrangements
...ing colorful lollipop sticks. There was an opportunity for us to challenged ourselves to try memorize The colours sequences as we carefully placed The lollipop s sticks on The paper, matching each stick to its corresponding colour in The pattern. This activity helped children to improve Their foc...
Rainbow Room - Sun Catchers & Rainbow Clouds
...The weaTher while playing. The children had a wonderful time creating sun catchers using paper pl......triangles from orange paper . They carefully applied yellow food dye and bright orange paper to symb...
Parent communication - 4th July 2025
In our usual fashion, please find below our Golden Expectation and our Word of the Week. Golden Expectation: Listen respectfully and follow instructions Word of the Week: Transition This week, I’d like to start by reminding you of some key events ...
4th July 2025
Year 3 - Kingfisher Art Project 2025
...when we created our art piece.......pired by Anthony Goldsworthy. The children prepared Their canvas for next when we created our art pi...
Parent communication - 27th June 2025
We conclude another wonderful and very busy week here at Daubeney and now look forward to the remaining days of the school year, which are disappearing very quickly! In our usual fashion, to facilitate those home learning conversations, please find..
27th June 2025
Rainbow Room - Weather learning
Children were matching the names of the weather using weather cards and word cards. Some children were able to recognize the weather names by saying them or pointing to them with an adult
Rainbow Room- Weather Patterns
...unshine, rain, and clouds. They had a great time using colorful lollipop sticks to match different colours to weaTher cards. This activity helped Them visualize and demonstrate different weaTher conditions and fostering a deeper understanding of meteorological concepts and encouraging imaginative...
Year 6 – Euros 2025
One-off lesson about the 2025 Women’s Euros, covering countries, present tense verbs, multiple-choice quiz to learn about this year’s competition and reading comprehension in Spanish
The Great Hackney Libraries Quest - Summer 2025
Read books and take part in fun activities at Hackney Libraries to collect stamps and receive certificates. Find out more here
1st July 2025
Year 6 - Graduation Letter
It brings us enormous pleasure to invite you to the Year 6 graduation ceremony for the academic year 2024 -2025. The Graduation Ceremony will take place on Monday 21st July 2025 in the Main School Playground and will conclude at approximately 10:30am
2nd July 2025
Rainbow Room - Human Life Cycle
...es from infancy to adulthood. They participated in an engaging activity where They arranged a series of pictures, each one depicting a different stage of The human life cycle, Some children demonstrated a keen understanding of The life cycle by confidently identifying and naming its distinct stag...
Year 3 - Kingfisher - Andy Goldsworthy Art Project
...inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. The children had Their canvas prepared last week and used twigs to pai......d twigs to paint Their image. They added leaves and on Friday will add a setting sun to complete The...
Reception - Yellow Team Trip 2025
I hope you are well. Please can the attached photos be uploaded on the highlights, title 2025 Yellow Team trip to Victoria Park
Year 4 - Concrete Maths
... through games and activities....
Year 2 - Computing: Exploring Purple Mash
For our first computing lesson in Year 2, we spent the lesson learning how to log in to Purple Mash and exploring the website. We will be using Purple Mash for almost all of our computing learning from now all the way up to Year 6!
Nursery - Making New Friends
This week we welcomed new friends. We are learning about each other. we are learning to share and take turns
Rainbow Room - Outdoor Learning & Play
...arning outside during autumn. They noticed The leaves changing colour and felt how crispy The leaves were when They touched Them. Even our pupils had fun doing physical activities like crawling through tunnels, sliding down slides, and walking on ropes on The climbing frame....
Year 4 - Brain Buddies
... Buddies for The next 7 weeks....... Their feelings and emotions. They played many games and discussed strategies to play as a team. The......strategies to play as a team. They will continue Brain Buddies for The next 7 weeks....
Year 2 - Literacy: The Magic Bojabi Tree Puppets
To help us with our conversations about the characters of the story, we made puppets of the characters. We considered what the character is like and decided what the expression they would have
Year 2 - Maths: Greater than, less than or equal to
...and found out what They mean. Then, we came up with lots of different numbers with our partners and decided which one was greater or if They were The same....
Year 6 CATs Tests
The CATs tests at Daubeney are scheduled to take place next week (the week commencing 13th October2025).
2nd October 2025
Rainbow - Fun Attention Activity
...tience, and social skills. The most fun part for The children was watching bubbles float through ......ubbles float through The air. They eagerly tried to pop Them with Their fingers, eyes wide with exci......ng shaving foam and food dye. They applied The dye to The foam and mixed it with straws, creating vi...
Rainbow - Spontaneous Learning
... emotional, and social skills.......ests: Musical Instruments: They listened to and played with different instruments, experimenting ...... and rhythm. Sensory Toys: The children used sensory toys to help with emotional regulation, offe...
Year 4 Boys - PurpleMash
...to practice Their math skills.......ir learning around rounding. They can log on at anytime from home to practice Their math skills....
Parent Communication - 3rd October 2025
Welcome to the conclusion of week five, of an eight-week half-term. As always, we’ll begin in our usual fashion of sharing our golden expectation of the week, our word of the week and our debate topic of the week.
3rd October 2025
Rainbow Room - Autumn Maths Learning
...tumn-Themed maths activities! They practised number formation on The interactive board and enjoyed tracing numbers on pumpkins and acorns in Their worksheets. This supported Their number recognition and helped develop fine motor skills through careful tracing. Using markers and pencils, pupils tr...
Rainbow Room - Shapes Tracing and Colouring
... paper to create drawings. Then, pupils used The activity worksheet to identify shapes by pointing at Them or saying Their names. Those activities helped pupils to develop an understanding of shapes and pattern recognition, as well as learning The names of different shapes....
Parent Communication - 26th September 2025
In our usual fashion, we’ll start our weekly update letter by letting you know our golden expectation of the week, our word of the week and our debate topic of the week, which are:
26th September 2025
Year 4 - Amazing Home Learning
...ome of our Year 4 Superstars. They completed Their weekly home learning and a Science home learning project....
Year 4 - Brain Buddies - Autumn 2025
...s react to different feelings....... Their emotions and feelings. They also identified how Their bodies react to different feelings....
Year 4 - Hornbills: Reading
...r independent reading session....... when They visit our library. The children are allowed to take books from The library to read in cla...
Year 4 - Spanish: Weather
Children in Year 4 have been practising phonics and learning to describe the weather in Spanish - building confidence in both reading and speaking!
Year 4 Hornbills - ICT
...explore Logo using PurpleMash....
Fluoride Varnish Application - Thursday 20th November 2025
The Team will be at your school to see Reception & Year 1 on Thursday 20th November 2025.
9th October 2025
Year 2 - Geography: North Pole, South Pole and Equator
Today, we learnt about the North Pole, South Pole and Equator. We also talked about what the climate would be in these places. Where would you like to live: at the South Pole or on the Equator?
Year 2 - Science: Hackney City Farm
We visited Hackney City Farm to learn about the animals that live there and their habitats! We enjoyed seeing all the different animals and even saw some new born piglets!
EHT Newsletter - Issue 11 - 14th October 2025
The last few weeks have been really busy and I seem to have been here there and everywhere.
14th October 2025
Nursery - Learning new skills
We are learning about our classroom and all the skills we can practice. We enjoyed counting. We liked talking about our family
Year 1 - Peacocks: Our local walk
In our Geography lessons, we have been looking at the UK and our local area. We had a walk around the local area, checking off different features of Homerton. This included the shops in the square, flats, post offices and parks
Year 4 - PE Games - Autumn 1 2025
Today the boys in Year 4 had a fun filled session with Mr Simeon playing dodgeball. Next week will be the Year 4 girls turn to show off their skills
Year 2 - Maths: Partitioning in different ways
...rtitioning our tens and ones. Then we moved onto think about how we can partition a number in different ways! So we know that 45 is made of 40+5 but we also know that 20+25 is 45....
Year 5 - Mapping Day
...eloping Their mapping skills. The children explored a wide range of maps and learned how to read The......ls, and directional language. They were fascinated to discover how maps can tell stories and help us...... very own maps of The school. They carefully plotted key landmarks, designed creative symbols for th...
Rainbow - SEND Music & PE
...akers, bells, and a banjo. They even had The opportunity to create Their own sounds, exploring rhythm and creativity in a fun and inclusive environment. It was fantastic to see Their enthusiasm and participation!...
Year 4 - Boys Guided Maths Session
...ty to play each oTher on TTRS.......sing on numbers up to 10 000. They also had an opportunity to play each oTher on TTRS....
Year 4 - Girls PE
...focussing on different skills....
Year 4 - Role Play
...cter and explore his feelings....
Year 4 Hornbills - Geography - Exploring the continent of Asia
...act files about The continent....... and oTher interesting facts. They created Their own information posters and fact files about The co...
Parent communication - 19th September 2025
I think I can confidently say that everyone is now back into the routine of school life. In our usual fashion, please find below our Golden Expectation of the week, our word of the week and our debate topic of the week to facilitate those home learni
19th September 2025
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 and 6 - Boys first federation match
Everyone enjoyed themselves and were able to work together as a team
Rainbow Room - Letters Learning
...ne motor skill activities! They practiced forming letters on The interactive board and completed letter formation worksheets with enthusiasm. Some children were actively involved in matching letters in alphabetical order, while oThers enjoyed creating words from The letters....
Year 6 Residential Trip July 2026
We are delighted to invite your child to the Essex Outdoors Danbury Residential Centre in Danbury for our five-day residential taking place from Monday 6th July to Friday 10th July 2025.
23rd September 2025
Year 4 - Maths - Roman Numeral Clock
... making a Roman Numeral Clock....
Year 4 - Geography
...e physical geography of Japan.......rivers and The Japanese Alps. They used The information to create information posters all about The ...
Year 4 - Literacy
...narrative stories even better....
Drawing Club - Autumn Art
Children from Drawing Club ( KS1) were engaged in creative drawings of autumn represention as they created colourful drawings with felt tips
Year 2 - Literacy: The Magic Bojabi Tree Role on the Wall
What are the characters like in the story? We thought about this by thinking about how they seem to everyone else and then what they're really like on the inside!
Year 2 - Literacy: The Magic Bojabi Tree Roleplay
...g and roleplay!...
Year 5 - Arsenal Community Outreach - Week 1 2025
... an Arsenal community coach . They actively participating of having ideals to improve They community....
Parent Communication - 25th September 2025
This week during assembly, we introduced the Junior parkrun to the children. We are excited to share that Daubeney School is now signed up, and children can take part in local parkruns while proudly representing our school!
25th September 2025
Year 1 - Parrot class went on a local area walk
As part of geography, Parrot Class went on a local area walk. We discussed what was in our local area. We saw lots of houses, flats and shops. We even saw a post office and a pharmacy. We also enjoyed a walk through Daubeney fields spotting squirrels along the way!
Year 2 - Literacy: The Magic Bojabi Tree Watercolours
To end our immersion week, we made beautiful paintings inspired by the Magic Bojabi Tree! We talked about what we could see and added adjectives to our observations then we drew it out on paper. Finally, we added water colour to make it really shine!
Year 3 'The Great Kapok Tree' Immersion
As part of our immersion into the text, Year 3 recreated the rainforest setting from the story. We collected leaves and twigs from the Hop Garden and use a variety of materials to create a rainforest collage
Year 4 Hornbills at Cardinal Pole Secondary School
... facts and stories They heard.......rdinal Pole Secondary School. They were invited to a History lesson all about Medieval Doctors and m......practices during this period. The children enjoyed The lesson and were fascinated by The facts and s...
Year 5 - Preparing for Tenerife
Children from across the Federation came together at Lauriston Primary for a special meeting ahead of their upcoming visit to Tenerife. It was a wonderful opportunity for pupils to meet each other, build new friendships, and collaborate on designing the logo that will represent this unforgettable...
Rainbow Room - Chalk Drawing
...ng Their creativity and ideas.......cipating in outdoor learning. They engaged in small group interactions, creating Their own chalk dra...... create own chalk drawing. The children enjoyed drawing houses, rainbows, happy faces, trees, and...
EHT Update Letter - June 2026
The Summer Term is my favourite time of the school year. The calendar is full and activities are varied and busy.
23rd June 2026
RSHE Policy Meeting
Considering the upcoming changes to requirements for the relationships and sex education (RSE) curriculum, we now need to ensure how we can make sure that our Blossom RSHE policy meets the new requirements as well as the needs of our pupils.
11th June 2026
Year 3 - Sports Festival
...le to win a trophy at The end!...... a Sports Festival this week. The children participated in Dodgeball, Cricket, Dance, wheelchair Bas......chair Basketball and Netball. They were really impressive and was able to win a trophy at The end!...
Year 2 Trip to Homerton Library
As part of the Year 2 provision, we will be taking the children to Homerton Library. The trip will take place on Wednesday 24th June. Children will have the opportunity to explore their local library.
16th June 2026
Rainbow Class: Coreboard Intervention (Pop The Pirate/ Colour Match)
... engagement and anticipation. They were encouraged to identify and name colours, supporting expressive language and vocabulary development with The use of The Core Boards. Adults modelled clear language and supported pupils to make independent choices, promoting turn-taking and decision-making sk...
Rainbow Class: RE - Learning about Islam
...ls have been exploring Islam. They were actively engaged in matching key vocabulary words with corre......oking illustrations in books. They were able to look at The exterior and interior features of The mo......ures through visual learning. The learning was furTher enriched through an arts and crafts activity,...
Rainbow Room - Maths: Adding & Subtracting Coins
...l and purposeful contexts. They demonstrated growing confidence in counting sets of coins up to 1......ple problems involving money. They explored adding coins togeTher to find totals, as well as subtrac......a concrete and visual way. These engaging activities supported The development of key early maThe...
Parent Communication - 19th June 2026
Daubeney Primary School places a strong emphasis on the development of oracy, recognising speaking and listening as essential skills for both learning and life.
19th June 2026
Feedback from RSHE Policy, Parental Consultations
Thank you to all those that attended the meetings held at Lauriston, Sebright and Daubeney Primary Schools. It was good to get your feedback on the Relationship, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) Policy updates.
19th June 2026
Year 1 - Raising ducklings
Over the last two weeks, we have watched these ducklings hatch from eggs and watched them grow, and grow and grow! We gave them names of Little Joe, Big Tom, Milo, Rosie and Lily
Year 5 and 6 - Spanish-language adaptation of Romeo and Julieta
Earlier this week, Year 5 and Year 6 pupils enjoyed watching an engaging Spanish-language adaptation of Romeo and Julieta , bringing language learning to life through theatre
Rainbow Room - Mehdi Hanna Design ( RE )
...g art and crafts activity. They designed Their own Mehndi (henna) patterns, using chalk dipped in a mixture of powder and water to create vibrant designs on Their hands. Pupils thoroughly enjoyed experimenting with colours and patterns, and They added a finishing touch by decorating Their desi...
Like2Bike Daubeney - Free Bike Check
We look forward to welcoming Dr Bike back to our school this week. All bikes are welcome! If you would like your child’s bike to be checked, please leave it under the posters at the front gate.
29th June 2026
Year 2 - Big Draw 2026
...olourful painted backgrounds. Then we created silhouettes of animals to stick on top of our backgrounds!...
Year 2 - Art: Exploring Pop Art
We are learning about Pop Art! Last lesson, we learnt a bit about the famous pop artist Andy Warhol. This week, we learn about some pop art features and created art inspired by Andy Warhol’s pop art pieces. We also saw how pop art is very different to just drawing a picture!
Year 2 - End of Year Beach Trip
We went to Margate to celebrate the end of the year! We made plenty of time to splash around in the sea, as well as build sandcastles!
Year 2 - Literacy: All About Me Posters
This year, we have had the amazing opportunity to publish our own book. To inspire us to write, we started the process by creating posters all about us to show people the best parts of ourselves
Year 2 - Literacy: Taking Flight Drama
...ld The story to our partners. The challenge was The second partner had half The time to retell The story, Then we halved it again! This helps us focus on The most important parts of The story so we can add our own details when we write....
Year 2 - Maths: Clocks
...different parts of The clock. Then we designed our own clocks - The hands even spin!...
Parent Communication - 3rd July 2026
Here at Daubeney, and across the Blossom Federation, we pride ourselves on delivering an experiential curriculum to our children and providing experiences that may help our pupils to find their passion or ‘calling’ in life.
3rd July 2026
Year 5 & 6 Residential Trip - July 2026 - Day 2
In the Mix '26 - Day 2 Today started off sunny and bright despite the bleary eyes due to lack of sleep. Are they usually up at 4am?! 😩 It turned into a very hot one but everyone coped very well, I think 'where are your water bottles?' might turn into the slogan of the trip. Lots of brave children...
Rainbow Room: Human Anatomy (Our Body)
We have been learning names of the body parts and identifying them on the human's body drawing
Year 1 Peacocks - History
We have enjoyed taking part in Now Press Play. We had to listen to instructions and information about transport, and then act them out. We also made Lego transport!
Year 4 - Hornbills at Intouniversity
... career options in The future....
Year 4 - Maths with Money
...unt using The money resources....... and find The correct change. They used Their problem solving skills and found The change showing th...
Year 2 - Literacy: Vlad and the Great Fire of London setting
We explored the setting of London in 1666 by using masking tape to create the world. We described the setting and even used our senses to imagine what it would have been like
Year 2 - Maths: Measuring in CM
We use rulers all the time to underline the date but do you know how to measure in centimetres? We went around the classroom to measure a variety of objects (and people) using our rulers
Year 2 - Maths: Money
We explored money touching realistic play money as well as labelling the notes and coins that we have in the UK
Year 2 - Maths: Recognise quarters
What is a quarter? We spent the lesson familiarising ourselves with what this looks like in shapes
Year 2 - RE Day: Spring 2 2026
In this RE day, we learnt about how Christians celebrate Easter. We learnt about the story of Easter and what some important symbols of Easter are
Year 2 - Science: Changing shapes experiment
We carried out an experiment about how we can change the shapes of different objects by stretching, squashing, bending and twisting
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 2 - Science: Plant Hunt 2026
We went on a plant hunt in Hackney Marshes! Spring time is the perfect time to see what is growing in our local environment
Year 2 - Story telling workshop
We were lucky enough to take part in a fun workshop where we listened to a story. We even got to take part in telling the story through role-play
Year 4 - WOW Day
...vity using Old Norse Language....
Year 1 Peacocks - BIG DRAW and Art
...ef pictures for our BIG DRAW. These will be displayed at The school exhibition later on this month....
Year 4 Hornbill - Class Assembly
Hornbills had a fantastic assembly sharing all their amazing learning this half term
Year 2 - History: WOW Day
To end our Great Fire of London topic, we made our own Tudor houses and burned them! It was a little sad because we put in a lot of hard work but this helped us learn a bit about how the people of 1666 felt when they lost their homes!
Lego Club - Farm & Countryside
In the Lego Club, children were engaged working in small groups by making their farms and countryside using lego
Rainbow Class: Body X-Ray Art Fun
As part of our Science and PSHE learning, pupils explored the human body using simple, visual books showing body parts and organs. This was supported by looking at X-ray images of hands, arms and feet, helping pupils understand what is inside the body. Adults used clear language, repetition and...
Rainbow Class: Fun Learning
Our pupils were well engaged in the fun learning environment. Some pupils explored the safari animals and enjoyed the soft texture of the sand in the sandpit, supporting their sensory development. Other pupils were engaged in intensive interaction, demonstrating strong eye coordination and focus as...
Rainbow Room: Human Body Learning
...s of different body parts. Then, pupils were using an interactive board to match facial and body ......eatures as adults named Them. They were also supported to practice writing The names of body parts a...
Rainbow Class: Big Draw Day
Our pupils enjoyed a fun and engaging Big Draw Day! Pupils were able to express their artistic skills using crayons and felt tips by creating expressive mark-making drawings. Even, pupils explored different patterns, lines, and shapes by showing creativity and confidence in their artwork
Rainbow Class: Colorful Hands
...rimary and secondary colours. They enjoyed experimenting with colour mixing, discovering how new col...... by mixing colours togeTher. The activity encouraged creativity, sensory exploration, and a deeper ...
Year 5: Wow Day - Windrush
...ess of The Windrush story. They also learned about The journeys made by those arriving in Britain and, to bring this to life, worked collaboratively to design and build Their own model of The Windrush ship. It was a hands-on, creative day that helped bring The story of The Windrush generation to...
Rainbow Class - Human Life Cycle & Needs / Human Body
...name parts of The human body. They were able to find, match, and write body part names on worksheets......uencing The stages correctly. They used colour‐coding and practical activities, such as sticking i...
Year 5 & 6 Residential Trip - July 2026 - Day 3
Well good news, everyone slept much better last night! Which meant that at least we were better prepared for another hot day. Everyone did super well today again, pushing those limits and achieving things they might not be sure they could. We're very proud of everyone and how well they are...
Governor Newsletter 2025-2026
It's interesting to note that at the end of last summer term I wrote that I hoped everyone had managed to keep cool during the heatwave.
15th July 2026
Year 2 - Literacy: Vlad and the Great Fire of London hot seating
...n considering each character. Then we ended The lesson with some hot seating....
Extended Day Care
... having lots of creative fun! They have been bringing Their imagination to life through role play, creating figures in The playground planters and making Their very own bracelets. It’s wonderful to see Their creativity and ideas shine!...
Year 6 Eagles - Debating the Future
... of London. What do you think?......should go ahead and be built. They argued about The physical landmarks and natural resources that wo...
Coffee Morning - Wednesday 21st October 2026
Meet Mooskan and find out how wellbeing support can help children and families. Come along for a chat, learn more about the support available and ask any questions you may have.
7th October 2026
Rainbow Class - Maths: Colouring & Tracing 2D Shapes
As part of our maths learning, pupils were engaged in tracing and colouring the 2D Shapes to develop fine motor skills and shapes formations
Year 6 Science - Classifying a new specie
...oThers to classify The animal.......d or discovered a new specie. The children drew Their new animal and scientifically classified The n......ly classified The new animal. They also recorded information about The animal that would help oThers...
Ayden & Raeven-Diors Amazing Football Stars Colouring Book
Would you also encourage your children to visit Ayden and Raeven's book stand over the coming three Fridays to purchase a copy of their book, as seen below, for only £6.99.
9th October 2026
Football Competition
...competition on The 08.10.26 . They were really impressive and was able to get third place....
Rainbow Class: Drums Fun (SEND Music Session)
YAY! We had so much fun playing on the drums alongside our peers
Spanish - Little Linguists Team
...;t wait to see Their progress!...
Year 6 - Science Research Activity
... and record Their information.......ng all about micro-organisms. They used different ICT skills to gaTher and record Their information....
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...
Rainbow Class: Literacy (Story about emotions)
As part of our Literacy learning, pupils explored different emotions through stories and picture-based activities. Pupils carefully looked at illustrations, identified how characters might be feeling, and matched emotions to different situations within the story. Pupils had the opportunity to name...
The Nest - Hop Garden
...ature hunt in The Hop Garden. The children really enjoyed exploring The outdoor environment and were very excited to discover some frogs along The way too!...
The Nest - Volcano Science Experiment
... in exploring how things work....
Year 6 Religious Education Day
...ng a stain glass piece of art.......sent his or her beliefs.' The children looked at how images and sculptures can allow someone to ...
Happy DLD Awareness Day!
...nication in all its forms. The fantastic learning activities highlighted a powerful message: "Every child has a voice, and every voice deserves to be heard"....
Year 6 - Information Text
...ormation for each sub-heading.......Their information text today. They used Their ICT skills to retrieve facts and information about Lon......and information about London. They chose Their own sub-headings and researched information for each ...
Lego visitors
Representatives from LEGO recently visited us, working with our Y4/5 and our Y3 classes. Children enjoyed a hands-on experience that encouraged creativity, imagination and problem-solving. Through play, pupils explored the many exciting opportunities LEGO offers, developing teamwork, communication...
Rainbow Class - RE day - Exploring Christianity & Church
...ross, Bible, and prayer etc . The activities supported The development of communication skills, reading, writing, and understanding of different beliefs and traditions. Designing Church As part of our RE Day, our pupils had The opportunity to learn about Christianity and explore The importance of ...
Year 6 - Division
...method and used long division....
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
Rainbow Class: PSHE & Arts (Emotions Jars)
...represent different feelings. They also coloured emotion faces and glued Them onto Their jars, creating a visual representation of each emotion. This hands-on activity encouraged pupils to think about how emotions can be expressed in different ways while developing Their creativity and fine motor sk...
School Council Elections 2026/2027
Watch the video below!
Rainbow Room - Art: WOW Day
..., and artistic expression. The classroom was filled with excitement as pupils experimented with different colour combinations and techniques, transforming simple dots into stunning masterpieces. It was wonderful to see Their imagination come to life and Their confidence shine through every piece ...
Rainbow Class - Exploring Subtraction (Maths)
...ned by using a house-Themed. They were able to select and match The correct numeral on The door, window, roof and oTher parts of The house on The worksheet. Some pupils through this activity were able to recognise numerals and d understanding that subtraction means taking away....
Rainbow Class - The Three Little Pigs Focus (Literacy)
...le exploring The focus story, The Three Little Pigs. Children matched concrete objects, including st......ilt by The pigs in The story. They were also encouraged to feel and explore The textures of These ma...
Rainbow Class: SEND Music
... and engaging music session . The session provided opportunities for pupils to participate at Their own pace, respond to musical cues and interact with oThers through music. Pupils showed great enthusiasm and engagement, taking turns, joining in with actions and exploring different sounds....
Rainbow Class: SEND PE
...ation and gross motor skills. They practiced walking along The bench, standing on agility tables and......d control of Their movements. They followed safety instructions well and actively participated in al...
Rainbow Class: Three Three Little Pigs Literacy
... support Their understanding. They demonstrated Their ability to remember and identify The different stages of The story. Pupils also recognised The different materials used to build The pigs' houses, including straw, wood and brick. Using visual prompts, They successfully matched each material to t...
Rainbow Class - Pigs Masks & Houses (Art)
...nspired by The story of "The Three Little Pigs." They carefully painted Their pig and w......e Three Little Pigs." They carefully painted Their pig and wolf masks and explored a variety...
Rainbow Class - Farm Animals (Literacy Focus)
...and early language skills. The most exciting part of The learning was The opportunity to play with The farm animal toys and explore Them through hands-on activities, sensory play and imaginative play....
EHT Update Letter - September 2026
The start of term has been a positive one for all of us. The children returned from the holidays with masses of enthusiasm and excitement; they have settled well into their new classes, some of which are brand new cohorts, and classrooms...
15th September 2026
Nurture Group - Our first few weeks in Nurture
We have just started our journey in nurture and we are extremely excited to be there
Rainbow Class - Learning Subtraction
Our pupils have been working hard to develop their early math's skills through practical subtraction activities. Using counters and number worksheets, the children explored how numbers become smaller when objects are taken away
Rainbow Class - Exploring Plants & Tress (Science)
...ach part on Their worksheets. They also learned about what plants and trees need to survive and grow, including water, soil, sunlight, air, and space. Through a variety of activities, children developed Their understanding of The different stages of a plant and tree life cycle. To furTher extend The...
Rainbow Class: Maths (Shapes Matching/ Shapes Names)
...s, rectangles, and triangles. They also matched shapes to Their correct names, helping to develop Their understanding of shape properties and maThematical vocabulary. Through hands-on and engaging activities, pupils built confidence in identifying, sorting, and describing shapes while developing The...
Rainbow Class - Flower Painting (Arts & Science)
...own beautiful flower artwork. The children carefully selected colour and practiced using paintbrushes to paint Their flowers....
Rainbow Class - Planting Fun & Plants Life Cycle (Science)
...rows into a healthy plant. The pupil Then took part in a cress planting . They carefully planted ......ok part in a cress planting . They carefully planted cress seeds by placing Them onto damp cotton wo......n wool and giving Them water. The children used Their fine motor skills to pick up The small seeds a...
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
Our learners have been exploring what makes Hackney special through a creative geography project. Using their knowledge of local landmarks, community spaces, transport links, parks, and places they enjoy, pupils designed their own unique Hackney logos
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...
Bike Bus - Wednesday 30th September
We are excited to be welcoming the Major of Hackney to our Bike Bus on Wednesday 30th September. Please come along with your children (and bikes!), we will leave Daubeney Primary School front gates at 8:20am and be back in time for a fun day of...
29th September 2026
Rainbow Class: Maths (Shapes)
As part of our Maths learning, pupils explored a variety of 2D shapes through engaging shape-identification worksheets and matching activities. Pupils practised recognising, naming, and colouring different shapes using a colour code, including circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, pentagons, and...
Rainbow Class: PSHE: Emotions Monsters
As part of our PSHE learning, our pupils had the opportunity to explore emotions through a fun and creative activity. Using recycled cardboard tubes, a variety of paint colours to represent different emotions, glitter, googly eyes, and feathers, our pupils designed and created their own Emotion...
Rainbow Room - PHSE: Recognising Emotions
During our PSHE lesson, pupils were learning to recognise and identify emotions that are familiar to them in order to develop emotional awareness and communication skills. Pupils participated in matching, colouring, and emotion-identification activities, helping them recognise different feelings...
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 2 - Literacy: Vlad and the Great Fire of London character puppets
Who are the characters of the story “Vlad and the Great Fire of London”? We created character puppets to help us retell the story
Rainbow Class - Science & DT Learning
...terials and Their properties. They practised writing simple sentences about a variety of materials a...... The properties of materials. They explored concepts such as flexible, smooth, soft, and rigid etc b......tos next to each property. The fun part of our week was listening to The story “There&rsquo...
Tenerife - Day 1
We have had a wonderful first, full day in Tenerife! We hiked Teide and we saw many famous Tenerife Lizards. After we had our lunch, we had so much fun at the pool! After dinner, we had chill time to reflect on our first day and enjoy some card games, as well as ball games. We are very excited for...
Year 5 - Mapping Day 2026
... our current geography topic. The children examined Themes such as population, climate, major cities, and physical features. Using what They learned, They Then created Their own maps of Turkey, carefully plotting key places, landforms, and important physical features. It was a great opportunity for ...
Year 5 - Science - Spherical Bodies
... planets in our solar system. They thought carefully about features such as size, temperature, atmosphere, distance from The sun, and The possibility of life. Using this understanding, The children developed unique planets with detailed explanations of Their characteristics. It was a fun and creativ...
Year 3 - Geography - Earth's Layers
Kingfisher class explored the structure of the Earth and learned about the different layers that make it up. We focused in detail on the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core, discussing what each layer is made of and how they differ from one another. Using coloured card, labels, and a split...
Year 4 - Hornbill: Science
...e Their own string telephones....... Their own string telephones. They learnt all about sound and how sound travels. They discussed The ...... sound and how sound travels. They discussed The science behind how we hear and decided to make Thei...
Blossom Federation Partnership with Millfields Community School
We are writing to share an unexpected, but exciting development for the Blossom Federation.
12th March 2026
Cross Country & Dodgeball
...ng teamwork and school spirit....
Rainbow Room - Planting
We have been learning about the life cycle of plants, focusing on beans and cress. As part of our sensory learning, the children planted their own seeds using soil, pots and water, exploring the different textures and steps involved when it comes to planting. Over the next few days, we will be...
Science - Measuring sound in decibels
...air around it to vibrate (shake). These vibrations travel through The air like invisible waves. Soun......als. Brain understands The sound. The sound we make is measured in decibels. How loud can you be?...
Year 4 Nightingales visit Urswick
... school’s art teachers. The students explored Their creativity by creating artwork inspired by......e fantastic pieces of art. They even bumped into some former Daubeney pupils, which made The visi...
TTRS AWARD for Year 4 Pupil
...so proud of your achievements....
Year 1 Peacocks - World Book Day 2026
We loved celebrating World Book Day 2026! Can you recognise any of the characters?
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...
Tenerife - Day 4
We had yet another fantastic day in sunny Tenerife! We visited an ecological banana plantation where we had the opportunity to have a tour and learn a range of different things about how they grow bananas! After this, we had a beautiful walk to a park which had fantastic views of the sea and the...
Rainbow Class - Planting Beans and Cress
...e They planted beans and cress. The pupils were highly engaged throughout The session, exploring The...... about The plant life cycle. They had opportunities to touch and feel The seeds, scoop The soil, ...
Year 4 - Improper Fractions and Mix numbers
...find The equivalent fractions.......mber dominoes in maths today. They had to convert The improper and mix numbers, Then find The equiva...
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...
Year 3 - Ministry of Stories
...story topic on The Stone Age. These creative sessions helped Them develop characters, settings, and ......ollaborative writing process. Their hard work culminated into a professionally published story that ...
Year 4 - RE Day 2026
...nd The world celebrate Easter.......t The significance of Easter. They learnt about The events that occurred and how Christians around t...
EHT Update Letter - 26th March 2026
The Spring Term has flown by and the weather is finally improving. January seemed endless but here we are nearing the Easter Holidays and over half the academic year completed. Here’s to a very restful (and sunny) Easter break. This term we welcomed
26th March 2026
Year 4 Hornbills - Literacy - Writing Notes
... Their notes to Their friends.......ormal notes to Their friends. They Then designed Their own envelopes and gave Their notes to Their f...
Year 4 Hornbills at The Urswick Secondary school
..........s for a wonderful art lesson. The children learnt about a specific artist and discussed his work and......d inspiration from his works. Then, The children used a range of different resources to create Their...
Year 4 Wow Day 2026
... settlements around The river.......dge about our topic - Rivers. They completed Their assessment and created an information poster all ......ng Their facts and knowledge. They drew rivers and created different types of settlements around The...
Year 4 Hornbills - Religious Education Day
...kes someone a good role model....
Creative Hub - Spring Displays 2026
Take a look at our wonderful displays that showcase our learning from Reception all the way up to Year 6. We love using displays as a way to show off our learning and to help us whilst learning. We enjoy being creative so display boards are a great way to get creative with our learning!
Rainbow Class - Spring 1 Term 2026
WOW! We have been so busy during Spring 1 Term with lots of fantastic learning and our work is now presented on the display boards
Rainbow Room - Teddy Bear Maths
...tanding of number representation. They practised adding numbers within 5 and 10 number bonds, carefu......g The teddy bears to find totals. They looked carefully at The numbers on Their worksheets and used ......y bears to represent each number. They Then placed The teddies into groups to explore number bonds. ...
Year 5 - Why was Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the Qur'an important to Muslims?
On RE Day, we learned about why Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the Qur’an are important to Muslims. We looked at who the Prophet was, some key facts about his life, and why he is a special role model. We also learned about how the Qur’an was revealed and why Muslims use it to guide their...
Year 3 - DT
...catapults using lolly sticks. They used Their Design and Technology learning on linkages and levers to explain how The mechanical element created movement. A fun combination of problem‑solving, teamwork, and hands‑on investigation....
Rainbow Class: Iggy Peck, Architect (Design & Technology)
...to The world of architecture. The pupils explored different types of buildings from around The world and learned about The important work that architects do when designing The places we live, learn, and play in....
Year 2 - Tagalog taster session
...log taster session last week! They learned greetings in Tagalog and explored a little about Filipino culture. A wonderful way to celebrate languages and broaden global awareness!...
Year 4 Multiplication Timetables Check 2026
You are invited to a meeting on Thursday 26th March. To accommodate and encourage more parents to attend, this meeting will be held twice during the day in the KS1 Hall.
13th February 2026
Little Linguists to BFI
...language, culture, and cinema....
Year 4 Hornbills - Wow Day - Spring 2026
...m against a specific criteria.......making Their own board games. Their first lesson They used Their science learning to add lights to t...
Rainbow Room - Monkey Puzzle Story
...elephant and m for monkey. The activity was extended through phonics, where pupils matched initial sounds to each jungle animal. Pupils also traced The animals’ names to develop handwriting and letter formation. As part of early reading comprehension, children matched each animal’s...
Year 5 - Wow Day - Spring 2026
...e goal of cleaning The ocean. Their creativity shone through in both Their ideas and The thoughtful way They brought Them to life. It was wonderful to see Their imaginations turn into real, working models!...
Rainbow Class- Jungle Animals
... of animals and Their habitats. They listened to The story “Monkey Puzzle”, which helped introduce different jungle animals and Their characteristics. Afterwards, pupils created Their own model jungle habitats by painting Their boxes green, adding leaves for realism, and choosing jung...
Junior Road Safety Committee (JRSO)
...eing Bright, Staying in Sight....
Rainbow Room - Exploring Spring
... herbs growing in The garden. The children especially enjoyed smelling The daffodils, rosemary, and sage, taking Their time to compare each plant’s unique scent and noticing how differently They looked, smelled, and felt....
Rainbow Room - Outdoor PE
Pupils were actively engaged in physical activity on the football court, where they practiced throwing and catching the ball, as well as building their confidence in kicking and passing during simple team games
Rainbow Room - WOW DAY
...olorful patterns on each piece. They experimented with how The colours blended and enjoyed making th......earts for Their family members. They used a range of pattern arrangements and dot‐to‐dot techniq...
Year 2 - Hackney Marshes Trip - Wednesday 25th March 2026
As part of the Year 2 provision, we will be taking the children to Hackney Marshes. The trip will take place on Wednesday 25th March 2026. Children will have the opportunity to investigate and learn about Plants.
3rd March 2026
Year 4 Hornbill - Geography
...on to complete Their learning.......facts about The River Thames. They used The information to complete Their learning....
Rainbow Room - 2D Monkey Model
...cially The jungle animals. They Then created Their own 2D monkey model, based on The main character. Pupils followed simple steps to cut, stick, and glue The pieces togeTher. This hands‐on activity supported Their fine motor skills while helping Them connect with The story in a creative and mea...
Rainbow Room - Maths (Measure)
...shorter, longer, or smaller. They pupils recorded Their measurements on Their worksheets by using Numicon Cubes to show The height or length of The jungle animals and everyday classroom items. Pupils showed confidence as They counted The cubes, matched The correct cubes with height and lengths...
School Development Newsletter - Spring 25-26
Welcome to the second of our School Development Newsletters for the year. As mentioned in our Autumn edition, the purpose of these newsletters is to keep you, our parents and the wider community, informed of our progress against our School Developmen
26th March 2026
Parent Communication - 27th March 2026
On Monday, our Y3’s hosted a ‘Ministry of Stories’ assembly where they celebrated the ‘publication’ of their stories.
27th March 2026
Year 2 - Literacy: Research the rainforest
To help us with our writing, we spent the lesson researching about the Daintree Rainforest in Australia. This will give us plenty of ideas when we write an informal letter to our friends
Rainbow Class - Transports: History
... across land, water, and air. They were able to sort and match transports by gluing and sticking The......r group , and a bike on land. The pupils also used different colours to represent each transport cat...
Year 4 Hornbills - Jigsaw - Summer 1 2026
... They have of had in The past....
Year 3 - Friction Test
We explored what friction is and how it can be both an advantage and a disadvantage. We investigated the effects of friction by setting up a ramp with different materials on it. We rolled a toy car down each surface, measured the distance it travelled, and recorded our results. We then discussed...
Rainbow Room - Builders
...ild Their own colorful towers.......ng towers of different sizes. They explored measurement vocabulary such as small, big, short, and ta...
Medical Letter for Year 5 & 6 Residential Trip
In preparation for our Residential Trip in June, we are gathering all the necessary medication information. Please follow the QR code and complete the form if you intend to send any type of medication with your child.
8th May 2026
Kit List - Residential 2026
We are excited to confirm your place on the Year 5/6 Residential 2025. Please see the kit list below.
8th May 2026
Parent Communication - 8th May 2026
At Daubeney Primary School, phonics is a vital part of the early reading curriculum and underpins our pupil’s journey towards becoming confident, fluent readers.
8th May 2026
Year 4 Hornbills - Biographies
...ir biography based on Beowulf.......publishing Their biographies. The children used Their notes, facts and information and published The...
EHT Update Letter - May 2026
I think it is safe to say we are moving in the right direction for Summer. The sun is mostly shining and there is lots as always to keep us busy.
11th May 2026
Year 4 Hornbills - Viking Longships
...ort all about Viking Longships...
Year 4 - Science Experiment
...graph to present our findings.......tors that affect evaporation. They soaked three cloths in different amounts of water making Them dif......ing Them different in weight. Then hung Them out to dry and recorded The weight every hour. The chil...
Year 3 - Friction Detectives
... it with different materials. Then we sent a toy car zooming down each surface, measured how far it travelled, and carefully recorded our results. Finally, we compared what happened and figured out which material created The most friction. Learning through experiments made science exciting and hands...
Parent Communication - 15th May 2026
Curriculum feature – Understanding KS2 SATs and Their Purpose. Key Stage 2 (KS2) SATs are statutory assessments taken by pupils in England at the end of Year 6, in the month of May.
15th May 2026
Hackney Council Dog Fouling Campaign
Sustainability Carousel with the heading Hackney Council Dog Fouling Campaign
Year 2 - DT: Axles, wheels and chassis
Do you know what an axle is? What about wheels and chassis? We learnt about where we would find each of these on a vehicle
Year 2 - DT: Comparing vehicles
We looked at a variety of vehicles in this lesson and discussed the similarities and differences of each
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 2 - Great Fire of London Trip
We were lucky enough to do a workshop with some amazing story tellers from Temple Bar. We got to handle objects, draw using a quill, dress up and even go on a walk to see the locations of the great fire
Year 2 - History: Great Fire of London Now Press Play
We followed the Great Fire of London through a story told to us through our amazing Now Press Play headphones!
Year 2 - History: How did the fire start?
Do you know how the Great Fire of London started? We learnt about this and imagined we were there. How do you think we felt? What do you think we were thinking?
Year 2 - Literacy: Climate March
Inspired by Greta from Greta and the Giants, we created our own posters and had our own climate march
Year 2 - Literacy: How to Live Forever Characters
To help us discover the different characters of the book “How to Live Forever”, we took part in some role play activities. Have a look at how we acted as each of the characters!
Year 4 Hornbills - History
... Vikings and The Anglo Saxons....
Year 2 - Trip to the Science Museum - Spring 2026
We went to the science museum to learn about space and what life was like for the astronauts in space
Nurture Group - Our Busy and Baking Adventures
Here are some of the highlights of what we’ve been up to- We worked together, waited our turn, supported one another, and celebrated each small success
Rainbow Class - Interventions Focus
As part of our Colourful Semantics intervention, pupils listened attentively as adults modelled and recalled simple sentences using the sentence structure such as " Who"/ 'What doing"/ etc. Pupils were supported to identify and understand each part of the sentence through visual...
Year 3 - Volcanoes Wow Day
... WOW Day all about volcanoes! The children loved experimenting with watercolours to create vibrant v......dramatic lava‑splash effects. They also had great fun building Their own mini volcano models and w...
Year 5 Wow Day - Turkey
...art of Their Geography topic! The children experimented with vibrant patterns and colours to design ......s and rich cultural traditions. They also explored Turkey’s important trade links and discover...
Language Day at UEL
... supportive university staff. The visit sparked curiosity, confidence, and excitement about learning and future study....
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...
Year 4 - Science
...d information about The topic.......l about The states of matter. They discussed The different states of matter and how They change. The......f matter and how They change. They also used Their Chromebook to research facts and information abou...
Parent invite - Support with writing
You are invited to a parent workshop led by the Speech and Language Therapy team on support with writing skills
23rd April 2026
Parent Communication - 24th April 2026
Curriculum feature – This week we celebrated Language Day, as such please enjoy the poem that features below and continues throughout this edition of our newsletter.
24th April 2026
Reception Trip to Cedars Nature Centre - 24th April 2026
As part of the Reception provision, we will be taking the children to Cedars Nature Centre. The trip will take place on Tuesday 23rd June.
24th April 2026
Rainbow Class - Learning about Seasons
Pupils explored learning about the different seasons by watching a short, engaging video and listening to a song related to seasonal changes. Following this, pupils took part in a hands‐on matching activity, where they matched pictures associated with each season, as well they were able to sequence...
Year 2 - History - Explorers WOW Day
To finish up our explorers topic, we spent the day doing fun activities to do with explorers, like astronauts
Rainbow Class - Reading Fun
Pupils demonstrated strong engagement during reading by independently choosing books from the reading corner and they were looking at the illustrations from it to develop their comprehension skills. Some pupils were able to verbally describe the images to adults with limited support
Rainbow Class - Seasons Arts & Crafts
As part of a combined Arts & Crafts and Science activity, our pupils explored the topic of seasons. Pupils created colourful paintings to represent the different seasons, using vibrant paint colours to express seasonal changes. Also, they took part in a sticking and gluing activity to explore...
Year 3 Trip to the London Mithraeum
...ing about The Romans to life. The children explored Roman artefacts and learned what They were used ...... life nearly 2,000 years ago. They were especially fascinated by The remains of a real Roman temple ...
Rainbow Class - Literacy Focus
In literacy, pupils enjoyed listening to the story “We Can’t Take an Elephant on the Bus”, where they learned about different types of transport and their uses. Pupils listened carefully to the story and were able to recall key events by identifying the characters (animals) and...
Rainbow Class - Using Coins
... recognition from 1 to 20. They ordered coins correctly from 1 to 20 and counted amounts on worksheets by matching each coin with The corresponding numericons piece....
Year 5: History - Windrush
...settled into new communities. The session encouraged pupils to develop empathy and a deeper understanding of The challenges faced by those who arrived during this time. Drawing on Their learning, The children creatively shared Their understanding through speeches, poems and songs....
Year 5: Science - Stages of Human Development
...nges that occur as They grow. The children Then created a timeline of The human life stages, identif...... independence, at each stage. The lesson concluded with a thoughtful discussion based on The questio...
Message from Diane Abbott MP - 30th April 2026
I wanted to write to warmly congratulate you, your staff and pupils at Daubeney Primary School on winning the FutureEd Award for Mental Health and Well-Being School of the Year 2025.
1st May 2026
Parent Communication - 1st May 2026
Curriculum feature – This half-term we are all Time Travelling Historians. This is our second half-term where our focus is the teaching and learning of history.
1st May 2026
Rainbow Class - Transports
..., cars, tractors, and trains. These were displayed on our class wall for everyone to see. Pupils ...... tracing and forming letters. They also matched transport pictures to The correct shadows. The pu......es to The correct shadows. The purpose of this learning was to help pupils develop Their understa...
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Art
...rces to create Their art work....
Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive
...dtime went surprisingly well. The children were in Their cabins by 9 but it did take a little longer to settle! This is to be expected though, it’s all very exciting. This morning was an early start though, everyone up at 6 and about by half 6! It’s been a lovely, sunny day and not too hot. Acti...
Year 5 - Our second week in Year 5
This week was full of exciting activities, from Mapping Skills Day to a practical maths lesson. We even created posters and researched the author of our new whole class reader, Michael Morpurgo. Have a look at our fun week!
Year 3 - Coding in Kingfisher Class: Spring 2025
...he BeeBots to follow The code....... today learning about coding. They planned a route and used The BeeBots to follow The code....
Parent Communication - 17th January 2025
In regard to school routines it is very important that all pupils arrive at school on time (our classes start at 8:45am) and attend school every day. The expectation is that children have an attendance of at least 97%. Thank you and well done to the
17th January 2025
Year 3 Science - The Human Skeleton: Spring 1 2025
...e The human skeleton in class.......3 studied The human skeleton. They discussed The main parts and The functions of The various bones. ......nctions of The various bones. They also had an opportunity to make The human skeleton in class....
Rainbow Room - Chinese New Year
...ial stories were read to Them.......ese New Year arts and crafts. They made lanterns, colourful and creative snakes, blossom trees and a...
Year 3 - PE
...lls needed to master The game....
Rainbow Room
...r social skills and attention.......g at objects from The bucket. They showed great attention as Mr. Namo demonstrated each item, and th...
Rainbow Room - Identiplay Learning (Cars & Instruments)
...sing a variety of objects. They explored musical instruments by mimicking different sounds, to fo......ay and social interaction. These activities encouraged communication, collaboration also cognitiv...
Rainbow Room - Maths
In the Rainbow Room, children engaged in hands-on learning by practicing counting from 1 to 5 and 1 to 10 with colorful domino cards and small counters. As they matched the dots on the dominoes to the correct number of counters, they reinforced their understanding of numbers and sequence....
Year 3 - Design and Technology
... using different pivot points.......rs to make Their own example. The children used card and split pins to make a lever which moved a wa...
Rainbow Room - PE Session
As part of the SEN PE sessions, the children engaged in an activity where they practiced walking on a beach by making choices about their directions as well they developed their physical skills such as coordination, balance, and body awareness
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Kahoot - Spring 2025
... Spanish sessions. It was fun!......t The end of Their IT lesson. The children answered questions based upon Their learning from Their S...
Parrot Class Trip - Hackney School of Food
Parrot class went to the Hackney School of Food and we had so much fun making cheese scones and rainbow slaw. We were very confident using all the kitchen equipment and following step by step instructions. Chef Tom was super impressed with us!!
Year 3 - Multiplication and Division - Spring 2025
...ication and division problems....
Year 3 - Toucan - Learning about the Human Skeleton
Learning all about the human skeleton and making factual posters about what they have learnt
Rainbow Room - Maths: Counting Blocks
...ctive exploration of numbers. They began by identifying The numerals on The dice, carefully rolling The dice on The floor and saying The saying number name aloud. After each roll, children counted The blocks in various number orders as They practiced to recognise different numbers sequences throu...
Rainbow Room - Peers Reading: Library
Children have joined their peers from different classes in the school library to take part in the peer reading by looking at illustrations and words from the books to develop new vocabulary from reading
Year 5 Trip to Suleymaniye Mosque
As part of the Year 5 provision, we will be taking the children to Suleymaniye Mosque. The trip will take place on Wednesday 12th February 2025.
28th January 2025
Rainbow Room - Letters of name
...ng each letter individually. They practiced matching The letters in The correct order, reinforcing Their understanding of sequencing, and actively listened to The sounds each letter....
Rainbow Room - Singing Intervention (3 Speckled Frogs)
...aking as part of The activity......."3 Speckled Frogs." They joined in singing along and followed The song's phrases to co......o indicate whose turn it was. They eiTher said a peer’s name or pointed to a photo of Their pe...
Year 6 - Day 2 of Into Uni: Eagles Class
Today we had another brilliant day, we created portraits using watercolours and collage. We explored how the time you have to create an image changes the detail and content - what you think is important enough to include. We also continued to learn all about our three famous individuals - Jean-...
Kingfisher - Design and Technology
...forward to Their next session.......moving linkage using a lever. They made flags that moved when a lever was pulled. The children enjoy......oved when a lever was pulled. The children enjoyed Their Design and Technology session and are looki...
Year 3 - Linkages and Levers
...n what a linkage and lever is....... what a linkage and lever is. They used pictures to help explain The terms and created an informatio...
Year 6 – Spanish: Phonics
...nics knowledge in Spanish. These are some of The children in Eagles Class pronouncing words containing some tricky sounds!...
Year 3 - Kingfisher-Measurement
... objects around The classroom....
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
The Nest - Stratford Discovery Centre
...ed Stratford discovery centre!...
Year 3 - Built a Stone Age Village
...de for visiting The Stone Age....
Year 5 - History: Gods and Goddesses
In this lesson, we explore the gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece. We already knew the names and powers of some because of the book we are reading called “Who Let the Gods Out”. Some of us were already experts. To show our learning, we designed trading cards for each of our favourite...
Parent Communication - 6th December 2024
Today we bid farewell to week 5 of our time travelling history themed half-term, and find ourselves with only 10 days to go before the end of the autumn term. We now look forward to all of the wonderful events that will be happening in those 10 days
6th December 2024
Year 3 - Religious Education Autumn 2 2024
...standing of light in religion.......light in different religions. They had many different activities to furTher develop Their understand...
Winter Resources
...ources for Parents and Carers These resources are specially designed by The Therapists at Beacon House to support regulation, connection and rest during December. Download Them for free here and share with family and friends so everyone can access what They need during this busy holiday time....
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...
Year 3 - WOW Day
...learning around The Stone Age....
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!
Parent Communication - 13th December 2024
We now find ourselves looking forward to the final 5 days of the autumn term, after what has been a very eventful and event filled week 6! In our usual fashion, to facilitate home learning conversations and parental engagement with their child(ren)’s
13th December 2024
Year 5 - History: WOW Day
To end our Ancient Greek topic, we spent the morning answering the overarching question “What influence did the Ancient Greeks have on our modern day society?” After that, we created our own Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses inspired masks as well as Ancient Olympic like olive wreath
Year 1 - Parrot Class: RE Day - Christmas
During RE day we discussed why Christians celebrate Christmas. We acted out the Christmas story using props and costumes. We also created a lovely advent wreath and discussed what each candle on the wreath represents. Take a look at our lovely work!
Reception - St Barnabas Church Trip
Have a look at our photos from our RE trip to the local church. We listened and re-enacted the Christian Christmas story
EHT Update Letter - 17th December 2024
Dear Parents & Carers As we approach the end of the Autumn Term, I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who is part of the Blossom Machine. So so many individuals contribute to all the work which happens here.
17th December 2024
Year 6 Winter Concert
...e you enjoy listening to Them....
School Development Newsletter - Autumn 2 2024
Welcome to the first of our School Development Newsletters for the year. The purpose of this newsletter is to keep you, our parents and the wider community, informed of our progress against our School Development Priorities (SDP’s) and other successe
18th December 2024
Parent Communication - 20th December 2024
That said, I think we are all looking forward to a well-deserved holiday, pupils, teachers and parents alike! It’s been a very exciting, a very busy and a very long term (the longest of the academic year), but we have had a raft of great teaching and
20th December 2024
EHT Update Letter - 7th January 2025
A big welcome back to the start of the Spring Term. I hope you have all had a restful and relaxing break with your friends and families. There was a lot of excitement from all in the run up to the holidays
7th January 2025
Year 3 - Science
...ed a mind map of our learning.......ay around Animals and Humans. They discussed what They knew and shared Their facts. We created a min...
Year 3 - Design and Technology - Spring 2025
...ion about Linkages and Levers.......today on Linkages and Levers. They wrote what They knew about The topic and later used Their Chromeb...
Parent Communication - 10th January 2025
Firstly, and foremostly a very happy New Year to you. I trust that you had a restful holiday and you’re looking forward to an exciting 2025! There will certainly be lots for us to look forward to here over the coming weeks and months of the Spring an
10th January 2025
Reception & Year 4 - Hockey and PE
KS1 work on they throwing and catching with the bean bags, While the year 4 was able to complete a games base in hockey. Both year groups done amazing and improve so much though the past couple of weeks
Year 3 - Playtime - Using climbing frame
During playtime, Benjamin displayed great confidence as he climbed up and down the climbing frame by demonstrating his independence and growing physical abilities
Year 2 - Column Addition
This week we have been learning a new method in maths called column addition. This helps us to add together two 2-digit numbers easily
Year 2 - Computing in DT
We spent time this week using Purple Mash designing our very own cars. We thought about where we wanted to place the wheels, the shape of the chassis and the colour or pattern of the body. We had lots of fun being creative with our designs!
Parent communication - 7th February 2025
Today brings the penultimate week of the Spring 1 half-term to a close. In our usual fashion, please find below our Golden Expectation, Word of the Week and our debate topic of the week to facilitate those home learning conversations.
7th February 2025
Year 2 - DT Exploring Wheels
To begin our Design and Technology topic, we brought in lots of vehicles and explored their features. We learnt about wheels, and how they are attached to an axle. We identified loose axles and fixed axles, discussing how these are attached to a chassis. We had lots of fun trying our vehicles out...
Rainbow Room - Number Day ( Part 2 )
... enhance Their proprioception.......bers around The classroom. They listened for numbers called by The adult, finding The matching on......rstanding of number order. The activity also helped enhance Their proprioception....
Rainbow Room - Number Day (Part 1)
...y that was all about numbers. The activity was designed around Valentine's Day, using heart-Them......ake it even more exciting! They explored different quantities of hearts on each card, and Their t...
Rainbow Room - Number Day (Part 3)
...ities in Their maths learning.......ove Their counting skills. They also counted cubes by matching The quantities to number cards as ...
Year 2 - Book Fortnight
...ght, 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 2 - Changing Materials
In Science, we took part in an experiment about changing the shape of materials. We made a prediction first, as to what material would be the most changeable and which would be the least. We then chose various items and tested to see whether we could squash, stretch, twist or bend it. We recorded...
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 2 - Computing
...ic, we wrote an algorithm for The Princess and The Frog. We made each character move, and used The c......lgorithm for The Princess and The Frog. We made each character move, and used The collision detectio...
Year 2 - Exploring Money
To start our new maths topic of money, we spent some time identifying coins and notes. We discussed their values and compared their worth. We also began adding some coin values together using our addition skills to help us
Year 3 - Stepney City Farm
... habitat during The Stone Age.......d to visit Stepney City Farm. They fed some of The animals and had a chance to see a variety of diff......variety of different animals. The children discussed habitats, food for The animals, nutrients, vert...
Year 2 - Identifying Shapes
Year 2 explored a range of 2D and 3D shapes recently, thinking about how many sides, vertices, faces or edges each of them has. We discussed similarities between some shapes and also identified differences
Year 2 - Jigsaw
For this week’s Jigsaw lesson, we had a go at learning a new skill. We worked in partners to spend time learning how to count to 10 in Mandarin or count in twos in French and then presented this to the class. We thought about how learning something new can be difficult, and how it takes...
Year 2 - Making 3D Shapes
We used nets of 3D shapes to create a range of everyday objects such as boxes, bean tins and tents. We thought carefully about how each edge matched up and were then able to identify how many faces, edges and vertices each shape had
Year 2 - Making Equal Groups
To start our multiplication topic, this week we focussed on making equal groups. We used cubes to make towers representing various sentences such as 3 groups of 4. We talked about how groups we would need and how many cubes there would be inside each group. We could then work out the answer to the...
Year 2 - Money
...etend to buy classroom items. The shopkeeper told The buyer how much it would cost, The buyer used appropriate coins to pay for it, and Then The shopkeeper had to work out how much to give back....
Year 2 - Role on the wall
To continue our Book Fortnight, we explored the characters in more detail. We used role on the wall to discuss and write down a variety of adjectives for how the characters are seen by others on the outside, and how the characters actually feel or want to be seen on the inside
Year 2 - Role on the wall
We started a new book this week called ‘How to Live Forever’. We began by exploring the characters of the story and identifying adjectives to describe how they are seen by others on the outside and how they feel or want to be seen on the inside
Year 2 - Science Hop Garden
We went to visit our very own garden this week for Science to take part in a survey. We made a tally chart to record how many trees, plants and animals we could see and then discussed how this is useful to know. We also discussed what we can do to look after our environment
Year 2 - Science Recycling
This week we discussed recycling items from around the classroom and at home. We identified various recycling bins that we may have for different materials such as paper, metal, glass and fabric. We learnt about the recycling process and why this is a better option than throwing things away in the...
Year 2 - The Midnight Fair
This lesson, we used watercolours to paint a scene from the story. We used bursts of colour to show how the lights of the fair twinkled in the night time and thought about the places we would see if we were there
Year 4 - Phonics Activity
...acticed 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 practice....
Rainbow Room - PE: Throwing & Catching Ball
As part of the PE session, children were participating in activities to develop their throwing and catching skills using a ball
Year 3 Kingfisher - Open and closed questions
...ext They are reading in class....
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
Rainbow Room - PE Session
...d walking along The bench. They were encouraged to make Their own decisions about The direction They wanted to take, fostering independence and enhancing Their ability to navigate different paths. This activity not only helped improve Their balance and coordination but also allowed Them to develo...
Year 3 - Kingfisher Literacy - Spring 2025
...spired by The ship Nelly made.......y used to sail The open seas. They have been reading Nelly and The Quest for Captain Peabody and was...
Year 5 - Maths: Multiplying 2 - digit numbers
To begin our topic of multiplication and division, we learnt about multiplying 2-digit numbers. As this was completely new to us, we worked in partners and practiced the method on large grid paper
Year 5 - Science: Friction - Spring 2025
To learn about friction, we carried out an experiment where we tested the distance that toy cars went on different surfaces
Parent communication - 31st January 2025
Welcome to the conclusion of January and week 4 of Spring 1. As per usual, please find below our Golden Expectation, Word of the Week and our debate topic of the week
31st January 2025
Excellence in Music Award 2025
...in celebration and creativity.......? Through teamwork, of course. The music program at Daubeney School offers a rich, inclusive, and cr......sembles, especially in Year 6. These groups showcased Their talent at our Winter Concert, highlighti...
Rainbow Room: Shapes Learning
Today, the children learned about 2D shapes by drawing them on the whiteboard, which helped develop their fine motor skills and ability to form shapes through drawing. Afterward, they played a shape-matching game, naming familiar shapes like circles, triangles, and squares
Year 3 Kingfisher - Literacy - Spring 2025
... in The book They are reading....
Year 5 - DT: Gears - Spring 2025
We made gears! We used corrugated card, cardboard and pins to create this. We learnt that one wheel moves the other in the opposite direction
Year 5 - Literacy: Midnight Fair Power of Play
During this power of play lesson, we imagined what it would be like to be at the fair. What did the fair look like? How could we describe the world of the book. After, we created a story map of the story from our discussions
Year 5 - Literacy: Scene descriptions
To immerse ourselves more into the book Midnight Fair, we spent the lesson discussing our thoughts and ideas on different scenes from the book and recording them in our groups
Rainbow Room - Attention Bucket with Maths
As part of the Attention Bucket, the children had the opportunity to engage in a creative activity where they used 2D shapes to design and create their own shape stamps. Children worked together to figure out how to combine and position different shapes so this helped them practice spatial...
Rainbow Room - Click Clack Cars with Coreboard
...em roll down The platform. They were introduced to key vocabulary related to The activity, such as "Stop," "Next," "Go," and "I want a car."...
Year 3 Kingfisher - Science - Spring 2025
...t The topic They are learning.......ertebrates and invertebrates. Their activities allowed Them to identify which animals belong to vert......ertebrates and invertebrates. The children also did some research using Their Chromebooks to find fa...
Year 4 - Science - Experimenting with electrical circuits
Year 4 had fun experimenting with electrical circuits in science. We were able to make the bulb light up using foil instead of wires. This is because foil is made of metal which is an insulator
Rainbow Room: Display Boards
...s and Growth Mindset Learning....
EHT Update Letter - 5th February 2025
Wow January was LONG! I am so pleased it is February as this now means Spring is on the way. With a few more weeks till Half Term, we have already achieved a great deal to start 2025.
5th February 2025
Rainbow Room: Picture Sequences Activity
Children have been practicing understanding picture sequences through exercises with three-part images. This activity helps them interpret the flow of events, grasp cause and effect, and recognize the order of actions. By observing the arrangement, they develop skills in logical thinking and...
Year 3 - Trip to Stepney Farm
... science topic for this term. They also discussed what These animals might eat if They lived in The wild....
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!
Year 2 - Captain Robert Falcon Scott
This week in History we learnt about the explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. We discovered that he was part of a British team that were trying to be the first people to reach the South Pole. His expedition was called Terra Nova, and they set off in 1910, finally reaching the South Pole in January...
Year 2 - World of the Story
... world of The story of ‘The Midnight Fair’ by imagining The setting. We used masking tape to mark out The different areas of The fair, thinking about where rides, food stalls, and games would be relative to each oTher....
Year 5 - Maths: Comparing calculations
We are pretty confident at using greater than, less than and equal to signs but how do we use them when we aren’t comparing numbers but whole calculations? This was the focus of this lesson!
Year 2 - Maths Number Lines
We practised ordering numbers by creating a human number line. Each child had to find their place on the number line and think about what number comes before and after them
Year 2 - Maths Partitioning
For this maths lesson, we took our learning outside. We worked in partners to partition a number into its tens and ones. We then wrote out number sentences down on our whiteboards and thought about other ways we could partition the number
Year 2 - Science in the Hop Garden
We have been learning about habitats all around the world recently, so we decided to take a look in our own garden to see what lives and grows there. We were able to identify a range of plants in our garden habitat, such as clover, ivy, lily pads, carrots and much more! We also saw some common...
Year 2 - World of the Story
...r immersion into The story of The Magic Bojabi Tree, we investigated The setting of The book. We thought about where The mountains were located in relation to The trees, and identified where lion's rock would be, given that it was a long journey from The bojabi tree. We mapped it out on The carp...
Year 5 - Geography: Human Geography
We learnt that human geography means things to do with people. We spent the lesson researching what the economy, trade, culture and food is like in Tanzania! We then created a presentation to show what we have learnt
Year 5 - Geography: Jane Goodall
Do you know who Jane Goodall is? We learnt that she is a zoologist who dedicated her life to learning about chimpanzees in Tanzania. We learnt lots of things about her and we put our new-found knowledge into practice by creating a comic of the key events of her life!
Year 5 - Geography: Physical Landmarks of Tanzania
From lakes to mountains, Tanzania has a wide variety of physical landmarks. We learnt what these were and how they are different to Human or Man Made landmarks. We then created a leaflet about the different landmarks you can find in Tanzania
Year 5 - Literacy: Adverts
Today, we started our new topic on adverts. We started the lesson off by watching some ads and discussing the purpose of those adverts. We then learnt about the features of written ads so that we are equipped to make our own next week!
Year 5 - Literacy: Punctuation Posters
Do you know what the different punctuation marks mean? We spent the lesson recapping them and creating posters that will go up on our display board to help us with our learning
Year 5 - Maths: Rounding
In this lesson, we recapped rounding and discussed the steps to do it. We then put our knowledge into a real life situation by rounding the average salaries of jobs that we might be interested in
Year 2 - Jigsaw Week 3
In week 3 we explored our rights and responsibilities as children. We discussed our right to learn, our right to play and our right to be safe. We also discussed responsibilities we may have in the classroom or at home, such as tidying up and being in control of our own behaviour. We thought about...
Year 3 - Horniman Museum
...eum as part of Their learning....
Year 3 - Religious Day
...ries make us stop and reflect....
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!
EHT Update Letter - 24th October 2024
Nearly a whole half term under our belts. The Summer seems a long time ago, but we have been super busy and are ready for a little break next week. Last week, the Heads of School and I attended the Hackney Teaching School Alliance conference in Whits
24th October 2024
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
...snapshot' of our learning!...
Year 3 - WOW Day: Amazon Rainforest
...ir very own Amazon Rainforest....
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
Year 5 - Geography: WOW Day
Do you know how you would prepare to climb Mount Kilimanjaro? We finished our Mountains topic by celebrating our learning. First, we answered the overarching question, then we made a to do list for people planning to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Finally, we designed and created our own backpacks and...
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 2 - Geography: Hot or Cold?
We learnt about the position of the equator in this lesson, identifying that it is an imaginary line in the middle of the earth. We also located the north and south poles on the globe. We discussed the earths position in relation to the sun and explored how countries along the equator are closer 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 - Trip to Bank of England Museum
Today we spent our morning at the museum! We learnt lots of money related facts and we even got to see some real money! This helped see our recent maths learning of place value and rounding in action!
Year 6 - Mapping Day 2024
...g this year with Mapping Day. They used compass points to create sentences about Their playground, created different routes using a local map of The area and finally drew Their own maps of Homerton. We had a lot of fun looking at all of The roads and places They knew and had visited!...
Reception - Hop Garden
Today, we ventured over to our Hop Garden. We used our magnifying glasses to look at all of the fruit and vegetables that has been growing. We also went on a mini-beast hunt and visited the pond to see if we could see any wildlife
Reception - Self Portraits
We have been learning about ourselves and what we look like. We used photos and mirrors to paint self-portraits. We discussed our features and how they might be different to our friends
Year 5 and Year 6 - First Two Spanish Lessons
Busy first couple of Spanish lessons for children at Daubeney! Yr5 and Yr6 explored different memory techniques for retaining information, while learning new words, and explored the mile-long list of cognates that English and Spanish share. And you, could you work out the meaning on any of the...
Reception - Our Family and more!
This week, we have been talking about our families and how they might be different to our friends. We also have been having lots of fun taking part in Drawing Club and making most of the sun outside!
Drama club - Autumn 2024
... The after school drama club. The children today discussed what makes a good story teller and what k......ome interesting storytellers. The club had a wonderful time telling stories and acting out different...
Year 6: Urwisck Transition Session. Phonics
Children in Year 6 hosted a small group of ex-Daubeney students from Urswick Academy this morning. Year 11 students have shared the importance of learning phonics through a series of activities and games in a lesson they delivered. This transition session has also given our children at Daubeney the...
Year 3 - Brazil travel leaflet
...out Brazil and The rainforest....
Year 3 - Kingfisher Literacy 2024
...eading - The Great Kapok Tree.......r The book They are reading - The Great Kapok Tree....
Year 2 - Continents and Oceans
We learnt all about the 7 continents and 5 oceans recently. We used an atlas to help us locate places and identify countries in each continent as well as the oceans that are nearby
Reception - Colour Sorting
This week in Maths, we have been colour sorting! We have explored different objects which are different colours and used our fine motor skills to sort them!
Reception - Week 4
...ek, we have been reading 'The Three Little Pigs'. We have been creating our own pig noses and investigating different materials that we could use to build a sturdy house....
Reception - Week 5
This week in Reception, we have been taking part in 'Drawing Club' based on the animation 'Trapdoor'. We have been creating our own monsters through art and creativity. We have also been learning about patterns. We have been learning how to continue 2 and 3 way patterns, as well as creating our...
Year 3 - Geography
... problem around deforestation....
Year 3 - Geography - The Amazon Rainforest
...ry about our experience today.......ainforest as part of a tribe. Then They went to a clearing where They saw The effects of deforestati...
Nurture Group - Breakfast with Mr Logan
Today we had a visitor in Nurture. We had breakfast with Mr Logan. "it was fun talking to the Headteacher" "I like visitors"
Year 2 - Character Puppets
...motions, with characters from The Magic Bojabi Tree. We thought about how each character was perceived by The oTher animals versus how They actually might feel and want to be seen....
Year 2 - Compare Numbers
We worked with a partner to compare numbers using the greater than and less than symbols. We were able to identify the number, represent it using dienes and then select the correct symbol to compare them
Year 2 - Computing Week 5
For this week's computing lesson we looked at the artwork of Piet Mondrian. We thought about how he used lines and blocks of colour to create his pieces and then we created our own!
Year 2 - Computing Week 6
For this lesson we focused on the work of William Morris and explored repeated patterns. We identified that lots of pattern work contains flowers and leaves, and we thought about what pattern we could make. We used 2paint a picture to create our repeated patterns, and experimented with size,...
Year 5 - Literacy: Himalayas Research
Do you know where the Himalayas are? We will be creating adverts for the Himalayas so to get us ready, we spent the lesson researching the Himalayas. We wrote down lots of facts so that we can use them to persuade our audience
Parent communication - 25th October 2024
We now find ourselves at the conclusion of week 8 of the autumn 1 half-term, and our geography themed, Intrepid Explorers half-term.
25th October 2024
Parent Communication - 29th November 2024
We now find ourselves saying goodbye to the month of November and to week 4 of our time travelling history themed half-term.
29th November 2024
Year 5 - History: Hierarchy in Ancient Greece
Do you know what the four levels of society there are? We learnt about that this lesson by discussing with our groups and creating a information poster for it
Kingfisher - Making Stone Age Tools
Today in our History lesson the children in Kingfisher made their own Stone Age tools
Year 5 British Museum Trip Letter
As part of the Year 5 provision, we will be taking the children to The British Museum. The trip will take place on Wednesday 11th December 2024. Children will have the opportunity to investigate and learn about Ancient Greece. We will leave school at
21st November 2024
Kingfisher - Explores Using the Inverse Operation
...ay to check Their calculations...
Parent communication - 22nd November 2024
Today brings us to the conclusion of week 3 of our autumn 2 time travelling half-term. This week my update letter will be dedicated to informing you of our upcoming Christmas events
22nd November 2024
Year 1 - Parrot Class visit St Barnabas Church
We went to visit the church as part of the RE curriculum. We had a look at all the key features of a church and discussed why people visit the church and the kind of ceremonies and events that takes place. Have a look to see what fun we had!
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 1 - Parrot Class: The Three Little Pigs
... have been reading The story 'The Three Little Pigs'. We've been creating our own story puppets and acting out The story. We've also been describing The characters in The story using adjectives. What words can you use to describe The big bad wolf?...
Year 3 - Kingfisher researches The Stone Age
...riting in our Literacy lesson.......ch facts about The Stone Age. They included Their facts in Their non- chronological report that were...
Year 5 - Science: Separating mixtures
In this lesson, we learnt about 4 different processes of separating mixtures: evaporating, decanting, filtering and sieving. We made our predictions on the evaporation experiment then conducted a carousel activity of the other 3 processes
Daubeney Library
Look at our amazing brand new library! We are so excited to have our own library at Daubeney. Each class had the opportunity to go and explore the wide range of books. From fiction and poetry to non-fiction topics such as science, history, geography and RE, there is something for everyone. What did...
Year 5 - We love our new library!
We love our new library and we love spending time exploring the books in here!
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Spanish
...ish through interactive games....
Year 5 - History: Democracy
Do you know the origins of democracy? We learnt about this in the lesson and we even role played Dikasteria. We held a court that had a jury who helped to decide the fate of the accused
Year 5 – Spanish: La música y los instrumentos musicales
Children in Year 5 are currently exploring a range of different music related vocabulary, music genres, a range of musical instruments and high frequency words that will allow them to use their musical skills and relate them to language learning
A Musical Collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra
...ars from Gustav Holst’s The Planets. This visit is part of our ongoing partnership with The LSO, which continues to inspire and empower our students to explore Their creativity and compose Their own original music....
Celebrating Black History Month Through Music
This year at Daubeney, we are thrilled to share a special video highlighting our Black History Month music lessons. With a focus on promoting diversity in the world of classical music, we’ve partnered with the renowned London Symphony Orchestra to bring this vision to life. In the video,...
Year 2 - Parakeet School of Food trip
...lowed by a fancy fruit salad. They were both scrumptious!...
Year 2 - Week 2 Computing: Online Safety
For this topic we have been learning all about keeping ourselves safe when we are using online devices such as computers, tablets and phones. We discussed how to search and filter information, alongside exploring how Purple Mash is a safe site to search on. We learnt about emails, and how we can...
Year 5 - Literacy: Greek Myth Story Maps
What Greek myths do you know? We read some Greek Myths and created story maps of them! Have a look!
Junior Literacy Team 2024-2025
...aubeney Junior Literacy Team! They are very eager to share Their passion for reading and writing wit......ng with everyone at Daubeney. The team will be supporting Ms Lester in promoting Literacy across The......hrough assemblies and events. They will also be in charge of keeping all book corners around The sch...
Year 3 - Kingfisher studies Rocks
... various vocabulary They used.......roperties of different rocks. They were able to identify The properties and explain various vocabula...
Spring Term After School Clubs 2025
We are pleased to announce After School Clubs for Spring Term 2025 will be open for bookings via SCO Pay accounts from Monday 11th November 2024 – Monday 9th December 2024 closing @ 12.00pm. The allocation of clubs will be made on a first-come first-
25th October 2024
Year 2 - Geography WOW Day: Climate
For the end of our Geography topic, we had lots of fun making a climate scene. We chose either a polar or a tropical climate and thought carefully about which animals and plants you would find there. We worked collaboratively to make beautiful dioramas and could explain where our climate could be...
Reception - Library Trip
24/10/24 Reception visited Homerton Library. We really enjoyed looking at all of the books and we are excited to use our new library cards. We also enjoyed listening to a story read by the librarian
Sewing and knitting Club
...ub and had a knitting lesson. The children enjoyed Their club making a range of different items....
Da Cafe
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5th November 2024
Anti Bullying Week Odd Sock Day Poster
Anti-Bullying Week 2024 will take place from Monday 11th - Friday 15th November, with the theme: Choose Respect.
6th November 2024
Parent communication - 8th November 2024
We recently conducted a communications survey and shared the results with you. One of the suggestions made in the survey was that we were very clear in the purpose for each communication type, e.g. ‘Clearly stating somewhere how what gets communicate
8th November 2024
Kingfisher - in the Library
Kingfisher class had a fantastic time today reading in our new library
Year 2 - Farm trip 2024
We had lots of fun visiting Hackney City Farm recently. We explored and identified all the animals we could find living in a farm habitat and discussed what they each needed. We loved seeing and stroking all of the animals, especially the goats and the little piglets!
Year 2 Literacy - Man on the Moon immersion
This week we introduced our new Literacy topic of non-chronological reports. We are going to be focusing on the topic of astronauts and space, and so are using the book 'Man on the Moon, a day in the life of Bob' as our long burst text. We retold the story as a whole class using our...
Reception - Let's get started Autumn 2!
We have had a great start to Autumn 2 in Reception! We have been learning about 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in Numeracy. We visited the new Daubeney Library, and we loved it! We have been taking part in great learning and having lots of fun at the same time as you can see!
Year 2 Maths - Addition across 10
This week we have been learning about adding across a multiple of 10. We have been using our number bonds to help us and thinking carefully about the steps we need to take. Ask us how we would work out number sentences such as 35+8!
Year 2 Maths - Subtract across 10
This week we have been learning new skills in Maths to help us with our arithmetic. We focused on subtracting across 10 today, identifying how many counters we need to take away to get down to 10, and then working out how many we still needed to subtract, using our number bonds to help us
Year 3 - Literacy: Stone Age
...ade Their own simple shelters....... a story about The Stone Age. They looked at different shelters in The Stone Age period and made The...
Mr Warren's Update Letter - 11th November 2024
Autumn 2 is well underway and the approach to all things festive and fun begins.
11th November 2024
Year 3 - Literacy: Autumn 2 2024
...of a non chronological report....
Daubeney Winter Fair 2024
Our supplier stocks very high quality Nordmann Firs, which offer excellent shape, longevity and needle retention. The price is a bargain for this quality - 35% less than retail!
14th November 2024
Kingfisher - ICT in literacy
... write full factual sentences.......ormation about The Stone Age. They collected facts and made notes in Their books. They will use The ......nd made notes in Their books. They will use The notes to help Them write full factual sentences....
Year 5 - Science: Soluble or Insoluble
Do you know what soluble or insoluble means? Today, the children in year five learnt the meaning of these two words. We learnt about what it means for a substance to dissolve and we even did an experiment to test out what we know
Year 3 - Kingfisher Hackney School of Food: November 2024
...ackney School Of Food kitchen....
Portuguese Spotlight Prize Winners
...anised by Stephen Spender Trust. They translated a poem from Portuguese into English togeTher, an......nce that They are The KS1-2 winners - The Portuguese Spotlight is open to all young people in th......eland so we are extremely proud of Them! The Awards Ceremony will be held this Wednesday. We are lo...
Year 2 - The Midnight Fair Characters
...e of The characters in ‘The Midnight Fair’. We thought about The way They would stand, The way They would move and The way They would talk. We imagined something They would say and Then stood in a circle facing outwards to deliver The line with emotion and movement....
Year 4 - Hornbills - Working with circuits and electricity.
...eplace The wires in a circuit....
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Online Reading
...art of Their reading session. The children enjoyed The child friendly news reports and CBBC is a gre......ch can be accessed from home. They also had The opportunity to read a selection poems as part of our...
Reception - Forest School: May 2025
Receptions first visit to forest school. Exploring the pond and making nature books
Rainbow Room - Dotted Butterflies Painting
...tterflies from The book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" during Their learning activities. Th......ng Their learning activities. They discussed The various colors and patterns They noticed on The but...
Rainbow Room - Insects Hunt
... identifying various species. Their excitement peaked as They played with butterflies, spiders or bu......urs, shapes, patterns etc. The children has so much fun for hunting different insects hidden in t...
Rainbow Room - Playdough Caterpillars
...g both forwards and backwards....
Rainbow Room - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
...listen to an adult read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," where They learn The days of The we...... fruits The caterpillar eats. They match The fruits with The corresponding days and arrange Them on ...
Rainbow Room: The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Matching Game and Life Cycle)
...ictures in The correct order. They also played a memory game by naming pictures from a story and placing Them on a matching game board....
Year 3 Kingfisher - Sharing Assembly
...g learning They did last term....... in front of a live audience. They put on quite a show, sharing all The amazing learning They did la...
Year 3 – Kingfisher: Literacy
...ll The features were included.......her were super excited today. They continued Their learning around journals. They did something amaz......eir learning around journals. They did something amazing today and created a whole class journal mak...
Parent Communication - 2nd May 2025
Welcome to the conclusion of week 2 of the summer 1 half-term. It has been a glorious week of sunshine, which always puts a smile on everyone’s faces.
2nd May 2025
Rainbow Room - Learning Prepositions
...ile looking at illustrations. They were tasked with finding out where The monkey was hiding by identifying The prepositions and naming The objects that The monkey was hiding behind, above, next to etc for instance monkey is in The sandpit, monkey it over The bridge etc. Activity: Hide and Seek Teddy...
Rainbow Room- Requesting with Coreboard
...ntion using click-clack cars. They were also supported in Their communication with a core board during this activity. In this session, children used pictures on The cardboard to request an object or action from an adult. For instance, They pointed to The cardboard to express Their wants by saying...
Rainbow Room - Caterpillar Painting
...nd in our social story, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar. on The caterpillar " They followed t......ar. on The caterpillar " They followed The color patterns from The caterpillar's image to b...
Skateboard Club
...kateboarders and Their skills....
Rainbow Room - Adventure Playground
We had so much time in the Adventure Playground!
Rainbow Room – PSHE: Family Relationships
... families and family members. They were introduced to Makaton signs such as "mum," "dad," "family," "broTher," and "sister," and did an excellent job repeating These signs after an adult. Additionally, They explored The concept of a family tree th...
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 3 – Kingfisher: The Roman Armour
...fferent pieces and Their uses.......r used by The Roman soldiers. They used Their knowledge to create an information poster all about th...
Year 3 Kingfisher - Testing Frictional Force
...st and least frictional force.......ve The most frictional force. They built a ramp and tested different surfaces to test how far Their ...
Year 3 Kingfisher Class Celebrating VE Day
...rt of our VE Day celebrations....
Year 3 Toucan - What I Want to Be When I Grow Up
...nt to Be When I Grow Up.' They presented it to KS2 and Their parents with incredible confidence and flair, earning well-deserved applause!...
Year 5 - IntoUniversity: Astronomy
What is it like to study at university? What kinds of classes do they have? We explored the types of lessons university students might have by learning about astronomy. We took part in a variety of activities and worked with a team!
Rainbow Room - Chalk Butterflies Drawing
...ur captivating social story, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," children immersed Themselves in a artist......ves in a artistic experience. They enthusiastically engaged in colouring and drawing Their own sprin...
Rainbow Room: Actions Words & Colourful Semantics
... and match different actions. They learned that action words are called verbs and often end in -ing.......and "eating food." They also explored colorful semantics by creating sentences to describ...
Planting Sunflower!
We enjoyed learning about how plants grow and what they need. After this, we planted our own sunflowers to take home and look after
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...
Year 5 - Science: Day and Night
How do we have day and night? What purpose does the sun play in giving us daylight? Why is it dark at night? We investigated this in this lesson!
Parent Communications - 28th March 2025
The penultimate week of our Intrepid Explorers half-term concludes today. As we look forward to our final week, I’d like to remind you that there will be no After-School Clubs (3:30pm – 4:30pm) next week, but our Extended Day Care (EDC) provision wil
28th March 2025
Tenerife Adventures
What a weekend we have had! Friday was an exciting day travelling in which we had the opportunity to get to know a bit better the rest of the group and their adults. On Saturday we had a fantastic day at Las Teresitas beach where we played games and had a swim in the Atlantic sea! Sunday was a...
EHT Update Letter - 1st April 2025
I hope our families enjoyed a lovely Eid Celebration over the weekend. The Spring Term is almost finished and we are looking forward to the Easter Break.
1st April 2025
Hackney Schools’ Challenge 2025
The Hackney School Challenge is a running challenge that is open to primary school children of all abilities across the borough of Hackney and local areas. It will take place on Saturday 17th May 2025 and ties in with the Hackney Running Festival,
1st April 2025
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 3 - Natural History Museum Trip
Benjamin took part in his class trip to Natural History Museum. He was eager to explore looking at different animals from around the world, insects, dinosaurs and fossils
School Development Newsletter - Spring 2 2025
Welcome to the second edition of our School Development Newsletters for the year. The purpose of this newsletter is to keep you, our parents and the wider community, informed of our progress against our School Development Priorities (SDP’s)...
3rd April 2025
Rainbow Room - Autism Awareness Week Celebration
...he names of different colors. They experienced immense joy in coloring The "Special Autism Heart," which fostered Their cognitive skills while celebrating Their individuality and creativity....
Parent Communication - 4th April 2025
Today brings our Intrepid Explorers half-term to a close, Autism Awareness Week to a grand finale and concludes the Spring term for the 2024-2025 academic year. There have been many successes and lots of highlights to reflect upon this term which we’
4th April 2025
Year 5 & 6 Residential Trip - June 2025
In preparation for our Residential Trip in June, we are gathering all the necessary medication information. Please follow the QR code and complete the form if you intend to send any type of medication with your child.
28th April 2025
Nurture Group – Trip to the park
Nurture trip to the park, enjoying the sunshine
Year 4 – Hornbills: Wow Day
Year 4 Hornbills designed and built their settlements for Wow Day. Some groups built villages, towns and one group decided to build a city along the banks of the River Thames
Year 4 – Science
Year 4 Hornbills made telephones using paper cups and they could hear their peers speaking through the telephones. We had lots of fun in Science today
Safeguarding Newsletter – Spring 2 2025
There has been much ‘talk’ in the news about online safety. Our children face various online risks, including exposure to inappropriate content, cyberbullying, online predators, malware, privacy breaches, and identity theft, which can lead to serious
14th April 2025
Year 6 - Hawks & Eagles: Science - Circuit and Voltage Experiment
Before the experiment, we begun the lesson by recapping our prior knowledge: scientific symbols for circuits, the difference between circuits and voltage as well as our hypothesis. We began our learning by understanding the difference between electricity and circuits and how voltage equals power....
Year 6 Hawks - British Science Week Workshop - Dry Ice experiment
... and The functions of dry ice.......d even attempted to make ice-cream. The children had The opportunity to explore different hypoThesis...
Rainbow Room - Learning Preposition (Interactive Game)
...game displayed on The screen. They matched prepositions with various objects in familiar settings su......, living room, or kitchen. The children were introduced to phrases like "on top of The TV,&q...
Rainbow Room - Incy wincy spider song
...cy Spider," sung by an adult. They practiced remembering The sequences and actions related to The song, while also following simple instructions such as putting The spider on The tube and letting it go. Additionally, The children were encouraged to make choices about which peers They wanted to parti...
Year 4 Maths - Peer Tutoring
Year 4 classes are working together to improve their mathematical skills. Peer tutoring is a great way to make sure concepts are embedded in the minds of everyone
Parent Communication - 25th April 2025
Dear Parents & Carers, Welcome to the Summer 1 half-term! This half-term we become time travelling historians, and we must be travelling at the speed of light as this week has absolutely flown by, as will the next four weeks!
25th April 2025
EHT Update Letter - 8th May 2025
We have been back a short time, but not really completed a full week yet! We are not complaining though; everyone loves a Bank Holiday. I do hope you enjoyed a lovely Easter break and the long bank holiday this week.
9th May 2025
Rainbow Room – PHSE: Family & Friendships
...dentify Their family members. Therefore, some children used family names like mum, dad, broTher, or ......t;You Can Be My Friend." These stories helped understand The positive relationships with Their ...
Year 3 - Playground Play
On a sunny day, Benjamin joined his peer and LSA in a game, where they threw and passed the ball to each other. This activity helps Benjamin understand and respond to others' requests and wants, supporting his social interactions
Rainbow Room - Our Body and Senses
...mes, and coloring activities. They are encouraged to identify familiar body parts on Their own bodie...... activities on The tuff tray. They enjoyed touching different materials to discover various textures...
Parent communication - 6th June 2025
Welcome to the final half-term of the academic year, summer 2! The year has absolutely flown by, and the same will be true of the next six weeks, so let’s get ready for all the magical moments that lay ahead for our Daubeney family!
6th June 2025
Year 2 - Australia WOW Day
We had lots of fun making our own boarding passes and passports this lesson before boarding our plane to Australia. We then had some delicious fairy bread!
Year 2 - Great Fire of London WOW Day
To finish our learning about the Great Fire of London, we spent the morning making our own Tudor Houses. We thought about the designs we wanted to make with timber beams and worked collaboratively with a group. In the afternoon we watched as all the houses burned down just like in 1666!
Year 2 - Plants: June 2025
Year 2 planted our own bean plants and took care of them in the classroom under different conditions to investigate what plants need to grow and be healthy
Year 2 - Research: June 2025
Year 2 used chromebooks to research information and facts about the rainforest to inform their writing
Year 2 Maths - Measuring: June 2025
Year 2 had fun learning how to measure objects around the classroom and identifying units of measure. Year 2 used scales to measure mass of items around the classroom, identifying the units used
Rainbow Room: Buttons Maths
...d using buttons for counting. They placed The buttons on circles numbered from 1 to 10 and Then reca...... to practice simple addition. They placed buttons under The numbers on The whiteboard, counting Them...
Reception - Summer so far...
Have a look at some of the things we have been up to in Reception so far!
EHT Newsletter - Issue 9 - 11th June 2025
Assessment season is upon us. This began just before half term with our Y6’s all sitting their SATS (Standardised Assessment Tests). As usual, this was a slickly executed week, planned meticulously by our leaders to take into account the needs of our
11th June 2025
Rainbow Room - Senses Book
Children were engaged in looking at the pictures of different senses in the books about senses
Parent Communication - 23rd May 2025
Today we bring the summer 1 half-term to a close, and we also bring our time travelling history half-term to a close too. It is the shortest half-term of the year, but it feels like we did a lot over the last five weeks.
23rd May 2025
Kingfisher Outdoor Poetry Session 2025
Kingfisher Class enjoyed the sunshine and the Hop-garden reading a selection of poems from the Whole Class Reader (I heard it in the playground by Allan Ahlberg)
Rainbow Room- Attention Bucket ( Glitter Fun ) )
...with The glitter on The paper....
Parent communication - 13th June 2025
The week started for us with a visit from Y10 pupils from Urswick. The reason for the visit was as part of our Spanish transition programme. This is to support the development of modern foreign (MFL) languages within the borough and Sara Alonso...
13th June 2025
ArtBytes Celebration Event 2025
...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 look forward to taking part in ArtBytes again next year!...
Spanish - Transition session 2025
Earlier on this week, a group of Year 10 students from Urswick school visited Year5 classes for a special transition session, focussing on developing dictation and reading aloud skills – key foundations for success in secondary school. A wonderful opportunity to build bridges between KS2 and...
Year 3 - Maths: learning about time
In our math's lessons, we’ve been learning about time—hours, minutes, and seconds. To put our knowledge of converting minutes to seconds into practice, we created a circuit in the KS1 playground. We timed each other to see how long it took to complete the course—and had lots...
Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive
...re in for a spectacular time! The coach was right time, right place and to top it off There was no traffic on The way. We arrived around half 11 which means There was plenty of time for everyone to settle into Their cabins, unpack, have a look around (and discover The bottomless squash) and eat lunc...
Rainbow Room - Attention Bucket Fun
... The Attention Bucket Stages. They engaged in a variety of activities, including: Shaving Foam Painting Rainbow Room Experiment (oil, salt, and paint painting) Star Stamping Sticky Animals with Clay Fun...
Reception - Number bonds of 5
This week, we have been learning our Number bonds of 5! Have a look at the facts we have learnt. Next week, we are learning about Number Bonds of 10!
Reception - Our own Ducklings!
...d Them hatch into Hatchlings. They are now growing into Ducklings! They are super cute.......e now growing into Ducklings! They are super cute....
Football Boot Competition Winners 2025
We have our winners of our Football Boot Competition! We had over 100 entries for the boot competition and it was very hard to decide the winners
Team Point Winners!
In Daubeney Primary School, students are awarded points for working as a team, meeting the Golden Expectations and always aspiring to achieve their best. This year, YELLOW TEAM amassed the most points. On Wednesday 25th June 2025, Reception and KS1 Yellow team will be spending the day at Adventure...
Summer so far
Have a look at some of the activities that Reception have been up to in Summer so far!
Rainbow Room - Preposition Learning
...h The support of an adult. They also participated in a game called "Find The Ball," which encouraged Them to identify and name The prepositions related to a hidden ball in a picture. During this activity, They used a prop (a ball) to help Them recall The prepositions as They look for...
Parrot Class - Farm trip
Parrot class went to visit Hackney City Farm. We looked lots of different farm animals and discussed their habitat and diets. We had a wonderful day!
Year 3 Kingfisher - Science Investigation
...were magnetic or non-magnetic.......tic and non-magnetic objects. The children used magnets to explore objects around The class and test...
Reception – Ducklings: Trip to Hackney School of Food!
Ducklings class 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!
Year 3 – Toucan: Magnetic and non-magnetic materials!
...c and non-magnetic materials. They went outside The classroom to make predictions about which items They thought would be magnetic, Then tested Their ideas and recorded The results....
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
Parent Art Workshop - REC/KS1
...ur Reception and KS1 cohorts. The children and Their carers enjoyed taking part in a range of different art activities including bracelet making, collaging, painting, air dry clay and making paper plate fish! We look forward for our next workshop!...
Year 3 Kingfisher - RE Day 2025
...windows and They were amazing......., symbols and Their meanings. They created Their own special sign and symbol to represent Their fami......ol to represent Their family. Then They learnt all about Christian symbols, Buddhist symbols and The...
Parent Communication - 16th May 2025
Dear Parents & Carers, We bring week 4 of the summer 1 half-term, AKA SATs week to a close today. And I’d like to start this week’s letter by saying well done to all of our Y6 pupils and all of the staff that supported with the administration of...
16th May 2025
Year 1 - Family phonics workshop 2024/25
Thank you to all the parents that attended the Family Phonics Workshop this year. We hope that this has been useful and that you are feeling confident in supporting your child with reading and phonics now. Here are a few photos to highlight what we have been doing
Spanish - Eurovision Inspired Language Learning!
...out some of The performances. They enjoyed listening to songs in a range of different languages, celebrating The diversity of cultures across Europe while building Their listening skills....
Team trip letter - KS2 2025
In Daubeney Primary School, students are awarded points for working as a team, meeting the Golden Expectations and always aspiring to achieve their best. This year, YELLOW TEAM, your child’s team - amassed the most points.
22nd May 2025
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Exploring the Zones of Regulations
...ing The Zones of Regulations. Their workshop was lead by a doctor in this field and They completed Their own booklet demonstrating Their knowledge and understanding surrounding The Zones of Regulations....
Maths Team Trip to Museum of Brands
We enjoyed a lovely day out to the Museum of Brands in West London, where we learnt about market research and unique selling points. We then designed and priced our own chocolate bars!
Reception - Hackney School of Food - May 2025
On Tuesday, Cygnet Class enjoyed 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
...ortrait based on this artist. The results were amazing! If you would like to purchase your child's artwork in a framed edition, please speak to Miss Payne. We are already looking forward to our next one!...
Year 5 - 3D Shapes - May 2025
We recapped the 3D shapes and their properties then drew our own 3D shapes on isometric paper
Year 5 - ELWP Circular Economy Workshop
East London Waterworks Park came to visit us and teach us about the benefits of circular economy. We created our own circular economy designs for the park, which may be turned to life!
Year 5 - History: Experiences of the Windrush
We learnt about what life was like in the Caribbean then discussed the journey. Finally, some of their experiences when people of the Windrush generation arrived in the UK. We freeze framed our interpretations and discussed their thoughts and feelings
Year 5 - Maths: Regular and Irregular Polygons
We learnt about regular and irregular polygons by creating flash cards and testing ourselves with them! We even played games with them with our partners
Year 5 - Reading at Daubeney Fields
During SATS week, we enjoyed the outdoors by reading our whole class reading book at Daubeney Fields!
Team trip letter - KS1 and Reception 2025
In Daubeney Primary School, students are awarded points for working as a team, meeting the Golden Expectations and always aspiring to achieve their best. This year, YELLOW TEAM, your child’s team - amassed the most points.
22nd May 2025
Year 5 - Computing Workshop
Today, Mr Power from Sebright taught us about coding by using these mini computers called microbits! We learnt how to set them up and made our microbits show our name and even sing us a song!
Rainbow Room - Easter Bunnies
...sing paper plates and cotton. They explored The texture of The cotton by touching it with Their hand......touching it with Their hands. They also used black paper to make whiskers, googly eyes for The eyes,...
Year 4 - Number Day (Part 1)
...y that was all about numbers. The activity was designed around Valentine's Day, using heart-Themed c......o make it even more exciting! They explored different quantities of hearts on each card, and Their t...
Year 5 - Literacy Power of Play immersion lesson
...l The beginning of The story 'The Black Hole'. We practised moving and manipulating our bodies into shapes and characters before making freeze frames of The story, focusing on The mood and emotions of The character....
Year 3 and 4 Dodgeball
...on and had a fun time playing.......competing against each oTher. The children focused on The skills that were taught in Their PE lesson...
Summer Term After School Clubs 2025
We are pleased to announce After School Clubs for Summer Term 2025 will be open for bookings via SCO Pay accounts from Monday 24th February 2025 – Wednesday 26th March 2025 closing @ 12.00pm. The allocation of clubs will be made on a first-come first
14th February 2025
Parent Communication - 14th February 2025
Let me start this week’s letter by informing you that we return to school on Monday 24th February at 8:45am. With that said, welcome to the conclusion of the Spring 1 half-term, and the half-way point in the academic year. We have enjoyed a wonderful
14th February 2025
Rainbow Room - Dots Heart Painting
We've been exploring various art techniques, and our focus has been on dot painting. We painted hearts using cotton buds and purple and pink colors. Additionally, we explored different patterns within dot painting to enhance the creativity
Rainbow Room - Numerical Hearts
We had fun exploring numbers on heart shapes in the tuff tray, matching them to develop our numerical understanding. We also practiced counting and number recognition with interactive actions like jumping
Year 4 - Wow Day
We designed our own games working in teams and then presented our ideas to the Dragons whom we wanted to invest in our projects
Year 4 - The Midnight Fair
...picting parts of The story of The Midnight Fair in freeze frames....
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
DT Wow Day - Spring 2025
Over spring, we have been super busy working through our DT topic. Each year group had a specific task and have worked hard to plan a product and then create the product/prototype
Rainbow Room: Drawing & Painting Pigs from Social Story
...xplored The classic story of "The Three Little Pigs." To enhance Their learning, The children partic......forcing The story's concepts. They also used markers to add details, which helped develop Their fine...
Year 3 - Kahoot in ICT
...ce topic - Animals and Humans....
Year 2 - Division
Today we began thinking about using division and how this means we are sharing out items equally between groups. We were able to identify how many groups we would need, as well as how many cubes we needed to share out. We double checked our answers by counting each group and making sure they were...
Year 2 - DT Wow Day
Year 2 had such a fun filled day for our Spring 1 Wow Day! We have been learning all about vehicles with wheels and axles, so what better than to make our own car prototype! We made our basic shape using a chassis, 2 axles and 4 wheels. We then thought back to our design from the week before and...
Year 2 - Role Play Marshmallows Story
Today we watched a short video called Marshmallows. We thought about the characters in the story and explored adjectives we could use to describe them at different points in the story. We were able to tell our partners the key points in the story and began predicting what we thought would happen at...
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Concrete Maths
... find a fraction of an amount.......unit with a practical lesson. They used concrete resources to solve various fraction of amounts. The...... various fraction of amounts. The children using Their resources have now understood how to find a f...
Rainbow Room - Science (Our Body)
...r knowledge of The human body.......earning about The human body. They engaged in a body parts memory game that helped Them learn The na...
Rainbow Room - Our Body: Identity Play
As part of the science activity, we incorporated an identity play where children were asked to use a doll to identify and name different body parts. This activity aimed to help them become more familiar with the human body
Rainbow Room - SEND PE: Throwing & Catching Bean Bags
As part of their SEND PE session, the children from the Rainbow Room engaged in an exciting and interactive activity focused on developing their throwing and catching skills. Using soft bean bags, children practiced various techniques, improving their hand-eye coordination and motor skills
The Hackney Healthy Smiles - 28th February 2025
The Team will be at your school to see Reception & Year 1 on Wednesday 2nd April 2025.
28th February 2025
Parent communication - 28th February 2025
Welcome to the start of the Spring 2 half-term and the conclusion of week 1 as we bring February to a close today. In our usual fashion, please find below our Golden Expectation, Word of the Week and our debate topic of the week to facilitate those h
28th February 2025
Year 3 - Wow Day
...rocodile and a scissor dragon....
Year 1 - Parrot Class: DT
...eck chairs and swivel chairs. Then we designed our own chairs before making Them out of lots of different materials. We used lots of tape and glue so that it was strong and sturdy for it to stand up. Take a look at our fantastic chairs!...
EHT Update Letter - 4th March 2025
I hope you had a good half term break. Spring is definitely evident now and the blue skies a very welcome sight.
3rd March 2025
Year 5 - Maths Challenge
...s of Christ’s Hospital. The children took part in 5 challenging activities for 8 minutes each. Well done to all who took part!...
Year 4 - RE Day
...write our own class poem 'The World, My World'. Listen to us perform our poem....
Year 2 - Numbers Day - Spring 2025
Year 2 had lots of fun dressing up for numbers day! So many children were very creative with their outfits! We had a great time playing lots of maths games today
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...
Year 2 trip to the Science Museum
We had so much fun on a trip to the Science Museum recently. We explored a range of aeroplanes and thought about how they had changed over the years. We discussed the materials they were/are made from and looked at miniature versions that were used in the design process. We then had a great time...
Year 3 - RE Day - 6th February 2025
...esson creating a piece of art....
Rainbow Room: Heart Painting
...ance Their fine motor skills. They painted with brushes, added pipe cleaners, and finished with glitter for a sparkling touch. After Their had presented Their heart painting to Their peers....
Rainbow Room: Speech & Language Intervention
Today, children in the Rainbow Room were visited by Hannah (SLT), who conducted an intervention using Click Clack to support the development of requesting skills. This was done through the use of a core board and picture exchange books
Reception - Numbers Day
On Friday, we really enjoyed dressing up as our favourite numbers for Number Day. We talked about where numbers are used and why we use them
Year 3 – Learning Science through Spanish
...ce knowledge through Spanish. They can now name a range of vertebrates and invertebrates and describe Their characteristics in two languages!...
Year 5 - Science: Air Resistance
We learnt about air resistance by making parachutes to test how the size of the parachute changes the speed of falling
Spanish Champions at the BFI
Yesterday a group of Spanish Champions was at the BFI Southbank for the day. In the morning the presenter took our pupils on an exciting journey to practice Spanish in a fun and interactive way using short films, and in the afternoon, we got to enjoy a film in Spanish
Year 5 - Science: Water Resistance
We learnt about water resistance by carrying out an experiment where we tested out dropping chunks of plasticine into water to see what shape was the most streamlined and had the least water resistance
Rainbow Room - Heart Tree
... and creativity of each child.......a variety of textured papers. They explored different types of paper, including both hard and soft t......e paper and applied The glue. The final result is a colorful and heartwarming Valentine's Tree, ...
Rainbow Room - Valentine's Day Phonics
... as part of The communication.......alentine’s Word Hearts. They worked on matching These words with corresponding word puzzles, h...
Year 2 - Safer Internet Day
Today we took part in Safer Internet Day, thinking about the theme of 'Too good to be true?'. We discussed scams and things we may see when we are online that are often too good to be true, such as free items, free gems or access to exclusive itmes. We explored what we should do if we see...
Year 2 Maths Arrays 2025
This week in Maths, year 2 have been learning about making arrays to help us with multiplication. We were able to recognise how many counters were in each column and each row and used this to help us work out the answer
Year 3 - Kingfisher - Mental Health Workshop
...hildren’s mental health....
Year 3 Kingfisher - Show and Tell
...some amazing facts about Them.......weekly Show and Tell Session. They shared Their favourite animals and gave some amazing facts about ...
Year 5 - Trip to Suleymaniye Mosque
Year 5 spent the morning learning alot about Islam at Suleymaniye Mosque. We learned about the different features of a mosque, how Muslims pray and how to treat a Quran
Rainbow Room - Big and Small Hearts Stamping
...st to Their stamping activity.......s using heart-shaped cutters. They’ve enjoyed experimenting with various sizes to see how each...
Rainbow Room - Heart Size Matching
...rranged Them on The tuff tray....
Rainbow Room - Garden
...les, and herbs in The garden. They were also engaged in observing different types of flowers and tre......ir appearance and texture. The children enjoyed using garden tools, such as rakes, to tend to The...
Year 5 - Geography: Mapping Skills Day
Today is Mapping Skills Day! We utilised our wonderful library to immerse ourselves into our topic - learning all about Turkey through maps and atlases. After that, we learnt about thematic maps and what the purpose of them is. In our third lesson, we created our own map of Turkey and included...
Year 3 – Toucan: Shadow Puppet Show
In today's lesson, we reviewed what we learned last week and explored how shadows are formed. We experimented with creating shadows using torches and other light sources. Using cut-out shapes, we put on a puppet show featuring moving shadows. During the show, we experimented with the size and...
Year 5 - Big Draw (Spring)
Do you know who Pablo Picasso is? We learnt about him and discussed the similarities of his surrealist portraits. We then created our own portraits inspired by Picasso!
Rainbow Room - Harp Sounds
...producing soft, delicate tones. The supportive environment allowed Them to experiment with different techniques, helping Them develop listening skills, creativity, and confidence in Their musical abilities....
Parent Communications - 21st March 2025
Today brings us to the conclusion of week 4 of our Intrepid Explorers half-term. As the term rapidly draws to a close, I have to ask, have you booked your Parents’ Evening Consultation yet?
21st March 2025
Rainbow Room - Dino Pegs Counting
... ability to recognize numbers....
Rainbow Room - Spring Books
Children explored the vibrant season of spring through two delightful books: "Hooray for Hoppy! " and " Five Little Ducks". Both stories brought the joys of spring to life, focusing on farm animals and changing weather. Hooray for Hoppy! by Linda L. Harkins follows a playful...
The Nest - Arts and Crafts - March 2025
Please add these photos to the Nurture page under the heading. This week in Nurture we have been cooking , doing arts and crafts and having a fun time finding the Evil Pea from the story Supertato! Thank you
The Nest - Making Flap Jacks - March 2025
Nurture had fun making Flap jacks this week
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!
Year 3 Kingfisher - Shadow puppets
...Theatre. They had so much fun.......hes to make a shadow Theatre. They had so much fun....
Year 5 - British Science Week Workshop
We learnt about the states of matter through fun experiments during British Science Week! We had fun learning using dry ice! We even attempted to make our own ice cream!
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 - 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!
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 5 - School Tasking (Session 3)
.... Gross Negligence. Trespass. These were only some of The law terms that we learn about and discussed in this week’s School Tasking session run by our LSE law students!...
Year 5 - Science: Models of the Solar System
We learnt about how and why the model of the solar system has changed over time from the Ancient Egyptians’ God Ra, to the Ancient Greeks’ Geocentric model, to Nicolaus Copernicus’ Heliocentric model
Rainbow Room - Easter Chicks
...sed on Their personal choices....
Year 2 - Eid Cards
Today, Ayyad spent his time creating Eid Mubarak cards, pouring his creativity into each design with vibrant colors and imaginative details. Filled with excitement for the upcoming celebration, he also wrote heartfelt messages inside, sharing his warm wishes with his family
Year 3 Kingfisher - Maths: Equivalent Mass
...n identifying equivalent mass....
Year 3 – Learning Geography through Spanish
...ry Islands and its volcanoes. They can now label The different parts of a volcano, and name and describe The three states of a volcano in Spanish and English, as well as recalling information about The Canary Islands....
Year 6 SATs Meeting - Tuesday 1st April 2025
As part of our preparation for the upcoming KS2 SATs assessment, we would like to invite you to a meeting to share information with you about the end of Key Stage 2 tests, which the Year 6 children will be sitting in May 2025. The meeting will take
26th March 2025
School Council off to a Great Start!
...just as a teacher or a leader.......4-25 is off to a great start! Their dedication to working for The betterment of Their peers and spli......erent aspects of school life. The committees are; Admin Committee, Journalist Committee and Junior R...
Year 5 - World Book Day 2025
Have a look at what we dressed up as this World Book Day! Do you recognise the characters we are dressed up as?
Rainbow Room- Old McDonald Song
...e The activity more engaging. The adult sang a line of The song and paused, allowing The children to......lary and listening skills. The children also used The "Now and Next" Singing Core Board...
Rainbow Room - Number Lines
...d in order on The number line.......ing numbers on a number line. They had The opportunity to listen carefully as an adult would say a p......a particular number out loud. Their task was to identify The number and Then locate it on The number...
Year 1 Parrot Class - Paddington!
This week we've been having lots of fun with Paddington! We made marmalade sandwiches and then wrote a set of instructions on how to make marmalade sandwiches. We used imperative (bossy) verbs and connectives to write instructions. Later on, we also wrote a list of things Paddington will need...
Saturday School SATs Boosters - 28th February 2025
Firstly, the Year 6 team would like to express their utmost gratitude for your continued support to ensure that our children are getting the most out of their final year in primary school. As the SATs are quickly approaching, we are offering free tu
5th March 2025
Rainbow Room - Blocks Play
Ayyad and Benjamin were having an absolute fun as they transformed the room into a colourful and exciting mess, using blocks to build towers of all shapes and sizes. Each tower was uniquely crafted with different colored blocks, making every creation stand out even more. It was a joy to witness...
Rainbow Room - Phonics Game
...ted Their phonics development....... game that made learning fun. They matched words to pictures, reinforcing letter sounds, word format......mation, and pronunciation. They also listened to an adult pronounce The initial sounds and indepe...
Year 4 Hornbills' Trip to Ministry of Stories
Hornbill Class had an amazing time at the Ministry of Stories. We worked with an author and an illustrator to create the opening of a story as a class. We then had the opportunity to get creative and add our own ideas to finish the story. Our story was published for us to take home. We were so...
Parent Communication - 7th March 2025
Today brings a very sunny conclusion to week 2 of the Spring 2 half-term. As a reminder this half-term we are intrepid explorers for our geography half-term.
7th March 2025
Rainbow Room - Money (Coins)
...skills in a practical context.......ney, focusing on 1p coins. They independently counted The coins from 1p to 10p and placed Them in...
Year 4 Hornbills - World Book Day
Hornbills had fun getting dressed up to celebrate World Book Day. We discussed our favourite characters and why we chose to dress up as them. We then put them in the 'Hot Seat', asking them questions and answering in role of the character. Can you name all the charcters we're dressed as?
Rainbow Room - Mother's Day Card
...9;s Day from The Rainbow Room.......er's Day celebration. They painted beautiful flowers in bright spring colours on Their cards...
Hackney RE Calendar Competition
Create a captivating visual that celebrates 'Festivals and Celebration' throughout the world.
11th March 2025
Year 3 Toucan - Great Gases
We attended a science workshop about Great Gases, where we explored the properties and effects of liquid nitrogen, observed how electricity moves, and examined the way heat rises
Rainbow Room - Spring Flowers Painting (Mother's Day)
...ovely surprise for Their mums!......t flower petals and stems. Their concentration was great as each unique painting came togeTher, b...
Year 3 - Kingfisher: Finds Fractions of Amounts
... to find fractions of amounts....
Football Boot Competition
...ots. 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!...
Rainbow Room - Ducks in Water
...led with water and one empty. The activity began with an adult modeling The actions. For example,......uot;Ducks in The water." The adult Then splashed The ducks in The bowl, saying "Splash, sp...
Parent Communication - 14th March 2025
In our usual fashion, please find below our Golden Expectation, Word of the Week and our debate topic of the week for week 3 of the Spring 2 half-term, to facilitate those home learning conversations. Golden Expectation: Always be in control of your
14th March 2025
Rainbow Room - Colours Alphabet
...ed learning with lots of fun! The session focused on colours, giving The children The opportunity to not only name various colours but also practice Their phonics skills by identifying The first letter sound of each colour. This was a wonderful way to help Them make connections between words and ...
Rainbow Room - Displays: Spring
...children in The Rainbow Room. These displays serve as a celebration of The creativity, curiosity, and dedication that our students have invested in Their activities and learning....
Rainbow Room - Spring Hyacinth
...ntion bucket focus (Stage 3). The children took turns using paint, pom-poms, and glitter to create Their own artistic representations of this beautiful flower....
Year 3 - Informal Letter Practise: Mother's Day Cards
In today's lesson, we practiced writing a Mother's Day card since the occasion is coming up. This ties into our focus this week on writing informal letters
Year 3 - Toucan: World Book Day
World Book Day was on Friday, March 8th, and the children in Toucan Class dressed up as various book characters
Nurture Group - Maths: Money
In maths we are learning about money. We created a supermarket so we can go shopping and buy some groceries. We worked in a group. One of us was a customer and the other a shopkeeper. We chose what to buy then paid with the right amount of coins
Year 1A - Geography WOW Day!
For Geography WOW day we have been using lots of recyclable materials to create different landmarks in London. Can you guess what they are? We have been learning about the four different countries in the UK and naming capital cities. We also looked at their flags and named the seas surrounding the...
Year 5 - Science: Air Resistance
In Year 5, we have been learning about air resistance. We made parachutes ourselves and tested them!1
Year 1 Visit St Barnabas Church
Year 1 enjoyed a visit to St Barnabas Church for RE. Reverend Clive told us about the different parts of the church and what it was all used for. We enjoyed having a look around, especially the instruments and the microphones!
Year 1 - Work Week 2019: Meeting a Construction Worker
Today in Year 1, a construction worker came to visit us. We discussed beforehand what questions we could ask them and why they might be visiting. We talked about stereotypes in the workplace and how that might affect us
Year 1 - Work Week Fun
Work week fun in 1L! 1L had fun dressing up as nurses, fire fighters and police officers today! We spoke about what job we would like when we are older and what skills we would need for the job
Year 1 - World Book Day 2017
We celebrated World Book Day at Daubeney by dressing up as a character. Year 1 were absolutely amazing! EVERYONE dressed up! We spent the day doing all sorts of activities related to books: we pretended to be a character, we made our own books, we dressed up and perfomed a play and, of course, had...
Year 1 - Zoo Lab visit 1L
... snail to a sliThering snake! The children enjoyed being able to hold, touch and stroke The animals ......ve and what They like to eat. They had so much fun learning and exploring The different animals....
Year 1 and 2 - African Storytelling Session
1P and 2G loved the African storytelling session we had! We loved joining in with stories and acting out the characters
Year 1 Autumn Walk in Daubeney Fields
1D enjoyed their autumn walk in Daubeney Fields where the children explored different features of the season, collected leaves, completed autumn challenges and had lots of fun!
Year 1 Groovin'
Have a look at 1H making beautiful music supported by Year 3 superstars; Jenny on keyboard and Hayden on bass. Team work makes the dream work!
Year 1 RE Day
...k about The Sikhism religion. The children were able to look at some Sikh artefacts and ask Manpreet some questions about his religion. It was very enriching for all children!...
Year 1 Trip to Homerton Library
...us some oTher stories by him. The children really enjoyed meeting Morgan and Myrna who made The stories really enjoyable for Them....
Year 1 visits Year 2 - Science Week Experiments
...o some fantastic experiments! They investigated and observed what happens to M&M's when They are placed in a bowl of water.....!...
Year 1 - Trip to Daubeney Fields
We went on a walk to Daubeney Fields to look at our local area. We talked about the road names and what important buildings are around us and in Daubeney Fields!
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!
Year 2 - 2C Visit the Tower of London
Today (7th March 2019) we went to the Tower of London and we learnt about the Great Fire of London. We got to sing songs, act and learn amazing facts about the Great Fire of London. We also had a chance to go to see other parts of the palace like the Crown Jewels and even meet an Earl from the 13th...
Year 2 - 2C Chinese New Year Festivities
Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the year of the Pig in 2019! In 2C we have been celebrating by learning how to write in Chinese and learning about Chinese traditions through colouring. We also watched a video of traditional Chinese lion dances! Take a look at our photos!
Year 2 - 2C Class Assembly - 15th November 2018
Today we did our first class assembly of the year! We talked about writing instructions in literacy, maps in geography and the environment in geography! Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to watch us perform! We hope you enjoyed it!
Year 2 - 2C Class Assembly - Great Fire of London
What do you know about newspaper reports and the Great Fire of London? In 2C, we know a lot about both of these topics and did our class assembly on it. We also sang a song about the Great Fire of London and it included a lot of helpful signs to help us remember the words of the song. Have a watch...
Year 2 - 2C Easter Bonnet Parade
Happy Easter! For our Easter Bonnet Parade, we decorated cards using felt tips, glitter and bow with rabbits and Easter eggs! We had a lot of fun designing them and we chose the song Firework by Katy Perry to dance to during the parade! Take a look at our photos! Which bonnet catches your eye?
Year 2 - 2C is Feeling Festive
Over the past few weeks we have been getting in the festive mood by doing lots of colouring, singing and card making! It was also Christmas Jumper day last week so that made us even more festive! Take a look at what we have been up to in our photos!
Year 2 - 2C Literacy Monsters
... is doing work he goes green. The Nacher Feary’s body is spikier than a hedgehog.” Can you tell which is Maggie’s monster?...
Year 2 - 2C Postal Museum
After work week, we went to the postal museum to learn more about the history of mail in the UK. Royal Mail plays a really big part in making sure our mail gets to where it needs to be! At the Postal Museum, we learnt through play and Alan took us around the museum to learn about how mail used to...
Year 1 - Victorian Games
In Year 1, we discussed what types of games we play in the playground. We then explored some games from Victorian times. We thought about how new games are different from old games and which games we prefer to play. We played Ring a ring a roses, blind mans bluff and oranges and lemons!
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 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 1 - Hispanic Day in 1P
We had a lovely day today, celebrating everything HIspanic! In We focused on Equador. We learnt about the artist Guayasmin, we had a flamenco and story telling session and made some fans for art
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 - 1T's Weather Report
In Cross Curricular, 1T have been learning about the weather. We identified different types of weather, explored weather in the British Isles and looked at weather in different countries around the world. We then made our very own weather report and had lots of fun creating it!
Year 1 - Aliens
An alien has landed in the hop garden! Year 1 went to investigate and found pieces of its ship. Who was it? What are they like? We hope they are friendly!
Year 1 - Big Draw: Paintings of Ambrosius Bosschaert
For Big Draw in Year 1 we looked at the still life paintings of Ambrosius Bosschaert. We used these as inspiration to make our own collaborative art work. We made flowers out of tissue paper, card and pipe cleaners, thinking carefully about the colours and design
Year 1 - Christmas Dinner
Year 1 had a fantastic Christmas dinner last week! We enjoyed a yummy roast dinner and pulled crackers with our friends! We wore our party hats and had lots of fun together! Merry Christmas to everyone from Year 1!
Year 1 - Christmas Lunch
... a wonderful Christmas lunch. The food was delicious and we loved wearing our Christmas jumpers!...
Year 1 - Designing And Making Toys
In 1A we have been busy designing and making toys as part of our History. We collected lots of junk boxes which we used to make our toy. It got very messy as we painted our creations and used lots of glitter, gems, feathers and other collage to put on the finishing touches. We all had so much fun!
Year 1 - Goldilocks
In Literacy we have been reading the story of Goldilocks and the three bears. We sequenced the pictures of the story talking about what happened at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the story trying to use descriptive words. We also had fun acting out the story in small groups using...
Year 1 - Hilda Offen
...from The author Hilda Offen . The children were eager to look at her books and were even more surpri......rds and books of her work. The children got to experience being an author Themselves by making up...
Year 1 - Identifying and Classifying Different Materials
In 1P we have been learning about different materials and their properties. This week we had the task of identifying and classifying different materials. We worked as a team to decide where to put things and really enjoyed our experiment!
Year 1 - The Magical Toy Museum
...had a lovely visit today from The Magical Toy Museum. We visited different exhibits that showed us different types of toys and got to play with Them. We looked at how old They were, how to tell and what They were made of! It was a lovely, magical session!...
Year 1 - Jaws, Paws and Claws Workshop
...come in to visit from Zoolab. The workshop linked with our current science topic of Animals includin...... of Animals including Humans. There were lots of different animals that we were able to hold, touch ...
Year 1 - London Transport Museum
Year 1 have been learning about different means of transport. We went to the London Transport Museum to learn about how people traveled in the past in London. We saw how horses were used to pull carriages, and what the first bus looked like. We also went on the first ever tube train: it had no...
Year 1 - Lyubov Popova
In Year 1 we learnt about an artist called Lyubov Popova. We used her art as an inspiration to create our own. We mix colours and painted sheets of paper. We then cut out shapes from it and layered them to create our piece
Year 1 - Magical Toy Museum
In Year 1 were very lucky to have a special visitor from the Magical Toy Museum. We looked at different teddy bears and created a timeline with them, discussing their similarities and differences. We looked at dolls and how they imitate human features. We also had a go at playing with moving toys,...
Year 1 - Spaceship in the Hop Garden
A spaceship has landed in the Hop Garden! We went to the scene of the crime to investigate! "We saw hot metal. Maybe a spaceship was hot and some bits came off." "We think an alien was in the spaceship. Maybe he went into London. How is he going to get home?" "Maybe the...
Year 1 - Sports Day 2018
...time at sports day this week! They participated in lots of different activities. Thanks to all of The parents for coming!...
Year 1 - Study Start Spellings
In study start we get the chance to practice our spellings. Some of us are really good because we practice at home as well!
Year 1 - Teddy Bear's Picnic
Year 1 went on a lovely trip to Hackney Marshes for a teddy bears picnic. We enjoyed lunch in the sunshine and a play on the big green fields. What a wonderful day!
Year 1 - Teddy Bears Picnic in Hackney Marshes
... hunt, looking at what grows. Then we sat down and had a picnic with our teddies and friends!...
Year 1 - The Hop Garden
1P had a great time in the Hop Garden this afternoon. We went on a plant hunt, looking for different varieties that grow. We found garlic, raspberries, pansies, courgettes and tomato plants!
Year 2 - 2C Singing the Continent Song
Last week in Year 2, we learnt about the continents by singing a song about it! 2C loved the song so much that they can’t stop singing it! Here is a video of our class singing the continent song. Do you know all 7 continents?
Year 2 - 2C Trip to the Library
This week, we got to go to the Homerton Library! We met the librarians who told us all about the library and what we could do there! Did you know that you can borrow books, read books and even use the computers to find out new things? We also found out that to borrow books and use the computers you...
Year 1 - 1P's Weather Forecast
In Cross Curricular, Year 1 have been learning about the weather. We made our own weather forecast video in 1P, talking about weather all over the world. We had a great time!
Year 2's Trip to Kew Gardens
...antastic trip to Kew Gardens. The trip was linked to our learning – Growing Plants. We travelled by London Overground from Homerton to Kew Gardens. It was a long journey! When we got There, we split up into groups and went to see various things in The gardens. Some of us were lucky enough t...
Year 2 - The Geffrye Museum
...um this week for our topic on The Great Fire of London. We looked at different artefacts from 1660’s and we had The opportunity to dress up in some costumes from The period. We also had The chance to write using a quill and ink just as Samuel Pepys did when writing his famous diary. We Then lo...
Year 2 - Time
...by using oTher time intervals.......sson learning all about time. They learnt how to identify, quarter past, half past, quarter to and o...
Year 2 - Trip to Shoeburyness Beach
We went to Shoeburyness beach for our end of year trip. We played with the sand, collected seashells, played games with our class and dipped our feet in the ocean. We had so much fun!
Year 2 - Visit to the Gurdwara in Bow
... before we returned to school.......Gurdwara in Bow on Wednesday. The children and adults were asked to remove Their shoes and socks and......ver Their heads with a scarf. They were warmly welcomed into The Gurdwara and shown to The prayer ro...
Year 2 - Work Week
We had police officers, EchoActive, dog and cat protection team come to visit us and talk about their jobs
Year 2 Trip to Tower of London
Year 2 went on a trip to Tower of London and we learnt about the Great Fire of London. We had a tour around the tower and saw houses that were made out of wood in 1666. Do you know how the fire started?
Year 2 visits Year 1 - Science Week Experiments
...some challenging experiments! They investigated on how to build The strongest and tallest tower using spaghetti and marshmallows (which we're very tempting to nibble on!)....
Year 2 Work Week - Dress Up
Children dressed up as their preferred profession
Year 2 World Poetry Day
...y 2FA performed The poem 'The North Wind Doth Blow'. We memorized The verses and added some ......movement to our performance. The North Wind Doth Blow (Anonymous) The north wind doth blow And we s......th Wind Doth Blow (Anonymous) The north wind doth blow And we shall have snow And what will The robi...
Year 2/5 - Developing Literacy Skills Using Brackets
It was a very special morning today, Friday 8th December 2017, for two special young stars from 2K, who came to 5M to enhance their learning. In the session, our two young stars developed their literacy skills by using brackets, to add more details about their subject. In maths they answered Next...
Year 2 - St Paul's Cathedral
As part of our Great fire of London topic, we visited St Paul’s Cathedral. We got to see what the Cathedral looked like before it was burnt down in 1666. Inside this amazing building we searched for different artefacts and saw statues that were burnt in the fire. We also lied down in the...
Year 2K Peer Tutored by 5M
...s key stage 1 and key stage 2.......ar 5M, who peer tutored Them. They worked brilliantly at developing Their next steps and The Year 5 ...
Year 3 - 3P Shares their Learning
... during our sharing assembly. The audience were amazed to see how well The Year 3 children performed...... children performed on stage. Their main message was that success comes from hard work and determina......termination, never giving up. They also shared with us some stories of famous people who failed at f...
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
Year 3 - 3P's Friendship Week Message to You
...od friendship and being kind. They have an inspiring message for all of you... take a look!...
Year 3 - 3T Class Assembly: The Stone Age
This is Year 3T class assembly on the Stone Age. Children were amazing and got great reviews from the audience. Well done 3T
Year 3 - 3T Friendship Flowers
...e special friendship flowers. They thought about what friendship is and how we can all be good frien...... good friends to one anoTher. They Then wrote what was special about Their friends on a petal to be ...... to be added to Their flower. They also thought about what made Them a good friend to oThers. Farris...
Year 3 - 3T Retell 'Welcome'
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Year 3 - 3T The Good Plant Growing Guide
...ow strong and healthy plants? Then listen to our Good Plant Growing Guides! We did an experiment to find out The best way to grow plants so you don't have to!" - Christopher 3T...
Year 2 - Subtracting Using Dienes
...t They were subtracting from. They Then had to subtract The amount of dienes in The number sentence.......ienes in The number sentence. The children were able to use Their times table skills when counting t...
Year 2 - SS Empire Windrush
As it is Black History Month, we have been learning about the Windrush! After talking and watching videos about the Windrush, we went on the Daubeney Bus and used Legos to build our own versions of SS Empire Windrush! Take a look at our photos!
Year 2 - 2C Work Week 2019
During work week, we learnt about lots of community jobs. We learnt about working at the Royal Mail and how mail gets from one place to another from Lenny the Letter. We had another visitor come visit us, who was a construction worker. He told us all about how his job was about keeping people safe....
Year 2 - Great Fire of London
... exciting workshop this week. The children role played The scene of The buildings in London and in r...... and in role as shop keepers. They learnt how The buildings were burnt down in The tragedy. The Grea......re burnt down in The tragedy. The Great Fire of London happened in 1666, a huge fire that started in...
Year 2 - 2C World Maths Day 2019
Happy World Maths Day! For World Maths Day, we spent the afternoon problem solving and doing interesting maths investigations with our partners. Normally, when we think about maths, we think about adding or subtracting numbers. But the activities this afternoon showed us that maths does not only...
Year 2 - 2K Sharing Assembly
We had our sharing assembly yesterday (18th October 2018)! In geography, we talked about the oceans and the continents. In science, we talked about habitats and how important they are for animals. In literacy, we sang a song that narrated a story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Thank you for...
Year 2 - 2K World Maths Day 2019
...n different Maths activities. They enjoyed working in groups; whereby each child contributed ideas that helped Their team solve The equation. Some teams used concrete as oThers challenged Themselves with abstract methods. It was such a fun day. Maths can be an investigation not only calculation. Ple...
Year 2 - Black History Month Art
It's been an amazing week! As part of Black History Month, children had an exciting opportunity to participate in the 'Big Draw'. Year 2's Art drawing was an inspiration from Derek Walcott who was an artist, play writer and a poet from the Island of St. Lucia
Year 2 - Conscience Alley
... we read a book called “The Day The Crayons Quit”. It is about a boy, called Duncan, and......ecause They are just crayons! They aren’t even real people!” Do you have any thoughts...
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 - Freshwater Theatre Company
...ntastic visit from Freshwater Theatre Company. This was as part of our 'Great Fire of London' topic. We got The chance to find out how people lived during 1666 and The different types of jobs that They did. This workshop helped us to develop our understanding of what life was like in London ...
Year 2 - Geography: Our Local Area
In Geography, we explored our local area. We had a look at the world map and located the UK and then also has a closer look at a detail map of London to find the borough of Hackney. Later on, we thought about what kind of message we would want to write to put inside a bottle. We talked about our...
Year 2 - Giving Intructions Using Imperative Verbs
In literacy we this week, Year 2 have been learning how to give intructions using imperative verbs. As part of a practical lesson, the children gave each other instructions using imperative verbs while making a jam sandwich
Year 2 - 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 - Space and Astronauts at the Science Museum
Year 2 visited the Science Museum to learn about space and astronauts. We had fun looking at space shuttles, space capsule, what food astronauts eat in space and we saw a piece of the moon! It was very exciting! We learnt about Yuri Gagarin who made history in 1961 when he became the first human to...
Year 2 - Land Art
Year 2 have been looking at scluptures created by Andy Goldworthy in their art lessons. Today we went to Daubeney Filed and created our own land art. We used natural materials such as leaves, twigs, stones and flowers. Have a look at our creations
Year 2 - Living Things and Their Habitats
In Year 2, we have been learning about living things and their habitats in Science! In partners we decorated shoeboxes that highlighted key features and animals of each habitat. Take a look at these photos of our habitats! Which habitat would you like to live in?
Year 2 - Making Jam Sandwiches
...es for instructional writing. The best part was we got to eat The sandwiches at The end of The lesson! Yum!...
Year 2 - Making Toy Cars
In D&T we have been designing and making our own toy car. We first designed our car and made our body using cardboard. We then attached the axle to the wheels. We had a class race when we finished constructing our car. It was fun! Can you guess who won?
Year 2 - Maths Workshop with the Happy Puzzle Company
Year 2 took part in an exciting maths workshop with the Happy Puzzle Company. We developed our team work skills whilst solving challenging maths problems!
Year 2 - Maths: Adding Using the Column Method
...n method; regrouping in ones. They practiced with dienes where They learnt how to 'Stop and Swap' moving The 1 ten in The tens column....
Year 2 - Opera in 2G
...visit from two opera singers. They were able to listen to The beautiful voices of The two very talen......also take part in a workshop. The children were really focused by what was a unique experience for t...
Year 2 - Performing to and Reading with Year 1s
In literacy, we watched a video called 'Catchit' and retold the story in our own words. After writing the story and including our own ending, we created performances to show to the Year 1s based on our writing. After performing to the Year 1s, they invited us to read their stories with them...
Year 2 - Planting Onions
... air over The next few weeks. These are really important for plants to survive. Take a look at our photos!...
Year 2 - Science: Plants
We had a great start to our Science lesson by learning about plants. We discussed what we already know about plants and to our surprise we realised that we actually know quite a lot! We worked as a group to complete a KWL chart about what we KNOW, what we WANT to learn and later would fill in what...
Year 1 - 1T Magical Toy Museum Visit
1T had a visit today from the Magical Toy Museum. We explored different exhibits that showed us lots of types of toys and we had a chance to play with some of them. We discussed how old the toys were, how we could tell and what material they were made from. It was a lovely, magical session!
Year 1 - 1P's Monkey Puzzle Assembly
1P had our class assembly. We sang songs and told the story of Monkey Puzzle. We had a great time and thanks to everyone for coming!
Year 3 - 3T's Climate Change Speeches
Inspired by the story 'Welcome', in which a polar bear's icy habitat melts, 3T decided to write speeches persuading people to do something about global warming. Take a listen!
School Councillors visit Credit Suisse
...ip Academy, East Harlem, NYC. The students shared collages of Their favourite parts of Their respect......iving in London and New York. The New York and London school pupils got to ask each oTher questions ......rent in different continents. The School Councillors also had The opportunity to hear Abdul Buhari, ...
Red Class - Our Trip to the Discover Story Centre
Recently Reception went to the Discover Story Centre. We had a brilliant time listening to stories and had such fun creating our own stories. We even had a chance to make our own character puppets and dress up. We also had lots of adventures in the playground pretending to go on a spaceship, a...
Red Class - Paradise Wildlife Park
Red Class had an amazing time at Paradise Wildlife Park. We saw lots of animals including cheetahs, lions, zebras, snakes, owls, parrots and lemurs. We also walked around the dinosaur trail. WOW! the dinosaurs were huge and they even roared at us. Take a look at the photographs below to see what...
Red Class - The Big Draw
Red class created some lovely landscape pictures inspired by the artist Nicolas De Steal. We used paint and oil pastels to create different sceneries. Max said "mine is a picture of a garden with lots of colourful flowers". Agnes said " I like Elijah's picture because I like the colours of the sea...
Religious Education Day in Year 5
... in Year 5 explored Buddhism. They discussed The significant beliefs and values from The faith and The teachings of Buddha. The children enjoyed learning about The religion and created Their own front page for Their topic books....
RRS: 'The Right to a Full and Decent Life' Assembly
...rticle 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 through The context of Fair-trade and how families of produce farmers across The glob...
SATs Saturday School
... Saturday School of The year. The children all enjoyed Themselves having The entire school to Themse......w The teachers wearing jeans! They also enjoyed flapjacks, biscuits and a juice for Their snack at b...
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...
School Council Elections
... speeches in class next week. The subejct is: "Why I 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 Septem...
School Councillors 2017/18
...chool 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....
Science Club
...imenting with surface tension....
Red Class - Journey to Africa
Red Class have been on a journey to Africa! We have enjoyed reading the story Handa’s Surprise and acting out the story. We have also been looking at African art and prints in textiles. We then created a patterned scarf for Handa using shapes. Red class also loved writing postcards pretending...
Science Club
... making floating marshmallows.......cited and fun filled session. The children used ingredients to make Their own slime, which turned ou......ich turned out to be AMAZING! The children look forward to The next session, after half-term, where ...
Science Club - Bubbles
... loads of fun in science club!......ey made a cube out of straws. Then They used washing up liquid to create bubbles around The cube fac......les around The cube faces. The children are certainly having loads of fun in science club!...
Science Club - Circuits
... different types of circuits! The children tried to get a motor, a buzzer and a switch to work all at The same time using a parallel circuit....
Science in 2G
In Year 2 we have been learning about plants in our science lessons. We have conducted an experiment where we planted some beans and cared for them in a variety of ways. Over the past 2 weeks we have observed how they have grown. We planted the beans in the same way but then changed the conditions...
Science Juniors Make Lava Lamps
...ses. Check out our lava lamps....... Daubeney Science Laboratory (The Daubeney Bus) and don Their white coats to carry out anoTher excit...
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
This is our music video for the BBC Ten Pieces Project. Thanks to parent volunteer Guy Sherwin for helping the children produce old style hand drawn animation. Drums by Jackson, Year 4 and keyboards by Tracey in Year 6
Spanish - Champions at the Cinema
Our Spanish Champions enjoyed a wonderful day at the cinema and watched “Coco” (the Mexican animation film about the Day of the dead) in Spanish following the celebrations of the Hispanic Week in Hackney
Spanish Champions 2016-17
...out learning The language. They are children who HELP oTher pupils and Their teachers practising ......class throughout The week. They ENCOURAGE Their classmates to use Spanish as much as possible in ......as proud of Them as we do. These are our 2016-2107 Spanish champions:...
Spanish Champions Armbands
...y 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 meeting where They shared Their experiences and we let Them know that Their hard work is very important and m...
Red Class - One Week in 1P
...e having a lovely week in 1P. They have settled in really well, getting used to Year 1 routines. Well done everyone!...
Red Class - Fire Station Visit
As part of Inspire Work Week Red Class went to the Fire Station. Take a look to see what a brilliant time we had! A big thank you to all the parents that volunteered on the day
Sports Update - Cross Country and Netball
On the 26th November the boys and girls participated in a cross country and did really well. Also on the 28the November 2018 it was some children's first time playing netball - they really impressed with their performance
Reception Have Been Learning to Play Ukulele
Take a look at their progress
Reception - Yellow Class Visit Homerton Fire Station
...ers were called out to a job. The children got see Them in action going out on a job. Amazing!...
Reception - Yellow Class Visit Paradise Wildlife Park
...nguin 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 one of The many playgrounds. Here are some of The Yellow class experiences of a fantastic day....
Reception - Yellow Class Visit the Library
...proud of all The children. The librarian read us a story called 'Handa's Surprise' by Eileen Brown. We Then got to look at books that we liked and we were even allowed to take a book back to school. We cannot wait until our next trip!...
Reception - Yellow Class Work Week 2019
...g work we had lots of visits. The police came in to tell us about Their important job. We also had some of our very own Yellow Class parents come and visit. Pearl's mum who is a Foley artist (makes sounds for films and tv programmes), Freddie's mum who is a doctor at Homerton hospital (Gynec...
Reception - Yellow Class: 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy
...ver Next' by Jill Murphy. The children learnt all about onomatopoeia words. We pointed out many of Them in The story and we thought of some of our own onomatopoeia words, which we Then put into our literacy writing. As part of The week's focus we painted alien pictures from outer space. ...
Reception - Yellow Class: Growth and Transformation
... we have planted broad beans. The children were so excited! We shall be looking at Them carefully over The next two weeks to see what happens as our broad beans grow....
Reception - Yellow Class: The Three Little Pigs
... on The well known story 'The Three Little Pigs'. The children enjoyed role playing The s......he Three Little Pigs'. The children enjoyed role playing The story, making The 3D houses and ......ing The pigs for our display. They did some really good writing around The story. This was focusing ...
Reception - Yellow Class: Winter
...d it is a veterinary surgery. The children love it and are pretending to look after and treat animal......g all about 'Winter'. The children learnt how to cut out snowflakes to put on winter tree di...
Reception Christmas Performance 2015
... told us The Christmas story. Their acting, singing and dancing was brilliant. You can watch The whole thing again any time you like!...
Reception Hub Velo visit
...breaks and many oTher things. The children really enjoyed The visit......
Red Class - Festive Fun
Red class enjoyed a delicious Christmas lunch today. It was lovely to see everyone enjoying themselves and getting into the Christmas spirit. Take a look below to see what fun we had!
Reception Invitation - Stories
We invited Reception class to come and listen to our stories! We read our published story to them using our best voices. Reception children asked us questions about our stories and we answered them articulately
Reception Meet Author Andrew Weale
Reception met the author Andrew Weale . He read his amazing stories to us
Reception Met the Metropolitan Police
... met The Metropolitan Police. The Police officers shared what They do and how They help us. We enjoyed looking at Their uniforms and exploring Their different equipment....
Reception Nativity 2016
Reception present their nativity - 'It's A Boy'
Reception Trip to Hommerton Library
...e library". Ronan "The library has information books that you can read"....
Reception Trip to St Barnabas Church
... visiting St Barnabas Church. The children listened carefully to The Christmas story about The birth......bout The birth of baby Jesus. The children even took part in acting out The story. We also looked at...
Reception visit the V&A Museum of Childhood
...t different types of puppets. They even had The opportunity to create Their own puppet show....
Reception's Stay and Learn
Big thank you, to all the parents who attended our stay and 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
Reception, Year 1 and Year 2's Sports Day
...lace on The 4th July 2016. The sun was shining, The children were smiling and There were lots of ...... were lots of fun activities! The children participated in egg and spoon races, sack races, hop race......, hop races and so many more. The children had so much fun....
Red Class - Decorating Cupcakes
... below to see what fun we had....
Spanish Champions Make Displays About Themselves
... about Themselves in Spanish! They shared what Their hobbies, favourite food, birthday, etc. are in Spanish....
Sports Update - January 2019
Fantastic from the KS1 taking part in the healthy living festival and having fun. Really Good effort Year 3 boys giving their all at Mabley green. Well done for the Athletics team in Year 6 getting through to the finals
Year 1 - 1P Zoo Lab
1P had the Zoo Lab in to visit this morning. We were very excited! We saw a giant snail, a cockroach, a frog, a snake and a gerbil. We were able to touch the animals and lots of us even held them! We learnt lots about the animals and had a lovely time
Year 1 - 1L Trip to the Beach
1L had a great time at the beach this week! We paddled in the sea, built sandcastles and collected shells!
World Book Day - Author Visits
...en McCombie and Andrew Weale. The children enjoyed a very entertaining performance of Tolulope's boo......rformance of Tolulope's book 'The Frog and His Dancing Shoes', an interactive workshop with Andrew W......t how Karen became an author. They had The opportunity to ask The authors questions, buy Their books...
World Book Day 2016
... World Book Day with a blast! The children and staff made a massive effort in coming to school dressed as Their favourite book character!...
World Book Day 2018
...g World Book Day at Daubeney! The children and staff enjoyed dressing up and taking part in a range of activities relating to our favourite books and characters! Take a look at our creative costumes....
World Book Day 2019
World Book Day was a great success! On Friday 8th March, everybody dressed up as their favourite book character. Well done for joining in! We saw some Harry Potters, Matildas, Greg Heffleys and even a Broccoli Boy! Congratulations to the winners of the costume competition who got to choose any book...
World Book Week in Nursery
... higlights of World Book Week....
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 - 1l Easter Parade
1L had lots of fun today at the Easter parade! We made hats in class earlier this week and everyone enjoyed dancing round the playground. We hope everyone has a lovely Easter break!
Year 1 - 1L Jack and the Beanstalk Assembly
...r Their class assembly today! They retold The story of Jack and The Beanstalk, and had fun singing songs....
Year 1 - 1L Visit Virgin Trains in Euston Station
1L had a great trip on Tuesday to visit Virgin Trains in Euston Station as part of work week. We had fun exploring a train and split into groups to learn more. We visited the train shop and found out what it would be like to work there. We took a seat in first class! We also spent time with the...
Work Week in Nursery
...ut- different jobs people do. They pretended They were builders, wearing helmets and high-vis jacket......I'm making a house." They also dressed up as chefs, as you can see in The photographs. Thei......u can see in The photographs. Their favourite thing to cook was eggs and pasta! On The special work ...
Year 1 - 1L's Christmas Party
1L had fun yesterday afternoon at their Christmas party. We had lots of yummy food and drink, we listened to music and played games! We also had a very special visit from Father Christmas! 1L wish that everyone has a lovely Christmas holiday :)
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!
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...
Year 1 - 1P Big Draw
For our art week, we looked at the artist Klimt and used him for inspiration to create our own pictures. We used oil pastels and fine liners to create shapes
Year 1 - 1P Learn About the Hackney Martian
1P learnt about the Hackney Martian today! We did some role-play, acting out different parts and imagining how the characters might feel. We think we know how was in the spaceship in the hop garden now
Year 1 - 1P visit the Beach
1P had an amazing time at the beach! We went paddling (some of us would have gone for a swim if we could!) and building sandcastles!
Year 1 - 1P Visit Waitrose in Stratford
1P went on a trip to Waitrose in Stratford. We went on the train to Stratford. When we got there we tasted different fruits, we had a go at scanning things on the tills and we went on a shopping list treasure hunt. We had fun!
Year 1 - 1P Work Week 2018
1P dressed up as lots of different things for Work Week! We had footballers, teachers, ballerinas, a builder, a speech and language therapist, an architect, doctors and nurses, a vet, chefs and even a manager of John Lewis! Well done everyone!
Year 1 - 1P World Book Day 2019
We had a fantastic World Book Day in 1P! We spent the day doing lots of reading activities including sharing our favourite stories with each other, making bookmarks and looking and talking about different characters
Work Week in Nursery
Nursery enjoyed trying out different jobs in nursery this week! We had doctors curing ill people, vets treating poorly animals and a mini-teacher or two reading to their 'class'. Bea said, "I want to be a rock star or a zoo keeper- or both!" Levi reported that he wanted to be...
Woodwind Concert
...lute, saxophone and clarinet. These children are The ones who stuck with Their instrument all year with help from Their teacher Mr. Mc Chesney and supportive parents. Well done to all involved....
Starting Reception - Autumn 2017
...e settling well into routine. They are learning about Their new school, making new friends and building relationships with all The staff....
This Week in 1S
...ed into Year 1 super quickly! They have been playing and writing, drawing and running! This week we have been drawing our own maps and writing our own sentences using colourful semantics. We even know all about odd and even numbers! We can't wait to learn even more :)...
Storytelling with Phil McDermott
...to Phil tell amazing stories. The children were inspired by mysteries, myths and fables and enjoyed Phil's animated and humorous style. Are you a master storyteller? Have a go at telling stories to your family, friends and pets!...
Summer Fair 2015
All the fun of the fair!
Summer Fair 2016
We all had an amazing time at the Daubeney Summer Fair. Ducks were hooked, faces were painted, balloons were bashed and 100’s of prizes were won! Thank you to everyone who came along to join in the fun and make it such a special day. We raised: £2560
Sustainable Travel Assembly
...e in school and learn better. The fact that you walk or cycle to school also means you will help The environment by not polluting it.
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Talking About Emotions Workshop
...y can support Their children. The children were invited to participate in activities with Their pare......ctivities with Their parents. The parents and children discussed how Their bodies may feel when feel......talk to about Their emotions. The children Then had a fun group activity in making a sensory bottle....
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...
Team Points
Here are the current Daubeney Team Point totals:
The One Show - Parents' Evening
...ren from Daubeney appeared on The One Show on Wednesday 20th December 2017. They featured in a film ......Wednesday 20th December 2017. They featured in a film discussing Their experiences of parents' e...
The Science Team at The Royal Society
...ence Team at The Royal Society......al Society...
Top Book Recommendations for KS1
...der......y extract from his favourite book, ‘The Twists’ by Roald Dahl. The books The Junior Literacy Tea......e book, ‘The Twists’ by Roald Dahl. The books The Junior Literacy Team recommended include: Th...
Woodwind Concert
...e sublime talent at Daubeney. The Woodwind club played for KS1 to try and inspire future musicians. ......and inspire future musicians. They tried to plant some ideas in The young minds such as "What i...
Top Book Recommendations for KS2
...aries by Rachel Renee Russell The Boy in The Dress by David Walliams Tom Gates by L. Pichon Th......chel Renee Russell The Boy in The Dress by David Walliams Tom Gates by L. Pichon The Worst Wit......iams Tom Gates by L. Pichon The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy The Falcon’s Malteser by Anthony ...
Traditional Tales in 1D
In Literacy, we are reading the Gruffalo and 1D enjoyed acting out the story, changing their voices and putting on masks!
Transforming our School Gates
... one of The local landscapes. The children used cut out shapes of paper to create Their chosen build......ed screen printing workshops. The prints are Then translated into large scale lazer cut steel panels......o brighten up school grounds. The artist will be using These fantastic designs created by Daubeney c...
Ukulele At Daubeney
Many children at Daubeney, from Reception to Year 6 are getting a chance to learn to play the ukulele. Recently we went on a trip to 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!
Ukulele Trip to Gainsborough
...omes from. We performed "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". We did The trip twice as we also attended The dress rehearsal; one trip was a walk in beautiful balmy weaTher and The oTher trip had us marching through icy wind and rain. What an adventure and memorable experience! Well done to all who 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
Walking Map Zone
...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 school. Is it sustainable for The environment? Use our map to plan The most sustainable journey y...
WE Day 2019
...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. WheTher it be working towards a healthier environment, fundraising for a school bus or creating a safe haven against viol...
Welcome
...Schools and Children Centres. These are very exciting schools to be a part of and we hope you enjoy learning about us in These pages and finding out about all The amazingly creative and high quality learning opportunities we provide for our children. If you are a prospective parent or carer, we welc...
Who's in the hot seat?
We enjoy collaborative learning in Year 2!
Year 3 - 3T's Christmas Hoop
3T designed and made snowmen for their Christmas hoop! Look out for it around the school
Year 3 - Boys Book Club
...st session in Boys Book Club. They shared Their favourite book with The boys and completed a questionnaire about reading. Watch this space to see more......
Reception - Yellow Class Trip to Discover Centre
...Discover centre in Stratford. The children enjoyed The playground and making stories for Hootah. We made spoon puppets and dressed up as a character. We loved Discover!...
Year 4 Half Term Holiday Projects
...a earthquake scene in London. The teachers and Mr Logan were very impressed!...
Year 4 - Wahaca
...staurant in Liverpool Street. They learned that maths and literacy are both very important in The wo......add up a customer's bill. Then They made some delicious guacamole and ate it with chips! Finally...
Year 4 - Woodberry Wetlands
As part of our science topic, we were very lucky to take part in the workshops held by the Woodberry Wetlands centre. We got the opportunity to go and look for creatures in the wildlife and observe and classify what they were using the classification key. We also got to go pond dipping where we...
Year 4 - Woodberry Wetlands
Year 4 were very lucky to go on a trip to Woodberry Wetlands where they had first-hand experience seeing all the creatures that they have been learning about in Science. At first the children were scared and didn't want to get their hands dirty but by the end of the day everyone was brave...
Year 4 - Work Week
...nt 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 and hospitality industry. It was fascinating and some people discovered some hidden talents. Thank you to The &...
Year 4 - Work Week Dress Up
As part of work week, children got to dress up as professionals from work. Fathia said "My dream is to become a doctor an open up my own surgery" Anaya said " I want to be a teacher just like Miss Patel" Justin said "I want to be a tennis player because it's fun and I...
Year 4 - Working Collaboratively Through Role Play
After a restful holiday, Year 4 are back and rearing to go! We had a great time stimulating our imagination and working collaboratively through our role playing lessons in Literacy. 'I enjoyed role-playing the mum in the story because I learnt how to use more adjective in my sentences and I...
Year 4 - World Book Day 2017
...t stories for oThers to read. The children Then illustrated Their stories using watercolours. All The stories have been displayed in a big book. Please have a read of our great stories when you next visit our book corner!...
Year 4 - World Book Day 2018
Year 4 had an exhilarating World Book Day, dressing up and partaking in a range of activities! Take a look at their creative costumes
Year 4 Ballet at the Royal Opera House
...prodigious Royal Opera House. The children were pleasantly surprised and sat mesmerised throughout The electrifying performances. As The crowd celebrated with cheers at The end of The performances, The Year 4 children were flowing with excitement, joy and promise to ensure that They visited again....
Year 4 Have Had a Great First Week Back!
... concentration on Their faces!...... Their class teachers better. They have also jumped right into Year 4 learning for RE day where They...
Year 4 - Viking Helmets
...erstand life during that era. They were able to identify The key features of a Viking hat, along wit......quered between AD793 to 1066. They had a great time and are looking forward to learning more about l...
Year 4 Return to School 2017
...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. I&#...
Year 4 Swimming at The Aquatics Centre
...Aquatics Centre in Stratford. They were learning how to swim with professional swimming instructors. By The end of The two weeks, everyone passed Their swimming test!...
Year 4 Trip to Masala Zone
4K went on a trip to Masala Zone in Islington were we thoroughly enjoyed tasting dishes from the Indian cuisine as well as learning about the different jobs in a workplace. We learnt the importance of maths in the workplace by calculating a customer's bill. We then made delicious healthy...
Year 4 Trip to Suleymaniye Mosque
...uslims' place of worship. The imam (religious leader) took us on a tour of The mosque and answered any questions we had. 'We learnt new things that we didn't know before and we had fun. I thought The building was very colourful.' - Phillip 4C ' It was fun and educatio...
Year 4 Visit Hackney Museum
...Vikings settled into Hackney. The children were fascinated by all The amazing migration facts and stories. Year 4 got The opportunity to look through real artifacts of migrants from Hackney which dated back to The 1700s!...
Year 4 Visit Wahaca in Liverpool Street
...staurant in Liverpool Street. They learned that maths and literacy are both very important in The wo......add up a customer's bill. Then They made some delicious guacamole and ate it with chips! Finally...
Year 4 Workshop at Hackney Museum - Travels With My Suitcase
...l time at The Hackney museum. They attended an exciting workshop called 'Travels With My Suitcase'. This workshop was all about The history of Hackney going all The way back to The Anglo Saxon era. "I really enjoyed The trip, we got to touch real artefacts from The past. I'm going ...
Year 4's Maths Tricks
...I also know that 300+200=500. Then I just add on 75." - Evellyn "For 57-19. I know that I cannot take 9 away from 7, so I have to regroup. It Then becomes 17. 17-9=8 and 4-1=3. So The answer is 38!" - Bola "For 96 ÷ 4. I knew that 4x12=24 and 48x2=96. I also ...
Year 4, 5 and 6 Visit Parasol Gallery
... enjoy some contemporary art. They looked at The current exhibition, worked with a storyteller and Then started to create Their own artwork....
Year 4 - Viking Invasions
...part of an exciting workshop. The children learnt many interesting facts about The Viking invasions.......s about The Viking invasions. They also had Their fortunes told from reading Viking runes. Please as...
Year 4 - Viking Helmets
Year 4 had an exciting week creating Viking helmets. Did you know that the real Viking helmets did not have horns? Take a look at the pictures below to see how they really looked! "Before learning about the Vikings, I thought their helmets had horns" - Zakaria "It was so much fun to...
Year 5 - 3D Shapes
...to identify Their properties. The children had a range of shapes and had to carefully look at The shapes, identifying Their properties, sides, edges, vertices and faces....
Year 4 - Mummification
...bout 'mummification'. They learnt The fascinating yet queasy facts about why and how it was ......almers and mummify an orange. They loved The activity, getting messy and learning The process of mum...
Year 4 - Human and Physical Geography Trip to Daubeney Fields
... and physical geography'. They enjoyed Themselves by having The opportunity to observe different......scape of Their local area! They will use this information to help Them furTher in Cross Curricula...
Year 4 - Indian Inspired Tapestries
Year 4 have been creating Indian inspired tapestries. We learned lots of new seeing skills. Take a look at the results
Year 4 - Internet Safety Day
...l media and privacy settings. The children also spoke about Their own experiences and learnt about how important it is to report anything to an adult and when to use The 'block' button. Check out some of Their informative posters!...
Year 4 - IntoUniversity Careers Workshop
Year 4 took part in an IntoUniversity workshop about careers. IntoUniversity helped teach the children about skills needed for different jobs such as engineer and product designer. What would you like to be when you're older and what skills will you need? Let us know in the comment section...
Year 4 - IntoUniversity Workshop
...from The IntoUniversity team. The children were engaged in various activities, like creativity by de......eing a road and town planner. The children are now looking forward to being permanently in Year 5, w...
Year 4 - Lego Workshop
...anised by The City Year team. They had a wonderful time learning about coding and robotics and put all this knowledge into use. Take a look at what They got up to!...
Year 4 - Maths: Graffiti Art
Year 4 had a fun maths lesson creating graffiti art. Each table had a different reasoning problem and the children worked in groups to find a solution using numbers and drawings
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 4 - Meditation
Year 4 have been meditating in class as a way of relaxing and making ourselves feel better. 'Meditation makes me feel calm and it helps me to get all the stress out.' - Ren 4C 'Meditation makes me calm down and helps me focus on my work' - Sofien 4C
Year 4 - Mummifying
Year 4 had an exciting this week as they had the opportunity to experience what it was like to be an embalmer. Instead of a real human (of course), they mummified oranges!
Year 4 - Using Spaghetti and Plasticine to Construct 3D Shapes
...ne to construct Their shapes. Then They wrote down how many faces, vertices and edges each shape had. Comment down below, how many faces does a cube have?...
Year 4 - Natural History Museum
Year 4 went on a trip to the Natural History Museum to learn about earthquakes. We had a really exciting day and even experienced what an earthquake would feel like!
Year 4 - Natural History Museum
Year 4 had a great time at the Natural History Museum where we visited the Volcanoes and Earthquakes exhibition and were able to consolidate and develop our learning. Not only were children able to look at artefacts but they also had the chance to experience what an earthquake feels like on a...
Year 4 - Natural History Museum Trip
Year 4 had a fantastic learning experience at the Natural History Museum to explore more about our topic of Earthquakes. Through dramatic film footage, exhibits of earthquake rocks and fossils and interactive games we learnt how destructive earthquakes can be. We even had a feel of what it was like...
Year 4 - PE: Dancing
...e in to teach Them during PE. They have learnt a range of moves and are building Their confidence up to perform in front of oThers. Have a look at some of Their moves!...
Year 4 - RE Day: Christianity
...hristians show Their beliefs. The children made posters inspired by The Good Samaritan parable. We also looked at important figures such as MoTher Teresa. Finally we created glass stained windows with symbols that we thought represented Christianity....
Year 4 - Science: How Our Bodies Work
Year 4 have been very busy in Science investigating our bodies and how they work. One of our Learning Questions was 'How can different liquids affect our teeth' and we were able to investigate that in class! If you want to find out more, ask our Year 4 students about how we conducted the...
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 - SEAL- Odd Socks Day
Year 4 had a great SEAL session today discussing Odd socks day. We spoke about how we are different in some ways and all similar in other ways. We also spoke about accepting one another for who we are and having a growth mindset. We chose to wear odd socks today to show that it is OK to be...
Year 4 - Sound
...l about sound this half term. They have started Their first session with a practical lesson about vi......nd The sounds that They make. They have also shared some questions that They have about sound. I cha...
Year 4 - Time Capsules
...hieve by this time next year? The sky is The limit!...
Year 5 - 3D Nets
...e properties of The 3D shapes.......tructed 3D shapes using nets. The children Then made Their 3D shapes and listed The properties of th...
Year 5 - 5F Trip to IntoUniversity
...a workshop at IntoUniversity. The children were engaged in activities to learn more about university life. Well done to everyone, especially Amira and Ronnie, who received congratulatory postcards for Their effort!...
Year 4 - Hispanic Day - Making Inca Masks
Year 4 had a wonderful time making their Peruvian Inca masks as part of their Hispanic Day learning. We learnt that the Inca worshipped the sun, moon and stars and all of their masks had abstract, symmetrical patterns. Take a look at their brilliant creations! “I am really enjoying Hispanic...
Year 5 - Drama Workshop
...ut creativity in drama today. The students had to create magic worlds, draw Them, make sounds for Them and act Them out. It was a very fun workshop!...
Year 5 - Chalk Art
...d The work of Anthony Gormley.......alk to show Their creativity. They used various techniques like rubbing, line work, colours, varied ...
Year 5 - Chatsworth Road Palace
... fun to see Their toys acting....... toys as The main characters. The children were asked to bring in a toy and it was sued on stage as ...
Year 5 - Conscious Alley Role Play
...p open or not to open The box?......immersion lesson in literacy. They watched The story of Pandora's Box' Then used various typ......he characters and The Themes. The children used conscious alley to help Them with The dilemma -top o...
Year 5 - Cooking Week
Cooking week at Daubeney was amazing! Year 5 made some scrumptious muffins, check them out:
Year 5 - Creating Navajo Patterns
...school as part of our display.......sed on learning in The class. The children studied different designs and patterns and identified The...
Year 5 - Cross Curricular: Crime and Punishment
In Year 5, we are learning about crime and punishment. Today (8th March 2019), we played a board game to see how crime and punishment worked in Anglo Saxon times. It was very interesting to see how their punishments differed to our modern ones!
Year 5 - Distance Time Graph
...lenge in Their maths session. They were given a graph showing time versus distance. The children had to interpret The data by reading and understanding The graph, Then They created Their own questions about The data....
Year 5 - Division with Money
...ord problems involving money. They applied Their knowledge of division and Their multiplication knowledge to help Them solve The real-life word problems....
Year 5 - Drama and Literacy
...o help Them role play scenes. The children enjoyed making up characters and having a dialogue with oTher characters. This week in literacy, The children will be creating Their own short stories....
Year 5 - Eco Active Workshop
...recycling and sustainability. The Eo Active team came into class to help The children learn about The importance of recycling and how we can recycle our food. Food waste is a major issue around Hackney and The children identified ways of helping our environment....
Year 5 - Celebrating Diversity
...reate a display in our school.......poster celebrating diversity. The class, in Their SEAL session, discussed The importance of diversit...
Year 5 - ecoACTIVE Bugs
...lping to break down our food. They learnt aboutThe process and even got to hold worms, larvae, beetles, woodlouse and earwigs. A special thanks to ecoACTIVE team who came to Daubeney and allowed our children tohave an amazing workshop....
Year 5 - Equivalent Fractions
... find an equivalent fraction. The children used pizza fractions and blank fraction cut outs to show equivalent fractions. We played a game of 'Fair or NOT Fair' to identify wheTher The fractions were equivalent....
Year 5 - Exploring Earth and Space
...about space and earth at home.......eir topic on Earth and Space. They will become scientist over The next few weeks, exploring The dept...
Year 5 - Fashion Show
...terials as part of Work Week. They also showed off Their modelling skill on The cat walk! Well done for all The hard work Year 5! What was your favourite part of The fashion show? What company's products would you buy?...
Year 5 - Favourite Book and Author
...s your favourite book and why?...... favourite books and authors. They recommended books to Their peers and suggested why They thought t...
Year 5 - Finding a Fraction of an Amount
...find a fraction of an amount. The children watched a video prepared by The teachers, Then used The concrete materials to help Them solve The calculations. After, They used white paper to show The visual representation of The calculation....
Year 5 - Finding Percentages
In 5C we have been taking advantage of this great weather and having our lessons in the Hop garden! We focused on finding percentages of an amount which we felt so confident with that we used our reasoning skills and came up with different methods of working questions out!
Year 5 - Fire Safety
...ns to take if a fire occurred....
Year 5 - Fitness
...a healthy diet is being eaten.......on led by our sports coaches. The Year 5 children will use The good weaTher this term to promote a h...
Year 5 - Celebrating World Maths Day
...ange of puzzles and problems. The children formed groups and partners to help each oTher solve The p......lve The puzzles and problems. The class had so much fun, solving The maths puzzles using Their maThe...
Year 5 - British Science Week 2019
...of a nation wide competition. Their product must be able to help in any way or form and all applications will be submitted by to The nominated university and Their engineering department....
Year 5 - 5M Design Their Own Ancient Greek Vase
...m on The 6th of February 2018.......Their own Ancient Greek Vase. They used a dark colour to create The patterns and designs, Then used ...
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 Developing Mathematical Skills Using IXL
...aths skills at home using IXL.......op Their maThematical skills. The children logged on to IXL and practised The objectives that we vis...
Year 5 - 5M Fire Safety
...elp us understand fire safety....
Year 5 - 5M Friendship Week Posters
...ibe what makes a good friend. They created word posters using a style and technique....
Year 5 - 5M Full STEAM Ahead
... using only limited resources.......ing and MaThematics workshop. The children played many different games looking at various occupation...
Year 5 - 5M IntoUniversity
...t into attending a university.......University office in Clapton. The pupils were introduced to The courses on offer at university, soci......gements and degrees on offer. They took part in various activities which gave Them a better insight ...
Year 5 - 5M IntoUniversity: Engineering and Design
...ay session at IntoUniversity. The children had a whole day focused on engineering and designing activities and participated in many hands on activities....
Year 5 - 5M Sustainability Pledge
...dangers of plastic pollution. The class made a pledge to help put a stop to plastic polluting our oceans....
Year 5 - 5M True Artists
...ir art work around The school.......ur recent butterfly activity. They used a close up zooming technique to capture The true beauty of a......eauty of a Monarch butterfly. The piece of art will be used as a display around The school and will ...
Year 5 - 5M Word Tree
5M are excited to have their word tree on display in the classroom. Every week we choose two new words based on our topic. We explore the word, learn its meaning, apply it in a sentence then try to use the word in our daily learning. What other words from our topic can you list at home with your...
Year 5 - 5MC IntoUniversity
Yesterday (26th February 2019) 5MC visited IntoUniversity to learn about university life. During the workshop, 5MC learned about degrees, accommodation, university locations and clubs and societies. Would you like to go to university? What degree would you study? Why?
Year 5 - Brain Workshop
...ain thinks and notices images....... from The Birbeck University. The children enjoyed learning about The brain, The different parts and...
Year 5 - Adverts
... our Topic and Literacy units.......d creating Their own adverts. They used The key features and included some catchy slogans to enhance...
Year 5 - African Dance Workshop
... dancer skills and movements. The children put togeTher a dance routine and demonstrated a high level of energy. It was so much fun!...
Year 5 - Ancient Greeks at The British Museum
Year 5 visited the Ancient Greek exhibit in the British Museum. We had lots of fun exploring and imitating some of the sculptures. 'I think it was interesting because of how the Ancient Greeks crafted the artefacts' - Brandon, 5C 'I liked the fact that we had fun while learning....
Year 5 - Author Karen McCombie Visits for World Book Day
...njoying Their World Book week.......children about writing books. They were introduced to new writing techniques and were amazed to lear......hat it takes to write a book. The children are enjoying Their World Book week....
Year 5 - Balance Arguments
... allow a zoo to operate'. The children came up with some interesting arguments, points and opinions about The topic. We Then extended our learning by having a debate in class, expressing our views, facts and information and included evidence to strengThen our points....
Year 5 - Balanced Argument
...st genre, Balanced Arguments. The children began with a ‘COLD TASK’, writing a balanced ...... argument with limited input. The idea of The cold task is to assess prior knowledge and Then teache...
Year 5 - Beast Quest!
...free to visit Mr Matvad in 5M.......w selection of fiction books. The latest craze is Beast Quest by Adam Blade. In this series, two you......n mythical and magical beast. Their quest leads Them to amazing destinations and incredible adventur...
Year 5 - Biographies
...biography about and why?"......ies based on a famous person. The children used Their notes and planning sheets from this week to he...
Year 5 - Biography
...shed Their biographies today. They used Their paragraphs which They had been writing for a week and ...... biography on Nelson Mandela. The children included features of a biography and used key facts and i...
Year 5 - Book Corner
... read in our cosy book corner....
Year 4 - Hispanic Day Flamenco Workshop
As part of Hispanic day, Year 4 were lucky enough to take part in a Flamenco workshop. Take a look at their skills!
Year 4 - Hindu Deities
...hey can apply in Their lives. They also had The chance to think about Their identity and what They feel represents Them. Have a look at The result!...
Year 3 - Boys Reading Club - 20th March 2019
...oys reading club with Mr T.J. The boys read a book all about super heroes and enjoyed The special po......The boys with Their activity. They had to give special powers to different superheroes and even for ......rheroes and even for Mr Fahy. The boys really liked The picture of Mr Fahy as a super hero....
Year 3 - Plasticine Stonehenge
Year 3 explored and investigated the mysteries of the great Stone Age wonder of Stonehenge. We discussed and debated how and why it was made. We then built our own using Plasticine and learn the stages in which it was built
Year 3 - Making Roman Shields
Year 3 are soon to be members of a Roman army! Today they took their first step towards that goal by making their very own Roman shields, which will be put to the test tomorrow in a battle with the Celts! Who do you think will win?
Year 3 - Making Roman Soldiers
...ated Their own Roman soldier. The children will be using These models as a stimulus for Their journal writing in Literacy. Have a look at Their masterpieces!...
Year 3 - Mapping South America
We have been mapping South America and looking at both political and physical maps. We then created our own, some of us even drew the boundaries and created our own key to show the countries, capital cities and main physical features
Year 3 - Marlon's Lego Model of The Windrush
...on in 3G made a Lego model of The Windrush. He researched The Windrush using photos on The internet.......f The Windrush. He researched The Windrush using photos on The internet. Marlon was able to correctl......researched The history of The The Windrush as part of his home learning. He shared his knowledge in ...
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 - Mental Health Day
...g Their emotions through art. They enjoyed looking at works of art from Picasso's Blue and Rose ......why They might feel that way. They commented that The art from his Blue Period was sombre and gloomy......m feel uplifted and positive. They insightfully said that perhaps These colours reflect Picasso'...
Year 3 - Museum of London
...people of London lived during The Stone Age, The Bronze Age and Roman times. The children were reall......n lived during The Stone Age, The Bronze Age and Roman times. The children were really interested by......e Bronze Age and Roman times. The children were really interested by The artefacts that have been di...
Year 3 - Non Chronological Reports
...t Their chocolate factories . They have invented some wonderful new delights that Willy Wonka himself would have been proud of....
Year 3 - Parents Visit Children at School
...ng to The worlds rainforests. The children were very happy to share Their knowledge and learn more. ......eir knowledge and learn more. They had a discussion about how we as individuals can help stop climat...
Year 3 - Poetry
Year 3 worked in groups to practise and perform Michael Rosen's 'Don't'. We use tone, intonation, actions and emphasis to bring the poem to life! We will be planning and writing our own performnce poem this week!
Year 3 - Magnets and Forces
...ing about Magnets and Forces. They learnt that magnets have north poles and south poles and that The......ass with a magnet and needle. They began by stroking The magnet along The needle by making sure it w......troked in The same direction. They had to do this for 10mins. Finally, They put The needle onto a di...
Year 3 - Prehistoric Houses
After learning about the Stone Age through to the Iron Age, Year 3 dutifully collected rocks, sticks and other materials to independently make a variety of prehistoric houses. I was impressed by their creativity, critical thinking skills and teamwork. Well done Year 3!
Year 3 - Properties of Soil
...f There are worms in it.' The children were keen to make Their own mini compost bins at home too!...
Year 3 - Rainforest Weather Report
...rainforest weaTher reporters! They wrote Their very own reports about The weaTher in a country with a rainforest, being sure to use technical vocabulary such as temperature, rainfall and humidity. Taking inspiration from The BBC's weaTher reporter Carol Kirkwood, They Then Then presented Their d...
Year 3 - RE Day: Buddhism
...ctices of Buddhism on RE day. They meditated, made Buddhist prayer flags with Their own special messages and engaged with The story of Buddha. This resulted in some interesting discussions, such as wheTher it is better to life an enlightened life, although this involves knowledge of illness and deat...
Year 3 - Reading Club
...ith our British Science Week. The book was called 'I have an Idea' and showed many great inv......entions from past to present. The Year 3 boys will be meeting every week, on Wednesday to celebrate ...
Year 3 - Rebuilding Stonehenge
...ousands of years- Stonehenge. They discovered that it was built in stages, which They carefully replicated when They created The structure out of plasticine. We left The session full of questions about how and why The stones are There. What purpose did They serve? Make sure to ask Year 3 what They t...
Year 3 - Remembrance Day 2018
...iscussed why it is important. They read and thought about The WW1 poem 'In Flanders Fields' ......ened to music inspired by it. They also made Their very own poppies and collectively decided that th...
Year 3 - Roman Battle
...ous battle against The Celts! Their stamping feet and mighty roars could be heard miles away. The Ro......rs could be heard miles away. The Romans protected Themselves using battle formations such as The to...
Year 3 - Roman Roads
...s laid many roads in Britain? They were very straight and very long! The Romans were master builders...... very straight and very long! The Romans were master builders and some of The roads that They built ...
Year 3 - Making Recycled Hats
... hats from recycled material. They had a special visit from Eco Active Team to encourage The childre......rage The children to recycle. They were taught what things They can recycle in school and at home. T......ecycle in school and at home. They were put to a challenge to make recycled hats in 5mins. This was ...
Year 3 - KidZania
...ibly lucky to visit KidZania. They got The opportunity to independently wonder and roam around The s......ir own KidZania bank account! There were a range of jobs that children could choose from such as a d...
Year 3 - Science Week 2019
...eate Their unique inventions. Their invention must help people/The environment. They will be taking ...... help people/The environment. They will be taking part in a national competition and if They are luc...
Year 3 - Exploring Stone, Bronze and Iron age Burials using Augmented Reality
Year 3 were exploring Stone, Bronze and Iron age burials this week using augmented reality on the iPads. We uncovered the graves and their remains using AR in our classroom! We then drew and designed our own barrow or cist!
Year 3 - Cave Paintings
To immerse into the topic of the Stone Age, Year 3 got the opportunity to create their very own Cave paintings. Each picture tells a story, can you infer what the story might be? Take a look at the pictures!
Year 3 - Celebrating Chinese New Year
...d out about Chinese New Year. They completed several artistic activities to celebrate The occasion and listened to Chinese New Year music. 'Luck is a very important part of Chinese New Year. Lanterns are released into The sky to send off The bad and make room for The new.' - Remy ...
Year 3 - Chocolate Crazy, Learning Had
...ocoa pod look and smell like? These were just some of The amazing facts we explored prior to creatin......ka bars to The winning team - The Willy Wonkas. We can't wait to begin our new learning journey ...
Year 3 - Christmas Party Day in 3T
... of challenges in one minute. These included seeing how many books They could stack on Their head (The record was 9!), trying to move a biscuit from Their forehead to Their mouth using only Their facial muscles and seeing how long They could keep 3 balloons in The air. To conclude Their day of fun, ...
Year 3 - Comparing Numbers
In Year 3 today we have been learning about comparing numbers. We started by ordering 3 and 4 digit numbers starting with the smallest to the largest. We then compared 2 numbers looking at their differences and similarities. Finally we chose 3 numbers and wrote facts that we know about those...
Year 3 - Creating Christmas Cards with the Metropolitan Police
... Year 3 children for an hour. The children had fun creating Christmas cards. At The end of The lesso...... finally a winner was chosen. The winner of The competition was presented with a certificate from th......community lead for Tesco . The police and The community lead for Tesco were fantastic during The ...
Year 3 - Designing Chocolate Factories
...ve everyone's ideas were. The children will be writing reports telling people about The rooms in Their factories soon, so watch this space!...
Year 3 - Estimating in Maths
...rn about estimating in maths. The children had to make reasonable estimates of The amount of objects......ts Their partner was holding. They Then had to check Their estimates accurately to find out how clos...
Year 3 - Exploring Christianity
...Year 3 explored Christianity. They read and discussed some of The parables that Jesus told, includin......es that Jesus told, including The Prodigal Son and The Good Samaritan. They enjoyed determining The ......ncluding The Prodigal Son and The Good Samaritan. They enjoyed determining The meaning of each parab...
Year 3 - Fabric Painting
...te Their own fabric painting. They chose lively, vibrant colours to create Their works of art. What fantastic artists we have in Year 3!...
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 - Family Acrostic Poems
...are important in Their lives. They commented that These important people feel like family wheTher th......bout and care for each oTher. They Then wrote acrostic family poems, expressing what family means to...
Year 3 - Federation Maths Challenge 2017
...asses took part in The event. They working through a variety of problem solving and reasoning activi......g activities collaboratively. They took part in relay races, cross-number puzzles and worked systema......nly 6 points behind Sebright! There is always next year!...
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 3 - Forces and Magnets
...e Then The rope did not move. The winners were 3K!...
Year 3 - Forces and Magnets
... topic of forces and magnets. They experimented with magnets and iron filings, made posters about what They already know and what They would like to find out and finished off The session with a tug of war to explore forces! Who do you think won? "Did you know that The whole earth is like a...
Year 3 - Fraction Museum
...eir very own Fraction Museum. They used different objects in The classroom to represent each fraction. On The card, They wrote down all The facts related to The fraction. Take a look at Their exhibition!...
Year 3 - George's Marvellous Medicine
...’s Marvellous Medicine. The class had to make a medicine to turn Grandma into something evil! ...... Grandma into something evil! They wrote a set of instructions to make Their medicine using ingredie...
Year 3 - Healthy Living Festival
...iving Festival in Kings Hall. The event was promoting healthy eating and living, children were able to do different activities e.g Dodgeball and Tag rugby. At The end of The event, The children were given a free t-shirt for taking part....
Year 3 - Internet Safety Day
...safe when using The Internet. They demonstrated Their knowledge in posters that They made encouragin......t The topic in The afternoon. They are now very aware of how to navigate The Internet safely!...
Year 3 - Investigating the Effect of Food Colouring on Stems
Year 3 have been investigating the effect of food colouring on stems. We have made our predictions and will draw our conclusions soon!
Year 3 - Roman Roads
...stly The smooth paving stone. They used The junk modelling materials and paint creatively to make th......ook as realistic as possible. They made sure that They showed all of The different layers of The roa...
Year 3 - Shadows
3G have been learning about shadows. Our first investigation was to discover how shadows are formed. Secondly we conducted an experiment to see how and why shadows change their size
Year 4 - Hackney Museum: Travels with my Suitcase
...els with my suitcase'. The children discovered how The local area has changed through The stories and suitcases of people who have travelled to Hackney from all over The world and throughout history. Year 4 children became history detectives, searching through suitcases to find clues about th...
Year 4 - 4C Work Week 2019
...nd Numeracy in The workplace. They learnt about all The different skills needed for doing different jobs and even had a go making some pizzas and mocktails! "This is The best trip we've had so far!" - Josh...
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 3 Pledge to Prevent Plastic Pollution
...dangers of plastic pollution. They were horrified and pledged that They would do Their best to reduce Their own plastic use to make a difference to The planet. "I will use a paper straw instead of a plastic one" - Ava "I will refill my water bottle every day instead of buying a ne...
Year 3 Trip to the Ministry of Stories
...n to The Ministry of Stories. There were given an assignment from The Chief of The Ministry to write 30 new stories as The story supplies were running low. When They arrived at The Ministry of Stories, They were taken through a secret door which led to The Ministry. Once There, a group of Story M...
Year 3 visit the Cutty Sark
... at The Cutty Sark Greenwich. The Cutty Sark is The world’s sole surviving tea clipper, The fa......The fastest ship of her time. They were taken back in time during 1869, where The Captain told Them ......eople who worked in The ship. The children were taken on a tour inside The ship to see how The Capta...
Year 3's Black History Month
In honour of Black History Month, the Year 3 students went on a trip to Sutton House. We were given a Black History Month activity trial where we learned all about famous historical black leaders. We had alot of fun, and we each got an educational booklet to take home
Year 3's Visit to Kew Gardens
... hot and humid and wet." They Then bravely ascended The many stairs that lead to The treetop walkway, which was very high up in The sky. At first a few children were nervous, but They conquered Their fears and many commented how exciting it felt to be as high as The birds and, in The words of G...
Year 3/4 Christmas Performance 2015
Year 3 and 4 got us in the Christmas spirit with a concert showcasing our talented performers musical skills
Year 4 - #PassOnPlastic
...otect The global environment. They also learnt about simple everyday changes everybody can take to help reduce ocean plastic pollution....
Year 4 - 4C Trip to The Jones Family Project
... made of....
Year 4 - 4C Work Week 2019: Meeting a Foley Artist
... The sound of horses running. The children were amazed and even had a go Themselves. "I didn't like it, I LOVED it" - 4C child. Thank you to Sue for giving us some of her time to educate and inspire children!...
Year 3 Literacy - Gregory Cool
...ing on The text Gregory Cool. The book is about a young boy who travels to The Caribbean island of Tobago, to spend The summer with his grandparents. Upon his arrival he realizes, The lifestyle in Tobago is much different from The lifestyle in London. We are using this book to help us understand ...
Year 4 - 4K Sharing Assembly: Living Things and their Habitats
...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!...
Year 4 - 4K Trip to Lego Headquarters
4K enjoyed an amazing trip to Lego Headquarters where we took part in hands-on activities. We built robots, had a go at programming and concluded with team races. We also played memory games, learnt about the history of the Lego family and tested the newest Lego video games. Take a look at some of...
Year 4 - African Silhouettes
...frican Silhouettes last week. They used red, orange and yellow water colours to create a beautiful A......e a beautiful African sunset. They Then created Their Silhouette by drawing The outline of an Africa...
Year 4 - Big Draw
Year 4 created amazing landscape art for Daubeney's BIG Draw. We looked at David Hockney's style of art and were inspired to create art similar to his. Take a look at some of the brilliant pieces they created
Year 4 - Board Games
...d 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 - 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 4 - Designing Bridges
..., just as an architect would! They Then used Their design to create a model of it. Mikey said "I loved building The model, it was so much fun!" Sashai said "Now I realise why Miss Patel wants us to do so well in maths and literacy!" Iyiola said "It was ama...
Year 4 - Eco-Active Workshop
...hood' and survey litter. The children were very excited to pick up litter and learn more about recycling....
Year 4 - Finding Out How Earthquakes Happen
Year 4 made models to show the layers of the earth. We have been finding out about how earthquakes happen. Can you find out about a recent earthquake at home?
Year 4 - Frinton on Sea
Year 4 had a wonderful day at Frinton on Sea beach. After a long coach ride, children got to enjoy the sun, sea and sand. Lots of magical moments at Daubeney! Anaya said: "Thank you Daubeney for taking us to this beach, I loved paddling in the sea." Alan said: "This is the best trip...
Year 3 Maths Workshop
...hs workshop led by Mr Naidoo. The children were challenged through a series of activities to test th......Their maThematical knowledge. They first of all began with a test of Their times table where They ha...... table questions as They can. They later used ipads to improve Their times table through games such ...
Year 3 Cross-Curricular Autumn 2015
In Cross-Curricular we have been focusing on volcanoes, earthquakes, rocks, and the seven continents of the world. It was really interesting comparing the climate, living conditions, and food supply, in Haiti and London. We learned that we have a lot to be thankful for
Year 3 - Smarties Fractions
...t The fraction of quantities. They counted all The Smarties from The tube to work out what The denom......out what The denominator was. They Then counted how many Smarties There were of each colour and wrot...
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 - Solving Addition Problems using Partitioning
In Year 3 this morning (21st January 2019) we have been solving addition problems using partitioning. We proved that although we were working on the same problems using the same method, we were able to use different resources to check our work
Year 3 - Surviving the Stone Age
... cloThes and finding shelter. They all agreed that finding water was The most important thing, but beyond that They couldn’t agree, which led to some very interesting debates!...
Year 3 - The Big Draw
...ts with my light background." The children are becoming very good at commenting on & appreciatin......art, which is lovely to see. Their wonderful landscapes will be framed and put on display for all t...
Year 3 - The Big Draw
...art of Michael Craig Martin. "The colours are so vibrant" - Riya "I love that he creates items from The everyday world" - Gabriel...
Year 3 - Things We Learnt This Term
...walked The plank blindfolded. The following day, we made pirate biscuits called ‘Hardtack bisc......nd salt to make The biscuits. The biscuits Then become hard and designed to last a long time especia...
Year 3 - Trip to Mabley Green
...n learning about rainforests. They went to Mabley Green, a local green space in Hackney, to note The......s it shares with rainforests. They said that both Mabley Green and rainforests have a lot of trees a......forest would be a lot bigger. They found a belt, which They initially thought was a snake wriggling ...
Year 3 - Trip to the Polka Theatre
...d performed by Michael Rosen. The show was really funny. The best bit 'was when Michael ate The ......n. The show was really funny. The best bit 'was when Michael ate The chocolate cake in a funny w......for each of our book corners! The sunshine was The icing on The cake. We had a fantastic time in Sou...
Year 3 - Visit from an Archaeologist
Today (27th February 2019) Year 3 were lucky enough to be visited by a real life archaeologist from UCL (University College London)! She brought with her a variety of stones from the different stages of the Stone Age. We got to touch them and we guessed what they were used for. "Some of the...
Year 3 - Weather Presenters
...oon being weaTher presenters. They were learning about The difference between weaTher and climate.Th......e between weaTher and climate.The children had to research Their facts using fact cards and atlases.......using fact cards and atlases. They worked with a partner sharing information....
Year 3 - Windrush Generation
... learning about The Windrush. The Windrush generation refers to The immigrants who were invited to t......elp rebuild Britain post-war. The name comes from The ship MV Empire Windrush , which on June 22, 19......500 Jamaicans to The UK. There were a lot of interesting questions that came up during carpet t...
Year 3 Celebrate World Book Day 2019
From Dog Man to the plays of Shakespeare, Year 3 LOVE reading, so of course they were incredibly excited to dress as a character from of their favourite books to celebrate World Book Day. Can you guess who they are?
Year 3 - Work Week
...re Street into our classroom! The High street included a Cinema, Post Office, Bank and a Supermarket......h The cashier and a parent. These are what some children had to say about Their experiences: &qu...
Year 3 - Work Week 2017
As part of Work Week, Year 3 experienced the world of work at KidZania. We could not hide the excitement as we explored more than 60 unique and exciting professions through real-life role play adventures in a fun and safe environment. We were cashiers, doctors, firefighters, bakers, journalists...
Year 3 - World Book Day 2019
Year 3 had a blast celebrating World Book Day. Take a look at their amazing costumes below!
Year 3 - World Maths Day 2019
...d maths games and challenges. They completed The activities collaboratively and used a range of maThematical operations to solve The problems....
Year 3 - WOW Day
Year 3 had a WOW day and we learnt about the Romans. We researched on the life of a Roman legionary and the weapons and armour they wore. We then used our research to design and create our own Roman shields. We then all went to the playground to be Roman soldiers for the afternoon. We threw...
Year 3 / 4 - Spanish in the World and Geography in Spanish
...rld and Geography in Spanish! They can find Spain in a map, They can name all The continents, The mo......peaking countries in Spanish. They also learnt The history behind how Spanish spread across those co...
Year 3 and 4 - Frinton-on-Sea
... yesterday at Frinton-on-Sea. They got The opportunity to splash about in The sea, play with The sand and enjoy a delicious picnic. Take a look at The pictures!...
Year 3 and 5 - Magic Maths
...an from 3G paid Them a visit. The young maths master showed The class a range of math tricks, math m......wledge and calculator skills. The entire class in 5M were absolutely amazed at The math tricks and f...
Year 3 and Year 4 - Science Club
...n They will be making SLIME!!!......and Their learning developed. The children cannot wait for next week, when They will be making SLIME...
Year 3 Author Visit
Year 3 had a special author coming in to visit as part of Literacy Festival Week. We had a visit from Roland Chambers who wrote ‘Nelly and the Quest for Captain Peabody’. He told us about all the books he has written and gave us lots of top tips to write interesting stories. Year 3 had...
Reception - Yellow Class Visit Discover Story Centre
...s such a brilliant afternoon. The children absolutely loved it! We went to see The 'Tiger Who......h Kerr wrote such as 'Mog The Forgetful Cat' and many more....
Reception - Yellow Class Spring Sharing Assembly
Very pleased with all the children in Yellow Class for their hard work and effort to make their assembly a success. Mrs Addai is very proud of you all
Year 5 - Fractions
Today (5th February 2019) the children in Year 5 added and subtracted fractions with unlike denominators. First, they had to identify the lowest common denominator, change the fractions to have like denominators then add the numerators. It was amazing to see the children understand the concept and...
5M and 2K - Peer Tutors
...ildren were so 'CUTE'.......g Them with Their Next Steps. The Year 2 children were even more excited because They got to do Thei...
4P Awful Egyptians Assembly
...to prepare for this assembly. They made sure They practised all Their lines well before The assembly. Helen said: "This was one of The best assemblies I have ever done" Mohamed said " I loved playing Pharaoh, it was amazing!" Hayden said "Mummifying The body was so fun, I...
4P’s trip to Tramshed by Mark Hix
...work for The very first time! They were lucky enough to go to The famous restaurant and make delicious doughnuts and marshmallows with The head chef. Not only that, They also got The chance to make Their very own mocktails! After making The delicious snacks, The children got The opportunity to have ...
5C - IntoUniversity Workshop
...ed a university out of London.......at courses are offered There. The children also looked at clubs and societies and possible places th...
5M - Inspire Work Week Project
... March 2017 will be a big hit!......ur Inspire Work Week project. They enjoyed making and mixing colours to make Their products colourfu...... which will appear very soon. Their fashion show on Friday 31 March 2017 will be a big hit!...
5M - Meet the Tribe
Year 5M had an amazing sharing assembly where they shared their learning about the Native American Culture
5M - Nelson Mandela Biographies
...hies based on Nelson Mandela. The children worked extremely hard to create notes, Then turn Them into factual sentences, using formal language. Next They drafted a copy, edited it Then prepared Their biography for publishing. We are all proud of Their achievements as Their biographies were amazing. ...
5M - The Big Draw
5M started their BIG DRAW project today when they studied the art work from an artist called' Sonia Delaunay'. Her work includes normal art, abstract art and art using a focused shape. Today we used a dominant shape to create our own masterpiece
5M - The Big Draw
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. Even Mr Matvad joined in to create his own drawing
5M African Drumming Session
As part of our Black History Month, the children in 5M were excited to take part in a drumming session, where they learnt about rhythm, pattern and tone
5M Decorating Their Christmas Hoop
...Their own Christmas crackers. The children used bright coloured paper, ribbons and a cardboard roll to make Their own designs. It was so much fun and our hoop looks AMAZING!...
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...
5M Fashion Show
...product for Inspire Work week......., ready for our fashion show. The boys created funky tie dye T-shirts and The girls designed a Hawai......ble handbags as an accessory. The children had so much fun making and designing Their product for In...
5M Reading With 4S
... by giving positive criticism.......chance to read Their stories. The main focus of The session was to evaluate how well The year 4S chi...
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
6D - Globe Theatre
...ng Shakespeare's Macbeth. The topic covered a whole range of subject areas including English, Ma......nglish, Maths, Music and Art. The children were treated to a visit to The Globe Theatre and The week......eated to a visit to The Globe Theatre and The week culminated in an amazing Graduation at The presti...
6S - Re-Creating London Skyline
...tarted a new book called 'The London Eye Mystery'. To immerse ourselves in The story, we have re-created The London skyline using our artistic skills. Have a look at some of The magnificent pieces of artwork we created. Mr Swarbrick even had a go....
6S - Spanish Dictionary Challenge
...dependently translate a text. They used Their expertise in dealing with The Spanish alphabetical ord......ng Their gender and spelling. They were more than up to doing it....
A Letter from David Attenborough
Cormac from 4P enthusiastically wrote a letter to the legend David Attenborough (yes the guy from Planet Earth !). David took out time from his busy schedule to hand-write a thoughtful letter to Cormac. Cormac said that he will treasure this letter forever, he still can't believe it!
A Typical School Day in 3E
You are invited behind the scenes to check out a typical school day in 3E!
ABC Hit It!
An original tune by the Daubeney School Band
4G Visit Wahaca in Westfield
For Work Week 4G visitited Wahaca restaurant in Westfield. We had the best time and learned about all about being chefs, waiters and restaurant managers
4G - Now Press Play Workshop
4G LOVED their Now Press Play electricity workshop. We learned about insulators and conductors and sustainable energy sources
Andrew Weale visits Red Class
We were very lucky that the childrens author Andrew Weale visited Red class
1P - Work Week
For Work Week, 1P went on a trip to John Lewis in Stratford. We decorated biscuits in the catering department, had a tour of the warehouse and then had a go at visual merchandising. We had a great time!
1D's Assembly - 11th May 2017
1D had an amazing sharing assembly today! Everyone was absolutely wonderful and thank you to all the parents and carers that come to watch!
1FA - 'The Gruffalo' by Julia Donaldson
...s amazing! We performed "The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson. Everyone worked really hard to put togeTher a memorable performance. We made ourselves proud and had a great time! Well done, 1FA! You are awesome!...
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...
1FA - Black History Month
We celebrated Black History Month with lots of music and dance! We had the chance to play the steel pans and enjoy a lovely performance too!
1FA - Maths Week
For Maths Week we had a fun assembly where we learned about shapes. We also had a great workshop where we worked together as a team to solve puzzles and problems. It was fun!
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...
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...
1P - Number Bonds
...The part, part, whole method. These will help us with subtraction problems we will be solving this week....
1P - The Jolly Postman
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1P Autumn Assembly
IP had a fantastic time doing their assembly today. Thanks to everyone who came and well done 1P!
4G - Intrepid Explorers
4G made a trailer to accompany their first class assembly of the year. I think we have some movie stars of the future!
1P Class Update
What a fantastic few weeks we have had in 1P! Lots of writing and maths. We have been continuing with free flow time but focusing on writing about the gingerbread man in literacy and odd and even numbers in maths
2B Assembly - The Flower Man
...it can be given away’ - The Flower Man written by 2B...
2C - Weather Reports
Do you know what the weather is like today and tomorrow in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast? 2C brings you the UK’s capital city weather reports! Listen carefully for some creative jokes and advice!
2G Learn About Instruction Writing
...ng about instruction writing. They had The opportunity to make a jam sandwich, before They had to write The instructions of how to make a sandwich. I think They would all agree The best part was being able to eat Their sandwiches....
2K - 'Me and You' by Anthony Brown
As part of our literacy unit on Traditional Tales, we have been reading the book 'Me and You' by Anthony Brown. We based our assembly on this amazing book and retold the story by creating a short trailer and rehearsed the story line. We had lots of fun practising and trying to portray the...
3K Assembly - Pirates
Avast me harties! Welcome to 3K's class assembly. Our assembly is all about Pirates! We tell the story of a small girl who goes on a brave adventure to save the pirates from the sea monsters
3T - Get Arty
Today 3T created masterpieces in the style of the artists that our class tables are named after. Can you guess which artists they were inspired by?
400 years of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare
On the 23 April many countries across the world celebrated the International Day of the Book, organized by the UNESCO to promote reading and to honour the authors Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare who died on this date. This year, we commemorate 400 years since their death and we...
4G - European Swimming Championships
4G had an amazing time at the European Swimming Championships. We learned all about the different techniques for swimming and saw athletes competing for a place at Rio 2016!
Alex Milway Visits Year 4
Year 4 were joined by the Author and illustrator Alex Milway . He told us all about his books where the characters are mythical creatures and even created some new characters based on our ideas!
Annual Instrumental Event
Daubeney performed their unique brand of rock n roll at the Annual Hackney Music Service Festival last Thursday. Needless to say we had a ball . We packed some chess boards to play whilst waiting our turn at the rehearsal. We also managed to make two trips to the park. With all that fresh air we...
1D at Shoeburyness
We went to the seaside and we had a fabulous time! We went for a paddle, collected seashells and played games. It was the best trip ever!
Boys Book Club - 5th March 2019
...of your home reading learning?......n Their comprehension skills. The boys read Their text Then answered questions about The text. In ou...
Boys 5 a Side Football Tournament
Well done! For the Boys who took part in the 5 a side Football Tournament on 5th November. Won 4 matches, Draw 1 and only let in 1 goal
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...
Boys Book Club - 12th February 2019
Today (12th February 2019) the boys were excited to use the iPads to read a story. We used the website Find a book from Oxford Owl , where you can register for free and there a many different books you can read online, different genres, ages and it has the option of a story being read to you. Try...
Boys Book Club - 12th March 2019
...d some exciting books to read....
Boys Book Club - 19th March 2019
...book with persuasive language.......ooks in our cosy book corner. The boys Then began to identify someone who would like to read Their b...
Boys Book Club - 23rd April 2019
...e and his amazing adventures. The boys were encouraged to research more information about St. George and learn more facts about The interesting character....
Boys Book Club - 29th January 2019
Today (29th January 2019) the Boys Book Club enjoyed a cosy session reading in the hall. We had a fire-place lit for us courtesy of YouTube and read some of our favourite books. It felt like we were in a living room, with a real fire place roaring as we enjoyed reading our books. Hopefully next...
Boys Book Club - 30th April 2019
...joyed reading stories online. The boys used iPads and searched for famous stories and read The stori......stories and read The stories. There are many free websites that cater for children's stories. We par...
Boys Book Club - 5th February 2019
...y interesting extract called 'The Storm'. It was a story filled with similes, personification and metaphors, which made The story come alive. We sat in The book corner, all cosy, protected from The storm. We invited Mr TJ from City Year to join us and The boys practised recommending a book to Mr TJ....
Boys Book Club - Poetry in the Garden
...ion in our lovely Hop Garden. The boys read a selection of poems, Then had The chance to recite some poems to Their peers. It was a fun session filled with laughs and enjoyment. We were inspired by poems written by pupils from all over Hackney and published in a poetry book....
Boy and Girls Football - 19th April 2018
Highlights from the boy and girls football matches at Mabley Green
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 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
Boys Can Sing!
It was a pleasure to have our boys take part in the third annual 'Boys Can Sing' event at City Academy. As per usual our students made us very proud, and they had the chance to sing with winner of the 'Voice' 2014 Jermaine Jackman. All credit to Mr O'Flynn for his on-going hard...
Boys Chess Club
...nd Their communication skills....
Brazilian Carnival 2016
...ul display of dancing and fun!...
Bring your Mother and Grandmother to School Week
Some highlights from our bring your Mother and Grandmother to school week
Celebrating Differences
...ifferences’ in Jigsaw . The children have been discussing how it is ok to be different. Nobody in The WORLD looks The same thinks The same feels The same believes The same behaves The same YOU are UNIQUE! Take a look at our video #itisokto...
Centre of the Cell
Centre of the Cell is a science education centre based at Queen Mary, University of London. It is the first science education centre in the world to be located within working biomedical research laboratories. Year 6 were amazed to be part of an high-tech interactive experience on cell biology
Chain Reaction Workshop
Years 4 - 6 were delighted to be part of a rapturous workshop delivered by Chain Reaction – an orgaisation that specializes in working with children to develop vital tools and techniques to achieve successful conflict resolution - whilst keeping it fun and involved in ‘real life’....
Boy's Choir Rehearsal
...lp of Aleks from City Academy....
Blue Class Sharing Assembly
...y first assembly on Thursday! They worked incredibly hard, scripting Their own lines and being super brave! We loved sharing all our many talents with key stage 1 and look forward to showing lots more!...
April Book Fair
...essful Book Fair at Daubeney! There was a fantastic selection of books and They were all half price!......ou missed it, you missed out! The children bought lots of books to read at home and enjoy with Their...
BBC Radio London - Parents Helping With Homework Discussion
Our Head of School, Mr Logan joined Vanessa Feltz on BBC Radio London on 9th March 2018 for a chat about how parents can best help their children with homework
Art Exhibition 2017
...supported our art exhibition. The children really enjoyed seeing Their artwork framed and named and it looked especially beautiful!...
Autumn Book Fortnight
...ortnight was a great success! The whole school focused on The book ‘Welcome’ by Barroux. The chi......he book ‘Welcome’ by Barroux. The children enjoyed The story and discussed issues such as global......le play to bring The story alive. They Then used this as a stimulus to write a variety of genres inc...
Autumn Term in Nursery
... a look!......n have been settling in well. They've enjoyed exploring all that nursery has to offer both indoo......ll around The garden outside. They have also made lots of new friends. Take a look!...
Autumn Term in Nursery
...paceship heading for The moon!......ren have been busy this week. They've been enjoying exploring what happens in autumn. In particu......ur and fell off of The trees. They discovered that The fallen leaves are fun to play with too, as yo...
Autumn visits Nursery
Tallulah's mum visited our nursery with 'Autumn' the guinea pig. We enjoyed stroking her and combing her fur. Tallulah very confidently told us about what Autumn likes to eat and where she sleeps. A big thank you to Tallulah's mum for bringing in Autumn!
BBC Big Breakfast - 48 Hours Before the Election
Daubeney is, once again very proud, to be working with BBC Breakfast and Radio 5 Live on the exciting feature - 48 Hours Before the Election. Mr Logan, Mr Dharma and Mr Ainsworth were proud to be representing the education sector during the programmes. We encourage all parents to ensure they watch...
BBC Breakfast - Austerity Discussion
Mr Dharma appeared on BBC Breakfast on Monday 12th June to discuss the impact of austerity on education
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...
BBC Breakfast - Race Inequality Discussion
Our Head of School, Gregory Logan featured on BBC Breakfast on 10th October to discuss the findings of the Government's Ethnicity Facts and Figures audit
Beat 26 on a Rainy Day
This groove is one we call Beat 26. In the video you can hear Mr. O Flynn calling the changes and counting the beat. It features children from the Wednesday morning music club
Blue Class met Andrew Weale
...Them two stories, and a poem! They helped him retell his stories through rhyme and singing songs....
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
Black History Month 2016
At Daubeney we celebrated Black History Month and many students were enthused enough to carry out their own research. Mr Logan was impressed by the quality of the research and the passion for History shown by the children here at Daubeney. We look forward to an even bigger Black History Month next...
Black History Month 2017
...ory take a look at These: The ABCs of Black History: A Children's Guide by Craig Thompson 15 great back Britions who made history Famous Black Inventors 28 Unknown Facts: Black History How many of These people can you recognise? Anansi Stories Anansi stories are a huge part of ...
Black History Month 2017
Take a look at the highlights from our Black History Month celebrations
Black History Month 2018
Daubeney celebrated Black History month with a fantastic event. We had singing, dancing and lots of other things that kept us thoroughly entertained throughout the evening. Thank you to all the parents, carers, friends and family that attended and a big thank you to Miss Gustave for organising such...
Blue Class - Daubeney Fields Minibeast Hunt
...greatest Minibeast hunt ever! The children searched high and low. We even took a stroll upto The canal. We found ants, snails, spiders, woodlice and even beautiful Butterflies which were too fast for our iPads to capture....
Blue Class - Language Walk
Blue Class children and parents went on a language walk to the Hackney Marshes, walked by the canal. Miss Poppy our speech therapist provided top tips to develop listening skills, and how to help your children to learn new words
Blue Class - World Book Day 2018
Blue class are celebrating world book day! they have dressed in their favourite character from their favourite book!
Blue Class Assembly
...red Their learning this week. They talked about new years resolutions. They were very confident read...... about new years resolutions. They were very confident reading out Their work. Blue Class also share......ormation The pictogram shows. They ended Their assembly with a song "Wheels on The bus"....
1D Visit Sainsbury's in Stratford
On Wednesday 1D went on a lovely trip to Sainsbury's in Stratford. We were learning about different skills needed in different jobs and had an opportunity to practice some skills in a real work environment. We had a go on the checkout, did a treasure hunt in the aisles, had a tour of the stock...
1D Assembly - Parts of the UK
1D had a great time preparing and delivering their assembly on different parts of the United Kingdom with two explorers. Can you remember any facts on different parts of the UK?
Christmas Grotto 2018
... Daubeney was a huge success. The children and Their parents lined up patiently to get Their chance to chat with Santa about Their Christmas secrets. Each one walked away with a fabulous gift as well, spreading The Christmas cheer!...
Learn to read with phonics | Oxford Owl
What is phonics? Find out in our phonics guide for parents. Learn about Letters and Sounds, the phonics screening test, and how to practice phonics at home.
Inside the Mosque: What do you need to know? - BBC Teach
There are over 2.5 million Muslims in the UK and the mosque has a central role in Islam. Itâ??s the place where Muslims gather for Friday prayers and other special occasions.
Inside the Synagogue: What do you need to know? - BBC Teach
There are over 400 synagogues in the UK and they come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes. Find out more in this interactive article.
Internet safety advice and information | Internet Matters
You want to safeguard your child's internet usage, but where do you start? Click to learn how to protect your child in the form of guides, videos and checklists.
IXL
Sign in to IXL. Students will love earning awards and prizes while improving their skills in maths.
IXL
IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site. Used by over 15 million students, IXL provides unlimited practice in more than 7,000 maths and English topics. Interactive questions, awards and certificates keep kids motivated as they master skills.
JAM - Resource Centre
Free downloads of over 40 one-minute meditations, reflections and visualisations making j-a-m meaningful, easy and practical for everyone to use anywhere, anytime. Watch one-minute video testimonials from those already experiencing the benefits from just-a-minute.
Jolly phonics sounds, songs and actions
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
Kids’ planet: resources and activities for families | WWF
Connect to the living planet from home with our range of fun and exciting resources and activities for families.
Language Nut
Languagenut is a great resource as it enables pupils to reinforce their vocabulary, whilst simultaneously practising the four keys skills of Modern Foreign Language.
Learning to Count with these fun Counting Games
Children will love learning to count up to 10 with these free, fun counting games.
Information, Advice and Support to Keep Children Safe Online
Working with online safety experts, we’re here to guide you through the many issues children can experience when using the internet
Lexia Core5 Reading
Lexia Core5® Reading® is a research-proven, blended learning program that accelerates the development of fundamental literacy skills for students of all abilities in grades pre-K-5. Following a rigorous scope and sequence, Core5 provides explicit, systematic instruction through personalized, adaptive learning paths in six areas of reading.
London Transport Museum Virtual Tour | MuseumWise
Tour the London Transport Museum with Google Street View.
Math Games | Give Your Brain A Workout!
Math games and more at MathPlayground.com! Problem solving, games, and puzzles the entire family will enjoy.
Meditation Apps for Kids
Common Sense Media editors help you choose Meditation Apps for Kids. Harness the power of technology to Zen out.
Moodpanda
Allows people to track their mood.
MTC - Multiplication Tables Check - URBrainy.com
Taking the MTC soon? Are you ready? Use our check to see how well you will do in the MTC.
Muslim Youth Helpline
Support to young Muslims in distress. They offer email support, a helpline and online internet counselling.
National Literacy Trust
We are an independent charity working with schools and communities to give disadvantaged children the literacy skills to succeed in life.
Neil Armstrong spacesuit – HistoryView Virtual Tours
This spacesuit was worn by astronaut Neil Armstrong, Commander of the Apollo 11 mission, which landed the first man on the Moon on July 20, 1969. The lunar spacesuits were designed to provide a life-sustaining environment for the astronaut during periods of extra vehicular activity or during unpressurized spacecraft operation. They permitted maximum mobility and…
Inside the Church: What do you need to know? - BBC Teach
Although there are many different branches of Christianity, many churches share common features. Discover what these are and why they're important with this interactive guide.
I tunes Tocaband
KS1. Tocaband costs £2.99 on I tunes but I think you will find that it is well worth the money. The app allows you to play with sounds and create a band.
Nrich Maths Project
The Nrich Maths Project Cambridge, England. Mathematics resources for children,parents and teachers to enrich learning. Problems,children's solutions,interactivities,games,articles,news.
EBK for Kids: The Beowulf Poem
A Study of the British, Anglo-Saxon, Scottish & Pictish people of Britain. Designed by David Nash Ford for Year 3/4 in UK Schools. Ideal for helping with Key Stage 2 of the History National Curriculum Unit 6B: Why have people invaded and settled in Britain in the past?
BBC - Schools - Primary Languages - Spanish:
With games, videos, vocabulary activities, audio pronunciation and other useful resources.
BBC Bitesize - KS1
Fun activities to support KS1 children to practice their Literacy skills at home
BBC Bitesize - KS2
Fun activities to support KS2 children to practice their Literacy skills at home
Birth to five resources | Hackney Services for Schools
Overview This training section for Our Journey - Birth to Five, provides you with all the resources needed to successfully train parent champions (both practitioners and parents/carers). We also provide bookable training webinars. Book your place now. If you are completing the training independently, once the training is carried out via the training video (and manual) please complete the evaluation form in order to receive your Birth to Five certification and badges. You can also download printable copies of the Birth to Five poster and postcards or complete the online order form to receive the card versions in the post. , Training The training video shows you how to use the birth to five resource. It also sets a number of tasks for you to comp
British Spelling | VocabularySpellingCity
VocabularySpellingCity has lists of British spelling words and their corresponding U.S. spelling words.
Child Bereavement UK
Aims to help young people who have lost someone feel less alone, and gives information on where they can get more support.
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) works across the UK tackling child sex abuse and providing advice for parents, young people and children about internet safety and online safety.
Department for Education
The Department for Education is responsible for education and children’s services in England.
DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA (1979) - QUIXOTE - YouTube
Chapters of the animation series for children in Spanish
El Caballero Don Quijote : La Aventura de los Molinos
Online interactive theatre site for children about Don Quijote de la Mancha and Miguel de Cervantes (in Spanish)
Experiment ideas
Make science fun! We have the best science experiments and activities for kids all year round. Plus, find tons of fun STEM challenges for little engineers.
Film & Video
Discover the powerful link between transport and the growth of London since 1800 at the world’s leading museum of urban transport - an award-winning day out.
Find Help - For Parents
Parenting isn’t always easy. Although it’s often amazing and rewarding to watch your children grow, and to help them learn to be independent, it can also be really hard work.
Free e-book library
Oxford Owl is packed with expert advice, tips and activities to help parents support their child's education. Help your child with reading, phonics and maths.
Free Online Phonics Games | Education.com
Play these free phonics games online from our fun-filled learning system, Brainzy. Phonics games for kids help build reading skills that will last a lifetime.
Free Spanish Short Stories To Accelerate Your Learning | LingQ Blog
Hola, learners! Check out these beginner, intermediate and advanced stories in Spanish and take your language skills to the next level.
Google Virtual Tour of Verulamium Museum | Striking Places
Google Virtual Tour of Verulamium Museum means that the museum was never closed and visitors can explore online from anywhere in the world
Grand Mosque - Abu Dhabi - 360° virtual reality tour and panoramic view.
Take the 360 degree virtual reality tour of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The largest mosque in the country.
Home - CBBC Newsround
The home of news and fun facts for kids. Find out what is going on, with stories, pictures and videos. Try a quiz or one of our free games.
Net aware
From Facebook and Instagram to Snapchat and Tumblr a simple no-nonsense guide for parents from NSPCC and O2 to the social media, apps and games that kids use
1D - Releasing The Butterflies in the Hop Garden
1D released their butterflies in the Hop Garden. We watched them grow and change from tiny caterpillars to beautiful Monach butterflies!
Computing Team - Augmented and Virtual Reality Apps
...or our own apps coming soon......
Toilet Training
ERIC, The Children's Bowel & Bladder Charity. ERIC gives children and teenagers with a continence condition the support they deserve to enjoy a life free from shame, isolation and fear.
Virtual tours: Buckingham Palace | The Royal Family
An iconic building and official residence of The Queen, Buckingham Palace has been the focus of many moments of national celebration, from Jubilees and weddings to VE Day and the annual Trooping the Colour which marks The Queen's official birthday. It is also a busy working building welcoming tens of thousands of people through its gates each year for Investitures, Garden
Volcano facts | National Geographic Kids
Check out these fascinating volcano facts with National Geographic Kids! What is a volcano? Why does it erupt? And where can you find the world's biggest?
WEA online
As we all adjust to saying safe at home due to Coronavirus, we have found our normal day to day routine has changed quickly. Despite the challenges this may bring, this also presents a unique opportunity to stay better connected with others like your family, friends, colleagues and your local community. The WEA would like to offer you the opportunity to socialise online through a range of activities and courses from the comfort of your own home. Find out more below.
Westminster Cathedral Virtual Tours
Virtual tours and panoramic photos of Westminster cathedral in London by Eye Revolution, the virtual tour company. Westminster is the largest and most important Catholic church in England and Wales.
World War Two - BBC Teach
Using archive video and images from the Imperial War Museum, as well as first-person testimony from veterans and eye-witnesses, this series of short films offers a comprehensive overview of World War Two for primary schools.
Your child's journey from birth to five
This resource has been created to support your journey into parenting. Birth to five years is a key time in your child's physical, emotional and social growth and development. The experiences you create together during this time can last a lifetime. Our journey from birth to five years provides you with trusted, age related and local information to help you to find your path through the many local activities and services available to support you and your family in Hackney, helping you to ensure that your child/children are happy, healthy and ready to learn. The resource You can download the poster and click on each of the images to find out more. Alternatively you can access the information via the age buttons. ,
Adventure Playground for KS1 and KS2
On 9th October 2018, the Year 2s got to do various activities e.g Swings, Rolling skating, trampoline and many more. Adventure Playground takes place every Tuesday for KS1 and KS2
Nursery Visit to the Church of St. Barnabas
...o The Church of St. Barnabas. They acted out part of The Easter story, standing in two lines and wav......'came to life' again. They were also overjoyed with The small chocolate egg They received at...
Year 4 Trip to the Ministry of Stories
...characters, setting and plot. They Then evaluated and edited, assessing The effectiveness of Their writing. At The end of The workshop, each student left as a published author with a sense of pride, achievement and joy. Take a look at Their journey!...
"Bed Bug Blues" by Bessie Smith
... Daubeney Mini Music festival....
1A - Traditional Tales
...l Tales. We read The story of The Three Little Pigs and acted it out in groups. We thought about The characters and how They spoke in different voices....
1A Planting Beans
This week in 1A we planted beans! We had a class discussion on how to make beans grow big and strong, and described the steps we need to take to plant beans
1A Visit Sainsbury's in Camden
1A went on a trip to Sainsbury's in Camden. We were learning about different skills needed in different jobs and had an opportunity to practice some skills in a real work environment. We had a go on the checkout, did a treasure hunt in the aisles and filled jam doughnuts in the bakery. We had...
1A's Class Assembly - Friendship
We have been talking about Friendship and what makes a good friend. We made friendship posters and wrote about what we thought was important in a good friend. We then added all of our ideas together to make a friendship potion. Here are some pictures. We had so much fun dressing up as wizards
1B's trip to Sainsbury's
... people that worked There. They all got to decorate Their own gingerbread man and of course eat i...... of course eat it afterwards! The children also got to experience being a cashier and scan items of ......hopping list The quickest. They really enjoyed The whole experience and learned a lot about work ...
1D - Easter Bonnets
1D had lots of fun making our Easter Bonnets. We danced around the circle and well done to Gaia for winning! Hip hip Hooray!
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:
Thinkuknow
Guide to internet safety and safe surfing for young people from Think U Know. Learn about online safety when using blogs, chatting, online gaming, P2P and other forms of technology like mobiles.
The Literacy Shed
A website for teachers filled with ideas for literacy teaching using visual resources such as film, animation, photographs and picture books.
Ordering and Sequencing Numbers Games
Free order and sequence number games and activities for 7 to 11 year old children. These are fun learning games for kids.
Phonics Bloom
Play a range of online phonics games, helping teach children the relationship between letters and sounds and develop the skills needed to read and write.
Phonics Song
A phonics song to help children learn the letter sounds. Written and performed by A.J. Jenkins
PhonicsPlay - Phonics games, planning, assessments and printables
A site packed with interactive phonics games, phonics planning, assessment ideas and many teaching ideas and resources to help children to learn to hear phonemes, recognise graphemes and develop the blending and segmenting skills that are vital for learning to read and spell./>
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